skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studios write a LOT of custom code for their pipeline and tools. If you were to go to ILM or Dreamworks or WDAS and watch someone use Maya there, it would look COMPLETELY different from what you see at home.

Given that, I'm not surprised that the (not-always-technical) lawyers are worried about GPL.
> Once you get it, it does a reunion tour, every now and then, for the rest of your life.

Maybe only certain strains of malaria do that? I had malaria many years ago. It was a very unpleasant experience, but I recovered in a couple of weeks with no lingering effects.

Growing up in India, malaria was common. But I don't recall anyone living in terror of it. Mosquito nets, mosquito repellent incense, repellent cream, turning the ceiling fan on to full speed were common countermeasures we employed at bedtime.
So change fuel/carbon taxes not just slow enough for people to adapt but for infrastructure to adapt.
I guess you can tell the AP to stop using it? https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-vaccine-skepticism-wh...
As he should. I can understand restricting an account if he was doing something dodgy with it, but you shouldn't lose access to purchased content, especially if accessing the content does no harm to others (e.g. banning from online games can also make sense situationally).
Yes. The pause was exactly what should have been done, and every single vaccine specialist I know was both supportive and unsurprised.
> (anyone else remember seeing MLCC lead times hit 100 weeks in 2017-2018?).

I did, even Chinese domestic market still has months long passives shortages even today.

> - Finally, there are rumors (that I haven't been able to confirm in a meaningful way) that some large Chinese manufacturers have been stockpiling components in anticipation of further tariffs

Actually plain speculations, some times by people very far from semiconductors market, just like with masks, baby formula, apartments, pork, cement, aluminium, stocks etc.
there was no assault though, but reasonable use of force according to MPD police training materials presented in court.

In fact they could have escalated it at least two levels to more restricted prone position and use of taser, but they didn't, and called an ambulance several times to expedite it.
An uncomfortable chair is an uncomfortable chair regardless of fitness. Being fit helps prevent longterm injury from sitting in bad chairs, it doesn't make them magically comfortable.
Fat tire bikes work great in the snow.
I did mistakenly state Prince instead of Goldsmith. But silly enough that sort of plays into my hypothetical. Prince would own his likeness, which he would use to claim partial ownership of Goldsmith's photo. And Goldsmith and Prince would have a claim on Warhol's usage of the photo/likeness.

I don't think the situation you describe applies however. Someone wouldn't be able to siphon away ownership by using someone else's work. The person whose work is being used in the new work would be able to gain partial ownership of the new work. The author of the new work would only have ownership of their unique contributions, not ownership of the original work's contributions.
yes, and a waste of appointment slot
It's unclear that federal mandates would even have been constitutional and compliance, even in blue states in situations like people walking at comfortable distances outside are pretty spotty. There's a lot of faith in the idea that different top-level policies would have made a big difference short of truly sealing borders and having them totally shut even now.
Lit: Simple Fast Web Components
> It's easy to have a clean brand

I think vast evidence over the past few decades has proven this is actually not the case, especially in tech.

> , when you don't sell naked CPUs by themselves.

This is Intel's choice of a hill to die on. They drove everyone else out of the market then failed to realize that market itself is collapsing with the rise of cloud computing and ISA agnosticism and haven't evolved with the times.
Does the citation include the recent major skepticism of Astra? There are French polls that backed major skepticism of Astra specifically after the pause.

The downvotes are puzzling. Are people capable of countering with reason, or is a downvote a proxy vote for how they wish reality to be?
A friend of mine in the industry who is now switching from Maya to Blender for concept art once said: "yeah, Blender is free... if you don't count the $200 in add-ons you need to buy to get anything done."

I wonder what percentage of Blender enthusiasts DON'T have Boxcutter and HardOps installed at a minimum.
Will any GPUs work on the Raspberry Pi?
The solution is pretty simple: stop using Google products. Firefox is a great browser and duck duck go works for 99% of my searches.
See if your local library has a copy. My library doesn't have many Blu-Rays, but the ones they do have seem to be DRM-free.
Blog post for those who'd rather read than watch: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/three-more-graphics-c...
J&J is starting a 2-dose clinical study (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04614948), perhaps to see if it could have comparable effectiveness as the 2-dose mRNA Moderna and Pfizer protocols.

