skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compositors are not just about visual effects. They are also a pretty good way to leverage GPUs.

If you don't care that much about latency, there's a clear benefit in never having windows getting "damaged" just because other stuff has temporarily occluded them. You will never get "ghost" images because one app has locked up or is slow. No flurry of "WM_PAINT", "WM_NCPAINT" or whatever equivalent just because you are moving windows. No matter how fast your system is, any 'movement' is much more fluid (as position changes are almost free).

Essentially, having windows completely isolated from one another - except when they are "composited" back - simplifies a lot. There's a lot of cruft and corner cases that you don't have to care.

There are features that can enhance usability that are trivial to do with compositors but difficult without - for instance, showing a window "preview" when you are switching apps or when you mouse over in the taskbar. While you can do this without a compositor, you can get this very easily and for almost 'free'.

And, as you point out, you can post-process and apply whatever effects you want. But this is a minor detail and was used initially as a selling point.

Of course, for a tiling window manager none of this matters as they never overlap. But most users don't use tiling window managers.
The tide of public opinion is changing rapidly.

People need to ACTIVELY speak up and tell government and corporations to quit with the Covid BS. If we don't speak up the next 6 months will be like the last 6 months.
Yeah, temperature is a little more complicated than that in space...

You're only option of removing heat is radiating it away (no atmosphere/fluid to conduct/convect to). You're also roasting on one half of the orbit, freezing on the other side.

If you look at the ISS they have HUGE radiators for what's little more than a small outpost.

Solar's only good for half-ish of the orbit, you'll be reliant on batteries for the darkside (more mass, limited lifespan)

Not to mention the dV costs of orbit.
Why would it be useful when we get to space? When we get to space, we'll be 1 AU from the Sun. At that distance, solar is vastly superior to fusion. And DT fusion will always be inferior to fission in space.
Is this something that could have just as easily happened through Apple's app store? This sounds like exactly the type of thing that those 30% app store cuts should be going towards to prevent (regardless of the platform).
hold start & end time in normal DB columns, use business logic for your rule enforcement, have a query to identify rule violation. Maybe add constraints on your warehouse data but I probably wouldn't on the operational DB. I could be convinced to do so for the PoC because it might make sense, but what if you're managing thousands or millions of scheduled "resources" like a chain of libraries, or hotel rooms? What if you need to coordinate "leases"? DB-level is an OK place to start, but also one of the hardest to tease apart when you need to scale.

This is kind of the point of data modeling; you start with an idea, make it all pretty 3rd-normal form, define your projected indices and checks and constraints, then you mess it up a bit where it makes sense or you've had experience in the past.

YMMV
IBM is also a joke, just like Oracle.

A 100-year-old company with $80,000,000,000 in annual revenue operating in 177 countries is "a joke?"

I don't even know what to say, other than you're simply proving the points the graybeards in this discussion are making.
Clearly, you haven't seen non-power users working.
Invisabilia Pod Cast
https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928581/locked-man
Craig Federighi also mentioned in an interview that the declarative model with bidirectional bindings was influenced by work at NeXT, referring to WebObjects.
Cowspiracy's numbers on global warming are bull shit. That infographic attributes 51% of global greenhouse gas emissions to animal agriculture.

The US EPA says that 24% of global emissions are attributable to all agriculture and land use changes as of 2010:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

The IPCC's more recent accounting says 23% of global emissions are attributable to all agriculture and land use changes:

https://www.ipcc.ch/2019/08/08/land-is-a-critical-resource_s...

Here's a detailed critical review of Cowspiracy from the Union of Concerned Scientists:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/doug-boucher/cowspiracy-movie-review

According to Cowspiracy, the major source of global warming pollution isn’t fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas, as the world’s scientists are telling us. No, it’s animal agriculture—not just eating cows, but all other kinds of meat, and eggs and milk and fish too. So the principal solution to global warming isn’t renewable energy. It’s for everyone to become a vegan.

Central to Cowspiracy’s conspiracy theory is the supposed “fact” that a 2009 study found that 51% of all greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture.

A good deal of the movie is taken up with interviews with people from environmental organizations, such as the Rainforest Action Network, Oceana, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, who don’t seem to accept this “fact,” and therefore must be part of the conspiracy to cover it up. Greenpeace politely declined, twice, to be interviewed, proving that they’re part of the cowspiracy too. ...
> Mapping X subdomain to Y port on Z machine should take a couple clicks from a web interface.

route53 can work like that, it also has a cli version. (But you can't get the domain there).
I don’t know if your name/year accidentally match his. Also it is not unlikely that he has heard of HN as a web developer.

