skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From this [1] it sounds like the texture is a modified variant of ETC1, which gets loaded up from disk into memory as such, and transcoded on the CPU into target GPU format (DXT, PVRTC, etc), and then uploaded to VRAM.

If so that sounds similar to their previous Crunch library [2], in that it does transcoding on the CPU before moving the texture to the GPU - but most likely much faster than Crunch because it starts with ETC as shared basis. (And artifacts are a common with transcoding between compressed formats, especially when transparency is present, but I have high hopes for this one considering the authors! :) )

Authors suggest that a version that transcodes on the GPU would be possible - that would be really interesting, I would imagine that would be even faster, although at the cost of higher texture memory usage.

[1] https://github.com/binomialLLC/basis_universal#quick-basis-f...
[2] https://github.com/BinomialLLC/crunch
Perhaps it's not the case anymore, but I meant more that F# language releases used to be delayed until the Visual Tools team was ready to release a new Version for Visual Studio. So essentially, the F# releases seemed to be held up. Perhaps I'm remembering wrong and/or this has changed since the .Net core support came in.
I am in Tokyo.
Many foreigners
They don't all implode, the paper value might implode, and the expectations probably have to change. That's pretty different. And honestly, imploding property prices would be quite helpful in solving the sub-replacement rate birth rate, as well as a host of other social problems.
Healthcare requires young, relatively healthy, people. It’s another system where the young pay for the old. The immigrants aren’t the immediate problem, they are the immediate solution. They may crowd the system, but they are also the ones funding it. Kick all young, relatively healthy, immigrants out and see how quickly healthcare collapses as the older people on fixed income try to find a way to balance the healthcare budget.
Having saved myself a headache earlier by parsing some HTML with regex, I'm appreciating this post. On the other hand, if you don't obey dogma, it may impair the delivery of your cargo. Everything is a tradeoff.
> it's still unpleasant to see that people claiming to be egalitarian or people who say that want meritocracy

What ever gave you the impression that the "America #1" crowd was either of those things?
The first and second largest public companies in the world by market cap hire a lot of H-1Bs and are not in the Bay Area and pay more than this proposed floor.
Isn't that brutally loud? I used to have relatives living in the flight path of Frankfurt airport and for a little while it was fun to watch the planes but the noise got old very quickly.
> There are a few other niggles that still bum me out, like just how poorly the Apple Pencil is supported for any sort of writing task—even OneNote, which is famous for transcribing handwriting, doesn't support it on iPad.

With all the (justifiable) complaints that macOS development lags iOS development, this is an area where the situation is reversed: there's a standard handwriting support, like dictation support, for every text widget. You have to plug a pen tablet in of course (boo -- the huge touchpad should work). But for some reason the handwriting support isn't automatic for iOS apps.
Is it marketing madness to reveal a new game only shortly before release?
This is the only Trump initiative I support. Hope he doesn’t do his usual bow down to the aristocrat routine and back down for whatever reason he sided with Putin, Saudis. This is a fight that the US must win. The only issue is Trump picked fights with the EU and they probably will use that as an excuse to not help out. The fight with China should have been done as a coalition to begin with.
I think this goes beyond "overstated" to outright falsehood (assuming, as it appears from the article, that the pilots eyes weren't actually burned). It punches up the headline, so it's almost certainly purposeful.
With this change only effecting 100,000 visa holders it seems like it could only be for political headlines.
Jail time for execs is the only solution that matters.
Sometimes the backlash can be catastrophic in China though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
The massive bridge building train?

I can ask the same thing about any other country. What is truly unique? Eben the nuclear bomb involved atomic theories that were developed in Europe.
A significant number of homeless people in London sleep on night buses. It's warm, it's reasonably quiet on the top deck, there's full CCTV coverage and the weekly fare cap is £21.20.

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/londons-homeless-boarding-ni...
Second that statement. I don’t know how you have time or money to develop something mine this. Shock and awe!
Presumably the intent is not to depend on boost, but rather only standardized parts of the language.

Also using something like boost ties you to a specific version of boost due to the wonders of c++ abi - your OS libraries can’t expose anything that explicitly or implicitly includes things that aren’t ABI stable.

(I’m sure kling is already requiring 100% stable abi :) )
There's also the fact that making consumer electronics is incredibly hard, and even when talented engineers attempt to fulfill their overfunded kickstarters they often fail.

I'm not saying I don't love the idea of boutique electronics. I'm just saying it's not really for the faint of heart.
Sweaty, why do you give Disney of all companies a single slice of authority over what is good or bad?
Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in plain text for 14 years
> An average cremation takes 28 gallons of fuel.

