skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a specific example, Disney released the data for rendering a single shot from Moana a couple of years ago. You can download it here: https://www.disneyanimation.com/data-sets/?drawer=/resources...

Uncompressed, it’s 93Gb of render data, plus 130Gb of animation data if you want to render the entire shot instead of a single frame.

From what I’ve seen elsewhere, that’s not unusual at all for a modern high end animated scene.
the a-29 is really intended for US COIN partner nations (read: not first world militaries). the aircraft is much less survivable than an a-10 (which is already more vulnerable than people tend to think), making it inappropriate for most direct applications by US forces.

edit: to be clear, the US is looking at the a-29; they just don't want to risk their own pilots in it.
Not every place talks about frame rendering times the same. Some talk about the time it takes to render one frame of every pass sequentially, some talk about more about the time of the hero render or the longest dependency chain, since that is the latency to turn around a single frame. Core hours is usually separate because most of the time you want to know if something will be done overnight or if broken frames can be rendered during the day.

24 hours of wall clock time is excessive and the reality is that anything over 2 hours starts to get painful. If you can't render reliably over night, your iterations slow down to molasses and the more iterations you can do the better something will look. These times are usually inflated in articles. I would never accept 24 hours to turn around a typical frame as being necessary. If I saw people working with that, my top priority would be to figure out what is going on, because with zero doubt there would be a huge amount of nonsense under the hood.
a peering is the term for having arranged your own dedicated connection to their network.
Hi! Pelias core maintainer and former Mapen employee here.
It is not gone :)

After Mapzen shut down a co-worker and I founded Geocode Earth(https://geocode.earth/) to continue working on the Pelias project, funded by consulting and, primarily, a SaaS much like Mapzen Search.

Over the past 3 years the project has improved quite a bit, and Geocode Earth has had solid growth (50% SaaS revenue in 2020). We've been fully bootstrapped this whole time and plan on continuing this well...indefinitely!

In fact, intersection support is already present in Pelias and will be rolling out to Geocode Earth soon :)
As an IT professional, from what I see here in Sidney Powell's 270 page report there is SOLID evidence of election fraud:

https://wpcdn.zenger.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2419082...

President Trump will remain President Trump
Can someone more knowledgeable than me in this matter explain why fighter jets still require human pilots? Why aren't they completely replaced by drones?
Bignum arithmetic actually is pretty simple in Rust if you use the right library. Rug[0] makes using bignums look almost just like using native numbers through operator overloading.

[0] https://crates.io/crates/rug
This is not your weird theory. There is some truth to it. Look up Kelly Johnson’s account on several books about military airplanes.

In case if anyone doesn’t know he is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)

Basically his philosophy, at some corner of his brains was "If it cools beautiful, it will fly well." The way I think of it is - streamlined shapes are generally more pleasing to human vision system. Not sure why, some innate biological/evolutionary trait. So, Kelly designed a lot of beautiful planes with his gut instinct when there is no data/objectivity, but only some instincts to rely on. Legendary engineer!
It is indeed: many Europeans countries have large, successful defense industries that produce things from spy satellites to handguns, tanks, machine guns, optics and every thing in between. Some of those are inferior to what the Americans make, some of those are on par, some of those are superior as can be seen from the US armed forces choosing European designs. "Europe hasn't been building weapons for a while" is an absurd statement, but perhaps expected from the other side of the Atlantic.
I think the cost is one of the deciding factors...
Buggy? It barely works. Short flight time. Crap wing loading. Not good at any of it's multi-roles.

We could build 5-10 F-16s for each F-35, and many more A-10s, and they'd be better despite being ancient designs.

