skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And for cities of a certain size, "buying local" is an impossibility anyways. I live in New York City. The land required to feed us would stretch hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles around... where there are already smaller towns and suburbs that mostly fill the space. Which is why we source our food from all over the country and world.

I’m also in the city and there are plenty of neighborhood CSAs always looking for new members. When the pandemic hit I found Chef Collective [1] which previously was supplying restaurants and was quickly able to switch to home delivery within a week or two of their commercial supply chain being disrupted.

Sure, we’re not going to get, say, local couscous and olive oil. But there is certainly a lot of local farmland that can feed the city.

[1] https://chefcollectivenyc.com/
The problem I have with reuters and ap is that they are for literal news events. Reporting of what happened now.

There's a need for longform journalism, synthesis of information, bias and persuasion. It's hard to consume just that without also consuming the daily noise.

Longer stories will look less engaging unless facebook also tracks how long you spend reading each site.
Material UI is a nightmare to customize, extend or integrate with third party react libraries. This on the other hand is fully customizable (through theming AND the css props) and use emotion, so it plays well with A LOT of libraries that use emotion too.
I think this is a ridiculous perspective, especially when virtually every European countries is on the inquisitorial system. (See The Trial.)

It is my opinion that the US is probably one of the best countries when it comes to the rights of a defendant ― well, before a guilty verdict.

I ask that you actually take a look at some of the kinds of people who run the federal courts in the United States. See something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXv7anhiIBY. These are serious legitimate people who are working in and trying to improve a highly developed yet highly imperfect legal system (and country).
I would like to get an idea of the capabilities of these things.

Suppose I was to make an ebook reader designed to be modelled more closely after paper, on a device like the Surface Book’s 13″ 3000×2000 display, showing two pages side-by-side. Each page might contain something like 2,000–2,500 letters. I want to be able to flip through pages like I might with a paper book, so that I might be roughly completely rendering several pages at once, and perhaps parts of several more pages; ideally it might render the page like a real 3D page, but if that’s too troublesome I’d settle for an affine transformation while flipping. Assume that the layout of the pages, with all the shaping, is all done ahead of time and is in memory.

I’ve never seen anyone attempt anything like this before. In the old way of doing things, I think anyone attempting this would render each page to a bitmap and use that as a GPU texture, and I think that could provide acceptable performance (unless you were flipping rapidly through hundreds of pages, because that’d take a lot of GPU memory to keep), but I imagine that the quality of the rendering mid-turn would be fairly atrocious—it could be the sort of thing where the appearance of the text subtly changes half a second after you finish turning the page, as it switches from one renderer to a slightly different one.

Would the performance of this new approach be sufficient to render what I describe at 60fps, while rendering each frame perfectly?

I was talking about the Surface Book; its Intel Core i7-6600U has Intel HD Graphics 520 as its GPU; probably not too far off your 630’s results. (And I’m interested in what integrated graphics can do, more than a dedicated GPU.)

My guess based upon your paper-1 results is that this is probably just barely possible with integrated graphics, so long as you employ a few tricks to reduce the amount of work required.
To echo your point, there was an Aspen festival panel a few years ago where a network news rep/owner was refreshingly honest.

He said everyone thinks they want the news to be deeply insightful and informative, but the people who would consume that product tend to go out nights and do interesting things like attend ballets or go to museums, or go to things like the aspen festival. Or at least they are just reading a few articles online.

They make news for the sort of people who just binge television news constantly. These people don't have a custom rss feed to make that efficient, and that is a special type of person.

"We run the market test against PBS every night."

If PBS started hitting numbers, every other station would jump to that model immediately.
The latency will kill you.
Ask HN: Is it bad if I only have experience working in my startup?
Hello!

I'm in the early stages of running a small startup/business and expect to reach $10-20k ARR in the next few months. Once we've acquired a customer, the service is automatic and doesn't require manual input.

Each customer represents $2-6K ARR, but we don't know their lifetime value. With a bit of effort and marketing I can imagine reaching $200k ARR in the next few years. Split with my cofounder, this could become a very nice lifestyle business, or we could go all-in and do the whole startup thing.

But what if it fails? I graduate next year. I'll have a CS degree, but my only experience will be building this. My GPA isn't amazing because I've spent most of my time getting to this point – it hasn't been easy.

Any advice?
and Webkit was forked from KHTML. blah blah blah.
Copernicus Sentinel-5P Mapping Portal
The new tech hubs: more employees working from home could diversify workforc
"No quarter" also means [0]:

>no pity or mercy —used to say that an enemy, opponent, etc., is treated in a very harsh way

It's plausible that he meant this in the way you describe, but I think it's more likely he was using fancy language to emphasise that the city and police shouldn't tolerate things like the CHAZ or rioting and looting. Essentially, he's trying to criticize the local governments for tolerating these things and not putting a stop to it. (Easy way to try to score political points.)

