skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the non-gamers, the Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_space_ambient_occlusion

This article does explain a part of why I find 3D games jarring and peculiar, though; I could never get past how odd corners in games can look (e.g. when they are right behind a lamp that somehow doesn't reach them).

Just didn't know this is what it was called.

Frankly I prefer the era where games didn't try to do this.
Another alarmist article.

Can we please get concrete, non-negotiable deadlines with clear goals?
E.g. by 2030 - only electric cars, by 2040 - only recyclable materials, by 2050...

Statistics and expert warnings are nothing new and the vast majority are coping with the doomsaying with ease.
Also Chrome is the worst, most pervasive spyware ever developed.
This is the exact approach Leary took and it just resulted in blowback. Psychedelics aren't a panacea.
One thing that prevented me from looking at getting into native macOS development has been that lack of good development resources or training. Every time I have looked at getting into it and start asking around I hear things like "Oh, just learn iOS development and start from there..." or "Just learn Swift and see where it takes you." If there were more learning resources available (and I admit there may be some incredible ones out there that I'm just ignorant of), I think it would still lead some to be interested in the platform.
Generally for stem test for application of material not memorization (Medicine you need both, etc). My lower level undergrad math courses all allowed us to bring a crib sheet with equations. It helps you go back over and study/relearn. In the graduate math / physics courses a crib sheet was provided and standardized. Memorizing final PDE solutions or things like Laplace Transform tables is no bueno.
It’s actually disgusting, and probably broken in several regards.

Why is functionally so different between the native app, web and teams. How is this an industry standard?

I edited a table, moved a picture and changed a footer. How can that be complex?
Those dragon light corn bulbs look like death traps
Maybe our ideas about what “health” is need some work.
>Look at figma; look at stuff like Miro. Even Google Docs are getting better.

It's amazing what they have achieved within that constrained platform but I was using vector graphics tools, image editors, word processors and spreadsheets in the eighties and nineties.

Some things have changed of course, a wider range of formats, easier collaboration online but there is nothing fundamentally new about this stuff.
The government has been in deficit spending for a long time without much inflation.

And the mortgage industry handed out mortgages without checking if they can be repaid for a long time before the 2008 crash.

Markets don't respond instantaneously.

And this was exactly what was predicted with QE after 2008 - inflation would happen and the government wouldn't have the discipline to pull back quickly enough.
This continued focus on antibody titers really makes no sense. We can't boost our way out of the pandemic. Over the long run cellular immunity is far more important.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
There are plenty of sites where anybody can claim they are an expert on anything and expound their expertise. Even here on HN you can get away with claiming you are the world expert in coconut picking, as long as no other coconut pickers turn up in the thread.

Wikipedia follows different standards. Not everything have to be Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/HN.
How do you define what a higher purpose is?

Workaholics always think that they're doing something super important, no one would voluntarily invest there time into something they feel is utterly useless.

What if one day they wake up with a realization that the purpose wasn't as "higher" as they've though it was? That they've missed other important stuff in their life? I've seen it happen to people around me...
As a user yes, as a developer many people who would have to think long and hard about when to use which linux user with which priviledges, when to drop them outside of an container will just use root for everything within the container out of an false sense of security.

Software security always works in layers and if your only layer is the container, good luck with that.
Deep learning behind document processing
Telling people to rile up against climate change let's industrialism get away with it. If I'm to downgrade my life, it better be from trickle down ecology rather than frugality.
Being in control of the other third is fairly significant... Seems almost too significant?
All over the world many people try to learn French. Almost any would tell you that learning a second language is hard. Nobody will fight you on this.

Math is a language to express entirely new concepts thar have nothing to do with everyday thinking and often include things like recursion that makes them impossible to reason about without more than just a few bytes of mental RAM.

There is no step by step algorithmic process to do it. If there were, a computer would be able to do it and far fewer people would want to learn.

Even at the level where there is an algorithm, it's far too big, nobody hand executes the source code of XCas by hand.

Math seems to require not just a skill that can be learned, but an inate ability to deal with multiple connected pieces of information at once, and to see abstract patterns in things.

In programming, if you have to understand more than one tiny bit at a time, you might consider tossing it and starting over. In math it's just normal for lots of ideas to connect.
The number of warcrimes committed by the Russians is astounding. But shooting at fleeing civilians has to earn you a very special place in hell.

This is pure blackmail, and it won't stop here.
> That's a lot of quote marks around things that don't appear in my posts. The only thing worth addressing is that you keep referring to locust bean gum instead of the xanthan gum I have been referring to the whole time.

Below are all of the direct references from the list, where you make baseless claims in an attempt to convince everyone that cream cheese and seed oils and bean gums are unsafe. You zeroed in on trying to use xanthan gum in an attempt to repeatedly advertise your entirely (and self-admittedly) irrational belief that anything discovered less than 2,000 years ago (no matter how naturally occurring) is unsafe, while everyone else was talking about the actual product in question -- cream cheese, for which locust bean gum is almost universally used.

> Yep, it's a chemical product for sure, full of xantham gum and other such "ingredients" [...] you can actually taste the gum [...] Lots of nasty things [...] like seed oils [...] the ingredient was invented in a lab less than 100 years ago [...] a food additive that didn't exist until a research team found it 60 years ago [...] current state of nutrition "science" [...] and I'm one of the few remaining people to not be overweight [...] I will just eat what is proven to be safe and wholesome across human history [...] I have literally not made an arguable claim in this thread other than stating what my diet is

Please explain to me how you didn't say any of those things -- I copied them directly from your comments -- or how they magically mean something other than what you're plainly saying.
This seems likely, but I have a hard time thinking of what to do about it.

