skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is weird. So NFTs don't do anything? I mean you can always fork ETH and then transfer ownership of all NFTs to yourself on the fork. So basically the value proposition of NFTs is tied to the chain they exist on. It's not the NFT that gives it value, it's the combination of NFT+ETH that gives it value. That's extremely absurd.
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
I'm pretty sure nobody ever said "Hey, God" in any Dune book though.
Since it’s a normal comic strip, Dilbert can never change substantially. So, what would be worse, a strip where the protagonists are competent and try to change their situation for the better, but always fail, or a comic where most everyone is equally incompetent and you can laugh at them all?
I think I was reacting to your sarcasm.

I presumed you were arguing that it is a hypocricy to criticise "repressive government moderation" on one hand while supporting "policing hate speech" on the other.

I would argue that it's possible to consistently support the latter whilst condemning the former. It's simply a debate about when a neccesary evil slips over the line into something worse.
This is sort of like buying milk in Wisconsin. It's cheap because it's right there. No distribution cost.
I definitely see lower wages due to less employment (as is rife in the UK with our zero hour contracts). House prices will rise unabated, compounding the cost of living issues.

I’ll only support reduced work weeks (because it’ll inevitably be used to reduce wages eventually) if our housing problem is fixed.
> and employees are demotivated and must therefore look to anything but work for fulfillment

It is a sad state of affairs that people are looking for "fulfillment" in work at all. Why are we still forced to work 40 hours a week or more to barely survive?
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This library seems really cool: according to the docs, it manages to detect some complicated patterns.
I haven't used it yet, but I'll give it a try in my future projects.

And according to bundlephobia, it's only 1.6kB minified and gzipped so I think I'll use it as a building block for all my future pattern match!
If I understand correctly the second link is basically an extension of Loop-Blinns implicit curve approach with vector textures in order to find the winding counter for each fragment in one pass.

>> Slug only needs to render a quad for each glyph.

I don't know how many glyphs you want to render (to the point that there are so many that you can't read them anymore), but a modern GPU s are heavily optimized for triangle throughput. So 2 or 20 triangles per glyph makes only a little difference. The bigger problem is usually the sample fill rate and memory bandwidth (especially if you have to write to pixels more than once).

I have been eying the scanline-intersection-sort approach (your third link) too. Sadly they have no answer to path stroking (same as everybody else) and it also requires an efficient sorting algorithm for the GPU (implementations of such are hard to come by outside of CUDA, as you mentioned).
Why software engineers in particular then, if scientists, inventors, artists, and many others are also known for iterating through and learning from their failures?

I also agree with others who said limiting analysis to the top 10 seems arbitrary, especially when you're covering mostly just the runaway outliers despite having the general overall claim of "why are software engineers better CEOs?" Does your analysis still hold when you expand your field of vision to the top 100, or top 1,000 companies?
Yes I'm familiar with it. What I'm saying is that :

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Even in Poland renewables dominate new sources of electricity generation.
In Forida, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is underwater.

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There's a great WebGL library for doing that on the web using any .ttf, .otf, or .woff font - https://github.com/protectwise/troika/tree/master/packages/t...
Exactly because of your caveat they are not junk,
I partially own a company in the EU, the neighbouring countries have different laws and wildly different company tax rates, care to elaborate on your assertive "no" here? Last I looked countries in the EU also set their own tax rates.

Feel free to prove me wrong on that matter, we are in a sub-thread about Ireland being a tax haven if you need a reminder.
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Unless you value your time at < $5/hour, it's always more money efficient to just pay for a PCB for a prototype rather then getting into dead bug soldering. There is no such thing as a "quick" dead bug project, and the time taken is always more than the time to lay out a pcb plus its cost.
> I remember when Reddit was caught paying trolls.

I've been there for like 10 years and I don't remember this. Was it even before? Do you have a link or something? I tried some searches but didn't find any relevant result. Thanks in advance.
You're right as of right now. ImmutableX is an upcoming Ethereum-based zkRollup that will allow 9,000 transactions to be processed per second, thus completely doing away with the problem of gas fees:

https://www.immutable.com/
It's often developers who are pushing for new features in a programming language. They think the addition of a feature will make it easier (or more convenient) to code the problem they face. Possibly reduce the lines of code.

