skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This classic of his taught me much about rendering: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

However, if we're going to talk about actual genius, no one even comes close to Eric Veach; he's like the von Neumann of rendering. Fun bit of trivia: after he finished completely revolutionising all of rendering with his PhD thesis[0], he went on to develop a little thing called AdWords.

[0] Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation - https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/
Ok, I respectfully understand where you're coming from, and I've struggled with gambling addiction myself. I personally do not think it's immoral to offer games of chance to people, as long as they understand the odds and you're not cheating them. And believe me, running a small online casino mostly by myself with my own bankroll was literally setting alarms all night waking me up when someone was killing the tables and potentially going to bankrupt me. I got to know my big players (most of whom went on to become Bitcoin millionaires, since the early adopters were the only ones gambling on Bitcoin casinos in 2011)... but beyond that, I really don't think offering gambling is immoral as long as everyone knows what they're signing up for. I've dealt cards for a living, too. I don't drive a taxi anymore. But I've seen all sides of life. I don't think you can judge so easily. Yeah, big corporations suck and they screw people into debt, and gambling addiction does ruin peoples' lives, but I knew my players, and I don't think what I did personally hurt anybody. They came together to enjoy games, and yeah it was for real money, but it was also a community and they were there for fun - they could have gambled for a lot more money on other sites. One player built a puzzle in his escape room in Amsterdam in honor of / based on a game I designed. Like a bar, this is something people do for enjoyment, and you don't need to stand out there with a sign saying we're all going to hell. But I do get it and I'm not a fan of the companies that take advantage of human weakness and shake the dimes out of people's pockets. I was just trying to have a good time and give other people a good time.

Total profit from 2 years running the site? About $50k. It was a hobby. I never quit my job. I also turned away 95% of the hits because they were coming from America.

[edit] I should add that I strongly advised other BTC site owners, especially casino owners, to follow certain guidelines, and watched one of them who I had told to be careful launch, make about $1M with one game on a crappy website, and get jailed within a year. That wasn't the trajectory I was interested in.
> Is anyone working on an "email like" app that runs on Signal?

That is unlikely to ever happen as Signal doesn't allow any kind of third party clients. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

That said Matrix does lend itself to this. It's also worth noting one of the major VCs (Notion) that funded that has an interest in other email companies. So who knows maybe we will see an email message client based on Matrix protocol.

It certainly would be an improvement on relying on systems such as PGP and allow universal E2EE, but also E2EE to the border (required for many government/corporate) situations where auditing is required.

> I'm struggling to figure out what comes after ProtonMail. It's clearly an evolutionary dead end but what succeeds it?

Likely nothing. Many people that use services like this don't require anonymity. For that the threat model is absolutely fine. People seem to forget this page has existed literally since 2014: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/

I think people have blown this case out of proportion without really having any facts. Minimal details are actually known the nature of what the criminal charges are about.

There hasn't been any public verified information (court documents etc) pertaining to why the request was made. The most ProtonMail has said is that it was a judicial request made in Swizterland, and there was no avenue to appeal the request.

Media latched on to sensationalist phrases like "climate activist" and "squatter" and those things in itself don't actually tell us very much about the nature of the charges and evidence against the suspect. Those things may not even be the reason the request was made.
Nobody should force "most liked" music on you, but it's a nice option.
I liked it but then I went to the Server's page and saw it's filled with Communist symbols, got terrified and closed it :(
Apparently the demo doesn't work on Firefox 92 incognito mode, so.
Public facing SMTP, Tor hidden service for IMAP, all on a VPS and domain paid for with tumbled cc? Unless you worry about your ISP knowing you use Tor (there are some ways around that, kinda), I can't imagine how they'd DA you.

E: ... aside from some sort of Tor-based attack, of course.
Although I'm not a fan of the SEC or regulators in general, I can appreciate how this falls under their purview. However, "Lend" is probably the least concerning thing about Coinbase in my view.

The process by which they list or decline to list altcoins on their platform is more troubling.
Signed integral operations are often faster too, since the well-definedness of unsigned overflow can require additional instructions esp. if the width of the unsigned integral is not the same as the architecture word width.
Well, not exponentially, it is still just a power law.

But I agree that taxes should be damage-based. Tax those lorries to hell, if they want lower taxes, they should buy one with more axles and more tires per axle.
I don't care what Linus thinks, I also happen to disagree with him in regards to C++ and NVidia.

> If you can reason with -O0 you can take it that your code will remain correct in later levels.

