skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've once implemented the basic idea behind the algorithm used in slug(described in the paper [1], though without the 'band' optimization, I just wanted to see how it works), and I agree with you, the real innovation is in that quadratic root-finder. It can tell you whether you are inside or outside just by manipulating the three control points of a curve, it's very fast, what remains to be done is to use an acceleration data structure so that you don't have to check for every curve. That works very well for quadratic Bézier curves, in the paper it says that it can be easily extended to cubics, though no example is provided(and I doubt it's trivial). What I think would be hard with Slug's method is extending it to draw gradients, shadows, basically general vector graphics like you say. Eric Lengyel on his twitter showed a demo [2] using Slug to render general vector graphics, but I'm not sure of how many features it supports, but it definitely supports cubic Bézier curves. I'd also like to add that the algorithm didn't impress me with how the text looks at small sizes, which I think is very important in general, though maybe not so much for games(maybe I just didn't implement it correctly).

[1] "GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines" http://jcgt.org/published/0006/02/02/

[2] https://twitter.com/EricLengyel/status/1190045334791057408
My friends who work those hours make well over double what I do from their bonuses. They work these hours because they do datacentre builds and these cost the company a fortune for every day. Doing anything to shorten them is worthwhile and it encourages the type of people who'd work in the oil fields.

There's no way a FAANG could hold onto staff requiring 72h/w without paying huge bonuses.
I'd say the first step is "Is this data even the kind where HIPAA compliance might be required?"

The number of people I know who conflate "human subjects data" and "HIPAA data" is staggering.
Every post has comments that haven't read the article and then go on to give an explanation that they assume the article lacks.

It somehow feels like the HN equivalent of mansplaining.
Rome was at its most 1 Million inhabitants, but since its fall due the Asian and African invasions all cities were constrained in size and development as they needed walls and larger amounts of defensive architecture/design
Card networks operate on a completely different set of dynamics than payment processors. You need to convince banks to issue and promote your logo. If you want to become your issuer, you now need to keep credit card debt on your books, not to mention customer acquisition costs in the insane rewards-driven card market.
It's an important factor to consider. Just because you copy, say, the legislative system of Switzerland isn't going to give you Swiss outcomes. There was a story about some Latin American nations trying to copy Swedish style practices and it turned out an absolute disaster. In Japan, if you leave a cell phone in a coffee shop, you can come back hours later and it will be given to you. In Russia, not so much. In the 80s there was an effort -- the early shoots of globalism -- of trying to "industrialize" west Africa by trying to import Western European-style management and business practices, and all of these projects failed, and some resulted in large debt loads being carried. One wonders what could have happened if they just let Africa be Africa and develop its own industries with its own practices at its own pace. You are not going to get English property rights or rule of law, but you will get something that actually works in the local environment, which is more important, IMO.
Plenty of assholes bosses in Spain, in my experience I have been very honest from the beginning I had sick people I have to take care of and sometimes I have to leave early or I can't just go to work I was always willing to work remote that day when the job allowed it.

The worst part of working in Spain is the work is usually from 9 to 14 and from 15 to 18 or variations of that, instead of 8 hours straight.
I expect that we're not even detecting most collapses like these. It's like when your garage is on fire but you're in the bedroom on the other side of the house. It starts to smell funky but you're not yet aware that your whole house will be gone in the next hour

> I am uncertain about this whole "2030" neutrality thing, why not 2025? Why not next year?

"next year" for a politician is "right now". "in 2030" is "never" since they'll be long retired.

There is a funny thing happening right now in France, most politicians from the 70s, 80s,&c. are coming out saying we should focus on climate change, the very same people who actively participated in worsening the situation back in the days. They only wake up now because their life is basically over and they want to rip some last minute karma points. Short term individual goals will always defeat long term global ones
There was a terrorist in Germany that built a whole arsenal of home made weapons. He tried to storm a synagogue but since he couldn't get access to real gun powder he had to get a substitute. Subsequently he failed to bust the door open and just shot a white passerby and then he went to a kebab shop to shoot the clerk. Considering his goal was to kill 30+ jews this is a pretty good example how gun control saves lives.
And most news papers already have a login for paid subscribers. Seems like a nobrainer. Certainly will attract less bot spam if you need to be a paid subscriber.
Producers not interested in consumers buying less of their product?
For a human-sized object running on water, it's more about inertia - viscosity doesn't really come into it at that speed and scale. In other words, the Reynolds number is high in that situation.
> Nope, "units of work" is features delivered, bugs fixed, new people trained and so on

Wrong: in a salaried job units of work is hours.

Unless your contract says otherwise.

> As the parent commenter said, if you can do it in 2-3 hours per day

You never do it in 2-3 hours per day, consistently.

