skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) Isn't this just based on "naive" implementations? Surely there are optimizations to not have to render all 45 view planes at all times similar to how 3d rendering doesn't render scenes that are not visible until the character moves to change perspective?

Maybe you could add head tracking to prune some angles, but if you were going to do head tracking, other comments have reports of good results without a lenticular setup. You'd probably lose out on the multiple viewers aspect.

I would think naively that there's some amount of work that could be shared between so many renders from nearly the same viewpoint. But that probably requires driver changes to make it available, I did find an article from NVidia about rendering four viewpoints in one pass, which might be applicable and help somewhat: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/turing-multi-view-renderin...
interesting, could you embed a pdf into a webpage that has some JS which triggers automatically? Even if you have noscript?
There are plenty of people who feel and think the same.

Many people find it very difficult to understand that money is not always a motivator. This is a particularly difficult concept for managers to deal with.

If an employee is not motivated by additional remuneration, or in the case where they do not require an income, the relationship between employee and employer is fundamentally different.
I think at that moment, what could work is contract work. A 6month~1 year contract. Finish the project, then take a vacation to travel
>Wait until we have overwhelming proof because the system isn't working?

Where did that word "overwhelming" come from? I want us to wait until there is any proof rather than screaming "WOLF!" at a mere shadow. I will highlight this from the originally linked article:

>There’s no evidence that the deal directly affects coverage in either the news or editorial departments.
Microsoft has been saying this since before FTA, but nobody seems to have told corporate IT. When I was there (2015-2019), we had to change our passwords every six months.
Software is used to make hardware safe all the time. Look in any factory with automation and you’ll find hundreds Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) running safety critical operations, and acting as interlocks.

Look inside a car, and you can find a dozen software based systems designed to make the hardware safer. E.g. Traction control, body stability systems, ABS breaking, software that decides which airbags fire in a collision, lane departure computer vision systems, air pressure alerts, engine control systems that look for unsafe operating conditions etc etc

Ultimately software can be made safe. Long and rigorous software development processes and audit process are what makes it safe.

Ultimately there’s nothing inherently safer about hardware safety systems, they’re engineered and suffer from human error.

Proper risk assessments are always required, and safety systems should be built to match the risk. There’s no one size fits all’s. In Pelotons case, they clearly failed to assess and address the risk properly.
Please tick which of the following are "factual" sources:

Fox, CNN, NYT, MSNBC, Reuters, AP, NPR

Thanks.
I wouldn't say that Firefox specifically is worse at it than other browsers though, but I kind of agree with parent comment that the "new web" doesn't care about printing.

On more and more pages I encounter issues like the printer only printing out the cookie warning window, or just the left navigation bar, etc. and none of the actual page content that I wanted to print. Or content goes up to the first in-line advertisement and then cuts of there with just blank pages coming out of the printer after that. Or weird pagination issues where there's text on page 1 and text on page 2, but there's a bunch of text missing in between that is otherwise visible fine on the screen.

I'm talking about web pages that don't specifically have a "print" button on them. If it looks like the page is using a fancy layout I typically now just do a screenshot and print the resulting .png.
I am not sure but considering that policy was introduced in 2012, it probably is.

Not all visa types are the same. For instance, if you are on a Tier 2 visa and happily work for the same company for 5 years (you probably would not have any complaints at all), your experience would be a lot different compared to another person who may decide to start a start-up on their 2nd year (they likely would not even think of doing so), which would be a lot different to than of someone else who lost their job (as they'll have to find another one in 2 months or be kicked out), which would be very differen to a person stuck in their current position and salary due to difficulty of changing jobs on a visa, which would be a lot different to a person who does not have the right to change visas (some visa types are like this, when you switch, your route to ILR starts from scratch), and so on.

So, some people will accept what they have for the first 5 years and will not question or complain. Some will be bothered by not having the similar rights or security. Some will run into problems (losing your job is a big one, vague visa extension criteria for non-employment visas are another) and their lives will drastically change for the worse. Even if that is a small percentage, the anxiety it creates is huge.
The us income tax may be regressive past certain income levels, but for the 99% of the population below those levels, it's a progressive system. A flat tax might be more progressive on average, weighted in dollars, but will undoubtedly be more regressive to the majority of poor people.
aren't these things just dehumidifiers?
I want enough money to have shelter, transportation, food, and fun without having to sacrifice one for the other.

As for the job itself, let me concern myself with the how and let me have enough leeway to do some wool-gathering.
I use film camera lenses all the time on my full-frame consumer digital camera, which is at present a slightly better way to bring 35mm film camera lenses back into the modern age.

