skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One huge benefit is the way you describe them. It's very concise.

// This is a sphere
length(p) - size;

There are no polygons, just surfaces described with math. You can do operations with them, like addition, subtraction, deformation quite easily, which is also much more complex with polygon based 3D models.

https://iquilezles.untergrund.net/www/articles/distfunctions...
> Point is "There have been millions of vaccines administrated", is not a proof for safety.

No, but with a larger population, any adverse effects are likely to be noticed.
He is not alone in making that connection regarding vaccinating in the middle of a pandemic

As you can see here. I am not sure what the exact time is, but they also suggest this possibility. It appears to me that this is common knowledge..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RuvUkcyJI
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less has its own system of bookmarks: use m followed by a lowercase letter to set a mark and single quote followed by a single letter to jump to that mark. I assume that this means we can have up to 26 bookmarks, though I normally don't go much beyond two.
Sad that they have to put a massive "Non-goals" full of emojis so the main Elm team does't feel threated.
A languange doesn't lose anything with an extra compiler - a competing compiler is actually what Elm needs right now.
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If you want to generate textures which you then read at runtime, this kind of technique is very useful - for instance, imagine you want to create the normal map of a cloud, or create a height map to displace vertices with (for a procedural landscape).
I've tried this in firefox and chrome on both linux and windows, but it never loads the right side, anyoen seen this work?
People want to have their cake and eat it too. People talk about choosing a career or children, but that's ridiculous. Raising children is a career. You could try to do both, but I think we can guess how well that's going to turn out.

It's extremely obvious why it tends to be women choosing to raise the children over men. Men value their work more and women value children more. It's as simple as that and if that seems wrong to you, look at the evidence and accept that truth.
How so? You can still get covid. Even the people vaccinated can get covid. Besides there is nowhere where everyone is vaccinated but you anyway. Some places have high rates some places have low rates. So your hypothetical situation just doesn't apply anywhere.

Anyway if you'd like an anecdote, I have a friend in Spain who just got the delta variant along with his 4 friends a few days ago. He was about to get his second shot yesterday (obviously it's postponed now) and his 4 friends were all completely vaccinated when they got sick.
No, I find those even more risky. The Novovax one in particular has a unique set or risks (circulating spike protein), combined with lower efficacy (because it doesn't stimulate T cell immunity).

After thorough analysis I took the Moderna one. If you're above 25, the risk from Covid is bigger than any vaccine risk. But I do assume I also took some risk with the Moderna shot. It's basically choosing the lesser evil.
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After reading the article, I am not sure what "the law of net design costs" actually is.

Is it "there is no substitute for judgement"??
"hack fix". Have you seen some of the garbage hacks Tesla put in the cars they sold as new? 3d printed parts[1] and I am not talking about industrial 3d prints. These prints look like they come of a $200 home printer.

[1] https://www.sculpteo.com/blog/2020/04/29/tesla-replaces-flaw...
Who actually cares about real research these days?
Everyone participating seems to turn a blind eye to the issues and act like its someone else's problem.

Students & Professors: "Publish or perish", if everyone else is doping, there's no other way to compete. Read the other comment from the newly minted PhD student below.

Industrial labs: Our research is so compute intensive that it doesn't matter what the results are, no one is going to be able to compete or reproduce the work anyway. Plus, let's not release any code because it was built on our proprietary closed source infrastructure. Gathering mindshare and acquiring talent is primary, science is secondary.

Conference organizers: We would like to have a higher bar for reproducibility but we don't have the resources to setup a standardized evaluation benchmark and we can't force authors to provide code.

The truth is that we live in a disingenuous culture where people no longer have the moral strength to do what is right. They would much rather prefer to engage in virtue signaling than fix any of the real problems for fear of repercussion from the community and missing their KPIs.

Everyone knows this has been a huge problem for the past several years and we need a strong group of people to organize and do something about this.
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> Banning IDEs is a classic

I never heard of that.
While this is a tech/VC blog, every subject that is interesting is appropriate here and welcomed.

A lot of people in tech have diversified jobs and the community has a lot of valuable insights on a wide range of subjects.

An couple of examples:

- SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16319505 )

- Is that ship still stuck? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282 )

And many more...

In this case, I'd say that soil depletion is a known problem here and the article discussed that.
Having children at 42. Wow. Do you think these people consider that their children will still be living with them when they're in their 60s?
Plasmids are an absolute doddle to work with. Borgs are huge, which makes them a nightmare to work with.