That is the contradiction: does the addition of features makes the language more complex? Or do the features help simplify the code? Different answers for different languages?

It will be interesting to see the trajectory of new languages like Nim, Julia and Rust. These are medium-sized languages and Rust in particular is already considered complex by some programmers. Only time will show how much they grow in language features and complexity.
Well, we have in Germany in a German company mandatory 42 minutes long lunch break. So 8 hours straight isn’t feasible. I would really love to ditch 42 minutes long break and have real 15 minutes meal break with punchcard sign out/sign in. Now we just have one hour long breaks taking a walk and eating afterwards.
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It's commonly used. There's a huge amount of equations that look like (a * b) + (c * d) + ... and so on. So if that's the operation you're doing, it saves an additional instruction and therefore instruction bandwidth and cache. Within actually doing the operation, the extra add is a very small amount of overhead.

Having looked in the ARM reference manual, the "MUL" instruction is just an alias for MADD with an addition of zero!

I can't find timings for this instruction with 30 seconds of googling, has anyone got a spec with instruction timings?
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That’s not the case here. What you describe is basically compression in “solid blocks”. `xz`, however, is (in practice virtually always) fully solid. It allows greater compression efficiency at the expense of random access, which is not possible at all.

The order matters because it “defines” what the algorithm’s dictionary will look like.
Can I steal the feudalism idea?

I agree with you. I didn't know how to label it but feudalism sounds right.
And I think that employees are greater at fault that employers. We must know when to say enough is enough.

In the second company, I had a couple of interns and I saw that the first week they where doing like 1 or 2 hours every day more than they should by contract (4 hours/day contract). I invited them both to a coffee outside the company and talk about them about doing more hours for free.

I still have contact with one of them and before this thing of Covid exploded, we talked and said that he had with his intern the same conversation I had with him about free hours.

I think that we need a strong class / work mentality, something lost in recent years, and that it comes from education.
people often pour over great art to find new lessons and ways to apply its wisdom - why would you find it weird?
Can confirm - it's a matter of taxation. I bought bottles of wine from there while in Italy for 3EUR per bottle. The exact same bottle retailed for 35CAD in the LCBO in Toronto.

Since moving to Israel I've noticed something very similar. A bottle of Red (yes, that's a brand) can be purchased in the corner store for the equivalent of $8 CDN. In Canada the same bottle was a little over $45.

This is all about protecting the local wine industry through tarriffs - nothing else.
That's just such lazy chinamongering, a 3 second Google gives you a pointer to that Chinese ICP thing being some crap seemingly related to the great firewall so probably they fell afoul of some censorship crap and had to obtain a licence to continue operating there. (And google would've shown that that BMJ still seems to be headquartered in London).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
"Getting an MBA does not make you not-an-engineer."

My view having known quite a few engineers who got MBAs (outside of the software world) is that it very much marked a point where people had decided they wanted to stop being a practising engineer and wanted to be someone who managed practising engineers (directly or indirectly).
> It’s not clear to me that that probability of collision assumptions hold. It’s basically assuming that the hashing is perfect and distributes any inputs to the full 64-bit space with uniform probability.

You can get this guarantee by using a random hash function if you don't support insertion and are fine with using a relatively larger amounts of memory.
C#, because of better support for value types and low level coding.

Also despite all its high and lows, the .NET story regarding desktop frameworks is much better than Swing/JavaFX, and whatever Google has butchered Java with.

However I have never been a X Developer, I always have used both at my employers since they exist, alongside C++, depending on the project and customer requirements.
Point taken. I see now that my idea is a bad one. Moderation is really difficult.
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...because these companies are engineering companies?

7/10 of the biggest companies are software companies. 6/7 of the software companies were founded by engineers. Ma is an outlier.

Any of these other points might be true, but there's no empirical reason to expect that that they predict "success." The simpler explanation is that software company founders tend to be engineers. Financial companies tend to be run by financiers, etc.

Conclusions like "discovery of solutions via techniques like continuous A/B testing" may be true, but they're not required to explain why engineer founded companies dominate the top 10.
Ok C++/CLI can be considered C++ interop but it's really compiling the C++ code again with some limitations.
I agree, but they're still basically unchallenged in the wireless VR space so I doubt it would affect the average consumer's buying decision.
Comparing simple simulations in Julia, Nim, C++ and R
It seems like they're advertising their vault service for healthcare data. They then offer a disclaimer that they are not lawyers. How can you offer advice for such a risky area and then not stand behind it? Is your service also not verified by lawyers?

