skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is they? NVIDIA provides multiple APIs which are accessible through various APIs or natively the point of the hardware is to provide specific interfaces and data types which make RT faster these are not limited to a specific graphical API.

You can use it trough Optix which is proprietary low level C++ API based on CUDA, you can use it with Vulkan or DX12 DXR the levels of abstraction are dependent on what API/interface you’ll be using.

On top of that NVIDIA provides ready to use hybrid ray tracing libraries which are built on top of Microsoft DXR currently with Vulkan coming within the next 2-3 months.

But you don’t have to use their hybrid path tracing or denoiser you can develop it completely on your own.
When Big Tobacco funded its studies they were never interested in the long-term consequences of smoking for health, their goal was to continue in business as always, and the public health folks were bad for business. It was never an honest engagement, the pro-tobacco side engaged in obfuscation. This is now a well-known, documented historical fact: https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

In the realm of politics it's foolish not to take someone's motivation into account and assume they are interested in an honest debate. Pointing this out isn't "anti-intellectual tribalism".
i recently stumbled upon cheese-making by accident. and it turns out it's trivially easy. and with raw milk, it probably wasn't just easy but almost unavoidable once you were milking cows

cheese making has 3 stages. milk is curdled, then strained, then pressed, and then optionally aged (i haven't tried aging yet)

raw milk curdles itself and the whey could be strained out as easily as pouring it on a bed of grass or leaves and pressed by hand or with the weight of a stone in that same bed of grass. the result is cheese

i can't buy raw milk, so my process is a bit different. i make yogurt, strain with a piece of fabric, and then press with a potato ricer

making yogurt with pasteurized skim (or near skim, or non-homogenized) is trivially easy once the bacteria exists - inoculate with a starter (which can be as easy as adding milk to a "dirty" vessel) and let it sit till it curdles. for my first batch i used stonyfield to inoculate, and have used my own yogurt (or whey) as the starter since then. heat the mixture to 110°F and let it sit for several hours. there are also strains that work at room temp (but i haven't tried them). the result isn't as thick as commercial yogurt, but it's easier to strain. homogenized milk with fat doesn't produce a strong enough curd to strain, but that's a modern problem
I like to think a fox who's smart enough to handle money is smart enough to know an hour or two of pay could buy plenty of chicken without being hunted down and turned into a scarf.
Yeah, perhaps I wasn't completely fair. For some of the content I watch, I'm quite happy with what they recommend. But as you said I have to be constantly vigilant with the rest.
You are ambivalent about whether this article should have been censored in the way it was?
If you watch the 20ish minute talk, she really doesn't limit it to youtube, but also talks about Facebook, Twitter etc.
>>As much as I love NPR, the last entity you want to own or fund a news organization is the government, because it's very easy to slip towards state propaganda.

The federal government does not own NPR. It is a 501c3 organization. It does not receive any direct federal funding, though it does receive competitive grant funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which amounts to a low single digit percentage of its $200M annual revenue.
You definitely need to add parse-server.
It's their bread and butter. Sticking to the truth is tedious and gets fewer clicks than tabloid-style soap opera, so why bother?
> You can fall into a black hole in finite time. It just looks like it takes forever.

This one is really interesting! I've definitely never seen anyone emphasize this before.
Sounds like a job for git bundle.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle
The correct course of action is to charge the manufacturers of addictive drugs for the recovery costs.

It would discourage pushing over prescription, encourage more work into accurately identifying addictiveness (and presumably reducing it), and if all else fails would encourage them to develop cheap drugs to recover from addiction.
Presumably it's also so you don't spam the survey over and over again with your favorite. But yes, overall I agree with your point.
This is a ridiculous question. Of course teaching, like any other skill, can be taught. I'm sure there are differing aptitudes among people, but unless you think that "good" anything can't be taught, it's hard to see why teaching would be this snowflake skill that's unlike any other...
Checked C: Making C Safe by Extension [pdf]
Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea
Yeah, every state is spending on roads. I was talking about the additional ~1500 entities in Michigan that also have road budgets. It's only really the 83 counties that are building larger roads though.
The problem is that none of the lines except two of them are separated enough. Separating them to the degree required for this to work is not possible, because the crazy interlining is the only way to provide many trips in a patchwork system that was originally three competing subways; many transfers would not be available, and the remaining ones would not be able to handle the resulting transfer volume. It would also not be desirable, because right now reroutes are commonly used to maintain service in case of problems or maintenance; doors restricting fleets to lines would reduce operational flexibilty.

