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I think that widespread adoption of middleware engines has proven that retained mode was the way to go.

The ones that don't use one, end up reimplementing their own scene graph anyway.

As for the rest, full with you.
Off topic but I personally find the use of the female pronouns in technical articles distracting. Referring to a hypothetical "Attacker" as "he" or "they" is what my brain expects which means I can parse the text faster and get to the point quicker. When the "attacker" is a "she" I'm surprised and the flow is interrupted. I'm forced to think about the fact that the author is signaling to me that they believe that women can be anything they want and shouldn't be boxed in into predetermined gender special professions etc.

Perhaps one might argue that this interruption is precisely the goal, and therein lies my point: I see this choice of words as a form of guerrilla advertisement by the author to showcase their agenda about a subject which has no relevance to the topic of the essay. Basically every "she" is a little ad for "Women's Rights" (for lack of a better term), and ads are annoying. Note that this has nothing to do with my personal opinion on the subject. It's just like mangling in an opinion about climate change, veganism etc. While legitimate and worthwhile, it shouldn't be purported as part of a technical article.

I'm obviously "zooming-in" a little on a minute matter, but nevertheless it's a minor pet peeve of mine. I wonder how others see this.
Education should be free before healthcare is made free. Both should be free if the country can afford it. If people are educated, free healthcare will not be required to be "explained" or fought for.
A potentially more interesting solution is liquid metal mirrors, either mercury-based or some sort of ferro-silver suspension managed electromagnetically.

A hollow toroid could be spun to provide force and the liquid would naturally form a parabola.

There've been a few experiments on earth and it could have huge cost saving potential in space. Instead of having to launch a 8m+ solid mirror machined to perfection, you could launch a lightweight toroidal substructure with a vat of reflective liquid at a fraction of the cost.
My mistake, I thought this was more akin to value types proposed in this JEP

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/169

This is disappointing.
If you have back pain in the morning, try changing your mattress. Adjustable firmness (e.g. Sleep Number) are particularly helpful as they allow you to test various options.
I'm not sure what you mean by "intelligent" specifically, especially as it relates to the topic at hand. People are vulnerable to all sorts of cognitive biases, somewhat independent of "intelligence".
My month long quest to become a chess master from scratch (2017)
It really depends on the building. Office buildings generally have heat pumps or VAVs w/ reheat coils (in MN) with tenant controls. Older buildings/facilities/institutions may have older HVAC or boilers that don’t have automatic controls, but when this gear gets replaced, it usually gets replaced with kit that has building automation controls for much more efficient energy usage.
I've encountered a system administrator who left the admin LDAP password (for the entire organization) in plaintext in a world accessible script. I'd tell you the name but I don't want to drag the institution through the mud unnecessarily.
Fine motor skills can be developed in many ways, including many ways that use more modern technology than a pen. If it is the motor skills that are important, then they should focus on those and not one particular means of practicing them.
Alarming indicators of an asset class bubble.
I ask again: what would you use instead? The industry has decided that IEEE 754 is the best all-around compromise, and everything is optimized for that case. Most programs aren't doing "decimal math", but programmer expectations are shaped by that since that's what they've used all their life.
Elon's making bold claims about how he's going to disrupt the tunnelling industry but so far the results are unimpressive to say the least.

Tunnel boring is a complex, multi-faceted civil engineering discipline with a large number of well-funded firms that are aggressively competing and innovating. In this space Elon is utterly insignificant.

The ELI5 version is: "Elon thinks he can dig tunnels faster and cheaper than anyone else, but so he's failed to demonstrate he can create even one useful tunnel. The only reason he's doing this is because he hates traffic and thinks that driving in a private tunnel will make it easier to get to work on time."
One of the major issues with early versions of the M16 was that they used a different propellant for the ammunition than what it was designed with. This propellant caused increased fouling.

They were also initially issued without cleaning kits, because they were apparently "self cleaning", which is patent bullshit.
Well, yes and no - plenty of terrestrial organisms that haven't shared a common ancestor with us for hundreds of millions of years can recognize us (like, say, crows). But I agree that easily recognizable sentient aliens visiting us in person is very unlikely, due to the scale of the universe.
The Samsung LSI/flash lines in ATX are not a leading process node in terms of all foundries (i.e. TSMC), but last I heard they were pretty close to the bleeding edge of what Samsung is capable of in their Korean factories. The ATX lines were always intended to be exact copies of their Korean counterparts, but this may have deviated in recent years (I have been out of the loop for ~7 years now on their internals).

Some of the major reasons behind Samsung building that factory in Austin were to satisfy Apple and to also leverage the more "open" innovation attitudes of the average American worker.
They didn't invent any new technologies.

