skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The high-end visual effects industry that we dominated is notoriously slow to adapt to change

this is patently false. They were the first to jump onboard the GPU rendering bandwagon, and have been pushing cuda since it was first usable (there is of course a debate about how usable it is..)

The issue with shotgun is that its really fucking powerful, but also hilariously configurable. Shotgun is there to track each shot as it goes through every stage of production. Think of it as jira, but far more integrated. Before shotgun was a thing(and f-track) people used access, or filemaker. or worse Excel.

> and operates for the most part on razor-thin margins. There were billions flowing into film and episodic production every year, but there wasn’t (and likely still isn’t) an obvious opportunity to further monetise our existing customers.

This is true. Unless something makes a significant impact, its out the door. Shotgun is/was expensive per seat, but allows you to cut down loads on time management. You need less production staff to run a lighting/animation/comping department. However thats a fine line. A production assistant is £25-35k, but per seat licenses of some software is £1-5k.

Shotgun when it first came out was a massive behemoth. at Framestore it was running on the biggest machine we had (from memory it was a quad opteron with 64gigs of ram[might have been less]) It was ruby on rails, slow unreliable and generally a pain, BUT, it totally sped up production for desperaux.
Too far out from the sun and it wouldn't be able to re-charge using solar panels. Could put some kind of nuclear power plant on it though. And as others has pointed out, you would need to match the speed, so you could just as well use that power plus gravity assists to get far out. Landing on such a body would be really interesting though.
The Lokole email benefit to the offline communities:
When a community has no Internet availability or its population cannot individually afford existing Internet data, it will be very difficult for this community to use traditional email sustainably, but condemned to use SMS. As you know, SMS has a limited capacity.
The Lokole is the solution to this problem. The Lokole brings the online email full power to offline use for the unconnected communities in a shareable, affordable and sustainable way. Using the Lokole reduces the cost of data to more than 95%. For instance in the Congo DRC, 100 people can share US$ 0.50 a day to send a hundreds of emails with attachments.
The Lokole creates a shareable local email network in the office, school, or clinics and church facilities without Internet. The Lokole email can also be accessed online such as Internet café.
Even if the original attack happened upstream, if the upstreamed piece of software was pinned via git, then it'd be trivial to bisect the upstream project to find the culprit.
I believe it's also poisonous
There is no such thing as the open source community. There are many overlapping communities, with a great deal of variation in culture and norms. Research code is a good example of this, because the academia is full of niche groups with varying aims.

In computer science, a lot of open source code is written for other researchers in the same subfield. Some degree of support is expected, as long as the request is related to research (and the original developer has not left the academia). Requests from people who just want to use the code feel awkward and out of scope.

Many bioinformaticians write software for actual users. Inexperienced ones may read about a fancy new algorithm, find the implementation, and try to use it in their project. Confusion (and sometimes even conflict) ensues when they find that the proof-of-concept implementation from a CS researcher is not appropriate for real use. On the other hand, there are many unwritten rules about modifying and redistributing somebody else's code. Research is all about ideas, and building upon them without crediting the original authors clearly and visibly violates academic integrity.
I thought so too, but a neighbour had theirs stolen 3 nights ago.

I looked it up, it's 500-1000€ just for the metals. It's a wonder people aren't stealing them more.
You can always look at the size dimension instead - you can relatively easily have the planets to scale next to each other (As long as you exclude the sun, of course).

Ever since I found out that the planets would fit neatly into the gap between the Earth and the Moon I've been toying with it as a tattoo idea
> I don't know how people are making these authenticity arguments using NFTs, because your counter-argument is spot on.

Because people are desperately investing reasons to justify themselves because:

1) they're gullible and bought into the hype, or

2) they're shady and want to make money off of the gullible.
*replace it with native species
Then we're toast.
I hate that you need to manage your media by yourself. I mean, I cannot attach images to my note without doing some extra effort (upload to vault somewhere and link to it). I just want it to be more efficient.
Reproducibility is necessary, but unfortunately not sufficient, to stop a "Trusting Trust" attack. Nixpkgs still relies on a bootstrap tarball containing e.g. gcc and binutils, so theoretically such an attack could trace its lineage back to the original bootstrap tarball, if it was built with a compromised toolchain.
That is a pretty big deal.

This means everyone building NixOS will get the exact same binary, meaning you can now trust any source for it because you can verify the hash.

It’s a huge win compared to the current default distribution model of “just trust these 30 american entities that the software does what they say it does”.

Big congratulations to the team.
There is also the famous one starting in Stockholm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
Same as when you download the source instead of the binary and see it reproducibly builds the backdoored binary. And at this point we're back to "Build from source. This will always be a deeply niche thing to do. It's slow, inconvenient, and inaccessible except to nerds." anyways.

