skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet, all these companies remain in existence.

That was true about the Dodo too, at some point. And even for things that still are around: so? If the only defense of something you have is that it exists, it might be "good enough", but it never ever is good.
I was reading through and noticed he does not normalize his vectors for (so far) things like ray direction or surface normals for lighting. He does give warnings but I'm curious what type of bugs or rendering issues will manifest from this decision?
Managers and team leads in my company have to make 1-on-1 meeting with their team mates every month on an published calendar schedule. We have made everything possible to help them: learning materials, master-classes, QA sessions, etc. At the beginning, they were anxious that these meetings look like getting into one’s personal zone and they didn’t known what to talk about and how to get rid of embarrassment.

Now they say that they are amazed how much information people are willing to share to find support and solve common problems in work, which managers have no ideas about. I’m one of those who thinks that 1-on-1 meeting is a great tool to make workplace better. Surely, everyone has to understand its goal.
Even with all that, it still ping-pongs with some regularity and has trouble with on- and off-ramps. And no top-down camera view, which even a Nissan Rogue has!

I'm not bitter, though. I knew what I was getting into when I dropped nearly 60K on this thing. But still, would like them to catch up in some areas they are lagging in.
I used i3 about two years ago, and have been using awesome since then. Can anybody elaborate how do these two projects compare in 2020?
Just a heads up, it looks like the link to your article "Customizing the Logitech G13" in the first paragraph is broken
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I understand the annoyance, but the problem is that we don't have access to anything like the precision necessary to make such calls well on the internet. There is (vastly) too little information, too many opportunities to get it wrong, and the damage caused by getting it wrong is too great to be worth the risk. Therefore it's the better part of valour just to not go there.

Even getting it right doesn't help, because it will encourage other people to pull the same stunt themselves, get it wrong, and cause damage. We just need to not go there as a community.
You are debating the semantics of the title. Perhaps “Initiate you zoom screen share with ultrasound” would be a more suitable title, but it doesn’t quite have that same ring to it.
Uh oh social justice starting to get away from you? I can see that,
Pretty sure most vehicles (even Tesla's) will let you drive them in some sort of limp mode even with coolant or battery issues. Not sure how that's any different.

Anything beyond that (e.g. motor or battery problems) aren't going to be fixed like that no matter what EV you buy. Also, those pretty much all can't be hot-serviced on the side of the road anyways on modern cars since everything is more compact, less accessible, etc.
What you are talking about is data transfer and storage, but what IOTA seems to claim is that somehow the math for cryptography changes and is better when it is 'trinary'.
Does Tesla really care that much about efficiency? Sentry mode chews through about 1 mile of range for every single hour it is active. My doorbell camera takes significantly less power to do motion detection than my Model 3 does.
How to Efficiently Chunk a Java List
How to Efficiently Assign a Database Temporary Sequence of Values to Rows
BlockPGP: A new blockchain-based PGP management framework
This is silly. Men are humans. Humans are subject to cultural norms. Cultural norms that enable bad behavior in men specifically create things like ‘toxic masculinity’.

The problem isn’t the gender of your kids. It’s how you raise them to treat other people. Primarily, women.
But it does prove that it's armchair research, which is of little value in providing facts about which strategy you should go about. It does provide some food for thought, but probably in a prescriptive manner which can be dangerous if taken seriously.
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Interesting that there is a good amount of circumstantial evidence that leads this way. I saw the phenomenon with other witnesses as well 22 years ago and I simply cannot rule out projections. Seems simple enough and able to explain it all. But then again there is supposed to be physical evidence which would contradict everything I just said. Now that would be something.

See my previous comment on the topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860860
Don is still around, and is still awesome! His memory for events around that time is surprisingly sharp, for it being 50 years ago.

He's been an invaluable resource for us at the VirtualAGC project [1]. He provided over half (!) of the AGC programs we've made available, including LM software for Apollo 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 15-17, plus several other ground development programs. He also was the source of a majority of the schematics that we used in the AGC restoration [2] -- I can say with 100% confidence that it wouldn't have been possible to get that computer working again without his help.

He's got a book out now, Sunburst and Luminary [3], that is very good and goes into a lot of technical detail on the LM software, without getting too much into the weeds. I highly recommend it if you're interested in that sort of thing!

[1] http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&list=PL-_93BVApb...

[3] https://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html
Millions of people use applications with these kinds of features. A few more examples: the Scratch educational programming tool, website builders such as Webflow, diagram editors, image editors, etc. The list goes on and on.

The browser is no longer just a document viewer... That ship has sailed, and overall it is a good thing.

