skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one mesh is 1 billion triangles, and you have 100 different meshes, you need to store 100 billion tringles, unless you do something radically differently.

If you have 1 triangle mesh, and instance it 100 billion times, you don't need to do that.

> "more than 33 million triangles."

The assets the company they mention makes have 100s of millions of triangles, and billions as well. So I wonder if they are not using those original assets after all.

IIUC they are, but they are only rendering at lower triangle counts and the LOD happens automatically.
Acrobat Reader is one of the most bloated softwares I've ever seen.
There are plenty of reasonable ways to build web applications. If the process you described works for you, that's great, but others do find different strategies effective too.

For example, your process puts great emphasis on the visual design. To me, that aspect is almost entirely orthogonal to the software design. That's not to say it isn't important to getting a good end result, but once you know what interactions and information architecture you need, how you draw things on a screen doesn't affect anything else much.

I suspect a lot of teams would start with the external models like interactions and information architecture, then move to internal models like database schemas or REST APIs, and then implement the former in terms of the latter.
Neurotech startup that helps improve focus
I developed a trading bot framework named Cassandre https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/
And IP (range) fingerprinting.

But the point is don't have to give the easy stuff like cookies away for free to mice like Google. They are still going to beg for milk either way, because they are greedy, but you don't have to be hospitable and keep feeding them cookies. (I mean the number of dumb ReCaptcha's I've had to do has gone way up since sequestering Google apps to their own container. Gross.)
68060 and 1920×1080 RTG for Amiga 500
I think it's important to distinguish Marx's theories (dialectical materialism) from Marx's application of them. Marxists apply his method of systemic analysis to contemporary events to navigate global and local economic issues, but don't deify the man himself. Marx isn't a Nostradamus-like figure, and many people have added to dialectical materialism and the labor theory of value.

To put it simply, Marx looked at this machine we're using to produce things and said "Woah, I don't think this machine will run more than another 150 years", and we've managed to duct tape and super-glue it to running much longer, the fundamental analysis of capitalism's contradictions are still true, we've just adapted better to them than he anticipated.
Sure, but you can open a PDF in a new browser window. I'd rather not broaden my trusted codebase by installing another PDF reader.
I mean, when musk says this he gives data to back it up - that humans manage just fine with visual systems, and that lidar is really expensive.
"The reason to use them in public is to protect others."
Good enough reason for me.
I feel like most of HN is missing something here, of no fault of their own because they're not in my demographic (20-something yuppie). Young people want to live in cities. They're fun, exciting, and enable a robust social life. Moving to rural Ohio or Michigan, or even a "lesser" metro in the midwest is not the same as living in SF or NYC in terms of social opportunity. I work remote and I live in Brooklyn and I think its great. I don't need a car or a big house. But unlike most of the commenters here, I don't have kids or a wife. Essentially, I put my money towards a better social life.

I'm not saying that my way is better, it's just that the whole "move to a big cheap house in the midwest, bro" line that HN loves to throw out is not for everyone.
You're right no dependent types, though to be fair that wasn't the only thing mentioned, and none of the other replies have yet suggested a language with dependent types either.

I was responding to:

> ...great tooling and moderate performance. There are many aspects to programming languages beyond raw speed. The world has enough cookie cutter procedural and OOP languages. I'd love to see a new language from a different paradigm succeed.

Nim's paradigm is fairly open (no small thanks to metaprogramming and unified function call syntax), and drops a lot of the baggage from the usual class (ahem) of OOP languages. There's loads of mainstream languages that focus entirely on OOP and I really resonate with wanting to explore different approaches to creating solutions, as I think OOP tends to colour how a language approaches problems.

Seems a bit sudden to jump from my posting a reply to this as the same vein as "rewrite it in Rust".

In terms of languages with existing dependent type implementations, it looks like the main options would be ATS, Agda, F*, or Idris. Some of these are pretty far away from the OOP paradigm too.

Also:

> Nim doesn't have them and never will

https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/172
Why does anyone actually use adobe Acrobat reader? Antivirus should outright flag it as malware at this point.
>If markets were truly random, you might expect 50% of day traders to lose money, not 90%.

