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> Ps: Doom Eternal runs really great, but I'm sure with tuning Unreal can produce similar results, right?

Absolutely NOT! UE4 has great tools and awesome APIs for creating content from the perspective of an artist. The runtime, unfortunately, is mired with legacy code from a bygone era. It is also restricted by the need to maintain mobile support. Compared to an engine like what idTech has, or Activision, or Ubisoft, etc. the UE4 runtime is probably 10 years behind. There are numerous techniques such as those mentioned in the linked post that are simply not possible in UE4 because of how dated the RHI layer is.
Thank you for cross-referencing that, the data does look accurate and my statement now seems exaggerated. I do think we need skepticism on the A100 charts though until third party benchmarks.

> In my experience NVidia benchmark numbers in deep learning are rarely lies - they are highly optimised, in optimal conditions and rarely achievable in the real world.

Right, but Nvidia claimed 1360 images/sec for resnet-50 on imagenet. To my knowledge this still hasn’t been realized by a third party. It also isn’t a 4x improvement for fp32 vs fp16, that’s comparing to previous generation. Improvement is more like 1.5x: https://lambdalabs.com/blog/best-gpu-tensorflow-2080-ti-vs-v...

Even in very simple synthetic benchmarks the speed up is only 2x: https://github.com/tensorflow/benchmarks/issues/77#issuecomm...

I have not seen any benchmarks showing an 8x speedup. Have you? If not -> Nvidia lied.
If you're working at these big companies then working in a codebase you don't fully understand will just be a fact of life. I worked at a Fortune 500 company for 4 years, but of course I didn't understand even half of the million-line Scala codebase I was working on by the time I left.

The way you make people productive in that environment is you have, and enforce, good coding and design standards so that code will do what you expect and you can rely on parts of the codebase that you don't necessarily understand the internals of. Frankly, having to consider "nuances, and deliberate details, and designs, and prioritize and a million other things" is not a good use of people's mental capacity, and you should aim not to have a codebase where people have to do that. Write your codebase like a tower of libraries/DSLs, where each layer presents a solid abstraction to the layer above it, and the topmost layer is just the business logic written in the language of the domain; then it's easy to make a simple change to that business logic because you just have to make the same simple change to your code.
> And this is why you should not allow video of your child. Just tape the camera over and tell the school you don't have one.

I'm not a parent, but IIRC a lot of K-12 schools provide laptops (Chromebooks usually?) or tablets to students. That excuse is going to be suspicious if the standard issue equipment has one.

Might be better to just be honest and cite this story and state that you don't trust the school/teachers to act responsibly in light of stuff like this. Maybe give them a chance to show how their policies and procedures would lead to a different outcome.
It would be nice if the browser knew how big the gifs were before it downloaded them, and thus didn't download anything over a certain size.
Your comment does not warrant downvotes. The results do resemble the video capture (rotoscoping?) technique used in the 1992 videogame Mortal Kombat, and it's worth pointing that out:
https://youtu.be/Tj3_0AmiJbg?t=5

But of course Mortal Kombat's sprites were not being generated in real-time through a flexible machine learning model.
Neither does a black eye.
The funny thing with the RPIs is that whatever you install on it, is running in a hypervisor on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX which is now owned by Microsoft...
He also rightfully rejected the illusion of supremacy by the higher classes, called out the political classes for being liars, and reminded scholars that it's a good idea to check yourself against the world sometimes.

You could find no more respectable a wielder of the yardstick of civilization than good ol' Diogenes. It takes a man who knows what savagery lies beneath to appreciate just how little we are separated from the beasts around us.
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Adjacent to WD's recent scumminess, I recently purchased an Ultrastar drive (no longer HGST-branded) and it came with a slip in the box informing me that by purchasing this product (from B&H) I had somehow agreed to binding arbitration.

Companies have been abusing the ability to force consumers into binding arbitration but this is another level. I'm not a lawyer but it doesn't seem to be clear if this would hold up in court; it is however pretty clearly a scare tactic, which is almost worse.
Good old moreutils:)
There are 3.04 trillion trees on earth.
The article didn't mention anything about the "loose lips" in the title.
I've done the same thing by accident and it's frustrating lol
I'm excited to see this applied to more popular video games such as FIFA, Madden, and NBA 2k. The behavior modeling also likely has huge applications in NBA film analysis and figuring out how a traded player might "gel" in a new team.
While that was our experience in Oakland 30 years ago, it's what I expected; we would need a police report for an insurance claim.