But the possibility gives me joy.
It's French.
I suppose that I broadly agree with most of this. Only caveat would be that you also a very fast roundtrip from where all those FLOPS happen to the audio interface buffer, and my understanding is even today in 2020, current GPUs do not provide that (data has to come back to the CPU, and for understandable reasons, this hasn't been optimized as a low latency path).

Re: physically modelled drums ... watch this (from 2008) !!!

https://vimeo.com/2433260

Consider the sound made right before the 3:00 mark when Randy just wipes his hand over the "surface". You cannot do this with samples :)

It says something about the distance between my vision of the world and reality that even though I thought this was the most exciting thing I saw in 2008, there's almost no trace of it having any effect on music technology down here in 2020.
Regarding the disappearing children, are you referring to https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/29/us/immigration-refugee-ch... ?
Why does the truck have a grill/air intake on the front?
> Why does anyone still use PayPal?

Paypal.com -> Subscriptions -> Unsubscribe

Paypal makes it two or three clicks to unsub from any reoccurring payment. No dark patterns or "call us" required. I use it whenever I can for subscription services.
Can I get a 3-bedroom bitcoin a 20-minute bike ride from work?
been looking for something like this (ideally using the mic rather than the webcam) but this thing is not recognizing my hand at all.

edit: finally found my hand but was pretty difficult to use. also from a technical perspective, im curious if this requires one webcam access to the extension, or camera access for whatever site it's operating on.
I'm 25 and have a senior title

Is this grade inflation? In the physical sciences you get a doctorate in your late 20s, and you still are a greenhorn. Is computing really that shallow?
I buy quite a few of them as a tinkerer and recent (~two months) ones don't need firmware/BIOS fiddling to boot off USB. Make sure you get reasonably recent stock.
Haha, morons.

How times have changed - it wasn't that long ago that Obamaphones seemed outrageous but look at them now - free shit for everyone, forever!

When can I immigrate to Canuckstan?
Well you could ask same question about lava floating from volcanos to oceans, that much hotter and would have greater impact, or if the sun light would have an ecological impact on the water because it heat it everyday! I don't know what would few degrees increase in temperature around the capsules would do to the environment, keeping in mind that water is changing all the time due to sea current also that temperature is very local I mean it does not extend more than few inches in the water, if you have any knowledge about thermodynamics you would know that the temperature of two bodies should reach an equilibrium and since the ocean is much bigger the effect of the temperature coming from the data centres is negligible, but all this was an experiment and I am sure the ecological factor was taken in account, but still your question was kinda stupid!
Couldn't the same thing be said about gene editing, or deep sea research, or any ongoing frontier research field? I sadly don't see a race blooming out of this.

If there ever were a premise for one in our time it would be fusion, or carbon extraction... but this seems to be either woefully underfunded or in the hands of private enterprise.

Given the way the starlink was heralded by the media, the time of nations challenging each other to technological conquests is now commandeered by the venture capitalists.
> Can someone explain the rationale behind geographically based pay in remote-first companies?

How much you are paid depends on how much they have to pay you before you decide to quit. The lowest pay you’ll accept before you decide to quit is based on what you think you can get if you quit. That’s heavily influenced by geography. As geography and job markets become uncoupled compensation will become more uniform regionally and then globally.
Microsoft Democratizes DeepSpeed with Four New Technologies
I also suspect, but don't have evidence to back it up, that it will also further contribute to socioeconomic divides.

You grew up in a wealthy neighborhood and decide to live close to family? Here is a pay package at X.

You grew up in a poverty-stricken area in a poor state, and need to live close to home to support your family? Well the cost-of-living there is 60% cheaper, so here is a pay package at X*(1-0.6).

People who have the ability to move most likely still will, because it is economically viable.

People who have family obligations and grew up in less affluent areas will be the ones getting the short end of the "location-adjusted-comp" stick.
I personally never read articles of FT nor WSJ - I don't even try to "click" on those links/references as I know that I won't be able to read them => I'll never have any chance to "understand" if I would like to subscribe to those newspapers :(
https://archive.is/JG7Sn
Amazing and great to see people making current and great projects with a Pascal variant.
TLO joins Shopify as esports program manager
Zuck isn't evil, he just wants to give people what they want and take no responsibility. "If they were not on Facebook they would be on Twitter or Fox News or MSNBC. I might as well get rich instead of someone else."
Social media doesn't just increase social friction, but creates beneficial network effects for people who share particular views. That's often just harmless fandom or fads, but it can also be deadly serious when the views in question promote political violence.
Endangered wild boar from Philipines observed using tools (2019)
App Store has sorts for Free and Paid, where both are littered with IAP.

I really want a “paid, no IAP” filter. The gameplay quality of those titles trends far higher.

An alternative is subscription, that seems to be the Apple Arcade model.