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20quarter
Floating around doesn't do it justice....it's been flying at the speed of light away from its origin for the past 12 billion years until it ran into a little sensor.
Yes, unfortunately, if you're in an environment where people have been using XML forever and are more comfortable with it than any other alternative. When you find yourself needing to write an XPath to update a simple app configuration parameter, you know you're in hell.
Traffic would likely be won by Netflix, so AWS.
I know very little about Ada, but googling it leads me to understand that freeing memory in Ada is considered unsafe. If that's correct, safely freeing memory (generally in a destructor, much like C++) might be one advantage of Rust.
that's not a dumb question! it's my own fault. i only have knowledge of 2D graphics.
If you're going to down-vote me, could you at least offer an explanation as to why? As it stands, there's an infinity of possible objections you can have with my comment. It would help to know what they are, so that I can at least _try_ to integrate them into my thoughts and perspective.
Thank you for the quick response!
Speed and parallelism are good features but the killer app of serverless is the cost savings. You only pay for the time your function is running.

Traditional server applications can be rewritten “serverless” so long as your pipeline is pretty functional, ie you’re not saving critical state in memory on the server process itself.
The problem is that an angry Twitter mob can get people fired from all kinds of institutions/companies. While Twitter and universities might not be the mainstream thought, they can still ruin your life.
Others have spoken to this, but as a general introduction I highly recommend Jasper's post "Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?" In short, no, it's not a solved problem.

Also, I see a lot of variations of this question, but I should state this more clearly. There's been accelerated graphics in one form or another for a long time, but what I'm doing is a completely different type of thing. In my world, on the CPU you just encode the scene into a binary representation that's optimized for GPU but in many ways is like flatbuffers, and then the GPU runs a highly parallel program to render the whole thing. In previous approaches, the CPU is deeply involved in taking the scene apart and putting it back together in a form that's well suited to relatively dumb pixel pipes. Now that GPUs are really fast, that approach runs into limitations.

It also depends what you're trying to do. I'm focusing here on dynamic paths (and thus font rendering), while most of the libraries optimized for UI put text into texture atlases and then use the GPU to composite quads to the final surface, something they can do well.

https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harde...
Is it true for all 2D rendering?

From my intuition, this seems pretty specialized for vector-like rendering, with a lot of small bezier shapes.
These signals are 12 billion years old already.
I personally no longer accept the classification of narcissism. Something so general that it’s based on Greek mythology (embarrassing ultimately, that a pseudo scientific field seeking legitimacy resorts to a fictional parallel - yep, that’s the way to do it, just read the wikis on Narcissistic supply, and you wonder if the hacks haven’t taken control of the wheel and done a full blown imitation of Freud. The modern version of the Oedipus Complex, and the professional and layman throw it around, like it’s real. We’ve become embarrassing. If you majored in Psych, please, take yourself to the nearest bootcamp and learn web development so we never have to hear your nonsense.). By definition we can characterize a mass of people under the term for taking selfies (and a whole lot of selfies).

Self absorption shouldn’t be a damning trait, it’s pervasive in humanity.

So you’re self absorbed, so be it, what are the actual things you’ve done? Now we enter the meat.
Thank you! it's very MVP (I started it three weeks ago) so expect it to improve :)
Indeed. It's standard communist doctrine to squelch any counter-revolutionary beliefs (defined as anything except communism). There is no interest in dissent and if, despite revolutionary teaching, you're still not on board, you need to be eliminated as reactionary dissent can't be tolerated.
All these high-minded ideals you're appealing to sound wonderful. Who would be opposed to individual rights? The idea of suppressing opposing viewpoints seems insane. And nobody likes people who act like they're morally superior.

But hang on. What rights, and which viewpoints, and what are people acting morally superior about? Your appeal to those ideals is not as universally applicable as you make it sound. I mean, this is pretty self-evident - one can easily pick examples of completely reprehensible beliefs that almost no one would tolerate.

Let's make this concrete. Someone who supports a policy of the government killing all American Jews could make an impassioned argument about the injustice done when a tyrannical moral orthodoxy imposes its views on a free man and vilifies him for daring to think differently, and about the tragedy of the fact that in its zeal to stamp out the dissenter it would betray its own cherished value of free thought. But it wouldn't be a very convincing argument.

