skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm addicted to the internet, not my phone. I used to spend 10+ hours a day on a desktop. Then that time was split between my desktop and a laptop, after I got my first one. Then smartphones came out, and it's now split between a laptop and my phone. Hopefully the next phase is phone/wearables. I'm sure there are still people spending that much time on desktops to mess with VR, since you're still tethered to a computer.
Not Pixar specifically but Modern VFX and Animation studios usually have a bare metal render farm, they usually are pretty beefy -- think at least 24 cores / 128 GB of RAM per node.

Usually in crunch time if there's not enough nodes in the render farm they might rent nodes connecting them to their network for a period of time, or they might use the cloud, or they might get budget to increase their render farms.

From what I've seen the Cloud is extremely expensive for beefy machines with GPUs, but, you can see that some companies use it if you google [0] [1].

GPUs can be used for some workflows in modern studios but I would bet the majority of it is CPUs, those machines are usually running a Linux distro and the render processes (like vray / prman , etc.). Everything runs from a big NFS cluster.

[0] https://deadline.com/2020/09/weta-digital-pacts-with-amazon-...

[1] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/dreamworks-animation-steps-to...
As someone who's stuck on Gitlab for ticket/issue management I'd give my right nut for a JIRA instance.
There's a brief footnote about their REVES volume rasterizer used in Soul World crowd characters. They simply state their render farm is CPU based and thus no GPU optimizations were required. At the highest, most practical level of abstraction, it's all software. De-coupling the artistic pipeline from underlying dependence on proprietary hardware or graphics APIs is probably the only way to do it.

https://graphics.pixar.com/library/SoulRasterizingVolumes/pa...

On a personal note, I had a pretty visceral "anti-" reaction to the movie Soul. I just felt it too trite in its handling of themes that humankind has wrestled with since the dawn of time. And jazz is probably the most cinematic of musical tastes. Think of the intros to Woody Allen's Manhattan or Midnight in Paris. But it felt generic here.

That said the physically based rendering is state of the art! If you've ever taken the LIE toward the Queensborough Bridge as the sun sets across the skyscraper canyons of the city you know it is one of the most surreal tableaus in modern life. It's just incredible to see a pixel perfect globally illuminated rendering of it in an animated film, if only for the briefest of seconds ;)
OKR is probably one of the worst fads to happen to project management and software engineering.

Just set normal realistic goals and plans, or even just a general direction. Don't use numbers where it doesn't make sense -- not everything needs to be a piece of data -- not everything has a completion percentage.

Hope it goes away soon, along with "Agile", "Extreme Programming" and "Open Office Layout"
In the UK at least, it's relatively simple. If it's a red circle with a number in it, that's the speed limit - anything else is advisory. In my experience, cars with built in sign readers do an exceptional job of working out the current limit (more reliable than me, certainly!).
Live a little. Put the business bullshit away.
That wikipedia article could be its own story!
I write C# for .Net Core and .Net Framework professionally.

I'm open to suggestions but it simply seems crazy difficult to do this outside of Windows. WSL lets me jump into *nix quickly when I need it for whatever reason. I don't need a desktop machine. Why not just use WSL?
Agree. Particularly if they’re going to be parked there for hours. This depends on the installer and person paying for the outlet though. I’ve seen both situations.
Why do you think we're against it?
Ebay has tons. They run $25 to $40.
> Selfish pricks who want to park right by the door don't care if it is a disabled space, an EV space, or not even an official parking space at all

Seems like the right behaviour to discourage, just like littering, etc
"The first successful experiment happened on December 16th. I remember the date. It was the birthday of Cynthia, my former wife from Kansas City, who had encouraged me to write fiction and bore us two fine sons. I had strayed from Cynthia eventually to spend two tumultuous years with Jennifer. When I was sad for any other reason, I would also grieve for Cynthia. There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for “melancholy of relationships past.” It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your grain, to listen to country music."

