skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What other current chip provides this much performance while using so little power? Objective measurements also show the M1 far ahead.
Is it only me or is Cyprus and Ukraine in the wrong spot on the map about a quarter down? Nitpicking but Cyprus is not in China and Ukraine is not Mongolia.
Well, let's see whether this genocide denying nonsense is allowed to stay up. I have a feeling that somebody denying the holocaust in such a shamefully obvious way would be booted off the site. I hope that dang is dealing with this the same way.
That already happened, no?

Some men pretend to care about yoga and veganism just to approach women. You can see some memes about this phenomenon.

In this context, I assume the definition of a creep is someone who joins a group or an activity just to approach people romantically/sexually.

The problem is.... where should a man find a romantic partner without being a creep? By that definition, if he wants to join salsa class to find a girlfriend, he is already a creep.

The only appropriate place to find a girlfriend without being a creep is on Tinder or Bumblebee which have a slew of problems.

You heard someone giving advice that online dating is disaster and a man should find a girlfriend in social settings, like.... yoga class, salsa class.

So I try to mitigate this problem by building this dating app.
> The Northeast US already imports clean hydro and nuclear from Ontario

Hydro probably more from Quebec, but Ontario exports as well. (Source: I live in Ontario.)
I am not super into the smart watch stuff but I do like what PinePhone is trying to do.

Hopefully I can get a few more years out of my oneplus and then maybe the mobile linux distros and hardware will have matured enough that they are a viable alternative to android.
Shop Class as Soulcraft (2006)
"I was sometimes quieted at the sight of a gang of conduit entering a large panel in a commercial setting, bent into nestled, flowing curves, with varying offsets, that somehow all terminated in the same plane. This was a skill so far beyond my abilities that I felt I was in the presence of some genius, and the man who bent that conduit surely imagined this moment of recognition as he worked. "
OK, so you can’t use your money in a way that’s infeasible to achieve or in a way that gives material support to terrorism. Is there a point you’re trying to make beyond that?
> McBride said over the last 20 years, she's been let go from several jobs without being given a reason why. She told FOX 25, now, it all makes sense.

> On Wednesday, the DA's office said after reviewing McBride's case, they've decided to dismiss it.

I’m surprises the DA doesn’t regularly review these cases. The shop closed in 2008. Even if they wanted to pursue it, wouldn’t it be beyond the statute of limitations? Yet it haunted her for decades. What a sham.
Scalability, but at What Cost [pdf]
I’m a consumer. I have many, many apps installed on my iPhone, and for the pretty much all of them I’ve paid $0.

Your issue exists only with paid apps. Apple is providing you the infrastructure and means to distribute your software. It makes sense to me that they get a cut.

And it also makes sense to me that you have to go through them. I specifically bought an iPhone because Apple seems to actively regulate what apps are allowed in the App Store while favoring customer privacy and security.

It’s interesting to me that your arguments against Apple are the specific reasons I chose an Apple device.
> On Wednesday, the DA's office said after reviewing McBride's case, they've decided to dismiss it.

I feel like she's owed damages, not just dismissal.

What motivates a DA to charge someone with a felony over a VHS tape?

A similar situation is when DAs stack on extra charges for a crime. The addon charges almost never make sense to the actual crime too, it always reads more like a gotcha. It turns what should be a Class C misdemeanor into a Class A, extraordinary fines, and jail time.
They’re now proof points that governments can reduce police fatalities by training their police to use more than guns. This hopefully makes it a little easier to sue a city into the ground for failure to adequately train its police force.
Died yesterday. RIP
https://www.latestnewssouthafrica.com/2021/04/24/security-re...
She hasn’t proven it’s not true.

