skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't done a lot of work in government, but I have done a lot of work in orgs with distributed power structures, and this is 100% correct. Starting from the ground up means constructing a working group for every single workflow in which everyone who is even theoretically a stakeholder (and many people who aren't) is going to demand to be in the room and be heard. Once you get past 4-5 people, good luck holding a meeting more than once every few months, and if a single powerful stakeholder doesn't like what you are doing or perceives that you are stripping them of power, they will gum up the process until it fails. I've had 4-5 value adding initiatives crushed in this manner at past jobs.

IMO, the optimal strategy in such an environment is to get at least one powerful champion on your side who can give you political cover, and then to quietly construct a MVP while soliciting feedback from high performing rank and file in the departments of interest who you know (ie no other power brokers besides your champion(s)). If you can deploy a value adding MVP it becomes difficult for antagonists to intervene and kill the project without appearing petty, and then you can really get to work building the product you want.
Off the top of my head, I recall looking into how this was done in the first bathroom of silent hill 2. Mirror universes were, I imagine, pretty common. This one is a lot more interesting though as it seems like the sprites in the mirror aren't actually on the other side?
There was a study done that asked people on the right and left to try to imagine what the views and feeling of the other side were. People on the left were able to do a reasonable job of identifying the positions of the right. People on the right were almost completely unable to identify the goals and values of those on the left. I think that’s a big part of the problem. The right doesn’t understand what the left wants and until they do, they will not be successful in engaging the other side.
What is that for a shit country that cant prepare the prisoners for a live in the open without having to fall back into old patterns?
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What? That is like saying your next target after repairing your Corolla is the US economy.
> I trust Tim Pool to try to be as close to the truth as possible.

Are we talking about the Tim Pool who thought Trump would win in a landslide, and who pushed the "little guy vs big guy" narrative of GME (even though the big guys made billions)?

> He is very critical of most of the media as well.

He embodies the very problem of the media: they want views over anything else so they resort to click bait and fear and outrage. I mean, just read his video titles...
On the other hand, as someone who knows a bit of math, I love those Wikipedia articles that get straight to the point, and hate those where I first have to dig through a pile of (to me) useless "intuition".

I'm not sure if it is really possible to learn/teach math (like actual math, not just some loose intuitions, because those don't really help you with anything) without going through notation and prior knowledge. Notation exists for a reason.
I found this article about the developing domestic Ghanaian Chocolate industry much more informative than the OP.

https://foodtank.com/news/2018/08/ghanaian-chocolate-revolut...
commented up thread a couple posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26518258
Pigeon Maps – ReactJS maps without external dependencies
Bitcoin from an Investor's Perspective
I've been trying to find this stat for the whole pandemic. To what degree are our medical systems reducing mortality rates?
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Almost to the point were this is not newsworthy. As in its so common, expected, and not novel. Like it’s not a major story when someone is found driving without insurance.
It's actually a pretty useful in practice!

Say you need a safety warning tables for your railway station - pandas dangerously fussing with selfie sticks on a crowded platform are much more enjoyable and memorable than just some more generic stick figures doing the same.

You can also encode culture into mascots - everyone probably knows the bear mascot Kumamon (yes, there are many bears in Kumamoto and they occasionally eat somebody) but take forever example Shimaneko, the mascot of the Shimano pprefecture. Neko means cat and indeed its a cat mascot - with a strange hat! And that hat is the roof of the ancient and famous Izumo shrine located in the Shimano prefecture.

Or the even more obscure Kinosaki Kounori: https://mobile.twitter.com/jrw_fukuchiyama/status/1046927976...

On the picture you can see a young female anime character in a summer kimono (yukata).

This is the mascot of a limitted express train (!) that goes from Osaka and Kyoto to the famous onsen (hot spring) town of Kinosaki (hence the Kinosaki in the name). The the other name Kounori is from the name of the train, Kou no tori - oriental white stork.

Which goes right back to the founding legend of Kinosaki about how they built the first bath after observing a stork using the natural hot spring to heal its wounds.

And the last thing - the summer kimono/yukata. If you look closely she also has a ticket stamping tool and a railway company employee badge - that's because station employees really do wear yukata in the summer in Kinosaki instead of their usual uniforms! :)

And the kimono pattern includes of course the oriental white stork but also - fireworks! And that's because of course in the summer there are regular fireworks shows in Kinosaki! :)

Really some much culture and symbolism (not to mention hard work!) goes to japanese mascot characters!
> DOOM was not an influence on System Shock. We were trying something more difficult and nuanced, [although] we still had a lot of respect for the simplicity and focus of [the id] games

I haven’t played system shock, but the classic doom still holds up as one of my favourite games of all time. I played a ton of it in 2020 using gzdoom: the level design and pacing is still almost unmatched all these years later.
Seems like both sides are going wild with claims that will never be proven. Almost like they’re both colluding to confuse, divide, and infuriate.
I just remembered, because of what you wrote, that I thought mirrors worked the same way! That they were a portal glued to itself, or something.

