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> Why should any tax dollars go towards academic research?

Research is a process through which we unlock various technological orchards to harvest for the betterment of all mankind. The problem we have today is we're running low on new orchards. It's a crying shame how little we spend on research - compared to e.g. weapons.

> Careful with this reasoning. Commies said the same thing when they sent people they didn't like to uranium mine labor camps.

Do I dignify that with a reply? That's got nothing to do with what I said.
It's worth mentioning Paul Graham has a degree in philosophy. He should know what hermeneutic and dialectic mean.
There is a bit more to it. The government here invoked a general policy against damages remedies against government officials. The court could have credited that argument but didn’t.
I had this idea years ago! I'm glad someone finally did it. One thought. From a philosophical point of view, I would want this to be something that "lasts forever". So it would be nice if it were solar powered and ran off of an SD card rather than being web-based. Just an opinion from an HN extremist - take it in context. Still, it's scratching an itch for me. Your website is down so I didn't see how much it costs but I'll check back in a bit.

Also, get behind a CDN ASAP!!
The very simple answer is because dinosaur is a scientific term that covers a very narrow band of fauna, and that bit of popular knowledge is _wrong_... Depending on who you speak to.

Dinosaurs are "terrestrial reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that existed during the Mesozoic Era, including but not limited to megafauna."

There are plenty of other megafauna that the public think of as dinosaurs, that aren't, because they're not part of the clade 'Dinosauria'. So of course anything descended from extinct creatures from roughly the right age are "dinosaurs" to the common person.

However! Recent changes in the way we classify species, moving to phylogenetics, says that for a group to be natural, all descendants must be part of said group. Making birds, dinosaurs. Whilst this reclassification (which whilst popular also has popular detractors), wouldn't say people are fish, it would say that both fish and people are Eukaryotes.
The whole situation it's weird, the e-mail from the PR guys reads almost as a mob dog whistle, "If you make a honest review that doesn't align with our marketing goals, you better be prepared to be blacklisted."

Yes, Nvidia it's free to not "give" cards to anyone they don't want to. But that's not the problem, it's the "wink deal" of "Just to be clear: This it's not a honest sharing of our hardware with the press to review it, it's a bribe, in exchange to say wherever we want you to say", and then use the same media words as testimonials in their website as a Marketing Material.
Unfortunately, both 2D graphics and the programming of Vulkan compute shaders are very arcane topics, and the intersection of the two basically maxes out.

For GPU programming, I have a list of resources here: https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2020/02/12/gpu-resources.htm..., and also a talk here: https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/a-taste-of-gpu-compute...

Re 2D graphics, a long term ambition of mine is to write a book on the topic (and I have a repo started with a rough, bullet point outline), largely because I don't know of any source that brings the concepts together. I don't think I'll be able to spend significant time on it, though, as I have my hands pretty full. I am hoping to do more explaining and public communication as part of my piet-gpu work.

A good snapshot of GPU font rendering work from 3 years ago is: https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/02/15/Font-Rendering-is-Gettin... . The linked papers are quite good and have informed my thinking, though of course I hope to advance the state of the art even further.
Allocating memory when there is no available addresses does not reliably result in a seg fault in C?
PiSugar or UPS Lite?
Still have a full year? You think replatforming is something that happens in a day?
New Orleans mayoralty needs to hear this loud and clear...
I’ve been trying to understand the difference. Even have an open unanswered question on stack overflow.

What’s the diff between Hypervisor and virtualisation frameworks? Docs are ambiguous.
> a lot of experience doing high performance 2D

Is there a good ELI5 about the current state of 2D GPU acceleration?
This is the primary reason I use CentOS and RHEL as well. If you are a Fedora user especially I wouldn't write off CentOS stream so quickly as it might match your needs just fine. If it doesn't Rocky Linux seems quite promising as well (though very early days still). More info elsewhere on this large thread or in this blog post: https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop...
2%? You have an interesting idea of the world's population.
Just think about what that means. It means 2 out of 100 people can hack into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel.

I mean if we are talking "mentally capable to achieve that within a decade if the person does nothing else but strive to that goal"... Perhaps.

If we are talking "sit down right now and do it", then it's more like what... 10,000-100,000 people on earth? Which makes for more like 0.0014%?
After I dinged 120 level in BfA on new account, I got alpaca mount from the first world boss which is rare drop. My friend resubscribed after 3 years break and got Lich King mount from the first kill (also very rare drop).
> It's a big political risk to take

The entire crisis has been about leaders trying to dodge any responsibility for people dying by choosing the most medieval and oppressive policies as a safe bet.