Unfortunately, the control arm for this study is a placabo instead of a single dose, which I would expect to be the standard of care.
I think it isn't difficult to expect that people who acted a certain way in school would act a completely similar way in adult life. Some people change. But personality indicators don't really seem to change all that much. It does take a highly concerted effort when it happens. Those we call "come to Jesus moments" and they are rare.

This next part is all anecdotal, but not disconnected: Even though there are a few people I grew up with that I thought would be successful, but haven't been, most of them are. And generally in unsurprising fields from what I knew of them in our youth.

But pretty much everyone I thought would not succeed still haven't - and pretty much always for reasons that were predictable all along. The ones with problematic police relationships haven't ever been a surprise, even though I understand the potential is always there.

The technical kids are still technical adults. The artistic ones are still artistic today. And not surprisingly, the slackers are still slackers, the cheats are still cheaters, and the bullies still lack self control.
Now maybe the US can finally approve the AstraZeneca vaccine and put our 20 million (!) doses on hand to good use.

Or not! But if we’re not going to use them, we should send them to another country like Canada or Mexico or Australia or the UK or EU, all of which have approved it and administered millions of doses.

Sitting on 10s of millions of vaccines during a pandemic is inexcusable.
Very strong selective pressure.

Sickle cell has separately arisen in at least four populations in Africa and some in South East Asia.
I've found that with complex shaders, it can be more performant to use CPU Cycles rendering because GPU rendering can have a substantial delay after changing parameters. In the same vein, Cycles is sometimes faster than Eevee, because the latter needs to recompile the shader after every change.
ReactOS [1] has similar interface to LindowsOS. But ReactOS is still in active development.

Also LindowsOS was sued by Microsoft [2] back in 2001. Maybe this is why its gone now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....
PoW = Proof of Waste :)
It was salary, and it was a multiplier given on that base salary while we looked for other opportunities at Google. This is how they deal with folks who are left over after reorganizations or divestments.
It's a big shift because we have never as a society catered to the most cowardly before. Personal responsibility used to mean if you cared about something it was on you, now its shifted to forcing it on other people. This is really antithetical to western values.
I had movies I had purchased years ago automatically upgraded to 4K HDR

Wait until they get downgraded to error screens because the company you bought them from went out of business, got bought by another company, pivoted to something else, forgot to renew a domain, or a thousand other things.
>"Presently, you won't be thrown in jail if you don't get it. But you can't go to NYU."

You also can't go to NYU if you've never had an MMR. What's your point?
JnJ isn’t mRNA just in case that’s what you were implying.
Quick note, confusingly throughout this thread people have used the phrase "wave energy" as essentially a synonym for "tidal energy", they are separate technologies sometimes talked about under the combined category of ocean energy or marine hydrokinetics.

Increased power density is indeed one allure of wave energy vs wind. In the same way that wind is concentrated solar energy, studying the mechanisms and origins of waves show they are essentially a form of concentrated wind energy. So if the difficult design challenges are solved, there is potential for greater energy per unit of structural material which some believe could be associated with competitive cost of energy.

Other allures of wave energy include that it is fairly consistent, with some seasonal variations, and its decoupled from solar or wind which decreases the chance that all renewables resources aren't producing at the same time. Of course this is talking about wave energy where oscillations occur with a period of approximately 4-18 seconds rather than tidal with several periods per day, and for these periods of time flow is essentially unidirectional. Tidal energy, like the link in this thread, often uses underwater turbine but wave energy devices rarely use this design.
Can you summarize the argument? The video is almost 2 hours.
> "It's been a long time desire of mine to have a secure Linux laptop without needing to enter my password twice during startup"

Only with regards to that sentence (as I don't know much about TPM): You can simply opt for full disk encryption during install, and then you can also select "automatically log me in on boot" (not exact wording) when creating your user. So you enter the encryption password and that's it. Not sure why you would _need_ to enter password twice with encryption?

