skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be surprised.

http://download.blender.org/institute/benchmark/latest_snaps...

The Threadripper 1950x (16-core) is faster than the 1080 Ti in several tests. Fishy Cat for instance is faster on Threadripper, as well as the difficult "Barbershop Interior".

With all the updates to Zen2, higher clocks, and now 32-cores, I bet that the 2990wx will be incredible and give GPUs a run for their money.

Besides, you'll need a good CPU to handle physics (cloth, fluid, etc. etc.). Not everything can be done on the GPU yet.

CPUs also have the benefit that RAM is super-cheap. You can get 64GB of DDR4, but its basically impossible to get that amount of RAM on a GPU. This allows you to run multiple blender instances to handle multiple frames quite easily. A portion of rendering is still single-thread bound, so an animation can be rendered slightly faster if you allocate a blender-instance per NUMA node.

If you do have a GPU, you can still have CPU+GPU rendering by simply running Blender twice, once with GPU rendering and a 2nd time for CPU Rendering. With the proper settings, you'll generate .png files for each animation independently, which allows for nearly perfect scaling.

Every x399 board I've seen supports quad-GPUs. So you can totally build a beast rig with 4x GPUs + 32 CPU Cores for the best rendering speed possible.
Seems like FreeType auto hinting is broken if it shifts the right vertical stroke over by one column for no clear reason. The inner portion of the loop has less then 50% coverage.
Modding my xbox to run XBMC and play DivX rips is what got me into Home Theatre in the first place.

I now use an AppleTV 4K to stream UHD movies from a NAS. But the concept is the same.
That works fine for salaries and whatnot, but even without outright deductions, you would still have to compute net income in a lot of situations, including individual proprietorships and capital gains.
The article announces the algorithm, which isn't published yet. This first paper contains the proof that the result is possible, not yet the efficient algoithm.
Other possibilities: Trains going in different directions don't make the same stops (express vs local), and time-based fares applying to a specific direction based on commuting patterns.

In the US, on Amtrak, a ticket is specific to an exact train, like buying a plane ticket. There's no generalized "I want a ticket from DC to NYC."
I feel for you. It must be a huge disappointment to see what they've done to your work. Netflix recommendation system used to be very good a few years ago.
A new form of carbon, schwartzites, has been created
Same situation with a smaller project. I still struggle to pull off it for the problem I face today. How did you succeed?
A million dollars can be an entire Congressional race in most of the country.
If I run a lemonade stand where my lemonade is free (because I'm a nice guy) but the bridge everyone knows to use to get to my house has a toll, is it stealing to ask if there is a non-tolled bridge to get where I am?
That last part seems highly illogical given the elimination of many of the cost of living reducing factors of having a functional single household with multiple individuals living there.
Where does it show links to the fast food industry in that brochure?
Microsoft Testing “Memberships” Subscription Section in Windows 10 Store App
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
yeah, i'm unsure whether i regret having just bought an x1c or not :) on the whole i think i prefer the 14" form factor.
The amount of money that drivers make on "vomit fraud" is going to be miniscule before the rideshare service, which is heavily incentivized to prevent it, flags and decommissions them.

Meanwhile, as a driver, you have to deal with someone vomiting in your car every few hundred rides. If it happens, you're done for the shift, and there's no making up for those lost hours.

Good grief, can it suck any worse to be a driver? Public outrage is focused on the exceptional case and ignores the common case.
Emulator when!?

… "Furbulator"

Need it to sneeze when the build fails.
TIL that facebook has a marketplace.
Thank you for the paper and link - given i have just binge watched half a dozen how-to-repeat-understand the double slit experiment it's nice to have a real, academic, bucket of cold water :-)
Wow. That's really horrifying. Imagine losing your rights to decide your own medical treatment because overzealous doctors made up a 'mental health problem'.

I lost a huge amount of respect for Mayo clinic today.
And BitTorrent is a P2P file sharing program but it doesn't suddenly make the verb 'torrenting' mean anything other than piracy.

Kodi is a fantastic piece of software and it's a shame that their brand is being tarnished but c'est la vie when that's the biggest practical use case for your program. There's no sense for anyone other than the XBMC foundation to fight the river on this one.

What I would do if I was the project lead:

- Pick a new name or go back to XBMC since it still has plenty of mindshare.

- Implement a proper store for plug-ins and require signing for them to run a la Firefox.

- Let users sideload plug-ins by running in 'unbranded mode' and aggressively litigate people using your trademark for unlocked devices.

- Partner with manufacturers for an authorized device part of your store.

- Work with content providers to add official apps to your store a la Chromecast.
I'm scared. I'm a big saver and it's always been my goal to retire early, but I'm constantly having to push my fiancee not to throw away money frivolously.