She could possibly go after the person she was dating and, if she had evidence he did it without her knowing, she could maybe sue him for lost wages.
Not at all making it ok, but in addition to burning down the rtc building, the protesters ransacked downtown. Lots of broken glass etc. Also a lot of the protesters were from outside Kent (not that that means they deserved to die)
nah. This rhetorical technique of posting raw data and "begging the question" is a pretty frequent white supremacist talking point. Important to label its argument as disingenuous and move on.
> it would probably be too expensive to have a power plant just sitting there idle when the price isn't "high enough"

This is exactly what is done, and pretty much inevitably must be done - grids need spare capacity that can be relied on to spin up rapidly when demanded, that's usually done by gas turbine plants.
...... aaaaaand sold out already. That's a good price for a hackable smartwatch.
> Fellow Turkish trolls are doing extra duty on this thread :-)

If I got something wrong, anyone please feel free to correct me instead of just downvoting.

If I only get downvoted but nobody can tell me what I'm wrong about, it is just brigading.

And that can backfire, because if this is happening to seemingly reasonable comments, it strongly implies that those downvoting me are not capable of countering what I said.
If anyone is curious about the actual (real-time) numbers, go to this page† and click on the "Supply" tab:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data

Nuclear chugs along with the base load at 9000 to 9500 MW, next biggest is hydro with between 3000 and 5000MW (with some deep troughs at 2500). Wind is the third-biggest, but is very variable: it tends to peak where hydro troughs (2500). Natgas comes along every so often

Ontario retired all of its coal plants several years ago.

If I had a magic want in Ontario I'd say we should build another 2000-2500 nuclear plant, which would take care of some of the base load that hydro is handling. Then hydro would be more free to handle the variable load, and we could reduce/remove natgas.

Various CSV and XML files available with historical data:

* https://www.ieso.ca/en/Power-Data/Data-Directory

†Site run by the Independent Electricity System Operator (Ontario's grid).
don't count on it
This is one of the most awful things of the current state justice systems around the world: persecution of victimless and minor crimes.

In the came of victimless crimes, well, just get rid of it!
In the case of minor crimes, reparation should be a priority, instead of punishing the actors. It's even better not to persecute than waste a lot of resources in a case (what would be completely inadmissible if we were talking about private justice).
RIP Dan.

https://youtu.be/RAGwol-keXM
I didn't say they were. I just said that Jesus was pretty clear about this.
That surprises me as well! Particularly if it includes departments like ICE and FBI within that definition of policing.

I tried to search for the original source to see if I could find how they are calculating theses costs but didn’t have any luck.

I mention this because NYPD budget is often referenced as $6 billion, but that’s only operating costs, and the actual amount is closer to $11 billion (including fringe benefits like overtime and funding the NYPD pension).

With a 2020 GPD of $20,936 billion
Then 0.8% of that is $167 billion

If we assume that policing costs are more closely tied to population rather than GDP we’d expect that NYPD costs to be about 2.5% of national amount. That’s approximately $4.2 billion.

But NYPD costs are $11 billion, which is 6.5% of estimated national policing costs (for 2.5% of the population).

Admittedly, I can imagine that there are reasons why a big city area might have higher than average costs, but 6.5% makes me feel that the 0.8% of GDP might be either underestimating how much US spends as part of GDP, or calculating national costs using different methods for different countries.
49% of tech workers consider getting a new job this year
It always baffles me when people say something like "I'm guessing..." or "they probably..." followed by their own image of the evil others, in a context where the example is trivially disproven.
Came here to say the same, I just tried it and agreed, really good. I bought Invoker and had to revoke the license, buggy, slow and you can't do basic stuff like resize the sidebars, this was before it was sold and I noticed the same after as well. As for Tinkerwell, docker support is shoddy at best, really good projects but the developer(s) seems to want to spin up a new one every week instead of polishing what they have. Autocomplete from my project directory will be a + as well but so far so good. Only complaint is the license, I would prefer the one year of updates model.
E-Scooters roll into New York
I had the same thought. They do make it clear that this is a demonstration, but I'm curious how this scales with larger weights and heights; both in capital cost, and efficiency.