It seems like a marketing piece with the intention of showing off their product, but I found that part to be odd.
I agree, it's a bit annoying.

But, in my opinion, in this particular instance it could be seen as a meta comment that the submission title is wrong. It says "submarine", but the vessel in question is not in fact a submarine and that is also annoying.

The title is supposedly written by someone who has read the article they're submitting, after all.
this has always been (my) issue with facebook: They assume you want to share everything with everyone of your friends. But most people don't want to do that, they want to share relevant stuff with the people for whom it's relevant. Only narcissists don't care about who they're talking to when they make a speech.
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My supermarket here in the Netherlands has most condiments in such tubes. I like them in outdoor situations, like when going camping or in the park. They're more messy than bottles or jars when used on a table, which is why I think that packaging is relatively niche.
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> the WSJ comments section is generally of higher quality with e.g. better spelling/grammar, less flamewar, and a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

How many WSJ comments sections have you actually read?
> For all the wind and solar installed by the rich countries, poor countries are happy for the cheaper coal.

Rich countries still burn plenty of coal. The US ranks 11th globally in per-capita coal consumption, burning 1.6 tons of coal annually, over twice the global average. Australia nearly tops the list, burning 2.8 tons per person. And that's not even touching the truly tremendous amounts of gasoline wasted on individual commuters in first world countries, or the historical emissions used by the "rich" countries to establish their economies.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/604946/per-capita-coal-c...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...
> “Mein Kampf” is still in print because it’s of intense historical interest. But there’s no Adolf Hitler Foundation collecting the royalties.

This is an incorrect claim. The copyright in Hitler's works passed to the State of Bavaria. They passed into the public domain in 2016 (life of the author plus 70 years). Before that, Bavaria did not authorize reprints. If "Mein Kampf" was in print between 1945 and 2016, that was copyright infringement. There was a legal entity that would have been owed royalties.
75% of Brazil's soybean exports go to China, for pig feed. This is 47.6% of all soybean exports.

The number two exporter? The United States, at 34.1%, the vast majority of this also goes to China, again, for pigs.
The first part.
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Indeed, most techniques that target the GPU have no response to stroking, they recommend generating paths beforehand so that it looks like it's stroked.

And yes, the number of triangles doesn't really make a difference in general, but in Slug's paper they say:

"At small font sizes, these triangles can become very tiny and decrease thread group occupancy on the GPU, reducing performance"

I'm not experienced enough to say how true that is/how much of a difference it makes.

> If I understand correctly the second link is basically an extension of Loop-Blinns implicit curve approach with vector textures in order to find the winding counter for each fragment in one pass.

I've read the paper, but to be honest it's a bit over my head right now, but AFAIK MPVG is an extension to this [1], which looks like it's an extension to Loop-Blinn itself, so I think you're right.

[1] "Random-Access Rendering of General Vector Graphics" http://hhoppe.com/ravg.pdf
Nope, it is compiling C++ with extra features, not limitiations.

Unless you mean pure safe assemblies.
I think he will just release a new token
I have seen pyramid schemes that are sounder than NFTs. It is sad that a lot of people are spending their hard earned money on NFTs thinking they are going to be professional artists. They don't recognize that they are only becoming crypto-coin investors.

I have spent hours sifting through the crypto-art space and amazed at the "so called" artworks people have been spending money. As a person who has been a professional artist and somewhat knowledgeable about the art scene, I feel that it is a duty to warn people.

I don't mind people spending their money on newbie photoshop tricks if they know what they are doing, but I don't like people to feel like they are artists because they can apply photoshop filters to an image and mint them as NFTs. I am keeping the publicity stunts out of this conversation. The article does a great job talking about those.

Another important thing to note is that an artwork's value derives from its cultural effect. So far NFTs' cultural effect is feeding people's belief in get-rich-quick schemes. Our society has stopped valuing hard work and started valuing wealth. We don't care how you attained your wealth anymore. When an item creates wealth without providing value, it is almost always a confidence trick.

