skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I know what that might exactly mean - I know we have synthetic traffic generation tools (and thus, measurements generated from the synthetic traffic), but I think those exhibit the same variance as production -> the backend for them are the same cloud IaaS systems and SW, so there's no 'sandboxed from all outside variance'.

If it means something else then I'm not aware if we do it or not.
wow, that is weird.
You can join the Peace Corps right now.
I usually stream a lecture, a few favorite TV shows on random playlists, some thriller or action movies, and maybe a favorite Youtuber. The scripts I use for this really randomize things into 200+ item playlists per window, so I can quickly flip through anything I don't want to watch right now.

IMO distraction and healthy prospective activity (stimulation, personal interest, cool new stuff) have become tragically intertwined and confused.

To me, distraction in the negative sense is the byproduct of a lack of what I call the "three C's", comfort, clarity, and confidence. Once I'm sailing through the day productively, singleminded focus is now a problem that can easily turn into productivity exhaustion. The streams help prevent this with entertaining mood support based on my core interests. (I wish everything I had to do at work was based on my core interests!)

BTW I don't generally watch new material in this context. It's usually from my favorites I've already seen, unless I'm ready to take a break.
i've used WSL2 with a Debian install and its worked flawlessly. Only issues i've had is working with ntfs volumes from the host, e.g /mnt/c. that's really slow. otherwise wsl2 has been fine for me
> If you mean go from 32 bit to 16 bit, that's still trivial with big-endian, you just shift.

Surely you would agree that moves are easier than shifts?

Moves can be handled by the renamer and be effectively free (even for memory operands, on CISC, with the advent of memory renamers; but this is even more important for RISC, where what would otherwise have been a load followed by a shift can just be a load), whereas shifts cannot and must take up some fraction of a cycle.
Yeah, that Audm player sucks. No controls to make it play at 1.5x or anything.
Firstly, how exactly would this work? Does the transistor itself become ternary?

Secondly, Jim Keller paints a fairly convincing picture that (for some definition of Moore's law) there is definitely a long way to go yet.
Good question. After thinking about it for 30 seconds, I would say add a negative power rail go from there. All gates are analog circuits at the lowest level, so it would not be very difficult to come up a circuit design.

I think the main obstacle would be the lack of ternary logic designers. VHDL/Verilog could probably be extended/enhanced to support ternary logic, but there would be a learning curve for the designers.
Ask HN: How do you review the past year and plan for the next?
I've tried various approaches over the last decade and have used YearCompass for the last two (https://yearcompass.com).

What have you used?
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I think that’s saying more about Arch than anything else. While it’s not wrong that people add dot files to track preferences, those aren’t necessary for basic usage. Someone using macOS without customizing anything still has a good experience.

A key distinction is between domain complexity and what the product adds to that intrinsic complexity. If you use GitHub or GitLab issues with no customization you’ll have a better experience than a Jira user because they work well out of the box without requiring customization or adjusting your workflow just to accomplish core tasks.
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Perhaps GP lives somewhere that did. It's definitely not an uncommon thing around the world.
I think it's meant for a pretty narrow use-case: serving compressed files through frameworks(as mentioned, for example Django or Flask) that expect to serve file objects, but without writing to disk.

The "usual"/naive solution (if you stay within the python ecosystem) is to compress the files and write to a BytesIO or other in-memory file like object, and then have your framework serve it. The naive solution leads to writing the whole file to memory before serving (thus memory inflation).

This library just looks like a pretty straightforward way to implement the same idea, but with chunking to bound memory usage. At the bottom, it's doing the same thing, but using generators to yield chunks at a time.

It's a useful utility for that context. Nothing groundbreaking, it's something that most intermediate and higher developers could stitch together in probably a few days (especially if they had to brush on on DEFLATE and generator protocol), but it's nice to not have to.
The vitriol I hear on this topic never ceases to amaze me. I never said anti-mask advocacy, neither did I state I wasn't in compliance with the aforementioned mask mandate.
AWACS can be shot down by near-peer adversaries. And satellites travel in known orbits and have no capacity to evade. It's well known at this point that nations that can make current-generation fighter jets can also shoot down satellites.
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Imagine how catastrophic a wildfire could be to people who live in the areas that are burning.
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Why stop at ternary?
Thanks! I changed the label name from "Release" to "Release Year", that should make it easier to discover.
Rumour in the industry is that Pixar don't use Tractor themselves, and have a custom solution in Emeryville :)
Maybe we should think about the consequences of making retention the number one KPI?
A transistor is an analog device. Digital logic usually has them operating in either an "on" or "off" state, and this could still be the case if a second power rail was added.
Why dont they use AWS?
It should be a no-brainer if it weren't for some particularly dumb politicization of the issue.