The problem is also too large to segregate. We are talking about a third of the current fleet that is not compatible with new train door placements. Even after the oldest of these are retired with projected future train orders, it will be about a tenth of the fleet, larger than the entire Boston T rapid transit fleet.
Doesn’t that work because C# has a compiler to JIT stuff at runtime?

In principle it could work in te JVM as well right?
Title should say "Mac App Store".
What do they have to gain from it?
I bet they have a nice collection of chargers.
For that to work, Facebook Auth would have to raise barriers against open, public identification, while acknowledging that the authenticated account is going to be disclosed to the site owner, which is a confusing layer of deflection.

I don't think the rational basis for the nuance of that negotiation would reach end users or site owners. Both would likely complain that it offers no assurance of safety, and remains a disappointing compromise.

The choice to adopt nuanced tactics in furtherance of rewarding communication requires nuanced personalities at the reigns.
I found this slightly older video a bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByD8gH7kYxs
American English. "School" can mean university.
Show HN: Interactive Portraits with Speech Synthesis
Portrait TLDR: The voices are made with AWS Polly. The music is composed in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). And the images are generated using a variety of tools/custom code. For the best viewing experience, Chrome or Firefox is recommended.
Why would they leak the data? That seems counter-intuitive to me.
Reading Evicted, I got the same picture. These kids are going to be constantly changing schools. They're not going to be able to learn reasonably.
If reality is finite and discrete, then it is everything.

On the other hand, if there are non computable processes at work in reality, then not everything.
All the places I've rented only cared if there was an eviction on your record and I've never had an issue getting utilities -- sure, they usually want a deposit since I have a bad credit rating because I'm horrible at paying bills on time but they always give me service.

The last place I rented started the eviction process the very same afternoon the "grace period" ended -- think I was off doing reserve stuff that weekend or simply forgot -- and that caused me to not be able to move into a fancy apartment complex once upon a time (though, mostly, they were using it as an excuse to discriminate against a "dirty truck driver" who didn't fit the kind of people they wanted in their yuppie complex, which they basically told me) but my current landlord could care less, as long as you pay your rent (not necessarily on time) and don't cause any problems you're golden.
Sure it can. Here's the formula:

Good teaching = subject mastery + good public speaking + good classroom management + lessons designed with a low floor and high ceiling (allowing for a wide range of zones of proximal development)
The post dropped off the front page a few hours ago, but then suddenly jumped up again, so I guess the mods intervened. Currently it does not appear to have been flagged by a large enough number of people to kill it.
Does that 40% figure refer to taking drugs all the way through clinical trials and FDA approval, or does it also include e.g. drugs that small companies brought through earlier stages of the pipeline before well-capitalized BigCorp acquired/partnered to finish approval? My impression is that drug development costs are heavily weighted toward the later phase clinical trials, and that it’s rare for a startup to complete them without help/acquisition from one of the big incumbents. I could be wrong about this. My lay perspective is that of someone who used to be a (non-pharma) chemist and who enjoys reading Derek Lowe.

But if I’m right, and small companies usually can’t finish fully independently, that suggests a role for government drug development: funding the clinical trials and completing approval. Whether a government agency or GSK provides that funding doesn’t seem to much affect innovation of small companies in earlier stages.
They use radar and software to predict storm growth and trajectories. Next time you look at a radar map ask yourself the physical size represented by one pixel: in much of the United States it should be something like 150m.
It says something about the state of software development in the 21st century that I thought it was pretty brave of the author to put his actual name to that. (And FWIW, I absolutely agree).
I must inform the OpenBSD team!
Ten years after the financial crisis, GSE securities have expanded $804B
> which we all know are false

I think you’re projecting your own beliefs onto others.
I took the $804B figure from this quote:

> It's worth noting that total GSE (MBS and debt) Securities ended Q3 2008 at $8.070 TN, having about doubled from year 2000. The government agencies were integral to the mortgage finance Bubble - fundamental to liquidity excess, pricing distortions (finance and housing), general financial market misperceptions and the misallocation of resources. GSE Securities did contract post-crisis, reaching a low of $7.544 TN during Q1 2012. Since then, with crisis memories fading and new priorities appearing, GSE Securities expanded $1.341 TN to a record $8.874 TN. Of that growth, $970 billion has come during the past three years, as financial markets boomed and the economy gathered momentum. A lesson not learned.
I like emphasis on performance by keeping things light on the browser. I feel many of the popular frameworks focus too much on abstraction rather than providing the best user experience for the end user (primarily load times and disregard for accessibility).