She also makes far less than me because she wants to work in a field where she makes a difference. She could make twice as much, but she chooses not to. We're not going to have kids, and we split chores equally.

It seems messed up that the relationship is going to put me in worse state financially by subsidizing my partner, and on top of that the laws are structured to give her more money (even though she's fully capable of making more herself).

I love her a great deal and our relationship is otherwise healthy, but I'm scared for a hypothetical situation where things go south. Expect the best, prepare for the worst, right?
It's unconscionable to suggest that hospitals be allowed to legally kidnap people because of something as hand wavy as 'some homeless are mentally ill'.
Escape from not looking really freakin' cool.

Joking, but kind of not. Of course, there's a physical aspect that takes over. But most people start smoking as a teenager, to rebel against, you know, everything like teenagers do, because they're trying to figure themselves out. And the act of going out for a smoke gives you a pleasant little break from whatever you were doing before, which was probably not as much fun as smoking.
Thanks for posting that explanation - it makes the official name mildly better. Although I'll probably just keep calling it XBMC.

I had thought it must be named after someone's baby brother.
ADW Launcher is another, minimalist good alternative.
Probably depends on the area and city. For instance a college town with rides on Friday night it may be more common.
Drive on I25 north of Cheyenne WY on a Sunday, and I guarantee ~50% of out of state cars are going that speed.
There are few reasons to learn Spanish today, but reading Borges is an extremely strong one. Stories such as "Pierre Ménard", "The garden of forking paths" or "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" blow your mind in several different ways and leave a perennial impression on your intellect.

Fortunately, both of his English translators are excellent.
They may well have had their reasons, but whenever I read or hear things like this, I can't help thinking a while about how we've lost the use of the term "sell out."
> credit goes to a couple judges who denied the Mayo clinic's requests

Also to the police, who refused to pursue the "abduction" once it was clear that the patient was being taken care of at another hospital.
My go-to response when dealing with a company who doesn’t seem to want to respond or is giving me the run around is to explain the I will be filing a CFPB complaint. It is amazing how fast I get a response, from a real person, bending over backwards to make it right.
What does it mean by "bough the talent and the tech, but not the company"?
"Content cartels?" You mean copyright owners? I'm not sure the majority is on your side. A lot of folks, including me, generate copyright-protected content and are happy to see anti-piracy measures enforced. Facebook has other issues, to be sure, but I don't have a problem with this.
I'd rather vote in someone who is young and perhaps naive, if they happen to be altruistic and are at least attempting to work for the common good to the best of their ability... in contrast to (some but not all) more experienced candidates who know how to kiss babies and work a crowd, but who are ultimately making promises they don't intend to deliver on, in order to gain a position of power for selfish reasons.

At the very least, this guy probably has better written and verbal communication skills than certain well-known politicians... seems like a decent start.
What was the tech stack? Did you use a graph db? I've built my own in neo4j for about 500M data points, but would love to know what you used.
Funny how they can easily and quietly manage banning Kodi yet stuggle publicly with removing blatent hate speech. Not saying they're equivalent, just that Facebook is perfectly capable of blocking things when they want to despite the free and open perception they try to create for the platform when they don't want to.
That makes some sense, but I don't understand why the explosion would be combinatorial and not linear.
thanks, great name and sorry for the late reply!
I built the one at Theneeds.com and, if you're interested, this is the one at Pinterest [1].

At Theneeds we were recommending news = fresh content based on user's interest and other features. Because the content is fresh, you can't easily have enough data for a proper collaborative system.

Our algo was essentially the Reddit algo, where a piece of content gets a rank based on time and log of score. Score in Reddit is the upvotes - downvotes. At Theneeds we had a more complex score including social signals (likes on fb / RT on tw) so we could compute a meaningful score also without a big community of users. The other difference wrt Reddit was having different scores and different paces (multipliers) based on categories of content, so for example news in tech and politics from newspapers were updating faster than news on travel from magazines. And by normalizing the ranks, you can merge multiple categories in one -- a feature that I think Reddit also added.

As for the code/stack, custom written in python. We were using Redis to cache user timelines using sorted sets (including the guest users, i.e. the default top news for each category). In Redis, you can merge sorted sets, and we used it as an efficient way to create the new timeline when a new user was signing up.

[1] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/introducing-pixie-...

Edit: added more details about tech.
'hire a crowd' business operates openly and makes journalism even more difficult
The medical profession really scares me. They have no respect or concern for patients and are largely going through the motions of providing care with no concern for successful outcomes. I find this to be consistently true in every encounter.

I fired my last PCP because they lied about treating me for depression complete with fictional prescriptions. I found out when I couldn't get disability insurance (at a sane price) because there was history of depression in my records I didn't know about.