We aren't gonna get proper RCTs and hard evidence any time soon. But it's such a simple and plausible intervention, we do have good reasons to believe they help and they don't hurt anyone. It's all just so infantile
Jim Keller is obviously extremely intelligent, but it's also in his best interest (at least it was at the time when he made his most recent comments about Moore's law) that people think Moore's law is still in full-force.
Does anyone know of a website/js remake of this watch face?
Yes, there are some subs that are narrowly focused and well moderated but in general Reddit is a toxic waste dump.
>It's practically free to do

The social costs are nonzero, so I wouldn't say it's free.
I don’t believe the average is 24 hours of wall clock. I do think average render times have increased a bit over time, but FWIW, I think the average render time needs to be “overnight”. The shot just needs to rendered before dailies in the morning. If it takes longer than maybe 6-8 hours, it risks not being done by the next day, and that means each iteration with the director takes two days instead of one. There is significant pressure to avoid that, so when shots don’t finish overnight, people generally start optimizing.

When I was doing CG production shot work ~15 years ago, there were occasionally shots that ran 24 hours, but the average was more like 3 or 4 hours. The shots that took 24 hours or more usually caused people to investigate whether something was wrong.

I worked on one such shot that was taking more than 24 hours. A scene in the film Madagascar where the boat blows a horn and all the trees on the island blow over. The trees and plants were modeled for close-ups, including flowers with stamens and pistils, but the shot was a view of the whole island. One of my co-workers wrote a pre-render filter with only a few lines of code, to check if pieces of the geometry were smaller than a pixel, and if so just discard them. IIRC, render times immediately dropped from 24 hours to 8 hours.
You can find it in health food shops or buy in bulk online. It keeps for ages, so it doesn't hurt to have extra. I'm currently in Australia. My local grocer has started selling it, though it's pricier than from other sources.
>but remember that EVs would have to be 100% of the market for 12 years before they were a majority of vehicles on the road.

Are you assuming a fixed rate of retirement for ICE vehicles? I've long wondered if the growth line of EVs would end up being yet another example of an S-curve rather than linear as so many seem to expect. It definitely seems like there are potential tipping point factors on both sides of the equation, because fossil fuel infrastructure has a ton of capex and opex that works due to massive amortization across a big enough fleet. And simultaneously justification for huge EV infrastructure investments, and the mass manufacturing necessary to keep prices marching down, faces some level of bootstrapping and amortization issues too. Plus, lack itself is a hindrance if people aren't confident about charging up.

But it's easy to see how that could flip, and then in a surprising hurry go in reverse. At some level of shrinking ICE usage a lot of gas stations themselves become non-viable. And then suddenly it starts to get harder to fuel up, in turn driving the dynamic even faster right? It seems probable that there will be some inertia due to lagging specialized applications, demand amongst niches like collectors, etc for a while. But it seems possible the new equilibrium might get reached non-linearly. And that's ignoring and political tipping points that could happen too, if a majority of people have EVs, or even a very sizable minority (say 20-40%), what happens to political support for current extensive systems of explicit and implicit subsidies fossil fuels enjoy?
>Are you using Jupyter notebooks? Are you saving the model and how?
Nope, its a python script. I dont use Jupyter notebook as it eliminates (somewhat) the randomising of the training and test dataset. The most of the resources (time) is needed for splitting and fitting which is dependent on randomising and the 'freshness' of the run hence, I use a python script which runs every iteration cycle. Also, since the events happen daily, I have to update the training dataset almost daily hence having a Juypter notebook is not my choice of path forward. Yes, if (and when) user prompted results would be needed, I would go with Juypter notebooks as the target market is extremely finicky and will not wait for 10 minutes for the output.
>Are you doing this manually right now instead of a script?
I cannot cal it a manual process right now.. its copy-paste.. earlier I had to type the predictors.. which was fun at the start as I understood (somewhat) how the predictors affect the output but now, I just copy-paste from websources
>What decisions do the results in the spreadsheet inform or what actions do they trigger? How would I, as a consumer, use these results?
Guidance on how the event result can look like.. and the user is on their own on what bets they would like to place. e.g. If its a hockey match, what can the scoreline look like, how many fouls, etc. In NFL, what would each quarter look like, etc. I stay away from advising what bets to put. Its safer for me that way. e.g. if 1st quarer of a NFL event would be 6-1, I would present the output as is.. the user can place bets on what they would seem appropriate.
No good reason I can think of. Flash memory manufacturers began with SLC, but have been evolving to higher and higher cell densities.

https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds-what-are-s...

Also, early computers were not all based on binary. E.g. The ENIAC was base-10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
> we all know we need to lose weight and reduce BMI

This is not only untrue but is actively harmful to those with lighter bodies.
Right, but I kinda wanted a bit more.
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I spent tenish years in VFX. I moved away in 2014, because the hours and pay were abysmal. I still love the industry.

