skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Practical Parallel Rendering" is a great book for anyone. It really is "Parallel Work Distribution Options: The Book".

The argument that "Ray tracing is logarithmic in scene complexity while rasterization is linear. Therefore, ray tracing will win eventually!" ignores the fact that rasterizers also use hierarchical graphs to maintain logarithmic complexity just like ray tracers do. You could make the same argument if you compared a well-designed rasterization-based system vs. a naive ray tracer that brute-forces every triangle vs. every pixel.

The difference is really a focus on local vs. non-local data. Rasterizers focus on preparing data ahead of time so that it can be directly indexed without searching. Ray tracers focus on making global searching as fast as possible. Rasterizers do more work at the start of a frame (rendering shadow, reflection, ambient occlusion maps). Ray tracers do more work in the middle of the frame (searching for shadowing/reflecting/occluding polygons).

It's wonderful that we finally have both accelerated in hardware. HW ray tracing still has a very long way to go. Currently, budgets are usually less than 1 ray per pixel of the final frame in real time apps! Figure that out how to use that effectively! :D But, it still opens up many new possibilities.
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You can stop it doing that in the settings if you please.
it's so good that hipmunk terminated their metasearch services lol
I'm not your guy. I find it to be an intriguing claim tho.
My cable provider lets you watch all the channels over the internet... but only on your home network. This would allow that to work remotely.

Also, services like NBA League pass black out the games for your local teams, based on your IP address. One time I was visiting the in-laws, who happened to be in the market for the game I wanted to watch. VPN to home let me stream the game.
Fortnite's not an FPS... More seriously, I think this is meant to imply a game like Quake or Counter Strike ("Skill based") rather than Fortnite - i.e. Fortnite has aspects unlike those other two games that cultivate different skills.
>the tea drinker was the first to die, at age 83;

For being condemned criminals it sounds like they were well cared for.

Also what are the odds of finding condemned twins?
> now still 100's of thousands in debt

Is that hyperbole, or literally your debt is that much?
How is this not the same? I'm not seeing why you can't compare Halo with Counter-Strike. In Fortnite there actually are even mobile (iPad) players that put thousands of hours into the game and are better than 99% of PC players.
This is the most awesome thing ever.

This is what inspires innovation.
A point I've heard Neil deGrasse Tyson make a few times is that despite the fact that Edwin Hubble was a heinous racist, that should have no bearing on the validity of his scientific contributions.

I have a feeling that with sufficient rabble rousing a twitter mob could figure out how to get the name of the space telescope and constant changed.
It would work, but it would be hard to actually get the money. They would know where it was deposited, and you wouldn't have access to the funds until the check clears, and it could be caught before then.
As I’m not from the US, could you explain the differences or provide a resource?
The short version is,

In C it's easy to make mistakes with gotchas like implicit conversions, and nowadays it's archaic, lacking in basic features it could have, e.g. something akin to D's scope(exit) statements.

In Java it's very expensive, in effort and code bloat, to define new types; in general the language actively fights against making well-organized program, or even just moving data around.

With Scheme or Common Lisp, you might look at Clojure or Oz for some inspiration (as well as features we take for granted in Perl/Python/Ruby/PHP/JavaScript) in regard to what sort of features might make a dynamically typed language, even a Lisp, "not bad." Part of it is that statement-based function bodies are actually a good thing, and infix syntax is a good thing. Scheme is just lacking in basic stuff you need, and it relies on tail calls without explicit tail call syntax. And it has call/cc. Common Lisp is bad in detail -- it has all sorts of clever little features, like setf, that don't solve real problems, they solve Lisp problems. And they handle defining and using new types badly, even simple ones like plain record types. Back in the day, CL's advantage was that the competition was so weak. If you gave CL the Python or JS ecosystem today, it would be usable, but that's the nicest thing you can say about it.
Rush: A Minimalistic CLI Tool for Managing and Running Bash Snippets
So, a while ago, I was fiddling with Kennethreitz's side project Bake, a simple CLI tool for running bash snippets. It's a nicely written piece of software and I liked the idea of replicating something like GNU makefile (he calls it Bakefile) for Bash. I stared using it in my projects and helped with the documentation (Although it was never published for some strange reason).

However, there were a few issues that didn't get resolved for the past 4 months...

• It throws nasty error if the Bakefile is empty or not properly formatted
• Task chaining are hit or miss
• The custom styling that the software imposes on stdout doesn't work while running bash commands in interactive mode
• The new file format Bakefile isn't highlighted in editors and can be a pain to maintain (There is a vs code extension that mitigates the issue though)

So I made an alternative, Rush, with a subjectively simpler codebase that doesn't try to do many things at once..

