skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I never said you cannot get rid of the need for denoising for Monte Carlo path tracing.

You claimed that investing in sampling algorithms would reduce the need for denoising. You claimed that 3Delight's sampling algorithm is proof of that. I disagree, I think denoising gives the same benefit to 3Delight as it does to Arnold & RenderMan, which is reduced time to a noise-free preview.

> In fact I never even mentioned Monte Carlo path tracing.

I don't even know what you mean by this, if we're not talking about Monte Carlo, why are you commenting on denoisers at all? You posted a link to 3delight's geo light sampling marketing comparison. You know that's a Monte Carlo method, right?

> Sure, could be a coincidence and no causality at all. Maybe there are better explanations -- I'm all ears.

Yes, that's right, it could be coincidence.

Do you follow Siggraph or rendering research, and have you noticed that the rate of progress in CPU rendering algorithms has slowed?

Do you have more examples of features that CPU-only renderers have that are surpassing everyone porting to GPU? I've seen only one example in this thread.

> you are mis-quoting me for the fourth time in this thread.

I don't believe that's true. I may be misunderstanding your points or summarizing you incorrectly or in a way you don't like. I am definitely disagreeing with some of your points and trying to explain why, but I don't believe I have mis-quoted you even once.

>> You can't get rid of the need for denoising when using Monte Carlo path tracing techniques [...]
> Says who? I would never make such a claim either way.

Wikipedia says so, and I'm happy to repeat it. Would you not make that claim because you haven't studied what Monte Carlo is, or because you know of advanced techniques that are noise free? There are no known noise free Monte Carlo rendering techniques except for on trivial and/or hypothetical scenes. The kind of scenes you're talking about always have randomness (noise), because the very name "Monte Carlo" is referring to random sampling.

I'm happy to explain more about why Monte Carlo comes with noise, in case it's not clear, or why denoisers will always be valuable in the context of Monte Carlo rendering methods...
Elon Musk Reopens California Tesla Plant, Defying Local Health Officials
What seems broken? The latest version of youtube-dl doesn't seem to be having trouble with the embed links. Is this something I'm going to regret later?
1. All rituals have a reconciliatory nature, I think you’ll see this in many psychosocial models, (especially René Girard’s). Rituals like The Halvening distract from the hostility of conflict and gives rivals a chance to cooperate on something outside their relationship. “If you celebrate with me on this Halvening, I’ll forget that you brought up a fixed miner subsidy at the last Bitcoin Council Gathering”, that sort of thing. It’ll mostly be unsaid and subconscious.

For specific examples of who is reconciling at this specific ritual, just look at this thread! Hundreds of comments from hundreds of strangers around the world, all coming together.

2. All press is good press!

Another fact that supports the ritual hypothesis is the fact that this “event” has to be a big event every four years. Why not simply adjust down the reward at every block? Because then we’d have no ritual, and thus we’d have a weaker community.
Prepare for this page to be flooded with meetoo anecdotes.
I dunno. Seemed like a good way to do the layoff to me. Do the hard thing in one swoop. Should they have separate meetings where people who haven't gotten fired yet hear rumors and have to writhe in uncertainty until they get the call?

Besides, getting fired along with 3499 people has got to feel better than getting fired alone.
> * the mandated, Tesla-supplied masks and face shields

Nope. "You are welcome to bring your own PPE. If Tesla has supplied you with some, you are required to wear it".

is quite different from "Tesla has supplied and required employees to wear PPE".
It helps you know how strict you need to be within your household to prevent members of your household from becoming infected. It's difficult to sustain the level of vigilance needed to protect someone living with you in the next room if you're having extremely mild symptoms and you're not sure you're positive. If you know you're positive you could do something like get a hotel room for 2 weeks to protect your family.
When you rich they just let you do it, grab ’em by the pussy open your freemont factory, You can do anything
Indeed, and you hear far fewer stories like this about NV.
Nobody paid to be a part of this clinical trial. That's highly unethical. People were paying for a different test.
I just went through the signup. Took 8 minutes and did not require a referral.
3+simple+steps+to+generate+$2,500.00+every+week,+over+and+over+again
There is already a standard for this, called SRP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
It’s been interpreted much more broadly than that to expand to freedom of association which has been applied to labor rights for many decades.