They're so expensive we can't even do proper flight training in them, it'd cost too much if we break one.
Also, renderfarms are usually referred to "in cores", because it's usually heterogeneous hardware networked together over the years. You may have some brand new 96 core 512 GB RAM machines mixed in with some several year old 8 core 32 GB machines. When a technical artist is submitting their work to be rendered on the farm, they often have an idea of how expensive their task will be. They will request a certain number of cores from the farm and a scheduler will go through and try to optimize everyone's requests across the available machines.
I see their comments like normal, is there something that controls this?
Why would anyone do that? Smartphones make a whole lot of the economy a whole lot of money. I imagine there'd be a much bigger fight that over say, drugs or even AR-style rifles.
I'd be shocked if the military doesn't include aesthetics when considering which new equipment to use.

You'd want to look badass and cool to the people you serve and hellish and terrifying to those you attack. The psychological impact in both directions almost certainly has important, real world consequences.
Someone went to the trouble of making a semi-functional mockup to demonstrate to Atlassian that the product didn't need to be as big and slow: https://jira.ivorreic.com/
No need to get prickly. But no need to explain again either. It's more common to you and your social circle, apparently, but [citation needed] for "the average" person.

You're exposing a lot more about yourself and your lifestyle than you realize, evidently
What gateways have you been using?! That's a long, long way off on the modern internet. Assuming you mean gateways as in the lines you'd see on a traceroute, more typical might be ~2-5ms on a home router, ~0.5-1.0ms upstream.
UI will always look simplistic because it has to communicate with users. But beneath that tiny surface is a huge depth of software, usually on the server. Think Google Now/Assistant, notifications, recommendation systems,and all the semi-automonous server management stuff like Kubernetes and EC2. Also non-consumer stuff like protein folding.
The Boeing was not just ugly, it failed to do both stovl and supersonic in one fighter, which was a requirement

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Due to the heavy delta wing design of the X-32, Boeing demonstrated STOVL and supersonic flight in separate configurations, with the STOVL configuration requiring that some parts be removed from the fighter. The company promised that their conventional tail design for production models would not require separate configurations. By contrast, the Lockheed Martin X-35 concept demonstrator aircraft were capable of transitioning between their STOVL and supersonic configurations in mid-flight.[4]
In the United States 50,000 more people died of COVID-19 directly in 2020 than died in World War 2. I don’t get these comments.
He's not talking about hiring, but motivating people who were already hired.
If you get rid of unwrap and use `if let` and `match`, this code will clean up nicely.

If the code is supposed to be maintainable, you could also make something like a FromRegex trait for Input. It would be a good idea to try exercism's mentoring thing to get better at writing it the easier way the first time. The mentoring thing really is what helped me to think in ways that made this mess easier to avoid.
Please note that what is hard to read is not the same for everyone. Some people find it easier to read complex expressions (with nested && and ||), while others find it easier to read when temporary variables/functions are used with explicative names. Having to look up a function/property with a simple expression is also breaking the flow of reading code. If there were simple rules to what makes code easy to read, than we would have a lot of better looking code. Especially, if you are working in a team, you have to adapt to some common ground, even if that is not what you prefer yourself. I also think that this is what defines a good software engineer: not someone who writes smart code, but someone who writes code that is readable to most people in the team.
There's no enough information to know if all the reported problems are the result of the same defect. But in:
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895

The first instance of a problem is:

[ 1.956835] JBD2: Invalid checksum recovering block 97441 in log

And that's corruption that leads to log replay failing, i.e. rejecting it because honoring the replay in the face of checksum errors could make things much worse. Subsequently mount fails:

[ 21.151232] ERROR: MountExt4:1659: mount(/dev/sdb) failed 5

That's good because the purpose of journal replay is to make the file system consistent following a crash/power fail. And if the file system is dirty, replay is called for, but can't happen due to a corrupt journal, so now an fsck is required. i.e. it is in an inconsistent (you could say partly broken) state and needs repair.