The lack of filter or parental setting to hide any apps with IAP reflects poorly on Apple’s customer centricity.
Of course this crypto wouldn't give you a physical asset (that's kind of the point). But if it were to be possible, maybe that 3-bedroom apartment wouldn't be so expensive...
The hosting issue is a matter of criminal law. Terms and conditions don’t matter in that space. They can’t transfer responsibility for breaking the law.

So the unit economics have to cover the costs of dealing with the legal liability. And just for giggles, if you’re making money from hosting illegal content, law enforcement is more likely to pay attention and act with greater force. There’s no low hanging fruit at any kind of scale. If 0.01% of people are bad actors, it’s even money there’s one in the first 5000 accounts - but only if the account holders are randomly distributed among all people. But bad actors are motivated and the cost setting up a free account is asymmetric to the whackamole effort thwarting them.

Again good luck.
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Every time I've interacted with someone from IBM I've found myself questioning how they've managed to continue being a company. Have you looked at their public facing offerings lately? Watson is garbage, IBM cloud is garbage. They're losing ground on pretty much everything that is a modern revenue driver and they're best offering is their IT services.

Their strategy and execution are quite poor.
Here is the doco with the dives to the ship and the machining - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkarL5uWeI

Here's a bit more on the ships - "Al-Qassam discovers two British battleships sank on Gaza Sea 100 years ago" -
https://daysofpalestine.ps/post/15007/Al-Qassam-discovers-tw...
What does "took into account temperature and pressure" mean if we agree there are many unknowns that the temperature and pressure are interacting with? If you weren't trying to say they have ruled out other explanations, I can't figure out what concrete point you were making. From what I can tell reading the article, it sounds like the only thing they've come close to ruling out is that the measurements are faulty.
They really are, and the unabashed hatred towards anything Apple draws some unnecessarily snarky people out of the woodwork.
+1. Allows me to access my Jellyfin and file server from my laptop no matter where I am, all for a few bucks and a good learning experience with Wireguard.
I learned a lot from that. Thanks!
No, I have 15 years experience in computing. I assure you I am not a greenhorn and you are insulting.
Well this was all an experiment itself and I am sure the ecological factor is being taken in consideration
Not sure, if it would make a difference to your use case, but I’ve had success powering an SSD from a 4GB Pi 4 USB 3 port.
Nikola did have a pleasing exterior design for the pickup and a solid email list of potential buyers. Not worth a fortune, but something.
I had almost the same thing happen. Turned on my Mac Mini one day and it just could not see the SSD. Not even in Recovery mode. Took it in and the “Genius” tested it and said that the drive wasn’t working. They offered to replace my 1TB SSD for some large amount of money. I asked if they would sell me a replacement cable so I could see if it was the drive or the cable. Nope. Had to get it third-party, which cost next to nothing. And of course the only reason these cables fail is because they’re wafer thin and designed for laptops. When’s the last time you heard of a full-size hard drive cable failing? Never. If Apple would release a “real” desktop computer that was toaster sized instead of mini, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Stephen King also wrote the short scifi story The Jaunt which is similar.

Basically a scientist makes a stargate type of device. Nonliving things that go through end up fine but living things like mice would either immediately just die or go absolute insane after exiting.

Long story short, the trip is instantaneous. But because they're traveling outside of our normal space time is perceived differently by conciousnes minds. So what seems like a split second to us on the outside things seem almost endless on the inside. Like anywhere from millions of years to the age of the universe. Endless time with nothing but their own thoughts. No body and just white light. Humans they test it out on either also die or end up going all Event Horizon when they exit.

They figured out a work around by knocking people out before putting then through.
A big problem with freeing up communications from everybody is how toxic some people and groups will be to others. Facebook is just a mirror, a fun-house mirror that magnifies some things and minimizes others, but it's not adding the content. Some "information" is best kept under wraps.
It's better to use credit cards when you can, chargebacks are way easier than that.
The M/C/R6g range is already available in many regions.
Thanks, I did and you are partially correct. I'm not talking private loan debt, I'm talking Federal student loan debt.

https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation...

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-o...

It's considered difficult but not totally impossible. It is indeed treated differently from other debt.
> /e/ might be a good solution, preinstalled on a Fairphone 3.

I looked into /e/ but don't have a phone to try it on. Fairphone isn't available in Australia.

Good to know about the GPD.

> I have no idea what people need all that horsepower for in their pocket.

The "modern" web mostly.
Instant.page
You don't generate 1470 samples of audio per frame.

You generate N channels worth of 1470 samples per frame, and mix (add) them together. Make N large enough, and make the computation processes associated with generating those samples complex enough, and the difference between audio and video is not so different.

Jacob Collier routinely uses 300-600 tracks in his mostly-vocal overdubs, and so for sections where there's something going on in all tracks (rare), it's more in the range of 400k-900k samples to be dealt with. This sort of track count is also typical in movie post-production scenarios. If you were actually synthesizing those samples rather than just reading them from disk, the workload could exceed the video workload.