That's how I handle it. Screen lock, or returning from suspend still prompts for user password as usual.
Most users don't have any clue about how to store, manage, or safeguard their DRM-free digital purchases

They figured out how to care for records, cassettes, and videotapes. They just need an incentive to learn.
There are four hidden costs which not many have touched upon.

1) Staff
You'll need at least one, maybe two, to build, operate, and maintain any self-hosted solution. A quick peek on Glassdoor and Salary show
the unloaded salary for a Storage Engineer runs $92,000-130,000 US. Multiply by 1.25-1.4 for loaded cost of an employee (things like FICA, insurance,
laptop, facilities, etc). Storage Administrators run lower, but still around $70K US unloaded. Point is, you'll be paying around $100K+/year per storage
staff position.

2) Facilities (HVAC, electrical, floor loading, etc)
If you host on-site (not hosting facility), you'd better make certain your physical facilities can handle it. Can your HVAC handle the cooling, or will you need to upgrade it? What about your electrical? Can you get the increased electrical in your area? How much will your UPS and generator cost? Can the physical structure of the building (floor loading, etc) handle the weight of racks and hundreds of drives, the vibration of mechanical drives, the air cycling?

3) Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
Since you're using S3 One Zone IA, you have no multi-zone duplicated redundancy. It's use case is for secondary backup storage for data, not the primary data store for running a startup. When there is an outage/failure (and it will happen), the startup may be toast, and investors none too happy. So this is another expense you're going to have to seriously consider, whether you stick with S3 or roll-your-own.

4) Cost of money
With rolling-your-own, you're going to be doing CAPEX and OPEX. How much upfront and ongoing CAPEX can the startup handle? Would the depreciation on storage assets be helpful financially? You really need to talk to the CPA/finance person before this. There may be better tax and financial benefits by staying on S3 (OPEX). Or not.

Good luck.
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There are still radioactive boars roaming the forests of Bavaria. Just saying.
As ever, the thoroughly anti-vax community are going to be unconvinceable, but there is real progress to be made on the margins. There are a large number of people who are not inherently opposed to vaccination who are hesitant (for a wide variety of reasons) to take this vaccine.

I know people who have gone from "The US government has a long history of medical experimentation on people with my skin tone" to vaccination evangelists over the last few months. This isn't yet quite one of those issues where people are locked in to a narrow bimodal distribution.
You'd think with decades of CAD experience we could figure out how to build a chipless car that has all the benefits of computers in cars and none of the downsides of carburetors. How long will this have to go on before someone considers it?
How fast is the image classifier, and what neural net architecture does it use?

Does it use specific hardware, or does it run on the generic ARM cpu of the RPi?
That depends on how much it costs to go to the Moon.
That’s fair, but I’d prefer to get the vaccine over something developed by bats https://xkcd.com/2397/
China's Solar Dominance Presents Biden with Human Rights Dilemma
My mistake. I misread your response as requiring one or the other being the same as forcing. Some people find having to show a negative test or vaccination record for international travel as invasive, and to them I'd say that the real violation of privacy happens at the TSA line.
Simple: use PostgreSQL and enjoy native UUIDs.
> Personally, I prefer drug safety protocols be based on science, not what people feel, or whether or not it's "good politics".

Implicit to this point is that what the CDC/FDA did was "good science" and not bad science.
In the linked article, benchmarks are shown for CUDA as well. Of course that's also nVidia-only like OptiX.

And antecdotally, OptiX is around 1.5-3x faster than CUDA with Cycles rendering.
The most important comparison is the risk of getting severe covid and/or dying from it if unvaccinated.

It's tricky cause it depends on what you do (you get to do more once you are vaccinated), as well as the ever-changing rate of infection in the community where you are (which will change as more people get vaccinated among other things).

But in general, your risk of having severe complications from covid if unvaccinated is far more than your risk of complications from the vaccine.