I moved to a large profitable financial news paper, which had cute scaling issues (ie they were all solved, so engineers tried to find new and interesting ways to unsolved them )

I then moved to a startup that made self building machine readable maps, which allowed me to play with scale again, but on AWS (alas no real hardware). We were then bought out by a FAAMG company, so now I'm getting bored but being paid loads to do so.

Once the golden handcuffs have been broken, I'd like to go back, but only if I can go home at 5 every day...
It really depends on the jurisdiction. Lots of cities and counties have open data, and lots of states too. There's also a national database that looks pretty interesting:

https://www.transportation.gov/gis/national-address-database...
> Project managers love JIRA, but engineers don't

I think this is the core issue. It is simply not designed to be useful for developers, it’s designed for managing developers.

It’s the same issue with time reporting tools. The UI for entering data is just there because it needs to, but it’s not the central selling point of the software.

The UX for the data entry is just not designed to solve any problems besides accepting the data required for the reports that are the real product.
Oh!, now I get it: CSS static was not good, so welcome JS generated CSS.

But that was not good either, so welcome buildtime JS generated CSS.

Brilliant!
It's very surprising to me that as late as 1822 Europeans had no idea where migratory birds went. I would have expected that this would have been determined back during the age of exploration, once they gained access to these places. Why did this not happen?
May I ask what you did to promote it adn get that initial traffic?
Should not be too complicated in Python. Just calculate the sha1/sha256 on the file before adding it to the tar-archive, skip any duplicates.
It is, but like all of these legislations, it pretends to be about catching money launderers.
Same for me. I found it difficult to balance energy across work, life, wellness. My over focus on work meant I didn't get as much exercise in, which for me is an important outlet and endorphin booster. So would carry more work stress home. Ultimately built a simple notepad system for balancing which has improved my balance a lot.
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Lol, that doesn't surprise me at all. Pixar were the last of the original companies to custom make everything....
This looks really cool. Will be considering for some future projects. One thing that immediately occurs to me is that I’d be concerned about vendor lock in. I wonder if you could offer a fixed fee “eject” option if I want the ability to go off and do my own development on top of what you give me.
> And that a Maga hat and Antifa supporter might be neighbors but want to kill eachother.

That Maga hat and antifa might not be as opposed in views if they talked to each other. The problem is that we've reduced friction for finding like minded people so far that it's not worth it to go through the unpleasantness of talking with strangers.
Icelandic horses are traditionally kept outside all year round, and so will often stand very still for long durations when preserving energy.
To put things in perspective, the typical Jira 5-second page load time as reported by many people in this forum is equivalent to twice the round-trip time for light to the Moon!

It's the network latency equivalent of a million kilometres of fibre!
Because I do this trick a lot of places, almost all these players use the default <video> tag of the browser for the actual decoding/playback. So you can use that tag's control's manually even if they don't give a button

So for this, something like:
$("video").playbackRate = 2

or whatever. It's nice even for players with controls (like YT) if you want more than 2x speed

Also you can just look at the video tag's internal URL and just download and play however, offline :)
ahh smashing, I've been away for a while. I had heard rumours that they'd made a new colour standard, but I'd not actually looked into it.
It's the default most places. Especially with larger training corpora or vocabularies, the negative-sampling tends perform better - & I don't recall notable situations where the HS mode is better.

(I recall seeing some hints in early word2vec code of an HS-based vocabulary that wasn't based on mere word-frequency, but some earlier or perhaps iterated semantic-clustering steps, that I think managed to give similar words shared codes. But I've not seen more on that recently.)
I wouldn't call this validation. I think it's being discussed positively because it articulates what many of us feel to be true: peer-review is a broken mess. Same thing about bullshit jobs.
Lol, I don't know what to tell you. Drones are cheap, F-35's are expensive. QED
> I'd try to change what you wrote to something like:

I'm used to seeing from well managed projects a paragraph saying that there's new feature A and bugfixes and performance improvements.

And then a detailed change log with big feature A, smaller features B & C, and 10 bug fixes described. Maybe 2-3 performance improvements that are expected to only -really- help with degenerate cases.

And then, there's a dozen things that aren't considered important enough to be in this list.
Agreed.

I find that having a phone is like having a menu that has too many options. You just never seem like your happy with what you're choosing. There is something nice about not having an infinite library of music that you can skip every song to get to the next song to skip.

It's not all bad, but you definitely have to be mindful. One thing I miss the most about my younger years is being able to ride in a vehicle and just look out the window at things. Now I find myself going to the same tired things on my phone...
Schools in India have been closed since March.The costs to children are mounting
niacin as the other person said, but also: in my experience a placebo can be just as strong as a low dose acid trip.
Defence, offense, it's really a matter of policy.
Hi. I used to work at Teradici. It was always interesting that Pixar went with VDI because it meant the CPUs that were being used as desktops during the day could be used for rendering at night. Roughly speaking. The economics made a lot of sense. A guy from Pixar came to Teradici and gave a talk all about it. Amazing stuff.