I used to work with bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) that were ~100 kb in size, and those were already a pain. You have to be really delicate when preparing the DNA because it's so easy to shear. You can't separate it on a normal gel, you have to use PFGE. Borgs will be even worse.

Borgs being bigger means you can fit more interesting stuff into them. But i don't know to what extent that is a constraint at the moment. 100 kb is already a lot of space for bacteria!

Bacteria and eukaryotes are different enough that we won't find borgs themselves in eukaryotes, and if you put a borg into a eukaryote, it wouldn't replicate. However, they could be used as a vector for constructing human artificial chromosomes - you need something that replicates in working organism, like bacteria or yeast, so you can do the molecular biology, and you add the necessary human sequences to that:

https://www.nature.com/articles/gt2009102

At the moment, the biggest vectors we have are yeast artificial chromosomes, which i think top out at ~1 Mb.

But again, what are you going to do that needs that much space? A typical human gene is a few tens of kb; 40 kb is big (there are megabase freaks, but they are very rare). And that's for the gene, introns and all - often you can use a cDNA which is a fraction of the size.
Bigger lesson from this story is to read the fine print from your comprehensive insurance coverage as it may turn out to be not comprehensive.

As to the story itself - garage did not fix the car for $700 - they just got it going.
Of course you can't exclude the risk, but there is _no_ usable information in that fear. Just because something can happen down the line, doesn't mean it's actionable. What if these vaccines start giving us super human strength in a few years? Can we discount that possibility? Why or why not? Should I act on that possibility today?

All we can consider is _actionable_ information. All information so far points to the side-effects of the vaccines causing problems at negligible levels compared to the the side-effects of getting covid. That is information we can use and it really only supports one conclusion.
Well, maybe. Until the likes of Oracle come along and sue the shit out of your nice little startup for a few lines of wrongly-attributed boilerplate.

Licenses aren't enforced by most hippie coders due to lack of interest and money. But they sometimes are enforced by greedy big corporations without an interest in anything but lots of money.
I'm getting 504s from the `v1/image/ml/segment-to-face` endpoint with the message "The upstream server is timing out". There were initially auth redirect messages in the console too, but they go away once you log in (as you'd expect).
> Does he still hate them?

I don't know - I don't think he listens to music much these days. We don't discuss it when we meet.

My own tastes have changed from ProgRock in my teens to North American music in my mid and old age, preferably with female vocalists, such as Emmylou Harris. Yesterday, I found myself listening to "The Marble Index" (Nico) which I first bought as a cut-out on vinyl in Woolworths in 1970, and which I think I still have (somewhere, don't know where).

I have always harboured a deep loathing for Jethro Tull, and particularly for Ian Anderson!
The main physiological explanation is that we only that there is only a very small area that we can see clearly. Our brain reconstructs that information to give us the illusion that we see a much larger area. We can only do this somewhat reliably because we normally constantly move our eyes. A second cause is that that our eyes do not respond well to a constant stimulus. If you could keep your eye in a constant position after a while you would not see any constant image.
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One of their stated goals is to show people how to write a compiler in Elm, and another is to allow programmers familiar with Elm to hack on the Elm compiler without needing to learn Haskell.
yeah, I tried "logging in" too, it only helped someones data-harvesting, but not me wanting to fool around with this tool
I suggest register patents -- so that they become public knowledge

Then anybody can implement it; there is no restriction

Then there is a preset scale, partly set by the value the inventor gives to the invention, but also set by supply and demand. So the inventor cannot price themselves out of the market, but still has incentive to publish. Possibly a market place where companies make non exclusive bids

Patent '''trolls''' are a separate issue

Probably the best solution is for litigants who loose; to pay a more realistic evaluation of damages for the court case to those who successfully defend themselves. This would include paying above damages, because presumably those who defended themselves should be paid for the extra work forced on them, etc

Alternatively for low to zero value patents, where a few years have elapsed, the onus first falls on the patent holder to demonstrate its worth
I really don’t miss Reddit, I’ve deleted the accounts I had there and am much better off for it. I’m not sure when the real tipping point was but that platform has really lost its way.
Did not watch the whole thing, but maybe they had to buy new fluid?
I didn't have the same experience. I took a lot of time off and think/hope I bonded just fine. I feel I was privileged to be ale to afford it, or rather, I just decided to afford it to dismay of my wife. That is another underrated factor: mothers actually WANT security, including financial security. Another factor is that it can get annoying if the other parent injects their opinions on rising children. It is not as if mothers in general are keen for the fathers to be around all the time. The feminist narrative (as usual) is absurdly wrong.

