skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting analogy given how it's possible to recover data from RAM for a short period after power is removed, and significantly longer if you freeze it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/cryogenically-frozen-ram-bypas...
The SCU biology class is going to go to Monterey, the SJSU is going to go nowhere. SCU doesn't have the latest equipment in its labs, but it does have decent labs, SJSU is probably similar.

What you are paying for is lifestyle, access, connections, and a system to prevent people from falling through the cracks. Most people graduate in 4 years at SCU, not as true at SJSU. After 10 years SCU graduates are some of the highest paid in the country, not so much for SJSU.

Plus the sticker price isn't everything SCU has tons of aid although its probably still 3 to 4 times more expensive (for average people).
I assume the exact details of "bird distance" is found within "bird law".
The scenario I’m quoting from seemed like it was a lawsuit. In that scenario I think it’s clear that omissions could reasonably be grounds for disbarment. I happen to think that filing a sufficiently brazenly frivolous lawsuit should result in the lawyer who filed it being disbarred. Whether or not a lawsuit is frivolous can easily hinge on omitting information, like suing someone for trespassing on your property but leaving out of the filing that they have an easement to travel on your land. If a lawyer agrees to file such a suit for their client, knowing that such an easement exists, they should be disbarred for it.
To help the body survive
Good! How about we go arrest Fauci now?
> I don’t get it. Who has the income to drop hundreds of dollars on pictures like this?!?!

I know several people that now have that to spend because they aren't taking public transit anymore and another gave up a $300/mo parking place in New York.

Now he's spending a bunch of the money he should be saving on OnlyFans, "Premium snapchats" and Fortnite.
Yeah but this only works if students have the money to pay for it. The loans ensure they do.
This appears to be just the start. There appears to be no longer list of prior vulnerabilities, but these will come, right?
Is this just for gaming/etc or does the desktop environment also cause issues if you’re just trying to use it as a highly parallel compute device?
> But if more boilerplate translates to greater readability (i.e. less abstraction & much closer relation to the problem domain) then I would argue that the added boilerplate is justified.

The added boilerplate usually translates to less readability and distracts from the "essence" of the problem or the main idea a piece of code is trying to communicate.
y'all... i spend SO much on my pup. shes one spoiled lady lol :)
> But this time dreams failed because of people, not because of technology.

As a technologist, never forget this. It's a very common thing.
Good stuff. I especially appreciate the entreaty to limit assertions and corner cases to one test concern.

The only thing I didn't like was the Given When Then recommendation. BDD style story language is really meant for key specification examples, which can be automated in functional tests, but not really appropriate for unit testing.
This is a fairly slanted take on things.
In some state university systems the inflation-adjusted total funding has actually decreased.

For example, the University of California system was budgeted about $2.1 billion in state money in 1990, which is $4.3 billion in 2020 dollars. At the time, there were 9 campuses, serving 125,000 undergraduates, in a state with population 30 million. Fast-forward to 2020, and the system is budgeted $3.9 billion in state funds, which have to cover 10 campuses, serving 225,000 undergraduates, in a state with population 39.5 million.

If state funding had kept pace solely with inflation and state population, not taking into account any above-inflation cost increases, or the increase in percentage of high-school students who go to college, the budget in 2020 ought to be $5.6 billion instead of $3.9 billion, about 45% higher. If it had kept pace with both the number of students and inflation (but still no cost increases), it'd be $7.7 billion, or almost double.

My read of why it's been cut isn't that CA politicians really think the UC isn't worth funding in 2020 like it was in 1990, but more that it's been a victim of convenience in fiscal crises. CA has had a few state budget crunches over the past 30 years, and the annual UC budget is "discretionary spending" and not locked in, so is procedurally easy to cut. It was slashed significantly during both the dot-com crash and the 2008-2012 budget crisis, leaving us with today's lower level of support.
It still isn't default on Windows because they separated it from Windows so they could ship new versions of PowerShell faster than new versions of Windows are shipped[1]. The renumbering to the major version 7 was intended to communicate compatibility (via loading 5.1 internally where necessary).

I don't know that it's certain it ever will be default on Windows, IIRC the last things I read were that it might become an optional package in Windows.

[1] Six-monthly, now moving to annually to align with new versions of .Net Core.
Makes it a really specious argument in the previous context, then. The percentage goes down as the ratio of state-subsidized/private-subsidized becomes lower.

If the absolute number of state subsidization hasn't changed considerably--ignoring inflation--then the ratio changed because the private-subsidized number became higher.

If that outpaced inflation, then the real problem sounds a lot like people started throwing federal loan money at it so states didn't bother to increase their portion, so more federal loan money was needed, and repeat.

