skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with "employee vanity" and that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.

There's a simple reason Blender doesn't see much use in film production: Support. There is no way the Blender Foundation could provide the level of support that a company like Autodesk does. When you run into problems you call your enterprise support team and get it fixed. This is why you pay them the big bucks. Their support staff does nothing but fix problems, where anyone that you could hire to do the same would necessarily spend most of their time sitting on their ass doing nothing since stuff just doesn't go wrong all that often. That alone will keep Blender out of a LOT of shops, especially those that are just large enough to be working on major projects.

The idea that a company should just hire a programmer they don't otherwise need just so they can make some software work is asinine. That's like saying a home builder should hire a full time auto mechanic instead of taking their work vehicles to the shop when they break down. No, hiring a guy will not offset the cost of purchasing licenses and support. This is especially true when you hit one of those moments where things get so shredded that the cost of enterprise support seems like a bargain.

There are other, more technical, issues that keep Blender from being used much. Chief among them is that it isn't really exceptional at anything. It's not uncommon for things to be modeled in one program, textured in another, then imported into another for animation, and then brought into a final one for lighting and rendering. There are better programs for modeling than Blender. There are better programs for rendering, texturing, animation. Blender is oatmeal. It's there, it works, but it's not really great at anything and as a result has never found a niche.

Because, ultimately, that's what it's all about.
IIRC I saw this for strawberries when driving to SF for an internship. I've seen it for pumpkins in the midwest too.
In dubio it's also fiscal
responsible of the genetic license giver to remove unwanted organisms? Aka pay for selective herbicides?
I find it a little concerning that RANDOM.ORG doesn't make it clear that it a trusted service, and cannot be relied on for secure entropy. The only mention is this, buried in the FAQ:

>anyone genuinely concerned with security should not trust anyone else (including RANDOM.ORG) to generate their cryptographic keys.

But the problems go beyond cryptographic keys. If you use RANDOM.ORG to pick lottery winners, you're trusting that the numbers you get are as truly random as they claim. In particular, the operators of RANDOM.ORG could trivially inject deterministic entropy (generated from, e.g., AES-encrypting successive integers) and this would be completely undetectable, even to statistical tests.

IMO the site needs a big, scary disclaimer on the front page that describes what applications it is appropriate for, and which ones should use a more secure source of entropy.
Opposite, I’m excited. Huge plus in a stolen/lost situation. Disable it if you don’t like it?
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Honesty boxes are common here in UK countryside too. Same as any country tho', it probably wouldn't work in the towns and cities.

I guess the number of people in a city make it more likely that there'd be enough 'cheaters' to ruin the whole enterprise and not make it worthwhile.
- the 2017 course was keras/tf (+ a little pytorch once Jeremy hit the limits of keras)

- the 2018 course is pytorch.

- the 2019 course (part 2) is vanilla python, and then the last couple of classes re-build everything using swift.

The lectures will be released soon.
Even retail establishments with staff and security systems balance the extra costs of these “loss prevention” measures against customer convenience. The goal is never perfect security but sufficient security. Large retailers typically set targets on loss and try to minimize them, within reason. Farm stands that operate like this have simply found a reasonable cost/benefit trade off. (There’s an apple orchard near Boston that leaves their store unattended for the slow winter months... My wife pops in a few times to buy some more apples.)
Look at the social and political havoc caused by the European refugee crisis in recent years for a concrete example.
This article has a nice infographic:
https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/arti...

Basically Hong Kong right now, has a whole bunch of extradition treaties with 20 countries[1], just not with both China governments, due to the existing law. The bill fixes this.

Also, the 19 year old HK man admitted to the crime [2], however due to the the crime being committed outside HK, he can't be tried for manslaughter in HK; the HK authorities can only charge him with "money laundering" of his girlfriend's money and property (again [2]). He is currently serving the sentence for money laundering, and he's going to be released in October. However if this bill is passed he can be extradited and tried for murder in Taiwan.

[1] With Australia, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the United States

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...
ha, just imagine staying at a hotel where there's a giant flat screen with a hidden cam pointed at your bed...
Bullshit. This is like saying someone that trained in Java will struggle learning Python, or someone that learned with C will have a hard time picking up Rust. With a few exceptions (Houdini probably being the prime example) all 3d graphics tools work in the same fashion. The concepts and techniques are universal, the only difference is the implementation.

If you have even a modicum of experience with one thing, you can pick the other up in an afternoon and be up to speed within a week.
I do agree, but the value proposition is more than simply the cost - being able to spin up GPUs on demand is extremely beneficial for a lot of projects.

Of course, once you have something in production, it might be worth considering buying your own GPUs, but really is all depends.
It might seem inventive, but in this scope/size intuition is often wrong. Same with all large or long-term things in general; humans are notoriously bad at those.