Unless you happen to be a Jedi master in UB performance optimizations, auto-vectorization, OMP, out of line code execution, I very much doubt that.
Your "Wells Fargo Bucks" aren't classified as securities because Wells Fargo is a regulated bank (with all of the restrictions and protections that come with that). Coinbase is not a bank. It is as simple as that. This is really more like buying a corporate bond (which is a security) rather than putting a money in a savings account.
Can you give an example of a worthwhile flagged post? I have read the ones that were part of threads where I found some value in the discourse, but I've never come away from that activity without feeling like I wasted my time (usually because it's nazism or crank theories, not because it's spam).
I would also bet they may have handed out some select information but it just hasn't "hit the news". I would say cock.li is certainly big enough that someone has used it in a criminal matter eg child pornography, bomb threats etc.

With email it's either that or they go after wherever you're hosting from.
I mean, what else were they considering if not implementation efficiency? It's not hard to come up with some representation for floating point numbers if you don't have to be concerned with efficiency.
Disinformation-for-hire in Kenya
Sometimes you want to find an answer to a specific question (e.g. you want to buy something, or trying to figure why something doesn't work as intended) that likely exists somewhere in the deep corners of reddit, in which case embracing the new redesign is signing off on torturing yourself.

It's no longer enjoyable for procrastination though, agreed.
You can use steganography by only using the least significant bit in an image, so it's not visually detectable that the image has a website in it. With compression it would be completely undetectable.
Yeah, and they told us the contact-tracing databases would only be used for public health purposes. The only way to ensure privacy is to never collect the data.
So basically, you have no in the wild exploit that you can have me load up on my phone and have it become compromised. Got it.

Thanks for proving my point.
Then you should be able to provide an actual link of an in the wild exploit.
AI Dungeon?
The site is not available in your country.

Bypass:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210902052154/https://www.virgi...
Not really? Sort of? I don't really have a good answer here. It depends on what you mean by "due to". It's certainly due to the impulse response, since in the sense I meant "far worse" the impulse response is the only thing that matters.

Truncating the impulse response after five time constants wouldn't really change its output noticeably, and even if you truncated it after two or three time constants it would still be inferior to the box filter for this application, though less bad. So in that sense the problem isn't that it's infinite.

Likewise, you could certainly design a direct-form IIR filter that did a perfectly adequate job of approximating a box filter for this sort of application, and that might actually be a reasonable thing to do if you wanted to do something like this with a bunch of op-amps or microwave passives instead of code.

So the fact that the impulse response is infinite is neither necessary nor sufficient for the problem.

The problem with the simple single-pole filter is that by putting so much weight on very recent samples, you sort of throw away some information about samples that aren't quite so recent and become more vulnerable to false triggering from a single rapid mouse movement, so you have to set the threshold higher to compensate.
The Matrix Resurrections unveils thousands of video teasers
The cargo command clashed with logistics software installed on my computer.
Bitcoin’s first day as El Salvador’s legal tender
It feels like to me these teasers are generated by GPT-3?
Engineers think of Earth as an automaton, while it is a living being, the day we start seeing Earth as a living being with living organs is the day we will get in phase with its needs which are ultimately ours.
Tactically, the SEC is doing the right thing. The law is Howey, not whatever justification for prosecution the SEC offers. Coinbase is trying to solicit from the SEC a different legal standard from Howey that Coinbase then can then divide by half, quibble over, nitpick, or whatever, all for the purpose of undermining the regulator and hamstringing the prosecution. It's a silly lawyer trick to gain ... American football analogy ... a step in a footrace with the regulator ... which might allow Coinbase to delay or blunt the complete spectrum of consequences that would follow from a wilfull, knowing, and intentional violation of securities law.

It's chess, and a version that lawyers generally don't play on such a large and open stage. The fact that Coinbase has chosen to do so looks like a 'caution' flag raising the question in my mind of why they would feel the need to do this. And to some extent I'm speculating.
it's difficult not to reply sarcastically to this but - how about the Move bombing - 1981.

oh wait, that was local government. So how about the anti-war movement in the late 1960s, closer, but not much closer.

Before I go further though I start to wonder about your requirements, I mean from where I'm sitting it is a 'commonly' understood thing that the anti-war movements in the U.S are often targeted for investigation and attack by government agents, but for every commonly understood thing there are people that do not agree for some reason that the thing that is the common understanding of the situation is correct.