Maybe states haven't kept up with inflation so their contribution would technically be a decrease, but that's how numbers on paper work when they aren't updated due to lack of interest. The major ratio factor was all increases on the other side, some of which was buying power availability to the applicants--i.e. generally available private student loans rather than needs- or merit-based subsidy that has intrinsic boundaries.

Add in the whole "must go to a university or die poor" push of the anti-blue-collar 80s (not a thing previously) in the US that created a Cabbage Patch Kid rush for admissions slots and you're here. Significantly-increased buying power + spiking demand === runaway prices.

...or maybe not. But the percentage argument up at top of this comment thread doesn't prove that one way or the other without a lot more nuance.
And that only if your codepath is deterministic. Linux can do pretty funny stuff at times.

I've run a plasma cutter under Linux on a run-of-the-mill VIA SBC, it was actually pretty easy: just make a program setuid root, use that to disable interrupts after you've read all your data in and then just go wild on polled and precision timed IO until you're done. Re-enable interrupts and return as if nothing ever happened.
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This "theoretic book" can help you design a very good api. If you mean REST api's by chance, remember those were theoretic once too!
Of what? Something 6' long at 3000' up? That's a 1/10th of a degree across.

Even if you want to do the 6' long at 900' (300 yards), that's only about 4/10ths of a degree across.

Those aren't things that are captured on camera well. These are angles that are similar to a 110' long airplane cruising at 38000' (that spec in the sky leaving a contrail).
A bit, but not much.

A lot of people want to give Disney some money; Disney refuses. The title is an apt description of that, and not misleading. It's a bit hyperbolic, but only if you are interested on the Disney's side, for any other point of view it looks reasonable.
> Right now you and I are having a parasocial relationship. Or what else would you call internet forums? Theirs just pays better.

We aren't. Parasocial relationships are characterized by being unilateral (i.e. subject → object) and idealized (where there's an illusory personal connection). I doubt either of us feels that way :)
I'm sorry to hear that - do you have anything you could recommend to maybe improve it for your needs?
> This is fundamentally different than being a fan of, say, an actress like Emma Stone, or an athlete like LeBron James.

That's because neither Emma Stone nor LeBron James figured out how to enter into micro transaction relationship with the fan base. Bella Thorne did. The rest will now either have to flip into that mode or lose their celebrity status.
Brit here. Don't listen to this person.

I'm mostly centrist/moderate left. None of this rings true.

Typing on phone so excuse the brevity.
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FTI: you may want to correct the spelling on Product Lunch Intern. Perhaps role is just getting lunch for team :) Wink Wink
I know for the 20 series Nvidia supplies AIB's like EVGA with binned chips too, higher end cards had GPU's with slightly different model numbers that typically clocked better. They probably do the same for all the different card makers.
I thought quadro sacrifices speed to get accuracy, which matters for modelling/rendering but not ML (and games)
Consistent and repeated acts of violence, following a similar pattern, are reported throughout the country. Even in Canada.

These acts have been dismissed as one off cases. Each and every one. Yet they point to a culture that doesn’t address or even care about these problems.

That shows a lack of good faith.
The city will take on debt load like Vallejo and Orange County. They will try to win concessions, but most likely the unions won't budge. Worst case, SF files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
IMO

1. Make it correct and not insane asymptotically.

2. Tune constant factors, if you need to.

In school I was confused why they kept on talking about asymptotics and ignoring the different costs of the building blocks. Now I see that, while it is true that asymptotic analysis doesn't well explain performance when "things are good":

1. There are a lot of stupid things people do write that it does catch.

2. Since it is scale free, it makes sense as a way to evaluate programs throughout their entire development.

3. Constant factor optimizations will always tempt one to ruin abstraction boundaries, but asymptotic analysis shouldn't----or if it does, sorry your abstraction sucks and needs to go. (Hi ORMs.)

The latter points are really powerful. Never make me work without efficient tree map/set union and intersection ever again.
more like walmart plus takes on target delivery
One has to acknowledge that particle physicists are very good at publicity. They keep people on the edge of their seats even for something that might be just a mistake of their equipment.
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I've had an M4000 in my desktop and a P620 in a side-box, both running SuSE Tumbleweed for a year or so using the NVIDIA drivers. Once I got the initial setup done (follow the directions), I've had zero issues. Updates have been smooth, though there's an extra step now (hit ENTER to accept the NVIDIA license). GLMark2 score is a bit north of 7000.
Almost all gym lead routes are overhanging for fall safety reasons. Stemming/mantling (which would use the same muscles as the jetpack) is considered much less burly, anyway.
The word evolution can mean change in a general sense. E.g. an evolving situation.
You're basically arguing a techno-religious Pascal's Wager, so my contra-argument is the same: if the nonzero probability is a 0.1% chance, would you really risk your one and only life dedicated to something that has a 99.9% chance of not happening, whether it be real or techno-heaven?
Yeah. I'm just pointing out that if you tried to scale this to useful power amounts, the waste heat would be overwhelming.
Improvements in native code interop in .NET 5.0
The economics of entertainment (and that is what an only-fans account is: entertainment) don't follow this cold calculation of value.