Take this specific case; stay the reactor's systems fail (all of them including the quadruple redundancies), those jobs and energy generators are kind-of irrelevant if you are dead...
Another reason why reproducible builds in open source are so important. The version of Caddy you can compile yourself is different from that you are offered as download. And there's nowhere a notice to be found about that intransparent move.
In Geneva thirty years ago there were newspapers for sale on the street using this system.
+1 I do this when doing 1-to-1 or 1-to-many calls. I look at the lens at the top of my laptop or the one in the meeting room when I am talking.

It means I can't see what others are doing and feels kinda weird just staring at a lens when talking, but in a world of people who don't make eye contact like this on video calls, I think it has a good amount of impact/gravitas.
There is some evidence that specific dietary patterns influence the risk of developing coronary artery disease:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1605086
I think this is more nVidia’s fault due to their Datacenter specific pricing that AWS has to abide (and then mark up).

Your GPU is not licensed in a way that allows AWS to use it.
Hashes always generate a fixed-size output (that's the definition of a hash). So if you have a hash with an n-bit output, you run it on an input of m>=n bits to get n random bits, then repeat that process as necessary. You choose m so that it contains >= n bits of entropy. When it doubt, overestimate m.

You can also "seed" subsequent round of the has with the output from the previous round. That helps protect against certain kinds of failures. It's not really necessary, but it's not hard to do either so you might as well do it.
You might find this interesting https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1521517
This seems a tad unbalanced.. Farmers get paid almost nothing for the food they produce
I bet their email servers get a huge amount of spam. I've made up a fair few addresses for airport WiFi using "[xyz]@random.com".
The article didn't say that they sold 100000 articles, but that they have 100000 users that payed for individual articles. We don't know how many articles those users bought on average, but probably much more than one.
But that's for executing a skip, not getting a list of skips.
To be fair, there's a world of difference between a single POP HE connection and the globally distributed AWS CDN. Understand your use-case and what factors are important because HE has significant drawbacks in some cases.
Azure have open sourced their serverless engine, so you even have the option of building out your own private serverless infrastructure.
I know for a fact that McDonald's beef burgers, at least in North America, have a single ingredient: beef. They go directly from source grind to patty maker to freezer, nothing is added.
Please don't gang up on someone like this on HN. It's fine to challenge incorrect information, but not to aggressively humiliate them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Show HN: I made a small ePub reader in Clojure
> but it added that it also included a lot of people who "must maintain an online presence for their professional lives".

Maybe some of the images in the database were scraped from LinkedIn or GitHub
A lesson in humility from a 6 year old
I'll bite... How is the alternative, renting, better? Constant financial and time risks due to leases and landlords and the money never comes back to you.
Thanks for sharing - as a TypeScript/NodeJS shop, it's very appealing to code infra tasks in the same language as our main domain logic. We currently use Listr (https://github.com/SamVerschueren/listr) for build-automation. Faqtor looks to be loosely related, and any alternative in this space are most welcome.
Plutonium, a byproduct of all nuclear reactors and part of their waste stream, is dangerous for 240,000 years.
Major step towards a Europe-Asia Arctic cable link
I've seen this with firewood in California. It probably costs the producer more to have someone there then it does losing a portion of stock to theft.
I've seen some in Germany (e.g. Pick flowers, put coins into the box), but I like the ones I found in Switzerland more - larger selection including fruit, vegetables and eggs. Maybe I just got lucky.
I would like to kill my microphone as well. The fact that I have no easy way of doing that is not an argument for not covering the web cam.
And how are the schools? The quality of life?

Vs just sucking it up and doing your own hacking on the own time. Even if you write code all day at work, you should be doing some at home, because we need to keep up on the latest tech in a risk-tolerant environment (like personal projects that can fail with no loss). Companies can't afford to take on the project risk of leading edge/research level tech.

So hack on the cool stuff at home. Treat your job as a job. There's no principal broken by going into management.
It might be full of those scanned PDFs that are 100 MB each.
Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
Animals have killed other animals for food since the dawn of life. You can't get more"natural" than that. Eating meat is hardly a human invention.
> Will this break any of the terms with the British Hong Kong handover?

China stopped honouring its agreement shortly after Xi Jinping ensconced himself as leader for life. That resulted in the umbrella protests against Beijing interfering with who could run for office [1]. There were also the abductions of Hong Kongers selling books publicising corruption and scandal among the CPC’s elite [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/24/hong-kong-sele...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/hong-kong-book...
So low as to be impossible.
Newer construction in California are using underground wiring. With older areas the process is quite disruptives and expensive. You have to dig up the streets and private property. The state might be rich but then the labor cost of doing stuff is expensive.
"Switching between 3d modellers" undersells the issue.

COMPLETELY ALTERING YOUR PRODUCTION PIPELINE TO ACCOMMODATE ONE PACKAGE gets the point across a little bit better.

