skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that a fair argument? I thought the argument made in the article is that free software is more reliable. I do not want to pay a la carte for bug fixes and feature requests, and I definitely don't want to go through the processes required to do so. Even if I did, then that is no longer free software, is it?

If someone wants to charge for a bundled or packaged piece of software, then go for it. If it satisfies a need, is useful, and gets good support, then I have no problem paying for it or requesting for it to be purchased.
I don't see a privacy policy anywhere.
Something can't simultaneously have inelastic demand and also be a luxury good. Those things are kind of opposite.

Demand for taxis has dropped a lot because of Uber. Uber also gets passengers who would have otherwise not made the trip, taken a bus, or driven drunk. If Uber is no longer an option they'll go back to those options,not to taxis.

> The only difference will be in the price of rides - for what is largely a luxury good.

The price of rides makes a big difference and hugely effects demand. I don't know why you're treating it like it doesn't matter. Lower prices open the service up to more people. Indoor plumbing was once a luxury good. Generally progress means turning luxuries into commodities, not the opposite.
That is only accurate if you do not instantiate these particles mentioned in the article. But luckily, the density seems not too high ;)
The scary part of this story, to me, is it seems they can do something: they can pull that from the App Store arbitrarily by inventing another 'new' 'rule' that was never on the books or enforced
> > You kind of have to. If you were not emotionally invested in some way, you wouldn’t be arguing.

> That is, I think step one is try to understand why you (and your debate partner) are emotionally incentivized to care about the topic in the first place.

I think this is excellent advise. To add to this, I think often minor details, like the use of some word or terminology can trigger an immediate "emotional reject" response. It then becomes impossible to have a constructive debate because the person will reject all arguments based on that emotional reaction to the minor trigger. It then is very helpful to trace back to the source of the reaction and e.g. agree on different terminology.
I thought making difficult for one to see replies on their posts was intentional and a “feature” of HN. Avoid flame wars and all.

Edit: But having said that, this tool can come really handy in some cases
My teacher daughter was shocked she could read at 5,diring our first meeting she asked us : "do you know she can read?"
I replied, "yes I know", she followed up with a "like an adult" almost frightened haha.
Well I did tell her that she could read and write, I guess she was used of parents bullshitting on their kids achievements.

Remove a screen and a kid can have crazy skills.

Screens are really the opium of the people.
I was comparing the reference images with the rendered ones, and this tree is not at the same location:
https://imgur.com/a/JIpgAb8 Some low vegetation (grass) under the palm tree on the left is also absent.

Is this part of the limitations the author discloses?: «Other features of the scene are possible to render but out of my initial scope, notably subdivision surfaces and their displacement maps, and a full Disney BSDF implementation»
Perhaps to put the question a different way.

What is the difference to me, as an individual, what happens to the wealth once it's been taken from me?

Since I'm not spending it to further my own goals (e.g. by charitable donation to a cause whose values I share), does it matter whether that money has been spent on something someone else values, or literally burned?
The criminal has to take the punishment for his actions (and extenuating circumstances are taken into consideration), but at the same time, people, companies and society, have learned that we need protection and prevention.

So you could argue that there have been a lot of post-mortems through the ages, with great ideas thrown around on how to avoid crimes being committed (at least against me/us). It's not just about locking people up.
that wasn't me, ;-)
Ecclesiastes was absolutely life-changing for me.
I'm trying to build a community of people who want to argue constructively at conferacity.com - hope you'll take a look and get in touch with feedback on how we can improve, or even better, be willing to join and contribute on the site. I particularly hope you might be willing to help if you disagree with the existing writers on the site, that makes your views more valuable!

You can reach me at ghufran@conferacity.com, thanks+++
This is so cool. I might consider connecting this to a Telegram bot and adding it to my personal site just in case someone opens the console one day and wants to chat with me.
Yeah. I prefer not being notified.
Not the author, and it's a totally reasonable suggestion, but having done it, one decent reason is that baking the Ptex into textures that actually fit in the 2070's ram requires making camera specific resolution decisions, adding gutters between adjacent textures, and probably still using out of core texture loading anyway. In other words, it's doable but not easy. In the Moana dataset, the textures consume quite a bit more space than the geometry IIRC.
Sometimes I use emotion in an argument to create ambiguity that the other party fills with some new point.

So, for example, I'm arguing something, I run out of good argument. I dodge by making a vague, emotional point. Then the other party will construct a new argument based on my vague emotional point. This lets me reset and construct a new argument.

It's a way to keep arguing when following a given point down the rabbit hole gets stale.
Reminds me of https://histre.com/features/
Can you elucidate?
What issues made you switch back specifically?
there's no victory when the users lose. praising a proprietary platform like Discord is not quite a nice thing, at best.

computers are more than mere quick abacuses, they define our lives. the amount of personal user data and metadata that crap gathers is quite frightening. user privacy loses bad with Discord.