A single ticket to an NBA playoff game ranges from about $150 to over $5,000 (back when you could go).

You can see the game for effectively free at home, with better commentary, exactly the snacks you want and all of that.

A night at the symphony or opera starts--starts--at $50 a ticket, and can go to $1500 easily. After the show is over, it's over, and all you have is a memory.

Good seats at a popular rock concert are easily $250. You can get the mp3 for next to nothing, and it will be a better recording too.

Even just a movie these days starts at almost $20.

And yet people still fork out the money. It isn't just the show itself that they are paying for, it is the entire experience. The interaction, being part of the crowd, a crowd. Many things.

The value captured by an entertainment here isn't just the bits of the picture.

And I say this as someone who would never, ever pay for the content I know of on only fans. But I have sunk a lot of money into the other things on the above list.
In fact, the Supreme Court just had two rulings.

1. Religious institutions should have the same rights to funds as any other school.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/supreme-court-religiou...

2. Job Bias laws don’t protect teachers in religious schools.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/job-bias-catholic-scho...

In affect, government funds are used to support schools that are allowed to discriminate.

It’s not just LGBTQ rights. Some religious schools think that interracial dating/marriage is a “sin”.
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Where do you see that? I can't find data transfer pricing anywhere.

Edit: Found it. https://github.com/features/packages#pricing
Nice CRT. Did your videos have 1600x1200?

During that era, 640x480 video was the common high end.
It's the column headings, though.
Author here. In the sense that a trained neural net produces the same output from the same input, this is deterministic. But I don’t think that’s what you’re getting at. Where it gets interesting is if we inserted a feedback loop (such as FDO) so that the compiler could fine tune itself on past decisions. In that case, the build would still be deterministic, but the compiler would keep changing, invalidating the build cache.
> My guess is the performance improvements are the biggest for raytracing, which I personally don't care for.

I still don't understand the raytracing craze when it comes to games. Years ago when I wrote my first raytracer I might have got excited about it. But we have advanced so much with rasterization that I don't really understand why this is something we need.

Raytracing complexity is tricky and it is likely to prove challenging to do in a game with consistent frame rates. Soft shadows are expensive even for hardware.

I would be more excited about some other global illumination improvements, like photon mapping.
Hi there!

So, all free/open multi-view stereo and structure-from-motion software I know of is incapable of handling rolling shutter artifacts.

The problem seems to be that electronic global shutter sensors lack (some) dynamic range compared to otherwise-equal rolling shutter cameras.

If you'd be interested in talking more about this, contact me/let me know (I'll get in touch if requested).

My photogrammetry experiments typically encompass low-effort bulk data collection, though the search for a light-weight camera to use with a prosumer-class drone and some revelations about reconstruction quality issues inherent to older, easily-optimized algorithms for both multi-view stereo and mesh reconstruction stalled progress somewhat.

In general, machine learning doesn't seem to be as much of a benefit as one might guess, when compared to applying the resources in non-ML ways to the data.

Mind teasing some numbers from your street capture?
I've always wanted a git based database.
From what I understand, on linux wayland makes it possible to do this properly but I'm not sure that any environment on top of it is doing it. I think it's in a "nice to have" holding pattern for them because there's still so much to do to getting a stable and usable desktop environment there to begin with.
Probably worth remembering that the sound card is generally designed to put out sound (or take in sound) for human perception.

These "features" are features because they better map the physically raw input to the actual desired input for the most common use case. Sound is only sound because of human perception; if the hardware is sensitive to EM interference that the human ear isn't sensitive to, that's noise (literally).
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Equity is always worth something, because companies own capital, and capital is inherently valuable.

In this scenario, there is no loss in competitiveness. The union bargains for pay when there is profit, and when there is no profit it bargains for capital. At the limit, when the workers own the company entirely, then their own self-interest will be to reduce their salary in order to protect their equity. In this sense, their salaries will fall in line with what they would earn in another company, or slightly higher, but they will have massively more assets and equity than if they didn't have a union.