I haven't seen syslog/systemd journal for other cases to know if there's instances of ext4 log replay that succeeds, but with missing files. That's not file system corruption, even if it leads to an inconsistent state in a git repository (or even a database). But this is still concerning, because to get a situation where log replay is clean but files are missing suggests an entire transaction was just dropped. It never made it to stable media, and even the metadata was not partially written to the ext4 journal.

qemu-kvm has a (host) cache setting called "unsafe". Default is typically "none" or "write back". The unsafe mode can result in file system corruption if the host crashes or has a power failure. The guest's IO is faster with this mode, but the write ordering expected by the file system is not guaranteed if the host crashes. i.e. writes can hit stable media out of order. If the guest crashes, my experience has been that things are fine - subsequent log replay (in the guest) is successful, because the guest writes that made it to the host cache do make it to stable media by the same the guest reboots. The out of order writes don't matter... unless the host crashes, and then it's a big problem. The other qemu cache modes have rather different flush/fua policies that can still keep a guest file system consistent following a host crash. But they are slower.

So it makes me suspicious that for performance reasons, WSL2 might be using a possibly volatile host side caching policy. Merely for additional data point, it might be interesting to try to reproduce this problem using e.g. Btrfs for the guest file system. If write order is honored and flushed to stable media appropriate for default out of the box configuration of a VM, I'd expect Btrfs never complains, but might drop up to 30s of writes. But if there's out of order writes making it to stable media, Btrfs will also complain, I'd expect transid errors which are also a hallmark of drive firmware not consistently honoring flush/fua and then you get a badly timed crash. (And similar for ZFS for that matter - nothing is impervious to having its write order expectations blown up.)
His stuff starts off "dead" and has to be "vouched" by someone with karma to be expanded/seen by default. Look at his post history.
The A-29 isn't that cheap compared to an F-35 (i.e. 1:4), especially when you consider that if you buy an F-35 (at the expense of maintenance costs) you avoid having to buy an F-35 anyway because you have a modern BVR platform
Pretty much anything from the last generation. Embarrassingly the F-16 beat it in combat, for example.

For close air support the A-10 is vastly superior.

The F-35 is an employment program like the TSA.
To re-enforce this, here is some discussion of average machine memory size at Disney and Weta two years ago:

https://twitter.com/yiningkarlli/status/1014418038567796738
The F-35 is the Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) player of war machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnpX8d8zRIA

Perfect for the era development started in, but useless for the era when it was finally shippable.
This is some of what I've seen, each entry being from a distinct person:

- One dev has a twitter account that's a nonstop stream of pro CCP ("Tiananmen is Western propaganda") and anti HK propaganda. I found it because it's named the same as his stackoverflow page which is a very unique identifier with the same uppercasing on specific letters.

- Another doesn't believe there were famines under Mao (we were discussing the Wiki page on it) and calls it propaganda. This was from a Uighur emigrant.

- Another agrees fully with the CCP ocean territory claims in the SEA that take basically all the oceans to the west of Philippines etc.

- Another thinks China can't be a democracy because the logistics of over a billion voting are too hard

- Another left HK early on because of disdain towards the democracy protests (long before attacks on mainland businesses)

I'm sure you're right that there's heterogeneity there (that almost goes without saying and is true of any group of people) and a public vs private distinction but that doesn't contradict what I've said.
no - I'm a delicate flower that refuses to use that sad excuse of a 'service'...

Plenty of much better, more readable content on the internet without submitting myself to that low quality shit show with a poor ui.
Hi HN,

I spent the last few months building this service to make it easier for studio owners and for musicians to find and book practice spaces.

The platform is open to professionals, but can also be used by private individuals to monetize their home studio.
I mean, there's real life, like Israel taking out advanced Chinese radars: https://defence-blog.com/news/source-israeli-f-35-destroyed-...

Which China claimed could detect the F-22: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23846/chi...
There was a notable example a few years ago.

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/08/30/osm-condemns-vanda...

OSM had the vandalism removed in a couple hours. A few weeks later, the QA mistakenly let the vandalism through and it wasn't corrected until it got quite a lot of attention.
If someone like me chooses to reply they become visible. Otherwise they're talking into the void.
I'm now in the habit of doing a git diff before every commit. Even if I don't thoroughly read the diff, I at least skim it for sanity.