First home after college, we didn't own anything worth more than ten bucks, minimum wage it was crazy. But someone broke in and gave it a go anyway.

It felt awful.

Felt better after the police arrived, but seriously what else are they going to do?
I have a first edition Hennessy and Patterson textbook on the mips architecture from my early 90s college days which I used to write a mips emulator. They BOTH worked on it as original innovators, Hennessy for Mips in specific, Patterson for being a main innovator of RISC architecture to begin with. The pair won the 2017 Turing award for their respective contributions to RISC.
I am, and I appreciate the correction to my dates. I really have it etched in my mind that the bridge sinking (you could see it from my home at the time, in Leschi) was tightly coupled to election stuff.
Your question is answered in detail, and in the negative, in the very post you're replying to.
Sending plastic beads (or crap) instead of seed would be good for environment
> Population growth hasn't been the problem for decades.

Of course it is. Populations always eventually demand development, aka "westernization". So as the world population grows, so does the consumption.
Has anyone tried just blasting a sample of radioactive material with a neutrino beam and seeing if its rate changes? Seems easy to check.
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Absolutely. It's totally a cultural thing I've been in the opposite situation as well. The culture really has to be that getting someone new onboarded is the most important thing and not somebodies side project.
I’ve not touched WD drives in a long, long time, and the recent SMR fiasco made the brand seem even more untrustworthy than what was in my imagination.

In this case, it sounds (from the official response) as if WD is trying to “dumb down” the specs so that generally less informed buyers can compare them easily and make the right choices?! But this effort will fail because it hides information in scenarios where it certainly must cater to different needs — not everyone wants all the speed at a specific price just as not everyone wants the lowest power consumption at a specific price.

The discerning users who want to get the specs and then decide what trade offs are worth it for their use case must be able to get it, even if it’s on page 6 of the “technical specifications” document.
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This is a problem all over.

Before it was Silicon Valley, the Peninsula was said to be the best citrus growing land on Earth.

It's a nice place to live, don't get me wrong. But I can't help feeling like growing detached single-family homes instead wasn't a good trade.
In general it's an amazing time to be a computer hardware consumer. There's real competition in pretty much every primary component hardware vertical. The spinning rust data storage market has been uniquely crappy of late.

The sketchy stuff shows up in cheap components with slim margins (budget AIO watercoolers, budget hard drives, budget PSUs budget/no-name ebay video cards).
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The direct $$$ cost of maintaining an engine is probably not as high as you think, as it really needs a small team to move fast enough and have the customizability advantage over COTS engines.

The value question can't be answered in general, it depends on what the engine is specialized to, how well it's executed compared to the alternative, what are the cultural factors surrounding the idea of using in-house tech, how well the support tooling supporting creatives is executed etc.

The standard curve applies, most in-house engines aren't very good, but few are.
key outcome:

> Results revealed that 13 out of 26 patients (50%) in the control group were admitted to ICU, and two died in the end. In the calcifediol group, only one out of 50 (2%) required ICU admission, and none died.

Massive reduction in ICU admission between the treatment group and control group.
Pls try to do this very simple trick -

Put your eyes in peripheral vision mode (looking at multiple objects at the same time). This helps you de-focus and helps de-stress your eyes and facial muscles. Some what magically your brain goes into relaxation mode which eventually helps in deep and fast sleep.

Have been doing this from about 8 months, never failed me once.
First, sorry to hear your story, that stinks.

Second, since you’ve presented this to upper management and they aren’t understanding, I’d take that as a serious signal to look for a new opportunity.

If you do want to stick it out, the best advise I have for you is to 100% drop coding even though you think you can’t. Allow yourself to whiteboard, pair program and review PRs, but don’t allow yourself to be the owner of single programming ticket.

Suddenly you’ll have a lot of time to pour into training, equipping, and leading your team. You’ll probably be surprised how much they improve.

It still might not work out, but given you already know how to be a programmer, taking a shot at 100% managing for a while gives you more opportunity to learn than sticking with the status quo you’re saying doesn’t work.

If you’re really struggling and would like more help, I’ve been doing some coaching lately and I’d be happy to book a chat. My gmail is the same as my HN username :)
If only there were some way to penalize bloated websites exhibiting anti-user behavior. /s
Ever since I learned about autoencoders, I've been saying compression is at the heart of intelligence.
When I was a kid in the 90s we had two old walky-talkies, the kind that predated the digital FRS systems you can buy today. They were the size of a brick, took 9x AA batteries and the antenna was a solid 3 feet long when fully extended.