The problem with retrofitting a film camera back with a Pi camera is that the Pi camera has a dinky little IMX477 sensor which only covers a small, small fraction of the area that would normally be illuminated on 35mm film, so you would not get very good images at all.

If they came out with a full-frame sensor that plugged into the Pi though, that would be awesome.

That said -- that's for 35mm cameras. Now there are also other film cameras ... I am working on using a Pi camera to scan a large format 4x5 area to bring a Toyo view camera back into the modern age :). It takes a good 15-20 minutes to scan the image and I get gigapixel results. Still a work in progress. Un-doing the effect of CRA optimization on the sensor's microlens array is annoying.

https://www.instagram.com/dheeranet.large/
How are those multi factor? Aren't they all just the single factor of "something you have" if they're passwordless?
This is a great library. We have used it for a workflow report tool for our in-house Machine Learning pipeline (https://voxelytics.com). Rendering a DAG with some interactivity works very well.
This article has a lot of information about the Pixel Qi patents in the last section: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...

Money Quote: "The Pixel QI license was picked up by John Gilmore, activist, philanthropist, and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has released the patents under the Defensive Patent License."
KMSpico - emulates local network activation, install automation to repeatedly activate every month.

Second option is get a laptop/prebuild PC with Win7 key already burned into the bios and run your software on it.
I agree with your overall sentiment, but:

> If you see those things as "the boring bits" that you don't want to do then you're not a developer.

Don't we already have enough gatekeeping in software development? I don't particularly enjoy writing documentation, despite how important I know it to be. That doesn't make me "not a developer." If I were lazy and simply chose not to do the things that bored me (despite their importance), it might make me a bad developer (or more accurately a developer of bad software).

I design and implement software. That makes me a software developer. The pieces of that process that I find boring or exciting are tangentially related at best.
They were blocked for posting a specific article about the Biden family. The article was factual and was of public interest.

The fig leaf they used to justify it was that it exposed an email from a public official (a Ukrainian gas executive) and was "hacked/unauthorized" material. Of course, journalists use unauthorized information all the time (Snowden, Trump's tax returns, etc.) without getting banned from Twitter.
> I would also like everything to be cheaper.

The point is that with "Netfilx for news" you increase the number of people paying. Thus decreasing cost for the individuals.

> With password managers, it’s not that much work to visit multiple websites.

It is not just about managing logins. You also have to manage payments. And make the decisions about what you want to read months in advance. People hate making decisions. A lot of people end up jumping over the fence and not paying at all.
I've heard this before, and I responded to it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513147 (2013)

Anyway, as I recall, Kay is making essentially the exact same argument as the Adobe guy, and the way he said it in that talk (Programming and Scaling, thanks below) displays astonishing ignorance for such a brilliant guy.

If Kay is right, then he should just create a web that is based on a VM. And then he can see how far it goes. It will never go anywhere because it will be broken by design.

And I'll elaborate on that and say that Kay's designs are probably brilliant for small scales, but not for large scales and heterogeneous problems.

It's easier to design something for a small scale. You can get a more coherent result that feels nicer locally.

But the whole point of the web is large scale -- WORLD WIDE was in fact TBL's original vision (e.g. see original proposals linked below). That's a much more constrained and thus harder design problem.

Also related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10644076 (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6131335 (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14035411 (2017)

(I might make a blog post out of this)
The best I ever did for performance was switching away from macOS. Sure, Safari and Chrome is really fast on Mac hardware/macOS, but nothing beats the performance of Firefox on Linux.
Sounds incredibly unlikely to me. It's also neither universal, nor basic. Which is perhaps healthier in the long run.
Well, now that you mention it..... It's likely that PDFs in Firefox are Turing Complete, since JS is Turing Complete.
If your security is breached every day passwords, whether you change them daily or not, are not going to save you.
Without a doubt college / the one time I was unemployed for 6 months and desperately trying to find work while being too stressed to actually study for interviews.
> How do you explain the similar suppression in Sweden, Florida, Haiti, etc.?

I already stated the explanation: lockdowns/measures are only a proxy for human behaviour. Measures don't stop the spread per se, humans do.

E.g. in the case of Sweden (can't speak for the other examples) human behaviour drastically changed (e.g. see mobility data). Yes, Sweden did not implement curfews and generally did not close schools but still had quarantine rules, social distancing, masks, travel restrictions and strong guidance of personal responsibility, not to come to work when sick, hygiene etc.

I would be very surprised if this did not result in a suppression of other pathogens, too.

> 2) Fairly rapid achievement of endemic equilibrium in SARS-CoV-2

Unfortunately the situation in Sweden is what it is: Hit hard by a second and now third wave, and significantly more cases/deaths than neighbouring countries (not saying there are no benefits, it's just a different trade-off).

