skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These shaders are *.bin resources embedded in dwmcore.dll.

This tool can extract https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/resources_extract.html Then, cmd_decompiler.exe from there https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto can either disassemble or decompile these binaries.

The pixel shaders there include both ps_4_0 code for new GPUs, and ps_2_0 for running on DirectX 9 GPUs. This makes the disassembler slightly more useful than the decompiler, the *.asm will contain both programs.

They first sample from 4 locations of the source texture. The sample locations are computed by vertex shaders somehow, and passed in TEXCOORD1 and TEXCOORD2 input registers. 2D sampler needs 2 floats for UV on input, texture coordinate vectors have up to 4 components on GPUs, so they’re packing 4 2D vectors into two 4D ones, and using xy and zw slices of these vectors. Because they probably using bilinear sampling (these are setup by CPU-running code, I have not looked), these 4 sample instructions are actually reading from 16 texels of the source texture.

Then, they compute the average of the 4 colors.

At this stage, they’re using pre-multiplied alpha.

For the next step of the pixel shader, they compare alpha with zero. If not zero, they convert the color to straight alpha, apply this formula https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/srgbformula/ to convert from sRGB to linear, then convert back to pre-multiplied alpha.

For the last step, they’re applying linear transformation to the color using input values passed in the constant buffer. This part varies a lot for different shaders. Some shaders only using a single scalar constant, and returning (alpha.wwww*result)^2 color. Other shaders are using 4x5 transformation matrix in the constant buffer to transform the final color.

P.S. There’re 282 compiled pixel shaders there, and I only looked at a few of them. It’s very possible some other ones are doing something completely different. I think Microsoft compiled them from just a few source *.hlsl files, with different preprocessor macros. At least that’s how I would do that if I were implementing these effects.
Computers Are the Easy Part
One thing you could try to solve is coordinated revival of abandoned projects - i.e. extending your model to support unsolicited takeover of projects, in the case of a maintainer's having walked away.

For example, I use a javascript library that's best in class for what it does, and yet hasn't had any real commits from its maintainer since 2016. There are 50 pull requests open, some of which fix significant bugs, or add good new features. There are literally 2000 forks of the library, some of which are published on npm but are themselves unmaintained, and almost none of which link back to the actual fork's code from npm. It's a mess, and I bet it's a situation repeated hundreds of times over.

If you were to figure out a workflow by which a maintenance team could form on your platform, and then a) the existing maintainer is pinged to request that they add the team, falling back to b) making it easy for the new team to fork and adopt existing pull requests while supporting them through initial team-forming by laying out a workflow for assigning needed-roles, then I think you'd have a valuable platform.

The key thing is ensuring there's a large enough team to start, so that yet another fork doesn't die on the vine, so maybe think about a(n old) reddit link type interface where people can link to, vote on, and volunteer for projects, with no work needed until there's critical mass and the platform moves the project forward.
Are you suggesting most other places, including those with counted paper ballots, don’t have multiple offices to elect at election time?
for eth - just wait?
I don't think this is really the case.

A quick search will show you a number of places Scheme is used in real software such as in gdb, gimp, etc. See also the work Cisco has supported in Chez Scheme.

I don't think it will ever be as popular as Ruby, Python or JavaScript but it's a very simple language to implement and use as a scripting language so I see it continuing to be a reasonable choice in some environments.
Yeah, more like 20 (19 CHF/h). Switzerland is expensive, and Starbucks ensures that their prices reflect that -- "caramel frappuccino" is 8.90 CHF for the big bucket of a cup they have, while the same thing in the US is what, 5? They could easily pay their employees more if they wanted, but they don't and then talk about this "partner fair ethical something something" bullshit. Like I said, there are plenty of fast food/coffee joints here that do pay their employees well.

Re. the pregnant part, I confirmed and it was not technically firing, just not renewing the contract upon learning.
I consider atheism, in the sense of asserting there is no God, to be a religion[1], so maybe it doesnt matter.

[1]they've taken an unanswerable question and provided a faith based answer.
Companies that required employees to work in the office, who otherwise can work from home should be heavily taxed. Taxed for generating necessary emissions.
You also fail to mention that not everybody is driven by money. Russian engineer and scientist knew pretty well that they could get better life conditions in the US for example, yet they decided to live their life in Russia.

These are personal choice beyond what me or you think about, need to be respected.

