skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people trying to point out that this falls short of photorealism are missing the point. This is a tech demo aiming to show off the next generation leap unreal engine 5 is making. There’s lots to be impressed about here and this was made using a ton of procedural generation using a team of just about 70 people.

Here’s a great deep dive into some of the new technologies that highlights the strengths and weaknesses of some of the new engine tools: https://youtu.be/ib6_c6uliLg

This is extremely exciting this is possible on a year old console and not a 3090.
Reddit web is incredibly sluggish. I open the app to browse which is a smooth experience (putng aside dark patterns).

Same for Twitter. Maybe it's intentional to move users into the app, where ads are more likely to be actually seen (e.g. Many web users have ad blockers) and in app purchases are frictionless.
> otherwise you'll spend weeks waiting for AWS scripts to manage old files.

Can you elaborate on this part?
Replace 'rent' with 'support. If a commercial company builds on top of software with a license that says 'use at your own risk' then the buck stops with them.

That's why companies buy libraries from other companies that are supported - as in the liability can be passed down the line.
Well, that's dumb, then. I wonder how they'll determine if your subscription has expired.. digital certificate that has an expiry date, and get the current date from GPS satellites?
The nostalgia. Was waiting for a mention of "imagemap" and you delivered!
The metaphor is imperfect. It is a staging area for orders in practice, and people like to be able to use it that way. I often build up a shopping cart on several sites while trying to figure out where is the best place to buy from (especially in cases with a shipping is a large proportion of the overall price) and sometimes this takes me several days.
Last I read it was hosted out of M5 Networks in San Diego. I used to like fairly close to their data center and had considered hosting there at some point, so when I read that Hacker News hosted there it stuck with me.
A big-market sports program is not necessary. Many accredited universities offer sports management and sports marketing degrees, both undergrad and graduate, and most of the ones I just googled are at schools known more for their academics than sports programs.
Presumably this wouldn’t go any better than it did for the Amazon employees when facing a tornado of the strength being talked about in the original post?
The rendered actors look so close to reality but at the same time so obviously artificial...something is just off the mark. How would a cgi expert put it into words?
If you choose to monetize then you probably will end up accepting liability for it as well if it goes wrong. For a lot of open source developers putting a 'use at your own risk' license on the software is easier. Let another company sell/support it if they want. Or build a company around it yourself to offer support.
ICANN can do whatever they want, so they could do things differently for this extension. Wouldn't have to publicly disclose either -- just to the auditors at ICANN who would check yearly that all the IPs that have been mapped have a paper trail showing only solar or renewable energy sources, something of that nature. It's not as impossible as it sounds, especially considering the small number of entities that would do it. Analogous to filing your taxes every year, and we do that just fine.
The general trend afaik has been reactions to certain employers attempting to provide these benefits to parents while their other employees are being left out to dry. I do think it’s unfair for eg a company to provide generous leave to parents and then expect non-parents to pick up the slack; the correct approach here is making these benefits universal and fair by law, so that employers need to both provide these benefits to parents and hire enough workers to pick up slack when they’re away.

Also most of these benefits can’t be provided on a per employer basis, they need to be mandated across City/State/Country for it to have systemic effects on the society at large (eg building more housing or funding school districts better).
Seems like they could have just sold their shares short (assuming they had a brokerage account set up to do that), and then once they finally were able to trade the shares, they could have reconciled.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sellagainstthebox.asp
If you’ve got a bunch of images and your site is running uncached with a clunky CMS behind it, it will probably strain you.

The traffic is usually about 40k uniques over 24 hours. For reference, my uncached site is running on Elixir which is often better without caching.
Natural selection up to this point has prioritized for a good time, not a long time.
The 'these' being referenced here are the Backblaze executables, not your clang executables.
I don't want to have to make accounts on websites just for them to remember what is in my cart for my next visit. I don't like having more accounts, especially if I'm not yet sure if I'm going to buy from them.

Since the site does not know you are leaving, it doesn't have any opportunity to prompt you and ask whether you would like to save your cart (and if it did I would find it pretty annoying)
A lot of it is soft light scattering. Skin is semi translucent and that is really expensive to try to simulate.
So frustrating.

Backup is like an insurance policy - your only interaction with the product is the "front-end" (e.g. "how easy is it to configure and buy what I need"), as opposed to what you're really paying for (the provider's ability to deliver in your time of need).

