skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. I'm personally rather upset that it's schedule 1, meaning it has no medical benefit whatsoever, which is clearly BS and it makes it hard to research.
I believe they are comparing it to regular cotton.
Meanwhile let's remember that there are an estimated 45 million slaves today according to the World Economic Forum 2017.
First Aid Kit is a Swedish band with some really great lyrics. One song that's intrigued me with it's ambiguity is Emmylou, which contains the line:

Stockholm's cold but I've been told

I was born to endure this kind of weather

Is she predisposed to be okay with cold climates, or was she born so that her parents could handle the cold?

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June

If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too

No, I'm not asking much of you

Just sing little darling, sing with me

Romantic love or parental love? Is she saying the last line, or is it her parents talking to her? Wonderful stuff.
Rasterization will always win for primary rays. It's the secondary rays that are interesting: reflections, soft shadows, ambient occlusion.

There are hacks to do the same things with rasterization and screen space image tricks but they need to be customized with the art. E.g. shadow maps can provide fake soft shadows but all shadow mapping techniques need fine tuning to look good in a certain scene.
It's strange not to mention vanilla RDS (only Aurora is mentioned). Is RDS much more expensive?
Honeybees Are Hurting. What Else Can Pollinate Our Food?
>But they are the low-to-mid segment of professionals doing weddings and local business presentations with median income around $50k

Yeah, tell that to the Octane Render community. There's plenty of incredible starving artists using consumer GPUs in their workflow to render top-notch work.
Apologies if the following is completely naive to what youre doing with LocustDB; How resource intensive is this?

Tried running InfluxDB on Rasberry PI with poor results as it pegged at 100% CPU...

How well would LocustDB do on a PI for Sensor Data?
the missing context is that the previous PM greenlighted projects from China that were v likely greenlighted because of kickbacks to him and his retinue rather than because of the merit and profitability to the country. china, among other things, was simply one of many bogeymen attacked in the election campaign leading up to BN's defeat. mahathir knows better than to turn down good investment money, but the general view of the previous adminstration was that a lot of money was invested in malaysia only to exclusively benefit the chinese.
This is very cool.

That said, unless I'm missing something the claim of solving bug issues was kind of BS. I looked through more than half of the chrome bugs and most of them were actual bugs in chrome or angle that had absolutely nothing GPU specific about them.

In other words they could (and do) happen with all code as in

const void* p = malloc(10);
memset(p, 0, 11); // oops

Nothing GPU specific about that code and nothing as far as I can tell that sugar will prevent (as in sugar could have exactly the same types of bugs).

Still, they claim to be getting great perf and less code so all of that is a win.
Secret? I thought it was quite obvious. Anyone who is going to miss out on the cash. that's who.
Funny, I stopped smoking years ago because weed makes me anxious.
There are a lot of times where there is nothing you can do. Fighting in the face of certain defeat is also a poor decision. As much as I understand your dislike of defeatism, there is a similar danger of being aimlessly angry and flailing about in a haphazard manner -- which I think it just as prevalent as defeatism. One of the reasons we actually choose corrupt officials to govern us in the first place is because they successfully rally our anger against something and promise to fight for our cause.

When there is nothing you can do, you must wait and look for an opportunity. It's not so much the giving up on fighting that's the problem, it's the giving up on hope. Improvements come slowly and are the result of much patient work.

Having said that, I hate waiting as much as the next person. :-(
Going to need a source for that claim.
torrents would be a good way to deal with this.
Taking oil out of the ground and burning part of it to create plastic out of the other part, and then throwing it away or incinerating it, isn't carbon capture :)
404 or something
This is terrible logic. You are acting as if the statement was the quality of the camera and if a similar enough picture could in theory have been taken it is almost true to the extent that if an identical image could have been taken it would magically transform into a truth. The actual statement was that particular image had been taken by that device which was 100% false. In fact it rarely makes sense to talk about degrees of truth people are either misleading you and nothing they have to say is worth anything or they are being truthful.
> Is there any info it if this is nvidia proprietary technology or general feature of DirectX Raytracing that will eventually be available also from AMD and Intel?

This is a general feature of their RTX 'pipeline', not just DirectX, so I imagine Vulkan will introduce support eventually. Whether AMD will be able to put it into GPUs is a different story, but it appears they are doing some of their own work in the area of Tensorflow so they may provide their own equivalent.