And similarly the left is increasingly unconvinced by people who say that their reasonable disagreements are being demonized and complain that the usual framework of liberal democracy should protect them from that kind of treatment. When someone - anyone - finds a position monstrous enough, they're no longer going to be willing to tolerate it. That's what's happening. The human costs of our current status quo are so emotionally and ethically explosive that people come to see these issues as non-negotiable. Your appeal to those norms of civil disagreement and compromise is just not convincing if you're no longer willing to accept the consequences of playing by those rules.
Well said, thanks. It's also a goal of this work to do compositing inside the "fine rasterizer" compute kernel, to avoid multipass as much as possible. Of course, in the general case for stuff like blur that's hard, but that's one reason why I've been working on special cases like blurred rounded rectangles, which I can render pretty much at lightspeed. (It's not integrated into the current code but would be quite easy)
I think a savvy manager would look at your soup-to-nuts experience as a good thing, perhaps in a product lead or management role, if the tech resume isn't up to snuff.

Sounds like you've built something amazing - just keep going!
Perhaps of interest/relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
ViXra One: an ArXiv-like index of high quality viXra submissions
it's been forever since I played the first Prey but I don't remember anything like this aside from perhaps the single usable portal in the game? Was pretty cool at the time and then Valve explored the concept properly in Portal 1 & 2.

Having said that, the original Prey looks pretty rough these days. And I don't see how a single portal is "the same thing" at all.

In fact, I think the only thing that I can think of to compare to is the ending of Portal 2 where you shoot a portal to the moon, but even that was just a single portal to a fairly low detail environment.

Are you referring to Prey's usage of that portal? Or something else.

FYI, the new Prey game released a few years ago is amazing. It has basically nothing to do with the original because they apparently just wanted to use their rights to the name on a flagship title. But it's amazing if you're into System Shock/BioShock type games.
Locking up or shooting terrorists in the act of murdering people puts a hard limit on the number of people they can murder. This is like saying violence never solved anything while ignoring WW2.

I repeat myself but what specifically would YOU like to do about the problems you yourself have outlined. I think mental health support and fighting inequality are reasonable suggestions what is your counter offer. If you ran the world how would you fix it.
Part of me loves architecture and seeing these amazing homes. Sadly, a bigger part of me cannot afford a 1 bedroom condo.

In my old age, my lower middle class 'lot in life' prevents me from really enjoying luxurious things.
Metal is definitely used extensively in CoreAnimation, and Apple UI tends to rely on that - relatively slow (and memory hungry) rendering of layer content, which is then composited very smoothly and nicely in CA.

They might use it for other stuff like glyph compositing (I think this is one reason they got rid of RGB subpixeling, to make it more amenable to GPU), but last I profiled it, it was still doing a lot of the pixels on CPU, as others have stated.
The videos are easy to access. The people who the Trump administration attacked were peaceful. The fact that someone half a mile away might have been looting a store or a random person might have thrown a Poland Spring bottle does not justify assaulting the public so you can take a stroll for a two minute photo op.

The church clergy themselves were teargassed and pushed off the property to make way for Trump. The US Government forcibly seized a church without warning from its clergy to provide a photo op for the president.

It's not just bad politically, its bad.
> Anything that has to do with the python interpreter, JIT, garbage collection and reference counting becomes NEGLIGIBLE

Well, it's odd that you say that, when previously you were claiming that the result was caused by Python. Is it caused by Python, or is Python negligible?

> You can use relativity rather then newtonian physics to calculate the trajectory of a projectile BUT it is involves UNNECESSARY overhead coming from Relativity because the accuracy gained from the extra calculations ARE NEGLIGIBLE.

Man, you sure are willing to make broad statements that you cannot possibly know.

You're really sure that there's no context where the accuracy gained by relativity would be useful?

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....

Again, this is you making stuff up. The worst part here is that a basic application of logic, which you claim to have such a firm grasp on that you don't need evidence, would indicate that you cannot possibly know the things you are claiming to know. You really think you know all the possible cases where someone might want to calculate the trajectory of a projectile? Really?
The sequence is encoded in the web link
I love-hate online nutrition articles like this. They all tell you to stop snacking, don't drink soda, limit carbs, etc and then have some little gimmick. The quirk on this one is that occasionally you skip breakfast, too. Makes sense to me. It's just nice to read an article that's not about covid or BLM.
I liked the idea, really cool, hermano :)

Do you plan to make an Android version of it?
No, we got massive lockdown fatigue after awhile. Cops were paroling the parks and checking id to make sure people who were together were from the same household. Everyone was grumbling and protests were becoming a thing. And then, the moment things started opening up again, half the people went all the way, also ignoring distancing and mask rules (except for in trams and stores).
> x264 and x265 are not hardware accelerated, either.