An average American has a carbon footprint of about 20 tons per year, so the ~540 pounds emitted from cremation (stat from that article) is a drop in the bucket.

Not to be flip about carbon use, but this is people's final wishes we're talking about. Death is a big deal.
So what happens when you have perpetual growth?
Maybe many people you see are Asian foreigners (Chinese, Korean, Filipinos, etc) and you just don't realize it. I hear Chinese spoken on the streets all the time.
I didn’t know iCab was still around. Fond memories.
Silkworm & tea can be included as major inventions that were stolen as well.

I always find it funny/sad that Easterners in addition to suriving the crimes, have the extra task of educating the Western populations of the crimes committed in their names.

I expect you've noticed that every single country that is a victim of modern Chinese espionage was directly involved in destroying the chinese economy during the 19th to early 20th century.

US, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Russia (a few of the top offenders).

These nations can't simply commit a bunch of crimes, get rich, change the rules, then expect to be protected from past actions.
Immigration is the leftist liberal version of slavery. The history of liberals has always been one of contradictions.
the long belief of the left, legalizing abortion (I am not against) to the point of making it normal (I am against) but at the same time forcing unwanted father to pay alimony, praising "empowered" women who prefer work and think they are oppressed by patriarchy in a developed country and at the same time treating woman that chose to give their time to raise a family like outcast or even "radicals".

those liberals that will turn their countries into an ideology where freedom means myself first and the ability to do anything I want, well those people will finally bring into their countries thousands of thousands of young male immigrants - coming from third world countries where woman have no rights and people that do not fit into the image of heterosexual male are treated at best like their voice do not matter at worst murdered, jailed - those leftists that brought those thousands of males because they felt pity and thought that they needed people to take care of the low paying jobs, calling that giving a chance to underpriviliged africans,asians and eastert europeans, those people will tip them 15% hapily, thinking they did the right thing, and then they will move from the neighborhoods that they created (aka: california) and bring their ideology to places with more traditional values. They will leave because they will be scared of putting their kids into public schools with those other people, sharing the same buildings, having to deal with neighborhood where the main food will be ethnic and people will dress like from their home countries, they will never admit it but you could just tell by looking at their eyes that all they need are some slaves to use for cheap.
> Also, "fare", not "fare"

I got a chuckle out of that, so I hope you will understand that I mean this only in good humor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
Let's break this down a little bit.

> Visa is not a right, it's a privilege. "Please be aware, entering the United States is a privilege, not a right."

100% correct, and nobody is saying otherwise.

What people here are saying is that it's a two-way street. The alien agrees to leave their lives behind, leave their friends, their families, their jobs back home and come work for an American employer to the benefit of the US and the US economy over that of their home country. In exchange, the government agrees to allow them to enter into and reside in the United States for a period of time and affords them certain rights and privileges. That's the deal.

Reneging on your end of the deal half way through is dealing in bad faith. It makes America look bad. It diminishes America's brand, it's standing in the world, its reputation and the value of its word. Make no mistake it's entitled to do that. What we're arguing is breaking your word is bad and you could argue that's true regardless how you feel about the H-4 program.

It's just like backing out of the climate accord, backing out of the Iran deal and demanding concessions on NAFTA. America's word should be its bond. Every single one of these deals is time-limited, including H-4s. Change it on expiry. Don't renew it. Update the program for the next wave. Don't pull the rug out from under the world, especially those that depend on you. It's not a good look, and doing it enough times may leave America without a seat at the table.
The city under siege by these neighborhoods. Renters don't vote, NIMBYs who moan at council meetings do. Therefore, city officials either side with NIMBYs or are replaced with one that will.
Boring Co uses old tech to build a tunnel the same way its been built for decades...but smaller...
You added a security problem. The fix is obvious for everybody working in security, but it's questionable if it should be discussed there.
The question of the origins of the Japanese peoples is a hotly debated issue. Jared Diamond (of Guns, Germs, and Steel fame) wrote an article on the subject in 1998:

http://discovermagazine.com/1998/jun/japaneseroots1455
>Easily digestable and as rational as any other I have seen.

Maybe you need to see more then.
Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance
I agree with the article that the US can damage China's economy for several years by restricting components (but that it also will eventually be able to domestically produce the components required). I also agree with the article that doing so would hurt the US companies that produce the components that China no longer could buy.

What I don't get, is what specifically will be achieved by doing this? How is the US coming out "on top"? I get that China has different values than the US, but I don't understand how restricting components fixes that.
At that point I'd expect to be using micropython anyways.
Measles erases the immune system’s memory
We are very heavy users of terraform. We have thousands of lines of HCL and our own providers etc...