• It reads your bash commands from a familiar yml file
• You can run your dedicated bash script from the tool
• Task chaining is supported but constrained (So that it doesn't go into a recursion roller coaster)
• The tests are working...(More tests are on the way)

Check out here:

https://github.com/rednafi/rush
> The effects of climate change have not yet been detected in Australian fires, but changes underway suggest that those effects will be detectable as early as the 2040s. If so we should expect, more and more intense fires, and respond accordingly.

This plain English that the author suggests is not fair, like he suggests. The author's other articles seem to want to downplay climate change fears, but the "inconvenient" facts seem to disagree with him. A fairer summary would be closer to:

> The effects of climate change have not yet been detected in the Australian Bush fires. The effects of climate change have already been confirmed to potentially cause fires in the Amazon, Mediterranean, Scandinavia, and Western North America. Australian fires are projected to be impacted by climate change in approximately 20 years.

This link has better facts IMO: https://sciencebrief.org/briefs/wildfires
I've never known any different. The private eye only publishes in print so it's paper until I die (or the paper folds)
I do, but only if you seemed like you mucked up part of the interview. I’ll go check Github, spend 2-3 minutes googling the source code to see if you copied/pasted or if it’s yours.

I’ve passed a few candidates who bombed technical interview via phone because Github showed they know what they’re doing & just had an off day.

Granted, I’m sure most do not do that but technical recruiting is so expensive so spending 5-10 mins on a candidate I already spent 30 mins with is a drop in the bucket if it gets me even 1-2 more hires who would’ve slipped through the cracks.
Of course. You can build whatever functional abstractions you like in Forth. Some time ago I did a number of experiments with lazy generators: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/lib/Algorith...

The above dialect uses { } to delimit anonymous inline word definitions. RetroForth has a similar feature, and Factor uses the same syntax for "quotations", which have slightly different semantics but roughly the same meaning.
>> the only reason people fall for it is ignorance

> That's not correct. Mental faculties deteriorate with age; mindful people that would never have fallen for this nonsense become vulnerable every day. Ultimately no amount of 'education' can fix that. That's what these scammers are really preying on.

On this analysis, the problem could be solved by organizing society into large family groups instead of a bunch of small independent households. When "the family finances" are a thing and several different people can see them, this is a pretty unlikely failure mode.

You can achieve something similar in the US, but first you have to notice the problem and then you have to have the victim legally declared mentally incompetent.
There’s a tremendous amount of “analysis” below on just how the convoluted payment systems work. Keep in mind that their first design principle is to maximize profit by limiting customer liquidity. At a certain point, as a consumer, I do not care about the problems within a system designed to reduce my utility to increase your profits.
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>there's no way to go back and conduct experiments

Well then, you should probably throw out psychology, sociology, climate science, economics, and geology, among other fields, if you want to be consistent.

Perhaps you've stumbled upon the distinction between hard and soft science.
Just to say that it's usually a lot worse. Meaning I get a lot more downvotes.

Maybe awareness is improving...
I'm assuming there will never be an official proof of concept release, so how long do you all think it will be before we see widely available exploit code and fake certificates out in the wild?
The South's own declarations of secession make pretty clear just what impositions from DC were bothering them. A bunch of English-aristocrat-wannabes afraid they'd have to give up their aspirations on account of the whole owning-people-thing.
GP went to an Ivy league. Totally possible
Just never pay the debts bro. Forget that shit and let it all go, and start stacking to live a debt free stress free life.
Yeah, if you get to pick the committee you can get them to report whatever you want, whether you explicitly instruct them as to what to find or not. Read his work for yourself and come to your own conclusions.

His research gate profile.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Noah_Carl

His website.

https://supportnoahcarl.com/

> Since I was fired, over 600 academics have signed a petition supporting me , and several leading newspapers have published articles criticising the college’s decision. The support I’ve received so far has been incredible! But petitions and newspaper articles aren’t enough. If we want to safeguard academic freedom, and freedom of speech more generally, we need to start imposing real, material costs on the institutions that buckle under activists’ pressure.
> Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works

Cool, for starters, linux is not like that anymore, I remember setting up BSD from a copy from a magazine, that's not how it is today thank god so that point is as useless for this context.

> it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware

Ok; now we are loading full OS's up,(on obscure hardware?) bit of change of focus from your last comment. But whatever. Nobody in their working mind needs to load up a bootstraped OSX+n so unless you're a complete pirate who requires sketch, you better have a hook and an eye patch before i'll entertain your fallacy. Windows is super easy, maybe more than your mom, as we're all throwing ideas out?.