In this case, if it were to go toward the interpretation as protest, it might actually not be that unreasonable. Musk in many ways views it as protest afaict.

All this said, IANAL.
false dichotomies are really weak arguments
> There's also a litany of unjust laws in the past that were enforced regularly that we look very much down on today.

Are you seriously comparing Alameda County's shelter in place ordinance to slavery?
for those like me, who couldn't build the documentation :
```
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/home philipptempel/docker-ubuntu-tug-texlive
```
maybe I am dreaming, but it would be great if we could use this in a webassembly app
i agree. A more realistic value is definitely the sum total of transactions conducted using said coin. Counting market cap as value is like counting the market cap of WeWork using the funding valuation they got for a small % of equity.
> Mr. Musk has also underestimated the severity of the virus. In January, he said the coronavirus “would be no worse than the common cold.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon...

From Twitter on March 19:

> Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960?lang...
> I don't want to live in a police state where local authorities can arbitrarily wield such broad powers.

What about the current pandemic seems arbitrary? Things can be bad in one context and okay in another. Like freedom of speech, which is a fundamental right (except for things putting people in danger like falsely screaming fire in a crowded theater).
Money laundering is attempting to hide the source or destination of funds. Hyperinflation states will usually have strict currency controls in place and Bitcoin is useful in that situation to get around those controls, the whole idea being... its usefulness in hiding the flow of funds.
His Twitter account.
Peel Sessions were the best way for me to discover new music when I was younger. Still have Inspiral Carpets and Buzzcocks originals on vinyl.
Voluntary vs involuntary.

You get unemployment if you're involuntarily out of work (laid off/furloughed/reduced hours). If you voluntarily chose not to work when offered, or at fault for termination, you're typically disqualified from unemployment.
Note that enforcing the law was crucial to Rosa Parks achieving her aims. Had the officer said "it's a stupid law and I won't enforce it", it would have foiled the test case that was planned with the aim of overthrowing the law. She's a poor example of your point.
Good for him. Health officials always picking the course with the ultimate amount of caution possible at any cost seems to be winning quite a bit and it's nice to see some push back. When Governor Cuomo says you can't put a price on a life he is 100% incorrect, that's not how the world works. The economic cost of the shelter in place is expected to be worth it for about 12 weeks only according to NPR Marketplace and Bloomberg. Hopefully, it will soon be time that we get back to work. At least those of us who want to, or even better those of us who need to so we can feed our families.
I didn't think OSHA was just a California thing. Is the state program really a world unto itself?
Schleswig-Holstein Question
This is a fantastic definition for Gentleman/woman
Just health. Who cares about the rich people and the stock market.
If a factory closes down, the following layoffs allow the
person to get back on their feet without the help of their employer. Removing this option leaves the employer with 100% of the leverage (without a union, anyway).
Notably, the county officials made that claim after Tesla went ahead with a lawsuit. We do not know the truth here.
A friend of mine also has this issue. She just turned 30 but looks like she could be a teenager, or perhaps a uni student.

We did a Dexa scan a few months back and it put her age based on body composition at 14.

She gets annoyed about it sometimes as she feels people don't treat her seriously. Because of this she's quite conscious of what she wears, and how she presents herself.

For anyone curious you can find her on youtube - search "Good Paleo Life"
It is literally the difference between supply and demand and is determined by both.
The original DOOM game (1989) already used it for that, that is why I mention it!

It even had flickering lights, pitch-black corridors, traps using light as bait, monster ambushes...

The first FPS with all that!
A fourth: have a specialization either in a technology, part of the stack, or in an industry. That allows you to stand out for roles that really need someone with experience in that area, right now.