I asked the PCP to correct it and they said they couldn't they might get sued for insurance fraud. What a joke!

So I avoided doctors for three years. Eventually I got to a new PCP and guess what I find when I check their notes? A herniated disk I don't have (I know, I have the MRI to prove it) and they claimed I was being treated for ADD even though I haven't been treated for that since I left my last PCP and we didn't talk about it beyond my mentioning I used to "have" it.

Believe it or not ADD is a thing insurance companies think can cease to be an ongoing issue. You just have to stop taking the medication. And then poof you go from being mentally ill to having a history of mental illness (yes ADD is a mental illness). It's critically important you not let medical professionals claim you are being treated for fictional things and how long it has been since you were treated matters a lot. If you let them claim they are treating you for a long ago resolved condition they revive it and suddenly you are a bigger liability.

If you go to purchase insurance on the open market or long term disability you will be dinged for the rest of your life for anything they claim as part of their insurance fraud. If it's an ongoing or recent issue you are dinged even worse.

PCPs in particular are financially incentivized to invent issues they are treating you for in their records because they can bill more for office visits if they can increase the number, complexity, and seriousness of the conditions they treat you for. And the insurance companies just take them at their word!

And the craziest part is that as part of HIPAA you can ask the doctor to correct the record, but they are under no obligation to do so. They make the final determination of medical fact, or fiction as it were. You can add a letter to your file pointing out how insane and contradictory their records are, but I can tell you from experience insurance companies aren't buying it and have no appetite for risk.
I’ve been using my thumb on MacBook trackpads without having to noticeably move my hand. In fact moving back to a desktop having to move my hand is annoying.

And there on the 2012 era smaller trackpads. Probably easier on the new ones that are twice the size.
I really appreciate how Swing Left helps me find the ways my time and money can go furthest to make meaningful change in our country this November. This is a great opportunity to build technology that does real good.
An entire book the vital question is basically just a pitch for that guy's personal research beliefs. He trashed a lot of good science making variance on claims with your more or less just considered part of the system today
If you are expecting logic to rule in this domain, you're in for some disappointment.

Edit: I'll give you a concrete example - let's say my ex-wife decides to marry the systems engineer she is dating, who is also a high-earner. In that case, she can sue for more child support because it will move her up a tax bracket.
Google keeps a history of your locations even when Location History is off
This is cool. I especially appreciate the disclaimer at the end:

>> We can’t stress enough how important it is to measure your applications and the tools used to measure those applications.

In general, hardware-oriented data-structure design is really appropriate for organizations with:

1. Large server workloads that exercise the data structure frequently.

2. Fine-grained control of what hardware they're using.

3. Very very good continuous profiling and monitoring of the production workload.

I often see #3 missing when people propose writing their own hash table or whatever, but it's an essential prerequisite. These days, serious wins tend to come from making large assumptions (X instructions will get vectorized, Y access pattern dominates) and specializing your implementation to them.
I assumed that egress horizon was some new black hole phenomenon with interesting properties about not needing a core/ central point.

It's a cool phrase though so we should definitely use it
> It all points to public healthcare where there is governance at a political level and not profit level.

Because no-one has ever been kidnapped for political reasons?
Yeah, you are right. And these apps are proprietary. So there is no way to look at their source and make sure everything's good.
I Shouldn't be the users responsibility. It should be part of the check out process for the driver, drop off XXXX, did the ride involve damage to the car? Please add pictures. tag them with the gps and time. If the rider doesn't complain that he got into a car with vomit, and the driver takes the picture at the location of the drop off before closing out the ride fully, then it's much harder to fake.
Drink of piss is also safe to drink. Just letting you know ;)
Built in React Native
Your recommendations more-or-less came to fruition as the company Plex.
I highly recommend "Essays After Eighty"
Hey there -- resin.io founder here.

While you are correct that we have not completed our open sourcing promise on time, and that is our fault, we have (and continue) to release as open source a lot more of our software than we "have to" because of the GPL. If you look at our github orgs, there are hundreds of projects, including the entirety of our operating system, and we did not have to release any of that.

We are taking a long time to release the open source version though, it's hard to deny. If it helps our case at all, this is because we're trying to do this in a way that allows us to make the eventual open source offering a first-class citizen of the ecosystem, receiving updates at the same time as our online service, out of the same repos, which is a non-trivial development workflow issue.

