skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On the other I’m a bit worried that once LLVM backend will take off for real, so much focus will concentrate on it, that other compilers (PGI, gfortran, Intel Fortran) development will finally stall or even get dropped and we will wake up in future where LLVM behemoth swallowed all the competition.

It is likely it will take years if not decades for the llvm based fortran compiler to match the optimization ability of compilers on hpc systems. I also will clarify that the previous statement was an understatement. gfortran is one thing, PGI or Intel compilers won't stall or fall out of use.
I have a comparison between NVIDIA's service and an equivalent setup on Azure here:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2018/09/30/1600

The setup I used is here:

https://github.com/ecalder6/azure-gaming

...and has been kept up to date (it was annotated last month, and the config is stable).
Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency
The point is that you aren’t demonstrating the implied value in the generated content. Deformations and artifacts are easy to add to images. The concept here is that this is supposedly an image of someone who doesn’t exist, if what you see is just a test-set image that’s deformed or has an artifact added to make it look like it was automatically created then it’s not actually doing anything... but the point is that you have no frame of reference to judge that because you are only seeing the supposed non existing face.

So it’s only impressive is you take it for granted that it’s doing what is claimed.

It’s impressive if you assume it’s impressive.

What I’m saying is simply that if they want to claim it’s impressive you should be able to judge that based on the displayed result itself. Just include the nearest match and it’s simple as hell for everyone to judge if it actually did something cool or not.
I'm curious then how the email from Chris in 2005 comes from his apple.com email address?

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

Doesn't seem to add up with your proposed timeline. Care to explain?
It seems odd to argue that Brad Pitt in Fight Club doesn't have a bodybuilder physique, just because he has slightly smaller biceps than a typical body builder.
This still seems like a better option than Stadia or GeForce Now, because it should support all PC games (including store-exclusive titles like Satisfactory, Untitled Goose Game, and The Outer Worlds).
> Given that it would be available on any video content, the feature needed to be discoverable and straight-forward for as many people as possible.

This is the designer’s nightmare: Every feature needs to be available to everyone, therefore be visible on the screen. Yet they only cite rare usecases: « Watching sports event while continuing to browse the web ». In the meantime, the blue tone isn’t generally consistent with the websites’ colors.

I would have supposed moderatelt-used features belongs in the right-click menu like the rest, or they need to find a way to merge it with the video controls (I guess an Apple designer would imagine a new kind of special press to detach the video, which is fine too).
Not really Toronto (sales and business primarily) but there’s engineering in Montreal also.
dev side - keep learning elixir and building apps with it
business side - marketing (and running) SaaS
Thanks for your feedback. Genuinely appreciated. I’ll take a look takesmartnotes.com.
I'd say it's more than merely far ahead. When it's your hardware and you've been doing HPC optimization for decades, you are leagues ahead.
I’m not even accredited. I just don’t want to deal with the time
and hassle of a legal mess to defend what few assets I do have, or my reputation. I’ve had some specific bad experiences that the setup in its current design should hopefully mitigate; it’s not a theoretical thing. It bothers me that there isn’t a better way to do this.

As for “randos”; do you only date people you already know well? I know relatively few people well socially (ie less than dozen), and almost none in the cities in which I spend most of my time. I’m pretty reclusive despite having gotten to the point where death threats are a thing.
Bezos possibly does not want all consumers to know his name or he would have named Amazon "bezos" much like "ford". --bezos fan
There Is No Console War Because Xbox Moved on and Left PlayStation Behind
I would say that perhaps diff is a special case of alignments, but not in reverse.

Alignments differ from a "diff" because they are assigning a score to each operation (match, mismatch, gap). The "optimal" alignment only cares about maximizing the score, does not "care" about the objects that are aligned.

If one chooses the scores incorrectly they could end up with optimal (relative to the score) alignments that visually seem completely "wrong".

I can't see how one could tune a diff, to produce obviously "incorrect" output.
Of course, that means you're giving "Denver Gingerich and others" full access and control over the number and channel used to receive unencrypted authentication tokens.
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Of course, that means it's not 2FA, just 1FA.
Does anyone else feel like he really misinterpreted the parable of the blind men and the elephant?

Jim Carrey’s quote also seems out of context, given that Carrey is talking about the philosophical nature of fame as a goal. How striving for it could become a part of your identity and then actually achieving it and finding your problems still exist would lead to a loss of identity, disillusionment and other existential stuff. Ferriss is dealing more with the practical realities of being famous on a day to day basis.
Yeah, but random normal people aren't going to get it.

It's the same thing as a FAANG job: any rando can apply but they're gonna get screened out before the first stage.
Earth is essentially populated by bacteria,* which in turn allows a handful of temporary mutated offshoots to live for a few moments alongside it.

