skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny story! I'm an undergrad Computer Science student who received this postcard raytracer from my Pixar recruiter back in November when they visited my school (CMU). To try and woo my recruiter, I changed the "PIXAR" text to say "HIRE ME" and sent it back to them. I also called fork() twice before the render loop to use 4 cores (plus a spooky mmap call to share the memory).

Here's the gist of my modified code (clang-formatted with comments): https://gist.github.com/Flafla2/d2f44c9e5e5a0ff13e6071fb782d...

And here's what it renders: https://i.imgur.com/Yhqt0Le.png

I didn't end up moving forward with my offer at Pixar, but I had a ton of fun with this! Super awesome idea, Pixar sure knows how to get computer graphics programmers thinking.

If anyone is interested in diving deeper into distance field ray marching and using it in a production game engine, check out my article on the topic here:
http://flafla2.github.io/2016/10/01/raymarching.html
On second reading, I think you're right.
So what's stopping this guy from making a new account and claiming the video back? Should creators claim their own videos so they can't be claimed by others?
Macbook Pros have USB-C and the latest iPhones have the Thunderbolt charging port. Critically however, the non phone end of the included charging cable is not USB-C, so you need an adapter or different cable to charge it.
My goals are :
Learn how to invest
Making $10,000 month
Travel
learn D, work out a realistic timeframe/plan to move back home (country not my parents house), travel domestically more, get back into a routine of riding my bike regularly.

Plus like a million other things.
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Thank you for the reply. I knew I was missing something.

> Germany (for example) wouldn't put up with it even if the rules allowed it.

It makes sense. I have a lot of respect for Germany but there's probably some limit to how much they can make miracles happen. The nineties wasn't that long ago and my understanding is Germany has invested a lot in Eastern part of Germany over the last two or three decades. I'd be apprehensive about pouring money into Greece if there's no common identity between Greece and Germany that instinctively reassured me that if there was some tragedy in Germany, there wouldn't be "foreign aid" from Greece but rather the same disaster relief as Greece would offer itself.

My understanding though is that the common identity is still rather weak. I'm not just poking at the French. Seems like all Europeans think of themselves as Brits, Spaniards, Italian, or bla bla bla before they think of themselves as European. I think I listened to someone argue that the EU is not a country and never will be based on how the Constitution behind less preamble:

>> HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, ...

I think they tried to argue that the EU is somehow superior and more modern compared to these United States of America. I don't know much about the Eurozone but I'm very optimistic because I don't see any other way Europe doing any better than barely surviving if it did not unite.

More importantly, I think the stupid and nostalgic old people will die at some point.

> Just over 70% of 18 to 24-year-olds who voted in the referendum backed Remain, four major academic and commercial polls conducted shortly after the ballot agree, with just under 30% backing Leave.

> In contrast, only 40% of those aged 65 and over supported Remain, while 60% placed their cross against Leave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45098550

I am optimistic, for what it is worth.
Build more long-lasting artifacts. As a software developer that has primarily worked in startups, most of which no longer exist, it can be frustrating to have nothing to show for the hours I’ve worked. I envy a friend of mine who works as a 3D animator on feature films who can point out the exact shots he’s responsible for and always has a permanent record of his efforts.

I recognize that software inherently lacks the shelf life that mediums like film enjoy, but I plan to at least partially achieve this goal by writing more often, contributing to open source more frequently, shipping and maintaining side projects, and striving to make the company I work for a success — steps that will give me something concrete that others find useful / enjoyable.
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It references studies on human children subjects that I was able to look up, although did not provide easy links.

Other than the graphic design and "eww chemicals" I'm not sure what the actual problem is with the content.

And the three recommendations were actually all quite "natural" and commonplace.
They should start with kids then. I remember how painful was to wake up in the morning to go to school at a very early age. Worst memories of my childhood.
I thought the general level of workers comp fraud was well understood, and it doesn't take much googling to find it.

It sounds like the point of controversy is not sourcing, but the 1-2% figure.

That 1-2% figure is the level of fraud given the current amount of privacy invasion and harassment, including the story as posted. Less harassment, more fraud; more harassment, less fraud. "full stop"

If you think 1-2% is insignificant, I don't know what to say. By comparison, 0.037% of card-present transactions were fraudulent in 2012. That number was alarming enough it inspired switching all of our (USA) infrastructure to a chip-based system, and even that is generally not thought adequate. 1-2% is a large amount of fraud. If you have that amount of fraud on your merchant account, banks will generally shut you down.
I'd agree with this assessment 100% - ML can achieve some very impressive results - in my domain (computer graphics for movie VFX) with regards to image generation / identification / modification, e.g. denoising for the latter - however the result is almost always effectively a black box of functionality which:

A: isn't always understood what it is actually doing or how.

