skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding of GNSS (I did some research on it in school, about a month full-time), that only works if you have a clock synchronized to a few nanoseconds and of course up to date satellite information. This is very plausible if you do it once a second, because in 1 second your quartz doesn't drift that much or you can count cpu clock cycles perhaps, and the ephemerides don't change that often.

But once you move indoors and lose signal regularly and have a much higher noise to signal ratio, I very much doubt this can still work. I don't know about you, but I don't work in the garden, so most of the day that GNSS unit would still be listening and calculating (as I understand, the code division multiplexing means you kind of brute force the various codes until one produces a signal instead of noise) and might not even get a fix at all (my phone takes a few minutes next to a window when there is concrete on all sides except for that narrow view of the sky, and this 2018 phone is already orders of magnitude better than my previous Galaxy Note 2 was). I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would highly doubt that it consistently gets a fix in 2ms, or even 200ms, in the place where you spend most of your time.

Of course, it's mostly useless indoors anyway, but so you'd have to manually toggle it every time you go in- or outside, or somehow configure a home location where it turns off (would work great during COVID) if it has such a feature, though I wouldn't know how it would figure out when you've left home in that case. (WiFi comes to mind as an obvious solution, but then how do you explain to the user that it won't track your GPS while that WiFi is in range? It just seems like they'd drop the auto-off feature at this point.)
Idea: A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions
They are using, specifically, an economically inactive shell company to protect themselves from people who wish them harm.

As far as I know there is nothing special in the corporate structure that would make it difficult for law enforcement to find, the point is to stay out of public records.
Yeah. With my pov-ray workload the least efficient part is povray loading the complex scene. And that's not multithreaded. The solution that works for me is that I can just start ncore frames concurrently, or just two, but stagger them a bit (thus there's always one frame doing parallelizable work and can use all cores, even if the other is not).

But at that point it may get into RAM constraint, or some as yet unmentioned inter-frame dependency/caching.
The US Marines recruiting commercial mentioned:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bCjEV75F2tM
Best of draw.io and Terraform combined in one multi-cloud tool
Ah, but I've now looked at their code, and it's not the only change! They've also eliminated the `reduced_window` method of weighting-by-distance that's present in `word2vec.c`, Gensim, and FastText.

What if that's the real reason for their sometimes slightly-better, sometimes slightly-worse performance on some benchmarks? Perhaps there are other changes, too.

This is why I continue to think Gensim's policy of matching the reference implementations from the original authors, at least by default, is usually the best policy – rather than using an alternate interpretation of the often-underspecified papers.
I would quit my job and drop everything in my life to join a program like that. The Intercept did an episode on it over the summer and I got chills listening to it.
It's not me personally doing it, but a relative is an effective teacher of 2D game development (godot, gamemaker, pixel art), with good pacing, helpful to customers &c (and pleasant to be around). Some examples of his work, which supports their family:

https://www.youtube.com/user/uheartbeast/about

https://www.heartgamedev.com/1-bit-godot-course-youtube?r_do...
I came up with the idea of a hardware startup called AirGradient [1] focusing on indoor air quality monitoring due to annual recurring wildfires in my region and the wish to help my local school here in managing this better.

Very soon I realized, I lack the experience on the hardware side and a partner joined in (so strictly not solo anymore). Yes hardware is hard!

AirGradient focuses on monitoring indoor air quality in schools and offices and operates with a hardware as a service model, i.e. you do not have upfront costs for buying expensive sensor but you get the sensors provided for the duration of the service.

I am also running a blog on AirQuality. I created detailed build instructions to build your own powerful air quality monitor (PM, CO2, Temperature and Humidity) which is fully open source and open hardware and I am more than happy to send you PCBs if you want to build it [2].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/schools/

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/2020/08/25/the-airgradient-...
Another tactic I find useful is to ban any apps with an endless content feed from my phone.
kubernetes can't do it at this scale "trivially"

Firstly, K8s has no concept of licenses, it also is exceptionally weak on dependencies. A job graph for a VFX job can be well over 100k nodes, something that would crash k8s.

Secondly, tractor (https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/TRA/Tractor+2) is exceptionally fast at dispatching jobs to machines. I suspect its in the order of 50k a second, if not more.