* Looking at species count, mass, count of individuals, or species longevity, or probably eighteen other factors.
Sorry for delay in responding. The issue is that there’s a huge proliferation of inaccessible comms which creates a growing sea of unchecked globally enabled online activity. This isn’t the same as allowing people to congregate in person and in private. The abstraction of privacy expanding on a virtual global scale presents unique challenges to law enforcement. This is independent from the proliferation of surveillance mechanisms at hand, and isn’t a valid counterbalance.

The tech companies assume power and disclaim responsibility. It is their job to police their pipes, so respectfully and urgently I disagree.

Concerns about historical corruption within three letter agencies is best addressed by working towards technical solutions that enable proper checks and balances amongst involved players: governments, tech oligarchies, and commoners. The current trend is towards a growing sea of entropy without checks and balances, and this is unacceptable to governments motivated to maintain/increase order and reduce suffering. Resistance via deployment of technical libertarian mechanisms at scale isn’t a solid long term solution.

The federal government isn’t aiming to ban math, encryption, pgp, one time pads, steanography, etc. Instead the goal is to prevent the proliferation of unbreakable encryption at scale, as that growing void enables criminal activity at scale, despite the growing surveillance apparatus.
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Isn’t it possible to become a billionaire without anyone knowing?

What if you just get there quietly through private investment?

Not a billion, but I’ve built up a decent chunk myself and nobody seems to know or even suspect that about me. Nobody begs me for anything more than spare change, no sycophants, nobody trying to impress me. Marketing for luxury goods doesn’t even reach me.

I could easily see myself reaching a billion in a few decades just through private investment, and there must be thousands of people doing the same. I imagine there are many more who have earned millions publicly, then sold their stake and went to a billion privately.

So how does everyone find out about them?
Wallstreetbets is now the top trending subreddit
Why? Smartphones are just pocket-sized computers. Does a computer really need a cellular modem to be useful?
That is an awesome idea. Would be extremely useful for guitar and transcription too, while writing the text in Word.

It typically would be a usecase for the Macbook touch bar, does anyone has one and can tell us whether it has an integration with web videoplayers?
Learning technical writing using the engineering method (2016) [pdf]
Alphabet’s X looks beyond Silicon Valley for next big idea
I absolutely cannot stand medium nibs, it's horrible for smaller or narrow handwritings. Also, with a decent quality paper F nibs are just as comfortable to write with.
A Web developer is never going to see this. The events mentioned are being sent to the Shadow DOM which implements the PiP UI (as well as the default video controls UI), not the webpage.
It's very, very similar north-south. Vancouver has more in common with Seattle than Halifax.
My first 2 years of university were using Eiffel in a NeXT lab. The professors had built up their own standard libraries. Some of the preconditions and postconditions got a little annoying, but probably staved off a lot of bugs.

Junior year they switched everything to Java. The CS lab switched to macs, but the main computer labs were mostly all windows, but CS students could finally work on their CS programs there if they didn't have their own computer (but everyone did anyways)
I’ve generally only ever had budget for internal stuff. I’ve tried to bring in leads from other teams to talk about the tech they work with (I mostly worry about backend, so, eg, have client tech leads come in). I find that kind of cross training really helpful for inter-team communication. A surprising number of “backend” engineers don’t really know much about their OS or the Unix environment (why this is... I don’t know), so having folks from Ops come in and give a quick tutorial on those sorts of things is also really helpful. I could do those things myself, but I think working with leads from other teams helps build rapport and familiarity, it also gives those folks a chance to emphasize what they think would be most helpful for them if we knew more about it.

At a previous job we had good PMs who were skilled as “agile coaches”. I hate to call them that, but I think it’s probably the closest thing that would be generally understood. They would help organize and host some excellent sessions on how to make our retrospectives and planning sessions go better.

I’ve also worked with sales engineers from key vendors to come in and do a hands on about new features, if I can schedule it. It’s usually low or no cost training. Making better use of tools you pay for can be huge.

Ps. Would love to hear more about others experiences with outside trainers coming in for hands-on sessions.
Any contribution to Contextualise would be greatly appreciated ;)
I guess your name gives it away.

My first was Debian 4. Ran it on a 550mhz PIII.
Parsec[1] is a Discord-like game-streaming host and client. I've used it a little and it seems to work just as well or better than Steam Stream or GeForce Now. Furthermore, it has virtually no setup and works across WAN without a VPN.

[1] https://parsecgaming.com/features/
It’s not whataboutism, it was literally the point.

If you where a republican investigator in charge of figuring out if climate change was a problem and decided to not actually do any fact checking because “everyone knows it’s bullshit” you would be an idiot.

In the same sence, someone tasked with looking for WMD in Iraq would be an idiot to simply go “well everyone knows there aren’t any” and not checking the facts.