That said, I think your 3 recommendations lean more to a "how to play the interview game on easy mode" than every developer should to do this. I feel like I may be exaggerating your intent a little, but it did read a little like "Go to MIT, work at Google, write a famous blog" :)
I suppose you are referring to having R0 below zero.
Now then the question becomes what kind of measures are necessary to keep it there and if those measures are feasible long-term.

If those measures are not feasible long term (this seems to be the case), that means they R0 can be held below zero only briefly.
In other words, the spread of the virus is only slowed down (or even reversed briefly, with R0 < 0) and delayed, and in essence the most deaths are simply delayed and not saved.

While the deaths from the quarantine measures itself doesn't seem to ever get accounted for.

And that is the problem - those quarantine measure/economic damage deaths doesn't ever seem to be put into equation as if they don't exist or are negligible.

Which makes me question if quarantine does net-benefit or does more harm in log term when all the externalities and knock on effects are actually accounted for.

Or am I missing something?
Tell us about the widespread societal benefits of violating speed limits.
It doesn't matter if you're still employed on paper. If you aren't getting paid (or even if you get a substantial paycut) you qualify for unemployment benefits.

The tricky part is if you're willingly not working. "Staying at home because of COVID" is a valid reason that some state governments are accepting.
Perhaps so. But still, don't do that here.
"Exceptional circumstances" to "save lives."
You can look at his twitter account as far back as early March.
Why would you assume that's the reference? Many unjust laws have existed in American history other than legalized slavery.
I put $200 in, and pulled $600 out, and bought my Pixel XL on it. The entire time (6-12 months) I regarded it as a learning exercise in gambling, post-hoc reasoning about value, addictive behaviour, speculation.

I was unable to buy the pixel in bitcoin, I wish I had been able to. The fragments left behind I donated to charities online (the FreeBSD foundation)
You only have to sit across the table from an exuberant interlocutor to understand that masks help slow the spread of viruses. Surely everyone has noticed that people spit when they talk. That studies have a difficulty capturing that has more to do with how difficult good social behavior studies are.
Banjo CEO resigns after revealing his past KKK in a blogpost
A kindred soul, as I suspected. I had to quit drinking and video games cold turkey once I got married and had a baby on the way. Still don’t drink but gaming is occasionally okay. As long as I stay far, far away from solo world builder and 4X type stuff.
I made an application[0] that does capture your view. It's screenshot-based. It works outside of a browser too - anything on your screen. All local too, so no privacy concerns :)

[0] https://apse.io
For us, A/C is simply back and forth motion of the e-shells.
I live in Oakland and support Elon Musk's decision.
And each county is a borough.

New York = Manhattan

Kings = Brooklyn

Bronx = The Bronx

Queens = Queens

Richmond = Staten Island

Just to keep things extra complicated...
It sounds to me more like he's pooping on a company's policy rather than a person's work (the policy itself is quite poopy and thus fair game to complain about IMO).
“The United States currently ranks 32nd in Covid-19 tests per capita, one spot ahead of Belarus.” https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1259942315508064257
Wait, I thought everyone was accusing Vox, Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN of OVER hyping the virus?
Is this a criticism of the ARM chips, or of the TPU's bfloat format?
https://command.honestsec.com sounds promising... looks like the system includes a secure router with secured double layer dns filtering (local at source and upstream resolver).
When the government is forbidding it I don't see how that could be anything but a protest.
> The reasons for not restarting production seem to be dogmatic and not evidence driven.

We know that being in close indoor proximity to other people creates a risk of spreading infection (6 feet is just a guideline, it's not an impenetrable barrier). Therefore, opening a factory is not as safe leaving it closed. There's your "evidence".
Why is the origin region Redis not also a reader of the replication stream? Just for latency?
SpaceX uses FreeRTOS and VxWorks for chips that need hard real time guarantees from what I've heard.
If only there was a team, a national team...tasked with coordinating this effort.
Is it really voluntary choosing not to work when the state is telling you to stay home and you comply?