By the way if you look at case counts from other European countries during the first wave you will see the same pattern: Case counts start to decline before lockdowns become effective.

> we're seeing a case of viral interference.

If there is evidence or even just anecdata I'm intrigued - I don't see it yet.
Renwei monitors prisoners and won Innovation Award at event sponsored by Amazon
If the work is truly meaningful, it is not boring. Even if it's doing docs, or support, or refactoring, or responding to emails.

If a member of a team says that what they do is boring that's often a sign of poor leadership.
Wow, this looks really good! I really enjoy the website, it is transparent and neat, absolutely love it. Also the product itself looks interesting, I just bought it, so I didn't manage to read it all, but from first glance it looks as it is packed with information, which I really appreciate. I flipped through this ebook and few methods caught my eye, they are well described and informative. Really appreciate different approaches. All in all, good job!
The most interesting thing about this is that the writer is in a position to be able to work part-time for only 10 to 20 hours a week at a very low rate.

I imagine they are not supporting a family or a mortgage, or if they are they must have a significant alternate source of financial or housing security, and that's not a bad thing.

I wish more people had the ability to put out such terms for their employment without worrying about keeping the roof over their head.

They would likely have to drop some of their more naive requirements though (i.e. no Java or PHP, only "interesting" work). The road to interesting work is paved with the mundane, no matter how cool the job or technology is.
This is a landing page that tells no more than the purpose for a specific audience. If you feel like it's not what you want, you're not the audience.

I collected extremely valuable feedback already thanks to these links.

Have a great week.
In time I expect all OSes (mobile and desktop) will provide a "give false data" option. So Sandboxed+false inputs, sort of a digital Descartes deceiver.

Because you know the slimy app developers will refuse to work if you don't hand over your full contact list. and people will just accept that.

So the end game is a completely adversarial relationship, even on your own device.
Banks are doing what they believe their customers and investors want them to do. If they're wrong, they'll lose market share and profits to banks that don't do this. It's not cancel culture, it's capitalism.
This is wildly underplaying what actually happened.

Parler wasn't "censored" because it contained "new stories" that were "remotely controversial". Parler was blocked because of rampant unmoderated violent content that correlated with real world political violence.

Look, when you have major thought leaders on your platform calling for the VP to be executed, you need to expect some repercussions when a mob takes the rotunda screaming "Hang Mike Pence!".
What are your thoughts on the risks of AlphaFold and prions?

It seems like prions don't have much chance to evolve/mutate naturally since any change makes them unable to duplicate. However with these simulation systems, are man-made prions a concern?
> If you see those things as "the boring bits" that you don't want to do then you're not a developer. You're a hacker.

Well put. Professional software is only a mean for business not an end by itself. I recommend not deriving your satisfaction from code only if you work for a company otherwise you risk to both spoil your hobby and always be unhappy at work.
When I first tried to use it, I knew of the feature but couldn't find it. They probably have metrics on it being underutilized so they want to bring it forward a bit or so.

But I think the whole "page actions" button is too hidden. I think screenshot belongs there, and the issue is that most people don't know without being told that "page actions" is something that even exists.

It's great btw to take screenshot of loooong web pages smoothly.
Side note: I don't know how often this happens but it's kinda cool that Firefox went straight from 87.0 to 88.0 without any sub-versions. They didn't seem to have any security/bug patches, they just got it right on the first try.
I am quite curious if you will study textbook when studying a programming language or a development framework :D
Oh please. Laws exist, platforms must ensure their customers follow the laws, and when a customer refuses to remove illegal content or implement a moderation policy the platform has the choice to accept the liability or remove the customer. Proof is right here, with some moderation changes they let Parler back in.
I'm at a similar stage.

I don't know if this is for certain the way to go about it, but I've set a target to talk to as many potential users in 100 days as possible. One on one.

How/where to find users? Anywhere and by any means possible.

When you find someone who will talk to you and seems interested in what you are offering, ask them to refer someone else who might be willing to talk.

Get referrals, talk, recruit, learn, improvise, repeat.

It is, by no means easy, simple or straightforward but I feel this is the only way to do it.

Also I would not spend a single penny on ads of any kind.

If people want what I'm offering 100 days of grind trying to talk/recruit users will set things in motion and word of mouth will keep bringing new users.

If not I might have to consider a hard product pivot or some other drastic measure. Wish you the best.
Syslinux, specifically PXELINUX: https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX#Conf...

Quite nifty I'd say.
For some context, I've been making games across console/mobile/VR for about 12 years so I can provide (hopefully) some educated responses.

