skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why spending money in army? Even if it's nuclear powered, it involves a lot of pollution for maintaining this kind of huge ship. I'm French and sad that our taxes go in this and not useful things
Do you have seasonal allergies? Does anyone you know have seasonal allergies? Then congrats, you "ha[ve] a history of allergic reactions". This is meaningless. Moreover, we were assured that the vaccine is safe for everyone to take—by the same folks who told us masks don't work, sure, but we are trusting the science here!
TIL that anaphylactic reactions can manifest with seizures.

https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/immune-disorders/allergic-...
They kind of got embarrassed by the Turkish navy, as they got 'checked', while trying to blockade the Turkish aid to one of the Lybian factions. The Lybian civil war is a war were there are no good vs bad guys, just different factions. The French backed one is losing.

France realized their navy is not up to par. It is like a lap dog that is all bark, but doesn't have any power to bite:

After Turkish incident, France suspends role in NATO naval mission
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-france-nat...

France blasts ‘extremely aggressive’ Turkish intervention against NATO mission targeting Libyan arms

https://www.france24.com/en/20200617-france-blasts-extremely...

Turkey beats the french in Libya’s war // The U.N. dithers and Russia withers while Erdoğan flexes his Islamic muscle

https://www.amimagazine.org/2020/07/15/turkey-beats-the-fren...
That’s because HyperV is a type 1 hypervisor and vbox is a type 2 hypervisor. They don’t mix well :)

Best option is still vbox and putty IMHO. VScode will work with it and SSH fine.

Or say fuck it, buy a Mac and do all your Linux work in the cloud.
You are making contradictory criticisms. I could point out where the contradiction lies, but I think doing that may not be the best way, because it would be too superficial: You would just resolve the contradiction one way or the other and be on your way. I think if you looked for it yourself it would be a better exercise and may cause to wonder how and why it arose and expose underlying biases in your thought process. But if you are really stuck I will point it out. Or if you know what I'm thinking of, and think it's not a contradiction feel free say so then I guess.
I think we have different scale in mind. You see closed-minded VC capital (which I personally believe works this way due to focus on sure, short-term gain), I see amygdalin sold in pharmacies. You don't need flat Earth level of conspiracy to have victims, and bad actors can emerge from every background and attack people opened to new ideas as easily as old bad actors will still have their following.
In my (hobbyist) experience, path-tracing and rendering in general are enormously parallelizable. So if you can render X frames in parallel such that they all finish in 24 hours, that's roughly equivalent to saying you can render one of those frames in 24h/X.

Of course I'm sure things like I/O and art-team-workflow hugely complicate the story at this scale, but I still doubt there's a meaningful concept of "wall-clock time for one frame" that doesn't change with the number of available cores.
I can pull, analyze, and use the data I paid for with my taxes instead of having to beg Google or any other company for access to the data.
> someone who has assets to draw down from is, by definition, not poor.

So it is a paid program

Payed by your poverty.

If you end up inheriting money from a distant uncle, you have to pay back.

> you can't give away your money for the sole purpose of acquiring government benefits

That's understandable.

And it's only necessary because the country with the highest spending per capita on healthcare cannot agree that the only reason why they don't create a free universal healthcare system is not because it is economically unfeasible (if it is for Italy, it is for USA, I usually argue that USA could do a much better job than us), but because they fear that without the incentive to become rich and distance yourself from State benefits, the system would collapse.

It's only a cultural problem: nobody wants to rely on the State providing base services because nobody wants to think of themselves as "being poor" because only poor people use public services.

When you come from countries where public figures, politicians, presidents, Queens and Kings and even the Pope go to public hospitals, you can't imagine why it should be a bad thing.
There's a bit of verbal sleight-of-hand going on - probably not intentionally.

"This is very slow"

"We have no problems"

These aren't addressing the same things, really (unless the OP was translating "we're happy with the speed of the entire system" as "we have no problems").

Are the people reporting "no problems" actual end users. People I know who've become acclimated to Jira that I know would happily respond "we have no problems" while the people below them who have to use Jira 10x more often (multiple times per hour, vs a daily look at progress, for example) would happily say "this is slow as molasses (and that's a problem)".
What kind of authentication of a user do you have in mind ?

Further, in what manner is 'jancsika' authenticated, to anyone, and why do you consider that negative ?
> It's 1.25% in Poland. Technically 9% but you can deduct 7.75 of those 9 diectly out of the tax you owe.

It’s 9%. That’s the money that goes into the health insurance system. You can’t run a universal health insurance system with a 1.25% tax.

If you can take a deduction on your personal income tax for what you pay in health tax, then you have to compare those personal income tax rates as well. The proper way to do this is to look at the tax wedge: http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-poland.pdf

http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-united-state...