Thanks for sharing!
I don't necessarily like verdana, but it is a very legible font for small font sizes. I happen to like a lot of information on my screen, and I keep font sizes low. For a long time Verdana was my default font for the web.

I dislike it as it gets larger though.
What current law are you referring to (in the US..), that makes what Equifax did illegal?
Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction
Yea, well that is the result of our more socialized system. My better health care plan was canceled when the affordable care act was implemented, and I had to get a worse one. These government healthcare systems (which, long story, I happen to be on now, I don't pay a cent) are even worse. You want to see someone, you need to get permission. First, get in line to get permission, then get in line to actually get the specialist. And there is no option to do it any other way. So I don't see how the European systems solve these problems. At least in the US, in some places, we still have choice.
Going meta regarding tech articles, I find that it is easy to read some text-heavy articles (this being one of them) while my eyes glaze over other text-heavy articles (I couldn't easily follow Dave Cheney's article on the same topic of Go generics a few days back, though with a slightly different focus and much shorter). I've wondered what is it about specific pages/articles/writing that make them flow nicely and make it easy to read -- is it the layout of the page (font/font-size/other styling) or is it how the writing flows together or is it a factor of how much thought the author put into presenting what they are thinking or is it me (time of day, interests, etc). Maybe it is just everything!
In a closed physical system energy is conserved.
For example, if you have container that has Helium on one side and Oxygen on the other. Both gases will mix, i.e. maximize entropy.
Minimizing energy would mean, the gas would reach absolute zero.
Which is an appropriate belief based on reality. The same way that assuming someone rich donating to charity has ulterior motives, because rich people donating to charity have demonstrated repeatedly that they have ulterior motives
The solution, as always, is to have more coffee. Had you increased the odds of having all three on, by having more coffee, you'd be able to observe it with a chemically alert brain.
Not sure if this is coincidence or even if this was already mentioned on HG, but Ripgrep had a release yesterday with a few new features.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/0.10.0
Good thing we submit to a monopolistic store model for our computing devices so we don't get malware.

end sarcasm
1a. You can't control what root/intermediate will be used by your certificate supplier one year from now.

1b. You should not reuse private keys between certificates and never for intermediate or root.

2. It's yearly or 2 years for the most common suppliers.

3. Have fun getting your certificate accepted from every device and operating system.

Anyway. I am not saying that it can't be done, I'm saying that there are a lot of challenges to doing it properly and any mistake will make the app completely broken.
> Did you watch the video?

Yes, and I still don't know much about the topic. Hence, the questions.

> Why do you assume this is inevitable? Was there something in the video that made you think these will go dry?

Dude, I don't know much, so I'm signposting the potentially incorrect assumptions I might be making, to help out whoever wants to answer my questions. You have a smug attitude, but I don't see you attempting an answer. What's up with that?

> Are you under the impression that people are moving into the areas that these things are being built?

No, and you appear to be missing my point if you think that is necessary for the criticism to hold.

> What does sustainable farming mean for you?

For the purposes of this discussion, enough water in perpetuity.
Newspapers overlap with 100% of the era when democracy has been the norm in the West. Studies have shown that people who read newspapers, as opposed to watch news on television, remember more details about political events. So it is newspapers, specifically, which need to be saved.

Nor is there any conflict of interest between receiving money from the government and covering the government. If you believe the courts can be independent then you can believe that newspapers can be set up as independent entities. If you don’t believe that the courts can be independent then you are essentially saying that you don’t believe in the existence of liberal regimes, which takes us into a discussion regarding how much purity needs to be achieved by an ideal before one is willing to recognize its existence — an interesting topic but too broad to be discussed in comments on a website.
There are some exceptions fortunately and a growing hunger for the very opposite.

See Sam Harris for the best (IMO) example. And long form interview formats like what Joe Rogan is doing.
It's about balances of power. There's unfortunately a strong tendency for corporate power to overwhelm all other institutions, given how centrally organized, self-optimizing, evolving it is. Government ideally should offer a balancing power, an equally intelligent, evolving structure safeguarding individuals (and humanity vs economics). The problem is corporations have found ways to control governments and will use their power to terminate impacts on their productivity, which will inevitably include human rights, quality of life, human values.

The only solution I can see is through legislation, strictly forbidding and creating institutions to prevent corporate interferance in government.

Some measures:

1) Outlawing lobbying more broadly, improving campaign financing, etc.

2) Reforming the government to promote greater adaptability and efficiency, mimicking how companies improve themselves through competition.

There are quite a few examples of countries with good control over corporations (Japan I think is quite strict at least in terms of election financing and advertising), and good alignment of government and human values. But many others, notably by the US, turn more and more the opposite way towards corporate/economic absolutism.