I worked at a backup company [1] (acquired by Quantum in 2014 [2]) where we built a peer-to-peer storage network. We ran "restore" drills early and often :)

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/company/symform/about/
[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/quantum-corp-acquires...
Technically 23 and Me monetized this as the fun holiday gift for everyone + the reddit thread you post in the aftermath.
Great comment! My message is to the group of OSS maintainers that pick option 3 and then throws a tantrum when it doesn't work. My message is: Option 3 does not work and will never work. Accept it and pick another option.
Yes, online storage services do store a checksum of the files. They can use that internally to periodically scrub their stored data. For example, if S3 has stored 3 copies of your file, they can use the hash to distinguish good and bad copies, and replace bad copies. For erasure-coded services like Backblaze B2, they can reconstruct a file using any 17 of 20 erasure segments, so with a known checksum they can figure out which segment is bad, delete it, and use the other segments to generate a replacement. I was told by Backblaze that they do periodically scrub B2 files.

HashBackup (I'm the author) has a lot of ways to verify backups. For B2 uploads, it generates a SHA1 hash before sending the data, stores that in a local database, sends the data with the hash, B2 generates an independent hash of the data, and compares it to the one HB sent. If there is a mismatch, an upload error occurs and the upload is retried.

On download, B2 sends the data and SHA1 hash (I'm assuming it verifies the hash during erasure reconstruction also), HB generates a SHA1 hash for the received data, verifies it against the SHA1 B2 sent, and verifies it against the SHA1 stored when the file was uploaded.

After the upload, files can be verified by:

- downloading the complete file as above, then verifying every block in the file
- getting the file size and SHA1 hash from B2 and verifying those against the local database (no data download)
- downloading N random samples from each file and verifying the block-level SHA1 for each sample
- downloading a small percentage of the files every day to verify the backup over time (this can be done with whole files or random samples)

If a problem is detected and you have other copies of the backup on another storage service or locally, HashBackup's selftest will fetch all copies of a file to reconstruct the original backup data to correct any errors, then upload the corrected file to all destinations.
It's easy to write code and release it with a 'use at your own risk' license on it.

Offering support and accepting liability for problems with your code isn't fun or easy.
Are there any C++ implementatons that actually heap-allocate temporaries? The only context where I can imagine that happening is an async (as in co_await) function, where all autos might need to be heap-allocated for obvious reasons.

But that aside, it just seems like a very weird choice that would have profound perf implications - to the point of removing pretty much the sole remaining advantage of the language - for no gain whatsoever, since it's not even simpler.

As for non-trivial ctors - at that point you might as well worry that every function call made in pure C code can also heap-allocate, no?
Mine isn’t static fwiw. Just running Elixir w/ Postgres. Elixir usually performs well enough uncached that you need to justify any caching needs.
Yes but on the other hand Hans Rosling described in this book/talks the world population will peak around 2100 with 11 billion people.

The models seems to predict differently..

https://fs.blog/hans-rosling-population-growth/
There is a lot of pop music that take melodies from classical pieces, they sound just like any other pop song. There is more to Schubert, or the Beatles for that matter, than a talent for melody.

By the way, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Johann Strauss, and a few others born after Schubert were at least just as good melodists as Lennon and McCartney.
OK, so what's involved for a YouTube maker to allow their viewers to single-click something that takes them to a payment page for an item in the video? Is that even a thing that is possible? Didn't YouTube remove the ability for videomakers to add clickable hotspots to their videos?
They're not saying the clang are bit by bit identical, but the blackblaze ones.
I'm one, with a node running within arm's reach from me; so make that two I guess
What exactly is your problem with #MeToo?

Like, do you think dumbasses will confuse it with the feminist movement or something? I don't understand.
Babies are funny, my 7 month old is only making noises while breathing in. I wish more of our language had breathing-in based sounds, it could double our information transfer rate!
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Directory+Opus%22+site%3A...

About 190 results
A blog is a great idea, though it probably won't be very interesting. Unless he happens to have adverse reactions (which are rare), there won't be anything to report on except "I still feel fine and I still haven't contracted xyz."

As for the rabies vaccine, I don't think you can just ask for that to be administered -- unless, I suppose, you lie about being bitten by a random animal. As an aside, I have amusing memories of my own rabies vaccine 25 years ago -- a series of injections of thick syrup into my butt.
https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e388...
B2 is, at smaller capacities, cheaper than their Backup offering. You have to implement your own uploader, though. (We pay something like $8.50/month for ~2TB of storage in B2 and the necessary transactions to keep the backup up-to-date with rclone)

Their Backup client is so buggy and unreliable that you're honestly better off just backing up locally, there's less chance of your backups ending up worthless that way.
> Is this article about people not understanding lockouts and conversions between classes of shares?

