skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Google glass and game streaming are two very different projects with different motivations/incentives etc for partnering. Game streaming is on the cusp of becoming mainstream. The technology works (playable latency), and the overall product is simpler than competing products (pcs, consoles) for the job we hire gaming hardware for. It is clear the future is in the controllers and displays, not in math boxes. The biggest difference is that gaming is an existing habit gamers have. Google Glass was something completely new and was unclear what we were using it for.

I would also say "media company" is pretty broad. Will Google become a media infrastructure company? yes (they already are). Will they become a media platform? yes, (they already are). Anything more and it's probably spreading investment too thin, but those are substantial components to media.
I was very involved in this driver subject for some years. The issue is more complicated than it looks.

Closed source GPU drivers are not ordinary drivers. They have a lot of quirks and workarounds for programs, especially games.

When a dev studio makes some mistake in its engine or the engine doesn't fit well to current workflow of the driver, a new driver is shipped with specific workarounds for this game. These quirks generally add shims between the program and the driver by basically modifying calls to the driver to increase performance.

e.g.:

- A game is calling too many clears while it shouldn't? Pool them in the shim layer and let them through in batches of 1000.

- Is a particular benchmark is overloading the card by forcibly drawing off screen portions and hurting scores? Insert a shim to prevent drawing off-screen parts and chea... ehrm, optimize the performance.

- Is an important legacy application exploiting a quirk in an older driver for something? Introduce that quirk via another shim.

When you try to port these drivers as-is to another platforms, things get awry. Also the drivers were tremendously Windows specific. This is why FGLRX had (or does it still have) various daemons, HAL layers, during its teething years.

OTOH, free/OSS drivers has no shims, workarounds and other stuff. They are just drivers. Plain, simple, vanilla. They are easier to maintain and develop. Radeon driver is such a driver. Also AMD/ATI has some more tricks up their sleeve for more stable, better drivers regardless of their platforms.

- IP separation: All of the NDA bound parts of the GPU (currently it should be the HDCP stuff only) is a different IP module on the GPU. The cards are designed so that even the Radeon driver can work with HDCP module while being completely blob free. ATI/AMD specially altered silicon and GPU architecture to enable FOSS drivers on Linux and I think its effects are huge.

- "Factory Team:" Radeon driver is carried forward by volunteers but AMD also has a dedicated team working on Radeon driver full time. This group cannot communicate with FGLRX team to prevent tainting each-others wells. So, Radeon is blessed by AMD/ATI on hardware, software and management level.

When you publish your specs, dogfood it with another team, and optimize your GPU silicon and board to accommodate these open source exceptionally well, you have a killer combination.
> SAO takes cyber security very seriously and appreciates your patience as the investigation continues. Updates to this notice will be posted on this website as SAO learns additional information that may help you with this unfortunate situation.

Read as: "It's too bad this happened to you :shrug-emoji:"
Yeah, my first adderall came from a friend who uses it to party. I can't see how. It makes me much quieter. Partying on it is something I can't even imagine.
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My wife runs an online fabric shop with a very... focused target market, and I’ve spent countless hours developing and fabricating a product for that shop.

It’s a pattern weight, essentially an 80mm wooden cylinder, 16mm thick, with a metal weight embedded inside.

We’ve sold a grand total of 50 (sets of five) but it’s been great as a way to learn to run my CNC router!
Ever since there's pg_upgrade available. Since 8.4 or so - https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/04/12/fast-upgrade-of-lega...

Dump and reload is ok if you have a small database or can afford hours of downtime... if not, use pg_upgrade.
Fun fact: tempura are actually of portuguese origin. And california rolls are, as the name suggest, from California. Another japanese staple that has a weird history is curry: it mimics the _british_ curry, rather than the indian/thai varieties.
Yes, that is the straightforward answer to your question in the context of current events. I'm sorry that you don't like it.

I'm sure you have plenty to complain about. Getting derailed by mass media narratives is not the way to have your actual gripes taken seriously. It's just another system of control.
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I found at least one instance of that in my own research. Do you have the link to that submission?
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You're implicitly painting "become an unqualified mega-success" and "become a large scale data gathering opportunity" as if they were mutually exclusive, but they're not. It's because Maps and Mail are so wildly successful that they're great data gathering opportunities.
I'm very sorry to hear all the troubles you've been facing. I will soon be deciding where I want to move and this sounds like a state I should avoid. Was that in Washington?
It's actually a pretty interesting element of Google, their adherence to a centralized infrastructure must make spin offs and acquisitions incredibly difficult.
This is indeed true. That's why women in combat roles historically did not engage in such roles. Instead, women often manned defences, were light archers, and so on.
> One day I decided to make a cobbler with thanksgiving leftovers...