Of course, in reality, if there was no growth there would be bigger problems, but you get the gist.

I really fail to see how unions in this scenario make the company less competitive, or create worse conditions for the workers than without the union.
I don’t know how the inner-workings of NumPy work...but this article seems quite plausible because it’s making use of parallel computation in order to achieve a faster result.

The title just seems to imply skepticism over what looks to be a legit approach.
Ye at-least for projects with many developers involved. My experience is that tests that tests too much makes QA collapse when the original authors of the tests are gone and no-one know what tests are actually testing implementation or spec.

I use #ifdef:s to enable "intermediate state" and implementation asserts usually to mark them as development tests.
Ahhh, I'm a dolt. I read that as variables in your comment rather than that is literally the data that is returned. Thanks for clarifying
To support and elaborate on the parent comment:

College tuition has increased faster than inflation, but this is not unique among service industries [1] [2]. The causes include [2]:

1. "Cost disease." Labor productivity has not increased in higher education, but has increased in industries that produce physical products, so costs have risen in general. Because educator productivity is flat, yet costs are increasing, the price of college increases faster than average.

2. Higher education needs highly educated workers. The wage gap between workers with and without a degree has grown over time [3], so the price of college grows faster than average. There may be a feedback loop here.

3. Technology adds cost to higher education because it has to be acquired, supported, and taught, without (yet) any commensurate increase in educator productivity. So the price rises.

Although tuition inevitably rises in /price/, it could still be /affordable/. It is less affordable now in the US than it used to be mainly because wages have not kept pace with GDP and, as the parent comment mentioned, state support for public colleges has decreased.

Note that [2] is a higher education industry publication, so it may have some bias. In particular its defense of the relative growth in college administrative staff compared to the growth of enrollment seems shaky. But the above points appear valid.

[1] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century/

[2] http://www.ntrp16.org/sites/default/files/Resources/ACE-%20T...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/charts/usual-weekly-earnings/usual-weekl...
All the more reason to move to a declarative style of programming.
Industry blocks it. They want to keep all advances as IP and trade secrets, so they’d rather all research was done in house. Academics would love to collaborate, but they can’t if all the research is under-NDA and not publishable.
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Forgive me my hijack

Any plans to reduce the minimum bill time for Fargate to accommodate short tasks?

With 1 minute minimum billing you have to turn to lambda for very short tasks or have a long running Fargate consuming tasks from some message bus.

If you choose lambda, your containers don’t work so you need to rebuild your runtime with lambda layers or ebs or squeeze into the lambda env.

If you choose messaging, say SQS from a lambda called by API gateway you’ve complicated your architecture and your Fargate instance is potentially hanging out billing, idle, and waiting for messages.

Fargate spot removed the last reason to consider AWS Batch. Short tasks could largely replace lambda.

It would be nice to Fargate all the things.
> Also, I would like to notice, that for European tax-payers it is an investment. That money spend in education brings back way more money that what the original cost was. So, to just talk about "cost" misses the point.

How do they know this is the case at the margin? The analyses I've seen of this is usually [benefits of education] = [# of college grads] * ([avg. college grad salary] -[avg highschool grad salary])

Which has two large fundamental issues. One that college grads are differently from highschool grads in ways besides education, and probably the people most likely to go to college are the ones that would benefit from it the most.

Not to mention several posts have talked about how much better educated Europeans are despite the U.S. spending significantly more money on education than any large European country.
My monitors rarely last that long (at least, before I find it's worth it to upgrade), but like a lot of folks, I put most of my money into good monitors, keyboards, and color laser printers rather than the computers themselves, because I can generally get at least 5-10 years out of the peripherals. Computers themselves rarely last me more than 3-4 years, although my wife still uses one of my old Surface Pro 3s as her main computer - it's held up better than the SP4s.
If I could get a pair of Surface Studio touch monitors to dock with a Surface Pro/Book, I'd buy them, but yeah, I'd be real careful with them, too...
Failing to take action against something implies that your behavior is neutral.

If your content discovery depends on a recommendation system, you always have an active take into your content selection. You can never be neutral.

But yes, technically they failed to take action too.
I built this, and I hope you find it interesting and useful! Let me know if you like the idea please =D

As per https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html it's:

> "On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands"

but also:

> "Off topic: blog posts"

So who knows where the right place to post is. LMK
Oh interesting, I didn't know the Nvidia encoder was regarded as trash. What tools can one I use to evaluate visual quality of a video file? My proxy for quality has always been bitrate, but I know that bitrate is just chasing visuak quality anyways...