Thirdly, getting k8s to talk to 25k machines without saturating the network is almost impossible.

fourthly, it doesn't do to well on "normal" network, try getting decent network throughput on one of K8s batshit networking schemes(each server on a farm will have at a minimum 2 10 gig links, more likley 2 40gig)
When he said that, I assumed he was talking about China using the technology overhaul to sneak in spying capabilities through Huawei. I forgot people don't know how radio waves are the opposite side of the light spectrum from x-rays.
I'm all for self-improvement (no to self-optimization, though), but I find phrasing this in corporate productivity terms to be somewhat problematic. Six Sigma Your Life?
Pretty much, yes. That's why I included an example of how they could allow transparent assessment while still addressing their stated concerns. Because it shows the stated concerns, in having a solution, are just a BS smoke screen. (Not that my proposed scenario is still the best case for consumers, just that there's a way they could allow public benchmarks without sacrificing their concerns)
The F-35 program is more like the F-111 than the F-16 or F/A-18, except in the case of the F-35 the DoD doubled down instead cutting their losses early.
I don't think so--if the activity fits your life and not the other way around. But that's just my opinion.

Books and pen pals can be similarly problematic for some.
I mean, it really is everything. If it were my project I’d make sure I have telemetry on all UI actions and would then set a threshold (say 200ms), triage everything which has a percentile consistently over that threshold to look for easy fixes, and then set a policy that each release only improves on those numbers. I can’t think of any user-visible changes to Jira or Confluence in the last 5 years which I wouldn’t trade in a heartbeat for good performance.
"You are using our product wrong" is never the hallmark of a successful product manager.
Fair fair. To be honest, I think in a lot of these cases there are good helper crates/macros; for this I would now probably use recap: https://docs.rs/recap/0.1.1/recap/

The really horrendous scenario was when I was trying to navigate pest iterators for parsing according to a grammar.
> The F-35 is intended to be in service for decades longer than the Air Force is expecting to have human pilots in combat roles. One of the reasons the F-35 has had such a complex production history is that it's designed to be both the last fighter platform flown by humans and the first flown by AI.

One of many, many ways that the F-35s cost and development timeline has been blown up by trying to do too many different and incompatible, or at least non-complementary, things with one platform.

As lots of critics were pointing out as a problem with the project from the beginning.
A scene will have many thousands of assets (trees, cars, people, etc) each one will have the geo, which could be in the milllions of polygons (although they use sub-ds)

each "polygon" could have a 16k texture on it. You're pulling TBs of textures and other assets in each frame.
> slow moving sitting ducks

I don’t think this needs to be the case. Jets don’t fly fast because they have human inside.
It's not really that unlikely. Most films render at 2k DCI. It's not so much that the software and hardware can't render higher, it's just diminishing gains for the increased render time.

Most 4k films till very recently actually have the digital elements at 2k DCI-ish resolutions and are upscaled. I can't speak to wether soul is rendered at 2k or 4k, but it wouldn't be surprising if it was 2k upscaled.
4G can go much faster. I get 175Mb/s: https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/6889068582

I wondered what I could possibly do with 600Mb/s, but I noticed that Telenor isn't charging any extra for a 5G connection (my phone doesn't support it). Isn't the main feature that the speed is still high even when there are lots of people using it, rather than my test at midnight in a city centre?
The best ARM SoC you can currently buy on the open market (without a backroom deal) is a combo A72/A53, which is what Pine64 sells.

If you want to change this, you'd need to either start a semiconductor company, or engineer some sort of coup at one or more of the "most unpleasant to deal with" Silicon vendors (Broadcom, Qualcomm, etc.).
I often get the sense that people see retribution as inherently evil, barbaric, and unfit for civilization. That doesn't match up well with the prevention of lynch mobs. It's plainly evil and uncivilized to create conditions conducive to the formation of lynch mobs.
> they didn't quite trust their missiles not to launch straight up and come back down on the ship.

This sounds like some ridiculous cold war propaganda, source?
> Movie scripts follow a very strict format

> there is not really a standard for that

These statements do do not coincide, in the geek's mind. If it's strict, then there is a standard for that.

Maybe movies is different.
That thing should be called Valkryie II. The Valkyrie was a much more impressive aircraft, an almost legend that is too often forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie
The percentiles are a bit of a combination.

A big part is simply how far you are in your journey of getting good at performance - if your p50 is still garbage, there's not much point in focussing on your p99 measurements. You should be targeting the p99 long term, but focus on the p50/p90 for now.

It's super important to target and make long term decisions around the p99 though, because, e.g., making a 100x improvement is not possible through little iterative changes over 2-3 years. You need a base to work from where that 100x is fundamentally achievable, which requires thinking from first principles and slightly getting out of the typical product mindset.

I also find the typical product mindset tends to result in focussing a lot on the "this quarter/next quarter" goals, but neglecting the "8/12 quarters from now" as a result.

Beyond short term/long term goals, the choice is largely just down to what the product is/does. Even ignoring all current architectural choices, there are some fundamentals where certain things must always be faster/slower - e.g. sync writes will typically be a fair bit slower than reads, and typically occur much less often, complex dynamic queries which can't be pre-optimised require DB scanning but are much less common.