For 1)

- Their SDK implements this rendering strategy, so either they haven't been able to justify the effort for additional optimization, or (much more likely) there isn't a tenable general purpose solution that doesn't fall apart horribly in many circumstances. This latter point is true of many optimizations in games, they work because you can very narrowly scope them to what you are doing.

- Frustum and occlusion culling are used, like you mention, to avoid rendering meshes that are off-screen. This isn't a panacea though, there can be significant CPU cost to doing so to the point where it can be more performant to disable it. Case in point, I used Umbra occlusion culling in my VR game in only a few scenes because my CPU budget for 90 FPS was so small that the PS4 couldn't keep up.

- Those 45 planes are a series of slices that are very closely projected in space, so the odds that there isn't any work to do is almost nil. Even more true when you consider dynamic scene elements, such as lighting and shadow casting.

For 2)

- All of the challenges present for 3D content creation are unchanged with this device, it just adds more on top (limited FOV, depth blur, and fringe blur). You can't wizard away seeing color separation at the border of the screen, it's just fundamentally the hardware's limitations.

Another example, the PSVR headset's OLED panels cause a purple blur to happen on edges that have too much light/dark contrast. The solution? Call an API and change a floating point "base brightness" level for the headset, or change your lighting -- for each level (this is Sony's recommendation!). Entirely game and scene dependent, and not something that an automatic solution could accomplish.

- Some of the "magic" techniques invented for VR performance may have the possibility to be applicable (skipped frame re-projection, foveated rendering), but those are based on the math between two camera projections not 45.

- Any improvements that could be created by a Carmack-level person are going to be market driven. The population of people that fit in that category would have the opportunity to work on whatever they want, and VR was compelling to many of them because of how damned cool it is (was?). By comparison, this tech is a novelty that a regular consumer will probably never see.
As others have suggested, have you considered joining an opensource project?

- https://github-help-wanted.com/

- https://up-for-grabs.net/

- https://www.codetriage.com/

- https://opencollective.com/discover

I'm sure there are organisations that would love to have some technical volunteers. Maybe try and find NGOs you believe in and send them a private or public message?

Or, if you want to get politically involved in your country, you could try and find yourself a political party you believe in, ask them if they have any technical tasks, and see from there.
It does get used for interactive forms. The native PDF form handling is more simplistic.
The double irish was closed on January 1st 2020, after a five year grace period for the multinationals to restructure.
I can't honestly think of any website that enforces password rotation. Except for corporate application websites, which I would consider application's that fall under my companies password security regime.

I wouldn't want to image a world where every website would force me to rotate my password, each with it's own interval and method. Imagine the upkeep time cost.
Sounds you have beef with the readers for not paying enough, and with non-readers who freeload off investigative journalism's social benefits, and with and plagiarizers like Business Insider. Has a major paper ever not been ad-supported?
It's the UK tax that is more complex for me as i'm not familiar with it. Isn't the NI more or less the equivalent of social security charges?

But now I understand where my math is wrong - I got the UK tax brackets wrong. For Germany I took ~42% (actually 39%) as what the state will take from a 58k€ salary but in the UK the state will take 25% of the £50k salary (most of the income in the 20% bracket). That is indeed significantly less.
Mozilla, can we have bookmarks back for new tabs in Android?

Collections seemingly reinvent the wheel but limit the number of bookmarks, and force me to swipe left to view them.
There is also another company out of Boston called Voxel8 working on 3d printed shoes. https://www.voxel8.com/
> Clearly the right thing to do is... stop gas guzzlers from manufactured in the first place so they're forced to not have a car?

Or tax gas guzzlers more? Provide tax incentives for fuel-efficient and electric cars? Both?
If the old password is salted and hashed (which it should be), then it is practically impossible to detect when the new password is similar.
I used it yesterday. I regularly use FTP at work, well preferably SFTP but it does happen.

While we have a automatic deployment pipeline for our own projects, lots of our customers that host externally still use good old FTP.

I don't think FTP is ever going to fully die. It is still a typical way to deploy your files when using a shared web hosting that does not offer SSH.
This has always been the case. Book publishers can refuse to publish your manuscript, newspapers don't have to post your reply. Censorship in one form or another has always been there.
If the organization or the product has any amount of complexity, all of those have communication roadblocks. While it’s technically possible to always be learning or practicing something, much of the effort will be wasted by either a focused or a bureaucratic organization. Repeatedly doing work just to give the company an unlikely option on it is counter-productive as it leads to burnout. It’s better to stop work when enough is done for the day or week to stay focused on the efforts that matter.

Probably the best way to apply the “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean” mindset, if it must assert itself, is to actually let developers stuff packages or weed the grounds or something else that can clear their minds. :)
Blocking an app explicitly used by terrorists to organize a coup/assault on the Capitol might be considered justifiable by some.