So said, many researcher today are paid very little and they could get a better pay in private sector yet they don't bother to.
Any recommended IRC channels?
Great app!! Loved it
Says the teacher who counts the days to their summer vacation.
Thanks for the usefull and very professional feebback.
I agree, the overly complex use of machines, followed by closed door counting, lends it self too much to impropriety. I think America has mostly honest elections, but after last year‘s election I am… Uneasy about the whole system. Simple is better.
Hmm, that's an interesting idea, thanks. Given that finding one maintainer is already hard, though, I think finding a team would be almost impossible...
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It's basically a pointless publicity stunt. The law in question provides a hole for private companies to allow them to scan for child molestation materials, allowing Apple and similar to do what they were intending on doing anyway.

There was a pressure to pass something quickly for whatever reason (I'm sure has nothing to do with Silicon Valley lobbyists), it's "legally flawed" and it will crumble in front of the court.

It's a performance for the sake of the performance. European MPs pretend that they're doing something about the problem without ever even beginning to address it, fully aware that courts will undo their "effort", at which point they'd be like "oh well, we did our part".
Why This Rocket Went Sideways Off the Launch Pad
I can't help you conceptualize these specific problems but having worked on similar problems in the past I'd advise you to look into ordinary differential equations applied to those systems. They're used a lot for modelling in medical science and even if you're not interested in the dynamics of it they might lead you to the relevant literature for your problems and will address the parameters you're interested in and how they relate to each others.
Grateful for your support :)
Also, if things do move this far away from the original vision -- and it can happen especially in a start-up -- that's a rare case where "total rewrite" is a valid software engineering strategy that can deliver benefits out-weighing its cost.

I've done a few total rewrites now, and the only one I am sure was a good idea was for this reason (DPX, the Java re-implementation of Garlik's core software before it was purchased by Experian Consumer Services many years ago).
"The revolution won’t happen by people staying home and being good."

A wise quote from the article
This was very helpful, thank you so much!
Ah yes. The conspiracy theorists really showed us! Next, proud boys and Q will team up to buy a pizza place, kidnap a bunch of kids, and create a kid prostitution ring.
>And that someone, who is not the general public, should have access to the passwords. How is that better?

I'm not in favor of electronic voting either. There was a clear thing covered in this inspection that needs to be hidden. Whether that makes for a good election system is a separate matter.
Gorillas specifically seek out salty foods.

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.369539...
To me this is proof that infinity is something only present in our math and not in the universe.

Infinity is a nice approximation but it feels like wishful thinking that our universe or anything in it is infinite.

Happy to hear disagreements tho.
> with rear exhaust temperatures around 3 to 5 degrees higher

Is that C or F? I'm going to assume Fahrenheit. Also, is that bad? In other words, did they measure the rest of the unit to see if it was hotter or cooler? Maybe they've directed more heat to the exhaust. Which is the whole point, after all.
Your entire 'real truth' doesn't even deal with the fact that many people can use substances without addiction, but some people absolutely cannot. So by your truth anyone who becomes an addict is weak.

I see a moral failing here.
ethics is rarely a matter of knowledge.

Can character be taught?
The UK has a similar system. You are required to go to a specific place to vote but these are normally very local and just for your neighbourhood, e.g. in the local school or church hall. My last three polling stations have been 0.1, 0.6 and 0.2 miles away.

There are 35k polling stations for 47m voters so each station has to process only ~1,300 voters in 15 hours. Queueing is unusual in my experience. Postal votes and voting by proxy are also options.
Anecdote, but I and friends at other workplaces keep being told that we need to the return to the office for "company culture" - which is something I am not sure exists, or anyone other than management seems to be concerned with.
https://www.breaker.audio/
I think many people saw this coming, but she would place all the blame on him, and claim she was just an innocent young woman who was taken advantage of.
ok, maybe not everything has been discovered about this, because how come my summer diet of only figs, tomatoes and some leafy greens doesn't cause any b12 deficiency symptoms? (as listed here https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamin-b12-or-folate-deficien...)

but I'm not at all a vegan, it's just that currently there is an abundance of figs around, and why not use those calories. I may consume a fish later in the year, but I'd be curious to understand why some people suffer from b12 deficiency, and some others apparently don't
It must be nice to be able to focus on the one thing you are really good at, and make enough money with it so you can spend money to get help at all the other aspects of life.

That’s why it often bothers me when celebrity mothers talk about life balance in talk shows and get admired for it. This is much easier to achieve if you can afford nannies, cooks and cleaners.