This made a lot of sense to my teenage brain : )
Good point. I wonder if there is a way to guarantee behavior. Otherwise you'd just have to read the backing contract yourself (or, more realistically, trust auditors).
Any browser authentication functionality you create will track people exactly as well as 1st party cookies. So, just disallow 3rd party cookies, and get the exact same level of privacy.

Firefox does the "synchronize the authentication data across devices" thing too.
(Intuitively, I'm not an expert) Apart from the statistical reasons already mentioned, there is also an ethical one. If you expect the study to confirm the treatment to be highly beneficial, you prefer not to withhold it from your patients.
What can the faces on its currency tell us about a country?
Will ‘Running the Economy Hot’ Help Workers?
Use a funnel or paper tube or something like that so you can listen more selectively to different parts.
Just another plug for A Place of Greater Safety: it's a wonderful book, rather overshadowed by Wolf Hall.
Reminds me that unprofitable hotness electric car company whose core business is to manipulate both balance sheet and government.
Get FreeDoom and PrBoomPlus for PC, it's a vanilla Doom/Doom2 compatible Iwad which will allow you to play any Doom2 PWAD out there (and get an amazing shooter for free by itself, too).
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372794367329542149

> The following media includes potentially sensitive content

What the hell is going on at twitter?
I have fond memories of torturing this level editor. I made a spiral staircase between two levels, and a building with a rooftop swimming pool with glass walls that let you see through to the top floor. I have less fond memory that the editor would tend to crash as soon as you got a little too cute with the overlapping rooms.
You might find this list useful:
https://blogs.rochester.edu/thegreendandelion/2018/06/top-su...
This. I run a... moderately popular by niche standards channel myself, and asking for likes, subscribes, comments etc gave me way more of them than I was getting before. I'm not particularly interested in the monetary side of things, but for getting a bit more popular on the platform... it's worked well.
all this rambling about bank systems and ATMs and stuff aside, this is a sad story about a guy locked up that did his time and never got any computer skills all these years and it's sad.
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There is no right to trade with the US, or with anyone else.

If the US wants to impose a tariff to nations that do X, that does not mean that the US is forcing these nations to do anything. They can pay the tarrif, change their behavior, or sell their goods elsewhere. Or they can charge a counter-tarrif -- oops, not if they are an export-dependent economy they can't. That's the crux of the issue.

Germany needs to pay their own workers enough so the German economy is not dependent on exporting a 1/3 of their GDP each year just to maintain domestic employment.

Obviously when you create an economy that crashes the moment others stop letting you run massive trade surpluses, then you are effectively handing your sovereignty over to your trading partners.

Whining about that and blaming your trading partners for using the power Germany has given them seems a bit naive.

Germany will never be sovereign as long as it is an export-dependent economy.
> You can issue two parallel reads to two drives in RAID-0 just as easily in RAID-1.

Under RAID 0, the odds are 50% that two independent reads are on the same drive. It's impossible to get a speed advantage in that case.

> I already explained why this isn't actually the case

You said they "improve parallelism, not media transfer rate or latency", and I'm arguing about parallelism. Plus large transfers can be rearranged into parallelism (fact, not theory).

And you said that they can face internal contention "elsewhere" but implied that could be fixed.

So that doesn't sound like what you said disagrees with what I said.
Sort of yes. While a lot of the benefits of the development that comes with the growth of the grocery industry in Oregon will stay local, the surplus will not. It ends up in Ohio or inside pensions or investor pockets.

But this isn't a great analogy because the U.S. federal government keeps interstate trade much more homogeneous than the EU.
So given the problem of a megaomaniac world leader who wants to unilaterally start a global thermonuclear war... the solution is to have Twitter freeze their accounts? And we're all good to go, no other issues? That's the actual solution that you came up with and think "yep, solved it!"?
Depends where you go. The old city maybe not, but head to the rapidly growing neighborhoods on the edges of the city, and construction doesn't stop.

They keep growing the city larger and larger. Leave for 20 years and come back, and you don't recognize the scenery anymore.

Actually that's true in the old city as well - there is a huge commercial sector and it's very dynamic and alive.
This post deserves a long reply.