B: often needs to be retrained when input data varies slightly outside original training data - this is expected at a technical level, but is annoying in practice and often then starts deviating and losing its effectiveness or gets inconsistent results with larger less homogeneous input data sets.

C: Can't really (at least easily) be used as a stand-alone / packaged component/library to re-use nicely in other places as a conventional algorithm would be.
I am currently searching for a new display. With the 55inch display, how far away from the screen do you sit?

(I am also Aussie. I have been considering the Kogan displays for a while now, due to price.)

Thanks!
Awesome. What sport?
Correct, but most neural networks that do this sort of thing have tens of millions of parameters. Doing this in only 150 KB is extremely memory-efficient, if not exactly high fidelity.
8 hours of sleep per night. That’s it.

If I can nail this, everything else will fall into place. I’ll naturally drink less alcohol and eat better. In the last few months, I’ve experimented (via Apple Watch) with the impact that alcohol and diet has on sleep.

The book Why We Sleep, combined with habit theory, has had the greatest influence on this decision.
If you appreciate other kinds of trees, here's a fractal pot leaf written in PostScript:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/leaf.ps.txt
But what do you want them to do? Have we lost the idea of consumer privacy? I know several people who have decided to prep for doomsday, often equipping a ranch with weapons. That shouldn't get you put on a watchlist. Or what if someone wants to purchase firearms before laws change? I know others who have done just that. Gun debates aside, should we really give the government influence over what we should and should not consume? Utah passed laws against certain explicit content, and this rationale was used to protest; why not here?

One of the best pieces of advice I got concerning terrorism was not to be too afraid. If we live in fear, we let the terrorists win. And if we give the government many powers to "fix it", then, as devs like to say, now we have two problems. Remember, what powers you give "your side" to fix a problem can then be abused by the "other side" when they get their turn.

I'm always open to solutions for such terrible problems as mass shootings. But curtailing individual liberty means that the terrorists win. Look at Xinjiang: that is where we are headed in 20 years. The only way to completely prevent terrorism is to lock down every aspect of every life. Hence Xinjiang. The question is simply how slowly our politicians will try to force this upon us.

It is for all these reasons that the idea of "reporting suspicious behavior" bothers me. It is a perfect lever that will inevitably be used to political means or to settle grudges. It enables the use of the police as a club; think "swatting" but worse. Please don't support this sort of nonsense.
Physics puzzles
From your link:

> The process may only be pursued in instances where the upload was removed or disabled ... It should not be pursued under any other circumstances.

GP's whole point is that counterclaims don't work here, because the content hasn't been removed, just re-monetized.
Launched Draftss.com this year.

Currently at $7,000 MRR and aiming to achieve $50,000 MRR by end of 2019.

Planning to launch 2 more products in the first quarter.
- Switch over to a mouse-less workflow.

- Stop being so negative and cynical.

- Stop caring about things outside of my control.

- Train my body harder.

- Learn a new instrument.

- Learn all the songs off one classic record. Probably an early Megadeth one.

- Read more books.

- Write regularly.

- Touch my toes. Handstand. Etc.
Ask HN: What is your side project for 2019?
In 1990 I was a kid, and there was a Japanese kid across the street with a Super Famicom. In addition to being floored by Super Mario World shortly before it came to the US I had a strong impression of SimCity and Dr. Wright with Japanese speech bubbles I could not understand.
Scale Narwhal kloudtrader.com/Narwhal and make it profitable so that I can pay myself. And introduce kloudtrader’s other financial solutions.
Then don't comment. Just because you don't give a shit about sound quality doesn't mean others don't either. Enjoy your bluetooth Beats.
> It's remarkable that AI seems to be held to an arbitrarily high standard, often exceeding that of other technologies.

Because safety critical systems require trust. One way of establishing trust is to explain or prove why the system works. This cannot be done with machine learning.

Say that you already have a safe system. Now you make a change. How do you demonstrate to a skeptical audience that the new system is safe without releasing it and counting the bodies?
Normal software vendors are not normally so bad that it is justified to protect yourself in a way that hurts them. Granted, with the rise of built-in spyware we might eventually have to start doing that. (Or, more realistically, we could distribute patches.)
In 2018, i have lunched https://www.cmyport.com/ and it was not successful as i thought , and this year i have lunched simple https://www.tweetvideo.info/ Twitter video downloader, and planning for chrome extension, learning SEO stuffs which i can rank my website higher in google pages.
This sounds awesome! I loved Miniclip in middle school. It's really sad that games sites like that faded away; I would love to see them make a resurgence.
School and work hours is a very similar problem to the metric system. Even though there's a more efficient system, the switching cost is significant in that you're out of sync with all those that don't make the switch, or don't make it at the same time as you.

