skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use maps heavily for restaurant recommendations and tracking. This involves staring and tagging places all over Chicago. Maps will barely run on my phone at this point. I expect it to crash once or twice while I'm using it. I know I use the product in a memory heavily way but it's still very frustrating because I don't expect this to ever be addressed.
If I understand you correctly, you propose a image format which should provide a better quality for less file size. However, to implement an in-browser client-side reader, one probably needs a javascript library, and this will blow up the size again [Side note: Actually I am surprised the site uses JavaScript at all, being that static].

Another proposal for image compression is to fall back on SVG, c.f. https://jmperezperez.com/svg-placeholders/ -- at least this does not need JS.
Is that a comment on the effort to produce a site like this, or the cheapness of energy and bandwidth?

The effort required to produce a site like this would be negligible, given that it's almost entirely plain HTML. Dithering the images would take seconds in something like GIMP. The HTML looks to have been produced by a tool, based on the formatting, so they wouldn't need to spend time working with markup.
Type12: interview developers in a real production environment
In my current company (a large bank), our team (~50 people) is trying to leave the on-premise infrastructure and move to the cloud because the on-perm stuff is managed in such a way that it's hard for us to acomplish anything. It will probably cost a lot more to use the cloud, but we're gladly willing to pay for it if we can shed the bureucracy this way.

I've read that in medieval times, kings have sometimes abandoned their castles for new ones after too much fecies were accumulated in them (as people were shitting wherever back then). I feel a strong parallel in this story to our situation.
Building dependent Maven projects
Thanks for the link. I guessing this would handle the use case of being able to acess Pi-Hole while traveling or in a coffee shop correct? This seems to be a limitation of having this on a Pi.
I have an auto immune disorder (my brother is diagnosed celiac, so it is probably celiac). I had sinus headaches my whole life. Like I remember waking up one day in high school with a clear nose and it was remarkable. (I had digestive issues too but to be honest I didn't mind too much compared to the headaches.)

Girlfriend told me there was something wrong with me and to do an elimination diet. It was the best I ever felt. I stopped eating gluten and felt a lot better but I would still get headaches sometimes. It took about 5 years of narrowing down foods to get the complete list. I don't eat gluten, caffeine, sugar, sodium nitrites (deli meats, celery), and msg (flavored chips). Sugar was the hardest to give up but it's worth feeling good.

There is this woman online, Mikhaila Peterson, who had horrible arthritis and found that eating only meat fixed it. [1] It's a little extreme IMO but it is cool to hear a relatable story. Auto immune issues are wild.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7fncJdVjy5U#
I would be interested to see how the additional traffic from HN is impacting their power usage.
So in that case is this going to be a "G-Sync"/"Freesync" or "Gameworks"/"No, I like my framerates" thing? If developers begin supporting the RTX hardware is there a way AMD can get on board, or is this another one of NVidia's patented industry hurting moves?
This is a thing actually on Breaker and Stitcher. The show I host offers this as a "premium feed."

Not a ton of interest, unsurprisingly, as most people don't experience enough inconvenience in an ad to shell out.
You can run argo-tunnel/cloudflared on it and use that. You'd still be taking plain-old-DNS in, but the arguments in favor of DNS-over-HTTPS aren't as strong on a network you control.

I don't think anyone has written custom DoH stuff you can easily run yourself yet.
Flexera Acquires RightScale
300 companies already looking at or developing with RISC-V in China
> Is a given blockchain a more efficient database?

One property of a database that may not exist on blockchain is deletion of records. You can not delete "records" on blockchain due to its immutable property.
VPN vs. Proxy – What’s the Difference and Which One Is the Best?
I’ve been running the mid to high end Asus routers for years now and am very happy with them. Running wrt-Merlin firmware and AB-Solution via entware is everything I need and doesn’t complicate things with additional devices like pi-hole.
I'm curious how the energy usage for this site compares to something like hosting a site on S3.
Console application for creating dynamic wallpapers for macOS Mojave
> since it is simulates how light physically behaves.

I think ray tracing is at best an ad-hoc model for light that produces nice results, but physically based it isn't.
My biggest gripe with Vivaldi is that the first option when right clicking a link is to open in new tab and focus it. This seems like a small issue, but this is different to all major browsers which has open in new _background_ tab as the default option. There is 10 years of muscle memory for me to overcome to switch and I just can't do it.
>they are always early to the party without the best party favors

Innovators' curse maybe? They were pioneers in voice assistant, smart phone and tablets. Alas!

MS has begun to coast with AR - hololens, no new version in a while. Apple is well positioned to take the lead here.