The tax wedge for an average single worker Poland is 36%, right at the OECD average. For the US it’s 29.8%. The Poland number includes health insurance, and the US number doesn’t. For workers who have to purchase an ACA plan, the effective tax rate probably works out to the same number.

But 70% of US workers get health insurance from their employer, which is a benefit on top of their income (so it’s not factored into the OECD tax wedge data).
CGI is heavily about optimization. I recommend checking out SIGGRAPH ACM papers , and there's a great collection by them on production renderers.

Every second spent rendering or processing, is time an artist is not working on a shot. Any savings in optimizations add up to incredible cost savings.
So do you just set a 25 min timer and stop when the timer goes off? What things do you use this method for?
I've had similar ideas for shedding some much-need light on other similar performance pain points that large corporations are sweeping under the rug via legal means.
In my experience, it works if people accept the two conditions as reasonable before the discussion starts. At the outset, the conditions are fairly reasonable. Yes, it's a trap, but a reasonable trap.

BTW, I'm not claiming this changes their mind in the long run. It does provide for a good conversation in the moment, though.
The limits here speak to the exact opposite, it did not take a whole lot of money (a few hundred dollars) to create a fictitious entity to hold your home or other property so that is does not appear on public property tax records.

This was not a tool "only for the wealthy" and since the limits of the law are fairly low before the law no longer applies it is clear this law IS NOT targeting "the wealthy"
I think it is pretty weird that Trump is popular among the middle class and lower strata of society. He is the go to example of a rich asshole billionaire that is only looking out for himself. He is promising the moon like every other politician but it's extremely easy to look behind his words precisely because of his economic background.

Democrats are just as bad when it is about the things that matter but they are not glaringly bad like Trump.

Fixing first world economies is not very difficult if you had a benevolent dictator whose only job was to fix the economy. I'm not advocating against democracy but every time there is a systemic issue the fundamental cause lies in power creep of the wealthy and the difficulty of telling the population to accept a tiny bit of hardship for massive future gains because they are already used to getting screwed over all the time.
I thought that missile tech like the DF-21 had effectively rendered carriers obsolete against equiv-tech adversaries.

& I would expect many non equivalent adversaries to be able to catch up by 2038, rendering these things sitting ducks even when being used for force projection against people in caves.
Yes. It is a lot harder to do than people make it out to be.
Indeed. I read this and instantly wanted to spend like 6 months learning the system, decisions/reasons into making whatever trade offs they make, etc.

I think a key is keeping the amount of time to render a constant.
I use https://skimfeed.com/
Perhaps my perspective is skewed by living in the Midwest. By virtue of some private interests, I interact with quite a few very conservative people and perhaps the ‘average man on the street’ is already more culturally conservative than on the coasts.

I maintain my position though. I really have never come across a person in conversation who would take an absolutist position that government action is always going to be better than private enterprise, but the opposite absolutist position is somewhat common.

It say it’s an article of faith because the people I’ve spoken to are not up
for discussion about it. They have established their belief and nothing will cast a shadow of doubt upon it.
As recommended by another poster to take advantage of the technical community here, I have one question and one comment if you can provide more insights:

question a) My understanding is that performance numbers fluctuate a LOT, even at sampling in the tens of thousands. Do you have any recommendations of tools or methods to reduce this variance?

comment b) we're definitely trying to do this but we're not there yet - most of our metrics don't meet goals we set. Instead the blocking goals must be 'don't make it any worse', which is doable -> but it doesn't necessarily make anything better yet (thus all the questions about what is most annoying that we can fix first).

Hopefully point (b) is clear - I'm not saying "our performance is great/good/acceptable", just the best I can do (as a PM) is try to figure out what to prioritize to fix.
Yeah, patents. But many licensees are also just happy to have use of our JS, and to be able to use the name. The name has decent recognition in assistive technology circles and is gaining traction in among university students as well.
What is your business can you please elaborate. Its fine. You started with 1 person thats great accomplishment to have team.
> static type checking based on sequent calculus, one of the most powerful systems for typing in

Not exactly a common characteristic for Lisps
About 1/3 of grown adults have allergies.
Well, an "average" HN user may use something like a load testing tool such as https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 or at least rent a few VMs with 10Gbps links for a few hours and use wrk/ab so I would not be so sure about (a).

Edit: oh, and then they might dust off that Kali Linux VM lying around somewhere...
As a web frontend developer I can say I see little need for such generators. Because the idea is to do DRY. That is, code should not be repeated. Generators copy code contradicting the principle and making code a mess.

On the other hand there might be some scenarios where such generators would be nice to have
I don't expect OP to provide sources, so I went looking for the evidence of the famine (I expect the party in a one party state to be corrupt and abuse its power and naturally people are going to unemployed when factories shuts down).

