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This Non-Profit Is Selling Google Street View Trekker Backpacks to Enthusiasts
So, I'm sure this idea has holes all over it, but how about a very simple service that you log into with your PGP public key, then would allow you to post encrypted messages to other PGP public keys and retrieve messages posted to your public key. It could be fully anonymous, depending on your choice of keys. It would be very similar to the mixmaster remailers, except it wouldn't actual mail anything as it wouldn't have any identifiable information other than the public key.
Yeah, but we should clearly distinguish it as a price.
I agree. His logic seems to be that any firm belief at all is inconsistent with the scientific method, which is ridiculous, as you say.

I wonder what he thinks of priors in Bayesian statistics.
You can use https://cloudcraft.co
Your response really echoes some of the thoughts I've already had on the matter. I'm by no means underpaid given my age and qualifications, however the market demand for my current skill-set far outstrips both of those factors.

I've considered asking, should this or any other opportunity be offered to me, whether I could be permitted a 4 day work week for the first 3 months in order to have a "soft transition" at my current job. I have no idea whether that would be a reasonable request or not.
> change after 2010 that wasn't there before

Miami real estate was especially hit hard after the financial crisis of 2008. Rich investors, American, European, and South American, were snapping up South Beach properties for pennies on the dollar and reselling them for tidy profits. I lived in an apartment in Flamingo Park that was almost 50% absentee European owners. The trendy European neighbors you were referring to upthread are the same ones renting through AirBnB while they are back home. Even though it was against the condo bylaws (long before code enforcement cracked down) they did it anyway.

> It's quite another for same restaurant to close and be replaced by a kebab or pizza place.

Because when you are on a month to month lease, which speculators love to do before razing everything before building condos <cough>Wynwood</cough>, you tend to get cheap popup places that can move in and out quickly. A pizza place just needs cheap tables and an oven. Decor and kitchen workstation planning isn't a consideration.

> Today's SOBE bears little resemblance to SOBE of the pre-Airbnb past.

I agree but not for the reasons you think. 80s South Beach was geriatric, 90s South Beach was club grungie, giving way to 00s gay/artsy South Beach, to gentrification through the 10s, until here we are today. It's trendy but tourist trendy.

Locals have already moved on to Surfside and Hollywood. Cleaner lest crowded beaches.
I participated in the beta and I think they resolved this by setting a time out, and you get disconnected after some time.
The fine is already based on Google's European (not global) ad revenue as someone else quoted in the comments.
I got whooped by a 10 year old girl in a local tournament. And I didn't make any gruesome mistakes, she just out thunk me. Of course it was one of the last games of the day, so there was a big crowd around the board.

Kids like these should be kept to their own age class ... to protect the fragile egos of patzers like me.
How many hundreds of thousands of cars for those 26 to make that mistake?

Now imagine if every Toyota did this instead?

FSD is being touted as a "force multiplier" for safe driving, but it could end up being a force multiplier for deadly mistakes
Except for experiential, why aren't those categories already open on consoles?
> Because why should I care for someone else's child and why should I shell out money because someone decided to have children even though they shouldn't have ?

The worst part of this is it naturally encourages classism. Only wealthy people should have children, only wealthy people should have pets, etc.
How is DXR any more locked in than DX-anything else?
One of my big focuses when I'm designing a system is not to get everything right up front, but to always be looking two or three steps ahead and making sure there is a reasonable path to get to where we need to be.

This is very key! This goes back to the "driving the car vs. aiming a cannon" analogy from Extreme Programming. Instead of aiming a cannon and hitting the target in one shot, a driver steers moment to moment while thinking about the road ahead and the next turn. (As opposed to driving with no thinking about the next turn and the road ahead, which is just bad driving.)

Young designers who don't have a lot of experience tend to cargo cult the more complicated designs they see in other systems without deeply understanding what those are there for.