For these kinds of tools, where most of the interaction is reads, mostly on predefined or predefined + small extra filtering, and reading/writing on individual resources (ie tickets), you can get p99 numbers trending towards the 100ms mark eventually - there's very little which truly can't get to that level with clever enough engineering.

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Of course I imagine Google tends to be looking more at their p99.9/p99.99/pmax/etc(!), at least for their absolute highest volume systems.

None of us are going to be getting to that point, but it's often worth thinking about engineering principles against a super high bar - it often helps people to open their minds a bit more and think more outside the box when given a really dramatic goal magnitudes beyond their existing mindset.

Of course you're not expecting to really get to that level, but anchoring that way can achieve amazing things. I've done that with a lot of success at my company and we actually did manage to achieve a few originally thought to be totally unrealistic.
If you (and the above commenter) do believe that democrats are a center right party then sure, the claim that most tech workers aren't liberal holds water. But that is a very non-standard delineation of political leanings, and making claims based on said boundaries will understandably generate friction with the overwhelming majority that recognize Democrats as a liberal party.

In other words, the claim that tech workers are not liberal says a lot more about the perspective of the person making the claim than it does about tech workers. Tech workers are much more liberal than the general population. How many would qualify as liberal under this political delineation? Probably a single digit percentage.
I don't understand any anti-mask protest despite any claims of lacking scientific backing because why not? Just wear a mask. It's practically free to do and if it makes people feel safer then that is a good enough reason alone. All this arguing on details of how effective they are misses the point completely.
I remember playing with my DefCon 18 badge and thinking to myself, "This looks like ternary. I wonder what it does." After a few minutes groking the (provided, but obfuscated) badge source code, I plugged some values into bc (after setting obase=3), tried them forward and backward (both inverted and normal) and got the "Ninja Party Unlocked!" message on my badge. If only I had known the secret location of the party, I would have tried to get in.
I'd say the same thing about a software project that had been in development for 30 years like this. My opinion of GNU Hurd would be considerably more negative if it cost half a trillion dollars to develop.

Don't take it from me though, the Wiki article has an extensive section on the problems with the F-35's performance and its cost overruns and delays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning.... Or try Kelsey D. Atherton talking about the pitfalls of using it as a humorous unit of cost and explaining how it was used as a jobs program in addition to a defense program: https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/1331294614209392640?s=...
> And now they are releasing a smartwatch with a 64 MHz core and 64 KB of RAM - some specs you would have expected from a very cheap smartwatch released 7-8 years ago

My Xiaomi Mi Band probably has similar specs. I bought it last year. You position this as outdated, but for me, the specs mean that I only have to charge it every couple of weeks.
It's a false dichotomy.

I can't speak for the author (and indeed, from his tone, I'm inclined to agree with you that perhaps he may need to let off the throttle a bit), but taking time to set non-work goals can lead to greater mindfulness about an activity, precisely because you've spent time considering it.

If I decide that "In Q1 2021, I will be biking precisely 3 out of 5 workdays a week to the office", this might not sound 'common sense humanity', but that fact does not then preclude me from enjoying the chill of the morning wind on my face once I'm on the bike. But if it helps me get on the bike in the first place, hey...it takes all sorts right?
NSA were planning IBM supercluster with 157 GB of storage in 1977 [pdf]
https://aurynproject.org/pala

re: the business and yogafication of psychedelics

Quite a long story but I found it thought-provoking.
Hundreds of Thousands of Birds Fell Out of the Sky in Southwest; Now We Know Why
> That still wouldnt fix the problem that you might feel closer to someone across the world than someone right next to you.

Wait, is it a problem that some have remote friendships that are closer than those physically near them? If so why?

Which isn't too say proximity is bad. It can be a relationship enhancer, and so can distance.
Keep in mind that the mortality rate is much better now than at the beginning, largely due to improvements in treatment as we've learned. (Prone positioning, better alternatives to ventilators, etc.) Without the massive effort undertaken early in, things almost certainly would have been far, far worse. Even still, parts of the US are teetering on the edge of having overwhelmed ICUs, nine months in.

Let's also remember the way the world was reshaped by 6000 deaths in new york in 2001...

Or to say it less charitably: Back at the beginning it was commonly foretold that we would do all this work to flatten the curve, and then some idiots would look at the resulting numbers and say 'See, it wasn't so bad at all!'
These things are so pointless. Overwhelming to beginners without actually offering any value.
You can still limit the amount of ram used by wsl 2 by setting it in the wslconfig. I like to limit the amount of cores it has access to as well as i tend to find that these two things are generally prone to spiking.
You can come at this from multiple directions.

On the one hand, it’s wise to only expend effort making something faster up to a point. At some point, unless a human has to wait for the result, there is no reason to make something faster [1].