It's not that reproducible builds provide 0 value it's that they don't truly solve the trust problem as initially stated. They also have non-security value to boot which is often understated compared to the security value IMO.
This website is a great example for me of useful, interesting, and original things that can be done on the Internet, instead of the abundant nonsense. Hope there was list of these websites.
This guy's main argument is that the objectivist, libertarian folks living in Galt's Gulch wouldn't wear masks, wouldn't have a health department to provide guidance, and would come from an older demographic (more susceptible to Covid). Galt's Gulch would have been ravaged by the plague, thus refuting Ayn Rand's grand philosophy.

Since this is a fictional outcome for a fictional town, I call bullshit.

I'm not saying that Rand had it right; I'm just saying that this guy has nothing to say about her.
A culture of fear has taken over at Edinburgh university
> The industry is well regulated and ensures margins aren’t indulgent.

Home insurance, auto insurance are often very competitive.

But these days it's common when you buy a TV, phone, laptop, that the checkout button online also offers "insurance".

I see the same renting a vacation home, offer for a cancellation insurance.

Sure, it sucks if I'm sick and need to cancel my vacation and I can't get my money back -- but insuring against such events is often a bad idea.

There is a lot of unnecessary "insurances" being offered to consumers today.

For the record: health, home, auto, travel, disability, and generic liability insurances is usually a necessity.

What author is saying is don't insure against spilled milk, even if many shops offer these easy add-on "insurances" at checkout.

Personally, I sometimes find it hard to know what I should and should buy when renting a vacation home or car. I don't care for the cancellation insurance, but I do want a liability insurance (which most always include automatically, at-least where I live).
It's the pragmatic thing. I wouldn't use nixOS if I wasn't able to use it on a 16 core modern desktop. I don't think there's a performant and 100% FLOSS compatible computer that wouldn't make me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon when building stuff for ARM.
Or an impact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis
No, passing a law against jurors advocating for jury nullification would probably be unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.

In addition, there are incredibly strong norms against penalizing jurors, except for clear misconduct such as taking bribes, or conducting outside research. Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn's trial sticks in my mind here for some reason.

As a result, in the US, it does not vary by jurisdiction. What does vary is how clearly each jurisdiction supports jury nullification. Some have considered requiring the judge to inform the jury of their right to nullify, others not so much.

Anyway, advocate away, you are perfectly safe, and if you weren't you would have multiple highly motivated legal organizations (like the ACLU, but also others) on your side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHCCsFFIuY

Star Size Comparison 3 is jaw-dropping. The reversal at the end is mesmerizing.
I’ve been lucky enough to have a manager that doesn’t care at all about about how much time I’m working, as long as I’m consistently delivering what’s expected of me.

This has allowed me to optimize my day and at the end I end up working about 3 focus hours and that’s it.

Analyzing my days I realized that I’d spent way too much at “at work” but “not working” (i.e. time in HN…) so I ended up cutting all of that time, and if I’m ever not focused I don’t even try to be and switch to some other activity.

The end result is that, 2-3 hours of focus programming time a day, ~5 hours of meetings on a regular week and that is that.

The bane of this is managers that want a response from you at any time of the day within 5 minutes… but if you have somebody that is understanding and you are able to reach an agreement to compartmentalize your time (i.e. I won’t answer to messages until after lunch because it’s my focus/productive time) then good agreements could be reached!
why does this website delete your history / back button capability?
Lacking inspiration at work? Teach someone what you do
Finding stable, well paying careers is more of a means to an end. I think some in this group of people (myself included) are closer to the "I don't dream of labor" type than the "mission style careers" type. That said, I am open to changing my view and don't resent anyone who has found a mission worth working towards.
Imp: A full-stack relational language built around incremental maintenance
I live in Texas and I saw a monarch butterfly for the first time a few weeks ago. I hope more people let wildflowers grow - as the people who are currently doing so seem to be helping the biome recover.
I manage serval women in tech in Europe and hint at them to apply to companies with diversity quotas (Our company
is shit).

Sometimes you have to
play the game to get ahead in life.