Terraform 0.x before 0.12 was heavily limited due to the syntax, you just worked around so many limitations. We are actively ignoring those limitations and we started working without our own templates using jinja that just generate vanilla terraform. No counts and no if/else needed.

Maybe with .12 we can move some of these back to plain terraform.

Upgrade so far is not smooth though, there are a lot of pains with the type system vs the plain old “I’ll figure it out for you”.

ALL of this being said, I really appreciate Hashicorp’s work on this, we could not imagine our life without terraform.
The populists say all the time that they want meritocracy and complain that those women/minorities/immigrants are hired based on their gender/race/passport instead of their skills.

They are populist probably because these opinions are popular.
I prefer fluxbox but that work too

rox filer for the file manager and shortcuts and it’s pretty nice
But those are two options of the same command. You can have a -keep-changes argument for undo and it wouldn't be weird or incompatible with the plain -language description.
I am not sure what you are claiming.

Is it that paper is not an improvement over papyrus?
This clearly does not stand.

Or that paper was not invented in China but in the classical world?
This is contradicted by archaeological evidence.

Or that somehow the fact that the word paper is derived from papyrus in English means that it was invented by the west?
Thanks only to immigration. US birth rate is well below replacement.
Their feedback (tldr;): Do you even leetcode?

Almost every week there is some kind of interview post on HN. And almost every time it is about the leetcode-esque riddle interview. The question serves almost like a test of did you read the manual, because the only solution (most performant guaranteed correct version) is the one you aren't going to come up with on your own in a room in fifteen minutes unless you knew it ahead of time. So, in interviews like this, I think of them as more of a standardized test than an interview because that's what it is in reality.
Without doubt, landmines are a effective and cheap killing tool.

But they kill or cripple anyone. And the person placing them, usually does not remove them anymore.. so lots of one legged children in the end, as normally (rightfully!) war places see peace again. But with mines being cheap to deploy and removing them beeing very expensive they tend to stay where they are, until your childrens children walk over them as boyscouts.

And south corea had US backing as far as I know.
"It would be in the same category as the NES Classic Edition or the Sega Genesis Mini. It's fun and almost a collectible honestly"

The NES class edition and Sega Genesis only work because of people that remember playing these games as a kid (like me). I have the NES classic edition and my teenage nephews were bored pretty quickly after they played it.

Nostalgia isn't usually there for something new that looks like the games I used to play when I was younger.
“payment (imagine not needing a wallet because the combination of your face, gait, and voice is enough to verify you)“

If it can be done from a distance, this is bone chilling to me. A company could use this to literally extract money from someone’s bank account.

I agree with the rest of your sentiment though.
Speaking in support of the gp's point: Dearborn's community of Middle Easterners (more than just Muslims, also heavily Chaldean) speaks an awful lot of Arabic and not so much English. Similarly, the Chinese community in Ann Arbor is very insular and sticks heavily to Chinese over English.

This is not a normative statement to say that this is bad, but in this region there are immigrant groups that aren't assimilating as quickly or thoroughly as groups in other areas. Some of that is enforced temporary-ness in the case of the Chinese community in Ann Arbor, but some of it is the sheer size of the community in Dearborn -- the largest Muslim population in the Western world, not even mentioning the huge Chaldean group. (Might no longer be true after the recent refugee movement into Europe, but was true very recently.)
Have you tried from the top of the San Mateo BART parking structure? The BART structure has a killer view straight up Runway 1. I am no planespotter, but I used to wander up there just to enjoy the view and clear my head.
That's a great intro.

I also blame E for teaching me to appreciate objects. (Or rather, from hanging out in the cluster of related mailing lists back when it was in development.) I'd long held the opinion that OO programming had its uses but was kind of ugly and arbitrary and overhyped, especially compared to functional programming -- on opinion that's more popular nowadays. There's still a need for a really good accessible book on these ideas; Mark Miller's PhD thesis is not going to be it, worthwhile as it is.
I would so love to contribute to this! I love the layout, aesthetic, and the approach to the internals that you've taken; I would use this in a heartbeat to be honest.

Unfortunately although I know C++ I don't really know much about OSdev. If there's any way I can help, I have a few months of free time (summer break) that I'm looking to fill!
> Have you tried to fix something in your house with a "homeowner's toolkit" which is usually something like a hammer, pliers, 2 screwdrivers, a putty knife and a few more basic tools?

Sure. But did you read the list of proposed deprecations?