I'm also curious if anyone's seen a good comparison to hydro/dam based gravity batteries? Or even to the gimmicky sounding electric train based ones I've read about before?

My understanding is that anything near or past 90% efficiency gets very hard to achieve, but perhaps there are special cases where this isn't true?

Finally, I'm also curious how these compare to flywheels, which offer a similar style of energy storage, but with rotational potential instead of gravitational.

Storage is clearly one of the largest barriers to large scale adoption of many renewable sources of power we have. And, chemical batteries raise a lot of valid concerns in terms of safety and environmental impact.
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson Galileo got funding for his project due to its high utility in the context of war. This puts telescopes to the same category as airplanes, rockets, satellites, nuclear powerplants, submarines and lots of other tech which has found its civilian usage as well. Isn't metallurgy in this category as well, you can either make stronger swords or plows.

But I strongly agree with you that what new tech you'll discover from fundamental research.
I don't think this prevent this exploit because it mergered by bot (BrewTestBot in this case).

An this exploit still working if any of contributor create malicious update
Don't do the comment if you can't think for a moment.
Non pay-wall link

https://web.archive.org/web/20210423025627/https://www.nytim...
When you try to discuss the problem you either a) get booted off the site for being 'disturbing', or b) get called a Russian shill, or c) both.

The Russia-hate these days is a classic example.
During the population exchange My mother in law’s Turkish family were forced to walk to Istanbul from their village in Makedonya with nothing but the gold coins they had sewn into their blankets and hid into their shoes. 1/4 of them were killed by Greeks. The same story with my father in law coming from northern Bulgaria.

Nobody brings this up, because it was Christians killing Muslims.

Still the Armenians remained and thrived in Western Türkiye. My neighborhood in Besiktas is 1/3 Armenian and 1/3 Kurd to this day.
The downvoting in this thread is insane. Do the mods have tools to determine if there are state actors trying to manipulate conversation on HN?
Alexa, book me a hair appointment: London gets high-tech Amazon salon
Can you share a picture? The map is fine on mine.
Rather sad all of her prior employers are without any regard to humans.
Bring spotlight/alfred functionality to your laravel /livewire app
Convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon called into question
Violence begets violence, and likewise, discrimination begets reverse discrimination. Someone must step up and end the cycle.
With an enum you’d have to check the unset state separate as well.
Nuclear can be on demand, but if you are turning nuclear on/off, you have huge capex but less and less electricity.

Nuclear is so expensive to build, that it doesn't make sense to 'turn off' a nuclear plant. We can do it with control rods, but the economic fallout of leaving nuclear off is bad. (Nuclear will need to be retired after 50 years. Every minute it is turned off is a minute wasted of it's limited lifespan)

-----------

Natural gas is the opposite. High ongoing costs but very low capex. So it makes economic sense to cycle natural gas on and off.
That would be a huge and vulnerable step for my government. So much of the dominant cultural mythology is build on righteous taking from others. “I was just following orders [from God]” is an unhealthy excuse. Hopefully we shift our thinking about life on earth.

I found helpful the 2021 April 15 episode of the podcast How to Save a Planet, as they discuss the history of protecting oil pipelines and end with ways we might change towards consuming less fuel while still enjoying a high quality of life.
A reasonable wish, but it's hardly surprising that such a request is only going to invite more speculation.
I think you have described Logan's Run. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)
Thanks for the tip about d24n!
There are clearly disingenuous comments from genocide denying trolls throughout this thread. I’m not surprised to see downvotes as well.
I'm always so amused when I see people complaining about certain cars being too expensive.

The cheapest Tesla Model 3 costs 160k SGD here, which is about 120k USD. And it gets more expensive from there.

Not to mention the fact that your COE expires after 10 years after which you have to pay another 50k to be allowed to drive it for another 10 years.
MGBA and Dolphin Emulator Connectivity
The DA is responsible, and they have absolute immunity.

https://www.nlg-npap.org/absolute-immunity/
Link broken and without the s is a different site. Here is the link:

https://bucketsinvesting.com
It’s similar to the BBC blocking non-UK streamers.
Why would the fact that the US Government doesn't have its collective shit together surprise anyone?