Unwilling to take risks(or allow people to act according to their own risk assessment) for fear of the retribution; yet here we are with people unable to work, their livelihoods destroyed, scores of dead, etc.
I think a useful term is "circle of confusion".

http://fslashd.com/2015/04/circles-of-confusion/

http://www.villageinframe.com/how-big-should-the-hole-be-in-...

This is a useful image. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e92438d691243116d52f99...
Well, QM didn't exist yet. Instead, you had competing concepts of light as a wave and light as a particle. As a wave, it would seem perfectly reasonable that you could keep dividing and that it was a continuous function. We have the benefit of QM in hindsight.

However, think of it another way ... if the stars had infinite time to pump out these "photon" particles you speak of (harmph! highly dubious), then there ought to be an infinite number of them in any given space, as they have had an infinity of time to reach you.
Ubuntu LTS at the moment.
More like "oh hey encrypted LVM doesn't work and the package maintainer is refusing to allow fixes because he hates systemd and is indulging in maintainer terrorism to try and block it."
Yes. So instead of spending €300 at a perfectly fine WH1000XM4 including a case and cable (and airplane adapter), I get to spend €630 on AirPods Max, €40 on a cable and probably €100 on a case.

Indeed a non issue (assuming you also own a money printer).
> In any corporates network you see job requiring Cisco certificates

This is not always true and people are downvoting you...

> No surprise Amazon want the same thing.

...but this is the important point: lock-in
Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison
That style of writing is extremely popular online and on Twitter. People love snark and entitlement when they agree with it
Let's assume the universe is not expanding but is infinite. At some point in time stars started lighting up. Maybe they even all lit up at once, long time ago. But some stars are so far away that the light from them has not yet reached us.

Even though there are an infinite number of stars we can only see the light from a subset of them because the light from the rest of them has not reached us yet.

So I think the simple resolution of the paradox is that the speed of light is not infinite. No?

What I also never understood was what about matter that is not lit up? There could be many more unlit heavenly bodies than stars, which would block the light from the stars.
So this is news again?

Next week on HN: GitHub Light Mode is too Light.

Remember, you read it here first!
I wonder if more is known about whales by the US Navy, but kept classified because the data comes from military sonar networks.
"The hole year" is quite accurate to describe to 2020.
But your caveats mean that, in practice, they can come after anyone who actually came into contact with the material unless it was dead-dropped to them without their knowledge, and even then, maybe they were 'encouraging' it.

See Julian Assange. What's his case hinge on again, "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion"? Any amount of working with a source would be such a conspiracy.
That's only a partial remedy. Having your home illegally searched is not made right simply because anything found during that search can't be used to prosecute you. You still had you home and privacy violated.
Of course, detecting this in general is not easy to do.
Number one for me is familiarity since I have a long history with Fedora and CentOS.

Secondly though selinux (once you learn to use it) is so powerful. I have seen it stop attacks in their tracks or render them inert (unable to call their C&C server for example because selinux blocks the socket attempt).

10 year support is also icing on the cake, although I typically upgrade a year or so after a new major release.
It was used in Lisa and Mac OS, and after MPW introduction, the focus was a mix of Object Pascal and C++, not C.

UNIX was written in Assembly, C only came later, as the article clearly states.

8 bits were dominated by Assembly and Basic, in 16 bits we kept using Assembly and a mix of languages, where C was one option among many others.
!false

It's funny because it's true
It is indeed challenging to make a hybrid. In an all-electric, though, one must have a larger battery that can supply the car's range. That's the challenge that Tesla's met and Toyota has not.
If structure is what you are looking for MIL-STD-498 is good for that...

https://github.com/VCTLabs/MIL-STD-498/tree/master/MIL-STD-4...
The unfortunate trend is people producing otherwise useful educational Youtube content (particularly developers) in dark mode. They surely don't realize they are losing some portion of their audience due to any of a few reasons (not the least of which is the audience who actually works outside sometimes!)
Maybe not so interesting but of practical value: needed something for indoor cardio (as my bpm and pressure were below healthy) and got a Rift2 + BeatSaber. Also dentist said to take it easy on brushing as there was visible scratching--switched from carbon to regular slimsoft brush.
The only people who hate JBoss more than Ellison are the WebSphere sales team.
vim can definitely do it with CoC
> Rather than "stable long term release," I would phrase it as a "dot release frozen in time as much as possible given serious bugs and security fixes."

Which is exactly what we want.

> So, yes, it is different but, increasingly, most of the software you use will be using this type of model. Certainly SaaSs don't let you choose a dot release for the most part.