Your last one is kinda too comical to make fun of..

> As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own.

Yeah, to each their own. But, we're talking about one article, one very specific article, actually, we are again talking about 1 article. Not examples.

But, this was fun. Moron.

I'll be sure to take all your comments/nonsense with a glacier of salt.

If you'd like some attention for your work, do something and share it, the OP had the balls to do write something and accept my criticism, where is yours ? You're a bit worse than that little shit i take after I've taken a shit.. The inconvenience.
Input lag is annoying for sure, but it's the sort of thing where as long as it's consistent and not sporadic, you would mostly adapt to it... Especially assuming you're not playing some kind of competitive real-time game (which most of these games aren't).
The level of detail in a game like Grand Theft Auto is almost art in itself, even if the game itself is not an "art game".

Some games are indeed not art e.g. FIFA 20, but some games absolutely are e.g. Pathologic (if pathologic is not art then I don't know what is).

This ultimately raises the question of what is and isn't art and I believe that if something really speaks to someone playing it then I think it is - many definitions seems prone to pretense and gatekeeping.
There are two universities involved: Carleton (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and York (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

You must apply and qualify for the university degree, in addition to being selected by shoppify themselves. If I remember correctly when I asked about it, the University also had some say in the selection process.

When I looked into it, the number of accepted was quite low (I believe less than 15 per year), which to me indicates they are quite selective.

The people I met were exceptionally friendly, and genuine. It seems like a really excellent place to work, at least from the outside.
'Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, said that most experts on intelligence “consider any black-white differences in I.Q. testing to arise primarily from environmental, not genetic, differences.”

Dr. Collins said he was unaware of any credible research on which Dr. Watson’s “profoundly unfortunate" statement would be based.' [0]

I think this video [1], does a good job of attacking a lot of race science and intelligence, though at 2.5 hours long it may be a bit too thorough.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/science/watson-dna-geneti...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo

edited for formatting
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Don't forget that the entire boom in supplements/vitamins in the industry is the result of Orrin Hatch, who sold snake oil door to door to put himself through college, and then as Senator, succeeded in getting supplements declared as neither a Food nor Drug, so the FDA essentially couldn't regulate them.

I think it's fare to say that Orrin Hatch's career has resulted in millions of people being fleeced by quack snake oil, and some non-trivial number of people's health harmed.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-hatch...
This is just conservatives trying to subvert the free market. There is no such thing as "cancel culture". People have always avoided doing business with people they find objectionable. The world has always worked that way.

Conservatives are trying to suppress the ability to freely associate and choose whom you do business with because they don't want to suffer any consequences for their behavior or beliefs - also something that has never existed in the history of the world.
There are plenty of those. Often companies that can't afford to take you on full time, such as if you're working at a prestigious/stable job or if they don't have a steady cash flow.

Startups are a good place to look.

If you have good output, e.g. do more in an hour than many people do in a day, they're easy to negotiate part-time/remote.
Bummer, I loved hipmunk's interface. Their time graph and sorting by agony was the best I've seen.
I don’t quite get what you are saying. Consciousness must be real, in fact some people make the point it is the only thing we can be sure is real.

How can you hold a belief without consciousness?
It's also used routinely for regular e-commerce. A hold is put when you place an order, but the charge isn't completed until they ship out the item.
That's nice. Where's the money for that going to come from?

Because such groups already exist in small numbers - it's not like the existence of capitalist landlords prevents coops or charities from existing.
You are basing that on less than one month of sales after the factory just opened. Your claim is bogus, acknowledge that and be prepared to wait for figures for a complete month of Model 3 actually being available in that market.

By February the factory should be working close to its capacity, let’s see what sales are like once Tesla is actually participating in that market.
Link to project:

https://github.com/rednafi/rush
The point is that UA sniffing provides a last resort way of dealing with bugs in browsers until they are properly fixed (if ever). Imperfect as UA sniffing is, it's a lot better than having literally no way to identify and fix an issue people are having.
The other commenters have already given you some good responses, so I will leave you to the classic response to the question "When will we see the Citizen Kane of games?" - "When will we see the Tetris of film?"
The BSD's tar is derived from the old 4BSD tar which was derived from the original.

Pretty sure SCO Unix (yes, you can still buy it) is System V tar. Probably Solaris, too.

I recall AIX tar is...something else, none of the above. I don't recall the details.
Trading based on inside information? This is verging on “not even wrong”. Are you aware that Theranos was not a public company?
Don't thank anyone. If you like it, you enjoy it, you can do it... The job is for you!