The latest version of resinOS even allows devices to de-provision from our cloud and re-provision onto an open source server (and vice versa). But of course the use of that won't be apparent until an open source server exists.
This works really well for Zipcar too: I personally go over the vehicle with a fine toothed comb before driving away from the garage, note any issues, notify customer service, and go on my way. This way the finger will never be pointed at me.
It is always nuanced of course. The inability to lock people up in California as a result of the patients rights act[1] had its effects, but a general backing off of mental institutions from both the Federal and State governments was a big problem. The 55% number in [1] matches up with my experience with homeless in the Bay Area. The tricky bit is that survivor bias is an issue as well as mentally ill people are less likely to 'blend in' and keep a low profile so in street encounters it can seem like a higher percentage than it is. Similarly in food kitchen lines the mentally ill are at a disadvantage if they lack planning skills to get into the line.

[1] 2015 In the San Francisco Homeless Count, 55 percent of people experiencing chronic homelessness report they have emotional or psychiatric conditions. -- https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-menta...
I see workers rights being crushed even further every year, and a new Lochner era is probably about to begin with the Republican majority Supreme Court.

I haven't seen anything get better economically since I was born. I watched my grandparents lose their home & lose all economic security because their pensions and union payouts were crushed, their social security hasn't seen any reasonable increase in a long time.

I just see things going downhill and never getting better because that's all I've ever experienced.
There were likely people at Parse who thought similarly at the time of their acquisition:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/facebook-shutters-its-pars...
See posts below yes - this is a real thing. It was controversial until about 10-15 years ago. And the effect is bigger if you go back 50-60 years.

What is interesting is that this is news to you.

You would think the media would bring this important news to people's attention. It is as if things are being subtly filtered.
My question is why there isn't a $1000 "false vomit report investigation fee" that is paid from the driver to the passenger? If the driver has to clean his car, they get $150, but if the passenger has to go pull security footage from a gas station, they get nothing? Lyft also needs to make clear that if there is a clear cut case like this one that the driver is permanently gone from the Lyft platform.
Their choice is strictly defined by the profit gain and loss calcs.
Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages
I love this kid! We need more like him, who are willing to put their ideas into action :)
While the cases of fraud are despicable, I think being reimbursed only $150 for somebody vomiting in your car is far too little. Your car will be pretty much similar to "The Smelly Car" episode of Seinfeld once it has been puked into.
He also spends a lot of time corresponding the old fashioned way to get the data & cleaning it for mechanical evaluation.

His hobbies make me feel bad about my own...
Didn't know that. Could you provide a source? Everything that I read was about basic user behaviour.
I'm a big fan of shared memory parallelism from a performance standpoint, but I don't see any reason why v1.0 of a language must support this. Stable APIs enable a lot more than shared memory parallelism, which is, for the most part, a performance optimization. If you can delay the parallelism story by a few months to move the stability story up a year, why not?
It's especially scary if you have no trusted friends or relatives. There's an awful lot of people with asocial tendencies on the internet.
It seems pretty unfair to malign the entire field of medicine due to a single bad actor. I went to medical school prior to becoming an engineer and my impression was that most if not all of my classmates were genuine in their desire to help improve the lives of others. I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with your previous PCP but they don't represent the profession as a whole.

Also, if ADD is not a mental illness then what is it? I think this point is a conflation between medical definitions and social stigma.
Would you buy a used prom-date from this man.

:-)

Good luck to him and to democracy
Lyft is a California company doing business in North Dakota, in Fargo and West Fargo. Who is going to step in and tell them to knock this off?

Well, I would imagine if it gets picked up nationally then some local politician or more probably the local DA. Someone will want to enhance their political career. A lot of these folks talk to others in their same positions in other communities, so it might end up being one of those waves. Lack of proper customer relations could come back and bite when dealing with the locals.
You seem to have terrible luck finding PCPs. What area of the country are you in? Big or small city?
Huh? HN is about corporate interest and globalism. Also, I don't necessarily see why those are bad things.
The benefits of nicotine on focus, concentration and mental ability are reasonably well established. It is unfortunate that it comes packaged with so many nasties in cigarette smoke. Of course you can get nicotine inhalers that avoid this problem. To avoid too much of a blast/crash, you can spray it onto the skin.

I think if nicotine were discovered for the first time today it would be considered a wonder drug.
Does it really work this way (with automatic memory and core pinning)? Both Windows and Linux can do that?
So, this looks awful. I would expect for the Mayo clinic to come out with a response sometime soon. In the meantime, I'm just trying to remind myself that news stories that stoke outrage often turn out to be telling the story in the way best tuned to get forwarded and clicked on, not always the most accurate way. But, really, this looks awful.
$2.5k MRR in 60 days, High-level overview
are you concerned that you’ll never find ambitions for which justifications endure?

(sub specie aeternitatis)
I chose Windows as a development and creative machine. Visual Studio and .Net are great for what I do.
This feels like a natural "rookie of the year"-esque extension of living in a post-trump, nothing matters world, and frankly I'm pretty excited about it.
How does that solve the spam/troll problem, though?