So - before continuing - what is your position on the Chicago 7 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven)? Was there a conspiracy by the American government there or not? If there was then I have given an example even though not so far after McCarthyism was done, but more importantly if we can agree that there was then it is pretty easy to keep coming with examples over the years. If your opinion was there was not - but McCarthyism I take it was a bad thing in your book - what aspects of McCarthyism is needed to make an example you would find acceptable but would leave the Chicago 7 out?

on edit: of course my point with the Move bombing is that local government also counts in the U.S, although I suspect you would disagree otherwise there's lots of cops killing citizens and taking their property all over the country for you to choose from.
Based on what examples?
This is fantastic, I was always intrigued if it would be possible to create a similar effect using actual code from Github rather than glyphs.
I must've overlooked your reply before, so apologies for answering so late.

The only thing "in my head" is my voice. So no images, smell, touch, music, and such.

For context, I think I have aphantasia [1], altough not tested in a clinical setting (MRI or something like that)

Of course I am willing to answer any questions you have, hopefully in a timely manner this time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
I believe huggingface mostly subsist on investments and the amount they earn directly is still pretty small compared to expenses, is that no longer the case?
In my head, JWST was a NASA project (James Webb was an early director of NASA, during its formative years). I had completely blanked the fact that it's an international project, sorry!
Taiwan isn't a part of China, therefore it's not internal by definition. Of course the CCP doesn't like that, but it's a fact that won't be changed by just harassing media for showing the correct map.
How good is Apple at Machine Learning though?
Oh wow, that is impressive. I did not know we where here yet :0 Thanks for sharing.
3 megs!? That won’t even fit on two of my floppy disks
It's silly to think your kids will do as you say rather than what you do.
How to Change the Taskbar Size in Windows 11
regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

TaskbarSi

0 is for the small taskbar
1 for normal size (default)
2 for the big taskbar
This. The like button all too often acts like the "echo chamber": you're going to go around in circles. Writing a good recommendation system is very hard, and it gets harder as the number of users grows (because primitive algorithms will get more and more certain of their predictions, and diverge less and less from the favorites).

Anyway, the service is called loc "serendipity".
…or we could simply stop emitting greenhouse gases. Like, right now.
I re-read a bunch of Ben Franklin this past year. It’s hard to overstate just how fortunate the US was to have foundation-builders who could think so clearly. After reading the founders, watching anything on CSPAN is just depressing.

Warren Buffett famously quipped that he looks for companies with a system that could be successfully helmed by a monkey, because eventually, a monkey will be at the helm. I think the founding fathers thought the same way, and attempted to set up such a system.

We’ll see how long it can last with monkeys at the helm.
I am a developer, I can guess what site needs JS, like payment sites, sites that are actually SPAs. Check all submissions from HN and let me know how many have forms , load fine without JS and don't complain that JS is off and then fail on submit?

It is easy because I don't get popups for cookies, for allowing location access, no fancy scroll effects , I also disabled animated GIFs.

If you are a webdev and you don't work on an SPA but for some reason you site is half broken with JS off then use the standards and put a message that informs the user that JS is required.

I would not setup this to some random person computer, ad blockers too can screw with shopping carts and some websites also beg to stop the ad blocker , so I would not install ad blockers too any random person either, but here on HN JS off by default is a good advice, most should understand that if page is blank or some button does nothing then it might be a JS related issue.
I don't remember offhand. I think bandwidth costs averaged about $40-50 out of that ~$200/month.
Pedagogy means 'methods of teaching'. Pedagogical development means that there is a some body of knowledge around how to teach the skills of the domain. For instance, in tennis, there is some understanding of how to teach serves, and a coach may be able to break down your technique into subskills and assign you specific exercises that are known (have been developed) to work on building those subskills, before building it back up to the full serve.

This body of knowledge is built up over time, usually through trial and error. It is then passed from coach to player and coach to coach.

The dirty little secret of DP is that it cannot be done in domains where no good pedagogical development exists. This is a definitional thing. You may read more about it in Peak, Ericsson's popular science book on the topic (summary: https://commoncog.com/blog/peak-book-summary/)

I want to repeat this, so it is very clear: you cannot do DP in a domain where there is no good pedagogical development.

So: rock music, jazz, some aspects of computer programming, software architecture, marketing, leadership, management — all of these are domains with under-developed pedagogical development. Don't get me wrong — there are experts in all of these domains. But they got there through trial and error and reflection, not DP (see: cognitive transformation theory for an explanation of how that occurs here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-hard-thing-about-learning-fro...)

If you want to do DP, you would have to come up with training techniques for all of these skills, and test them over a long period of time. In other words, you would have to do pedagogical development yourself before you can do DP.

One other implication: anyone who says "oh, just go do DP" is likely someone who has not a) looked at the research closely, or b) not actually tried to put it to practice.

Applying DP is a lot harder than you might think.