> Though showing CT/medical imaging as one of it's applications is a big no-no

Why is that? They weren't showing it as an application of their higher res image DNNs, that was just an example of where they have used DNNs in general.
I felt so bad for whoever made the email mistake. I hope they're feeling alright. It's a bug everyone could see themselves letting slip through.
>SBD helped defense industry clients navigate the Pentagon bureaucracy and hone their marketing messages to government buyers, according to company spokesman Price Floyd, who was the assistant defense secretary for public affairs when Donnelly was on Mullen’s staff.

at least lobbyists are supposed to register. "Navigation and honing" in government contracting seems to be completely free wheeling.
Every time I look at AI produced pictures, I feel discomfort and uneasy. These pictures are like a scene from a perfect nightmare.
but dang you can't put 'feeling chilled' and 'dehumanization' into rational numbers, and for a certain kind of person the inability to enumerate something or quantify its cost, is an automatic 'irrationality discount.' i.e. 'What can't be counted, can't count for much.'
Its so good that 10x canadians go to live in the us than americans go to canada, even though america has 10x the population.
It seems like benzos, while sometimes quite powerful, can have really nasty side effects that some doctors irresponsibly don't disclose, including the rapid tolerance, rebound properties, and withdrawal in general.

It also seems that, like opiates, it can vary a lot from person to person.

I've been fortunate, and the few times I've had occasion to try taking benzos for a non-hospital interval, they didn't do anything for me - positive, negative, or otherwise, without any sort of visible withdrawal effects when we stopped.

Conversely, there are people I know who have reported nasty side effects and dependency issues rather rapidly (in my own family, even).

I really think the way to move forward and minimize this see-sawing of public opinion on necessary evil versus unnecessary tool will be gaining better insight into people's personal response profiles to these things before
and after giving them the drugs, so you can try to notice "huh, that's a lot higher concentration of those metabolites than I expect, I guess they process it fast" or "well that opioid sure is lighting up the reward parts of the brain, guess they're at decent risk for addiction."

(Unfortunately, I'd speculate we're at least 20y out from anything like that being ubiquitous/useful, so ...)
Sure, if you smoke sativa. Indica does wonders for anxiety, but until recently most people were stuck just smoking whatever they could get their hands on, even if it resulted in a bad high.
>Oh, one last interesting thing: Icefrog is going to roll out a big patch after this TI, just like he always does. I wonder how much of the bots' knowledge will transfer over? Or if they'd be better off training from a clean slate?

The bots aren't even playing real Dota, let alone current patch.
So we shouldn't try?

Political games are all there is.
Usually scrapping means it will go though all links you provide. If you add non visible links on your site that link to rubbish content he will automatically add them as wel.
Respectfully, you don’t see any reasons this would be a bad idea?
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Argentina has unfortunately not changed is monetary emision rates even though they claim to have chanced monetary policy. Argentina is headed for disaster because precisely, it admires Venezuela.
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It’s logically impossible for organic cotton to have less a footprint.
Well technically there is a loss for those on the advisor track.

Because you are now competing with 15K teams for the 100 sponsorship spots instead of 4K. But to be honest I don't think it would make all that much of a difference. The top 100 companies will deserve their spot regardless of the competition.
I can't imagine AI draw shape which is recognizable.
I'm worrying..it could not last long..
> How is that not shady marketing?

Because you’ve already seen the good content! This blog highlights the most amusing/weird examples of stuff generated by AI. This particular post has 17 - I counted - examples. They’re not presented as a listicle or one-by-one slides, there’s not an advert between each one. This is exactly the sort of content we should be encouraging.
All of a sudden? Where have you been for the last thirty years?
> Usually the municipality sweeps the beach every morning.

This. People don't realize how costly can be to maintain a beach in a good state.

I remember getting early to the beach seeing one of this https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/BronzeOldfashionedKarakul

Even more expensive is beach nourishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_nourishment

Cleaning work is ungrateful because people only notice it when you do a bad job.
$1000/month with 2 customers (for a SaaS) is impressive. Any tips for other SaaS-devtrepeneurs to achieve the same, without needing 100 customers per $1000?
Thank you for taking the time to reply.

> that means go can't ever reach full parity as long as it wishes to avoid c

Well, go has for better or worse decided on a "we'll bring our own batteries" approach - and that does imply a burden of re-inventing a lot of wheels. On the other hand, those wheels are all likely to be painted in just the right shade of gopher brown.

At a glance, nis/yp appear to be missing. Not sure if nis doesn't count as outdated though.
> Why should Mahathir get to call his country "poor" relative to China...?

A simple answer may be aggregates matter when it comes to country-to-country comparisons. A country's companies and government get 'strength' from the aggregate first.
If you want you can do very functional stuff in Groovy. Here's an example of function composition:

f = { it * 3 }
g = { it + 4 }
h = f << g
h(2)
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The reason this is not particularly common usage is not because you can't do it, but because most people don't find it very intuitive.
I hope that the website publishers will see that nobody wants to be tracked and that the advertisers will find out that tracking is pretty much useless anyways. A website that only uses cookies for logging in or storing settings does not need to have a cookie notice! In a similar vein, you do not need a GDPR notice if you do not track your users and only store anonymized, non personal data.