We can mitigate the risk of clipboard hijacking without burning down the house. By the way, I would guess that this is a minor risk in the grand scheme of things, as it seems that the worst risks are for technical individuals people copying programmatic commands (e.g. software engineers). For others, it is a real yet minor annoyance.

Perhaps there could be an opt-in setting for allowing a site to modify the default content that is copied from a selection?
Correcting the “Jitters” in Quantum Devices
So yes, I see in your comment that given the context of 'Apple Books' it's probably a contractual issue, I agree there.

Though I can see that a reasonable legal opinion might not support my more cynical view, when the risk dynamics are high, a different kind of logic creeps in.

I worked for a software platform that refused to provide usable snippets of code anywhere in the documentation for fear of liability.

We also 'perpetually sued' an organization that was infringing on our brand, even though they were really helpful to us (a user-managed fan-site which used our name in theirs) and otherwise had a positive relationship with them. Our 'perpetual legal action' was merely cover give the appearance that our brand was being defended, without which action, we could feasibly lose rights to it. So, literally suing people, while dragging out and 'nudge-nudge-winking them' to not worry about it, literally inviting the people we were suing to events, dinners etc..

I don't think most people understand the risk dynamic in many large organizations with respect to these issues, the calculation seems bizarre even to most regular product types, it really takes a legal view to understand this. And also the personal fears and biases of the executives.
The problem, such as it is, is with languages. Terminals (mine at least) handle most of Unicode just fine; admittedly I've seen it choke on emoji, but punctuation, nah.

The vast majority of programming languages are defined in terms of ASCII and only ASCII. I don't care for this, personally.

I've given some thought to how to do quoting right in a programming language, and implemented «guillemets» as an experiment. But it's challenging, you need to decide what to do with all of “”‟„"″ and there aren't obvious pairings, like „this is a sentence” and “this is a sentence” and »this is a sentence» and «this is a sentence» and »this is a sentence«, it ends up feeling like rather a lot of effort for what you get in return.

Oh, one of those characters I typed isn't a quotation mark, did you catch which one? Hacker news won't even let me type two of them!
If the game offers "borderless fullscreen" or "fullscreen windowed" then that's what you want. There are 3rd party utilities that can force it for games lacking the option, but I can't speak to how well they work.
Heh... Potentially bigger upside, but 99.9999999999% chance they're worth nothing. So, risk adjusted, more than a 50% paycut.

No thanks.
I understood your phrase "the major cause" to mean majority reason, that couldn't be true since the remaining difference is greater. If you meant something different than that, then I misunderstood you. We both agree that the remainder of the performance (the bulk of it) must come from other reasons than parallelism.

As well as your suggestions (doing less work, choosing the right data structures) - I would also propose (A) no V8 JIT warmup time (B) no need for fstat on many node_modules files (C) fewer AST passes (D) possibility of value struct types => less boxing => lower GC pressure (E) less dynamism/no plugin architecture.
Title correction: there should be an exclamation point after "extra". As in "extra! extra! read all about it", not "extra weird–looking freak". Although it did make me laugh :)
You find the server infrastructure at every company you’ve seen to be poor, so you must have something better. If you have something objectively better then why aren’t you cashing in on this knowledge (and improving the service or product for the customers too) and improve the server infrastructure at one of these companies?
This is a nice example where adding a comma not just changes the meaning, but inverts it.
MOV is Turing-complete (2013) [pdf]
Isn't that the point of the article? That infrastructure actually isn't easy, and you're just hating the fact that it isn't?

Isn't that sort of like someone in Sales complaining about the "state of development" and asking why they can't just press a button and have a custom app to sell, like, tomorrow?
They could. But the FBI, SEC and IRS probably won't move unless you present them with an absolute slam dunk worth $5 million or more in direct penalties. If you're below that range, you're probably going to have to file a civil lawsuit. And, after your win that, one of the TLA's might pay attention.

This is a problem if you genuinely want more small companies funded by more small investors.

If the SEC doesn't figure out how to police the $1-$5 million range of companies, all they are doing is creating a nice fertile ground for conmen.
Welcome to dev vs infrastructure vs ops vs devops.
These being open internet time services though, and especially in the case of time.windows.com, we are talking about millions of clients. You can build a cluster to handle this, as Microsoft has, but it costs money. The issue is especially clear since, at least historically (I'm not sure about now), the popular time.nist.gov was not a cluster but a single machine. It was nearly impossible to carry out a successful NTP session with that machine due to its load, an especially large problem because some well-meaning vendors configured time.nist.gov as a default on embedded devices. The NIST requests that it not be used except as a source for stratum-2 NTP servers but few people would do that today considering the reliability problems.
The Intercept's hands are not clean in this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner#Intelligence_re...
This is actively harmful misinformation.