And then there's the result of missing the audio buffer deadline (CLICK! on every speaker ever made) versus missing the video buffer deadline (some video nerds claiming they can spot a missing frame :)
Disclosure: I work at AWS, where I build cloud infrastructure

Can you clarify what you mean? C6g, M6g, and R6g instances have been available for a while now, and those support many different workloads. M6g is the "general purpose" variant. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m6/
Hah, interesting. I'll try this, if I remember, but I don't think I have that kind of temperament that you have.
I see that, unlike the US, Ethiopia has yet to learn how to draw strength from their diversity. A lesson the Balkans likewise failed to learn before their run in with ethnic cleansing and, later, splitting into separate countries.
The truth is that platforms like HN are the worst offenders. While consumption-oriented platforms are clearly consumption-oriented, the addiction from text-based platforms like HN is far more insidious.

People think they're making a difference when they come here, but nothing is happening. They get the dopamine hit of some karma, and replies, but they're in their trench and the other guy is in the other trench and the battle lines aren't moving.

HN is a pretty clever tool. It honeypots entrepreneurs who can't develop so they don't compete with the guys who can develop. The former category, instead of competing¹, talks here about how they can't finish their side projects and how they can't get motivation to work, and other unrelated stuff that is just addictive entrepreneur or tech porn.

This streamlines the experience for doers, who avoid the manipulative trap that is HN, and are busy building product.

¹ Competition is bad. cf. Zero to One
Can it tunnel to local devices like a RPi or just AWS VMs?
Looking for VR users to test out a prototype VR game streaming concept
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If you're going to open source this, at least do us the solid of not hosting the compressed version. You haven't stopped me from reading your source code, you just made me hate you for having to copy and paste it and click format.

Also, not sure how you plan to restrict people from using this on servers other than localhost?
It's not the fact that it can happen but that there are agencies and it's a growing business in the region shows you how bad it is
Postgres connector enhanced! https://github.com/grouparoo/grouparoo/pull/735

Let us know on the issue if it's working for you.
Really gives a new meaning to the term “data lake”
Not specifically mentioned in the press release, but interesting: t4g instances are about 20% cheaper than t3 across the board.
It's a relic, and a bad one.

I run a remote-first, remote-only company and we pay everyone based on experience and merit. Not location. If you want to stretch $150k in San Francisco go for it. Good luck having to live with 3 other roommates.

However, if you want to take that same $150k and live like a king in the middle of Kansas that's an option as well. Adjusting someones pay simply because they're logging onto their computer from a different location is perplexingly stupid in a world where people can work from wherever.
If they were to scale the adjustment by 25% until Sep 2022, 50% until Sep 2023, 75% until Sep 2024, and then 100% thereafter, that would create a bunch of pay drops and they would probably be more likely to lose employees at those dates.

If they linearly interpolated the drop across the next 26*4 biweekly paychecks, would that be better.. or worse?
Just tell the Ethiopians that the solution to hate speech is more speech, and that censorship is a fate worse than death. I'm sure everything will be fine.
I’m in my 30s and I personally have a hard time being productive when the world is literally and metaphorically on fire and plague stricken. Being in an office would not change this.
I understand there are some difficulties with this ideology in terms of technology companies and onboarding, but I have also seen the potential benefits of such an approach without explicitly attempting to engage it.

We have hired entry-level engineers that went from supporting basic production issues to writing low-level parts of the platform within 2-3 years. At no point was I consciously aware of any explicit knowledge transfer occurring, but somehow these individuals are able to pick up a tremendous amount of capability via proximity to the day-to-day process. One day it clicked for me that a pull request I was reviewing for one of these individuals was something that I would expect to see from a highly-skilled developer on the team. Seemingly overnight, we converted a QA/Support engineer who chases down basic null refs into a proper developer, and all it required was exposing them to the full depth of the process every day.

Perhaps the master/apprentice game doesn't make sense in terms of on-boarding. But, I see massive amounts of value in exposing willing employees to increasingly-difficult problems on a daily basis. Make your most junior employee install the same tools and work through the same processes that your most senior employees do. There is no reason you cannot ramp someone from zero to hero in a few years with passive exposure to your business processes.

I find that this model of constant exposure combined with probationary employment strategies provides an excellent blended approach for ramping in new talent that would otherwise be filtered out by your typical big corp HR department. Just because someone doesn't have a computer science degree or got burned by our incredibly shitty legal system doesn't mean they aren't willing to bust their ass and try to prove something to the world. I would like to give as many people a chance as possible at this. Programming is an art and no one policy is going to be the best. The more perspectives we have the better.