Being proprietary, who knows what else will be the best step in their malicious software.

it's cute to think UX is everything, but not everyone laughs at each PRISM reveal.
Some countries don't recognize dedication to the public domain. I believe CC0 is the usual license for those that want to do this in a more robust way: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
I've been wanting to build this for years, thought there must be a reason it doesn't exist aha
Disney Animation data sets (2018)
Sure, intent is relevant, but the example was "a suicidal pilot flying the plane into a mountain on purpose". Isn't killing all those passengers a crime?
It would really be something if they were to be, actually, honored.

"White Man speak with forked tongue."
I guess on the one hand if the conversation didn't warrant you returning to it in a timely fashion, maybe it wasn't that critical.

For any company related stuff I usually checked in regularly and also have google alerts set up.

But for casual banter, I think the no notification is a nice feature of HN and probably reduces some of the bad noise other public forums have.

That being said, still a nice feature to add for those who want it =]
Is WebView Windows only? Or will it become an Electron competitor someday?
Notably, Coinbase does not handle Monero.
Nice idea, but as a new user I don't like to be notified! :)
That's the Blizzcon 2018 Diablo Immortal reference...
Shouldn't take it's literal interpretation as gospel.
But overall direction of company seems to be making mobile games for Chinese market.
Those clauses are joined by an "or", not an "and". One element alone is enough to satisfy.
Price tags tend to be small. Hard to read from any significant distance, unless you’ve got a really high res camera. In which case you’re going to be drowning in data as you try to process all those huge video frames.

Then there’s the issue of occlusion, where higher shelves may block the ability to see price tags on lower shelves, and vice-versa. You need to take pictures at multiple different heights to be sure you’ve got coverage. This also includes what do you do if someone is blocking your picture of that shelf at the moment, so that you have to either sit there and wait until they move, or you go ahead and move on and then come back.

Think about breaking the process up into multiple parallel stages. How many cameras can you stack together to capture multiple different heights simultaneously? How many sides can you scan at the same time?

How much intelligence can you build into the camera rig so that it not only captures the pictures of the products, but also accurately captures, recognizes, and OCRs the values on the tags?

What about location information? How do you accurately record precisely where you took which picture, so that you can properly place that image relative to all the others, and so you know what is located where?

How about recognizing the content of the picture that you took? Sure, you might know what’s on the price tag, but can you be sure that’s the right product with that tag? This also relates to how can you tell if a product has been mis-placed, perhaps by someone who took it off the shelf and then put it back on the shelf in the wrong place?

Look very closely at the Amazon Go stores and the kinds of solutions they have to have in place.
certainly imperfect, but before 2024 you might want to run something akin to:

wget -r -l 2 -A pdf --no-parent https://tomlehrersongs.com/index/
But not all conversations are "flame wars" , sometime you are having an interesting conversation/debate and you need a large amount of effort to remember to check for the replies and continue the thread.

I know that some HNers will say HN > Reddit but this is in general I know some subbreddits that are better then HN and if you use those is great to see when somebody responded to your quality comment with an other quality comment.
The game looks great! I love the idea of the maze, it brings me back to the RPG games I played when I was younger.
What was the tech stack you used to make the game? I'm wondering if there are any tools or frameworks intuitive enough to make the game with a 9-10 year old.
I don't like discussing this, because smart people completely turn their brains off when it comes to discussing it. Somehow homeschooling creates Lake Wobegone, a place where every child manages to be above average.

The reality is more homeschooling is completely unregulated in the majority of states, so people can do almost anything.

Most states require no formal education from the parents at all to teach. Many don't require any form of assessment or to keep a portfolio or records of education. Some have required subjects but no real enforcement of them being taught. Any form of standardized testing or auditing may not even be required. If you wanted to keep your kid at home and not educate them at all, you could easily do it in most states.

Would you really bet a system like we have now would provide better outcomes overall?
I’m not sure if you’re being serious or not :D
I guess admiration isn't the right word. It's more like awe, at the fact that this is possible at all.

If I had any kind of power the first thing I would do would be to stamp out this corruption, but I can't, so here we are.
Old "New Math"
https://groovyhistory.com/remember-new-math

New "New Math"
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/meet-new-math-unlike-old-math/
Was awesome until the loop spam began. I think your server just crashed too. Never thought I'd say this, but please add rate limiting. :)
Or follow yourself on RSS

https://hnrss.org/replies?id=
Do you have a link to some of the features you'd like to see?
Yeah that escalated quickly
If I was in their position I wouldn't do the same. I'm moreso in awe that there are people that managed to get away with this.