Point is that no matter your political leanings, there is no such thing as “everyone knows” when doing investigations you look for facts and evidence.

And sometimes that’s hard because there isn’t any (Iraq) and other times that’s easy because there are tons (climate change). But no matter the case and your political affiliation if you skip the facts and rely on public sentiment you’re being foolish.
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On the other hand, any paid service must be tracking you, at least for billing purposes, whereas you might be able to reduce the tracking that free services do.
https://www.paperspace.com/ does exactly this.

Tried it for gaming and it was a great experience.
Gaming only works if you are near their data centers though - afaik US and NL; got a high latency in Germany, but that's not the their fault.
You'll find 10$ referral codes online to try it for free.
BigCorp vs startup leaves out a whole lot of mature small- and midsize-businesses. People working for SMBs have a lot of reasons for doing so. Some people want to find 9 to 5 jobs where, when they're done for the day, they can shut off. Some people are kinda okay at writing at software and want to live in Ohio or whatever and they're not the sort of person someone is going to beat down the door for to make them an offer for a remote job.

Like, HN comes from YC, it's not surprising that there's a focus on startups and the sorts of BigCorps that grew from startups in living memory. But Java, C# and VB.NET are all in the Tiobe top-10, and I feel like HN has a real blindspot for the people who are writing line-of-business apps. It's like they're all dark-matter developers.
Note the words "to me".
Or just spend $500 one time on a local rig one time that can max out 1080p at 100+frames instead of paying more per year for less.

I know this is for private use but the only point of game streaming is so that companies can put ads in stream.
"Windows 10 may now be essential". It's not essential. There's basically no reason to use it for normal people. Docs and the vast majority of use cases work in just a web browser. Most office workers should be using a safe sandboxed os like chromeos. You can even do android dev in chromeos now.

It's only needed for gaming, but eventually the testosterone/endless free time for most people runs out and they give up that time waster. And stay off my lawn, kids ;-)
Seems to me most High School Bullies eventually get in touch with their victims as they have burned up all their recent contacts and have few if any friends in their current lives.

They reach out to people they knew and bullied in their past with the hope they can obtain a relationship in which they will still be dominant, instead of the friendless pathetic losers that they now have become because they made others feel that way in their past.

By the time a person reaches high school they have already learned what is kind and what is cruel, as much as people can change, most don't. A person who was cruel to you in the past will most likely be cruel to you again if you let them into your life.

Forgive and forget them, literally!
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The post says that the video element is told it's being hovered, although it is unclear if that means the rendering context has that element set to hover (thus CSS changes even if pointer events is set to none), or that some internal-to-the-browser state is set to hover for the video.
There’s some incredibly dystopian social commentary for someone smarter than me to write about why WSB and Bernie are the number 1 and 2 subreddits right now. Speaks volume.
Here are the slides from the talk: https://ep2016.europython.eu/media/conference/slides/wrestli...
I have to say I love this feature and have so since the first time I encountered it in my Firefox Nightly installation a few months ago (on Windows).

Glad to also have it available on Linux and Mac now. It's perfect for on-the-side Youtube videos.
> Consider I request the curl dev to make a gui for it. would you find it unreasonable because everyone is okay with cli ?

Yes, as libcurl exists and gui's can be done by someone else more knowledgeable with them. Plus gui's for what exactly? The web? macos? windows? X? playstation? even asking for a gui is a bit vague and an incomplete request I would reject outright without at least going: i want this.

I'd solve this by going, sounds good, you're the best person for it so far and now have write access to create a branch and get us there with the itch to scratch it.

> Make a GUI is just a different beast compared to CLI.

Agreed, but the effort can be disproportionate to the gains the submitter might get. And if this is something i'm doing for myself, to be blunt, I don't got time for that kind of effort. And more bluntness, nobody could make me do it, my time is my own and I have to balance that against other things. If you ask for it you better believe I'm going to say its now on you to do as I have neither the skills nor desire to invest my own time on this. I'll gladly help you out getting there but that is about as far as I'm willing to go.

I feel that is fair. Others may disagree.
One unexpected place where null bytes are acceptable: Wi-Fi SSIDs. That’s one way to keep people off your network, I suppose.
Google Chatbot Meena's training cost could be around $1.4M
>Was it easier back then though?

I don't think it was easier, but there was less pressure to get it right, so the barrier to entry was lessened.

Now one has to worry (they had to worry then, it just wasnt as publicly well known or visible) about accessibility, identity theft, domain theft, natonal and specific laws that must be worked around, scams, marketing, lawsuits, etc.

Back then you'd just throw up your geocities site about (Fox owned) X-files Scully fan-fic and be on your merry way; now you have to worry about an ad somewhere generating revenue from you having had posted Scullys' face, prompting a foreign script-kiddy to harass you with threats of legal tattling if you don't pay his bitcoin ransom, and when that's all done you receive a DMCA complaint from Fox to forward the revenue or take down Scullys' face, anyway.