If you are that good, don't tell anybody because they will start thinking they are paying you too much.
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Wouldn't solve the problem necessarily.

We need more experts and more resources in ecology to detect the main problems, otherwise we could be like a dog chasing its own tail. The problem can be predation, but also could be contamination, or just two degrees more in water temperature blocking the settlement of the tiny "kelpings".
I don't think there's a single militarized border on earth where the sentry holding the gun has any say on whether he must shoot someone who violates the perimeter. Mercy and negotiation on these issues happen with diplomacy, not along the fenceline.

With weapons, the desired outcome is not to kill, not in most circumstances anyway. In circumstances where it is, it is almost always the desire of an individual wielding a weapon. Normally, the desired outcome is deterrence or defense, and when used proactively, to lessen the enemy's ability to continue to wage the conflict. With deterrence, the threat of death is the deterrent, with defense, killing is the machanism by which the threat is neutralized, and with proactive aggression the goal may or may not include killing, and is more likely to include killing if the enemy's ability to wage conflict is dependent on manpower. In all three scenarios, the desired outcome of developing autonomous military capability is to save lives.
Without any evidence, this is just an adhominem. Please cite an example of obfuscation or misrepresentation.
This sounds like some great marketing.

“Don’t buy the $2 Trader Joe wine, buy our $20 wine not because it tastes better because we “we don’t use the land as a life-less substrate””
That's a good point. Thanks for the feedback. That can be probably solved with categories / tags you can choose to see.

Which kind of land are you personally interested in? And how much are you roughly ready to spend?
> there's a lot to be said for not having the first 45 minutes of the school day take place in the dark

Is there?

There's something to be said for the walk to school, for those that actually walk.

And there's also something to be said for having sunlight while waking up, with the huge caveat that the current DST system does not accomplish this.

But once they're at school? Why does it matter if it's dark outside during first period?
Spaniards don’t appreciate research, we only nod when solutions sprout out of the blue.

In fact, less work hours will be a complication for many -as they are used to justify the work done by sitting for extra-hours at their desk. It’s sad, but it’s also my daily routine.
Back in the early, heigh-days of the web, there was a service started up that allowed anyone to add any annotations to a web site that they desired - I thought this was pretty neat, until it wasn't, due to abuse.

But I still think we need this kind of service, allowing anonymous annotations that could be turned on/off as a visible layer for any visitor to a website. Seems to me, it might be time for this idea to be re-tried ..
The problem is not spam or bots, the problem is that most commenters just post worthless shit.

I mean, even on HN, which I consider above average, you have to read 100s of comments before you read one comment that really challenges your thoughts. 99% of comments are from highly opiniated people with little subject matter experience and no concern for subtlety. It's just not a very good value proposition.

I have a newspaper subscription and like reading editorials, because they often have interesting people talk about relevant topics. Usually the "professional" comments are a lot less divisive, and a lot more fact based than the simplistic bullshit that tends to be upvoted in comment sections.

I still like reading user comments, but I don't think they are a replacement for good journalism or professional writers.
The best solution, AFAICS, is to push for space exploration. In the meantime, if you're single, you could try to live in a more dense downtown location where living car-free is practical. I'm not sure that would be a good idea if you had kids though.
Yeah, 2021 was planned to be the last time that clocks would be put forwards in March in Europe. Countries would then stay on Summer Time in October if that was their preference, not putting the clocks back. If a country had planned to stay on Winter Time they would put clocks back for the last time in October 2021. From then on no changes would be made in March/October.

Shame it's not happening now. Due to the pandemic the negotiations were not completed, so we'll still be doing the DST shuffle this year and again in 2022 at least. There's a danger this will fall off the political map and for Europe to continue the DST changes forever. There are several members that are against removing the clock changes too, others who cannot decide if summer or winter time is better (so may want to keep the status quo, rather than make a choice that half of the population won't like) so it isn't clear-cut.
Is this a separate subscription for commenting only? Perhaps this would work: an additional small fee for the possibility to add a comment? I don't know, probably this would also drive away people who comment sensibly.

[edit: rewrote a badly written subclause to be clearer than before]
> Fix the situation before you expect them to relax.

The only way to fix the situation, in my opinion, is gun control. People are worried, admitting that's the main motive, because there are too many armed people around.
> Of course you will downvote me...

Maybe they're downvoting you because they are also Spanish, they know who Rajoy is and what he did, and what effects a pandemic produces on your economy regardless of the party in the government.
Speaking about oversensitivity ...
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I'd bet on Tux paint ;)
> There are many other factors that go into the making of super value wine, but the bottom line is this: You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying much for Two Buck Chuck or California Roots, you’re not getting much, either.