The OPM hack of 2015 confirmed for me that we have zero people actually looking out for National Security at the NSA. Why did that database exist in the first place? Why wasn't it air gapped? Hasn't anyone ever heard of Data Diodes?

I've heard rumors that the Russians were flying spy planes up the Mississippi during the cold war, and we couldn't stop them.

I have no doubt that we're far behind the ball in a number of technologies. I have zero expectation that any of this is related to off-world visitors.
Stories like this are infuriating. DA should be required to pay for 20 years of lost invested wages and missed career progression opportunities, alongside a hefty premium for the emotional distress caused by this issue.

The lack of accountability of public offices towards citizens is problematic. I think is a general apathy in government jobs. It doesn’t matter how incompetent you are, and how many people you hurt - you’ll never go “out of business,” tax payers will pay for your mistakes, and you won’t be held responsible for the impact of your actions. So why even try?

There ought to be some feedback loop that forces the public sector to improve itself.
Because a nullable bool has literally the same semantics as Maybe<Bool>. Why invent it again but in your app this time?
Sure. Even that is somewhat debatable; Mark wasn't written until 3-4 decades after Jesus' death.[0]

> The Church has consequently derived its view of Jesus primarily from Matthew, secondarily from John, and only distantly from Mark.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark
That's because almost no one bothers to RTFA, they just project their own assumptions into the title, make some boilerplate political hot take then move on.
You should have a look at rrdcached. It basically is a writeback cache, with batching I/O.

We took special care not to flush the cache too much, so the improvements are very noticeable.

Yet, it works only with on-demand graphing, of course.
It's not a different belief, it was a flat out lie and spreading of misinformation, their own source doesn't even back them up. Stop pushing a narrative that misinformation should be "equally considered" or is "just another point of view".
> It’s a federal crime to let your dog bark in a National Park but the park police don’t really care.

The regulation (36 CFR § 2.15) says it is prohibited to take pets to any “area closed to the possession of pets”, or to “[allow] a pet to make noise that is unreasonable considering location, time of day or night, impact on park users, and other relevant factors, or that frightens wildlife”. It is entirely reasonable to have this written down, so that it can be enforced if necessary.

The presence of dogs has a significant impact on the behavior of wild animals, and park rangers absolutely do care if you bring your dog to areas of a National Park where it should not be, or if your dog is incessantly barking or howling in areas of the park where it is a nuisance. They will walk up to you and tell you to take your dog directly back to your car, or tell you to shut your dog up or leave.

If you refuse to follow directions / give them a hard time about it, this regulation gives them authority to take further action, including charging a fine etc.
Most of these statements are just patently false, right? It's the top comment on HN, but I'm pretty I've successfully used all of the features mentioned in the just month with no issue at all. I don't understand how these are getting rated so highly?
A very worrying component of this: are they dropping the charges because they see this is ridiculous or because it's gotten media attention?
No one is commenting about the “processing” cookie opt-out of this website?
> "a 5m tall tower bearing 73 tonnes to store 1 kilowatt hour"

By comparison, a pint of gasoline stores about 4 kilowatt hours.
You didn't read the article did you?

Comorbid physical and psychiatric conditions were defined by ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes and included type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, stroke, ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, traumatic brain injury, vitamin B12 deficiency, depression, anxiety disorder, nicotine dependence and alcohol or drug abuse/dependence.

This would significantly reduce that problem.
or drug overdose or vaccine side effect or private health condition... so many things could be speculated, I think they probably just mean that friends and family won’t want to see/read the speculation comments, regardless of what it is (but especially if it’s controversial)
... but then please also update your privacy policy that you are storing this additional data about your users!