It's not like that homeowners toolkit becomes any more useful when it's also got a buggy whip tool, a set of special allen-like keys that only open the case of a TRS80 or a Commodore64, and one of those picks for getting stones out of horses feet.

Most of the proposed things to take out seem obviously "right" to me. AIFF sound file support? MacOS9 binhex? CGI? _Maybe_people are still using those things, but it seems to me like they're edge-case enough to let them know now that they'll need to do "pip install aifc" or "pip install cgi" sometime after late 2021 if they update their python installation (which they can choose to put off until at least 2024 or so, just like all of us who're still sometimes using Python 2.7...)
nope thats called being a liberal. in western countries no woman wants to make a kid. they just want to work. in africa were the values are still traditional in terms of family, that is the role of a woman.

Let's tackle the problem were it is. Western countries should make the babies as we live in societies where life is supposed to be easier. there should be financial penalties to the crazy growth of african/asian countries, education regarding contraception.
> Should .then calls run on the calling thread if data was already available?

This one hits close to home -- I remember being involved in a PR discussion for a JavaScript promises library where this was hotly (iirc?) debated. What conclusion did you reach? (I was on the side of consistency -- .then should not run synchronously even if it could.)
Animal Models of (Or for) Aggression Reward, Addiction, and Relapse
A Black Rock ranger, Kelli Hoversten, was partially blinded in one eye at Burning Man 2014 (my first burn) when someone in the crowd pointed a laser at her while she working [1]. This was a handheld laser from five years ago, so I'm sure the lasers you can buy for cheap, portable use have only gotten more powerful and dangerous.

Since 2014, the org has banned the use of all lasers by any attendee, and any lasers used by art cars are heavily regulated. These things are no joke, and it doesn't take much to permanently blind someone.

[1] - https://journal.burningman.org/2015/03/black-rock-city/tales...
FAANG absolutely are abusing the H1-B system, they’re just doing it through the staffing agencies you mentioned. Google and Microsoft in particular are notorious for their huge shadow workforce of vendors, a lot of whom come from the H1B-abusing body shops.
Mayors to G20: act urgently on climate, social inclusion, sustainable growth
Nice stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Virtual Bank Backers
I don’t know. Logan’s Run, maybe.
> What I don't get, is what specifically will be achieved by doing this? How is the US coming out "on top"? I get that China has different values than the US, but I don't understand how restricting components fixes that.

I'm just speculating, but it could perhaps hurt the desirability of their advanced exports on the world market, and create space for other countries to fill the void. One of China's current political advantages is that it's the current "workshop of the world," and if that's reduced they may end up being less influential.

It's unlikely to affect the domestic political situation there, but that may be a lost cause for this generation.
Yeah I've noticed Github works quite well but Gitlab works but is heavily throttled at night time. It's frustrating cause all of the GFW projects are hosted at GH
There's a huge number of boutique products in music technology, particularly synth modules and guitar effects pedals. They're relatively simple analog products, so it's entirely feasible for one person to design and manufacture a small batch in their bedroom without a big investment.

https://www.modulargrid.net/e/modules/browser
Honestly even if the tech were magically perfect I think the maximum benefit is pretty small. Pulling out my wallet to pay for something or show my id only takes a handful of seconds and it's a routine action with minimal cognitive load. Plus it has the benefit of me knowing exactly what's happening with the transaction. I can decide on the spot to use a different card for whatever reason and I know precisely when a transaction is taking place.

I'm sure the automatic charges described here would be loved by corporations, which would try to find ever more clever ways to manipulate people into making even easier impulse buys.
My city (Oslo, Norway) also has buildings that are centuries old, but they are kept clean. When I went to Stockholm a couple of years back, their old buildings looked dirty because no one seemed to be cleaning them.
I mean, there’s no way they’re 50w. The best diode lasers for cutting are about 7W. I have a 4.2w laser on my CNC machine for engraving. That’s very powerful, but, nowhere near 50W. For reference, a 50W CO2 laser is typically used in a professional quality machine for cutting/marking/engraving.

Good smell test for those claims: what battery can you hold in your hand that can output 50W?
SF has a lower flat income tax than Cleveland.
FAANG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netfl...

FAAMG: https://www.businessinsider.com/faamg-tech-stocks-market-gol...
Being there since the beginning, I wrote my first Java game in 1996, early Java only did well thanks to Sun's marketing weight and it being free beer vs the alternative of having to pay for a compiler like Delphi.
Does China gain an advantage, by not using / having access to the same services that the whole rest of the world uses?

If they're gaining an advantage that's one thing. I don't want to just take that assumption for granted though. If China is actually harming themselves, I think it might not make sense for the US to copy them because "they did it first".