To me the publishers are currently grasping at straws. Also, much like it is a complete failure of design to ask permissions for all of your stuff in a mobile app at the beginning, it is so with websites. A GDPR consent could as well be integrated into the signup process.

I doubt that EU will prosecute companies for this, but to me they are clearly acting in bad faith towards one piece of legislation that actually tries to somehow protect peoples privacy.
I work in data engineering and fixating on idempotence has been one of the best things I've ever done. Now whenever we build a new job or we review an existing one, the first question (well, second, first being 'do we actually need this?') is usually 'is this idempotent?' Saves SO much hassle. Processes fail, nodes disconnect, OOM kills stuff, these things happen on a daily basis in larger systems, be ready for that.
> Would it kill companies to be honest and upfront about these sorts of issues? I feel like "Hey, we're unable to pay our bills unless we can better monetize our product" comes across a lot more honest and trust-worthy than this

The problem is that it's almost never that.

It's not "we're unable to pay our bills". It's "we've got more money than we need already, but we think we could get a lot more this way".

You think, say, Netflix is a struggling business and that's why they have to put more ads than before? No. In a capitalist system, leaving money off the table is increasingly unjustifiable as the number you're leaving off grows. Docker absolutely is in that same situation.
This was worth the read.

In stark contrast, one should walk into an econ forum, and see how people discuss the economy.

Its about jobs, or labor figures, and compliance and regulation are things which just "work", or are to be avoided due to additional costs.

I've come to the conclusion that

1) Economics is currently only as usfeul as the soundbite it generates

2) Economists are people with excellent working compasses, when people are looking for where they lost their keys
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>Where does the chain of responsibility end?

With capitalism.

>Do the domestic waste management companies that profited from collecting plastics, only to send waste to China bear any responsibility?

I would say they bear all of the responsibility, or at least the vast majority of it, due to the fact they profited from doing what they knew was irresponsible.
Perhaps you should think about how f-number is defined?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number

Then read up on depth of field : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field

It should be clear that DOF has everything to do with the physical size of the lens because aperture for a given focal length defines the front element diameter. Your example very small f1.8 lens has to have a very small focal length and therefore deep DOF.

Edit : found the math I was looking for : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field#Use_of_absolute...
You have to check where it was bottled. No sense in refusing to drink the tap water when the bottles youre buying come from the same municipal source.
Exactly. They filter for pedigree (and sometimes looks) first. Remember which and why schools used to require photographs with apps? It wasn't just a beauty contest.
It surprises you that a digital medium catering to software developers and tech experts largely focuses on news about technology? There are various other forums which are much more passionate about these types of civil liberty issues.
Paytm launches Cloud for India
I always find the use of per capita GDP as measure of development as a rather strange measure of development. You could have a country with massive oil reserves or similar natural resource wealth that would have a very high per capita GDP but that doesn't necessarily mean that the average person sees any of it. I always thought a better figure is the median wealth per adult, perhaps I'm confused between quality of life and development.
Rather it's a problem we're exporting to the third world.
Not that type of logging. GP is talking about Docker Engine's telemetry/analytics.
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Because they are some of the lowest paid workers in the project. Why should they risk their precarious jobs when higher-paid, and more secure workers are also aware of the deception?
Respectfully, what are all of the reasons that this would be a bad idea?
No, people care - but they are usually busy dealing with other news they are currently being overwhelmed by.
Static sites will have trouble, about the only thing I think they can support are ActivitySteam representations of their HTML content.

The ActivityPub part requires dynamic processing of messages from peers, as well as sending or forwarding messages.
It's definitely a fringe thing. "Left grassroots" is fringe already.
> cron ... absorbed by the systemd borg

This has already happened, right? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers

Not a systemd fan, myself.
Ok, also China.
Hey Sean, thanks for chiming in. Do you think C++ isn't liked in academia because of any bias against languages that are more practical than formal, or anything in the language's nature itself?
> What benefits would unionizing provide? I'm not actively against it, but I don't see any clear reasons to be in favor of it either.

Given that companies are consistently and fiercely fighting off unionization should be a tip off. In any case, some examples:

* Better pay and benefits. The US is miles away from Europe in this issue because of this very reason.

* Not having to talk to HR when you're experiencing various problems on the job.

* Having influence backed up by actual power.