Interesting contrast with other companies that switched to VDI where it made very little sense. VMware + server racks + zero clients compared to desktops never made economic sense, at the time. But oftent here is some other factor that tips things in VDI's favour.
For whatever reason I never got into games. I learned to program and found that to be fun and rewarding. Started in the mid 1980s. Back then, there were games for home computers and home gaming systems, but they were pretty lame. Arcades were still a big thing then for gaming. Kids would spend a lot of money in arcades, one quarter at a time. I never saw the appeal.
Because companys pay so much, so why make an cheaper product.

Mike did a real teardown on a Flir E4 many years ago, and saw (with an oscilloscope), even on the cheap camera with the low resolution, the chip has the full resolution. I think one week later the camera was hacked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqUE67BUDI
Few people can. The specific track and field analogue is the 400m dash.
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They render them at a very high resolution, so perhaps the person I heard the rumors from was talking about reducing the resolution to something less than 10k by 10k (or more sometimes, I've been out of the film industry for 8 years).

I shouldn't really say more.
These are beautiful.

Any thoughts on why the photographer reversed the spectrum (red cold, blue hot) for the fumarole? https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2019/07/image10-1.jpg (just looked cooler?)

Or why the distant horses have breath showing, but the closer ones do not? https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2019/07/image1.jpg (maybe a resolution/compositing issue?)
There are still doctors and hospitals there who would see a huge increase in deaths due to respiratory illness, if one occurred. According to your source, they haven't:

> “The mortality due to Covid in the African continent is not a major public issue,” said Dorian Job, the West Africa program manager for Doctors Without Borders.

The rest of that article is just speculation that there might be an outbreak that isn't being recorded, with little evidence.
> barely any way to capitalize on works in the public domain

I think this wrongful take on what capitalism should and shouldn't be allowed to take from the public domain, and why to detract from your comment. However, not as much as the incorrect take on history: Many people capitalized on works in the public domain before the Mickey Mouse taking laws. Please grace us with better research the future. This has been too typical.
> My understanding is that if you take away the stealth aspect the F-35 is a sluggish fighter bomber that would be outperformed by most 4th gens. Considering an F-35 is nearly the price of 10 4th gen fighters the choice to "upgrade" becomes pretty suspect for a lot of Nato partners.

First, "4th generation" can mean anything from an F-16A from 1978 to an F-16V of today. An F-16V is actually more expensive than an F-35A.

Second, if you take away the stealth of the F-35 it still has:

* A highly capable APG-81 radar with features like low-probability of intercept transmission modes, electronic attack (jamming) capability, multi-target track, ground moving target indication/track, synthetic aperture radar mapping, and passive (receive only) track capability

* Integrated electro-optical targeting pod with laser designator and range finder.

* Integrated software defined radio that can handle communications on UHF, VHF, Link-16, and inter-flight MADL

* 4 pi steradian awareness Distributed Aperture System that's a mid-wave IRST and missile launch/missile warning system

* Integrated Electronic Support Measures suite that provides Band 4/Band 5 detection and single ship rangefinding of incoming RF

F-16V has most of this same stuff or functional equivalents, but you pay tens of millions more to get it.
Yeah, the trick is that they're comparing to US World War 2 deaths when almost all the deaths from the war were elsewhere. For context, Wikipedia seems to reckon that the UK had more total WW2 deaths than the US despite being a rather smaller country, and we weren't the worst affected even within western Europe by a long shot.
Yeah, I think it can be painfully helpful to go through that miserable experience at least once. But my very strong advice to others:

Do NOT put up with that.

You don't have to. There are so many companies, even now, where you can get decent work with much more sensible norms.

There's always kind of a gravitational pull toward excess debt because "get the [fix/feature] out there in front of [users/client/exec]" is such a tempting drug for management, even if they're generally good. But the amount and toxicity of the debt varies widely. Find a company that's sane about this if you value your own sanity imo.
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I wish https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.staticfre... (similar in an Android widget) worked without requiring location to be on all the time.
The thing that really interests me is the potential to properly eliminate wires (especially when/if device to device becomes possible).

For example, the Test and Measurement industry (see eevblogs interview with John Kenny - a really good one, seems like a great boss to have and a great engineer to) is apparently really looking forward to being able to having very high throughput links between devices such that they can synthesize and fuse data without having a literal maze of wires - e.g. You have a signal generator and an oscilloscope, you should be able to make a (not very good) SpecAn from it.
Definitely--lots of old assets are used for testing, I've seen them personally. It's standard practice to keep around old models, scenes, textures, etc.