skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s your perspective on naval applications in general? It seems like an obvious first step. Resupplying carrier groups at sea requires a much more expensive supply chain than the one that runs to your local gas station. The Navy might even pay a small premium for the strategic advantage of not having to rely upon vulnerable oilers to keep their planes flying.
This is similar to how my current position started.

I was initially given a contract for 3 months. Not a probation period -- a contract that could be cancelled at any time by my employer.

I left a very stable job to take this new role (cite: much more money and 100% remote).

After 3 months, I was given a full-time role. I rolled the dice. I would do this again.
> and many people believe that damage regions are obsolete

Old-style damage regions are obsolete. But new-style ones leveraging buffer age & swap-with-damage are not.

Vulkan changes this, but these older EGL extensions are good introductions to the concepts: https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_... https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/extensions/KHR/EGL_KHR_... and https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/extensions/KHR/EGL_KHR_...

> Flutter is a good modern approach to this, and its “layers” are one of the keys to its performance.

Flutter actually does it badly. Layers are terrible for performance because they are a source of jitter (and memory usage), and jitter often results in jank. They are necessary in some cases, like for correct alpha blending, but in general should be avoided if your goal is to be smooth & fast. You want to optimize for your slowest frames, not your fastest ones.

Flutter's excessive layering can also rapidly be a net-loss in performance due to the overhead of render target switching, increase in memory bandwidth required, and fewer opportunities for overdraw avoidance & disabled blending.
> Facebook closed my report as 'not against ad policy'.

Heh, makes you wonder, what's the ad policy? Sounds like: 'They pay us money, so must be legit?'
GIMP certainly wins on convenience: you just download it, no credit cards or shady torrents.
This (and its optimized cousin MSAA) has a huge performance and bandwidth cost relative to its quality increase. It fixes conflation on shared edges (the problem you describe) but 16x supersampling only gives you 16 possible opacities to work with for antialiased edges.

The analytic approach taken here and by Pathfinder gets to use all 256 possible opacities, and uses less bandwidth than supersampling, but has conflation artifacts. To match that with supersampling you'd need to scale from 100x100 to 1600x1600. Because of this most renderers also have the conflation problem (try it in your browser with an SVG), so a lot of content in the wild works around it.

There are other approaches that are low-bandwidth and solve the conflation problem, but at the cost of higher GPU requirements or higher complexity. For example, http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/ or http://hhoppe.com/proj/ravg/.
There is at least one other non-tech related article like this (with questionable sources) of a similar subject posted at the same time with a similar number of upvotes.
A variant called Embedded Visual Studio already supported cross debugging of Windows CE targets twenty years ago. (I was there and used it). Maybe that's not quite cross-platform, but kind of half-way.
In practice, if you avoid coincident edges, you're fine. Font rasterizers have been using analytic AA for a long time without problems.

In theory, the lack of knowledge of render resolution makes that a concern, but in practice it's not too much of an issue.
The were good machines, but they were stupidly expensive a that time. The same with SGI. I remember being quoted $18,000 for equivalent amount of memory I had just put in a linux box of my own for about $300. Sure, it wasn't really apples to apples ... but still. Intel based machines were eating their lunch for good reason.
Forget IRC. You can do everything with Matrix :)
Never been asked about headers in a job interview, junior or otherwise. Usually interviews are a 'can you code' test. I've never been interviewed by FAANG etc. though.
I like because it's free. But autocomplete is very slow.
Agreed, and there are some deep issues, for example the rendering of very thin strokes which is quite dependent on resolution. Also keep in mind that the 4x4 oversampling you mentioned does not give nice smooth edges. I'm working on font editing, so the quality and smoothness of the line, to most accurately represent the shape without artifacts, is paramount.
Nice, I guess CloudFlare is helping out a lot there by caching content so your droplet can take it easy.
Looks like Lima would be needed on the Pinebook, how well does that work ?
Well that took long enough
It's very much a WIP and is not on any public git server yet. If it ever gets to that point, I'll probably post it on this site
Do people find that time spent in motion or moving between tasks is ever the determining factor of how quickly or effectively you can prepare a meal in the context of a home kitchen? Granted, I've rarely cooked for more than ~4 people, I've never stopped and thought "wow, if only the cupboard with x in it were a few feet closer to the stove, I could have cut three minutes off my prep work."