And we understandably should be wary of any innovation in processes.

Because often it is just cutting corners for safety and reliability.
I find Netsuite is still combersome for fast data entry. But it is also very flexible and extensible...
"Let's solve traffic by building more roads!"

Elon has a lot to learn about induced demand.
A beginners guide to app marketing
You can call whatever you like, CVE database, yearly security reports, and OS release notes from all major OSes provide the necessary facts.

Sadly liability still isn't a thing on software development.
Dr Strangelove is an absolute classic. The flight and build up to the bomb drop is both comic and tense. The finale with the bloke riding the bomb like a bucking bronco is near genius: slapstick armageddon. I think I need to watch it again.

There are quite a few contenders for your award. Might I proffer:

"I'm Brian and so's my wife"
In MN, “daylight harvesting” must be provided for fixtures within 15’ of a window, this can be automatically done by a photocell connected to a dimming relay, or manually with a dimmer switch. Offices with windows must also have controls, either photocell or manual-on/auto-off (vacancy sensor). Interior enclosed spaces are allowed to have standard single-pole switches, but these days we’re putting in occupancy sensor switches, the tenants prefer them.

Many or most of the installs have occupancy sensors for general lighting, or a time clock that shuts them off during non-business hours.

A 32w LED 2x4 is roughly equivalent to a 96w 3-lamp CFL 2x4, or 3x as efficient. You can power roughly 135-140 32w fixtures on a 277v 20A circuit [(277x20x.8)/32] which will illuminate ~11k sq ft. With 2 20A circuits, you can light up an entire office tower floor (floorplates are generally 18-23k sq ft). Assuming a ~10,000 watt load, and $0.08/kWH, it costs $0.80/hr to illuminate 20,000 square feet. It’s not as big of an energy waste these days, but it’s still a waste.
As the cost of renewable power continues to drop, investing in extracting oil/ natural gas/ coal from the ground is going to make increasingly less sense. Coal has the fewest uses outside burning for power and the greatest environmental impact, so it's the most vulnerable, but oil and NG are going to come under increasing pressure.
While I'd note one doesn't necessarily need an set explanation for such directional explosions to formulate decent theory (look at dark matter, etc), I think electromagnetic forces often produce highly directional effects.
If you have back pain in the morning, make sure you try a new mattress. Research suggests adjustable (e.g Sleep Number) can help you find the best. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23527...
I was complaining about my back pain to older friend and he said that you know many people start getting those after 25 or so and then they stop before they hit 40. That's why everyone also has story of miracle cure.

Very controversial. Pilates finally did it for me.
No. If you're already at the point of China bombing fab plants in the US, you're at absolute war and many millions of people will die. The US would respond very badly, quite overly irrationally to an extreme to having its mainland bombed. Having those fabs in eg Taiwan and of mixed use (US & China both deriving supply from them) would be pointless under that conflict scenario anyway; all it would do is keep China from bombing them - maybe - and instead they'd seize them physically and shut off US supply while trying to keep their own supply going (the US can't stop China from taking Taiwan; if they move on Taiwan, they're getting anything left standing, including fabs). There's zero upside to keeping them mixed with US / Huawei if there's a conflict.
There is SW already to subtract satellite trails from pictures. And astronomers have stated that it's not a big deal yet. But 42000 extra satellites might be too much. Nobody knows, everybody is worried, lots of talk.
LOL, record was an intentional omission during designing Java, similar to output parameters in function calls. It's not like James didn't know about them or couldn't implement them.

The only truly problematic thing in the original Java design was type erasure, leading to mess in all JVM-based languages like Scala, Kotlin or Clojure, but it saved some memory, so it was a design compromise. C#/CLR chose the other option, making their VM more flexible.
Didn't he just describe what the job of a VC is supposed to be? To go around and find good companies to invest in? As a programmer, I too am tired of working for startup after startup only to see all my hard work go down the drain because of forces that are out of my control like tired VCs. Honestly, how do you not make fun of this kind of writing? What am I supposed to actually get out of this? Are we supposed to empathize with people that are tired of doing their job? Isn't that humanity 101?
I'd like to know in which part of the planet my comment is unsubstantiated.
"Lack of bandwidth, hyper-velocity, a pittance of sleep"

If we are just going to put together words to describe concepts that make no sense then you are probably meeting people that have never made a dollar on their investment.