And on the population level, we can say if say 1 million people get the vaccine, X will have blood clot complications (about 1)... if 1 million people go two months without being vaccinated, how many will get covid and have severe complications? (more than X). So if using the J&J gets a million people vaccinated two months earlier, it's a win.

Of course, ALL of this is an embaressment of riches when the USA has access to large quantities of three effective and safe vaccines, when much of the planet still has zero.
Many companies have tried this; all have failed. The latest to try is Ample [0], and we'll see how far they get. As a peer poster here observed, this idea seems correlated with people who don't have actual experience with EV ownership. It's a solution to a non-problem for the average driver [1].

Besides, Tesla now spends about $250K to build a supercharger. A robotically-operated battery-swapping station would probably cost 10x as much both in initial capital and in maintenance costs.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ample-ev-startup-swappabl...

[1] Although it might be the perfect solution for some drivers. Uber drivers maybe, who Tesla doesn't allow to use superchargers and who need to recharge as quickly as possible.
100% agree we should send them elsewhere. It seems we’ve reached the point where we’re manufacturing enough to just about meet demand and our neighbors are struggling.
> knowing that state-level actors work with manufacturers to include 'backdoors' into hardware (thinking of RDRAND)

We certainly don't know that for rdrand, and not that often for other things either.
They make sense for an individual mission. Bring up fuel and leave it in the parking orbit. But the optimal parking orbits are going to be different for different destinations, vehicles, and times.
I had Covid in March 2020. It almost did me in. Was in ICU for a while.

Had the J&J shot three weeks ago. Did not feel a thing. My arm was slightly sore at injection site. Nothing else. I guess my body was used to it and just sort of shrugged it off.

Some of my friends who got J&J were sick for a few days, but rebounded quickly after that.
Medications (not necessarily vaccines) are universally risky, even a Tylenol. Doctors weight the risk of you dying or suffering from symptoms against the risks involved with taking the medication. Chemotherapy is a good example: the risks and side effects are horrific, but on the other hand it's dealing with cancer.

> Beyond talking about the fact that they determined this was safe

And so there is a miniscule risk associated with J&J - that is the truth, or the half-truth. The whole truth is that your odds of catching and dying from COVID-19 are significantly higher than an adverse reaction to the J&J vaccine.

So, even with the blot clot risk (which can be caught/treated), you should absolutely have the J&J vaccine if you have the chance to.
Model Y here. Completely agree.
pausing causes vaccine hesitance, but finding out that the authorities knew about potential risks like this and didn't pause the rollout to assess those risks also causes vaccine hesitance, and is also poor politics.

they did the safe thing, regardless of the politics. if you're skeptical about vaccines you should be reassured by that. and if a person is skeptical about vaccines but somehow isn't reassured by the authorities taking responsible safety precautions, they're probably not coming from a place of reason and there's not much point worrying what they think.
The trouble with using just a bag of (potentially Base64-encoded) bytes is that it flirts with cryptographic doom: one relies on users not to make mistakes.

For example, is 5uW7anEGF1nIjGfp5pS2kiN0cn2mGYkuSa+TCBoFIbQ= a Base64-encoded Ed25519 public key? Sure. Is it a Base64-encoded HMAC-SHA-256 key? Sure! It’s 256 bits, after all. Is it a valid AES-256 key? Yes again.

OTOH, (public-key (ed25519 |5uW7anEGF1nIjGfp5pS2kiN0cn2mGYkuSa+TCBoFIbQ=|)) is clearly not an HMAC private key. For that matter, (secret-key (hmac-sha-256 |5uW7anEGF1nIjGfp5pS2kiN0cn2mGYkuSa+TCBoFIbQ=|)) is clearly not an Ed25519 public key. And (secret-key (aes-256 |5uW7anEGF1nIjGfp5pS2kiN0cn2mGYkuSa+TCBoFIbQ=|)) is clearly neither a public Ed25519 key nor a private HMAC-SHA-256 key. Software expecting one and getting one of the other will break.