It's been said before, but people put a little too much fear into AI takeover when gigantic, scalable, self-improving systems with trivial values (economic output) are already almost taking over the world.

Fear The Corporation.
Eventually they'll churn through everyone who's willing to drive. It's not a bottomless well of people
Haha it’s so weird, it’s almost like they aren’t very good at being a CA :D
Since practically everything I work on is in a git repository, I use git grep a lot. I haven't found it wanting in speed.

Ripgrep does have some neat advanced features though...
Jack Ma will be able to get more stuff done not being burdened by the Alibaba leader position. I guess it's just politics for his hands not to be tied and he could make bigger changes in China.
where'd you get this deal? currently listed on their site is 1GBit for $100 per month (with a 6 month scam discount).
Surely game scores are posted in a highschool bulletin, or a team could have a twitter/facebook/Instagram account to announce scores/highlights.
Even if your first sentence was true, I don't think it would explain why content with extreme views dominates. Perhaps because it causes more emotion, and the algorithms senses that emotions is what people crave.

As a counterpoint to yours, Aristotle was famous for his golden middle principle. That in vast majority of matters(notable exceptions: murder, theft, adultery) you can only achieve happiness if you do and experience everything in moderation. Don't ignore your desires, but also don't submit to them completely.
The question that intrigues me quite a while.

I suspect that there are types of projects / product areas that especially benefit from being OpenSource. What are these areas?

Yet my mental model considers the following development business models:

* OpenSource/Bazaar - everyone can do whatever they want, without much of supervision. Like famous NPM registry.

* OpenSource/Glassdoor - only selected "maintainers" can actually do the development, the rest, on the other side of the glass, can only look and suggest something (if they have loud enough voice). Like Linux development.

* ClosedSource - internally that is also using either Bazaar or Glassdoor model - it is just auditorium is smaller and more focused - limited by the organization itself and its clients. Like Windows and its all major customers, states and agencies.

How do these models correlate with product areas?
I have observed empirically GMVH in cats. Female cats were more "standard" in behavior, and held their own much more consistently. (This is NOT to say that they were run-of-the-mill; every one of them had pretty different personalities. I still miss Maria, my Siamese cat. Hope reincarnation exists.)

The male cats varied from totally dumb to extremely intelligent. One cat "Negro" was almost like a monkey, he managed to walk on my shoulders around my head, while most cats are afraid of being held this high. But he ran the wrong gay when my dad was parking the car and was run over ;( Pretty dumb error for a cat that was so intelligent. An idiot-savant cat, perhaps?
These breaches are a story in the news for maybe a couple days and then it’s down the memory hole. Unless it’s your property being affected as in the Sony hack, what’s the point of worrying about it? There are basically no consequences.
> There's no separating physics and math.

There is. Even though most physics research is extremely mathematical and abstract these days, it's still ostensibly grounded in empirical science. Math is not science, it just provides useful tools and insights for studying science. Unlike physics, the disciplinary imperative of math is not to provide us with truths about this world or any other world. Its imperative is to tell us what must follow as a consequence from a given set of assumptions and definitions. This is a very important philosophical dichotomy because it means that even the most lackadaisical, abstract problems in physics (such as moonshine in high energy physics) are still grounded in something "real." Math need not be grounded to anything real; it can be decoupled from what is real or even possible entirely.

> Keeping math "pure" really means keeping it "purely abstract", so it resists any kind of practical application.

I'm not one to be elitist with regards to pure versus abstract mathematics so I sympathize with your point here. That being said, purely abstract mathematics can be extremely useful even if it doesn't ultimately relate to the real world. Consider what G.H. Hardy wrote nearly a century ago in A Mathematician's Apology:

"...both Gauss and lesser mathematicians may be justified in rejoicing that there is [number theory] at any rate...whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean."

If only Hardy had lived long enough to see his pure and beautiful number theory sullied with the applications to error-correcting codes and cryptography.
The key difference would be what happens if you stop paying. Otherwise it’s just a lease with a purchase option at the end. If you can walk away from the lease with no further repercussions, then I can buy that it’s not technically a loan. If the lessor can pursue you for further payments or charges you fees and etc, then it’s just a regular loan with built in interest rate, and it’s a childish way to attempt to get around “interest”.
Sweden: Police Investigate After Islamic Threat to Execute Leader’s Family
You might like Rich Hickey's talks, especially "The value of values", "The language of the System", and the 2018 conj key note. The Talk in transducers also has a nice analogy: the conveyor belt.
It happens from time to time.