Most people are obsessed with fairness. Recruitment is luck anyways, so I do not see the issue with diversity quotas. Sure incompetent people will get hired but that’s life and happens anyways irrespective of diversity quotas.
The Lokole email benefit to the offline communities;
When a community has no Internet availability or its population cannot individually afford existing Internet data, it will be very difficult for this community to use traditional email sustainably, but condemned to use SMS. As you know, SMS has a limited capacity.
The Lokole is the solution to this problem. The Lokole brings the online email full power to offline use for the unconnected communities in a shareable, affordable and sustainable way. Using the Lokole reduces the cost of data to more than 95%. For instance in the Congo DRC, 100 people can share US$ 0.50 a day to send a hundreds of emails with attachments.
The Lokole creates a shareable local email network in the office, school, or clinics and church facilities without Internet. The Lokole email can also be accessed online such as Internet café.
Heh, I actually prefer the smartwatches without touchscreen. Physical buttons keep the screen clean. You just need enough of them. I believe the sweet spot is 4. Pebble did it right.
How to Connect Flutter with Unity
Right, the average programmer probably should, or already is, depending on some existing abstraction to optimizes writes based on storage medium.
I do not see why history would be a good indicator for the article’s question anyway. The fact that birth control is easily and nearly freely available and women have gained economic independence is a big factor.
This is basically the purpose of rocksdb, and to a lesser extent Cassandra
If you replaced all 4 tires because of one nail then you got had by the dealer/tire shop.
Digging into My Father’s Lineage (2014)
People don't like security guard robots that look like security guard robots. There's an easy answer to that: make it cute. I don't have any hard numbers, but I'd be willing to bet people are much less likely to vandalize a robot that looks like Wall-E than one that looks like ED-209, even if they do exactly the same thing.
For readers in the Lower Mainland (of BC):

https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/bee-turf and/or https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/alternative-lawn-mix
Satya Nadella – The man who rebuilt Microsoft
The biggest cause of these declining populations seems, to me, to be intensive agriculture which leads to both loss of habitat and various toxic chemicals (pesticides but also fertilisers and huge quantities of slurry). Another cause may be pollution but it seems to me that we’ve had pollution for longer. In the U.K. this intensive agriculture was started in the war as an effort to produce more food locally. It meant less land was left fallow and land which had been too poor quality to be viable was farmed (with low yields and lots of artificial inputs.) It also means that any agricultural runoff is worse for the environment it runs into (even fertilisers may cause algal blooms in rivers which can then remove the oxygen from the water.) Because farms have to stay competitive, there isn’t much choice but to continue these intensive practices. To some extent, switching to certified organic practices allows farms to stop such practices.

It’s not so obvious what the solution is. There are a lot of people to feed and reducing the productivity of the land in a rich country puts pressure on land in other countries. One suggested solution is people changing to more land-efficient diets with less meat, but I don’t really see this happening much.
It's a figure of speech, but I've seen 10 year old commits still doing well in production and some written before even git was a thing.

Given how much value this work generates, it's time developers got together and put a pressure on companies to pay fairer and proportionally to profits they are generating.

I'd even opt for a legislation that would make contract clauses about giving up royalties illegal.
I think you meant: https://xkcd.com/1244/
What editor do you use, if I may ask, and have you asked them to add unicode support? Part of the goal in permitting unicode variable names is that more and more niche editors might be forced to become fluent in languages other than english, benefits everyone (and might be a bit overdue at this point).

I use vim, and have a completions plugin (part of julia-vim mode), so that I can write \mu<tab> for any unicode name, which makes it as easy to type as "mu", but easier for me to read (as it matches my textbook expectation of the formula).
Never test backups, always test restores.
I feel like most tech-workers can be divided into two camps:

Type 1: "It's obvious that remote work is the future, and anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in the past"

Type 2: "Remote work is infinitely inferior to office work due to the lack of socialization/collaboration/food/etc"

Evidently the leadership at Docker is type 1, based on their "step 4". The part I find particularly interesting about this trend is that both camps can't seem to fathom that the other could possibly exist (see: any HN discussion thread about remote work)
> that's something actuaries have thought extensively about

But I don't think there is any solution. The further out on the "tail" you go, the more the total risk depends on the accuracy of information and assumptions you have. If there is an extremely large potential loss that is extremely unlikely, then the average becomes unknowable since the probability estimate in particular could be off by orders of magnitude. Nuclear power plants would be sort of the archetype of that, I think.

I mean, I reason like this to justify what I actually observe - that insurance companies don't want to insure things without strict limits. Despite reinsurance existing.
If the Yugo was as bad as the joke suggests, how did so many of them outlast the country they were built in?
App Usability: Just Because It’s “Polish” Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Important
Lab-grown meat sounds dystopic. Imagine a giant machine shitting out nutrient bricks forever.

Plant-based meat substitutes are ridiculous. Americans, North and South, eat way too much meat (Europeans eat much less). To cut down on the extravagant amounts of meat consumed in the Americas is a great idea, but why do those need to be replaced with meat substitutes? Teach people to cook good food with plants, otherwise you're just keeping them dependent on the food industry that just wants to sell them cheap overprocessed shit that makes them sick and sad.
Antiracism in the context of present society must be pretty racist then.
Constraints blend in especially seamlessly with logic programming languages like Prolog. In fact, Prolog itself can be regarded as a constraint solver over Herbrand terms.

For instance, here is the "adder" example from the paper, using Scryer Prolog and its built-in constraint solver over integers:

$ scryer-prolog
?- use_module(library(clpz)).
true.
?- A1 + A2 #= Sum.
clpz:(A1+A2#=Sum).
?- A1 + A2 #= 5.
clpz:(A1+A2#=5).
?- -2 + A2 #= 5.
A2 = 7.

