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This is great to see. Quake and Doom were all about elaborate fake 3d and elaborate fake raytracing to run fast and look amazing on slow hardware. As technology improved, first we got a real 3d engine and now we finally have a real raytracing engine.
Why are there private prison companies to begin with?

There are, in my opinion, certain aspects of government, which never should be outsourced for private gain. A prison company being one of the most extreme examples.
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> when they think something is not that great they will just say "it's shit"

Linus doesn’t just say “it’s shit” though - he says “you’re shit”. That’s the problem.
Norway will install the world’s first wireless electric car charging stations
"...that they're not prepared to take recycled designs any longer".

I believe that the use of recycled designs is one of the major guarantees for aircraft safety! There is nothing wrong with a gradual development process, where only small modifications are done from one revision to the next. This is a bit like continuous integration principles in software development. Building on former experience as much as possible is an important factor of quality assurance (and also efficient in many other aspects).

I understand your point, though: small modifications can sum up to a point, where they do not blend smoothly in the base design anymore - as is the case with the larger engines of the 737 8 max. At some point, designers have to refactor big.

What went (criminally) wrong with the 737 8 max, in my eyes, is the attempt to treat a large redesign as a small modification, to save (certification) time and money. It went horribly wrong, causing loss of lives and trust in the company.

And obviously Boeing is not able to understand the consequences of the loss of trust. Last week I thought, the worst thing that Boeing could do now, was to offer quick fixes (like hot patches for the software), as this would proof their incapacity to embrace the scale of the problem. But this is exactly what happened.
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But he gave concrete examples other countries have done to achieve the very things he mentioned. Why would you dismiss those obviously working solutions by hand-waving about world peace?
And do you often meet people with weapons in public in the US? I didn't. In fact, I met much more people with firearms in public in Israel. And guess what? It made me feel safer.

Though I know that both topics are highly discussable. I disagree with you on "archaic Second Amendment", but I like that you have your right to disagree with it.

The main problem mentioned in topic is not the weed consumption -- it's the taboo of even talking about it.
TIL that Putty's settings are stored in the Registry…
I see. So instead of the SATs, we could administer a psychological test to detect antisocial tendencies. We’ll send the worst of the bunch straight to the Ivey Leagues. That will teach them.
> Judging from exonerations, innocent black people are about seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white people.

http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_...
To what extent is "marijuana posession" just a proxy for more serious crimes that are harder to prove? Just like Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion...
So, just like you could point to cases where socialism did work?

(E.g. changing the equality laws for men and women, rapidly industrializing an agrarian Russia, leading China to top global economy from a century plus slump, letting Cuba have a top notch and cost effective hospital system, and so on)
> PL theory has continued to move forward.

It did? Can you link me to the new stuff?
Had to be Agile dev with CI/CD
Or, in general, getting code to run on it at all. Almost every OS that hasn’t offered C (and arguably some sort of POSIX) has floundered without gaining traction.
Most of these sectors are dominated by public spending (see my comment above).

Because prices aren't arbitrary numbers slapped on to products and services that can be managed by diktat. It's like trying to control the temperature by limiting how high thermostats can go.
Java because you have devs and you can just make a shell/batch script to launch a JAR.
Is this Dagger Bay's devilmoon? If yes, we're missing you.
I always strongly disliked the OOP school of program design, even though I learned to parrot everything required by one's typical interview process.

Keeping data and functions together can be nice. In some rare cases inheritance is almost OK. But still don't understand how it all went nuts and they started writing, say, parsers in that style...

But it's always nice to hear that there are other people having similar opinions. Especially if it's people like Linus.
> - Stop using Google fonts

I think we can avoid Google font CDNs for fonts but we can use them from our assets i.e download the font and use it from your assets instead of Google CDN.
> In Denmark when the doctor sends you to the drug store with a prescription for e.g. pain medication, the drug store is required by law to tell you about cheaper alternatives (with the same active ingredient) even if they do not stock the cheap alternative.

All 50 US states have generic substitution laws, and 89% of all prescriptions are of generics.
Instagram is facing a reckoning over misinformation
Unions, like charity, mean that the government has failed in its job.
I don’t have a problem with Solarized but I prefer a simple green on black scheme.
> I still don't understand why they felt like they had to add half-baked classes / OOP to it.

That one I'll never forgive :-)
Tbh, the insurance representatives even tell you which fitness trackers are best for gaming the system. Mine said to buy an Xiaomi as it adds an extra 20% and costs a lot less.
I get plenty of spam in my Gmail inbox. Their filtering isn’t magic or perfect.

Worse, Gmail’s spam filter generates tons of false positives, and these are often the messages I want most: password resets, legit balance alerts from my bank.
In my opinion you have used a convenient generalization for prison populations which helps justify their treatment by dehumanising them. An alternative view.