Taking this question at face value -- if that is the case, it's at least a teaching moment for folks who are in the industry but aren't as financially literate as you seem to expect them to be.
Everyone knew that these people were eager to sell their shares, and they were asking questions in the weeks leading up to the IPO and assured they would get clear instructions before the IPO. But then when they actually tried to sell their shares they were informed that they had the wrong class of shares. Doesn't it seem reasonable to inform them of this at least a couple of days before the IPO? It would have been even better to give them step-by-step instructions on how to convert their shares before the IPO.
Played it on my friend's Xbox One Series X Saturday night, seriously impressive stuff - even if the framerate is a bit stuttery at times and the driving controls are awful.

Disappointing to see there's no PC version (yet) although I hear it's in the works. Would love to put my RTX 3080 to the test.
When I read "Missed their big payday" I assume they've been screwed out of their shares via convertible shares or liquidation preferences.

They didn't get to sell the top on the post-SPAC debut. Their Bs are being converted to As, but it's not as fast as they want. They are missing their maximal payday (assuming BZFD shares don't recover) but there is nothing here about them not getting their shares and being about to sell.
Updated five sites in about a half hour. Ubiquiti was quick to release a patch and move it through the release process.
They don't need to actually win. They just have to be strong enough (or have enough nukes, which both these alliances possess) to make victory too costly for the aggressor. If you're Russia or China, you also have to contend with the possibility that your opponents might actually win. Which would be disastrous for you.

Also this is assuming those countries' current military strength. However, if the US military was weaker, they would probably strengthen significantly. Barring India, they're all rich, technologically advanced, economically developed countries capable of projecting a lot of military power.
It honestly comes off as short sighted from the equity holder perspective. FB also dropped on it's first trading day but look at it now. Most of these people would be better off hodling for a few years.
Every file uploaded is considered an immutable archive. It does not have a version history. So let's say you have 100,000 files you backed up and want to update them and don't want to pay for the storage of the old files. You need to request for a manifest of hashes for all files. This will take a few days to generate then you will be given a json file that is over a gigabyte. Next, you will write a script to delete each file one at a time, rate limited to one request per second. Have fun.
I cross El Camino Real on foot all the time. Yes my nearest section has has 3 lanes in each direction, but it has marked pedestrian crossings with traffic lights and drivers obey the lights. However, I admit, I frequently drive to things in my neighborhood because things are far apart and when you chain a few local errands together it is much faster to drive. Every business has parking nearby so driving is easy.
My origin story was being a nerdy kid interested in how I could turn compute power into magic internet money. Hardly criminal, wouldn't you say?
farm startup to the moon
>As opposed to what language? C? x86 assembly? You may be right, but I was using Ada and Nim as an example, not C. I could have used D as well. Again, the fact that it is written in Rust and not Ada, Nim, or D does not mean that it has less bugs.

Yes, C, the language memcached is written in. The fact that it's written in Rust means that it's more likely to work in the first place because more people are actually using that language in the real world vs. Ada, Nim and D.

>In fact, I would even argue that even if we do a C vs. Rust, it still does not follow that just because it is written in Rust and not C, it has less bugs. There are all sorts of other bugs that could outnumber the memory-related bugs you may have in C. Can you really not see this possibility?

I don't feel like just random googling for the sake of argument - it should be easy to find, there have been many analysis of this kind and pretty much any I've seen concludes the largest source of vulnerabilities have been memory errors (I remember FF, Linux, Microsoft, etc.). So yeah if you want to be pedantic for the sake of argument feel free to keep arguing about the semantics - real world experience motivated initial Rust development and it's gaining adoption in places like cloud provider infrastructure and drivers because people dealing with these issues know what their most common bugs are coming from.
The question is less is someone driving badly but more is someone driving so badly that I think they deserve to risk losing their livelihood.
So the affirmative action policies of South Africa failed because they only benefited the then political elite. That doesn't make affirmative action bad.

This is like saying rain is bad because it only fell on one farm out of a hundred.

> if a Government was serious about addressing historical inequalities then you need to invest in education and skills development.

So you agree that affirmative action can work. Your objection is to the way that the political elite pretended to implement affirmative action for the many while really only being interested in enriching themselves.

> Affirmative action is equality of outcome.

Nonsense. It can be whatever you want it to be. If you gave scholarships to impoverished black kids, that isn't a guarantee of a good outcome. Just that those poor black kids have the same opportunity than the rich whites. Now if you said that n% of all board seats of stock exchange listed companies had to be POC, then that would be equality of outcome.

Just because your South African politicians fucked your country over, doesn't make affirmative action bad.
Hard drives go bad more frequently than tape, and don't actually save you any work if you're making multiple redundant encrypted copies.