Also I will argue: Any company who 'requires' github code can suck my next job.
What about user certs. Some windows systems allow for authenticating with a user cert. depending on how bad the validation bug is, seems like spoofing a user certificate could be a valid attack vector.
The claim was "kills an industry". SensorTower puts 2019 mobile games revenue at over $60 billion. [1] That doesn't sound very dead to me.

[1] https://sensortower.com/blog/app-revenue-and-downloads-2019
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I recall a podcast a Plaid tech person did for Software Engineering Daily where it was alluded that Plaid had moved away from using screen scraping to something much better — it sounded like they had paid for connections to the bigger banks — perhaps a one off API access only for Plaid or were leveraging some other way to get around the problematic screen scraping approach.
It's a single incident, have you got any evidence of a trend?

Considering the next conservative government cut funding to the CSIRO, particularly in climate science areas is there any evidence that it's about the report itself or is it just about not pissing off the current government?

Considering how heavy handed the climate deniers have been (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article129837...) you're going to need more examples.
This is a question of the causality between the family dinners and the socio-economic indicators of a kid. Just like most of similar questions, it is healthy not to assume causality until proven there is.

IMO, having regular family dinners is just one of many characteristics of stable and healthy families.
Sure. That's how competition works. But they claim is "kills an industry". As far as I know, people still fly to Baltimore despite a history of sometimes-low prices.
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Saying 'stakeholders' in this context is like saying 'engineers' or 'doctors'. Doesn't make them less human. It's just specifying a role they are taking.
I just bought Stardew Valley for $5, encouraged by my expiring Google Rewards credits :D
This is really cool. I’ve been looking for something like this. Kudos.
No, I'm basing that on the actual sales figures. The Model 3 has been on sale in China since March last year:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2019/04/china-march-2019.html
Immediate words in Forth are somewhat analogous to macros, and therefore can do this kind of stuff if need be - not evaluating something, or evaluating something several times. Take a look at a sample implementation of IF/ELSE/THEN and DO/LOOP:
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/4f853252f715132e...

Forth also has anonymous words (:NONAME), so you can dynamically define a computation and pass it around on the stack, and later execute it. I don't think there's any way to clean them up, though (no GC).
Congrats! :)

And thank you for writing this. I have used HN for more than 10 years and I've learned so much about my profession from it. Some of it is that you simply can't keep up with all the technology. But some of it is just inspirational. A lot of it is just purely educational.

Clearly it has that affect for thousands (if not millions...) in our world.
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I am not religious whatsoever, but I do like this passage from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament:

I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
Same here. HN has changed my life. From getting exposure on open source projects to geting various contracts around the world. I'm incredibly grateful. Thank you Hacker News.
Haha! True
For another comparison, most people who consider themselves "gamers" wouldn't even count mobile games as "real" games... and yet:

The App Store did pulled in nearly $1 billion of revenue per week in 2019. Of each week, $700 million was games. That's $37 billion just on the Apple App Store alone.
Reminds me of milewise. Bought by merrissa Mayer as an acquihire company for Yahoo. Great idea that was left to die
Climate change is not a discrete event, so it was a bit absurd to attribute those particular fires to climate change, like the media did. At the end of the day, fire is fuel + air + a hot enough temperature to ignite (but not weather hot; more like lightning strike or matches hot). It happens naturally (entire species of trees, including Eucalyptus, have evolved with fire), and some years the fires are bigger than the previous year (for different reasons).

If climate change affects fires in Australia, it will manifest itself in changing _other_ things. Maybe how and what things regrow after fires, how animals resettle those areas, etc. Obviously that's less sensational to sell as a story, but probably more important.
I'm more interested in the "Top Secret" slideshow mentioned by the Navy. Perhaps more information about these UFO's was gathered by the Nimitz than has already been revealed.
Glad you liked the idea...try it out and do report bugs or send in feature request..
You say it isn't sustainable, but you also say Hawaiian is still going. Which is it?

The claim was "kills an industry", but from what you say, the industry's still going. And you say the critical factor was "kept them away from the good gates", which is exactly the kind of thing that is solved with careful regulation, not deregulation.
What exactly is this pyLucid? I searched for it and found a CMS and a generative video ML library. Don't see how either one connects with this.

https://github.com/jedie/PyLucid
https://github.com/yelantingfeng/pyLucid
This is most likely relates to the Bank Secrecy Act and IRS regulations for deposits over 10k.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act
PC players that put thousands of hours in to a game are better than 99.9% of PC players.
All good dang. The url was originally in the text field.
This seems accurate to me. Maybe the parent is speaking from a place in the Valley of Despair on the Dunning-Kruger curve.

The good news is, they're just passing through.
GPT-2 trained on own Reddit profile and deployed to HN perhaps?