This is incredibly false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine (this has been widely available for 8 years)
The analogy might be stronger if intra Jewish violence killed 10x more than nazis.
Noncriminal could still mean dangerous - no? TBH any news I've seen over the past several years suggests that San Francisco is a dumpster fire of a city. Just generally, it's dubious that radical change to a complex system doesn't have major unintended negative consequences. But given their history this is perhaps even more true.
At least they don't bring politics in it.
Nothing in FB feed is pretty much perfect, more time for HN.
Writing Windows Virtual Device Drivers
Maybe via Digg first? There was an old article from 2005

Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot
https://www.wired.com/2005/11/digg-just-might-bury-slashdot/

"Digg's status as the new Slashdot is further enhanced by digg vs dot, a comparison project that finds diggers are usually first to the punch, though users of each site often submit identical stories."
Wow awesome! I really like the simplicity of it and I am impressed you shipped this in 3 weeks! Supporting custom domains and certificates for them was more annoying than I had expected when I tried it.
It shouldn't be surprising. It's established that IQ correlates with less sex. especially in west.
No, it's designed to be portable to all GPU hardware that can support compute, which these days is a pretty good chunk of the fleet. I tested it on Linux on Intel HD 4000, and the master branch seems to run just fine, though previous versions.

A lot of the academic literature (Massively Parallel Vector Graphics, the Li et al scanline work) is dependent on CUDA, but that's just because tools for doing compute on general purpose graphics APIs are so primitive. I have a talk and a bunch of blog posts on exactly this topic, as I had to explore deeply to figure it out. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880502 and https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2020/04/30/prefix-sum.html for more breadcrumbs on that.
Since there's an API I know at least two people that are working on it :)
I plan to ship one once the features are stabilized and iteration is not so aggressive!
Not that it matters, but Covid made the cut here.
You might be surprised at how capable the right glass can be. I have never felt cosier than when I stayed at a bed and breakfast with what must have been glazed/airgapped floor to ceiling windows for one wall. It overlooked a raging ocean as it was storming, with alpacas on the porch, and you couldn't hear any of it.

I can't speak for radiant heat though, as I was there in winter. You might be right there.
You could also use a Noodler's "bulletproof" ink on cheap paper. The cheap paper will have lots of exposed cellulose, and the bulletproof ink is designed to react to and bond with cellulose. A lefty will smear Noodler's bulletproof inks on high-quality paper designed for fountain pens and calligraphy, because the sizing (coating on the paper) keeps the ink and paper apart (for beauty), but on cheapo printer paper, it bonds (like ballpoint pen ink, it doesn't dry, it polymerizes and bonds) almost immediately.
They are also built especially for developers and this lets more developers know more about their platform. I'm guessing this goes a long way to improving relationships in the community and just good PR for twilio as well.

Twilio was one of the first places that I used starter code added my credentials and ran it without any bugs, And actually they embedded the test credentials in the starter code for me so that was even easier.
This is exactly what an MVP should be, excellent job. This kind of startup has serious chance to become a "lifestyle" business. Maybe not the next billion dollar unicorn, but definitely 7-figure revenue capable.

Good luck with the launch and traction!
Pretty sure their market is those who aren't as tech savvy. There's not as much overlap between tech savvy people and video gamers these days.
He lost 45 lbs, that’s what probably removed his sleeps apnea. Not because of some other magical ability of intermittent fasting. One of my friends also lost a lot of weight and his apnea went away, he went off of his CPAP machine.
Apt can handle offline installers. It's one of the core parts of the product. If you need to customise it, then the guides around setting up a "DVD repository" will put you on the right path.
How does this (and Pathfinder for that matter) compare to NanoVG? I've recently been experimenting with swapping out Cairo for NanoVG and it seems much faster. The lack of dashed lines may kill my experiment though unless I can think of a decent workaround.
I got downvoted for this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290075

Nevertheless, I stand by it:

"...Humans have truly monstrous traits. Occasionally, there's a question of how future generations will see us... Maybe the Fermi Paradox has a really simple, obvious explanation: "Where is everybody?" - waiting for us to become less despicable."

'Never Again!' is a phrase born of the Holocaust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_again). Reading the parent article, that sentiment seems pretty hollow...

Aren't humans supposed to be 'sentient'?
Great. I would like to discuss couple multilevel marketing schemes that might be of interest to you. Mostly the top of the pyramid makes money but you can earn dozens of dollars too. You are free to maneuver how you’d like. In fact that is their recruiting line, “be your own boss”.
Sometimes a programmer may like to create such a contract, if only with their future self, but have reason to fear their boss will force them to break that contract in some not unlikely future.
If it’s not worth it tot hem it’s not worth it to us either then. The rules of ROI are the same for billionaire or for me.
A remote controlled doorbell with live video doesn't need video processing. It doesn't need to be digital. It doesn't need to be high resolution unless you're working on sensitive materials--for most people, low-quality analogue would be good enough.
Cool, wish you good luck.
Even legitimate criticisms get downvoted or countered with dishonest marketing speech like 'borrow checker doesn't matter'.
Definitely an odd exterior aesthetic but it's a lot more rational on the inside: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/jim-jennings-sli...
Thank you! so far since Saturday (when I launched it) it has 2k+ users and 50+ paid customers :)