It's kind of like if you see a horrible weapon that is however very technically impressive, but not quite.
Folks already abusing setInterval for political flaimbait, I see :)
Sigh. That Stack Exchange answer is incredibly old and points to the flaws everyone knew in MTProto 1, which has been superseded by MTProto 2 for years. MTProto 2 is based on standard crypto primitives that not a single human being has found fault in.

Please do your research before putting this stuff out there in the future: it spreads unnecessary fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Hopefully the Wayback Machine will pick it up. It only has the index page at this time. https://web.archive.org/web/20200302193816/https://tomlehrer...
Is this work sponsored by anyone, or for a competition, or is it just for fun?
bad to business when... "people unauthorized by Discord" get CE, eh?

hope the OpenFeint 2.0 privacy scandal bursts soon. users had enough data stolen.
I built my own chrome extension for this and also tracking users (similar to an RSS feed). It was actually for a client, don’t know what happened to it. I used it for personal use a bit and frankly I like the untracked and unnamed nature of comments. I don’t need to follow people for thoughtful comments. I add insight where I can and honestly only return if I want to. I don’t need notifications, I’d rather explore organically.

That being said, good work and I’m sure others will find value. Just not for me.
"...but the rest of our large enterprise requiements remain largely unmet."

What are some the unmet requirements?
OP here, I was very much referring to the last period, not periods in general.
Discord desktop app vulnerability chain triggered remote code execution attacks
Quote: "1,945 HN Users Signed Up"

Well, well, well. For a crowd that cries each time somebody like Google & Co gets data on users, this does sounds like the best tool to get hold of developers without them realizing they've just been fished :D.
I think newer companies benefit at the expense of older ones. For example in Berkeley there's a biotech startup that pays as much in property taxes for their tiny building as Bayer pays, right across the street, for their 50-acre facility. Under Prop 15 Bayer will pay much more.
The "Tom Lehrer Trust" probably has a budget, and they've probably already paid the server/domain fees until then but have no plans for the trust to cover renewal.
Js library for maximizing tree shake and uglify
Intersect with PG's old article? http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
That doesn't help you prove they're indisputable from humans, even if you admitted to using them to cheat. You said some engines are indisputable from humans, can you give me some evidence of this?
When you realize this was all a political scam to make the Republican (ex-)governor of Wisconsin look good it makes perfect sense.
the biggest thing Discord did wrong was decide on being proprietary software.
Book Review of Shape Up: The Hipster's Waterfall
> Websites are simply apps installed in the browser without asking for permission.

I don't believe a website can upload your contact list, upload a list of apps on the device, log your GPS location or record using your camera or microphone. Is this no longer true?
What specifically about JIRA annoys you?
That sounds a lot less horrible :) although it was still fun to write.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24822755
Google confirms the Nest Secure has been discontinued
Crucial Ways to Stand Out as a Software Developer
Foxconn did this in India too. They use investments and manufacturing as a carrot to negotiate better subsidies and low taxes.
https://wccftech.com/apple-foxconn-india-plant-abandon/
you hear (and ignore) security concerns. Discord and security do not touch in a Venn diagram, since Discord is proprietary.
The attacks in Cuba were found to be illness brought on by new pesticides and aggressive use around embassies to kill mosquitos to prevent diplomatic staff from catching Zika virus.
I play league and CSGO on my 8gb laptop, but the Discord desktop client was superb glitchy for me. I don’t know if it was ram or what, but it was unusable.
Anecdotally, after some of the recent updates I've noticed like a 10% match instead of 0%. It was really nice when they pushed an update to recognize a mask and fail quickly to a pin since that's what happens most often when shopping.
I think that WebView is meant to be part of the Windows SDK. Realistically, macOS and Linux/FreeBSD already have accessible OS-level Webkit interfaces. See, for example, webview/webview: https://github.com/webview/webview
I think a lot of enterprise is going to end up on Teams simply because it’s part of your Office365 package. It’s kind of hard to justify paying for something that you already have, and it integrating so well with the rest of the 365 package makes it a lot easier to roll out in a non-tech savvy enterprise.

Being the public sector, we’ve gone through a lot of different things, even a few specifically build for business-to-client video chats with encryption, and I can’t recall anything that has been as easy to implement as teams. We have a lot of people, like a thousand employees, who never learned how to use Skype for Business, most of them now use teams seamlessly.

The fact that Microsoft are building things into it at a fairly rapid pace, and even by suggestion from users like us (the ability to hide team emails from outlook). Makes it fairly valuable. I mean, I’m in development and not operations, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a presentation platform that could be used by the political layer with so little support before those team meetings where you present to a muted audience.

I personally prefer discords IRC-like bits, and use discord at home like everyone else, but it’s getting really hard to compete with teams in an enterprise setting.
Discord is unsafe for quite a bunch of reasons, but they keep a lot of memory for personal user data!
"If this gets my company to stop using them, I will be so happy."