Also very key. One shouldn't just imitate the form, but understand the forces that determined the form!
That's a good observation. This also makes me wonder if one key reason why Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu didn't take off was because it was too complex from the start?
> I honestly can't say I understand the draw to drop significant money on a new set of headphones that need to be charged at least as often as a my phone, and can't be charged while being used.

Maybe if you are using them 24/7. The battery in the case can charge the airpods batteries several times.
Here’s a well done (not cultish) example from 360 Live Media > https://vimeo.com/310212909
They are also busy preparing orginal content for Disney+ streaming service starting late this year. Disney already owns 60% of Hulu.
If ops/devops were purely a game, yes. Yet ops is privy to a mountain of confidential information and has the power to arbitrarily shut down revenue sources. I would say this introduces a lot of risk into the equation.
The evidence for anthropogenic climate change involves a lot more than correlation, so maybe that isn't the best example. In any case, even if everyone on Earth is misinterpreting p-values, that's not a problem with p-values.
I'm not sure how 'pseudocode' justifies "what the hell is this"..?
Chicken in the Rough
Do they release these as executables ?
"Doesn't care" now seems to be considered Apatheism.

Said to be coined around 2003: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/489221/word-for-...
Somehow the mouth of the model still looks "weird". Maybe because humans are hardwired to pay more attention to it?
it is supposed to be real time. for real time it's really good
Might as well put them on rails (Smart-Rails(TM)) and make a railway network for smart people. Transportation problems solved!
"We’re a lot closer to the nasty low-level imperative code that drives people to using templates. When we looked at real Flutter code, we were sad to see a lot that looked like this. So, about a year ago, the Flutter team asked us on Dart to come up with language changes to make UI code written in Dart easier to write, read, and maintain."

Nothing about this code snippet is "nasty" or "low-level". It is trivially easy to write and understand. It is fully maintainable due to its simplicity and clarity.

It's sad to see that developers think this is somehow bad code. It probably takes a lot of experience to understand why it is totally fine.

Too many developers are lost trading added complexity for aesthetics. One more way to write the same thing. One more thing that will be inconsistent across the codebase. One more thing to learn how to read. It all adds up. All the tooling has to be updated to support this stuff. How will it look and feel in the debugger? (Does Dart even have proper debugger support?)

In the end, all you get is the looks of being declarative while having none of the benefits of being declarative.
I have one since launch. I never use it.

Most of the "games" are either poor ports of actual games or phone level arcade games. I enjoyed going in public VR spaces to interact with people but it quickly lost it's charm.

I'm excited for Boneworks that is coming out eventually and that will make me dust off my headset. Hopefully it won't go back in the closet after a month again.
The gameplay-experience isn't what is holding VR back. VR was good enough 3 years ago.

Price, PC-Specs, and ridiculously complicated setups are the reason, why VR hasn't taken off yet. The Rift-S helps with all of those issues.

It makes some smart tradeoffs, so that it is accessible to more people.
> you can use the `sysprep.exe /mode:vm` flag, which essentially tells sysprep to retain most of the device tree, since you expect to run the thing on similar hardware

In my experience that only really works with full paravirtualized environments. If you start mixing in SR-IOV things can get a little messy. Given customers actually crave high performing networks, that then presents you with a choice:

1) Make two images. One for full paravirtualized environments.

2) Ignore it and let Windows first boot time take longer.

Of course most clouds already end up with what are effectively multiple images for the same setup/configuration of Windows, one per hardware type anyway, because even with full PV things can get a bit strange, and you're often ending up with blue screens during first boot.

They're not going to want to _double_ that number. Even with full automation that's a bunch more things that can go wrong, more operational burden etc. etc. Where's the value proposition? Windows provisions a little faster?

Linux images rarely need to be produced for different hardware types / environments. They just spin up and away you go. As to your systemd/sysv comment.. even sysv based instances have a time-to-login on first boot of under a minute.