In general, be wary of life advice from wealth people. Their advice often doesn’t apply to the average guy.
An old set DOS C code snippets
With the voting mechanism, you wouldn't necessarily need to form a team all at once. Maybe it takes 6 months for enough people to click the "I'd participate" button on a popular project. Granted, half of them might drop out when the project graduates...but if you can try to stake the ground of "the place to suggest and coordinate forks" then at least people who were interested might find it over time.
How close are you to solving that ? And please would you share your progress :)
All notes are stored locally by using IndexedDB.

Proof : https://github.com/altilunium/rtnf2/blob/main/index.html
Discord definitely competes with Slack. But it’s in mindshare not customers. Slack targets businesses and the server owner pays, Discord seems allergic to the notion of a more “serious” product and it’s revenue comes from individuals paying a subscription for a bundle of extras that individuals can use in multiple servers across the entirety of Discord.

Discord is competing with Skype indirectly, users communicating via voice chat in a private Discord server may have previously used Skype and represent a loss of users for Skype, but at the same time Discord and Skype are targeting their customers differently enough that I don’t see them as “fishing in the same stream” to use an analogy.

Facebook Messenger is competing with Discord because it’s always there, if you have Facebook you have Facebook Messenger, “why use something else?” … Facebook are trying to be good enough to keep users active in their apps instead of any one else’s. Discord are trying to be better at group chat use cases but I don’t see the same focus on direct message style chat between individuals in Discord as I see when watching people use Facebook Messenger.
The stray presumably can’t unlock and open house doors, which would imply theirs are outside at times.
It was intentionally negative — Evans is the guy discovering the smaller heatsink; not Sony PR.

The full quote is “I don’t think there’s any argument that this is a worse console, at least for thermals and for cooling,” says Evans. “As far as I’m concerned I’d rather have a launch PS5.”
Max Tegmark covers this in Our Mathematical Universe.

It's a question of definitions. He makes the argument that defining "universe" to mean "our visible universe", that is, a radius of around 140B ly, is the most useful; if you assume infinite space and infinite matter (which seem to follow from the theory of inflation, which has provided explanations and predictions elsewhere), there are likely infinitely many universes all around following this definition (for other visibility scopes).
Easy to remember shortlink version https://s.id/rtnf2
The article mentions the "final parsec problem," which implies that a binary pair will never merge. A three-body arrangement is one scenario where a merger can take place.

"Gravitational waves can cause significant loss of orbital energy, but not until the separation shrinks to a much smaller value, roughly 0.01–0.001 parsec."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_black_hole#Final_parsec...
Thank you.

And to be clear, it definitely isn't meant literally - I'd apply the same logic to above poster: He's welcome to post here because he wants to and the community allows it.
Max Tegmark covers this in Our Mathematical Universe.

It's a question of definitions. He makes the argument that defining "universe" to mean "our visible universe", that is, a radius of around 14B ly, is the most useful; if you assume infinite space and infinite matter (which seem to follow from the theory of inflation, which has provided explanations and predictions elsewhere), there are likely infinitely many universes all around following this definition (for other visibility scopes).
The same reasoning would imply pure fructose is a better option. Or that eating a potato is worse.
>What it means for every scientific hypothesis: it takes infinite amount of evidence to positively prove it, but it takes one counterexample to kill it. +/- the usual uncertainty caveats.

Only in such soft sciences you can "prove" any number of competing hypothesis, and have fractions arguing about them for decades or centuries. And whether a "counter example" is valid and "kills" a theory, will be a matter of interpretation and endlessly debated as well.

>It would mean that you can't think about some concepts without first extending the language to support them. Languages still could be extended piece by piece.

If you can always extend a language to new concepts, the language is not limiting in the strong SWH sense. If it was it would be impossible to reach those concepts from a reduced set of concepts.
That's not really what most atheists are in practice. I just live my life without ever even thinking about religion, except when someone tries to use theirs to take my right to marry away. It does not factor into my daily life at all. Literally life without theism.

You might call that agnostic, but in my mind that's just a euphemism for atheist.
I'm god, as far as you are concerned. Leave others alone. Get back to work or after a severe beating I will work you to death in my mines.
This only applies to gnostic atheism. An agnostic atheist like me admits to not knowing if $DEITY exists but does not believe in the absence of compelling evidence.
What do you define as "standard" on Android when fragmentation is literally the defining point of Android?

Bit of a broad stroke anyway.
They may be referring to the fact that the two parties will often join forces to protect the status quo. Where you see support for things like ranked choice voting, or easier ballot access for third parties, you see less support from the established party leaders because the status quo is their best case scenario. It's all about democracy as long as you have the majority.