Once the majority or a popular minority start using later work/school hours or the metric system, then there will be a catalyst for change. But for those early adopters there is a significant burden of extra communication that needs to take place.
An octernian?

There should be a unicode "sextuple-u" character so you can express "www" in one letter (and five fewer syllables). Think of all the time and bandwidth that would save!
You are absolutely right. Compressing (using this for lack of better terminology) is extremely important for power-efficient applications as one of the main power draws on a device is external RAM.

We had to come up with a bunch of ideas on how to fit our stack into the on-chip RAM (512 KB) and leave enough for OS and the actual application.
> regarding the universalness of this. Is it ... like this everywhere or is it different in some parts of the world?

Many parts of the world use a term called 'Modal Music' (greece, turkey, arabic,...) and it's rather unlike the western one. Although I've limited experience of it, you could say that they use the note names (do, re, me, fa, so, la, te) as absolute notes and the 'modes' are named scales that also incorporate music sequences. So you might have a song written in Rast, but the tuning of your instrument (which allows overtones and quarter notes) might be tuned to something else. As a musician you're expected to change instrument or transpose on the fly.

> If I look at a score written for an alto sax, How can I tell which note is meant ?

If it's for Alto sax it's already transposed for the instrument in the score (Eb, from memory). Looking at an orchestral score, you'll see various instruments appearing to play different notes, but due to tuning they'll come out sounding the same note.

> In jazz, people learn a standard in a certain key... Is there something similar in classical music ?

Typically not. Although the musicians themselves sometimes have the ability to do it, classical isn't transposed to suit vocalists.
I should graduate after the upcoming Spring semester with a bachelor degree in CS. After that, I want to find a decent full-time job as a software engineer.
Qualify for Olympic trials? Or are you in a sport/nation that you just have to hit a target qualification?
It seems to make evolutionary sense that groups benefit from night owls, etc., and so would develop them.

Unfortunately, my non-normal sleep not only doesn't qualify me for any subsidized treatments, recognized disorders, non-discrimination statutes, or not even sympathy from most people.
It sounds like it's not too much of an issue for you yet, but you do see the affects drinking/drugs has on you. It's good that you are able to sense this before it has a chance to take hold of you. I was an alcoholic/addict for many many years and remember laughing it off when ex-addicts or recovering alcoholics would tell me that they were so much happier when they'd quit. Now I understand what they meant.

Though I'm wondering if there's ever a possibility for us obsessive-addicts type to be able to reach a comfortable and well-balanced place where we can enjoy a drink or two without everything spiraling out into madness. Probably not...
Just curious, what about your current job sucks the happiness out of you?
no one intentionally cripples anything. what you are saying is you want lack of choice in the marketplace, and everyone should conform to your usecase.

I got a pixel2 xl. like my dell, it charges via usb-c. a have a bt headset I use for both the laptop and the phone. The lack of cable, especially when I travel and sleep on a plane with music playing, is important. That 1mm of saved space? I'll take it - I wouldn't be using the headphone port anywise.

You - go buy any of the hundreds of phones with the heaphone port you want. No one is stopping you.

They're not crippling anything. They just don't care about you not buying their product, because when I looked to buy mine, I specifically looked for phones with just a usb-c port. like my laptop. for every one of you, there are one of me (probably more).

Do you complain a lexus is not good for moving couches? Or do you buy something else? Your line of reasoning is the middle finger to the consumer. What Google and Apple did are what I, their consumer wants.
I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't. Just dropping in to say that KS for asking those questions, as I didn't even know of the Hayflick limit before.

I now have more questions.
The saddest thing I've seen this year was a family waiting for the path train at 33 street and the (I assume parents drop some trash in the floor and yell at one of the kids who proceeded to pick up after the adults. Like not only are these adults actively littering, they are penalizing their children for trying to clean up after them. I wish I could say these people were tourists but sadly I have a feeling they're a product of our communities in the greater New York City area.
You put a strangers code on the...website, without reviewing it and without knowing what’s in it.

There is not a single person in the entire history of web development that this sentence does not apply to.
Anyone who uses an alarm clock to wake up has to have wondered if they were a huge mistake that was damaging their health. They're truly awful machines, maybe the most damaging machines we've ever invented.
Nope, it’s not an octonion, it’s a dual quaternion.

The nice think about dual quaternions is that they compose. So you could then connect this screw to another screw in a smooth fashion.
a.)Need to read complete these books

1. The Personal M.B.A
2. Running Lean
3. Thinking Lean
4. The Automatic Customer
5. Bankable Business Plans
6. A programmer's introduction to mathematics

b.) I have a starup idea in education to shorten learning curve using education games, this is what I am planning.