Only if the humans were making decision to buy and sell randomly.
Crazy how these things depreciate to basically zero monetary value over time. Compare that to say, the convenience store on my corner, which is largely unchanged since the 1970s.
Should I subsidize my employer by reducing the need for them to rent an office space? They're basically now getting free space and shifting the cost to me. Same applies to the cost of electricity, heating (I'm at home 8hrs more than I would otherwise), time spent getting food / cooking, etc. There may be more hidden costs and some people may not be OK with their employer not participating in those. Everything's a choice, but I think people should be careful and make sure they are not cheating themselves out of something that the employer would normally provide (or at least make sure they're fine with it).
I don't necessarily think we should get rid of the rules either, but for a somewhat different reason. I do believe that free citizens who a.) trust their government officials and b.) can do so without severe economic stress will generally follow official recommendations without the threat of force. at least, enough of them will follow it that the outliers don't really matter.

unfortunately, we don't have a good system to support barbers, who would prefer not to risk catching/spreading the virus but need the money, or barbershop owners, who would prefer to stay closed but need to pay rent. so I do actually support the lockdown as a somewhat dirty hack to trigger benefits for these people.
We'll see if the people actually get sick and tired of seeing headlines like this while being asked by the same billionaires to donate so families who can barely make rent can eat while free school lunches are canceled.
Has been under discussion for some time: "Mark Liu, the chairman of TSMC, said he had recently discussed options for a new factory in the United States with the Commerce Department. The stumbling block was money; major subsidies would be required, he said, as it is more expensive to operate in America than Taiwan." (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/pentagon-taiwa...)
They offer pretty good startup discount for a year.
CMake is a natural fit for C/C++ (even though I strongly dislike the syntax). It has a good IDE project generation, and you can use ninja to build super fast. But it isn’t pre-configured for hermetic builds out of the box, remote, team-wide builds and caching are much further than a command line option away.
First, these are NOT normal work from home times. This is currently the worst time to experience what work from home is truely like.

Second, if your job requires a lot of face to face interaction them WFH will NOT be a good fit.

Third, if your org tries to do remote communication in the same way it does place based communication. It will not be a good fit.

BUT, if remote communication is first class citizen, conditions are back to the normal state of 4 months ago, your job duties are well suited to individual creative contributions, work from home CAN be a great fit.
I've found that the stories different societies tell about their own history that are far more interesting than the objective facts of what happened, because those stories reflect quite a bit about what those societies think about themselves and their place in the world.
Not the OP, but:

I think that Bush was sincere in his belief that bringing democracy to Iraq was a (if not the) primary goal of the Iraq War, and that doing so would be beneficial to the Iraqis. And I could believe that he felt a "white man's burden" and obligation that, because he could do so, he ought to do so.

[And to be clear: my belief is that the notion of "white man's burden" is incredibly racist and offensive, and I do not condone actions taken in such a manner.]

While I wouldn't call it "allergic to democracy", I can also entertain arguments that successful democratic regimes have preconditions for their success that Iraq simply did not have. I can even entertain arguments that democracy is not the best form of government, and it strikes me as mildly offensive to presume that democracy is automatically better than whatever form of government exists.

I think OP's point is that the Iraq War was undertaken in the [racist] belief that they were bettering the Iraqis by bringing democracy to them, and the failure is that, well, we were racist in the first place to believe that "bringing democracy" to another people is "bettering" them.
It seems like the author only used a Markov chain to produce the lyrics, but the rest is sung by an AC/DC impersonator. It's still quite impressive, but I'd love to see the music itself generated by GANs as well.
VoxelCNN: Order-Aware Generative Modeling Using the 3D-Craft Dataset
It's (Google) Brain float
5nm fab will require an investment of $15B+. Moreover, having it in the middle of nowhere in Arizona, without a semiconductor supply chain there will also add massive cost of building a support cluster by themselves.

Intel itself has to haul all consumables for their US fabs in Arizona from Asia.

So, add few more billions for the uncertainty on the supply chain side.

Plus, having a 2-3 year project deadline looks to me as feasible, but still very tight. TSMC's 5nm fab in Taiwan has effectively took 4 years given that they still in the final stages of setting up its internals. In US, they will have to do all of that without the massive support of Taiwanese industry, and no local expertise.

Also, by completing a 5nm project 3-4 years from now, who they will be selling the capacity to, when biggest cash cows will move to 3nm, and there will be nobody to take their place for existing 5nm capacity? The cost of tapeout on 14nm is already so extreme that leaves only around 30 companies globally in the game, it will be much worse for 5nm.

Now, the biggest showstopper — TSMC is a public company with a lot of pension fund, and sovereign fund type investors. How they are going to make them swallow that? Them saying that out of the blue will be a bombshell.

Lastly, Taiwanese government has long subjected its semiconductor industry to zealous supervision, and policy guidance. Such move will have to pass by the regulators, which Taiwan has many.

So, without US government putting at least $20B cash, and big guarantees on the table, the project seems to be in the same gimmick rank as Foxconn's Wisconsin plant.