While in actual votes the parties may differ, in principle I often fail to see any clear difference in philosophy. Someone running against the incumbent will slam them for abuse of executive orders and support for the Patriot Act. Then they'll get in office and sign a renewal of the Patriot Act and issue more executive orders than their predecessor. In that way I see them as a uniparty on many issues.

In other ways Republicans are just anti-Democrats and Democrats are just anti-Republicans. They seem to use the same arguments on different issues depending on what happens to suit them or what politician they're defending. I've seen Republicans slam Biden for his failure in Afghanistan and failing to get Afghan nationals that helped the US military evacuated. But watch them do a 180 as soon as any of those Afghans arrive here. Which party believes you have absolute autonomy over your own medical decisions and that doctors need to treat you according to your own wishes? Well it depends on the treatment we're discussing. It doesn't depend on any consistent principle.

Call it a uniparty or not - I just don't trust either to be sincere about any democratic principles anymore.
I'd say the same for weekends as well. On weekends where I live, hiking, skiing, etc. become unbearably busy. I'm lucky to have a flexible work situation so I do those things on weekdays and then work on a weekend day.
One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List
So you are virtually underground...kind of like some religious groups persecuted in countries (Hindus in Pakistan, Christians in China under the CCP).

Agree, that this is the best strategy for now. The good news is, like everything else, the "woke" religion is also impermanent.
> These are three instructions to the computer, with semicolons in between. Now, what about that red
semicolon at the end? If the language is Java, C, or C++, that semicolon is required. If it’s Perl, Pascal, or
PL/I, that semicolon is forbidden. Not exactly easy to learn

In my mind the logical way to view this is that semantically some languages use ";" as a statement terminator:

S1; S2;

This is executing S1 followed by S2. In this case ";" is purely syntactic, it has no semantic meaning beyond telling the interpreter/compiler where a statement's procedure text ends.

The other way is using ";" as a statement compositor:

S1; S2

This is defining a single compound statement whose semantics are the same as executing S1 followed by S2. In this case ";" has semantic meaning.

Of course, practically speaking most languages kind of just conflate the two. For example the first way could have syntactic sugar allowing the final statement terminator to be elided. Similarly, the second way could have a trailing ";" and it could just mean compose on a NoOp. And when it comes to actually executing the code both will probably run very similar processes. But I personally find the latter conceptual framework more aesthetically pleasing.

It looks like the Snap developers share my view that semantics is way more interesting than syntax.
Reported road casualties Great Britain, provisional results: 2020
Harvard Medical School:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-you-be-ov...

UCSF:

https://generalsurgery.ucsf.edu/conditions--procedures/healt...
Are you talking about an RFID cat flap? They’re quite common
It may be a truism but a lot of people still pursue happiness in their job.

My focus has always been my family and instead of flying them everywhere (that did happen once though: I had to do a client on-site and I said “either my family comes with me or I don’t go. There are many jobs but I only have one family”, and they flew us all in), I’ve consistently chosen remote jobs with no mandatory travel instead of the slightly better paying option with “relocation package”, or frequent traveling.

I’m aware I’m lucky as lots of people don’t have that choice, but I think in my industry (IT) a lot of people maximize for career progress when there’s plenty of good-paying family-friendly opportunities too.
Ah, indeed: https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS
Is this a software problem? There are a lot of open sources (with their differences) platforms. From old forums, to more modern, etc. I think the problem is that people don't want or don't know how to use a forum.

This is based in my experience:

- Old people: They started to use internet recently so they are used to social networks (Facebook, Instagram), and newspapers websites.

- Young people: Hard to make them use the browser, if there isn't an app (Instagram, TikTok), you are lost. If they want to discuss a topic, mostly Twitter through hashtags, YouTubers or Discord.

- Adult people: This is where some of them may use a forum, but you have to be lucky enough to find adult people who use internet many years ago, and they know what is a forum. If you find a 30 or 40 years old who started to use internet 5 years ago (which happens), you are lost.

And on top of that, you need to compete against Reddit and their own subreddits.

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Remember that this guy already has had British citizenship, but he decided to immigrate to Germany despite the language barrier and not being a citizen.
Once I took screenshot of colleague's win desktop screen, replaced with current current wallpaper, and hid all the desktop icons and taskbar.
He legit got confused why mouse left click isn't working expectedly.
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I suspect that lower average nitric oxide levels are one of several factors behind the increase in hypertension rates. Nitric oxide is a vasodilator. Production is stimulated by sunlight exposure and exercise. Generally people are spending less time being active outdoors.