And there does seem to be some evidence that China is facing, while not a direct famine, then at least potential food insecurity issues [0] serious enough that the leader started operation clean plate, encouraging people not to waste food, the same campaign Mao ran before the great famine[1]. In addition the virus hit at a point where farmers couldn't sell their crops and earn enough to buy seeds and fertilizer for the next year[1] China was also badly hit by the African Swine flue, resulting in a loss of 40%(!) of the Chinese pigs[1] which of course is not great for the pork prices.

You can also see [2] but note that this is by a former political prisoner so it is biased. This article [3] says that the answer is that China is not facing a famine nownow, but may do so in the future and the the leader is running the campaign because most of the food is imported.

They all seem to unanimously agree that prices have gone up, in some cases (pork) dramatically so (but the increasing prize of meat will not a famine make).

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/salgilbertie/2020/07/28/china-f...
[1]: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/11/23/is-china-on-the-brink-...
[2]: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/516607-another-fam...
[3]: https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/china-food-security-and-geop...
Wall-clock usually refers to time actually taken, in practice, with the particular configuration they use, not time could be taken if they used the configuration to minimise start-to-finish time.
> The best thing I’ve done is break up the work into smaller milestones and get regular feedback from a stakeholder.

+1 to all that.

I've always excelled at things like school and work that have clear deadlines and stakeholders. My biggest problem is finding a stakeholder for my side projects/personal work. That's the department that I want to get better at delivering things for.
I created AuctionGo (https://auction-go.com) about 18 months ago and started getting traction really quickly through Google Ads. It’s white label auction software (like creating a private Ebay of your own). I had envisioned many medium sized businesses in the US would use it to sell commodities or host reverse auctions for suppliers, but all the interest has come from overseas companies selling all kids of things, especially real estate.
Being on visa means if your life is hell you may have to just put up with it. You may have taken a loan just to get an expensive foreign education.
There's a difference between sneezing every year from pollen, and having a history of anaphylactic reaction to medications requiring administration of epinephrine.

Everyone has been pretty clear that if you have a history of the latter you should have a talk with your physician about risks and benefits.
OSM is non-profit, Google is not.
Google tracks the users, OSM does not.
Making this a top comment, on why:

They kind of got embarrassed by the Turkish navy, as they got 'checked', while trying to blockade the Turkish aid to one of the Lybian factions. The Lybian civil war is a war were there are no good vs bad guys, just different factions. The French backed one is losing. Also with the Turkish vs. Greece conflict, France sided with the Greeks, yet they realized they couldn't help much as if a conflict was to happen near Turkish shores they would lose, and Turkey would be able to inflict massive loses.

TLDR: France doesn't have real power projection capabilities. France realized their navy is not up to par. It is like a lap dog that is all bark, but doesn't have any power to bite, and they would lose political soft power as well:

After Turkish incident, France suspends role in NATO naval mission
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-france-nat...

France blasts ‘extremely aggressive’ Turkish intervention against NATO mission targeting Libyan arms

https://www.france24.com/en/20200617-france-blasts-extremely...

Turkey beats the french in Libya’s war // The U.N. dithers and Russia withers while Erdoğan flexes his Islamic muscle

https://www.amimagazine.org/2020/07/15/turkey-beats-the-fren...
Yes. I know immunology is way more complicated than I understand, and that I'm oversimplifying even from my level of understanding. There's all kinds of immune responses we're interested in here.

However, sterilizing antibodies are most interesting because they are the strongest factor in preventing transmission.

People with weak immune responses of various kinds can be expected to have more infections and to be infected for longer times, and they provide selective pressure to evade the remaining mechanisms.
The goal might be to deter and project power on lesser military capable nations than Russia or China (e.g. nations in Africa)
People less focused on recurrent bad feelings when taking probiotics
I remember reading Alan say (perhaps on Quora, where he seems to be quite active) that he got tired of fighting to fund VPRI every year.
Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll ban you from using their products!
As I recall, IR sensors are also much more expensive to produce, as in, 1Kx1K is already a very large array and costs thousands of $. So any ordinary consumer is not likely to be using something with very high resolution.
If you were a bug bounty hunter and wanted to sign up for as many platforms as possible to maximise your potential scope, this list would be really useful.

Seems to me like useful content for hackers, which is what I would expect to see on Hacker News.
False analogy. The N900 was an end user product. This is not.
I'm surprised they hit only 80-90% CPU utilization. Sure, I don't know their bottlenecks, but I understood this to be way more parallelizable than that.

I ray trace quake demos for fun at a much much lower scale[0], and have professionally organized much bigger installs (I feel confident in saying even though I don't know Pixar's exact scale).