Commercially, it makes not much sense to me unless something really surreal is happening on the political, or financial side of the matter.
I cannot recommend an Aeron chair enough. It is worth it. I'm sitting in one right now, the one I picked up for a song in 2001 after the dot com bust from (ironically enough) a liquidated startup. It has lasted me that long.
I've had a similar experience. Got no where for months. Then I read their disclaimer back to them. Told them I did not agree to confidentiality and told them I would publish all future correspondence. Did not get another email.
So don't lie, actually have some property. Sublet an apartment with a dozen of your friends for $200/month. Make it back on airbnb. Most companies don't care if you have multiple properties in several states, they'd have to fire all their executives if they did.
No one has ever built a historical model that predicts the future with any accuracy. There are plenty of overfit models that "predict" the past, but none hold up on new events.

Interesting book on the topic from the world's leading researcher, if you're curious: https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Art-Science-Predicti...
Not in any way defending day trading, but I think it's interesting that it's become such accepted wisdom about how bad it is- here on a website dedicated to startups. 90% of day traders lose money, what are the odds for startup founders? Probably more than 90% fail, yeah?

Imagine if, within the next 20 years, it becomes normal & accepted wisdom that joining a startup and taking their basically worthless 'equity' is more likely to lose you money than day trading. Just kind of an interesting juxtaposition- Hacker News, Website Devoted To Risky Startups, Decries Risky Day Trading
Intuitively, I don't think this is necessarily true. It probably depends on the type of random distribution for price movements.
Well, doing complex matrix calculation yourself in C/C++ without 3rd party library is hard. Unless you write everything yourself or specifically use intel MKL library, the benefit of enabling automatic parallelization on C/C++ won't be as impactful as in fortran where it's common do all calculation without using any 3rd party math library.
Whether you are an adherent or not, the absence of any mention of historical materialism[0] in this essay is like discussing the world's largest ravines without mentioning the grand canyon. The only mention of Marx is towards a cartoonish representation of his vision of the future, a practice he pretty much refused to do. You hate to see it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism
> Also let me say that trying to sing like Brian Johnson is extremely hard.

I think he did a very good job! You can easily tell the difference side-by-side, but still, it's close enough that I thought it was deepfaked at first.
https://podely.com

It's a web app to make podcasts out of Youtube channels. Launched a couple of weeks back.
C++

It's that easy :)
That's good to know. I've only just switched 48 hours ago, so this is something I'll look at.

I had them handle my DNS for that domain so I'm assuming this won't require any extra setup.
I still don't understand who thought that allowing ads to run arbitrary code in the first place was a good idea.
The crisis has hit Silicon Valley hard, but it is already planning ahead
First publicly known trillionaire*

There is a lot of money out there not easily tracked. There are speculations over some shadier character's net worth, probably most notable is Putin.
Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking the problem lay in loading the original meshes, but I didn't consider they could be using a smaller non-triangle format. I really hope they share more about how this works.
Open Creative Cloud app. Click Preferences, then Syncing. Folder Location = “/Users/toasterlovin”. That, to me, indicates that it will try and sync that folder.
Congrats for the release. Mostly familiar with IPFS, but learned about DAT at dtn.is last year. The hypercore protocol is pretty well designed and documented.

How would hyperdrive deal with the following scenario: you got a large dataset such as wikipedia. Lots of people have browsed it, but most of them only have a tiny fraction.

How do yo know which peers to connect to to get a particular bit (offset?) you are interested in? The DHT only tells you which nodes participate in the hypercore, not what they have in detail, right?
I think the goal was to eradicate JavaScript (Deno was originally TypeScript only. But in order to run fast, TS first need to compile to JavaScript). After buying Github and NPM, moving people over from Node.JS to Deno would be the final blow to the JavaScript community.
This software is gross and I'll live on the street before I install it on any device I own. If my employer wants to use it on my laptop, fine, but I'll be looking for another job after I setup mouse wigglers and GPT2 models to type slack messages in the interim. Sure it's unethical, but so is spying.

The article is short to the point of almost uselessness, but maybe more people will see it this way.
There are already a bunch along the coast of Africa.
Not to say they shouldn't have more.
As is mentioned in the article, u64 was used to future proof for wasm's upcoming memory64 type: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/master/proposal...
The only extension that I've seen implement this closer to right is CLUT https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clut-cycle-last-us... (specifically, the "Quick switch" and "Normal switch backward" keybindings). Every other one I've tried does not.

I only wish that a) it would visually display the tab history the way Firefox does, and b) being able to shorten the Normal switch backward timer, so I could use that only.
You can also overlay your own text in Preview, ignoring the PDF's own textbox.
Absolutely this. I'm a very casual user and this is the main point why I'm thinking of getting rid of photoshop. Great tool for whenever I'm in the mood for some drawing but my god does it make me nervous about my security and privacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8
Because crystal lang has all of the main syntax and features that people love about Ruby, but it's way faster because of the typing and compiling.

"Fast as C, slick as ruby"
From my experience: get headsets for people, they are cheap. Get dual monitor setups and foster culture of active screen sharing - that’s very powerful thing.