We used to use them to play cops and robbers, but late at night in the summer, if you fiddled with the squelch settings and the antenna length (and I assume when the ionosphere was cooperating) I could pick up what in hindsight must have been some kind of numbers station.

It was a male voice repeating a bunch of nonsensical phrases, most of which have faded from memory except for something about having Buffalo Soldiers and then the recording would end with the phrase "I just got downnnnn" where the word "down" was drawn out in some kind of strange electronic vocal fry, like a tape recorder running out of batteries. After that it would loop back to the beginning.

This was in southwestern Ontario in the summer of 1996, maybe 97, and it thoroughly creeped me out. I've always wanted to figure out what it was.

Alien signals indeed.
Police are generally the most well paid social servants anywhere in the US.
The wheel of reincarnation turns again.

Back in mainframe days, "channel controllers", the subsystems that controlled storage devices, were very programmable. At some points in time, it made sense to off-load as much as possible from the CPU onto the channel controller. At other points in time, the reverse was true.

For a couple of decades, we've had dumb storage devices. Now with some of the NVMe stuff, we're moving back towards smart "storage".

Linux in an SSD is the same idea.
Note, though, that content of a length sufficient to result in that performance degradation would not be "human-friendly" — and thus, not a viable use case for Base32H as it's specified here — no matter whether a 32 or 53 or whatever-base encoding scheme is used.

(Technically, a book can be considered 'human friendly', but that's not the definition OP is using for that phrase, either.)
I just... What did you even do in that time? (Sincere question; if I started a job and didn't have a machine I don't think I could work, and I assume a financial place won't let you BYOD)
The hard part here is getting a curriculum to learn software engineering. Writing code is much much more then just a language. So much time spent on that. Just learn one freaking language and move on.

eg. I started with Basic -> QW Basic -> Pascal -> PHP -> Perl -> ruby -> golang and a lot of others languages too.

Writing code is not the hard part.

follow something like this: https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/

Or if you want to be something specifc follow this and find resources to learn about the topics: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
Your comment would be more useful if you listed some, instead of just mocking the GP for being ignorant.
You can just block all <canvas> tags with a `##canvas` rule for uBlock Origin. It of course breaks some real sites, but not on anything I use regularly. A canvas repaint rate limit could be nice, though I have been surprised at how little I notice all canvas tags just being blocked.

Gifs are trickier. I'll often see non-animated images in gif format. Because of extension API limitations, uBO can't block gifs based on file size or animation frame count. (file size isn't even known until the start of the fetch)

Though Firefox at least does lets you disable all gif animations without just blocking all gifs.
> financial concern

The probably unintended double meaning works great
This is exactly what happened to me: I did not take a further look on Haskell just because its syntax seemed so weird.
> If money should follow competence then the bulk of our public schools should be seriously defunded, especially in inner cities.

I believe the inner city schools already have been defunded (or more precisely have been underfunded from the start), which is part of the problem.
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Don’t drive with higher RPMs have higher transfer rates? I find it hard to believe that people are complaining about better performance.
That sounds to me like middle management, not front-line technical management. At 30 people you can indeed only focus on the big picture strategy and process, and you really can’t help anyone with their technical issues. If there is no layer of senior technical leadership between that manager and the newer/junior ICs, that would be a disaster.
I remember World of Warcraft using the bittorrent protocol internally to distribute updates, which was an smart use at that moment considering the horde of people downloading at the same time.
watching those realistic video sprites playing reminds me a lot of the old tennis game on NES, it really makes you wonder how far and bizarre this technology can become?
Well there goes my ornamental tree and pepper collection..

What a disappointment.
I just scrolled back in Health Mate and I made my first measurement on my OG Withings scale on June 20, 2012. It is still working as good as ever, and fully supported by both the mobile app and the desktop (Mac) app for configuring the wifi. I’m pretty impressed!
That doesnt remove the fact that older generation people and many younger too in EU still have "built in firmware" to instantly classify my / foreign culture people. And I doubt this will change for the next generations.

And BLM demonstrations in europe... Sorry, but this is ridiculous. Those are more about protest against goverment ant police than BLM.
> I still don't know what I would need to do to buy something with bitcoin right now.

but I think you do. You find a seller who is willing to accept the currency you're using, and you use whatever interface to the bitcoin network you've chosen to do "send x money to y identifier". No different to a regular EFT.

You identified the exact problems. It's not that bitcoin transfers are some weird foreign concept, it's that they take forever, have high fees and aren't accepted universally.