But I don't know state of the art rendering. I'm sure Pixar knows their workload much better than I do. I would be interested in hearing why, though.

[0] Youtube butchers the quality in compression, but https://youtu.be/0xR1ZoGhfhc .
Live system at https://qpov.retrofitta.se/, code at https://github.com/ThomasHabets/qpov.

Edit: I see people are following the links. What a day to overflow Go's 64bit counter for time durations on the stats page. https://qpov.retrofitta.se/stats

I'll fix it later.
>>I wish more people considered this.

Modern US Society is losing alot of things that used to be a foundation. Privacy is one of them.

In general people today agree with the "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" rhetoric, generally accepting that "only bad people" want or desire privacy, and the government is only their to "protect good people from bad people"

It is all a lie ofcourse but that is where we are as a society, and I am not seeing anything on the horizon to change this

Largely we (the US) are moving to a more Authoritarian, collectivist society, leaving behind our Individualist libertarian roots
Is what you consider a driveway actually a driveway legally speaking? In rural areas even if you own all the property around the roadway, the road itself might be a public easement.
Its amazing! thanks for sharing. Can you please tell from where you are getting the users? How you got your first users and what you are doing for marketing?

Thanks a lot.
EDIT -- Appears she is no longer with Github although her personal page https://www.ericabaker.com still indicates she is the director of engineering.
Not to the point they need to carry epipens.
I use Paddle for taking subscription payments for a paid Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io/).

The main draw for me over Stripe is Paddle handle all country specific sales tax and VAT for me. Paddle send me a single pay out every month, I file that as income in my tax return and I'm done. Without Paddle, I'd need to charge the correct VAT for sales to each country plus keep on top of the changing rules (I'm in the UK).

How do other people do this? I'm curious how many people just don't know the rules around e.g. EU VAT and ignore it when they're small.
The author mentions that the Pfeilstorch was found

> in 1882 in Mecklenburg, Germany

which was surprised me as being relatively recent. But according to its Wikipedia article [1], the Pfeilstorch was actually found in 1822. Still quite recent, but decidedly less so. Wikipedia also mentions that bird migration has been known about (at least in some circles) since the late 18th century [2]:

> Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds (Volume 1, 1797) mentions a report from "a very intelligent master of a vessel" who, "between the islands of Menorca and Majorca, saw great numbers of Swallows flying northward"

Does anyone else know further history on how we came to understand bird migration? It seems quite interesting.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_migration#Historical_view...
I think we've learned from the Trump era that you don't need to try to keep things secret. Even if you explicitly try to bring to light things like poor handling of Covid by the Trump administration large portions of people will not believe that.

So I think something similar may happen inside governments, most government employees believe and accept the official truth, and don't try to spread a counter-narrative, or be critical about the official truth. Truth is what benefits the person telling the truth and it usually does not benefit you to be critical of the official version.

If we all believe it is the truth then who's gonna say it is not, except crackpots and people we label as such. Who wants to be labeled crackpot?
Please license gnod to Netflix :)
Anchorhead.
> Building nuclear propulsion for our next aircraft carrier is crucial for France to maintain the unique skills of its nuclear industry.

> If our engineers did not design on-board nuclear boilers for decades, we would weaken this know-how and our sovereignty.
My mother tongue was a Russian-Ukrainian mix :)

In Russian, some loanwords are not pluralized, because in order to make a plural, we need to know the word’s declension first, judging from words’ ending, gender and sometimes stress. So for loanwords, it can be hard for the “language feeling” to choose a correct declension form, because no nouns with similar ending and gender can be found. And if no form is found, the word is not declined at all. I think that’s the reason some loanwords in Russian have no declension.

This means that no nouns, except for a limited amount of old native irregular nouns, can “bypass” Russian declension tables - loanwords are never loaned together with their plural forms as it happens in English, they are either pluralized as native words or not pluralized at all. So it’s probably a little bit more consistent. (Ukrainian also works this way, declension tables are just different.)
> Git, except with a good UI. Git for non-developers.

The reason we all suffer without this is not because we have failed to solve it. It's that Git itself is preventing any forward development in this space.

We had Mercurial 15 years ago, but Git is a massive usability dumpster fire that blocks all further progress (and GitHub continually pours gasoline on the fire so we can never escape).
Does Fastmail have good deliverability between it and Gmail/Outlook or other popular email providers? I always think about switching but I always worry I will run into a situation where my emails are just getting dropped.
Oh man, I wanted this to contain much more details :(

Whats the hardware? How much electric energy goes into rendering a frame or a whole movie? How do they provision it (as they keep #cores fixed)? They only talk about cores, do they even use GPUs? What's running on the machines? What did they optimize lately?

So many questions! Maybe someone from Pixar's systems department is reading this :)?