In this interaction, we state what we know about the relation, and the answer tells us what the system has deduced. For example, given the sum and A1, the system has deduced that A2 is 7.

The speed and sophistication of built-in constraint solvers over various domains is often an important reason for buying a commercial Prolog system.
> My modern car made my insurance rate go down.

Same here. Bought a Volvo which is more expensive and has a more powerful engine than the Opel that I had before for 16 years, I have even added some options to the insurance coverage compared to before, but now I pay 300$ less than before => of course I'm happy, but it's weird, didn't expect this... .

Maybe the car's brand has as well something to do with it? Maybe some statistics show that for some reason Opel drivers cause more damages or whatever... . Misterious... .
Not to mention most of them contradict each other. I have completely given up on trying to figure out what is healthy beyond trying to get fruit, vegetables, and not too much fat in my food.

Anything beyond that seems to devolve into a never ending pile of research and sudo research.
I don’t have the resources to audit every component of my system. I favour enterprise distros who audit code which ends up in their repos and avoid pip, npm, etc. but there are some glaring trade offs on both productivity and scalability.

The problem is unmaintainability, I can’t imagine it’d be easier for medium sized teams where security isn’t a priority, either.
Kind of weird looking at mine. I've got an old account that I don't use any more. It didn't show up in the list of similar accounts, and the list for this account and my old account were completely different.
I think it really depends on the project. If it’s a project for work it often has a deadline and thus saving all the time I can by using boilerplates or anything else is usually the way to go.

When is a project for myself I’m personally more interested in understanding how my code works (I mean, I don’t need to know the internals of sqlite…)
I'm seriously handicapped and have a dog phobia thanks to ugly events in early childhood. My handicap makes having actual animals in my home a bad idea anyway for cleanliness reasons.

While $2700 is way out of my price range -- handicapped people tend to have tight budgets -- I can absolutely see a tremendous market for companion animals for people allergic to animals, with a dog phobia etc.

Especially if they could add some fetching capabilities, this could be enormously useful to many people. Our population is aging and unlike other populations with physical limitations, people whose limitations are primarily age related sometimes have money. Sometimes lots of money in fact.
Thief. Crook. Liar. Coward. Murderer. Traitor. Why should anyone listen to leadership anymore? Just to get berated all their lives, and then watch the people they worked so hard cuck out to drunken junkies. Why work hard for whatever they are selling when a lawless mob is going to burn it all down while they applaud. Die die die die die.
>wildly profitable and beneficial

How could it be both?

And if it was beneficial, how could you describe the people to whom it was beneficial as "healthy and fit"? Aren't they really just people who the screening failed to identify as unhealthy?
https://archive.is/HquiC
ZKPs are a really exciting crypto primitive. They're finally getting serious development for the cryptocurrency space, but I think we'll see them used in all sorts of protocols over the next decade.

One possibility I'm excited about is users being able to perform computations locally without sending their data anywhere, and then providing the results to a company, government, etc with a proof that the results are faithful.
Real interesting.

My first thought, given how old the paper is, is what kind of further research and applications did this lead to?

Or was it a dead-end?
Gramps – Free Genealogy Software
Yeah, wow! 27 submissions altogether. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=joshworth.com%2Fdev%2Fpixelspa...
Sure!

My thoughts, taking a quick second look at the Haxe website:

* The core docs are split across three different sites: https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction, https://haxe.org/manual/introduction.html and https://api.haxe.org/. To a new user this is extremely confusing.

* Let's say I go with the first of those. I go through the pages, which contain lots of useful information, but it doesn't actually tell me how to do what I want - which is presumably "make a game" given how Haxe is marketed. As a new user, I'd like to know how to use your library to make a game - say, pong or tic-tac-toe. If graphics/input/whatever isn't part of the standard library that's fine, but then your intro should tell me that and give me some suggestions where I can find those libraries and how to install them. Compare to the nodejs.dev or reactjs into tutorials, which immediately show you how to do the thing that many/most people will want to do (make a server, or make a dynamically-updating frontend respectively)

* On that note, your package manager is VERY hidden! It's just labeled as "haxelib" (very non-descriptive) at the bottom of the "Learn Haxe" menu.

* The other thing that the docs aren't really telling me is "what's the typical way to combine these ingredients"? How do people typically work with haxe.Resource-s, macros, MainLoops, etc? What are the common patterns?

* Many of Haxe Standard Library docs pages are minimally populated. For example, MainLoop sounds important, but the docs tell me almost nothing. https://api.haxe.org/haxe/MainLoop.html
Talos has 44 core/176 thread server options which can take 2 TBs of DDR4 that are FSF certified. The board firmware is also open and has reproducible builds.