I can't recall what made me start doing that, but now it's a habit.
> Sadly, a whole host of issues specific to my dev environment meant that it was useless as I’d spend more time fixing it than getting any valuable use out of it.

Sounds like last time I tried Linux on the desktop.
Great suggestions. I've opted to include more broad umbrella conferences, than more narrow ones. So S&P, SIGMOD, and VLDB represent security and databases. This is because it already takes about 40 hours of work each year to update, normalize, and regenerate the page.
This is a serious misunderstanding of probability. When someone won the lottery in the past he did not have a 100% chance of winning the lottery even though in hind sight he won.

A person who has a 1 in a million chance to win the lottery CAN still win the lottery. And if he does win the lottery, his chances of winning was STILL one in a million.

Same with life in the universe. Just because it happened does not make the probability of it happening at all 100%. Far from it.
Drones are dependent on an active satellite link to function. What happens if the enemy jams the satellite?
Applied Category Theory 2021
Oh boy I couldn't disagree more, the F-22 is doubtlessly cool, but it has nothing on the YF-23. And the X-32 was positively adorable (which isn't cool I guess, but I still love it.) I think the F-35 is downright fugly though, it's too bloated and bumpy looking.
Bingo. The F-35 as a bomb delivery platform might be already obsolete, as drones are far cheaper.
You still need air defense/air superiority fighter though.
I know a mildly famous family that got some attention from stalkers in the past and now owns their house under a shell company.
Enough with the lies.

This has nothing to do with "COVID".

For example, the Irish government has admitted they have no proof that it even exists:

https://gemmaodoherty.com/defending-our-freedoms/hse-admit-t...

And here, STATISTICS show that in fact the emergency of 2020 is FAKE:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

You are wasting your time here. Us computer scientists do not buy into your lies...
They'll just keep upgrading the F-18 design, new avionics, better engines, airframe tweaks. Way cheaper than the F-35.

The B-52's are still in service after 60+ years, with pretty much everything upgraded several times over.
OpenGL Bindings for Emacs Lisp
If you are surrounded by people in orange vests, or traffic cones directing you to a detour, you are in a construction zone and better not be doing highway speeds. The fact that the sign wasnt visible, or even wasnt present, will not help. This comes up in AI cars all the time. The camera is blocked from seeing the sign beside the road, perhaps by a truck in the right lane. Or maybe the temporary folding sign is blown over. You still have to recognize a construction zone. A bad sign might get you out of a basic speeding ticket, maybe, but it wont protect you from a dangerous driving ticket, or going to jail after running over a construction worker. And a great many juridictions mandate vastly reduced speeds when cops/ambulances/firetrucks/towtrucks are beside the road, meaning you have to recognize such situations regardless of posted signs.
Ageing probably will kill more people. But the problem is phycological. People tend to not fear things they think they can prevent through willpower. For people in developed countries, diarrhea deaths are preventable... airborne viruses, not so much.
Another bad twitter thread. Points for trying but he's got the maths wrong.

The issue he has missed is that transmission rates directly affect lethality. 3.2% of covid patients require intubation [1]

So the lethality rate is 0.8% ONLY for as long as you have enough ventilators and nurses and beds. The minute too many people have the disease at the same time, those beds get full, and the disease becomes 3.2% lethal.

This has been the key issue since day 1: avoiding a quadrupled death rate from system collapse. So far, we couldn't keep R values below 1 in the UK or US. Some places are at risk of being overrun already. Now the R value is going up, as the new varient is more transmissible. So it is possible that the new varient is both impossible for our societies to handle AND torpedoes our main plan.

This is why the EU suspended all flights with the UK when the numbers came out. Its effectively BOTH more transmissable AND more deadly.