A long article which ends at the default lie of all "premium" products: If the price of something is high it is because of better quality. And: We would never, ever put additives into our premium products like these cheap manufacturers.

And if you believe that .. it's bridge selling time.
You might not want robots to parse it. See the spam complaints in the rest of the thread.
Not everywhere. There are many professions that do not take part in the growth of productivity. Medical Doctors for instance (even though some radiologists try hard to) are limited by interactions with their patients. The same holds for employees at points of sales, they only take part indirectly by selling more higher-priced goods.

So a shop owner that wants to stay open sees a 20% reduction in attendance by their employees. This is going to cost some people real money.
I thoroughly agree with you on coal! We need to get away from it as soon as possible. I just do not believe that nuclear fission power is the way anymore. 25 years ago I would have had another opinion entirely because the time frame would have been different.

Let's say I agree to build a modern reactor type today. Planning and construction begin, it doesn't have a host of issues and cost explosions like the "new" Finnish plants [1], problems that are typical for modern large scale engineering projects in Europe.

Then it will go online in 12 years and deliver the megawatts of power as planned. That's 12 years of progress in renewables at the same time. Just look at photovoltaics since 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics and that's just ONE out of many categories of renewables. A decade of progress while monstrous masses of concrete a poured for an 80s power plant design so it doesn't blow up in our faces and make land inhospitable for thousands of years. Is that where we should invest our cognitive energy?

Nuclear waste disposal and upgrading/modernizing the many 1960s reactor designs out there would have been key but it hasn't happened because of cost.

If nuclear was cheap, reliable and environmentally friendly it would have replaced coal a long time ago. But even Western states with tight proliferation control and a strongly embedded infrastructure in the Western security hemisphere are not opting to vastly extend nuclear fission power for a decent number of reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Finland#New_c...
Ahh what i ment is using tether or usdb instead of usd. Which is instant and decentralized and widely accepted crypto bound to the usd value. It just saves you from up and downs, its still crypto
Yes, the EU parliament passed a resolution to end DST 2021. Unfortunately, they didn't mandate a return to standard time along with it, leaving it open for countries to stay on permanent DST. But of course, a decision about this was never made - looking at the EU timezones, permanent DST basically has no place in the schema. The only non-chaotic alternative to DST would be standard time, but no such resolution has been made. Of course, Corona has made all of this even less of a priority. In this situation, the EU is doing something unexpected practical: ignore that resolution so far :)
You should check current research on work week reduction. It actually indicates workers increase weekly production. Yes, production, not productivity.

There is this thing called stress, burnout... That decreases production. Less work usually means less stress.

Research is not as solid as I would like, but promising.
Whatever you do, don't mention the war!
The difference is, most of these costs _are_ factored in to renewable costs because there are few subsidies (at least at grid level). In contrast, there is a huge implicit subsidy to nuclear by punting the issue of nuclear waste storage to future generations. I just don't understand why we're still talking about this when nuclear storage costs, even when included, are laughably optimistic. None of the long term storage plans made since the 1960s have panned out. Everything is still in temporary swimming pools until the music stops and someone has to pick up the bill.
It's Rust all the way down!
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> The most important is that the subjects in this experiment were not, in fact ‘wine experts’. They were undergraduate enology students. They are probably more knowledgeable about wine than the average person, but they were not in any way ‘experts’, or even ‘professionals’.

Last time I checked most people weren't wine experts either, so someone who is maybe a bit more knowledgeable than most people but not so far removed that their experience is completely different sounds like good candidates.
Not just Ive, but Forstall too. That's gotta have taken guts.
Are you using the word "outwith" to be funny, or is this really idiomatic in some dialect? I've seen people using "within and without" to mean "inside of and outside of" but not in anything written in the last hundred years.
> Turning clocks back is terrible for kids. A week of schooling is next to lost. Source: wife is a teacher.

That is some serious overstatement. I have kids.
Actually, they calculate the winding per fragment on the GPU [0]. They require polygon tessellation only for stroking (which has no winding rule). The downside of their approach is that it is memory bandwidth limited, precisely because it does the winding on the GPU instead of using CPU tessellation to avoid overlap / overdraw.

Curve filling is pretty much solved with implicit curves, stencil-and-cover or scanline-intersection-sort approaches (all of which can be done in a GPU only fashion). Stroking is where things could still improve a lot as it is almost always approximated by polygons.

[0]: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering
Hi Mike, thanks for your question and feedback.

The beauty of Venu is networking. Our customers (event organizer) come to us because they realize that Venu provides the trade show space for attendee-avatar to walk up to a booth and talk one on one to the exhibitor's avatar. The vendor-avatar can also talk to a group of attendee-avatars in his booth.