Universities: 18 year olds moving out of home for the first time.

Prison Population: Many from unfortunate circumstances and have been fending for themselves long before 18.
I think they mean that linking to Google Play won't lead to users downloading your app, not that merely including the link will slow down page load. The same is true of embeds, e.g. YouTube videos will fail to load, but the rest of the site won't be affected by that. The article's headline focusing on speed is probably just SEO.
Social logins is - and was, back then - a thing people are used to.
I think the advice "don't live near a swamp, because the tiny invisible creatures in there will make you sick, and if you do have a farm next to a swamp, sell it" is a little more detailed than "dude, what if we're all, like, strings?"

Describing disease in great detail is nothing the Romans didn't also do, nor does it have anything to do with the germ theory of disease.
i can’t tell if this is snark, but as an app developer, i have considered facebook login as a means for a relatively frictionless user experience, not as a way for me to gain access to a users facebook account.
To give a more nuanced prospective, I'm an American that has lived in Denmark for 3 years.

Definitely, the American system is a dumpster fire.

Denmark's isn't terrific, either, though. I remember having to call in a favor of my girlfriend's uncle (a doctor) to get a simple doctor appointment that wasn't 4 months out.

Certainly the government does have the people more in mind when making laws - that's not the case in the US. Our government cannot be trusted to have our interests at heart, unfortunately. Pushing for more regulation usually means helping the businesses and not the citizens.

Private health care is cheap and great throughout Europe. You can get an appointment quickly, have doctors that spend time with you, and spend a lot less than you would in the US. The private doctors here in Europe also tend to be better at their job - they've self selected.

The best medical care I've experienced, though, was in south east asia. Most of those countries have a pretty free market. You can even see ads in Bangkok for the price of a baby delivery - front and center on billboards even! Truly a capitalistic health care system.

I've described my own experience with SEA care here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15904413

The point is that health care is broken around the world but certain places need different solutions to make it less broken.

America already spends enough public money to afford public health care for everyone but we don't end up with any quality of care for that money.

America is unable to follow Europe on this one even though most european systems would be better.
Seems Flutterwave [1] fits your needs perfectly. Have you tried it?

[1] https://flutterwave.com/za/
I'm very skeptical.

This is not just RTT; there's a big amount of rework. Likely, any old game would look significantly better with such development effort (in other words, with any good remastering).

This could be considered a great market stunt - the graphical improvement is touted to be due to RTX (ray tracing), while it's actually due to many factors.

On top of that, it misleads people into thinking that this type of improvement is typical of ray tracing, and that it comes at virtually no cost, while currently, ray tracing takes a big performance hit, and it's generally hard to notice.

Q2VKPT is close to the concept "improved with ray tracing", and while certainly impressive, it doesn't yield the same "AMAZING!" effect.
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These chips aren’t going to be running browsers in the near future, unless you mean in a TV (one of the last places you could find MIPS).

The market they are headed for is embedded, where every cent of the BOM counts. Licensing costs can add up surprisingly fast as part of that.

Server parts are a big step above that - MIPS used to play there, but after a short peak they failed many times over. It tried in the networking and embedded space for a while, but then had its lunch stolen by all the cheap ARM vendors from below, and stomped on by x86 from above.

And then desktop/laptop parts? Unless you are Apple (and even then), pushing a new arch on the desktop is a massive, expensive task, and I can’t see it being worthwhile.
More civilized countries (e.g. nordic ones) do something similar to that.

They don't send "criminals to Harvard", but they have prisons close (if not more) habitable as a Harvard dorm, very humane treatment of prisoners, extensive educational programs, and so on.

And they have less costs, less crime, and a healthier society doing so.

So snark from a country with the largest prison population (by percentage) in the world, huge associated costs, rampant crime rates, and is so backwards as to still have the death penalty (in the 21st century!), is unwarranted.
he's aware of it.

He comes off like someone who suffered abuse and mockery as a child. Was he aware he sounded like that? I doubt it.

That said, a behavior can be both cringe-worthy, and also productive. I can think of certain comedians, talk-show hosts, etc, who manage both.
Over the last two years whenever I downloaded sample code from Apple for newish macOS/iOS features (Touch Bar, for example) it no longer compiled.
VB6 is still going strong. As answers to most vb6 questions are available on the web since forever, people rarely ask vb questions on stackoverflow.
If you look at vbforums.com you can still have 500+ people at any time viewing the "vb6 and earlier" forum. And that's just one of many vb forums.
We have this in the UK, Vitality offer rewards based on your Fitbit (or whatever) step tracking, and also offer to "give" you an Apple Watch and negate the repayments if you achieve your health goals.