* Solidarity.
Companies won't act as long as the short to mid term profit is still with wasting plastic. Opposing the system (capitalism) as whole is the only way to prevent evironmemtal collapse.
> But just a rough guestimate of how many more rays/pixel we need to play a AAA game with PT only? I'm thinking 1000 times.

Depends on the LOD and number of lights you want. You can get a better image than raster using only one or two shadow/reflection bounces and several lights. At 10 Giga rays, the 2080TI could do 166,666,666 rays per frame at 60fps. 4k screens have 8,294,400 pixels, so for every pixel you could have one initial ray with at maximum 19 shadow rays. Of course when you introduce a few reflection bounces etc. it becomes significantly less rays/pixel.

This would absolutely max out the RT cores to their theoretical limit, so I imagine we will stick with hybrid for a while but I think 1000x is an extreme estimate.

(Unless of course my math is wrong here.)
Docker is just a thin wrapper around Linux (API + namespaces). Dockerfiles frequently install a whole userspace (such as Alpine's or Debian's) as a base, to then add proprietary bits. Basically, Docker can be seen as GPL circumvention device. People aren't entitled so much as they're frustrated as they realize they've given too much control to some inessential piece of commercial software.
No. It's a social democracy.
Social democracy is not socialism. Social democracy is always expressed within a capitalist and liberal framework, while socialism negates capitalism altogether.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
Democracy 3? You can have green policies and there is a "motorists" interest group which opposes them.
It became abhorrent because of the bill. The main reason that Kennedy and Johnson supported the civil rights bill was the fear of the escalating violence.
Interesting, what exactly constitutes cryptocurrency fraud?
Plastic isn't an addictive substance.
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That's true, and a big reason why coal-producing Inner Mongolia is the only non-coastal regions in China that has GDP per capita greater than 10,000USD. (as illustrated in a map in the article)
> at least lobbyists are supposed to register

I read this with a tone of defeat. :(

The lobbying situation is very bad, it is just corruption with extra steps. And its effects are the same one that corruption. Money gets diverted from public utility towards private hands. Cut lobbying and this "Navigation and honing" is also going to be reduced. When a behaviour is normalized it replicates at all levels.
For those who care, google "DIY sodastream", you can build your own refill canister attachment apparatus and be free from their razor blades/razor or ink tank/inkjet business model.
>Political games are all there is.

That's not true. A better world is possible, but not if we restrict ourselves to shortminded solutions like taxes and electoral politics. This is a systemic flaw, you can't work inside of the system to try to solve it.
Interesting. I'd like to try to use a dataflow system like that for an industrial application (despite my name, not for uranium enrichment centrifuges, I promise). I'll keep my eye on it. Will it be released as open source or a proprietary product?

Also, have you looked at the static checking of units of measure in F#? I find myself wishing I had something like that since I work with a lot of physical measurements.
If you're running a WordPress blog, then the [OStatus](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ostatus-for-wordpress/) plugin connects your site to the fediverse.
I don't know if there's such a thing for your static generator, though...
this is awesome! Let's go. Been an interesting day haha
Or Amazon's "Prime costs more now but it also includes Amazon Video which was so popular we couldn't get anyone to pay for it extra".
> Social media wasn’t always like this. I think back to the

> ways I used Twitter, Facebook and Instagram in the early

> days and they were completely different than they way they

> are used today. They were personal, real time, and no one

> cared about “likes”.

Yup, also when considering how this all evolved. Before that there were Newsgroups (mega techy) and various online forums/chats. They were a little trashy but people were very engaged. On the other hand pseudonymity was omnipresent, Facebook was the first big one to change that. Now there are far more users and far less online communities.
To send an email. Every mistake is an opportunity to learn something new! Hope this motivates the startups even more.
You yourself :)
WordPress isn't that hard to administer/maintain.
Replaced by what exactly? A free market is the natural way to allocate scarce resources. It is easy to say "allocate to those in need first" but who decides? Yes there are other possible systems but I don't think any of them have been remotely as sucessful overall as capitalism.

There is a natural equilibrium found in a free market. Those who can produce cheaper and better quality make money.
I see a number of people conflating the TSA and CBP/ICE. Just so we're clear: TSA is a makework security theater program of a bunch of $15/hour people standing around doing not very much. TSA is not a "real" federal law enforcement agency. CBP/ICE, on the other hand, will definitely fuck you up if you anger them while crossing the border. CBP has access to a whole bunch of federal databases and ways to profile and track people that TSA doesn't. 4th amendment rights pretty much don't exist at the border.
At least thanks to GDPR these companies now have to tell you and (in some cases) explicitly request your specific consent, rather than just doing it behind your back.