As for IOT, I feel the current MS won't win. Windows 10's constant need to phone number will wear battery down and consume previous bandwidth.
You are right. I was just writing a flippant joke. The author of the post wrote a great article. I am also not insulting Larry Ellison. He (Larry E) is an interesting, very successful, guy. I am just saying he tends to win in competitions. Once you are locked in, you have to pay.
And Hacker News is essentially just a bit of HTML, CSS and lots of words.
> For instance, pure rasterization cannot do shadows.

Well... the technique that you describe (shadow mapping) is actually pure rasterization it just requires more than one rasterization pass. This also ignores the fact that there are other techniques for getting shadows in rasterizing renderers (stencil volumes and other stuff that is rather considered historical today).

I get your point that rasterization doesn't support shadows "naturally" like ray tracing, but in my opinion your wording and the example is rather unfortunate. The same goes for reflections, I would say SSS or caustics probably are better examples since they are really only done with techniques based on ray tracing.
I'm currently sitting in an airport in Salt Lake City. Was supposed to be in St. Louis, MO last night for the preconf day of Strange Loop. Instead I get to miss the first day because they didn't hold my connecting flight. And, my first flight didn't leace until almost 2 hours after we were supposed to, because of a computer glitch.
BI found us and we got featured What's your story? Looking 4 founders to collab
3 episodes a week now, baby!

Is Pod Save the World better than Pod Save America? I gave the later a try and didn't like it at all.

Oh, also, 1A on NPR is pretty good too, I don't listen to it too much these days, since it's a bit hit or miss, but it was the first podcast I really got into :)
Bailing out of my first full-time development job after just a few months.

I was driving 30+ minutes to work, working overtime every week, and got a bad performance review on the grounds that I wasn't working enough. The company had a "work hard, play hard" culture, which in practice meant "work all the time and occasionally we'll invite you to take a booze-filled trip without your family". They had flown me in for the interview and let me eat sushi with the CEO, but after that it was "nose to the grindstone".

After a few months I got a call from a recruiter about a job 5 minutes from my house, using a language I liked more. In talking with the company I learned that they worked business hours only. I felt slightly guilty about making the switch, but I got a lot less stress, more learning, and more respect at work out of the deal.

In the nearly-a-decade since then, I've never again been told I don't work enough, and have always ruled out jobs that smelled of workaholism. I'm having a happy career.
>they went to spin up some servers and etc and IBM was all "that will take a few weeks, we have to install them". At least to me "cloud" includes the ability to spin stuff up on demand.... IBM was operating it like you were ordering from a very old co-location service or something.

Well, the spin up is instant, but the multiple forms and stakeholder sign offs aren't :-)
Excellent response.

Though here is another perspective I thought of. What the usage of blockchain would allow is a chain of liability to exist among different companies in the supply chain. If you are signing off on a product, you are verifying the authenticity of the item, and if it arrives defective at the next location you assume liability. As a customer, what you would really leverage, is the incentive of every individual company to not be liable for any issues to the next company in the supply chain. You would still be required to some degree to verify the direct transaction of the item to yourself, but if ubiquitously applied, it should offer some higher level of trust simply due to the transparency offered.

If this is needed in current society or will be implemented is another question, but I think large business definitely has incentive to minimize liability through something like this.
TMS relies on Faraday's Law - a large transient magnetic field induces electrical currents in the brain. When these currents are large enough, they perturb the activity of neurons nearby. (Neurons communicate based on pulses of dynamics in the electrical potential across their cell membranes.) There are also second order effects related to the alignment of the neural structure to the induced field lines, etc.

TMS of motor cortex can induce finger twitches and TMS of visual cortex can induce phosphenes or other visual disturbances. Single TMS pulses have effects that wear off very rapidly, but repetitive TMS may be able to induce therapeutic plasticity (it has been reported to potentially induce seizures - following the normal law that nothing medically useful has no side effects).
Oh, it's not better than normal wifi. It's just better than 1200 baud over VHF or even 300 baud over HF. It's just typical wifi hardware hooked up to high power amps and high gain antennas to get greater distance. People are adjust the frequencies to the ham band and then running mesh networks. Part 97 allows you to modify part 15 (normal wifi hardware) to put up to 10W out. 10W frequency hopping spread spectrum links can go pretty far at GHz frequencies.
WV's Decision to Allow Smartphone Voting Raises Serious Security Concerns
That'd be United Health Group, McKesson or CVS Health.
At 100% power draw the charger I use to power my pi uses 5 watts so you're pretty safe on the power.
It can be, but it starts before that -- if you're serious you're renting a studio, and more expensive shows will have writers, music, archival research, interviews, etc. You can just have two guys talking on laptop mics, but if you want a professional-sounding product as you might hear on the radio, there's more than that going on.
>Gamers have long been clammering about how they can't wait until in-game graphics match those of pre-rendered cinematics

Well, they do, you just have to look back X years depending on your criteria. Look at modern in game graphics v PSX cinematics for instance. It's not even close.
> Every other major country had it's infrastructure bombed and shattered.