I don't think it's actually that terrible as long as privacy is respected.
as a spotify user since they only used facebook login, i wasn’t even aware of this messaging feature. blind consent is not consent
Bootstrapping (Etymology)
Most Americans earn less than $75k, and they still have much nicer housing, food, healthcare, plus shopping, trips, etc.
Different countries, different politics and constraints, different challenges.
I always try to strongman other peoples arguments. Im not perfect but i do my best. Another important thing i have learned is to try and understand what someone is saying rather than making it only their job. This is especially true when people swear and uses faul language.

But most importantly i try to never point thd moral finger at someones position that way a much more fruitful discussion can be had.
Your first point is sort of debatable. The U.S. is diverse and there's a wide variety of viewpoints. It's hard to fight against political inertia at the Federal level. Policies in motion tend to stay in motion.

There is demand for reform but there's almost an equal demand for status quo.

Cutting financial fees is one thing. Healthcare is a capital AND labor intensive industry. Cutting fees carelessly could cause massive layoffs, disrupted services and a lot of trickle down effects. The system has evolved to this point and while it's certainly due for disruption, it's not as simple as capping prices.
They don't sell just in Switzerland though, they sell worldwide, most of their money is probably made in the US.
No no, if you added social login to your app it's because you're evil. You want to monetize your users, selling their data like it's 2014. You're literally Cambridge Analytica. /s
Mobile phones, sure. Smartphones? That's a bit more debatable. At the very least, a cheap smartphone is probably fine for most "economic" needs. What we need less of is idle high-noise-low-quality content consumption, which is also the thing that's most supported by advertisement.
Why doesn't IFTTT fix bug?
Created a IFTTT account with email address(such as one@domain.com), and changed the email to another@domain.com, and created an applet `send me an email`, you will see the email will be sent to one@domain.com, I think the email should be sent to another@domain.com, it's a bug here, and I had emailed about this issue several times (more than one year), but the bug still remains.
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If you are suggesting free or 1$/mo, then know it's not sustainable for me, at least in current conditions.
Re: Healthcare, that’s not true. The US spends more on health care per capita than many systems with free healthcare (Australia, UK, Canada). You pay the most and receive the least. Like the previous commenter, I am increasingly surprised that this system is still supported, instead of one that costs less and provides more (e.g. the fact that states bargain with drug companies individually, rather than federally, means you pay much more for drugs).
Fear Is Good for the Forest
It also dissuades other people who may not make mistakes from contributing. I’m certainly not getting involved with a community run by someone who mirrors past abuse I’ve experienced, for example.
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Whoosh. Luckily I have karma to burn.

If there is a real free market where consumers have a real choice, it can be argued that the system works, even if it's a race to the bottom. Even you indirectly admitted that most markets aren't free.

There are numerous cases where "socialism" (as laissez-faire Americans like to define it) achieves its goals better and cheaper, like healthcare and pretty much all natural monopolies such as infrastructure. Need any hard evidence with A/B tests? Look at the results of the privatization of European national railways.
> If I host in Europe or US would the speed of traffic going into China be very slow?

I'm not sure, but I guess it should be nowhere near 1Gbps. You'll have to test it to find out.

> How can startups in China handle that kind of hosting cost?

It's mainly bandwidth that's expensive, but there is cheap cdn/cloud storage for static files, like videos. Then you can also pay by traffic, which is around $0.12/Gb.
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)

U.S. 655
Switzerland 81
Japan 41

http://www.prisonstudies.org/
New high score on GLUE mixes transfer learning/MTL/weak supervision/ensembling
No idea of the technicals, other than sampling at double the audible frequency does- to this layman - seem logical it would give you a wave more diverged from reality as frequency increases - and at the absurd extreme a 22khz (inaudible to most) square wave if sampling at 44, 4 points to represent 11k etc. I don't see how it can be otherwise, just as interpolating and anti aliasing is often right but cannot always correctly insert missing pixels - see the attempts to use AI to make hires versions of Mario and other 8 bit assets, some work, many don't. It was only an idle conjecture after the main point, which was meant to be about mastering, so I'll expand that a little.

One of the places I worked at in the 90s was connected with a well known recording studio. We got to blind demo from master tapes how their latest attempts at going digital were going compared to analogue a few times. At least a couple with whatever graphs they'd measured. 25-30 years later, I don't have much recollection of the how or what. Aurally, it wasn't something subtle to listen out carefully for, flaws were plain, therefore memorable. Surprising in the era of digital and CD growth and their supposed "perfect" sound forever, and DDD being marketed as always preferable to ADD or AAD. Not so surprising when you realise it was the era of all ADCs and DACs at any cost being shit.