Why does this matter? Because using a public value such as a public key as an HMAC signing key means that anyone can generate a signature, and using a public value such as a public key as a secret encryption key means that anyone can decrypt the encrypted material.

Why use the unusual formats I suggested above? Because this:

(public-key
(ed25519 |5uW7anEGF1nIjGfp5pS2kiN0cn2mGYkuSa+TCBoFIbQ=|))

is clearly preferable to this:

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MDYwBQYDK2VwAy0ANXVXN2FuRUdGMW5JakdmcDVwUzJraU4wY24ybUdZa3VTYStUQ0JvRkliUT0
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
Well... Slow chargers (~20 - 30 miles added per hour of charging) may cost only a few thousand dollars each, but DC fast chargers (100 - 350 KW) cost much, much more than that.

UBS estimated USD250,000 per station in 2017 (unclear how many actual chargers per station).

Slow chargers aren't remotely comparable to gas stations.

(Of course, I understand that, for people who can charge at home, the picture is very different - we own two EVs and no ICE cars and are lucky enough to have charging in our garage.)
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I’d go with Ceph and dedicated hardware. Something like Hetzner or Datapacket, or built it yourself and go big with something like SoftIron. We’ve built and maintain a number of these types of clusters - using S3 compatible APIs (CephObjectStore). SoftIron is probably overkill but good lord is it fun to play with that much thruput!

If you’re looking for a partner/consultant to get things going, feel free to reach out! This stuff is sort of our wheelhouse, as me and my co-founder were previously Ops at Imgur, you can imagine the kinds of image hosting problems we’ve seen :P
The existence of fundamentally non-effective wind capturing technologies, such as rooftop windmills, vawts, and kites, does not preclude existance of effective designs aka multi-megawatt 3 bladed wind turbines.

By analogy, just because early attempts to build a concept does not work, can you prove future attempts won't work? As far as I know, the energy potential in the ocean is not disputed, just the initial attempts to build the machines have not been successful. Many attempts at flying machines were unsuccessful before the wright brothers.
Propensities to bully while in adolescence I think remain in later years. I’ve no scientific evidence for this just what I’ve seen of people in my life over the years.
To adopt it in other languages don't you need non-strict evaluation, at which point it's hard to stop yourself from becoming Haskell?
Tesla Solar Panels/Roof will only be sold *with* Tesla Powerwall battery
> Just read the other comments in this thread.

Right, because you chose to mislead the people in this thread by cherry-picking one heavily disputed fact from many to hinge your argument to make it look like he's still guilty.

When you're no longer an "honest broker" of the facts you no longer deserve anyone's time or effort to debate you on the facts.
'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest, he swallowed his entire stash of drugs to avoid going to jail

to make matters worse he had severe hypertension and was hospitalized in 2019 during similar arrest with BP of 210 on 130, his heart just couldn't handle it this time
Cool. Asked because 1) I'm into file formats myself, and 2) am a long time C and Unix guy (among other things, for both 1 and 2). Also because I had read that O'Reilly book, Open Source: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, and specifically the chapter about Cygnus.
I probably shouldn't admit to this but I went to the Mall yesterday, I went to Hot Topic. I think the people who worked there were glad to just see people at all so customer service was really great.

Also - Hot Topic is a great place to go for fun masks.
I'm not sure that's necessarily the domain of a low-level package like CUDA.jl though (which I assume you're referring to). That kind of interface is more the domain of higher-level packages like https://github.com/JuliaGPU/DaggerGPU.jl and to a lesser extent https://juliagpu.github.io/KernelAbstractions.jl/stable/. Moreover, the jury is still out on whether the built-in Distributed module is an ideal abstraction for every use-case (clusters, heterogeneous compute, etc.)

WRT Nx, my biggest question is how they'll crack the problem of still needing big balls of C++ and the shims everywhere to get acceleration. Creating a compiler that generates efficient GPU or other accelerator code is a massive research project with no clear winners, never mind the challenge of reconciling the very mutation-heavy needs of GPU compute with a mostly immutable language model.