The major users of bitcoin as an actual currency rather than a speculative vehicle are places that can't use the more convenient forms of currency. Guaranteed they'd rather use USD if they could.
It will still definitely help some use cases:

> Identical files will always have the same hash and can more easily be moved from one torrent to another (when creating torrents) without having to re-hash anything.
As a tennis player, I think this is super impressive.

Their models actually do a decent job of replicating true tennis strategy, and as they pointed out, even account for the quirks like the left handedness of Nadal.

However, it's still a bit unrealistic due to the lack of full data.

There's 3 things that make a tennis shot what it is: placement (covered in the video), pace (speed of ball), and spin (rpm and direction of spin). In this method, they only use placement. Probably because pace and spin data don't exist at this scale.

But there's a big difference between a slice, flat, and top spin shot to the same placement on the court, and it directly affects the return shot. For example, it's a very common and 'safe' play to return a slice with a slice

Would like to see the full extension one day
Note that this same wiki has a good page on the numerous surprising behaviors of errexit: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105

My perception is that there is no consensus on whether or not to use it. I go back and forth, but I probably use it more often than not.
That looks like Pica from an IBM Selectric typewriter.

IBM in 1971, probably photo typeset. The heading type and lines look like those rub-off transfers from Letraset.

I'm just guessing. I do recall doing some paste-up direct from a phototypesetting machine at a small town newspaper around 1981, but I don't recall how that worked. We just did page layout with wax-coated positives, the machine spit those out by magic. Middle school, details are vague.

But I put in some hours on my Dad's Selectric. It was awesome.
In Japan, living with parents is usual (and me!) but people laughing that is exists and a meme "a man in child room" was getting popular in 2019. IMO it helps real estate industry.

I suspect that 40s/50s in dating sites is biased datapoint.
Thanks to that post I discovered that there are such things as overclocking world champions. What a world!
> What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net?

Use an ad blocker. Since mobile chrome doesn't allow adblocking, this means you will have to choose one of the many other mobile browsers that do.
The UK has a rule which requires ISPs to only advertise speeds achievable by 50% of users during peak periods. Customers are also allowed to leave contracts without penalty if ISPs are unable or unwilling to provide advertised speeds to the end user[0].

Such rules are not within the American Overton window for the usual reasons.

[0] https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/ask-our-expert/broadband-...
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Except animated GIFs are the only way to have embedded "video" in Google Slides.

(Yes, you can technically "embed" YouTube videos, but they play in the YouTube player with all of its chrome and only in widescreen with letterboxing if your aspect ratio doesn't fit)
> All new features in BitTorrent v2 that are not backwards compatible have been carefully given new names, to allow them to coexist with the v1 counterparts.

This seems like a really cool approach that could be applied lots of other places where versioning can be tricky. But probably also hard to come up with new, good names.
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This is garbage nonsense.

You could just as easily manage this funding process somewhere else with different priorities. We've been moving university research funding out of the NSF towards defense budgets quite aggressively over the last two decades, and it's quite palpable how shifting control of this funding from pure science oversight to military oversight has reshaped priorities.
Looks very Nvidia centric. What about using other GPUs for deep learning?
Does Scala see much use out of the big data niche nowadays? I've considered picking it up, but I'm always discouraged by someone telling me to use Kotlin instead, or stories of companies abandoning Scala for reasons like complexity and on-boarding.
> ImageNet and resnet type architecture its not unusual to get 3X speed up

Source on this? I've done a good bit of CV benchmarking work and I don't recall anything like a 3x boost. 30-40% improvement is much more in line with what I remember.
This is also why people love pop music. It is predictable, safe and unchallenging.
> it is an abject failure as a currency.

In the US perhaps. In at least one other country however...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47553048

https://www.somagnews.com/bitcoin-becomes-the-dominant-curre...
> Is there some equivalent where I could say, “Here’s what I listen to the most” ?

In the old days (at least up until the late 1990s) and especially on music newsgroups, people would write at the end of their posts what was now playing as they posted, eg:

NP: Song - Artist
1. Mostly self-promotional articles to lead towards my ebooks. But I'm proud of my 'customizing pandoc' and 'what next in Python' posts.

2. I am averaging about 1 post per 2 months :(

3. GitHub, because it is free and I can use markdown. Currently using a jekyll theme, but I'm planning to switch to static-site generator like https://github.com/getzola/zola

4. https://learnbyexample.github.io/
Australia and US are historically a mix of immigrants from all the world so things are much different there than in "solid culture" countries where xenofobia is a part of life as a result.
Cult was originally just a “system of religious beliefs and rituals”. The dismissive meaning of cult is a relatively recent interpretation and not universal.