You seem to think that ray tracing as a very limited thing. I guess it stems from the fact that the nomenclature has become a bit murky in recent years. Ray tracing often is used to refer to the initial algorithm developed by Whitted. This has pretty much all these limitations you mention, but it is an obsolete method. What usually gets mixed in with ray tracing in marketing and non-expert discussions is also path tracing and its various variations. These methods are capable of solving the rendering equation exactly for a huge range of scenarios. Unfortunately, some variants deal with certain situations better than with others and there is no overall best algorithm. But you can most certainly trace absolutely perfect soft shadows or complex caustics with these methods. Color spills are a walk in the park even for simple unidirectional path tracing. The main limiting factor right now is that these are all Monte Carlo methods and need to draw high numbers of samples for each pixel to converge. This is why fast and accurate denoisers are such a huge deal at the moment. They are another hack, a last one that ideally fades away as the number of rays per second increases. Beyond that, it "just" comes down to modelling surfaces and materials accurately enough to get a photorealistic image.

As you mention photon mapping: it has pretty severe limitations, notably around the handling of specular paths and the biased artifacts created by the filter kernel (loght leaks, certain SDS-type paths aren't covered). There are some improvements like (A)PPM which converge to unbiased solutions with infinite runtime. At that point, path tracing based methods become more attractive w.r.t. runtime, memory requirements and implementation complexity.
One possible solution to this is removing systemd from all distros. That way you won't need it for your package manager anymore.
Just a newbie question: Would it be beneficial that body itself generates transcriptional repressor proteins (via mRNA vaccine) that bind to specific cancerous mutation genes instead of giving some medicine that has similar inhibitory goals?

(Sorry, I'm just trying to learn cell biology on my own.)
Texas company to deploy Tesla-class WIRELESS electricity distribution
Response to Flatkill.org
Linus wanted attention and C++ was perfect. Later down the road, he even ranted about Java. It's clear he is a hater of OOP and Abstraction in general. Now, Linus Cultists promotes Data Oriented Design.

The attention thing said by Bjarne by himself when asked on Reddit.
This is the "norm" in STEM fields, but not so much in the humanities yet, and I would suspect that some for-profit journals would reject publication of your article if they knew you were already providing a pre-print and so wouldn’t really be respecting the post-publication embargo.
Yeah, I find Quake boring, as an European Quake's environment is something not to far from a Iberian village, or the old town from any major city. It looks like a "slice of life" in Summer holydays plus monsters.

OFC not so "bricky" and "stoney", but Roman/Gothic walls, gates, doors and such architecture items can be found everywhere, in any remote village, town or the old part of cities, so it was, indeed, mundane.
And yes, for Americans these oldish environments are astounding and marvellous, I agree.

To me, the American urban environment was more exotic and "alive", something like a Hollywood movie with cops, cars, buildings and so on. That's why I loved every bit of DN3D, and most of highly detailled and interactive urban games.
Who’s sending these questionnaires, when and why? I’m asking because I work in infosec and have never seen one.
The question is whether the missing feature could be reasonably inferred to be present based on competing products or the product’s description.

Let’s say I buy a camera. It takes photos well enough, but I soon learn that it can only transfer the photos to my computer over WiFi or the cloud. This is terribly slow and not in-line with what I’d expect from a camera, so I leave a 3 star review saying that while it works fine, not being able to transfer photos quickly means I cannot recommend it, and that if this feature were added in a software update I’d rate it 5 stars.

Imo this is totally reasonable and a review whose contribution to the average rating I would value much more than “5 stars, the photos are good. I’m upset however that I can’t transfer them quickly, but oh well that’s a missing feature and I’m not allowed to complain about missing features in a way that affects the star rating because that would make the people who didn’t implant them upset”

On the other hand if I leave a review for the camera saying “3 stars, this did not come with a exposure and zoom configuration that let me capture the andromeda galaxy, please add and I’ll make 5 stars”, that’s a whole different story.
It’s not easy to find clean IPs, especially for running mail services. We purchase clean IP addresses that make it easier to set up your cloud services without being black listed or associated with malicious IP blocks.
I don’t get it.

This malware makes a single https request to https endpoint for which users can affect contents, api.blockcypher.com. This does not seem too much different from many other places which can be changed by user - reddit, hn user profile, airtable, github, comment section at random website, mailing list archive, etc...

I’d think the solution is going to be the same, too: contact the server and ask them to block URL. In this case, blockcypher should detect the api calls with the right properties (address, query string, user agent) and return error code on them. If they feel creative, maybe return modified answer which will break malware’s shell parser, but will not affect regular json calls.

If the blockcypher refuses to cooperate, you deal with it like you do with bulletproof hosting: add hostname to malicious domain list and block at all protected customers’ sites.
Why do you believe component and product quality and liability doesn’t involve on going manufacturing process best practices and recalls?