The only data that cannot be leaked or stolen is what you do not store in the first place.
There is literally a section of this list titled "Hardware/Embedded" https://github.com/olilarkin/awesome-musicdsp#hardwareembedd...
Actual article https://watermark.silverchair.com/glab115.pdf?token=AQECAHi2...
In Texas a speeding ticket is a Class C misdemeanor which feels overly punitive to me.
”Most arrests involve possessing or attempting to sell amounts over the legal limit of 30 grams.

I mean, they are breaking the new marijuana laws. Is this wrong? If I try and make my own moonshine and sell it I’ll go to jail too.
Do you honestly think this will ever lead to a prosecution with significant jail time rather than the news being spectacular as always?

The worst that will happen in this case is the lawyers coming to an agreement that the suspect will pay the late fee and the case be dropped as the defence can surely convince the prosecution that wasting money of this is in no one's interest.

As for victim-less crimes, they exist because despite most people chanting that they do not want them, they in fact do want them, but simply are convinced there is an actual victim in the cases where they want them.
In Singapore they had massive outbreaks in foreign workers dormitories one year ago. Now they have apparently seen new cases among the previously infected, suggesting that immunity starts to wear off after about a year. I'd definitely get vaccinated even if you already had it.
There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions
Building data products – Passive income for data experts
A platform for data experts to easily build data products.
We host demos and clients buy paid subscriptions to dashboards updates.
I used to think that about the Grand Canyon, then I went. Nope, it's just as impressive as they say being there experiencing it in person vs looking at all of the videos/images available. Seeing an image that required a special lens to take it all in looks nice. Standing in the same spot the camera was is a completely different experience when you have to turn your head left/right to see the same thing the image does. Anyone that says different has not actually taken the pepsi challenge
There are a few reasons the speedup scheme you’re talking about doesn’t get used for GPU ray tracing. On a GPU, time to first image that fills all pixels is not typically a problem, and rendering every other pixel and interpolating is more complicated and might take long enough that it doesn’t actually help.

Rendering every other pixel on a CPU in JavaScript is a huge advantage because ray tracing on that platform is incredibly slow compared to GPU ray tracing, and rendering is done sequentially one pixel at a time. Rendering on a GPU is very different because it handles thousands of rays at a time in parallel, and the typical time to get the first complete image on-screen is a fraction of a second. Today’s high end GPUs can trace tens of billions of rays per second, so with that kind of budget it’s easy to get through all the pixels of a 1080p image with multiple rays per pixel. The images in your blog post can be ray traced on today’s high end GPUs at 60hz with tens or even hundreds of samples per pixel for antialiasing.

Another reason a pixel interpolation scheme isn’t used on GPUs is because you don’t have random access to neighboring pixels during a single launch. What this means in practice is you’d have to do a ray tracing launch followed by the interpolation launch. The launches have some overhead, and the UX would be that you first see the checkerboard pattern all at once, and then later you get the interpolated image. You don’t get to see partial progress as you go, unless you’re breaking the image into tiled launches, and that slows down rendering and adds more complication. (Many pro renderers on the market do have tiled rendering to give progressive feedback, BTW).

On the GPU, maybe one of the closest things to what you describe that is being used in games today is DLSS; render a lower resolution image, then upscale to a higher resolution. Instead of interpolating neighbor pixels per se, it’s using a neural network to improve the interpolation based on the image content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning_super_sampling

There are approaches to deferred shading on the GPU that do something similar to what you’re talking about https://graphics.geometrian.com/research/dacs_in_hw.html

There is also denoising, which has the same high level goal as what you’re doing (fill in missing data to get a high quality preview faster), but uses a much more sophisticated interpolation algorithm, and rather than skipping pixels works on Monte Carlo images with low samples per pixel.
https://developer.nvidia.com/optix-denoiser
> Black and brown people are left out of the windfall and continue to be arrested for selling weed illegally.

I would hazard a guess that if they were instead selling bootlegged booze illegally they would also be arrested. I’m not clear what point you’re trying to make.