It's unclear to me how Taylorism could have been applied in a transformative way to kitchen layout.
Interesting, this is new for me. Is it true that for analytic AA you'd have to consider the rendered objects all at once, instead of just rendering one after the other?
Why do they have to actively exploit hardware/vms that they own? Isn't it pretty trivial for a hypervisor to "passively clone" data right out of the memory of the VM? Or to use management interfaces/custom peripherals to exfiltrate data if it were bare metal? AWS is kind of a black box to me but it seems hopeless to try to protect data from people that physically control the systems.
I was pretty surprised when I charged by Pixel with an Apple charger and the MacBook power brick. I knew they used USB C but wrongly assumed they'd not work.
Most naval ships also use jet fuel these days, interestingly enough. A carrier that synthesizes its own jet fuel can also refuel its own escorts.
But sudo access requires you to have logged in through a user in the wheel group. That at least is not a vulnerability.
I parsed that headline as Tesla's AI software expertise far exceeds other automakers, but after reading seems he was talking about their devops/CI model, which I would say is accurate when qualified against other automakers. The one point that I think would be debatable is if he meant their self driving/AI software being far ahead of automakers. If you limited to automobile manufacturers that again could be true, but its my understanding that alphabet seems to be have the self driving software advantage.
Talking about what? Your claims are baseless.

You're saying not allowing anyone into this country is a fucked up law and backwards? Lol ok. I'd love to see you integrate into a shady Mexican community.
It would require a hugely significant engine rework. Networking, IO, world generation, entity AI, etc

Basically any part of the code that reads/writes chunks in the world or just references some kind of chunk-related data-type would have to be altered
I don't believe this to be the case. Sure, software can have growing pains, but there's nothing to stop free software projects from moving to embrace what people love about proprietary packages, delivered in a user-friendly way.

Software doesn't need to be better to win. Look at Google Docs, a shallow imitation of what document editors were doing even in the early 90s. It became popular in spite of it. (And don't say it was just because of Google's huge influence; they've had plenty of reimplementations-of-what-we-already-have-except-on-their-servers that have failed miserably).

I look at Google Docs as an example of someone saying "right, we mightn't have all the answers, but we have the answers to what people want right now", which turned out to be easier collaboration rather than nitty-gritty, barely-used features. Nobody except company IT admins gave a flying toss about whether moving to Google Docs had any licence or implications on software freedoms; it was inferior to Word (and others) in so many ways, remains so, but does what users want.

I am unconvinced that the argument that users should ever settle for inferior software just because it comes with superior freedoms is anything other than masturbatory. It has the pretence of being user-focused (freedoms) without actually being user-focused (what users care about). I think it would be a better strategy to focus on the latter whilst also promising and delivering the former.
I don't know. I consider Facebook (the company) to be utterly toxic, but I would be a lot less antagonistic toward them if they would reciprocate by leaving me out of their business model.
Wasn’t Kubernetes introduced at Dockercon, and entirely built around Docker from day one? Seems like a pretty close collaboration to me.

What kind of collaboration could have taken place beyond that?
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
Agree on both fronts! (Also, your username seems familiar somehow - have we had discussions around this before? :)

I didn't talk about this in the post because I haven't actually implemented fancy compositing, but based on what I've seen you never want to render to texture (which Flutter does sometimes) as it uses up scarce global GPU memory bandwidth, and if you're doing that using heuristics, then performance gets very unpredictable. I should express this more clearly, but the goal in piet-metal is not to do the fastest renderer (I'm sure it isn't), but the one with the most consistent and predictable performance.
Not the certificates though, unless you do some special tricks. I think GP is probably thinking of kerberos/NSS, which has a plugin system that requires dynamic linking.
No sources I see. I've never once witnessed trump act xenophobic. Not once. Just admit it - you only say this because CNN and the rest told you he's a bad man.
Seriously, 83%? That's insane!

Seems things are going far better in this little trade war than I was expecting. If the 17% paid by US consumers displaces other taxes, that's a huge net gain.
It's not about trying to boot off the micro-SD card, it is being able to just pop out the card, and get all the data that was stored on it.
Why would you need to use Slack (or IRC) when there is

https://rocket.chat/
https://zulipchat.com/
https://matrix.org/
https://mattermost.com/
I've used it for about six months as a primary email service provider.

Good web app and mobile app. At first I thought it'd be inconvenient to not be able to search the body of emails, as one does in Gmail. But such restriction did not prove to be a big deal. Overall I like it.
Amazon just launched a lending service in China while closing its local platform
On the other hand, in a copyright-free world once a leak happens (and they inevitably do), everybody in the world would be legally free to use that code. There would be some liability for the developer breaking the NDA or for the hacker stealing that code, but in the absence of copyright the buck stops there and all the other seven billion people in the world would not be bound by these legal issues.
tl;dr: investment banker took advantage of temporary arbitrage opportunities in cryptocurrency markets across international borders.
Not to me? Seems totally fair assuming the person making 11x is still able to afford a comfortable lifestyle (which they're more than able to)
It isn't submarine crew sitting in those conference rooms.
Not to mention the dreaded so-called "open-spaces". The tasks are completely different and no one gets half a year time off the tub. So the studies you cited are irrelevant.