Marvelous. I did an "all-in-one" dish for a winter potluck one year. Ham, cranberries, and (a few) brussels sprouts, in a base of potatos au gratin. It got a few weird looks, but there were no leftovers.
Can't he get it out of the App Store in his jurisdiction (EU + US with reciprocal agreements).

I guess the Chinese copycat will still be sold in China and other non-compliant markets for IP law but that would ba a partial victory.
Yeah that sounds like a really expensive feature.

Seems like you’d need an instance of the game with its own GPU for every viewer.
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FYI, I'm guessing that this is the secure file server used to send data to SAO for audits of ESD and other agencies.
I definitely think they need to revise that copy. The article actually has a recommendation now for an ultrasonic with an accurate hygrometer that wasn't there when I first read the article ~9 years ago.
Yeah the path in the url is your message!!!
My point of reference here is from this twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/RaveofRavendale/status/13094734056039096...

"With Nowhere Prophet, it was an interesting case because we were also launching on Xbox Game Pass at the same time, which had essentially already secured financial success for the console versions"

Not exclusive, still got a significant chunk of cash.
Agreed, I think it's important to disrupt your normal thought process sometimes to get a new perspective that's still close to your heart, and I think there are several drugs that are good for that with little side effects when used responsibly. I think it's only in the past century that most drugs have been seen as evil, previously they were well used often for medicinal or religious or philosophical reasons.
Yeah, Google doesn't offer enough of an edge that would justify ignoring Steam.

Similar to your experience with Geforce Now, I had a great experience with shadow.tech, where you can bring your Steam library, and I'm sure there are many more competitors.
I looked at FastAPI while back for an API for a machine learning inference service (and you'd see a lot of blog/medium posts for that).

The syntax and documentation is really good and the docker examples are great for fast startup.

The only problem is that because FastAPI isn't process based some machine learning libraries (Tensorflow for example) don't really play nice and you'll get random errors or funky results, especially under load.

Obviously one solution is to use Tensorflow severing (and deal with that craziness) and let the FastAPI do the routing/data processing but I bet there are production machine learning products using FastAPI spawning random numbers and the developers are oblivious to the problem.
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Looking forward to answer your questions!
> Why it can't spin these side projects off into their own companies to survive or die on their own merits I don't know.

They do sometimes. Niantic (Pokemon Go) used to be part of Google Maps (well, Geo) and they spun out completely.
Frequency and severity of those symptoms are considered for the diagnosis. Everyone shows symptoms of depression sometimes; not everyone has depression.
Would you hire someone who doesn't believe in vaccination and science?
I was curious about what you think. Imagine that person is qualified for the job, they have the necessary skills. But they made a comment in the interview and said that they don't believe in science and will not get vaccinated. Would you hire them for a technical position such as an engineering role?
I'd say HP-UX is at least as likely.
Thanks for reading!

>I'm wondering what happens when things change part way through the cycle.

Good question!

The goals are flexible. The goals work for me, not the other way around. If I realize partway through the year that circumstances have changed or I set a bad goal, then I do something else.

This happened to a small degree this year. I knew that making a course would prevent me from achieving my goal of 10 blog posts, but I felt like it was okay to deliberately miss that goal in favor of something I thought made more sense.

But generally, I try to set goals that are high enough in abstraction that they don't require adjustment when circumstances change.
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I really wish Dark Shikari and Loren Merritt had continue to work on x265 or some other video encoder.

80%+ of all Video on the Internet are still on H.264 / AVC. And vast majority of them are encoded through x264.

Their contribution to Video Encoding can not be understated.
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>I had a friend from high school who was addicted to heroin. When he ran out of money he was willing to mug old ladies to come up with the cash for more. If heroin were instead legal... why wouldn't he just steal directly from the legal distribution source now that the threat of violence is no longer there?