Anyway, once you understand this, you may now pursue two different lines of inquiry:

- How do good coaches do pedagogical development? I recommend John Danaher to give you a taste: https://youtu.be/ktuw6Ow4sd0?t=2396 (on developing new techniques) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktuw6Ow4sd0&t=6211s (on his creation of the leg-lock system)

- How do you develop training without pedagogical development. And for that I recommend my tacit knowledge series (https://commoncog.com/blog/the-tacit-knowledge-series/) and my summary of Accelerated Expertise (https://commoncog.com/blog/accelerated-expertise/)
nice. Reminds me of an semi popular image hoster which executed PHP code embedded as an EXIF comment >10 years ago. Fun times.
Yeah, that's like setting up a casino in one location with a permanent phone line open to switzerland to ask where the ball landed on the roulette wheels. Doesn't seem like it would hold up under scrutiny.
Unsafe does not do that; mostly unsafe allows to dereference pointers, but does not disable the type system.

Borrowing rules are still enforced (eg you cannot write with a read-only pointer)
Although you are of course correct that it is defined as post-covid exposure, I guess their more general point is that we don't talk about things like 'Long Flu', 'Long Cancer' or 'Long Diarrhoea' as a particular 'illness'.

Instead we generally talk about specific symptoms after recovery from these things (e.g. We would say there are long-term effects of cancer and that specific person has Post Cancer Fatigue, rather than just saying someone has 'long cancer'), or specific effects that the illness has (e.g. impact of severe childhood diohreah on growth) which seems more useful than bundling it all together into one 'thing' which covers completely different impacts (e.g. long term taste loss, tinnitus and fatigue).

Just calling it long covid seems to make it seem like something special/different, while in reality plenty of illnesses have long term health impacts and ongoing symptoms. It doesn't mean that there isn't cause for concern - but I don't necessarily see why we should make the language of Covid different to other illnesses (other than for PR purposes).
A good chunk of the civil forfiture cases?
Most of the times the more interesting question is not really how to make a server that can handle 4.2M requests a day, but how to make something so useful that it gets more than 100 pageviews a day.
I'm at the age where a lot of friends are beginning to buy (in Melbourne). There's basically two classes: the people buying houses in the outer-inner-suburbs that would still be vastly outside their price range without massive help from both sets of parents; these buyers are unfailingly couples. And second, single friends buying without parental assistance, but buying off the plan apartments not much closer to the city but which at least offer a deposit low enough for someone to get on the property ladder. One is taking on a lot more risk than the other to enter the market.
Yeah, plus they're practically the only country that hasn't had serious government threatening civil unrest for 160 years and they still brag about guns.

Heck, the only real recent unrest of that magnitude, the takeover of Capitol, was without guns as far as I remember. As in, no standoff.
I am/was a huge fan and have done their courses but they've made so many weird decisions (like going all in on swift4tf for teaching newish people so early on or the dramas they involve themselves in) and have stopped doing as much that I'm not sure if they are as great of a current example anymore (but maybe they'll resurface stronger).

Huggingface are a better example closer to what Cohere do.
> The best C++ standard spectacular failure example is Concepts. 15 years and thousands of man years invested in designing Concepts, a feature whose main goal is to improve template error messages. Turns out, concepts actually make template error messages worse. They aren't completely useless, but still... who would have thought, right? Well, turns out that every standard that was standardizing standard practice would have... known this... you know... from actual experience...

I generally agree with your posts but concepts have definitely improved my code, I would never in a lifetime go back to SFINAE trickeries.
LOL I feel like they'd use even more line breaks than that.
Ah, kids these days. So I guess by "webserver" grandparent meant "A server you actually control", and by "not webserver" people mean "It's on the cloud somewhere".

GH/GL-pages still respond to HTTP/HTTPS requests, in my dictionary that's a webserver, but I guess for the millennials (I say with snark) it means "I don't have to think about what happens, it just serves my content for me."
So he is an evil genius.
Why do people constantly cite legal fees to make a point or pour a foundation for another argument? That’s not the first time I’ve read a statement like that and it’s just a baffling thing to say. I’ve never heard “I’ve paid a lot of doctors so you should hear me out on ...”, oh, wait, yes I have.

“My attorney will be in touch,” too, like, you want to generate billable time for yourself to effectuate a threat to threaten me? Never understood it. Cool?
Guide to Generalized Additive Model(GAM) to Improve Simple Linear Regression
I agree that citing evidence/sources to back up the quite damning assertions made on that point would have improved it.

Can I ask what you feel he gets most wrong here, and what did he miss?