In fact, inadeqate air quality was one of the three main reasons (two other being interruptions and commute time) that drove me to exclusively remote work 10 years ago. It took a lab-grade CO2 detector and some references to half-century old health standards to make the first step, but it worked.
Usually with analytic AA you just use Porter-Duff blending, because rendering all the objects simultaneously doesn't buy you much except for performance (which is why piet-metal does it that way). For supersampling AA you can render all the objects at once, like Flash did, and this does improve rendering quality around coincident edges.

Oddly (in my opinion), some rasterizers such as Skia's use supersampling for individual paths and Porter-Duff blending when overlaying different paths on top of one another. This means that you don't have seams between subpaths of the same path, but different paths can have seams on coincident edges. I don't like this tradeoff personally, because it has a lot of the downsides of analytic AA without the benefit of antialiasing quality, but for better or worse this approach is widely used.
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2011)
That was it. it takes longer to set up.
For sshd you would have to set PermitEmptyPasswords to yes for it to matter, right?
I feel like "regulatory capture to suppress competition" and libertarian mindset" don't go together all that well
Whether you look at autonomy as granting the ability to reduce your future infrastructure development costs, or providing a boost in road capacity without increasing infrastructure cost, either way autonomy is providing a massive boost / making infrastructure more efficient and thereby effectively lowering (possibly halving or more) roadway cost per passenger mile.

Why would the road infrastructure ever become unneeded? It's more needed than ever with the rise of incredibly cheap, extremely convenient, on-demand private transportation. The availability of which increases productivity and drives overall GDP growth and prosperity.

I don't see why it follows that we need to ween ourselves off of roads. Roads are the backbone of our economy, and more efficient use of roads provides huge economic benefit. More availability of on-demand low cost private transport is an amazing benefit to low-income workers.

Usage fees for roads that are being used more efficiently than ever, to try to drive people to less efficient (for them) modes of transportation, is a recipe for suppressing growth. It's a regressive tax which disproportionately impacts the poor.

Scooters are neat. Scooters are "0.1" relative to cars "5,500,000" in the 2017 million-passenger miles table. Maybe that grows 1000x to be a "100". But in a fully autonomous future, scooters are obsolete and not worth the investment in designated travel lanes. Creative future designs for super-light autonomous personal transport will certainly not take the form of a "scooter".
There are bits of this story which simply don't add up or end up feeling quite embellished. The reaction from the principle seems quite far-fetched and the ending feels like it was meant as a call back to the beginning rather than something that actually happened.

Regardless though, this story is generally correct in how the alt-right appeals to younger and more vulnerable individuals. They tend to recruit through avenues like video games, discord and so forth. A lot of memes can also help drag people into the fold with not-so-subtle racism and xenophobia which kids might not be able to fully grasp at their age.

It's one of those things I find strange because I grew up heavily addicted to the internet as well and it's hard for me to think of many memes which were weaponized to such an extent.
I would want to choice not to place my physical and financial health in the hands of profiteering insurers, but that's currently the only reasonable choice we (people in the U.S.) have.
Denver becomes first US city to effectively decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms
it’s all about the money...
"federated servers" is the only way to maintain a form of freedom while (out of necessity) operating software as a service.

If you think that you can't do free software development without relying on all the capabilities of Slack, then the honest thing to do is to quit and spend the rest of your days just working on proprietary stuff. You obviously prefer the solution which has features over any other concern, so why would you waste your time having anything to do with free software?

Richard Stallman obviously used proprietary software. But not past the point when he had replace it, even imperfectly: "I began work on GNU Emacs in September 1984, and in early 1985 it was beginning to be usable. This enabled me to begin using Unix systems to do editing; having no interest in learning to use vi or ed, I had done my editing on other kinds of machines until then." [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf] This tells us that Stallman used Unix. Well, why wouldn't he have; what other practical way was there to code anything? (One supposes he could have started from the bootloader on up, like the Unix guys before him.)

Stallman wouldn't use Unix today, since it has been replaced by free software, and he wouldn't use arguments like, well, such and such proprietary Unix has better memory management or faster I/O, so I will still use that.

If you're using things like Slack or Github without the slightest intent of working toward replacing them, yet using them for free software activities, then that is a comically conflicted position.
The same thing happened to me at Aldi.
I mean that the tax cut is progressive. If it wasn't progressive, then the 1% would receive 37% of the tax cut savings.
It's still a young project.

Examples will be added, but I'm not sure about the time.