For example, when I enter Venu from my computer, as an attendee of the event, I will not see myself since I am in in first person view, looking out. I can "walk up" (by using my "W" key to move my avatar forward) to another avatar, see that person's name tag and email above his/her head, and organically start a conversation; and, I can move my mouse over the other avatar's head to click on the email to instantaneously send him/her an email.

In the booth, 4 marketing pictures depict the vendor's latest product or solution, and a video that self plays when the attendee-avatar walks into the booth, showcasing the vendor's latest product or solution. The booth also contains a clickable link to the vendor's website or store, and a contact card with the vendor's email can be clicked on to start a follow-up email after conversing.

So, we are definitely inclusive. We are providing the virtual trade show and convention space to the event organizers. The event organizer is the one who will be inviting their vendors, customers, attendees, etc.

Thank you.
Vulkan/metal/d3d give you control to do things you could not do with OpenGL, and they are very similar. All my code works first in Vulkan and Metal, but d3d is not hard when you have your vulkan code working.

OpenGL was designed by committee and politics(like not giving you the option to compile shaders for a long time while d3d could do it).

The hard part is thinking in term extreme parallelism. That is super hard.

Once you have something working in the GPU, you can translate it to electronics like using FPGAs.

The difference in efficiency is so big, that most GPU approaches do not really work. They are really approximations that fail with certain glyphs. Designers create a model that works with most glyphs, and sometimes they have a fallback, inefficient method for them.

With the CPU you can calculate the area under a pixel exactly.
I don't predicate ownership, first of all.

Secondly: Americans own too many guns and that's stupid.

third: USA is the richest country in the Worlsd and the largest owner of guns on the planet, so please don't make it a class issue, because it's really not.

Finally: Swiss are rich, they have an higher education on average so they don't end up shooting each other on the street like in the USA, were they think that owning firearms is a solution to poor education.

The only 2 places in Europe where there have been domestic mass shootings that were not terroristic attacks are Switzerland and Norway, not surprisingly the two countries that own more firearms.

Guns are bad.
It's a fact.
Luckily, here in Hong Kong, we have a constant UTC offset, but my poor colleagues in Sydney interacting with London and New York have 1-hour swings relative to UTC, opposite direction from NYC and London. So, Sydney has a 2-hour relative swing one way, and 2 hours back the other way, with 6 different days a year to take into account.

My brother spent a year and a half in New Zealand, and 6 months in Russia. Our mom spends half the year in Arizona, with no DST. Between family and colleagues, I found it easier to just switch to UTC, but obviously most people don't. Even after interacting with some pretty smart people for years, some of them in London and New York still get Sydney DST wrong, often getting both the dates and directions of the swing wrong.

Ideally, we'd all just do international business in UTC, but that just seems too difficult for most people, so getting rid of DST would at least make things a bit easier. Granted, my dealing with 5+ time zones in 5+ countries every work day is a bit unusual. Poor Kiwis: most people think Wellington and Sydney are in the same time zone.
Those were just cross-development for non-GUI stuff (BIOS, drivers and languages). Folks doing graphics bringup were mostly working on Apple LISA systems booted into CP/M-68K (ugh), since they were similar to the ST with a monochrome monitor.
Good example of survivorship bias :)
consider fruit in the supermarket, that came in plane from another continent. By not buying them, in the short term, there'll be a bit of waste and donations to associations. In the mid/long term supermakets reshape their strategy, stop buying them as well, exporters then reduce their shippings, etc..

same goes for fish/meat productions, if you cut down the consumer stream, the producers will be forced to adapt, takes time sure..

About pets, our planet is overpopulated (at least over-consuming), the fact there are over a billion of pets is already a nonsense, it's like virtually increasing human population by 5-10%, do we really need this?
Because I am from Italy and lived in Zurich for 4 years.

You really thought that an African boy couldn't possibly know? Seriously?
I support and agree with your sentiment. Western countries are to blame, but

_Biomass should not count as renewable_

It is not carbon neutral. Monocultures requires petrol based inputs (and petrol reliant for output), and store less than half the c02 of an old growth forest.

Biomass was one of the biggest mistakes in the green movement.
Interesting comparison, thanks for pointing this out.

You are probably thinking of Stargate Universe, BTW, for which the plot is pretty much that: how much should we try to control that which we don't fully understand yet?

Stargate Atlantis has the same tropes to an extent, and some episodes of the earlier SG-1 reflect this as well.
I dont understand why the US people still trust these agencies. FBI, CIA, NSA have all shown to act against the democracy in many cases. If they could be trusted, they could be trusted with a backdoor. Since they cannot be trusted, the backdoor only makes them a more dangerous enemy of the people.
Would you choose java or C# if you have to pick one?
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