Not all of us are happy with having to follow the update treadmill. Software is a tool, like an electric drill; one doesn't update their electric drill every day, otherwise we would be wasting all our time updating and dealing with the fallout of updates, instead of drilling holes in wood. If you develop (or do anything) on top of software, you want a stable base, instead of one shifting all the time; one builds castles in rock, not in quicksand.
Patents are a nightmare for innovation and are used by bullies and criminals to crush improved operations. Patents are simply a money grab. No one should be able to own an idea... They can own their business and compete in the free market.

This is how the worst corporations that we all hate stay alive... Patents. Look at Oracle for example.
I wish teachers thought more carefully before they spoke. Some are absolute enemies of ambition.
My claim wasn't "all problems can be solved by building a firm". It was "some problems can only be solved by building a firm".
> I'd demand Facebook pay out $75,000 minimum

Wouldn't demanding money be blackmailing?

A story from one of my startups: A student reached out to us regarding a security vulnerability on the website, demanding money for it. He refused to say what it was or provide evidence at first, so we couldn't assess it. He said he'd disclose it to others if we didn't.

I definitely felt blackmailed. I am not a lawyer but it felt illegal. Maybe someone can chime in to say if it is?
> having nothing to do with science or any kind of semi-scientific discipline, and should not receive public funding.

It's the humanities. It's not supposed to be "scientific," with whatever weight you decide to place on that adjective.

Our government (and every government) funds thousands of things, academic and not, that aren't themselves scientific: parks, libraries, public arts, aesthetic programs intended to motivate the public towards some policy goal[1]. Most people think these things should receive some amount of funding, and recognize that they themselves are not immediately qualified to distinguish worthy endeavours from un-worthy ones.

[1]: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/spring/d...
Here's a tip - whether in light mode or dark mode, you can turn your screen brightness down.
Yeah. As much as originalism can impede progress and reform in certain ways, so can generous interpretation. I don't want an Alito or an RBG - Kagan's just fine.
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Is less output from Congress really a problem? I mean, Court clarifies, and if clarification is beyond expectations of a majority of Congress then they have the ability to rewrite and ship an update?

I feel like this is a useful prioritization mechanic within the structure of government.
As I posted to a similar request, this is an arcane field, and different things are meant by 2D - in games, it's largely painting sprites from sprite sheets, I think of it as involving vector graphics, and there are other contexts.

I think a good blog post that motivates some of the main differences between 2D and 3D in the GPU context is this one: https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harde...
The easiest path forward is to convert to oracle linux. You don't even have to reinstall centos for that. Being rhel clone it's already supported by many commercial apps and unsurprisingly by oracle apps.

Given that's an option, this recent redhat announcement is really shooting themselves in the foot.
All the basic human rights and freedoms as defined in the constitution subject to the capricious whims and full discretion of the CCP. In other words: none.
IBM had nothing to do with it, unless you think every Red Hat employee would lie about it. I would think if anything RH would like to blame IBM :-)

They legitimately believe this is better. Maybe not for everybody, but for most. And for those who it's not better for they are announcing options in the next month or two for free RHEL access.

I just blogged about it if you are interested. There's a lot of inaccurate info out there as a result of poor initial messaging. I attempt to clear things up here: https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop...
I've deleted my comment, but will replace it with this interesting discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20651210
So... that's just not how any of that works. Do you really think most of the women you know are choosing to be on onlyfans and are making huge money off it? Hint, no. Not a choice most would make and most accounts there are not making anykind of money like that.

But you seem really upset about all this. To be clear, what you are mad about is how there are lots of men willing to pay to see naked and sexual content online, right? That really upsets you?
It’s swapping places with RHEL beta, not RHEL. Not calling it a beta doesn’t not make it a beta. It’s directly taking the role that RHEL beta releases used to have (ie. be a point release ahead, and be for the public to test and report issues before going to stable RHEL).

Regardless of what your blog post says, RHEL was not a beta for old CentOS. Old CentOS was a rebuild/copy of RHEL, bugs and all included. RHEL will not be a copy/rebuild CentOS Stream, so it’s not a reversal of roles.

Using outdated packages doesn’t make a distribution stable. It’s stable when its combination of packages and configuration has already been tried by a bunch of people, and confirmed to work, or has had its issues thoroughly documented with effective workarounds.
VSCode dark is default. You can switch to light modes if you wish, but it starts out dark. At least in that app you have choices. Fortunately most modern editors and IDEs give you options.
everyone's making a deal about "dark mode" just use the darkreader chrome extension and control the brightness on any page.
> Throw those symbols out — I do not know what they mean, I have not time to learn symbols.

Wouldn't it be easier to just use C/C++, and define macros like "PLUS" that explands to "+", "MINUS" that expands to "-", "BECOMES" that expands to "=", etc.?