Again, it’s a really terrible way to treat your employees.
Well, maybe _Musk_ should think about that, rather than communities saying "Oh, we better go easy on him, his for-profit company has an important event coming up!"?
Original implementation uses MD5. While I think that it's not broken, many people don't like those 3 letters and will avoid just for that. There are modern RFCs, but browsers are not adopting it.

For example this Mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472823
I like his interview here: https://youtu.be/IEz1P4i1P7s

Granted I'm not completely sold on the supplements quite yet.
Axe-FX has good hardware, I've owned every unit since the original Axe-FX came out.

If you want to check this out for yourself, try a Line 6 Helix, and then the Helix Native VST with a normal soundcard. For me, there was orders of magnitude in difference. Good modelling boils down to having excellent hardware.
peak hn
I seem to have struck a nerve.

The ‘heat death argument’ is not about 100 years vs. a billion years, it is about the inevitability of things. Even if you live a very very long time it will still not be forever, and we all have to make peace with that whether we like it or not. It comes for us all inevitably. It isn’t even an argument it is more of a tautological statement.

Make no mistake if there were some longevity potion and I were offered it I would absolutely take it. But that doesn’t change the fact that some things are inevitable and that it isn’t clear cut that me or anyone living for an extremely long period of time is a ‘net good.’
Wondering how much it costs to cancel my Tesla order
Yes--it seems quite possible that the venue (and times of day) are strongly selecting for different patrons, which is a big part of why I hesitate to blame distance-from-downtown or wonder whether people have relaxed a lot in a week. But the latter wouldn't shock me, either.
If you learned there were such regulations, would it surprise you? :/
That is only because you miss the point.

Windows is not a real-time OS. There is no reasonable expectation for it to perform as one in places where one is required.

In this case, what is required is only a "soft-real-time" OS, which even Linux can manage. But for this sort of project it is more usual to use a microcontroller.

Programming microcontrollers is, incidentally, much more fun than programming a big'n'sloppy desk OS like windows ... or linux.
That’s not true, the bus and mirror will be used by WFIRST: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Infrared_Survey_T...
that I'd never insult her by comparing her to an electric car corporation
Life is complicated especially when people are traumatized. I don't know about his particular case.

Interpret my comment more in general as a plea for the term we should hold people accountable for what is recorded in our digital memory than a plea for forgiveness of terrorist.
> Is it not a moral obligation to perform civil disobedience when challenging a law you believe unjust? He asks for only himself to be arrested!

Then he should be the only one in the factory
I have to disagree with your first two points. Neither of those was a reason for N64 being outsold by PSOne.

>Lack of texture memory. Having nice looking game was hard and need tricks because you couldn't rely on big textures.

So what? The PSOne hardware also had its own set of constraints that made their games pixelated and ugly. In fact, I would argue N64 games were generally better looking than PSOne games.

>(Very) bad developer API (actually ABI).

Again, who cares? If the system sold as well as the PSOne did, developers and publishers would deal with it.

>Cost heavy support (cartridge).

This is the big one. The fact that N64 was not a CD-based system, however, really hurt it with consumers, who wanted a CD-based system, because CDs were new and exciting. Third-parties also hated paying Nintendo for a license AND for cartridges because it cut into their profit margins. The fact that N64 was a cartridge-based system also shut them out from a bunch of AAA titles that used large amount of textures, voice/video and FMV cutscenes because it made straight ports impossible. It may seem silly these days, but FMV in video games was really exciting back then.

I also think it hurt them that the PSOne was released almost two years before the N64 did.
Well [1] Dribbble is pretty good, it's not a blog but has great product design projects.

[1] https://dribbble.com/shots/popular/product-design
How about a local app? I am working on almost exactly what you're describing.
I think that whereas most guitar effects are really very simple (gain and clipping, or delaying the signal and adding it back in), this approach will probably work just fine.