"Breakneck speed" doesn't mean turkeys are going extinct before next Thanksgiving, Paris will be uninhabitable before the next Olympics, and the ice caps are going to melt and recreate Waterworld in our lifetimes.

What it does mean is that the lives of your children and more likely GRAND-children (assuming you're somewhere in the adult range) will be significantly different from yours, and not in a better way.

It means 1/ significant animal species will be effectively extinct in the wild, including ones you take for granted (e.g. polar bears), 2/ western countries will be spending more and more funds and tax dollars on disaster relief, emergency preparedness, air conditioning (ironically exacerbating the problem), 3/ cuisines like sushi and hobbies like skiing/snowboarding will be effectively out of reach from the middle class, 4/ continued destabilization rather than increasing peace in parts of the world with fresh water shortages, 5/ millions to hundreds of millions of climate refugees dealing with aforementioned destabilization and other disasters such as the kind of flooding that barely makes a blip in the west but takes out half of Bangladesh.

And all of this could happen on a 100 year timeline if we do nothing.

This isn't extinction, but if you don't think this is "doom and gloom" then brother you have no empathy.
I'm on Windows. The TV is a low-end $400 TCL, but it's good enough for me. The text isn't as crisp as it would be with a smaller screen size, but I don't mind. And if I make the font larger, it's smoother (more pixels per character).
My bet is that there simply is no standard for anyone to adhere to at Google. It's a rather granular and specific artifact of UI, in a company not necessarily known for it's UI prowess or consistency, at least along that vector.

I'm wondering if some of these issues could be resolved with some solid industry standards.
Bio-electronic device can produce electricity using nothing but humidity
Kde Plasma Wayland with fractional scaling set to 125%. My workhorse applications are Libreoffice, Firefox and Thunderbird.

Each and every of these applications is blurry as hell. My eyes hurt. True that the multi-monitor experience with mixed scaling factors per display under Wayland is better, that's why I am still suffering of that stockholm syndrom.

Gnome does better, I acknowledge that, but their opinionated UI decisions make me feel like a retard.
OpenAI is clearly more secretive than the AI industry giants (internally & externally).

This doesn't diminish their work (e.g. GPT2 or CMA-ES for RL).

But this whole thing sounds like paranoia. I doubt if T1000 will suddenly emerge out of anybody's research.
You can buy a car for one focus or another though. I think it is fair to assume technology is the main focus of buying a Tesla.

In the 90s there were a myriad of pragmatic sports cars built, with the focus on performance over fine details.

Door gaps has been a funny development, it's important aesthetically of course, but I think unfairly it has become a shorthand for a car's overall build quality.
> I once taught a PM how to use a Perl hash to do a join instead of nested for loops and she spent the next year feeling godlike because she could do this stuff in O(n) instead of O(n^2).

Loved this.
Regarding black triangles: My parents told me many years ago how one warm evening they sat outside and looked at the sky. At a very low altitude (less than 50 m) a large, black, triangle-shaped object flew slowly over them without making any noise. This happened in Germany.
Perl to the rescue!

https://codeyarns.com/2017/10/21/how-to-convert-dot-graph-to...
The problem specifically is that they are not the ASCII quote character. There is only one ASCII quote character, and that's the one used by programming languages. Any other quote or quote-like character is outside the ASCII range, and must therefore be Unicode (or another non-ASCII code page).
The VCs pay for the team:

> The companies pay SEV in common stock shares, the same held by the startups' rank-and-file employees, and SEV's team, in turn, get paid salaries by the firm and also receive part of the firm's carry like a traditional venture model.

This is an exchange of money (to pay salaries, which is what a lot of VC money eventually gets used for) for equity. In other words, it's VC funding. It might look a little different than normal but that doesn't mean it's not funding.
When will the coronavirus outbreak peak?
Also, I think VCs pick operational talent on "political" reasons, mainly people they have gotten to know somehow from previous companies they invested in or as founders. These people while might be good, do not necessarily have a good skillset or fit for your company.
In certain situations, you have to copy and paste a bunch of settings over and over again. It saves you a few clicks and keyboard taps each time.
Thanks for the info.

What do you think about the auto ml business model?

I.e. give each customer the ability to create its own models (using thier own data), but automating the model training and deployment?
Incorrect results will manifest. If you take the dot product of a surface normal and another vector and they aren't the same length, the dot product will be distorted by the lengths of the vectors.