The systemd developers were obsessed with the idea that parallelism would speed up the boot process, but it doesn't make as significant a performance impact as they'd have you believe, especially when you're talking about cloud images that rarely have many services running on first boot. Even if you go trawling down the systemd boot time reporting, you'll see that most components start in fractions of a second, and the same was true under SysV too.
This is why we report statistical power. It does in fact put probabalistic limits on the size of the elephant. In effect, we can make a statement like "at least 90% of studies like ours will detect an elephant larger than 20 microns if it is actually there on the table". It's not reasonable to interpret the results of a single study without consideration of power.
Looks absolutely gorgeous. Just imagine another 30 or 40 years of advancement in gaming. I think at some point the real world will just start feeling mundane compared to the incredible journeys you can take in gaming environments. Most people might choose to spend large parts of their lives in these digital worlds.
'640kB ought to be enough for anyone'
This step towards real time raytracing is going to happen sooner or later. This kind of progression is why we aren't stuck with Wolfenstein 3D
Git evolved out of passing around patch files by e-mail, which then evolved into Bitkeeper. By the time Linus wrote git, he had a very good idea of the workflow he needed, the data to be stored, and the OS tools available to him, since he'd been doing it manually for 10 years and had written much of the OS.

There's actually a counter to your counterexample - Darcs was a competing DVCS written in Haskell and based on a comprehensive theory of patch algebra. It didn't work - it was too slow to fit into people's workflow, despite being provably correct. Git - as basically the automatic version of emailing patch files around - was much more successful.
There’s efforts to correct the record on the Middle Ages too for this reason. The History Unplugged POD cast for example has a series on it.

Intelligence is also a function of knowledge too however, it’s not purely a trait you’re born with. So the more correct knowledge you have on how to think and approach problems the smarter you are. You can easily see this today with the different decisions people make arround the world, where the base intelligence rates are the same but the decisions people make aren’t the same quality.
> So much for uncanny valley

To me, the mouth always seems to give it away. Fabulous nonetheless though.
Actually empowering artists will benefit the end users with better visuals. Some people are happy with textures polygons but personally I enjoy cinematic art as much as other type and cinematic story telling wiht all of it's subtleties will definetly benefit from this.
I followed back the first link for the opposite direction of travel and didn’t find any signage before the swing-gates. You kinda truck along at 45mph+, sticking to the left to continue and with a small amount of notice time, you need to fork to the right.

I get that a local would know you are to always fork to the right, but someone unfamiliar or a machine could be confused by the initial half barriers, with only a 2 lane wide barrier after the demarcation point. Along with the oddly painted lanes.

But as I said in another post, I guess DOT would have the data on incidents (and hopefully act on it if there’s enough evidence in favour of more safeguards).
objection was to the implied claim that this is the cause for the slowdown. It is implied by the sentence structure and the preceding paragraph. I've expanded the quote to make it clearer. Thanks
No, atheism does not mean: I have proof of gods non-existence. This is a position put forward by theists who wish to push the burden of proof off of their side.

Theists put forth a claim: god exists. They need to prove that claim. It's not up to anyone else.

Atheism is simply looking at the evidence that has been provided for the claim. It is non-existent. Therefore it cannot be said that god exists. You need to prove the claims you put forward.

Note, it's not 50/50 (like agnosticism says). Atheism doesn't say: one side says a teapot exists out in space, and another side says it doesnt.. so it's 50/50. If there's no evidence of the teapot, there's no reason to believe it is there. That's atheism.
>walking around town

You don't want to walk around the town with earphones that isolate too much. My coworker was hit by a car as he was jogging while wearing IEMs. He couldn't hear the car horn and he was hit by a driver who couldn't stop his car in time. He didn't suffer any major injuries but he learned his lesson and now only jogs with open earphones.
Fascinating story -- and the author really lucked out in that the technicians were there at the same time, because just showing up in places like this without making arrangements is not a good idea.