Breastfeeding is another example of why it is more "natural" for mothers to stay home than fathers, though.
I can strongly recommend the Baroque Cycle which is a set of prequels for Cryptonomicon set in the 17th and early 18th centuries and Fall; or, Dodge in Hell which, while not a direct sequel, shares at least on character and the Waterhouse family foundation.

NB The audiobook versions of all of these are really good.

Edit: Jack Shaftoe is probably one of my favourite fictional characters...
These "bots" are spam, pure and simple. By forcing users to visibly name the "service" they want to use in public discussion threads, and the service visibly answering on the same thread, they are basically forcing the users themselves to advertise the service. But it's still spam. You get tens of mentions of the service on each reddit thread.

It would be terribly simple and probably even more userfriendly to just privately message the bot in order to activate its action, and/or much more tech-friendly to have a browser extension to do the same action. I'm quite sure youtube-dl already works with more types of "Reddit videos" than "SaveVideo" ever will, and youtube-dl couldn't care less if Reddit approves of them or not.

But, of course, thanks to the apparent power of advertising, any such service that does NOT spam everyone like "SaveVideo" and the rest is condemned to obscurity.

Net result is tens of annoying SaveVideo (and their even more spammy competitors) messages in every popular reddit thread. How do you call it when someone posts several messages in every single popular thread with the name of their service?

I really don't know why the websites (Twitter, Reddit, etc.) put up with those. Yes, Twitter has Threadunrollers and the like which is basically the same thing. Personally I consider these "business models" to be one of these plagues on the WWW that must be eradicated with prejudice. The other one being websites that just grab files that are otherwise publicly available and put them behind a loginwall/paywall (e.g. Pinterest, Scribd, Manualslib, etc.), then SEO the hell out of it so that the original file becomes much harder to find.
good point, they probably did
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You don't know what room this exponential growth has. It could near saturation, at we've often seen.
Why? Calculus is primarily used and taught analytically in maths & cs courses in my country.
https://www.peachesnstink.com

Not niche, but it's very minimal with no JS and has nested comments.
Where's the evidence that women don't go into leadership because of maternity?

I think what's more likely is people who are good leaders go into leadership and good leaders are far more common in men.
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If you work for reddit you should disclose that.
> As Signed Distance Functions start making it into mainstream and commercial applications, it's important to find replacements or alternatives to common things artists used to do in polygon-land.

So are SDFs really going to replace polygons then? Is this for just the demoscene, or for some specific applications, or do experts think this is the future for all 3D graphics?

I know enough about SDFs to know that they are really cool, but i have no idea what the practical considerations are now, let alone likely to be in five years' time.
What part of their Developer Agreement where it says NOT to go running to the press, did you fail to understand?

Regardless of the original issue, what are your long term prospects as a going concern in their store after doing just that?

Strange times we live in.
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It looks very interesting, too bad it doesn't seem to work at the moment.
I feel people who need to be above others, in pay and output, can be verz detrimental to a work environment. Yes, as long as a person contributes to a company functioning, they should be part of its success. And that means getting a raise simply for keeping things running.

I feel the urge to constantly outdo oneself and everybody else tends to burn people out (it has burned out me), and innovation or change just to complete a checkmark on a CV can lead to unnecessary and abandoned projects. Like it happens a lot at Google for example.
Whats next, paying someone in a poorer country to write your things for you while you 'work from home'
Sorry to come back with another link, but this happened to show up in my feed today [1]
Key result: "Seropositive children did NOT report long-COVID more frequently than seronegative children."

I want to add that a direct colleague of mine still hasn't regained his smell which he lost three years ago due to a serious flu.

There is so much we don't know about long covid. Some people seem to think it always happens after virus infections, but only now shows up on our radar due to media attention.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.16.21257255v...
Typically just trying the first few, then going to another in the middle of the course or so to see if things have changed.
The British create and design around ideas but don't have the capital markets, the scale, or the will to leverage them globally.

They end up selling themselves and their ideas to the world who then go on to really capitalise on them.

Being generous, Britain is a design hub at best.
> It's your personal responsibility not the harm those around you as much as possible

Sure. But there is also a bigger responsibility to oneself. To not do things that might harm themselves.