I have 26 terabytes on my NAS, so with 2 copies I'd probably use $800 in HDDs? I could swap to a new 10TB HDD every few hours just like a tape, attach group labels just like a tape, it'd have similar speed, and I'd probably write new images to the same HDDs every so often.

The word "just" sounds like you think it's less work, but it sounds the same to me. FWIW, I did roll from HDD to HDD for years, so I'm familiar with the concept.
It’s an interesting idea, but how would you measure happiness? For example coal pollutes, so at first glance maybe coal plants should get a negative happiness index. Then some plants close, and heating costs go up and people get cold because they can’t afford the electric heat in their homes. Are they happier without the coal? Would they be happier with the coal and the pollution? Does this solve the problem in a way that GDP measures can’t?
Whoa - nationalistic flamewar like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

You posted other flamewar comments in this thread too. That's not ok. Please don't do it again.
Not a CGI expert (although I can make a good looking cube in Blender).

"Uncanny valley" is the usual term - https://spectrum.ieee.org/what-is-the-uncanny-valley
Agreed. Maybe he just turned 21.
Looks like a video game... with good graphics.
Honest question: How do you know that FOSS is popular because it is great and not because it cost $0? If FOSS cost the same as the equivalent commercial software would people pick it? I personally don't think so. There is a lot of really buggy crappy FOSS (and commercial) code out there. I don't think one is inherently better than another. It depends on the quality of the team building it.
TFA explains there are no plausible candidate galaxies.
It's not an overstep for the US to say "we get to say how American companies behave". This does not translate to "say what devices are available in every country", though - if Apple China can manufacture iPhone by itself, it's welcome to it. Ditto for the Great Firewall. But if the company profits in US from practices that we consider bad, I don't see what's the problem with cracking down on that company.

More abstractly, corporations are artificial legal entities that are created by governments in the first place. So why can't governments restrict what those artificial entities can and cannot do?
Are transgender people dominating sports in American high schools?

The point is that the Somalis came with some genetic traits that made them predisposed to winning at sports. So too do trans girls. In either case we shouldn't ban them because they happen to be better physically suited to play the game.
Eh, a signal is a signal even if it's an RPC, but my point was to focus on the "waiting for something to end or empty before restarting" part.
I think you misunderstood how jobs work.

They do exist in a limited supply. When a factory closes down and outsources all the jobs in a town, your job goes away.

When a robot starts doing your job, you are not needed anymore for that job. People in ivory towers expect that you should easily retrain and find new jobs that does not happen for the average joe.

When an immigrant is willing to do your job for less money or less safety, you dont get that job unless you are willing to compromise.

Now with all this you are going to have older people not retire then you are reducing the job pool for younger folks.

> Jobs work the same way.

In reality smart politicians can tap into the fear and frustration of average folks when good paying jobs run out and they promise they will bring back jobs, so voters vote for them.
How a Formula 1 Race Car Works [video]
I’ll pass. I’ve already had the shrooms experience and the complete brain reset without them.

I’m on antipsychotics and no one is going to let me go off them, including me.

I’m never, ever going off my antipsychotic.
I like everything but the Paypal! You can payout directly to stripe accounts: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/destination-charges
LOL:

“And obviously all of us are millennials and none of us have printers,” one former employee said.

I'm pretty sure you can still go to a FedEx office and use a public printer. (That's only if they won't accept an electronically-signed PDF.)

I don't know how SPACs work, but in a traditional IPO, you have a 6-month lockup to keep everyone from cashing out on IPO day. As the end of lockup approaches, the price plummets since the market knows there'll be a lot more shares around.

So do SPACs drop for the same reason -- market anticipating all the employees selling?
They generally go pretty well, I have them setup to happen nightly. This one was already deployed on my network.
Update #1: Simula One Teaser
Shameless plug, here's something else you can do with right to left "styling": https://www.nilsand.re/programming/2021/11/14/title-directio...
Exactly. Your post answers OP's question.

The root cause of the SDK fragmentation is because Microsoft sees diminishing returns for Windows.

After Silverlight failed to gain adoption, they started losing interest in the desktop.
When Windows Phone was killed, there was even less interest in UWP.

It's a shame because .NET is quite nice.
Not at all. A lot of things have intrinsic value. Like the things you mention (taking care of the sick etc.) That is different from its market value (what people want to pay for it). The problem is that some OSS maintainers think they are the same, expecting the intrinsic value of their work to automatically convert into market value (them getting paid). That is not how it works.
Can you acknowledge that critical bugs aren't rare as the comments here should show?