There are studios out there that have decades of in-house scripts and programs built around a given set of software. If you do a lot of architectural rendering you may have your own outdoor lighting systems. If you focus primarily on title sequences you may have certain effects that you developed. Having to completely rewrite all of that in-house code would be a MASSIVE undertaking.
Notice that the Blender Game Engine is discontinued anyway. People seem to instead use Armory3D[1], which has full Blender integration and is zlib licensed[2].

1: https://armory3d.org
2: https://github.com/armory3d/armory/blob/master/LICENSE.md
What motivated this post? The general licensing discussiin regarding SaaS appropriation by large players or something specific to Blender?
I was going to answer in this vein. What are the units of productive work?
They have this in Ontario.
Just to add to your comment, the Hong Kong laws being "western" is exactly why mainland want to take charge of Hong Kong

It's a no brainer.

And probably I will get downvoted by mentioning this. The Tiananmen Square massacre, which originated due to the protesters fighting for more freedom/human rights, from I heard from my uncle, it was because of the influence from westerners. (edit: I was talking about how western values influence the students to protest, not the way they were massacred)

Furthermore, he even mentioned how the first Opium War (namely Anglo-Chinese War), WW1 and WW2 were originated from the UK/US (although I did learn about history, he still wanted to reinforce this idea).

And the Holocaust (by German forces) made the Jews eventually moved to Israel and stole Palestine's land.

The wars in the Middle East are caused by US as well. (edit: influenced, at least by the US)

Even the wars in Russia are actually supported by the US (Sorry I am not familiar with this one)

I mean, don't downvote me for no reason.

edit: apparently some of you downvoted me, guess you guys are from the west anyways, don't dare to admit the history?

Quoting a comment from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQTo9usai4

> Can't beat them ...ban them (China), can't fight them...sanction them (Russia), can't get the oil...mess them (Venezula), can't make them obey...war with them (Iran)...The Born Loser.
> the after market plugins tend to be commercial in nature and won't want to sell with a GPL licence.

That’s exactly it, developing a high-end plug-ins is very expensive; to give that away for free is completely illogical. It’s a restaurant giving away sandwiches and selling napkins. Selling “service” and “support” or “hosting,” is ridiculous for the plugin industry. Most people in the business know how to use most of the important plugins already, so what kind of support would be needed at a level that users would pay? In all of my 15+ years of owning Waves audio plugins, I have not once contacted their support. If I need a reverb, I pay someone for a reverb. I am not going to pay someone to provide “support” for my reverb. I’m a pro, I don’t need to pay for help with a tool that has been almost industry standard for years.

I love open source, Postgres, Rails, Sidekiq for example. But the GPL-religious side of open source? Not so much. It seems too culty-dogmatic-restricted. Kind of the opposite of “free.” “You are free to do anything you want, except anything we don’t want you to do. The MIT license is the one that is actually free.
Spoken like someone that doesn't own a business. You do not throw money at promises. You throw money at solutions.
Many cars come with prepaid subscriptions to mobile services : traffic, remote unlock and so forth. On my BMW this lasted 4 years. I didn't know this until it stopped showing traffic on the map. I chose not to begin paying $10/month or whatever they wanted. Does that bother you too?
that's the marketing side of the equation in reality cloud provides have such an amazingly complex control planes that you will see comparable amount of downtime. Notice the 2 google cloud outages were at network layer.
Please note that the author of that thread has strong financial interests which would be damaged by this result. (He is the CEO of a company that seeks to use CRISPR to alter genes which lead to cholesterol production.)
thank you e1g! And welcome to try Faqtor.

(today I tried to build C++ project with it and it was fun!)
> if this bill is passed he can be extradited and tried for murder in Taiwan

Except Taiwan isn’t China. If Taiwan and Hong Kong want an extradition treaty, they can sign one.

This bill is to enable the lawful extradition of dissenters. (Beijing tried doing it surreptitiously [1]; that backfired.)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/hong-kong-book...
Speculation on my part, but I think one of the reasons the big graphics companies have their own software (think Pixar) at least in part is because it gives their results a unique visual look that becomes part of the brand.

Why anyone would use all third-party proprietary software, I have no idea.
3,200km is very little distance in the context of the USA and it's rural town sprawl. 3,200km might get you from coast to coast in a straight line, but 3,200km probably wouldn't even service every town in California once you take the landscape and numerous dotted towns.

Edit: A commenter further down noted:

> PG&E has 81,000 miles of distribution lines

So that's 130,357 kilometers. So at the same cost per km as Denmark, 5,312,500 DKK /km, that's ‭692,521,562,500‬ DKK or $105,117,847,971.88 USD, ($105.12 billion) USD.