I'm starting to think we need a 24h covid channel like we have 24h news. People seem to be trying to work this stuff out. But they're all failing. I'm probably wrong too in at least part of the above?

This is also why I don't source anything from fucking twitter threads. They're always people

/Rant

[1] https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/132/6/1317/109...
> Lots of servers out there that always return 200

That's poor configuration for most public websites that you want indexed by search bots that's worth fixing. It's called a soft 404, and makes it troublesome to detect when links are invalid, break or have moved. Google will even warn you about it: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...
Windows Terminal is roughly on par with GNOME Terminal, and PowerShell is actually pretty decent once you learn it.
Not really true. If two things are strictly correlative, that means there is an additional factor causing both.

If you eliminate all reasonable additional factors (by controlling variables), you can demonstrate causation. Arguing that there can be unknowable external factors behind everything is not very scientific.

Identifying causal relationships involving humans is difficult due to the excessively multivariate nature of all our interactions, and by extension how difficult it is to "control" humans (as opposed to water, or a wheel). That does not mean it is impossible to ever demonstrate causation.
Arguably nothing at the moment, at least for the role the F-35 is designed for.

Realistically for Switzerland these aircraft are basically 9/11 prevention and national penis-enlargers, so any modern jet would do the trick (subject to politics i.e. no Sukhois).
Peace Corp or something like that. I can't remember the name of the gorup that was started during the depression that put people to work doing things like building the national parks and other type of things. These groups provided jobs, life experience outside what ever town you grew up in, and could be a good solve for today's situation.
All social media platforms are vectors for cyber-bullying and hate speech (whatever the hell that is).

At some point, one needs to accept that people suck, and we can't blame communications platforms for their suckiness (much as we might like to).
The Israeli's seem to be happy with it, use it in combat and are buying more.
The problem is that people under the age of 40 or so don't communicate via phone calls in the first instance. So a phone is not a means to communicate with them and you don't avoid any possible communication issues.

Your lunch meeting is telling you on Slack that they're going to be late. You think you have no 'possible communication issues' but you're mistaken.
I do not think that is true. Maybe 40% of the types of tank.

Some facts from Wikipedia: At the opening of operation Barbarosa the Red Army had four to one advantage over the Nazis in tank numbers.

By 1941 lend lease tanks were 6.5% of Soviet tanks, about a quarter of medium and heavy tanks.

Where do you get "up to 40%" from?

Even if true my point still stands.

According t Alex Nove in 1900 there was not a metal lathe in all of Russia. They could de clinker locomotives, but not make a gear box. By 1941 they were out stripping the Germans.

That is the greatest economic achievement of the twentieth century.

(IMO the Bolsheviks were sadistic psychopaths, but credit where credit is due)
Unfortunately OsmAnd misses a tremendous quantity of addresses from where I live.
Causation means something more specific than that, and we have plenty of good examples. Any randomized controlled trial can show causation.
I would change the definition - the main characteristic of a conspiracy theory is that it is believed despite a lack of evidence, or even evidence to the contrary.

Believing Epstein could have been killed, because the circumstances around his death seem extremely suspicious, isn't a conspiracy theory.

Believing that the Clintons sent a hit squad to kill him in order to cover up Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory.

People who believe the former also likely hold some doubt, because the actual evidence leaves room for doubt. It is after all possible that he did kill himself, stranger things have happened.

Whereas, no one who believes the latter will likely be convinced otherwise, because belief is obviously a matter of faith in that case, not reason.
Nice results, thermal cameras aren't easy to work with, especially in terms of artistic result. I've seen problems with stitching resulting with artifacts in panoramas. As I understood (I'm not thermal cameras expert) it's due too the fact that sensor warms up -> thermal camera calibration doesn't correct the result enough -> stitching needs corrections.

To put it one dimension higher, in Pix4D we work on 3d models based on the thermal images:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-jp9a1bpVU
Example: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/thermal-model-of-pix4d-headq...