Some of the best VCs are original thinkers and will take their time making investments. The thing about them is that they will be the first to making an investment in a company even before it has become the hot new thing.
Was he thinking about a re-edited edition of The Silmarillion? With significant changes?
Everyone is tired because they are overworked: engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, bankers, police, cooks, janitors. Long shifts, split shifts, long commutes, homework, constant interruptions, questionable management practices, weak labor laws, weak enforcement thereof, asymmetric legal costs, self-training on your own time, expectations of faster and faster turnaround times, less and less support staff...
what types of shows use it given that all the IT shows I'm familiar with use the Venetian/Sands

Here's the list of big conventions this year:

CES: 175,000 people
Automotive Aftermarket Show: 160,000
ConExpo-Con/Agg: 129,000
National Association of Broadcasters: 103,000
MAGIC (fashion/makeup, I believe): 78,0000
International Builders Show: 68,000
Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show: 61,000
World of Concrete: 60,000
National Mining Association: 50,000
Las Vegas Market, Winter: 50,000
Las Vegas Market, Summer: 50,000
ASD Market Week Winter: 46,000
Mr. Olympia: 45,000
ASD Market Week Summer: 44,000
Nightclub and Bar Show: 39,000
Audiovisual and Integrated Experience: 38,000
RECon: 37,000

Those are just the top attendees. There are many dozens more.

Of those I listed, only the Automotive Aftermarket show is also at the Sands.

The expansion isn't to handle larger shows, it's to handle more large shows simultaneously.

Also not listed is the NFR Rodeo which is big enough to be held at the UNLV stadium, plus the expo center, plus over a dozen hotels. I think that one is around 103,000 people.
Actually Musk leased an existing Canadian boring machine:

http://superexcavators.com/news/super-excavators-consult-mac...

There is no evidence of any improvements or innovations.
I think you're ignoring the Soviet Unions contribution to the war. Even if America lost all 3 carriers you'd still have Manchuria and Korea failing to the soviets and the imminent threat of an invasion to the home islands, which even in our time line forced the surrender of Japan. Japan might have had more resources and industry to combat this but they'd still at least lose at roughly the same time on continental Asia.
I think they are stretching because you'll be able to transfer to the monorail.
Me reading the first line mentioning weight lifting.
My thoughts: "I wonder if Baraki and Feigenbaum will be mentioned?"
Didn't fail to deliver.
I've found that when I get back pain a set of deadlifts for a day or two fixes things right up
Wouldn't the obvious capitalism solution to that be - loans become very cheap because people dont know what else to do with their money. Lots of people now have access to (other people's) capital. Wealth is no longer as concentrated, wisdom of crowds prevail?
That's why I was talking about regular slopes and not the back country. And I meant healthier like physical exercise wise.
How many other video games from 2009 are people talking about today? It's just the nature of the beast.
>Based on my experience, that kind of pseudo-science is super popular in corporate environment, and is really difficult to fight against.

While its uses in a corporate environment can be bogus, there are indeed a few discreet types of people, and most anybody that has worked/lived with/watched people in the wild can attest to that.

I don't see many people being "analytic, careful, meticulous" in one day and "let's just go at it / throw caution to the wind" the next.

At best, an "analytic, careful, meticulous" will have some rare breaks when those qualities will break down (e.g. when they fall in love or some addiction or some breaking point in their life/career).

But usually people tend to stick to some modes of behavior -- which might not be the ones in the color groups above, but they do exist and are quite consistent.
The unfortunate reality is most people will not apply such guidance regularly given the torrent of information we are faced with.

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Plenty of people had “private” LiveJournal accounts back in the day with no expectation that it was a zero-knowledge system. Just that they weren’t sharing it. I may not be a good indication of “most people”, but I just don’t think that most people think of privacy in the way that we (folks who know details of encryption and metadata leaks) do.
this seems much faster than Big Bertha in Seattle

Big Bertha dug under the downtown of a city with existing tunnels and utilities. The Las Vegas tunnel is mostly under parking lots with no obstructions.
It's not a bad idea. It would (presumably) insulate them against future border tariffs.
Funny how these “glitches” always tend to underpay everyone.
The context matters. Seen the democrat primary speeches? UBI is on the table. There's people in this thread right now advocating for it. The article is indirectly advocating for it. The whole thing is like advocating we drive 200mph over a bridge that hasn't been built yet.
I don’t really understand why Berkeley has to retroactively give $7500 to students who were never expecting it in the first place. When the minimum wage is raised, should employers have to compensate employees for previous hours worked below the new minimum wage?
I think it heavily depends on the kind of content you are consuming. I know it is anecdata, but my personal grammar and spelling skills went all the way up since I started using internet heavily (which was very noticeable to me, since english isn't my native language). And while I use a lot of incorrect grammar and spelling when talking to friends, I usually do it out of convenience (to shorten words, etc.), not because I don't know the proper grammar/spelling.
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Which Lisp flavour do you use Mark? I worked in Java for 15 years before moving to Clojure a decade ago.