This guy is a genius.
Do not try installing Maps.me now. It's been sold twice and current owners kept only the name, replacing the original code with a Mapbox demo app.

AFAIK, the spiritual successor to Maps.me is Guru Maps.

But if you can live with the complexity of OsmAnd UI, just get it from F-Droid to avoid the 5-maps limit imposed by the Google Play version.
France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share in December – Up Almost 6× Year on Year
> Would you be willing to share more specifics, such as: - Pages with content X are the slowest - Trying to do A/B/C is annoyingly slow - etc ?

I would... but Atlassian TOS prohibit me from doing so :(
Files from FinCEN were leaked in September to Buzzfeed and icij.org
WHY NOT BOTH?!
> If there's a generally static scene with just characters walking through it, does the render take advantage of rendering the static parts for the whole scene once

From the detail of rendering they do, I'd say there's no such thing.

As in: characters walking will have radiosity and shadows and reflections so there's no such thing as "the background is the same, only the characters are moving" because it isn't.
Looks really nice. I see one for sale in the US. $4k though.
Building with Nix Flakes for, eh –. reasons
The driveway was put in by my father - so no it is not a roadway.

I think there was wishful thinking since many of the OSM maintainers are mountain bikers and the Santa Cruz mountains has some desirable mountain biking paths. The back part of our property is on The Soquel Demonstration Forest which has an awesome mountain biking path.

They were pretty good about fixing the issue when I pointed it out.
The Pebble 2 SE buttons are known to fade off eventually. There's a hardware mod (3D printer) which requires orig. Pebble Classic buttons to fix it. Unfortunately, I broke my Pebble 2 SE in the process. Its very delicate hardware.

I ended up buying a Fossil Hybrid HR instead. Its a decent watch, just a tad expensive.
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From what I understand, this was never the case, and not even close. Toy Story took a ton of compute power to render (at the time), Soul took a ton of compute power to render (at the time).
I'm assuming these 1TiB textures are procedural generated or composites? Where do this large of textures come up?
It's hard to know what you mean without a concrete example.

twblalock's argument appears to be that editors are obligated to publish all pseudoscience dreck in order to refute it.

Now, there are plenty of pseudoscientific beliefs which are widely held, but are clearly not backed by evidence.

Consider Hollow Earth theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth - which is outright untenable; there is no evidence in favor of it and plenty of evidence against it.

Why should I worry about implications of a Hollow Earth when there are so many other more interesting things to worry about?

Going back to pjc50's comment, I am convinced by the evidence that 'bell curve arguments about some races being less intellectually capable than others' are bunkum. To start with, the genetic evidence over the last decades shows that the human-constructed concept we call "race" has no real biological basis. (Racial classifications is another pseudoscience. I linked to a video with more discussion about the flaws in the Bell Curve book.)

The evidence is so overwhelming that, like the evidence against YEC or Hollow Earth theory, it's not worth my time to engage in the topic, much less worth my time to develop the specific rhetorical skills to engage charlatans, frauds, grifters, and true-believers at their game.

There are certainly some who do that, and I commend them for fighting the good fight. But when a YEC proponent presents a tired argument like "If Human Beings Evolved From Monkeys Then Why Are There Still Monkeys?" or "Evolution Is Only A Theory" for the n-th million-th time - I don't have the patience. And neither do science journal editors, who use their freedom of association to decide to not publish a given paper.

I'll now focus on the word "censorship". You must be aware that supporters of pseudoscientific beliefs have all manner of ways to publish their works, hold meetings, get on TV shows, build museums, and more. So by "censor" you are not meaning censorship in any of its usual senses.