One can see why domain experts are more prevalent now. There's a lot more ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

Website creator suites have just about always existed, well at least since the internet had any level of popularity, anyway.
I'm able to follow the article right up to the point where the author talks about replacing streaming with dictionary compression. How does this work, exactly? Don't you still need the same number of back and forth messages, since the protocol doesn't change?
Yeah, do not do this. You'll end up with a $1000 bill from Amazon becuase you forgot to shut it down and discover very quickly they don't care at all once they already have your money.
Memory exhaustion for one. In my experience build systems will happily eat up all of your memory and put you into a swap hell that is difficult to escape from.

Especially painful when one of your coworkers has a beefier machine than you and changes the number of parallel jobs offhand one day, causing your computer to freeze until the OOM killer gets the right build process.
Something needs to be done more proactively about mitigating the impact of cars on people/animals/objects around them.

Cars (and the distrust of the ability of the people driving them) are the cause of so much worry and concern.

- There’s anxiety over walking, biking, or running places (not even that far away) because of the worry over cars.

- No parents I know want to let their kids ride their bikes across the neighborhood to their friends’ houses or to/ from school because of the worry over cars.

- Some people even drive their dogs to the park instead of walking around the neighborhood because of the worry over cars.

Cars basically monopolized the idea of transportation, and in effect it is also hard to separate from them. “Sharing the Road” doesn’t work in practice, as the sharing is never enough to make anyone not in a car feel comfortable about it.

We need some kind of government initiative or legislation or something meaningful to equip cars and safety features to mitigate the dangers of cars for the rest of the world around them. It’s going to take forever to be implemented if car manufacturers just roll out these things as “premium features” - that’s like enabling a system of charging extra for a car to come with seatbelts.

I’ve heard, “Well, I grew up in the {60s, 70s, 80s} and we would play in the streets and be ok around cars.” Yea, well, go look at the specs of cars from those decades. People weren’t driving around in F-150s, Chevy Surburbans, and 260hp 140mph sportscars like they are today.
WSB got a bunch of coverage in the past few days, including outside of reddit, for a few claims of people making crazy money betting on Tesla.
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Great article from the same presenter here: https://www.groundai.com/project/projective-geometric-algebr...

And for those who know conformal GA, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290437718_Geometric...
Would love to hear any feedback on the piece. Wrote more about the development here: https://sagar.substack.com/p/why-trailblazer-was-made
It is. That's the point. Read again.
> And yet Apple is totally fine with benefiting from the open source work of others...

And? Every other person benefits the same with the code contributed under the licenses in play. I fail to see the issue. With llvm for example they seem to be upstreaming a lot of their xcode backend stuff as they get time. So that statement of many copyleft proponents that only copyleft encourages upstreaming rings hollow to me.

Hell go talk to people from Redhat about custom gcc forks that target chips that aren't upstreamed to gcc. Just because you're using gcc and modifying it doesn't mean you'll actually be contributing the code if its all internal.
> Come out far ahead how?

Check out levels.fyi. Moving to the Bay Area to work at a random startup makes little sense, but moving to one of the BigCos can be very financially rewarding.

> I'm almost 24 and if I continue to manage my finances correctly, I should have my own spacious home by 25

Check out this comment someone made complaining how high the CoL is in the Bay Area, even for someone making $300k. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228756 Their analysis is flawed and overstates expenses, but even then this hypothetical tech employee saves > $110k/year (including a 401k and match). That's enough to put a down payment on a house in SC every year. If you're investing minded, you could own an apartment building in about 10 years and never have to worry about money again.
Or maybe you're in a small apartment without space for a desktop and don't have time to game that often so this is actually a better, more cost-effective solution?

Everybody's needs are different -- there's no reason to dismiss this.
I basically started this thing very recently so idk what I'm doing yet, but the plan is for the language to be open source. I'm just trying to figure out what type of monetization I can potentially build around it (maybe a paid hosting service, maybe a donation type thing, idk) to help fund the development of the language.

But the language itself is open, it's just syntax, anybody can do whatever they like with it :)
Is voice chat always on?
Exactly. I'm a little surprised at the size of the immediate and vicious reaction. There's more that people aren't saying besides "Google isn't that special".
Another Canadian in strong agreement chiming in.

I think IRAP and SRED are okay, they just led to government picking winners (IRAP) and an awful ecosystem of vendors and abuse (SRED).

I’m of the opinion that Canada should take that money and do what Israel did with Yozma. Match the creation of VC funds with government capital and generous exit terms (e.g. government matches with 50% capital, is totally silent partner and can be bought out at any time with a 30% premium). I bet big VCs would jump at the opportunity and everyone would win (Israel actually saw a return in the end).