Thanks very much!
Mission statement at I/O "be helpful for everyone" They showed how their improved software helps diabled and illiterate people around the world.
terrorism? gaza is a breeding ground...
For all the talk about Russian social media meddling, I'm surprised no one ever speculates about foreign meddling in media such as the chans. To what extent has chan culture been influenced by foreign agitprop?
In Germany not performing what we call "lebensrettende Sofortmaßnahmen" (stable side position, clearing airways, CPR) is (at least technically) criminally liable to § 323c StGB. I shall also point out that first responders have some legal protections and insurance.
Ethox: Standalone network stack for user-space networking and unikernel systems
I guess, but they kept up "Minecraft Classic" for many years as a separate (and free) thing. And I'm pretty sure this is just Minecraft Classic again.
Chinese spy machine?
> If software A requires four clicks to do something, but B has a way to do it in 3

The difference is usually more like "software A requires an hour of setup and constant maintenance on a dedicated VM or container due to dozens of dependencies, and software B requires 3 clicks"
Why are Americans so obsessed with Nazis? I mean, I'm from Europe and I don't recall growing up worrying about everyone being a secret (or overt) Nazi, which, unless promptly punched in the face, would somehow take over.

WWII and Nazis destroyed Europe. Are Europeans worried about Nazis? Not as far as I can tell.

Yet all I see from American news is Nazis this Nazis that. Can someone explain?
I don't think there's a crime called "impregnating a woman without consent". Not only that, he also had consent to impregnate her. The question is about where the sperm came from, but I think it's rather unclear that this would be any kind of legal violation.
New generation of lithium-ion batteries could hold more charge
Hands-On with Portals: Seamless Navigations on the Web
Google Colab has solved the 90% for us. I wish it'd have context sharing across users and better default folder management, and probably other things, but free + usable + sharing has been amazing in + across partners.

Feel free to ping in a ~couple weeks, happy to chat.
> Ideally, this cap would scale somewhat with the overall population of that country.

You bring up good points. Focusing on Vatican City is a funny example to pick and doesn't work well when we look at the facts.

So let's instead look at populations of each country and distribute caps that way. This seems reasonable and democratic, though different from the current system.

In 2017 there were 179,049 new H1B visas issued to persons of all nations globally. There were also 136,393 H4 H1B spousal visas issued.

Of this number, 129,097 new H1B visas were granted to Indian nationals and 117,522 spousal visas (which allow the right to work) were granted to spouses of Indian nationals.

Indian nationals received that year 129097/179049 = 72.1% of all new H1B visas. Indian spouses received that year received 117522/129097 = 91.0% of all H4 spousal visas.

I agree with you that these numbers are vastly disproportionate to population. You are right. These numbers are incredibly unfair to people of most nations, all but one in fact. Can you state what you have learned here which nations are receiving unfair treatment and which one single nation is receiving vast privilege and preference completely out of proportion with their population, based on documented verifiable facts? Please state what you have learned now that you know the actual facts regarding distributions of H1B and H4 visas population as they pertain to national origin. Thank you!
I wish this were true.
Even with the kernel parameters listed here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop/Lenovo
I have an E585 and I _still_ get random kernel lockups (running Ubuntu 19.04).
Most of the symptoms I've experienced are listed here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196683

Such a shame, since the 2700u would otherwise be perfect for my use case :(
Maybe inflation adjusted.
So the children would be suing a parent for being born?
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Nice catch Josh!
JD
One more gimmick to try and salvage a dying business.
Is there an ethical problem with the idea of sperm banks?
> but based on what I've seen you never want to render to texture (which Flutter does sometimes)

Flutter's "layers" are rasterized to texture if they are unchanged for N frames (I think N = 3?). Which happens kind of a lot, and is (one of) the reasons Flutter has such a big RAM footprint. Flutter's layers remind me a lot of the hacky, terrible will-change CSS property.

Other than that it's just a rather crude way to hack up the rendering commands into smaller display lists. Android has been doing this for ages with RenderNode with both display lists & transform properties on those display lists.
Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
"Progressive web apps may soon free you from Google Play and the iOS App Store"

How soon?

"Web technology already ate desktop apps alive"

I miss real desktop apps.
In before the delete.
Defold might be an option.

https://www.defold.com/
Right, even before I start therapy, my personality changed all the time. I'd say the only constant is how I experience things. Everything else seems to be fluid.
> For instance, nobody would be debugging with gdb

I mean, I debug with lldb which is free and open. Sure, I do the debugging through the non-free(-as-in-freedom), non-open Xcode, but that's because Xcode lets me harness the power of lldb in a manner that suits me.

There's nothing stopping free and open software projects from being delivered in a user-friendly manner. I'm sure there are plenty of people using gdb and lldb with fully-free and fully-open editors and IDEs.

Sometimes it just takes a mindset adjustment to see that what is most often considered inconvenient, and that followers of free software doctrines must begrudgingly accept as their lot, can actually be delivered in a user-friendly manner that meets the proprietary-software-users' expectations.