Ray direction and ray length might be combined into one vector that just stretches from the origin for ray tracing, but using the direction with a surface normal for dot products, reflection vectors etc. is going to give artifacts.
Go for a stroll on /r/coronavirus or /r/China_flu to see how panicked and uninformed people are about this. They enjoy spreading fake news and misinformation and downvote any attempts to reason with data and logic. It's almost like they want this to be as dramatic and horrific as possible.

These are the kind of people making and spreading these claims.
The models have gotten really complex and advanced substantially in the last few years
> First, most of the money raised by early-stage software startups goes to salary anyway, so that's not as restrictive as it sounds.

> Second, you didn't have to do any recruiting. This is huge. Recruiting soaks up the time of existing employees who could be working on the product. It takes money for ads, sourcing, sponsorships etc. It takes calendar weeks or months before you actually get somebody to start, which is a big opportunity cost to a start up. And it's hard. If you have first-time founders, not knowing how to recruit effectively is probably one of the biggest risks the company faces.

That does actually sound really good, at least in the beginning. I think it could lead to some awkwardness if the start up sees success and needs to expand (which company are the VC funded employees loyal to?), but those are good problems to have.
> Your earlier comment seemed to suggest that astronomers should just put their telescopes in space.

There's no "just" about it, I'm aware of that, and I know it's not a case of taking existing scopes and shoving them into space.

> There is a role for space telescopes, but the total number of them could be counted on a few hands. Space telescopes are an extremely precious and limited resource, used basically only for things that absolutely cannot be done from Earth.

This is, in large part, because of the cost of launching and maintaining them. Satellite launch prices have come down dramatically in the last 20 years. If Starship becomes a reality, then it'll come down even further.

If we're actually to ever get off this planet as a species, then dramatically lowering the cost of getting stuff into orbit is a necessity.

I sympathise with Astronomers who're concerned about the impact on their ability to do science today, but its a bit like people complaining about the first interstates highways being built. Yep, we're going to demolish some houses, and make some places a bit noisier.

I'm hoping that someone will decided to invest their billions of dollars into mining and manufacturing in space to demonstrate that it's actually possible, and likely incredibly profitable.

Once that happens, we can make really stupidly large telescopes in-orbit.
Flagged for being unscientific conjecture posing as fact
If true, it's a pity they were paying. Apple's SPR goes back to the Woz days, whereas ClearType didn't come around until XP, and wasn't a default until Vista.
MS has never worried about correctness :)
On macOS

⌥- = en dash
⇧⌥- = em dash

where

⇧ = shift
⌥ = option
- = hyphen
I will warn that 4K60 actually has hardware requirements. 4K Netflix requires 3gb dedicated/shared VRAM and really 4gb doesn't hurt. No modern GPUs that I know if will stay in P0 with enough 4K displays attached to them. 4x 4K is also a limit most of the time.

1440p monitors are usually better at the same price point in some way. Maybe refresh rates... Maybe image quality... Well specced 4k displays still cost a decent amount.

Still I would say now is a decent type to leap into the ecosystem. The era of 1080p/1440p has already peaked.
> Having more money doesn't make you less susceptible to fraud

Yes it does. If you’re investing $25k in a company, you can’t pay lawyers more than a pittance to review documents and do diligence. That makes you more susceptible to fraud.
That is apparently true [1]. Article from 2017.

>Nintendo sent us a statement confirming that the taste is by design:

>> To avoid the possibility of accidental ingestion, keep the game card away from young children. A bittering agent (Denatonium Benzoate) has also been applied to the game card. This bittering agent is non-toxic.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/1/14778316/nintendo-switch-c...
Interdimensional hypothesis
Managed cloud products seem like dark magic to me. A VPS or EC2 VM is just like the computer I'm using right now. There's no magic. If something goes wrong, I can fix it as if it were on my local machine since it's often literally the same kernel version, same architecture, same shared libraries, same software from the same package manager. Performance tests on the local machine very closely predicts that on the server. On a serverless cloud product, to fix something deep, the tools at my disposal are a maze of buttons on a web GUI or CLI that sends the same opaque API calls the web console does.
> I an still not sure though what the motives if the US are in bashing on Huawei so much.

Perhaps Huawei refused to put backdoors for the CIA?
I know they're not compatible with programming languages that you may want to use. But that's the languages' problem. They're perfectly valid, standardised, characters.
> My opinion is this: people should grow thicker skin.

A motivated harasser or mob can basically force you completely offline. You cannot answer that with "grow thicker skin".

The problem is especially acute if your harasser or mob is in a different state, for example.

> It used to be the case that people were recommended to not use their real name on the Internet for basic safety reasons.

And what about if your business is online? Most states require that your public business filing include your real name.

Your glib solutions betray your lack of experience with the problem.