1. Build M.V.P of educational games that teaches mental models or popular concepts or ideas release them on HN, take feedbacks.
2. Release a beta product
3. Grow the business to earn a living out of it.

c.) Writing

1.) If everything goes fine, my book on Ripple will be launched in January
2.) I need claim back my top writer in innovation, technology titles on Medium
3.) Learn to write content that are scarce, indispensable and deep

d.) Open Source Leadership

1. Find good problems to solve
2. Make a simple solution, open source the code.
3. Build a community and let it grow
4. Go back to Step 1
I paid $9.99 on Windows store and it says I "own" the app but when I start GCompris it still says I must buy full version!
just get a usb charging mat and plug it into your laptop. then take a look at how big it is. then add that size to your laptop. then ask yourself if this 15% bigger laptop is something all the other people want, or would they rather have more battery/cpu/ram for that 15% of space. They probably won't. But they don't want the wireless charger in that space either. They want the smaller laptop.
They probably all would have gotten fired too.
We've almost come full circle to back when people despised cities for being dirty and admired suburbs for being clean and affordable.
and this is the GitHub repo with the notebook: https://github.com/jasongfleischer/Predicting-age-from-the-t...
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/11/Breast-Cancer.html
> No shit. It’s bizarre that I can’t use my headphones and charge at the same time.

I agree that it's annoying, but you can if you use a Qi charger.
This is obviously subjective, but I feel like my meals are "cleaner" when I eat lots of greens/veggies along with meat. I don't do strict keto, but avoid carbs as much as possible, mostly because of that lazy slump feeling I get after eating them.
Last time I was in Rome I had exactly the same impression.
I even saw a discarded air conditioning unit at the feet of an ancient wall and it felt like I was in some dirty outskirts.
I turned the corner and there was the Colossuem.
Some Italian cities are very clean, others are even more dirty.
It really depends and my guess is that after a while locals just stop seeing this.
Clean and dirty is very subjective after all.
ML is essentially fancy pattern matching roughly resembling the human visual system, which is why it happens to be good at tasks related to perception.

It seems that an application like cancer diagnosis - feeding in test results and medical information to a NN, it finding patterns better than any human could, has nothing to do with human perception systems. It's just much better and faster at detecting patterns in complex things than humans are.
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I don’t know that people are minimizing you. It’s just that your observations aren’t consistent with how it works.

Sleep cycles exist and aren’t innate. Your engrained behavior or schedule is something that sets your cycle, but is changeable. Based on what you’re saying, it sounds like from time to time you need to wake up early, and you do so by rolling back bedtime or compressing by losing sleep. (By accident or design) Yup — doing that will make you feel like crap.

You need to roll forward, not back. You can take a long weekend and roll your sleep schedule forward 6-10 hours at a time and sleep from 9P-5A without much “suboptimality”. There is lots of research about this in industrial and military contexts... “rolling back” your schedule is unhealthy and increases accident rates in workplace situations substantially.

As someone who had similar habits, I’d respectfully suggest that you consider changing it. Living your life out of cycle with the world is bad for you... you experience more stress as a result. It made a measurable positive medical impact on me.
I have an incredible amount of respect for people in high level roles who are willing to roll up their sleeves when necessary. On the flip-side, whenever I hear things like "I'm an engineer, I don't do CSS / write tests / write documents", or "I'm an architect, I don't write code", it's a cue for me that that person is not a good fit for my team.
I think you can do everything from the perceived time.

GPS system need to reconstruct the time of the satellites because we know they tick in sync, but those star tick independently it’s really about observing the blinking.
Well, the median housing prices in SF have gone from $600k to $1.6M in just six years, so there's that.
U know u can view facebook 'as desktop' on firefox (and other browsers Im assuming) on mobile.
It works really well that way.
I think this is kind of gimmicky, or at least very far from practical applications aside from the satellite calibration they're talking about.

Their radio telescopes are located in Europe. How would you have constant time signals available? I would guess the errors in synchronizing / matching the signals across telescopes in the ground would be by far the larger error compared to the signal itself.

But who knows, I'm just an outside observer.
Never, they don’t control the local phases of those clocks.
But it's a great brand name.
Or perhaps it’s the opposite. It makes more sense for planners and idealists that everyone would sleep the same amount and wake up and work at the same time (just like they would like us all to use units divisible by 10), but reality is organic and messy and it turns out that the old traditions (segmented sleep, sleeping to the day/night cycle) had it right all along.
Too bad porting[1] Emacs to Guile wasn't finished (even seems abandoned), could have improved speed and multithreading (and even better extensibility too).

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
Isn’t that possible with iPhone 8 and never? AFAIK you can use wireless charging and still use the Lightning port for your headphones.
I almost had a car crash while driving to high school half asleep. Now I'm older and I get up at the same time but I don't feel tried at all.