Oops, COBOL predates C. :(
I believe there is at least one tribe that classifies animals as (more or less)

a) harmless animals

b) dangerous animals

c) animals that are good to eat

I'm not finding a citation at the moment, but it's certainly believable. In a subsistence/survival situation, pragmatism tends to win out. :-)
So logically you deserve to be paid 0.0014% of Facebook’s yearly revenue, which is around $1,176,000.00! /s
Maybe it's just my observation, but I find it quite interesting that only finds such tone-policing comments as yours when the author is a woman. Daily, I see much more abrasive blogs on HN: instead of lampooning them for asking GitHub to be better, they are not rarely lauded for their "brutal honesty" while often straight-up insulting the blog's target.

This is not meant to criticize you, OP, personally. Rather, I just want to point out a structural double standard.
Let’s hope that the pandemic kills the open office!
They were standard in ISO Extended Pascal, the standard that mostly ignored because Modula-2, Turbo Pascal and Apple's Object Pascal.

Cowboy programming tends to attract certain kinds of developers, but not all.
That would be a different argument and case. If Congress were to pass a law providing blanket immunity of federal employees, expect it to be challenged on constitutional grounds especially in a case where the damages were the result of misconduct. All the SCOTUS seems to be saying here (my interpretation) is that if the desire is to provide any level of immunity for government employees, there needs to be a law passed explicitly saying that. Whether or not the law passes constitutional muster is an argument for another day. This is definitely a slippery slope situation.
The "bogus" comment falls in a paragraph about ventures where the earnest don't generally win. So the first question to ask is: do the earnest generally win in that kind of academic field? I don't know much about that field, but I'm guessing probably not just because it is too closely tied to politics. If you earnestly persue research, you are likely to find something that contradicts the current political fashions, and end up buried. So in that sense, PG is probably right.

The next question is: is he inappropriately dismissive (or even insulting) to the field over all? Does is have value that he unfairly dismisses? You seem to think so.

But even if so, pretty much everyone needs to be dismissive about a lot of stuff. At least he's transparent about where his blind spots are.
$7500 seems low for this bug. If I were Facebook i would raise it. Why?

Cost/benefit analysis tells me I could probably get a lot more for this bug going to some more nefarious actors.

$7500 is a drop in the ocean for a company like FB who has a reputation to keep intact.
Thanks for the feedback and your offer. English language is not my native one, that is why decks will be proofread by a professional english educator and a native speaker before being shipped. The same goes for the product page that is waiting for the final check.
they have the option of dropping to the low tier if the costs are too high
Heh. The word "illustration" seemed pretty clear to me. Maybe I should have said, "picture"? "Graphic"? "The thing you drew"?
Most new devices on the internet are wireless phones and most wireless telcos do not give out an ipv4 addresses. They use carrier NAT to share some aspects of ipv4 connectivity but not the important things like being able to use ports.
Starting over in new tech is probably not going to earn you more. I don't know that changing will get you more interesting work (90-99% in any domain is boring stuff).
I'll guess that your screen brightness is set too high.
In the Ozarks, very old-timers used to refer to scorpions as "stingin' lizards".

Of course they're not lizards, but they're vaguely lizard-like in habitat and behavior, and definitely sting.
> instead of making it an exclusive trade off or implying that IDEs are limiting.

But that would be a completely different argument. Their whole point is that there /is/ an exclusive trade-off, which is different from what they're trying to say.

If you want my opinion, they both piss me off, just in different ways. The IDE requires me to use my mouse, even with the best Vim impersonation plugins. I hate that, but I put up with it because the autocomplete, syntax completion and indexing just works so much better than the Vim equivalents which fall apart under heavily load. And conversely, trying to edit remotely complex projects is a nightmare with Vim, no matter which distributions I use.

Which maybe is a different tone of saying exactly what you are saying.
While I agree with many of the comments from a pedagogical perspective, I still want to congratulate you for launching and having clearly invested a lot of effort into this project. Good luck!
The example you shared is also very well done.

However in defense of the main book of this thread - the style of its formatting I think is well suited for web developers and the like, having less information on the page makes the problem a bit less daunting for beginner readers.

It also increases the page count, which is a good marketing strategy for the publisher. I think most ebooks in general, particularly in web dev space, are void of quality content; so while I completely understand and see your perspective, I think in the context of what is out there, this book is a good effort.

I personally would also write a more condensed guide (actually I did :D see here: https://github.com/ashok-khanna/common-lisp-by-example), but that’s just you and me having similar style choices :)

I need to copy that springer style, it’s beautiful too!
This article makes references to that point: https://tidbits.com/2019/05/31/the-dark-side-of-dark-mode/
Great idea! Thanks :)
Perhaps from here or referenced here: https://tidbits.com/2019/05/31/the-dark-side-of-dark-mode/