For comparison, some thoughts about the opposite end of the spectrum for Pacific travel:

https://driftingclouds.net/2019/03/12/manufacturing-bula-mas...
Who has the fastest website in F1?
Weapon system designers sometimes observe that an older system on its nth iteration can be better in the field than the revolutionary new ground-up design. (Until the latter gets to its nth iteration.)
True, so they could have also determined "Music makes your cheese taste worse".
He also wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for: The Host, Himself, air travel?, bachelor party?, bars he visited, brands of alcohol he drank, Uber who took him to the wrong address, His parents, his grand parents.

What if instead of the host using AirBnB he was just a local Bed and Breakfast (those existed before AirBnb). Who's fault is it then?

I forget the term for it, but there is a legal definition that limits liability in a lot of these kinds of cases because it can get very broad. I personally, find your assertion that AirBnB is to blame to be too broad. I can easily think of a situation that this same scenario happens without AriBnB.

This individual fucked up, the situation was handled really well by the OP and a few others.

Conversely, I'd say that from the article AirBNB fighting regulation and to not pay taxes is their fault.
So the incentive Google has with K8s to make it just good enough that you trust them to take care of it. If they make it too easy, you have no reason to pay them to manage it any more.
I keep lyrics and tabs in txt files with a custom .editorconfig file for color/highlighting, this is so much better, thank you!
Including esports, where my experience with the term implies a meaning of "to intentionally disrespect your opponent by playing below your known skill level" https://www.ssbwiki.com/Sandbagging
How can someone so smart not even understand what atheism is?

He may be trying to drum up some funding/interest in a book or project. This guy is unlikely to have accidentally misunderstood prominent atheists like Sam Harris.
Quantum Computing Hackathon in Oxford
Speaks to the fragility of the human mind. The human collective organism, as it were, instead of rising against the challenge from the machines, decides to shift focus elsewhere. Chess is nowhere close to being a solved game, yet we're already treating it as such.
Arguments by analogy are an excellent way to compose an argument. Socrates built entire ethical systems using analogy.
Certainly not with open addressing as it will destroy all the cache-line advantages. with seperate chaining it's very common, esp. for resizing.
TeX evolved out of manual typesetting. All of the ideas of horizontal & vertical boxes, glue, badness scores are computer formalizations of the work that typesetters have been doing for centuries. Knuth's first order of business when he wrote TeX was to learn how printers did this stuff; he drew on 500 years of "simple solutions" going back to Gutenberg to write it.
There aren't is the thing. There are widely used standards, but they don't actually have any real basis. Fisher I believe is the one who popularized it but it was for specific circumstances and he acknowledged that it was just a convenient thing.
Lots of comments quibbling about whether he understands the word atheism.

His central point—despite the interview title, which he didn't write—is: humility. He argues that to practice science is to avoid adopting a position of certainty, but rather, to ask questions.

That almost everyone on this thread missed that point suggests maybe he's on to something.
Where is your evidence for these claims?
"Ask someone local you trust" already assumes you've been there for enough time to know and befriend some local, which is almost never the case, for frequent travellers, plus "private" (more often than not unlicensed) drivers usually charge a ton more. Direct experience in multiple places.
Upvote for a rare OKC institution thread on HN. Boomer!
This doesn't match any dictionary I have.

Atheism: belief there is no god.

Agnosticism: we don't, we can't, know whether a god exists or not.