What specifically sucks about Jira and Confluence?
Ignoring the fallacy of equating crowd opinions with individual ones, what "fishing" is happening by explicitly putting data into the signup to this service?
I wonder. I think some politicians argue deliberately and rationally to win over some followers. For them it does not matter what the truth is or whether they believe it themselves but how many people will be convinced to vote for them.

Their followers might not even believe it but still support and spread the argument, for their own selfish reasons.

Say Hitler pronouncing that Jews are an inferior race worthy of destroying. Did his followers really believe that when they agreed with him, or did it just seem in their self-interest to spread such propaganda further, and seize the property of Jews?

Just an example from past but I believe similar examples happen all the time. Some people argue in bad faith. If that is the case there is no reason to argue with them.
I've always wished Pixar would do what Id software did, releasing an Open Source version of some small portion of their movies for analysis, like this Moana scene.

Because the question on my mind is, given the improvements in rendering, there's some year in which we can now render in real time, what took a long time for Pixar to render.

So, what is it? I believe I read that creating the 3D version of Toy Story ran at 24 fps, averaged across the entire film. So, basically, we already crossed the threshold for Toy Story. (But maybe that was only if you have a rendering farm?)

So, where are we at? Could we render a plausible Toy Story in real time now? Bug's Life? Monsters Inc?
> DDOS, ransomware, threats, defamation, etc

These problems are not caused by anonymity. DDoS and ransomware are problems that have their roots in poor security of consumer operating systems. Very few DDoS participants or ransomware victims are willing to be such. Threats and defamation are often done by people literally posting on social media accounts with their names and personal details.
Cool! There was http://www.hnnotify.com for this, same idea (but no longer works)
(Also if I understand correctly) there are two kinds of batches here - the instances and the path segments (or path "depth"). Path segment batches are the outer loop, and instance batches are the inner loop. So in terms of path tracing, the instances being batched is a detail that is hidden from the rendering algorithm. Each launch (or batch of instances) performs partial updates to the render buffers (tmax, normal, etc.), until all the instances have been processed, and then the tracing of the next path segment begins, which loops through the instance batches again.
GCC's Ada Front End Seeing More Work on Nvidia CUDA Support
I'm afraid that unschooling correlates to parents being antivac, anti 5G, etc.
Hearing Tom Lehrer perform live from some of his albums is also a revelation. There are times when some of his on-stage jokes fall flat, yet he recovers with aplomb and gets the audience on his side again.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) as explained by a couple of 7th Graders
How to Increase E-Commerce Site Speed for Fast Conversions?
I've had neck muscle tension that was due to emotional distress. I went to the free 10-day Vipassana meditation course (the Goenka one) and learned how to relax my neck muscles and process the emotions so my neck stays relaxed. After learning to deal with the root cause, my quality of life has improved. Therapy also helped.

Most neck tension, migraines, headaches, and lower back pain are from emotions. If your neck tension is due to emotions, I hope you can learn to deal with them and find long-lasting relief.
I agree that the church itself doesn't have freedom of religion. But for the members of the church to have freedom of religion they need to be able to exercise their freedom as an organized group. The end result is the same: the government is limited in what restrictions it can place on the group, because to restrict the group is to restrict the members.
Absolutely. That article inspired the SlateStarCodex article https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/08/varieties-of-argumenta..., which in turn was one of the main inspirations for this guide.
Reddit replies 10 years ago used to feel like an exciting thing. Nowadays, I just feel dread.
I'm sure a non-profit service like in Austin run by the city could, anyway so Uber/Lyft still ride on their funding and driver's aren't paid much of you include their expenses, so it is obvious that either prices should go up or something needs to change to make it sustainable (and by sustainable it probably means self driving cars) if that's the end goal then what are really voting for? Continuing exploiting these people?
The Five Eyes + 1 nations are positively Orwellian. They say

"We, the undersigned, support strong encryption, which plays a crucial role in protecting personal data, privacy, intellectual property, trade secrets and cyber security,” the Statement commences, adding: “Encryption is an existential anchor of trust in the digital world and we do not support counter-productive and dangerous approaches that would materially weaken or limit security systems.”

Which is to say, they support encryption but then they want to have a backdoor that would materially weaken or limit security systems. Orwell would have been proud that double speak has emerged again in the wild.
i noticed a bug, maybe because of spamming, my name was being associated with some message i didn't send
> Having ~50% market share is not a monopoly.

Most competition regulators disagree. 50% of a market is well above the threshold for both the US and EU to consider a company to be a monopoly. They usually treat the cut-off as around 20%.
This is ridiculously great hahaa!
The site is powered by pointNG?
This is something new as well and I participated to the beta. Great job guys!
And I hate how Slack doesn't group everything.
Anything for password protecting PDFs without any file upload?
Ask HN: Are you/your company still using Python 2 in production?