Spain? Portugal? Brasil? Australia?

> your armed superiority is a joke.

Ah, comrade, I understood now. Check the score of recent clash with your "Wagner" mercs. How many US lost? Yes, zero.
I am a patron of a handful of left-wing / comedy / education podcasts and all I can say is that that "scene" has been steadily growing since I got into it around 2016. Independent, patron based funding models really works for podcast content.

Chapo Trap House, fueled by over 100k $5 dollar donations, is a great example. Not all get to that level, but if you're a 1-3 person podcast making good content for your niche, it only takes a few thousand listeners supporting you with $5 a month to support the whole project. I think those podcasts are going to continue to grow in number for a while as the community grows.

There isnt even a need for large scale curative organizational involvement for these kinds of projects. I see the article mentions Slate, and NPR. While those are fine orgs, there is a real appeal to the auteur style of small scale, community driven media. Hosts go on each others shows, the listeners of the various podcasts interact with one another on twitter, and a weird kind of modular audio content network emerges out of the many moving pieces. Theres a place for large-orgs curating podcasts, doing more extensive journalism requiring resources, or providing larger content libraries for the un-initiated, but the botique podcast is something here to stay.
Our company is currently hiring an SRE in EMEA. US(Seattle) based. Full remote.
That's great. Request bin is a great tool for capturing requests while testing the webhook.

Our tool is similar to that. But our tool will monitor and forward requests to the original URL and reply the response (a proxy for your API with monitoring ). So your endpoint will work as expected and you can monitor that for debugging purposes.

one use case is that when any client reports any bugs regarding API/network requests, you can easily reproduce that without getting any inputs from the user.
The end of the article provides this comparison for context:

> Still, Delta isn’t the only U.S. carrier to have suffered from technical glitches. In December 2017, a fire at Atlanta’s airport, the world’s busiest hub, caused a major electrical disruption, crippling services and stranding thousands of passengers of Delta as well as rivals including Southwest Airlines Co.

It seems to me that Southwest's systems being brought down by fire and electrical disruption is a different "technical glitch" than the kind of systems problem Delta just had. A better comparison would be July 2016, when a router failure created a "chokepoint that crippled hundreds of the company's software applications":

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/southwest-airlines/2016/...
An adversarial environment kinda rules out control by one of the adversaries (ie, whoever is running the centralized system)
It depends on the game and category. Category rules are established by the community and the top priority is runs being fun to watch and play. Usually, any glitches are fair game. However, if any game-breaking glitches are found, the category will usually be split into one that allows and one that disallows the glitch. For example, Portal speedruns were split into "out of bounds" and "inbounds" categories once glitches were discovered that allowed you to beat the game mostly without interacting with the actual game at all.
So do you/would you pay for something like the New York times?
Yes Goldeneye made amateur speedrunners of most people who played, as you had to get times to get cheats. You'd be amazed to see the fastest runs on Facility now. One particularly amazing thing is that the time for the invincibility cheat is now possible not only on 00 Agent mode (where in fact it's considered easy), but on so-called "Dark LTK" mode, where one injury kills Bond and all enemies have max stats.
As an car enthusiast, driving represents freedom and escape, quite hard to do when you're tethered with this connected junk.
> The company is also set to charge businesses for messages they receive from potential customers via the WhatsApp platform — of between a half a penny and 9 cents, depending on the country.

Didn't knew this and takes back to the outrageous SMS pricing of 10 cents per SMS.

I as a consumer can change easily but it's sad to see that business will have to deal with this crap.
OK not being z/TPF expert the "the world's largest TPF-based systems are easily capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per second, three billion per day. TPF is also designed for highly reliable, 24-7 operation." This totally reasonable workload for RDBMS system does not look like you specifically need z/TPF to handle the transaction volume.
You are trying to solve a problem with a blockchain that does not exist. Also, exactly how does your blockchain even know "this yacht now belongs to this person"?
I think you just linked to an entire blog, the most recent post of which is from March 2018.
How to Use Reaction Buttons to Improve Your Service by Analyzing Users’ Emotion
That should be a new goal post: can it render a pixar film in real-time. e.g. Do we have a Toy Story capable card yet?