I think you mean something more like "there's an obligation to let the honorable opposition speak, in order that truth may ring out." But a YEC isn't there for the scientific truth but rather wants to be treated as honorable (even though it isn't!) in order to influence policy goals in favor of a certain religious viewpoint. I believe by jumping right to "censorship" instead of starting with "maybe it doesn't actually have merit", you end up supporting bad science.
I believe this to be historically true as GPUs often “cheated” with floating point math to optimize hardware pipelines for game rasterization where only looks matter. This is probably not true as GPGPU took hold over the last decade.
Selfpowered E-Paper Node for LoRaWAN
40 pages! That's intriguingly long. There's also a nice audio version.
One way that animated feature films are different than VFX is schedules. Typically, an animated feature from Disney or Pixar will take 4-5 years from start to finish, and everything you see in the movie will need to be created and rendered from scratch.

VFX schedules are usually significantly more compressed, typically 6-12 months, so often times it is cheaper and faster to throw more compute power at a problem rather than paying a group of highly knowledgeable rendering engineers and technical artists to optimize it (although, VFX houses will still employ rendering engineers and technical artists that know about optimization). Pixar has a dedicated group of people called Lightspeed technical artists whose sole job is to optimize scenes so that they can be rendered and re-rendered faster.

Historically, Pixar is also notorious for not doing a lot of "post-work" to their rendered images (although they are slowly starting to embrace it on their most recent films). In other words, what you see on film is very close to what was produced by the renderer. In VFX, to save time, you often render different layers of the image separately and then composite them later in a software package like Nuke. Doing compositing later allows you to fix mistakes, or make adjustments in a faster way than completely re-rendering the entire frame.
This would be better than FLIR's MSX, which generally suffers from a lack of precise alignment of the thermal and optical images, particularly for shots with a lot of depth of field.
This is super unique, really cool to see.
I’m waiting to watch or read the first story to postulate making smartphones illegal like drugs. Chinese Triads smuggling phones across border, massive gun battles between rival “phangs” fighting over turf, etc.
so make better huh?
No, this is totally overstating the situation.

Also - you could say the same and yet much much more about Google.

Google represents 10x the threat of FB because we all use it and essentially need it - and it's more broadly deployed.

FB is just FB. Use it or not.

FB can 'have it's cake and eat it'.

There's nothing wrong with using learned user behaviours to place some ads. There are reasonably narrow contexts in which privacy really isn't invaded, there's no harm really.

Where it 'gets bad' is when they follow you across the internet (like Google does ...), or when they use 'nasty algs' for interactivity (I don't think this is as bad as it seems).

Google is reading all your email and knows every search you ever made, I find that far more invasive.

FB has overstepped their bounds but there's no reason the can't go back in.

As far as 'anti trust' - it makes very little difference that FB owns WhatsApp and Insta. Break them up - very little will change.

The 'anti trust' issue is almost entirely with Google and Apple.

Google uses their search to promote their own products over others, rips off content for their search summaries, and uses Chrome and Android as a kind of 'market dumping' to ensure Search success.

Apple's 'App Store Only' rule for content distribution is questionable.
While I'm unsure of this paper/implementation's main claims without a closer reading, the Appendix D 'alias method for negative sampling' looks like it might be a nice standalone performance improvement to Gensim (& others') negative-sampling code.
Irish expert group considers nuclear energy
It's not just about market share. In both cases there is an intermediary between the (public) service provider and the users, which is the public. In one case the intermediary is a private entity that answers to no one; in the other case the data belongs to all of us. If you go beyond a mercantile view, it's easy which one is the best for the public in the long term.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with gsuite and using its data export features?
Show HN: Airbnb for Musicians
Postmates is so useful though. I think it's pretty clear in its marketing that it is a service that will go to a store or restaurant and buy the things you ask for, similar to the way Instacart works. Doordash on the other hand will sometimes do this without making clear which restaurants it has a relationship with or not. That causes all types of problems.
I think this is the median house price ... sort all the prices for houses sold in the USA in a year, pick the one in the middle, so ...
I tend to fall in either 1 or 2 depending on whether I've been bitten by a specific bug and need to know if it has been fixed.