So with that conflicting forces, it becomes a matter of opinion and perception. So it becomes no longer selfish, and just common sense.
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Boredom as a technique for pruning staff.
https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/21/boredom_rooms_japan_e...
At what point do we hit “peak emoji”? This document isn't describing summer jobs at the local park. It’s adults’ livelihoods. I can’t imagine referring to section trophy subsection rainbow in a serious discussion about my family’s source of income.
Are men better leaders? Would like to see you back that up.
They* want to be the only record keepers, and it scares me. Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines" (or all the videos of a banned account), it will be as if it never existed.

*Nearly every major video host deliberately makes saving videos difficult.
> Part of that is through a more thoughtful design (instead of having to desolder an annoying always-on LED to reduce power consumption, you can just turn it off in code).

I just drilled mine with 1mm drill bit.
It worked - that's why I upvoted it - but it doesn't work anymore. It must be traffic related.
This is a good article with advice from some experts in this field.

I have the impression that many people who advocate distributed systems, e.g. micro services or the cloud, are not really familiar with it. If you want to make your system distributed your really should have good reasons for it.
How does that work with the industry standard increasingly being that levels Senior and higher are really management in disguise (with all the responsibility, little of the authority)?
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Eh, someone is making an error if such political play is successful, it just may not be the speaker. Populist rhetoric is all about telling people what they already want to hear, that is, exploiting and amplifying existing cognitive biases in the target audience.
Christians of every era have their political goals too. And of course, claimed to own peace, equality and justice.

And there is no doubt a political core to each identity banner 'BLM'.

The question is whether the mass movement and the institutional and cultural mass are even 'aware of' let alone 'coordinating for' these political ambitions.

Clearly they are not. The culture of these projects ARE these projects and they are fundamentally demands for a 'theatre of identity' to be created.

Contrast this with union activity, the temperance movement, civil rights era -- etx.

These are political projects whose adearents aim towards them.

This 'identity-fist politics' is not a politics; its a religious awakening for a new era of identity.

You will no doubt find genuine politics going on, and evangelists like Colbert appearing to champion them -- but this isnt a political awakening. It isnt the 20s or 60s.

Its the 19th C. and what we have is a new era of religious identity and new claims to who owns virtue-- across all of society.

Your 'list of demands' is just another Lutheran political gesture -- no one standing alongside you has read them. They are there to demand respect for their newly minted identities.
> There´s one scientist that predicted this development perfectly, Geert Vanden Bosschen. He´s the only one so far that has made correct predictions in this pandemic. He said that mass-vaccinating during ongoing pandemic will result in rising numbers of cases among fully vaccinated people a couple of months after vaccination,

No, its not one scientist who got that right; this was widely flagged that as a likely outcome if the deployment was not so rapid and universal as to essentially curtail significant community spread before that occurred, which is why there was so much imperative from experts for rapid and universal deployment and so much criticism of the slow speed and uneveness of the actual deployment.

> He also warns strongly against vaccinating children.

Given the reason for the other risk (which isn’t “vaccination” but “incomplete vaccination which leaves an large unvaccinated population in contact with the vaccinated population”) that seems.

> But he praises the new vaccine technology, so he´s not antivaxx.

Supporting vaccination in the abstract but arguing that we shouldn’t actually vaccinate people with the actual real vaccines that exist in the actual real circumstances that exist is…not an uncommon antivax position, so, while the conclusion of this argument might still be true, the premise offered is not sufficient to justify the conclusion.
I didn't say otherwise? The comment I replied to said:

> there will not be derivative works of closed source at least from a copilot use case point of view.

which is inaccurate, since many public repositories on Github aren't open source and ended up in Copilot's training corpus anyway.
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I am on my third Tesla and service/repairs remain the only reason why I would consider another type of car. While there are many hard working employees at my local Tesla garage, they simply don’t have the tools or training to provide a good service experience. My Ford dealer treats me better, and actually picks up the phone.
I believe this to be actionable enough that the decision to take it or not should remain an individual decision and I believe that is the extend what people demand. Nobody is talking about throwing it off the market because it isn't deemed safe.
I've been at my current company for three years and literally every woman who has taken maternity leave has left the company shortly after returning. Some don't even return at all. It would be disastrous if men did this too.
> The TinyPico is more like 20 microamps

How does this compare to other ESP boards that are made for low power consumption?
Please note that this is an art project and not a serious invention.