(Note: I know offline rendering and real-time raster rendering we use in GPU's are completely different methods. But there is a point where the raster trickery can catch up and match the offline stuff.)
Over the past year I have gone from Blockchain enthusiast to more blockchain gadfly. The concept is truly revolutionary but the use cases I typically see trotted out are not compelling in any significant sense and could be solved without blockchain. I believe the reason for this is due to the fact that the true value of a blockchain solution is not in the data aspect of it (which everyone gravitates to and can quickly grasp and understand) but more in the transactability that a blockchain solution can offer. And the value of radical transactability requires much less of a myopic understanding of a person's business vertical than many professionals possess. In energy for instance, much talk about the financial aspect of a blockchain-based energy solution but absolutely zero talk of how the physical grid and infrastructure would engage to support the financial activity.
This looks great! I'm currently in the process of reverse engineering an API from its source. This is perfect for quickly comparing the requests made between the official client and my own implementation.
Try 3Blue1Brown:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
I hope they fix the RSS feed and put the whole articles in there. It should be the norm, especially on a website with "low" uptime.
>Podcasts are enjoying a renaissance possibly due to the legitimization of the medium by semi-famous people, and due to some proper distribution outlets finally appearing.

Or it could be a simpler explanation: people are commuting more. It's something that you can "fire and forget" if driving, and doesn't rely on the data plan if you go through a tunnel.
Those are compression techniques, they do not require js, nor a different client and work with the jpeg standard.
The animations on the home page are way too fast, and with such tiny text, that I can't figure out what they're doing.
Though, for the sake of argument, even in SQL databases people are increasingly moving toward append-only tables where you never physically update or delete existing records, you just insert a new one that supersedes the old one. The same approach would work for a blockchain.
This is great: it has most of the benefits of an extension without the concern the extension gets compromised (you already have to trust your browser). The only downside is it doesn't address ads in things that aren't browsers, like mobile apps and the like.

I wonder how long it's going to take for ads to be implemented server-side entirely.
They mention some very strong results (P< 0.001) which I don't think can be explained by randomness even if they were to roll the dice several times.
I would not use the same language you use, but certainly one should see a job for what it really is: an agreement to do work for money that will be kept up as long as it is in both parties best interest, aka a business arangement.
uMatrix, while having a bit of a dense UI, is what I prefer as well.

I installed a pi-hole in my home network about a week ago, and it survived less than a week.

My wife likes using sites like eBates when she shops online, and it redirects her through a random sequence of tracking sites before landing on a site like the Gap. It caused all sorts of problems for her, as those sites were being blocked.

If I was going to keep the pi-hole running, I would have had to constantly be adding white list entries. Or, I could have manually created a black list from scratch. I was not interested in doing either.

I found that dropping a handful of domains in uMatrix got rid of most ads (but not tracking), and that was good enough for my uses.
It says this right on the OP's link: "Vivaldi has always honored its users’ rights to data privacy and protection. There is no need to collect your personal information. We don’t track you. Period.

We encourage users to explore privacy-conscious options and educate themselves on the basics of web browser security. This year we integrated DuckDuckGo as our default Private Search, and added Qwant to the list of suggested search engines (which includes StartPage as well). All of these are great tools for taking back your privacy. We’re continuing to explore ways to protect Vivaldi users and this will always be a top priority."
sorry, I was not clear. I am also not knocking owning an island. Thats a great situation to be in. If I am successful full enough in life, I will buy one! I am just saying don't mess with the dude. He tends to win.
> DoH or DoT

I wasn't familiar with these terms and they are a bit ungooglable. :-/

DoH = DNS-over-HTTPS

DoT = DNS-over-TLS
Well, it certainly had to be said so I am glad somebody did so.
This is the example I was referring to: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8358773. The problem is one where there are multiple vehicles, from different manufacturers, that must communicate with each other in real time (say at an intersection) and must make decisions based on messages being relayed to them. This is easier if they are all following the same protocol.
When possible, a lazy alternative to packaging non-free software in guile would be using containerization software. I run dropbox in docker under GuixSD and works flawlessly.
Even ray tracing does not capture all physics of electromagnetism and only works at the level of geometrical optics: any effect, like diffraction or iridescence, that arises due to the wave-like nature of light still need to be implemented in ad-hoc way in a ray tracing algorithm. But fully simulating Maxwell's equations (or QFT) to keep track of those minor effects would be insanely expansive.
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