The worst changelogs are the ones that say "Performance improvements and bugfixes" only to find out the entire user interface has changed after updating.
Survey on reliability of CVSS (30 min on average)
> The article you linked first assumes only one or two antibodies.

Assumes only a couple of neutralizing antibodies, which is fair for the vaccine candidates-- immune assays of Moderna's vaccine show two typical antibody binding sites against the RBD that are strongly neutralizing. I haven't seen the ELISA data for Pfizer's vaccine.

Given that we've got several papers describing how immune escape variants of other viruses have emerged in the past... I'm curious why you don't think it's much of a risk here?

e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11410701/

> As I said before, there is some pressure for antibodies, but the immune system is way more than that, and people can clear infections very effectively without any antibodies at all.

Of course. I'm not speculating that there's going to be some nasty variant that completely eludes our immune response. I'm saying that it is likely-- and the consensus opinion-- that there is a real risk that the virus mutates to render the vaccine less effective.

> Further research has shown that this variant does not seem to increase disease severity, and instead is just more infectious, as the spike protein evolved for higher binding affinity.

Some of the mutations slightly increase binding affinity. Other deletions look like their primary fitness advantage is immune escape. A missing stop-codon also increases mutation rates for a portion of the RBD, which implies we can expect quicker emergence of subvariants.

It's like you're having an argument I never was having: I have never said that this is likely to cause more severe disease. I am just saying that the virus will be under selective pressure to evade the vaccine-induced immune responses-- which is something I think everyone agrees. This is less likely to happen if there's less infection around and people get vaccinated quicker.

Even in the worst case, where such a variant evolves quickly-- I don't think we're that bad off. As you mention, there's other immune responses. Strong T cell mediated immunity will almost certainly be cross-reactive and strongly reduce the risk of severe illness. We'll have more time to adjust vaccines without mortality accruing as quickly. It is still something we'd prefer to avoid at all costs.
Is there something like this for the JVM? I’m not sure whether with https://github.com/srikanth-lingala/zip4j#adding-entries-wit... will keep everything it is possible to keep it in constrained memory.
I usable all we can expect from one of the world's most popular websites?
Why I should make it?
Does anybody actively use smartwatch? I remember I bought the first Google pay smartwatch Mobvi Ticwatch Pro.

Used it once to pay for dinner and jogging a few times and found it to be not useful as I keep going back to my smartphone which I am not keen to carry while exercising.

I'm hoping that Smartglasses won't be a flop but can't help but feel we are no in a plateau of really incremental innovations moving the screen from desktop to our pockets now to our wrists, our glasses and perhaps if Elon gets his way our brains in the future.

Still would want one tho as it appears it is very light unlike many major brand ones that seem so bulky and large on my tiny wrists
The term "asymmetrical warfare" has a specific meaning in military circles--it specifically refers to guerilla and insurgency tactics (or countermeasures to such tactics). By analogy, I'm interpreting "symmetrical war" to refer to a lack of such tactics.

The First Gulf War was fought as a tank, air, and infantry warfare model, much akin to World War II-style tactics. And actually, the numbers were a lot closer than you might expect; the Gulf Coalition was made up of ~1 million men (the majority of them US), with Iraq having about ~600-700k defenders arrayed against them. Actually, it was remarked at the time that it seemed a risky strategy, since conventional military theory generally has you wanting about a 2-3× manpower advantage to be able to overcome a defending force.

The Iraqis were arguably not particularly inferior in terms of technology--they were a petrostate after all, and able to buy the fancy modern weapons on offer from both sides of the Cold War ideological divide. However, their organizational capabilities were decidedly inferior. It's not entirely clear to me why their anti-air capabilities were completely ineffective, but the US was able to achieve total air superiority and it used this decisive advantage to completely eviscerate Iraqi command-and-control. In the actual field, the losses that the Iraqis sustained quickly turned to utter routs.
Thanks for sharing, I was not aware of that story.