That seems like more of a net positive IMO. Theft of institutions must be less deadly/detrimental than the alternative. Even if people were to steal more from (say) Walmart than rob grandmas, it'd still be positive.

>And a net increase in usage will cause some % increase in DWI rates, overdose rates, health care impact, etc.

This might not be the case because of increase purity/social and institutional support because of destigmatization/re-invested profits taken from taxing the product.
Yeah I feel like I hide in those tasks to achieve a sense of accomplishment while also avoiding the uncomfortable task I should be working on. Then again, those tasks help me pass the time until the deadline for the important task is close enough to generate the fear/anxiety necessary for me to work on it.
> they space out, or even on low-doses they almost can't "keep up" in conversation or meetings

For some of us this is the experience without any medication. I still get this now with medication, but it's definitely less frequent.
You're still paying for the hardware somehow, even if it's not in your home.

Theoretically nobody's going to play 24/7 so you could share the hardware between multiple customers, but in practice latency means that your DCs need to be close to them anyway.

The only way Stadia (or some other bullshit like it) could possibly be cheaper would be:

1. Price dumping

2. Preferential game pricing from publishers (to instead hide the hardware costs there)

3. Gym model (tricking casual users into signing long and expensive contracts)
Jefferson wrote that while owning slaves, so I'm not really sure why that quote would give anyone the impression that American culture was built for blacks.
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That is indeed part of why women are better at withstanding g-forces. The other is lower bodymass.

It's true that women generally don't fight until it's desperate historically. I explained why in the comment you replied to.
Ha, I just threw out this humidifier after it lingered in storage for years. It gets really gross really fast. Our new warm mist humidifier can basically run the entire season without being cleaned since it's more-or-less boiling the water.

I understand there are "efficiency" gains with the evaporative style, but it's absolutely dwarfed by the horrible ownership experience. After my poor experience with this unit, I would only consider an evaporative humidifier if I had to humidify a large space.
PowerPC has pretty much the same memory model as the ARM variants, so it's a more or less solved problem thankfully.
They use DeltaLake + Spark 3.0, and are mostly careful to partition well.

Their datasets are small. Most tables are ~50GB, the odd table up to ~2TB. The clusters typically are nothing shabby for this size, defaults to ~[4-12]x32GB.

The queries that I have seen are typically not written well. Think view-on-view-on-view (there's a BigCo policy against them materialising data..), and where the filter is applied in the last step. The stuff of horrors, but something I've seen in more-than-one-BigCo.

But we have compared some of those same queries on BigQuery vs. Databricks, and, I don't know if BigQuery's execution optimiser is better? Or if the BigQuery storage is better organising the data? Or if BigQuery is simply throwing more resource their way?
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Filming me defecating in the privacy of my home is not comparable to a quasi-anonymous unique value traveling from my computer to another.

Also, please remember that this conversation is very specifically about Facebook's access to the Apple IDFA, not about general web tracking or other data vacuuming issues. The fact that these two separate issues get conflated is part of the problem.
That's wrong on two levels:

1. The compiler doesn't usually exactly know the right thing to do. E.g. in this case presumably the error should be something like "You need to order the files so that each file doesn't depend on anything further down the list." The compiler doesn't know what that order should be (maybe in this case it could figure it out, but the point is more general than just this instance).

2. Sometimes the compiler might be able to figure out what you meant but you still did it wrong. If you accept wrong code then pretty soon people will start thinking that it is right, and then you have to support it forever. This is closely related to the thoroughly disproven "Robustness Principle", which actually leads to systems that are really not robust. HTML parsing is a good example (though mostly fixed today).
Caffeine dependence isn't much fun either - whilst I don't know of any long term health impacts, the severe headache when you miss a caffeinated drink in the morning sucks.
I use VLC for converting .VOB files to .MP4 that I converted from VHS on my pioneer dual recorder/player.
It's amazing for three things: search, logging and draft records.

Search, with mongodb can do $all query, which is hard to replicate at sql level without aggregation. However I'm still waiting for aggregate-level $elemAt.

Logging, you can attach anything to a property, then it'll be queryable.

Draft records, it's easy to just insert and insert the records because it's schema-less. Validate during creation and validate again during publishing or approval. It's queryable and you can use a generic collection for that.

For logging and draft records, sql JSON field may be able to handle them, though I don't know how good it is at querying.