By the time I left, analogue mastering was still preferred by the engineers and still the studio's first choice for albums they recorded. Can't explain that technically either, though they clearly thought, and could demonstrate analogue was still doing a measurably better job. Were they misunderstanding? shrug.
Schools love the idea of a growth mindset but does it work?
> But it's ok for every single for-profit private company to do the same thing in the interest of its shareholders? Even when the company's aims are to the detriment of society as a whole?

...wait, did I say that?
I avoid these 3 for every website. I want to be in control of what my website delivers and who can trafk my users
What you're describing is not a generalist. Generalists can actually do things and it sounds like your colleague was just pretending. I have worked with one or two people similar to what you describe, they can pose a real risk to their employer if they are not managed appropriately.
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Honestly, I wouldn’t make it available in China. I want to give them a reason to take that firewall down. I don’t want to make the prison that their government has turned their country into, a sustainable one.
So you think Californians at large get to dictate terms to security guards? They shouldn’t get to negotiate their own terms?

They get paid shit even with the union.
Obviously it is unnecessary but I doubt it affects the perceived speed of the average desktop application in any way.
Many examples of the library-in-action may be found on the homepage: https://mosaicjs.netlify.com

edit: update link
This trend towards manditory quantified health risks discrimination aginst chronically unwell people. Your data, even from healthy employees, is being weilded by unaccountable corporate goons to disenfranchise people, like digital star of David.
Voice for Solarized: I use it everywhere, because it’s popular, consistent, and not horrible to look at. This means I can have essentially the same color scheme everywhere, which is nice, plus the light/dark themes are very easy to make (which, conveniently, reduces the amount of syntax highlighting CSS on my website quite a bit: the only thing I need to have “dark mode” is changing the background color). I’m not completely sold on the “algorithmically perfected, better for your eyes, etc.” stuff but I do think it’s not horrible, which is not a guarantee I can make about $DEFAULT_COLOR_SCHEME_FOR_RANDOM_EDITOR.
I'm a freelancer and I use GnuCash. It isn't flashy, but it is a solid, reliable implementation of Double Entry book-keeping.

Learning to use GnuCash also gives you a good basic knowledge of accountancy principles which are useful skills to have both professionally and in general.
> it's actually due to many factors

To add to this point, at 1:35 in the video they compare with / without volumetric ligthing except, well, volumetric lighting has been used in games for a while now.

The "before" should show a non-RTX lighting instead of just nothing at all.
Doesn't this fail when dealing with genuine bad actors?

E.g. we know that social media are infected by a variety of trolls and "influencers", and it seems pointless to assume the best possible interpretation for their output - except, possibly, as a deliberate rhetorical position, which can sometimes be more persuasive than more passionate rebuttals.
The United States didn't end slavery after the Civil War, we just started using the justice system to mask the original justifications for slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor...

>More than 800,000 prisoners are daily put to work, in some states compulsorily, in roles such as cleaning, cooking and lawn mowing.

>The remuneration can be as woeful in states such as Louisiana as 4 cents an hour.

>The idea that such lowly-paid work in a $2bn industry is equivalent to slavery is leant weight by the 13th amendment of the US constitution. It banned slavery and involuntary servitude, with one vital exception: “as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”.

>Prisoners, in other words, have no constitutional rights and can be blatantly exploited.
Energy monitor can find electrical failures before they happen
As far as I know, you can't do that, since your ICP license is tied to a host provider (like Aliyun), if you host your site somewhere else, you risk having your license revoked.
> So you think Californians at large get to dictate terms to security guards? They shouldn’t get to negotiate their own terms?

Did I say any of those things?

No no, I think that there need to be dramatically fewer prisons, and dramatically fewer prison guards, and the union advocates exactly the opposite of that. That's not OK.
This looks like RTX versus Quake2 software renderer, so the pictures are somewhat deceptive as they do not use the more powerful original Quake2 renderers.

I would be interested how RTX compares to the other Quake2 renderers that it originally came with.
That light is an upgrade you need to pay for.
Well there seems to be a lot of anti-social tendencies in the US judging from the number of incarcerated individuals.

Perhaps there are mechanics in place that goes a bit deeper?

Are humans born stictly social or anti-social, and will anything accentuate these effects in the life of an individual?

Research is quite clear on this matter I believe, but of course there will always be exceptions.
There's no equal demand for status quo in the US. There is a political system that lets voices be amplified enough for those with vested interests to pretend they have an equal demand.

big difference
I think you're getting downvotes because the 2 aren't mutually exclusive.

You can lead the world in pharma and have it captured by special interests. Infact I would say its almost inevitable.

Now that's not to say that your point about it being bad isn't legitimate.
It is called gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Germany

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetzliche_Krankenversicherun...

and is 100% state-controlled.
Is Boeing taking DLC advice from EA now?