The article you shared also repeats the idea that governments/society should impose stricter rules on how Facebook and other networks manage the content posted on their platforms, but that is where I digress a little. I think Facebook is indeed the problem, and also not part of the solution. Like I mentioned in another reply above, Facebook is a centralized, free-for-all network, one in which the random mob can harass individuals to their death like what seems to have happened in this case. But a social network does not have to be this way; Facebook is what it is because that is what works best for their ad revenue. They cannot address the endemic problems with their platform because those are at odds with their business model and would turn the platform upside down. The platform must remain "open" so that people can "connect" and "share", i.e. the company must do everything it can to keep users on the platform so that it can surveil them and target them with ads with the things it has learned, and hate and disinformation happen to be particularly good at keeping people "engaged". I then think it is naive for us to take these networks for granted and to continue pretending that we can simply delegate "content moderation" to corporations. Society must take control of its online discourse, and any "solution" that falls short of completely destroying the surveillance economy that powers these unethical corporations is insufficient in my opinion.
Can be either. You usually have digital artists creating them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_artist
https://archive.is/mutpV
This is nothing specific to WSL though, Windows has always had this problem. I expect there are many Windows developers who have no idea how much time they spend waiting for their code to be virus scanned every day.
As a corporation with a huge amount of investment money involved, they will bend every rule and law to maximize the ROI for those investors. Also, these companies will extract every bit of data from their customers (product) that they can, in obscurity, to accomplish their goal.
I suspect they mean more in approaches to renderfarm utilization and core stealing.

A lot of VFX studios use off the shelf farm management solutions that package up a job as a whole to a node.

I don't believe core stealing like they describe is unique to Pixar, but is also not common outside Pixar either, which is what they allude to afaik. It's less an animation vs VFX comparison, as just studio vs studio infrastructure comparison.
In my experience, speeding is prolific and not tied to speed limit. I’ve read it’s actually tied to visual or physical cues the driver perceives as making speeding riskier or safer. Narrower lanes or walls are associated with slower speeds.
> Europe hasn't been building weapons for a while.

This, I think, is the crux of the issue. When you look at European armed forces, you only see American weapons: M9, M249, M27 IAR, the list goes on.
For the non-French, it's a portmanteau of "bisou" and "ours", literally "Kissbear"
I find it easier to channel my internet use into creative, and productive outlets on my computer than on my phone.
We've built Crave.io to share build cache between developers without resorting to customer supplied NFS or other storage bottlenecks.
Regarding the big list at the beginning of the article, which may seem daunting, IMO you just need venv, and I'd also add poetry. pyenv and tox are useful if you need to support multiple Python versions.

- pyenv is used to manage which Python versions you have installed

- venv comes with Python and is used to actually create virtualenvs

- `poetry install` will create a virtualenv for you, install your packages into it, and create a lock file (assuming your project is configured to use poetry)

- tox is used to run your test suite against multiple Python versions (but you don't use it to directly manage virtualenvs)
> it appears the battery is replaceable, just not easily, whereas its given an "x" on this list (is this true of all phones?)

So, the listing for the Moto X 2014 is saying exactly that. A swappable battery means that you can just take off the cover and change the battery, without needing any tool. That's not the case here (at least it's not marked as having that feature). Instead an iFixit guide is linked with 'moderate' difficulty (unlike others that are very difficult, then I wouldn't even try). Maybe that definition of a swappable battery is not universal and should be explained on the page?
"looks cool and fast" - DMC DeLorean ?
Those that haven't gotten it are trying to find anyway they can get it. Hospitals have done a terrible job of prioritizing frontline workers.
CVE DoS -- post so many CVEs to paralyze the system completely.
I find this easier to believe than that some of these events described actually happened.
I read all the Hitchhiker books, it made me a hoopy frood and I don’t go around without a towel[1], but I thought the bypass reference was the Simpsons for some reason.

I’m not sure the sentence, as terse as it was, was completely unparsable.

[1] all Hitchhiker references