If you are going to invest in crypto currencies, at least go on the relatively safest route and invest in Bitcoin and hope that its volatility works for your favor. But know that you are gambling and don't put your life savings on the line.
if the tunnel is unimportant, not worthy of being protected, then shouldn't it bother no-one that people go and loot it?

But it does bother me that people would loot it. It seems misguided to simply hoping that someone doesn't eventually find a way to excavate it. Which means that I want it protected, I guess?

Seems to me that Pierre Malinowski actions prevent the tunnel from being desecrated rather than the opposite, in the long run. Time will tell.
And if in 12 years those photovoltaics somehow haven't replaced coal - maybe the efficiency improvements stop, maybe there's issues with the supply of rare earths, maybe - then we'll be in a fine fix won't we.

Nuclear isn't the only thing that tends to take longer than planned. I would confidently bet that we'll still be running coal in 12 years' time. Certainly I think it's worth hedging against when the cost is building what, a few dozen power plants that follow existing designs?
I once jury-rigged blackout curtains by attempting to dye regular white curtains with a navy dye; the colour only partially took, and turned out to be at precisely the right spot on the em spectrum to act as an irresistible magnet for bees, which would consistently wake me on summer mornings coming though the open window and buzzing against the botched curtains, rather obviating the purpose!
You're right. It's time spent and not work performed. Original comment edited.

However, in many professions being available for a given number of hours is often a major part of the job, and that means there will be a direct requirement to hire more people in order to cover the reduced working hours.
Put a lid on it, 1 cm of vinegar in it, then boil. Put it under an extractor hood or outside though.
"Everyone has to stand before a picture as before a prince, waiting to see whether it will speak and what it will say to him; and, as with the prince, so he himself must not address it, for then he would hear only himself. It follows from all this that all wisdom is certainly contained in the works of the pictorial or graphic arts, yet only virtually or implicitly. Philosophy, on the other hand, endeavors to furnish the same wisdom actuality, to make it explicit: in this sense, philosophy is related to the arts as wine is to grapes" (Schopenhauer)
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The reasons are:

1. Business and IT in big banks are both extremely complex. Business just because of regulations making everything difficult and because the business people have had centuries of time to come up with complicated schemes on how to make money and/or serve customers in a competitive way. IT because paying off tech debt is not something that banks do for the most part.

2. IT in banks is often old and undocumented, making deep modifications very hard and risky.

3. Big banks are parts of the country's (or, in case of biggest banks, world's) critical infrastructure. Hence, they're REALLY risk averse. I.e. if Google Ad words goes down, the the only impact is that people's browsers around the world start running faster without all the ads... If the bank's transactional system goes down (or worse, transfers money where it shouldn't go), then the whole social order is at risk.

There are other industries that are similar - are also old, complex and critical - like for example the utilities, but unlike banks they don't make money off of people's private data like the banks do, so they don't transfer customer's details back and forth between their systems - so the GDPR impact is much lesser.
so lets take a related solution that combines both of what we said.

The ability for everyone to get the equivalent of a blue check mark, i.e. this person has been verified as "real", there only exists one independent account associated with said "real" person (but perhaps can have multiple non independent accounts, that all are publicly associated with one identity. an example would be someone who has a public identity and a friends and family identity on social media, they would presumably tie their private identity to their public identity and both could be marked as "real").

then one can easily distinguish people who are "real" and those which are anonymous. Might also help with bot issues on these networks.

also my identity here isn't particularly anonymous. I've linked to my work often enough that anyone who cares would know who I am.
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Even a system which has a short initial term but allows copyright to be extended indefinitely - for a fee, if you care - would work better than what we have now. Then Disney could keep their Micky Mouse copyright but we wouldn't have this ridiculous orphaned work situation where almost every minor work from the past century is untouchable.
People should make living wages, without forced overwork, burnout, and other sorts of abuse. But if I get fulfillment out of my work, could I please? It's not for everyone, but for me it's everything.
So true. I was thinking about Clubhouse recently and realized there are two basic forces that conspire against successful new platforms:

1) Going mainstream / mass appeal means the lowest common denominator drops, whether that's content or quality of conversation

2) Commercialization incentivizes the wrong things - see Twitter and how its been optimised for "engagement" above all else (not quality of content, or user happiness etc).

Interesting things are happening at Clubhouse but surely they know how this will go. I think successful new platforms that want to maintain their integrity should be looking at paid membership. Substack might be OK because of that.