On the other hand, once something takes more than a minute or two, and the person who started it goes and does something else, it doesn’t matter how long it takes, as long as it’s done before you get back. Film shots usually render overnight, so as long as they’re done in the morning and as long as they don’t prevent something else from being rendered by the morning, it doesn’t necessarily need to go faster. Somewhere out there is a blog post I remember about writing renderers and how artists behave; it posits perhaps there’s a couple of thresholds. If something takes longer than ten seconds to render, they’re going to leave to get coffee. If something takes longer than ten minutes to render, they’re going to start it at night and check on it in the morning.

[1] I always like the way Michael Abrash framed it:

“Understanding High Performance: Before we can create high-performance code, we must understand what high performance is. The objective (not always attained) in creating high- performance software is to make the software able to carry out its appointed tasks so rapidly that it responds instantaneously, as far as the user is concerned. In other words, high-performance code should ideally run so fast that any further improvement in the code would be pointless.

“Notice that the above definition most emphatically does not say anything about making the software as fast as possible. It also does not say anything about using assembly language, or an optimizing compiler, or, for that matter, a compiler at all. It also doesn’t say anything about how the code was designed and written. What it does say is that high-performance code shouldn’t get in the user’s way—and that’s all.” (From the “Graphics Programming Black Book”)
The 2nd hit on Google was https://www.ericsson.com/en/cases/2019/sk-telecom-has-switch...

So... Ericsson?

Edit: although it also returned https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/13349-sk-te...
The UI improved but it's still a maze of options and menus. I use it to plan my cycling routes but I gave up on the navigation features. Creating a route from markers is a nightmare of complexity. Then there is the problem that with a bicycle I can ride on pretty much every surface and it's impossible for the poor thing to guess an itinerary I would like. Not it's fault.

What I do is discovering roads and paths with OsmAnd, checking them with the satellite view of Google Maps and sometimes also with Street View, then
placing markers in OsmAnd and following them when I'm on the new areas I still don't know.

If OSM had satellite pictures I could do without Google Maps for that. I would still use it to check the opening hours of shops.
Nobody renders higher than 4k DCI unless the film is screening on large format (imax etc).

The color space will be acesCG most likely these days.
Cool - I posted a patch to pkgsrc so NetBSD, minix, illumos, etc can enjoy that “new” hotness.
Ericsson.

SKT: https://www.ericsson.com/en/cases/2019/sk-telecom-has-switch...

KT: https://www.ericsson.com/en/cases/2019/korea-telecom-has-swi...

LG U+: https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2019/10/koreas-lg...
can you share the story?
Why not both?

BTW what exactly do cops police what consenting adults do with each other these days? Honest question.
Those changelogs are likely wrong anyway.

If you miss an update, you'll miss the intervening changelog. There's no ability to provide multiple changelog entries in the app store.
Do you guys use synthetic monitoring tools?
Google Maps is great but Maps.me has tons of hiking trails that Google doesn't have.

I know Google Maps can download map sections ahead of time but I go to a lot of places with no mobile phone service and if I forgot to download maps ahead of time I don't worry about it. I just open up Maps.me and it has all the trails, roads, and usually the parking lots.

For many uses it is superior to Google Maps. I am glad I have both.
Maybe by 'human' they just meant 'sapient'?
Looks like the '+'plus symbol manifests as tilde outside FDroid.
That's what Lockheed-Martin has been saying, but I'm pretty sure the F-35 is still deployed along-side an AWACS. And with more and better satellite imagery & communication. I just don't see why we need this extremely capable and expensive flying network router.
Not looking to start or participate in a conspiracy, but I do think it’s valid to ask for both numbers: The number of people hospitalized (or died) who have C19, and the number of people hospitalized (or died) because of C19. Unless the coding systems simply can’t make that distinction, it seems like a no brainer to publish both numbers. The conspiracy theorists lose traction, and we get more data.

Despite this, I see precious few C19 dashboards that show the ratio. We’re lucky to see one that describes precisely what is counted as a hospitalization. We’ve had plenty of time to figure out how to report this, I’m stunned that there isn’t more transparency.
> How many decades will it be before we see an F35 used in film?

Rounded to the closest whole decade, -1; the first movie to use actual, not CGI/model/etc., F-35s on film was Man of Steel (2013).
In technology we are coming to accept that no matter how solid your security is, there are just too many attackers and someone will get in. We need to tackle our tax code and similar systems the same way. We need to design the systems to be robust to this kind of trickery from the start, not chase and plug loopholes after the fact. Particularly when the incentives are so off - the private industry accountants and lawyers getting around the rules are paid more, have more fun, and enjoy more prestige than those on defense.
The biggest drawback of OSM and OS-related apps is POI. Lots of outdated information so it's not reliable and can not be used day to day life.