I find it superbly powerful to be able to leverage the JVM and the Browser with the same language.
Only time will tell if I am in fact right. I'm counting on being more right than the guys who have dedicated staff who routinely shell into their servers.

I suppose we'll see if companies with sysadmins have more breaches than the guys who run their own ops using container orchestration etc. I think I'd go even odds $1k that over the next five years, most large scale data breaches will be at organizations where sys admins run the majority of ops.

There's a whole new category of errors you can make (making your bucket open, etc.) with cloud providers but the tooling has better defaults.
Thanks for showing up to be dismissive of concerns that you understand! Nuance is a thing.
Am I missing something? Berkley isn't arguing they accidentally underpaid people, but that they intentionally sought out more 8 hour positions. That sound in no way like a "glitch"
Any "Science" being done can correctly account for it.
One word: Lobbyist
The title is bad. It isn’t really a “glitch” and no one received payment lower than they were expecting or agreed to.
> Where were the regulators?

Doing their job? The "Intel buying AMD" analogy is wildly inaccurate. In 2015 (the last full year before the merger) NXP, Renesas, Samsung and ST all had doubt digit percentage of MCU market shares[1]. And ST makes way more than ARMs; the ST8 for example is still very popular. The regulators care if an acquisition reduces competition, and it's pretty clear that an acquisition that wouldn't even break 20% MCU market share wasn't going to impact that.

[1] http://www.icinsights.com/data/articles/documents/970.pdf
>Maybe other vendors could be considered if 30% of their revenue went to the desk manufacturer. Preposterous, right? That's the world be live in and accepted as the norm for smartphones.

To be fair, on Android, you at least have the ability to sideload apps or use different app stores. Of course, not many people do, but the option is there.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a Levine article and not been impressed. The man’s a national treasure! Also, you can get his articles sent to your inbox to bypass the paywalls.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning about the business side of startups?
As a technical founder I'd like to learn more about the practical side of sales, marketing, accounting, legal, recruiting, pricing and etc.

Most of the online business courses and startup books are very high level and don't cover anything useful.

Are there any must read business textbooks, online courses or forums that you recommend?

I'm mostly looking for practical advice on how to handle marketing efforts, which metrics to track, how to not mess up anything on the legal/accounting side and how to handle the sales process (contracts, pricing, pitching, etc).

The best things that I've found so far are the YC lectures, SaaStr and random blog posts.
Records are meant to play nicely with inline types, i.e. when inline types land, you'll be able to declare inline records.
Then again, maybe that's a good thing; certainly would encourage greater counterintelligence cooperation in Taiwan.
A wonderful but typical case study of fixing a bug in software.
> patriotic

Be careful for what you wish for. Taiwan’s formal name is Republic of China, the older generations does not exactly share the younger generations wish of independence. In fact, they are often patriotic .. to China.
This a Show HN where people post things they built. There doesn't need to be more than that. You too can post that cms you mentioned if you want.
Ahhh, gotcha. Thanks.
For those on Android, Google photos has been doing this for years.
A ground-based telescope will always be way cheaper than one in orbit.

Why make this more expensive than it needs to be? Researchers are already strapped for cash.
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It really boils down to what we were literally taught in school (way back when, I don't know if they still teach this stuff):

Be suspicious of any information that you receive that you haven't actually fact-checked. As in, don't believe it is true (or believe it is untrue) just because you saw it. Be doubly suspicious if that information confirms a belief that you already have.
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What you describe is properly called "positive feedback" in the engineering sense.

positive feedback -> doing a thing now results in doing more of that same thing in the future

negative feedback -> doing a thing now results in doing less of that same thing in the future

If dumping coal stocks now results in more dumping of coal stocks in the future, that would be the 'positive' kind of feedback.
Ironically Berkeley undergraduate TAs are among the best-paid. $30/hr + tuition remission for undergrads is incredibly generous.

I was paid $10/hr @ ~5 hr / week as an undergraduate TA at an Ivy League university.
Ah, I would say physics is much more amenable to science than psychology presently is. Big data, cheap and endlessly repeatable experiments, etc.

> isn’t equipped to discuss any advanced topic (say, quantum field theory). They are usually fifty to a hundred years behind frontier research.

I don't disagree, but I do wish in the future we have an easier way to visualize all of known information, so one can see what one knows and what one is in the dark about, and "see the frontier".
I would recommend inversion for some people. Inversion set me down a path of reversing years of compression, muscle dysfunction, and chronic pain from a tailbone injury 12 years earlier.
Not only that, but it first has to actually pass in front of the star. This gets increasingly likely as you look at fainter and fainter stars, but the sky is still mostly empty and is not as common as you might think. (Olber's paradox and all that.)