But, it is sort of using a sledgehammer where a tap from a spoon will do- the original tube screamer is just an op amp and a couple diodes, plus a bit of eq! Not much to it.

Plus, your real problems are going to be noise level (tube screamers in particular are noisy but a discrete transistor distortion can be made very very quiet). your a/d converter, your power requirements (comparable analog distortion effects use a few milliwatts) and cost.

Edit: But that said, this is a super cool project! Good job! Sorry I just realized that what I wrote was kind of negative.
The official wasn't anonymous. Here's his bio: https://www.acgov.org/board/district1/about.htm which seems to suggest this is exactly the sort of person who would be involved in such negotiations. I wouldn't take that with a grain of salt.
If I ever start a company, I'll do it in USA. There, the pigs push past each other to be first to the slaughterhouse.
The county will spin it like that but you don't know if the county's position right now is likely driven by Musk's insistence and "dare you take action" approach. The county has to save its face - so they will spin it about safety and that we were close to making this happen.
Sure, if you were designing a world, Tesla-level automobiles would not be "necessary". But we are existing in a world in which people have put down deposits on vehicles and have been expecting to get them. They can't easily go out and test drive other vehicles (it is possible, but you can't be in a vehicles simultaneous with salesperson, which makes it hard to learn about the vehicle), so it's not clear what they're supposed to do here.
None of them said anything of the sort. Maybe you're thinking of Fox?
Thanks!

HN should automatically detect this and let me know :D

Unfortunately I think the comment is too old to edit.
Yeah, but for how long?

s/1/10/
When I ran it, it wasn't actually downloading anything. I'm honestly not quite sure why. Maybe there's a difference in versions.

Edit: ah I think it was because of some whitespace getting inserted, so actually not a problem.
As you point out, others implement compatible open source software versions of S3 and DynamoDB. Aurora already adopts (via adapting the open source software) the protocols and semantics of MySQL and PostgreSQL. Elastic Beanstalk helps you orchestrate the deployment of your application via a selection of supported "platforms" that are nearly all open source (except for .NET on Windows Server + IIS). In all of these, you could argue that SQS stands alone as something that doesn't have a "drop in" replacement. Developers that have a concern about that might want to adopt an open source alternative instead. There is nothing that prevents a developer from doing so.

In my experience, developers are adopting open source more than ever, and they also show an adept ability to know (as a crowd) what they should worry about, versus what is modular / abstract enough such that it could be replaced.
I really doubt that. As the other comment noted the official didn't say that until after the lawsuit was already filed and this issue spilled out into the public eye. Tesla's whole issue with the county seems to be they couldn't get a straight answer from them. Seems unlikely they would have gone through the public trouble of a lawsuit if the country officials were communicating that they were going to allow reopening in just a few days.
Gordon Moore is one of the reasons we have superfund sites all over Mountain View and other parts of Silicon Valley.
"atlas shrugged, performatively"
Cool stuff, thanks! Do you share more about this somewhere, say, on the fediverse (mastodon)?
This is independent of opening the factory during COVID or not. By this logic, Tesla should never be allowed to open their factory - COVID or not. And that doesn't seem to be the county's position - by far.
Musk is _still_ saying it.
I'm sure you are aware of story behind Theranos - doing complex tests on a drop of blood is currently impossible.
Your analogy doesn't work for me.

Imagine the following simple case : A AC generator connected to two capacitors in series. Signal --||----||-- Ground . The voltage potential at the middle : In your analogy there is no reason for anything to turn as the electron wave are discontinuous inside the capacitors (there is a huge gap in the order of micrometers between each plate of the capacitor).

The main important thing of electricity is the Electric field not the electron field. The electric charges get pushed around by the electric field. Each of these electric charge carry with it its Coulomb electric field. Sum contributions of every charge and you have the local electric field.

In fact even more fundamental is the electric potential which you can take the slope to obtain the electric field.
Then we'd have it next year instead of some now.