Not considering how many miles of that is actually through mountain ranges and the extra cost of doing highly remote work.
Similar numbers for Google Cloud in the less-expensive regions:

1 vCPU: $17/mo for sustained usage, $10.5/mo for 3yr commit, $5/mo for preemptible (similar to spot)

1 GB RAM: $2.2/mo for sustained usage, $1.4/mo for 3yr commit, $0.7/mo for preemptible

Google Cloud also lets you choose exactly how much CPU and RAM you want, within reasonable limits (you have to allocate 0.9GB RAM per vCPU and you pay a little more for RAM above 6.5GB per vCPU). So these numbers aren't medians/derived values for Google Cloud but numbers that you can find in the docs at https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing. (I don't work for Google, I'm just a fan of Google Cloud)
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A successful Blendle gives the reader independence and absolves the user of getting intimate with all the digital sales strategies at publishers. Pocket does not position itself as distributor, so I welcome Blendle as broker. They offer fulltext export to Pocket. The web based reading experience of Blendle is also solid. Though I like pay-per-article, publishers and Blendle themselves seem to disagree on its profitability.
Free heroin? Unusual clinic offers 'chance at being human again'
Yes. The big question in Blender is usually "where did (function) go?"

In 2.8, the mouse buttons have different meaning.

Still, the UI has gone from appallingly bad a decade ago to sort of OK in 2.79. Haven't tried 2.8 yet; it's still in beta.
Nice reply, thanks, upvoted.

Pinning anything down is a bugger but I'll accept your definition of "without [civil] wars or non-peaceful transfers of governmental power". It's pretty good. (just to be a complete bastard, do 'the troubles' of northern ireland count as civil war?)

My knowledge of chinese history is an illusion. I've always found the culture interesting and the 2D & 3D art/sculpture much more elegant than a lot of western stuff. Can't say the same about the music... I picked up a remaindered book on the oracle bones <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone>. Regarding the art, I was leafing through a book on ancient chinese artefacts. But the more I know, the less I know. And yes, [edit: ancient] chinese script is doubtless as legible to a modern person as anglo-saxon is to us, likely even less so.

I'll read up on your manchuria link, thanks - I wasn't aware it was that it was so extensive. I recall loadsa abominations by the japanese etc etc so it goes.

I understand where you're coming from, thanks again!
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Supposedly, way way less than the portion of the GDP that is made possible by remote work.
To look cool, you want to be visible, so I would think looking cool is harder with low handle bars. (https://www.google.com/search?q=cycle+chic&tbm=isch)
Why does this require cryptocurrency?
> The Tiananmen Square massacre, which originated due to the protesters fighting for more freedom/human rights, from I heard from my uncle, it was because of the influence from westerners

This is garbage. The massacre happened because Beijing responded ham-fistedly to a peaceful student demonstration. It involved atrocities including PLA troops firing on their own ambulances and dissolving bodies under tanks and in vats of acid [1].

And while the protests in Beijing are memorialised by Tank Man, there were protests in pretty much every other Chinese city at the time. They were all brutally suppressed in favour of the ruling elite.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes...
Given the utter collapse of western health since the 1970s, the recommendation of “pretty much every public health body” carries no weight for me.
A degree is a class signifier, its only value is that it costs.

Most degrees you'll have to teach yourself and then when you graduate you get to advertise that you were willing to submit mindlessly to the system and do as you were told. Both of which are very valuable to employees.
> I mean work which somehow yields personal growth and future professional success

I average 4 hrs of productive coding per day according to WakaTime[1]. When working on well-defined projects/features and not having meetings it goes up to 8 hrs coding per day, but that environment is difficult to create. Also there's the debate whether being productive means spending less time coding, or spending time towards the right problem (revenue, impact, team initiatives, etc). I also find the language and framework I'm using makes a huge difference in how much I accomplish given the same amount of time. When you're not sure if cranking out code is actually productive it's best to start measuring work in output velocity.

For myself, I just assume when I'm coding in 2 of my projects I must be coding towards some goal, so I assume my time spent coding in those 2 projects is always productive. That's why I set a wakatime goal to code at least 4 hours per day in those 2 projects.

1: https://wakatime.com (Personal profile: https://wakatime.com/@alan)
1984 was actually about socialism; the totalitarian society depicted in the book is called Ingsoc (English Socialism). Orwell's prescience is still relevant not only because of the warnings against socialism but also because he connects it to big tech and a surveillance society in general. It's interesting and alarming to see how many big tech companies today are advocates of socialism and also participants in the surveillance economy. Surely Amazon, Google, and Facebook are good examples.
It is a good step forward. However a lot damage has been done already as blender is known to be the tool that is extremely hard to learn. It’s hard to lose the mark when it’s there.
I don't know why but protests on the scale of hundreds of thousands just seems impossible in America
I’m unconvinced by your unsupported assertion.