-- Maybe I'm not saying it well. But my point is that until someone defines an overall use context, calling a given thing "unsafe" is futile. In an intranet not connected to the outside, an IP camera with no security at all is fine.

Without "customer classes" defined, without security use cases defined, and so-forth, of course manufactures will produce anything they want and why shouldn't they? The implicit standards of security now are the wild, wild west.

The original situation is IP cameras and other devices sold with pathetic security. Sure, it seems intuitively obvious that "these people were doing it wrong and ought to pay". But you can't really do that because there reasonable situation where these devices are reasonable.

IE, manufacturer responsibility can't exist, can't be pinned down, until standards exist.
Is this different from GitDuck?
The Creative Benefits of Blogging
Correct, but that's why we should find some way to offset our unethical activities.
“(in the case of Trump, ill-formed)” well at least you’re not trying to hide your lack of intelligence and critical thinking skills
> (personal anecdote: a paper from Tsinghua or Shanghai Jiao Tong on average is as good as one from Berkeley, Stanford or MIT)

Wait until Berkeley Stanford and MIT get better network security! [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/us/chinese-scientist-canc...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-11/chinese-...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...
Off-topic, but interesting to see my former heart condition randomly linked on HN!
UPM's philosophy is to use a lockfile to specify dependency constraints. The first time you press run and UPM guesses which packages satisfy which import statements, those versions are put into the lockfile.
This is one of the best examples for why "don't editorialize titles" doesn't always work. People here know SciHub and the title is devoid of useful information (basically "UK police warns about website").
Firefox, too
Indeed many YouTube creators already plug the opportunity to pay an honest few c̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ dollars for their content on Patreon or their private course website in exactly the same way they ask for likes other interactions, especially if the nature of their content means they don't see [much] ad revenue.
"Is a Mongolian horse archer applying physics even though he has no idea what physics is and it hasn't even been invented yet" is a pretty deep philosophical rabbit hole.
Pangolin Mobile is a new open-source user interface for Linux/zircon smartphones
Also a Romanian here. My take is similar to yours, but I would go even further in saying that the 90s were even more catastrophic in terms of privatization and liberalization. Remember the 'shock therapy' years? Prices doubling every few months? Entire industries collapsing, prized factories being sold for scrap metal? Millions losing their jobs etc. - a lot of that stuff didn't have to happen that way. A lot of it was forced via Washington Consensus type reforms.

To my mind the EU was our salvation not so much because of its economic nature, but because of its political one. The free market was the price we had to pay in order to be able to travel, work, study abroad, earn real wages that we could use to invest back into our own country etc. The EU also insured a decent degree of geo-political, strategic stability. Without the EU we may have ended up like our neighbors to the North/East.
Troops chased armored vehicle driven by somebody under influence of drugs(2018)
> It's not so long since Vietnam went from not growing coffee to being one of the world’s largest producers in under 20 years. I bet they could do it with cocoa too.

It’s right here... maybe do a read through before breaking HN rules and assuming poor intent
Well, one day last week I wrote this game http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/invaders without a game engine. Then I decided that it would be a lot better with a game engine, so I wrote a game engine for it http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qj2d.js and rewrote the game over the next couple of days with the engine http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qvaders. Then during the rest of the week I used the engine to write http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qabbits and http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/offscreen † but both of which were a lot easier to write with the engine than they would have been without it, and for which I had to improve the engine, which also improved the Invaders game.

Now obviously QJ2D is not going to replace Godot or even LÖVE2D or TIC-80. It's a couple of days' worth of work, less than 200 lines of code; anyone could have done it. And nobody else is going to use it unless they have Greek letters on their keyboard. But not only did I learn a lot, it's also a substantial improvement for this kind of thing over the raw browser. I think I'll probably rewrite it differently for the next project, though...

I don't want to "work in games", but of course I enjoy writing games. I mean that's all computers are good for, really!

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† not really games
The programming community most certainly does not agree that "forcing you to indent the way the language designer decided you should indent" is good. There are lots of programmers that disagree with it. There are lots that agree with it. But the "programming community" as a whole has certainly not come to a consensus on it.
There wasn’t really an equivalent of Sci-Hub and LibGen until the last decade or so. I was a member of previous filesharing communities popular among Eastern Europeans unable to afford academic literature, but there wasn’t all that much available in pirated form, because it required time-consuming scanning or making a request to someone who might download it for you. It was only when people like Aaron Schwartz and the Sci-Hub team managed to mass-download articles from JSTOR and other paywalls, that finally academics got access to most of what they were looking for.
This book is being written entirely in Pluto notebooks!