> They say there might be a god, or maybe not,

This by definition is not atheism, it's agnosticism.
Actually, yes, it's real time
DXR works with AMD cards as well - https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-states-that-all-of-its-dx...
In Andrew Yang, the Internet Finds a Meme-Worthy Candidate
Lots of things are unhealthy if eaten in excess. Is the argument really just that bacon is unhealthy because it tastes so good?
Boeing didn't want to re-engine the 737
Honda isn't experimenting on the public at large with unproven technology. One of their suppliers did, and ended up bankrupt as a result.
Could be wrong here, but I think most uses of raytracing like this limit it to shading and use traditional method for shadows. (Shading being the way that light "appears" on surfaces, shadows determining roughly how well illuminated a surface is. In theory you could use raytracing for both, but there may be limitations?)
Sure, it's a fine workaround for a dying pair, but the GP said:

>I'll just address this point, because it is categorically incorrect and something many people misunderstood when they were first released
Unless you're Tesla. ;)
>"The microinstruction is 23 bits wide (plus one for parity)."

I'm curious why does the microinstruction need a parity bit? What happens if the parity is wrong, a machine check exception?

>"bits [23:0] -- original microinstruction bits [31:24] -- 8b op-dependent predecode value bits [39:32]"

What do the pre-decode bits do exactly?

Which microcoded machine was this?
I disagree.

Raytracing has always been possible. There are GPU demos of real-time raytracing back in 2010. But gamers typically care more about higher-FPS / higher-resolutions rather than more realistic shadows and reflections.

I think a "killer app" needs to be done. Ex: a game designed around raytracing: a stealth game using shadows to gain information around a corner (and worrying about the placement of your own shadow). That sort of thing...

For now, game developers have this cool visual technology, but no real way to integrate it into a gameplay mechanic that players really care about.
Backtest Trading Strategies
Alternately, this is a blind spot in zoning laws, which exist in part to make sure that residences remain pleasant spaces to live in, and this blind spot needs to be addressed. The flipside of the libertarian "you have no right to dictate what I do" stance is that you may be generating external costs that your community has to absorb, so the legal structure should make sure you bear your share of that cost in accordance with how much you contribute to creating that cost.

Noise complaints are a downstream symptom. It's often unproductive and ineffective for laws to try to back-propagate policy by regulating downstream symptoms and hoping upstream symptoms get fixed as a result.
>>I took one 3D graphics class in undergrad and it was all so absurdly low level basics, most just mathematics, it never remotely showed how something like this could actually be put together.

I feel like this is a huge problem in higher education especially: bottom-up learning leaves students bored, confused and demotivated because they don’t understand the purpose of what they are learning and have no immediate use for it.

Whereas top-down learning, where you start with the end result and work backwards/downwards from it, can provide the enjoyment and motivation necessary to persevere, especially when the subject matter is challenging and the road long and arduous.
It's a good question to ask, and a subject that needs to be addressed. However, I don't think the answers will matter much in this specific case because the boy and his family are refugees. That comes with its own peculiar issues (and political biases).
Might you or anyone else have a link to that Bochs x86 virtual machine paper?

Similarly might you have links for those papers that describe "trace-based instruction predecoding for hardware CPUs."?

Cheers
Can someone explain why the motion capture for this animation looked so much more realistic than it usually does? Character animation always looks over-smoothed or something to me but this is probably the first time I've seen where it doesn't have a stilted appearance.
I'm pretty sure they don't mean "Playback of this pre-rendered MP4 was powered by a single GeForce RTX 2080 Ti!"
Through no fault of your own, no doubt. You thought exactly what the author (or editor) intended for you, and everyone else, to think.
There is an argument for indexing fines to income or net worth for people too (in addition to severity of the crime) -- if you want to stop a behavior, for example speeding, it doesn't make sense to set the fine equal for everybody unless wealth distribution in society is remarkably flat, so the marginal value of lost money is similar for everybody. If you don't index for ability to pay you just create a separate set of laws for different classes of people.

This is basically the same argument as for progressive taxation.
AMD actually uas released a real-time ray tracing library that’s included in Unity, and is Vulkan compatible, called Radeon Rays. [0]

And Crytek released a demo last week showing real-time ray traced reflections rendered on a Vega 56. [1]

[0]: https://gpuopen.com/gaming-product/radeon-rays/
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqhkDm2_Tw