Picture quality tends to be so bad that there’s not many non-verbal cues transmitted. Video may cause fatigue - you feel the need look smart. When video is off you can lean back, stand, walk circles, draw things, stare out..
The blackjack move is in fact a FOCUS of your attention, which potentially increases risk (but in fact if it increased your risk you wouldn't make that move -- you pick the focus based on expected value).

And it's pretty rare (if ever) that someone says "I'm doubling down on X" and they mean to say "I'm going to double the size of my bet across all my activities." Pretty much the opposite.
Well, having a fab in the middle of nowhere alleviates concerns related to vibration, noise, and water supply, no?
https://github.com/gnull/kalina

I'm working on a console-based RSS client in Haskell. The original plan was to implement the basic functionality of Newsboat (which currently is being rewritten from C++ to Rust).

It's still raw, but I already started using it as my primary RSS client. Right now it can fetch feeds, display them in a nice menu, maintain read status, open urls in a browser. The next features I'm going to add are support for configuration files (everything's hardcoded now) and tags + filtering.

--

Newsboat had a few problems inherent to C++ (like occasional segfaults) and the TUI library it used. Knowing about these, I started googling for alternatives written in a higher-level language. And spotted the announcement [1] of the Newsboat author, saying that he's going to rewrite Newsboat in Rust. When I read that, the rewrite was already going on for months with still no end in sight. I thought, "Heck! I can implement this in Haskell in a few days!" By now I spent about a week of full-time work on the project (spread over months), and got a bare working prototype.

My estimate was too optimistic, of course, I didn't foresee all the difficulties I encountered later and all the things I had to learn. But still, I think if I spend one more week on this, I can get a fully-featured and polished RSS client — Haskell makes programming a lot cheaper.

[1]: https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/89
Check out Darktable, too!
Yikes, I didn't know they did that. That sucks, and is more indefensible.. there's no rational reason why the court shouldn't grant a stay when even the plaintiffs want it.

Did the court justify their decision in denying the stay?
I can fully agree with that sentiment.
Wireless charging of electric cars looks increasingly promising
technically, yeah! Although i haven't done the remote codes for that one yet ;-)

It's also a bit flawed. It's basically IFTTT webhooks + raspberry pi + IR shield + a biobidet A8
http://saasinspire.com/ it's a list of saas inspiration. Right now there are only design listings of successful saas companies, however I plan to make this project as a great resource for developers and designers to create saas products. It will include various interesting articles, design ideas, tools, case studies, etc.
Made an app that lets me create a grocery list that can check supply at Target. Also sorts the stuff by location. Saves me time knowing they are out of stuff and where stuff is. Want to create background notification for when something is in stock.

https://robviren.gitlab.io/tarlist/
People using "report as spam" is what made gmail such a great spam filter. Is also the reason google has such high market share of public email addresses. It's also why people running their own mail servers are afraid of being blacklisted by google.
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The federal government should extend those payments until there is a national return to normal operating conditions. A deferment of rent and mortgages would solve a lot of problems that businesses/land lords/renters have.
I lost my adobe license from my old job and gave designer a go. For my purposes, I’ve found it to be a superior solution. Runs faster, and basically the same shortcuts.
> Furthermore, for his model to be in any way validated by such an outcome, it would have to happen for the reasons he proposed, and not, say, as a consequence of Covid-19, which he did not predict.

I mostly agree with you, but I don't agree with this point.

It's perfectly coherent to take the view "by [2020], society will be stretched to the point that [whatever comes up] will trigger [whatever]". There is a very wide range of possible responses to any event. A minor stressor can cause a breakdown in bad times when it would barely even have been noticed in good times. The same omen will usually signify good things in good times and bad things in bad times. As such, if you're predicting "bad times will result in typical stresses leading [pretextually?] to atypical breakdowns", which stresses happen to do so is kind of beside the point.

If e.g. people somewhere are almost ready for a revolution, and some charismatic guy comes along who thinks we need electrum-based money, and he leads a revolution with electrum-based money as a major part of his policy platform... we don't necessarily want to say that electrum was a key issue at the time. The revolution was determined by many things, but not that one. Electrum was mostly chosen arbitrarily by a guy who happened to be good at revolting, at a time when revolting was fruitful.
Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does
The worst thing to a LI battery is let stay at 100% in hot conditions. Teslas have an AC cooler though, so I think they might be okay for hot weather.
Business friendly state that has low oversight into what goes into our environment. We have an EPA superfund site near an old Motorola plant.
There is quite a bunch of "PDF" features around forms which basically only work with Adobe PDF and maybe one or two other ones. But good luck if non of them are available for you.

Worse many "office" people which create PDF's with form fields use Adobe tools, so they never see that what they hand out to thousends of students isn't working with >90% of PDF viewers....