I’m long past the point where I’d be fine calling their bluff, but the same thing does not seem to be true for our elected leaders (probably why I’m not one of those).
Individually, a person can reduce their cancer risk with a few things like not smoking, and avoiding sunburns, etc. but that does not eliminate the risk of cancer. It's not a disease that primarily comes from unhealthy living.

That said, there is a toooon of cancer that we can prevent as a society though better public health messaging and better environmental laws, such as creating housing and cities that ban cars, so that we are not continually exposed to pm25 risks.
now we need an automated interview questions solver as well as an automated real time deepfake for taking interviews.
Intel Files to Take Self-Driving Unit Mobileye Public
Dynamic typing irks me too. Apparently you can write Dhall that compiles to nix, effectively making it a statically typed language on top of nix.
Nonetheless, people repeatedly claim that using cloud vendors' high-level services is more secure than running your own stuff.
How so? What you put into and on your body for decades should have a pretty big impact on cancer
Stop producing meat, stop international flights, stop selling cars, stop producing clothes. That's the only way people will abide these policies. What's the point of saving the planet if you destroy your life?
The million dollars question here is, if they had a chance to go back and do things differently, would that make them have no regrets on their dying bed, or they'd just end up with a different set of regrets?
I blame typesafe languages.
There are quite lot of successful organic farms in the US and Europe.

For most of history and pre-history, literally all farms were strictly organic. Those mostly had lower yields, but on the up side they were not responsible for obliterating 90%+ of the world's wildlife.
> many places don't have those kinds of laws.

Even in places without zoning codes, you’ll find plenty of restrictions that shape what is built and what it looks like from setbacks to parking minimums.

See Houston for example https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2020/01/09/no-zoning-in-Ho...
Honest question:

If Spring basically "fixed" java development...

Why hasn't it been ported to Go? Wouldn't it fix the same problems there?
The three forms of heat are radiation, convection, and conduction. I see how radiation is different. But how are convection and conduction different? Conduction is heat transferred when things are touching. Convection is heat transferred via a gas or liquid---but isn't that just a special case of conduction, applied transitively (from a solid A to a gas/liquid B to a solid C)? It doesn't seem like it's genuinely something different.
A small set standardized data structures (vectors, maps) would do so much good for C.
No. This had to come to a head eventually. Russia has to end its dependence on the tsarist power structure and join the modern cooperative world. We don't live in the middle ages anymore. However, Bush's hard push was definitely a foolish move that made things worse than they could have been.

What's happening now is (unfortunately) probably the least bloody way to topple Russia's (hopefully?) last tsar. But even then it's hard to say if this is really the end of Ivan the Terrible's legacy... We also thought that Gorbachev and Yeltsin marked the end. Old habits die hard.
It kinda makes me wish I had dedicated web dev experience. Web seems to be a lot more excited about features, much less interested in DIYing algorithms, very reuse friendly, and generally positive about tech, preferring a nonprivate app over no app at all, etc.

They still take security seriously, but not to the point of avoiding widely trusted dependencies or trying to push back on tech in general and use more analog things
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30586740
Having done OLAP and used other DB models like ISAM and xBase, I am a firm beliver that relational databases will keep being the horse worth betting on.

Whatever else keeps poping up against them are only usefull in special use cases, not needed for 90% of the common use cases, and even then, it isn't like relational database vendors are frozen in time without improving them.
Doing some kind of high impact medical research, exploring the cutting edge of science, political or intellectual revolutions, making a spaceship to Mars, etc...

> hat if one day they wake up with a realization that the purpose wasn't as "higher" as they've though it was?

Look if you are researching how to save lives, you are researching how to save lives..
I seem to recall many of those giant loans were paid back. That isn't inflationary.
It's so incredibly sad to see this playing out exactly as many predicted and being unable to stop it (due to the threat of nuclear war). It's like standing on a train track and seeing an oncoming train miles away and yet being unable to move. So many (more) Ukrainians are about to die or suffer horribly, and much of the physical history and cultural artifacts of that city will be destroyed.
Second to not smoking is getting checked at the first sign of anything suspicious. A lot (tens of percents) of people wait months or years.
>VS Code works incredible on MacOS despite not being native.

It's a bit of a dog on my machine. I only use it for one particular plugin.
They did it previously, in Chechnya, in Debaltsevo. No one did anything, besides "seriously concerned of reports".
But the leafleting campaign has been going so well!

This is what modern non-nuclear war looks like: hammer on cities until there's nothing left in the hope of defeating the enemy public opinion.

The only thing you can hope to do is counter-battery artillery or airstrikes, but both of those are vulnerable to shelling and airstrikes and one requires flying into enemy territory.
This is patently false. Security is repeatedly cited as a reason to move to the cloud, including in cloud vendors' own marketing materials.
It was the same for my father, and even the doctor’s mother whom I regularly see. I wonder if these issues are caused by the immune system becoming lax over time.

For example, I know one of the treatments for arthritis is Humira, a monoclonal antibody that suppresses TNF-A (tumor necrosis alpha). It could be the immune system suppresses TNF and this causes the perfect environment for cancers to remain latent.

There should be markers for a “pre-cancer” chronic condition. In multiple myeloma (what my father had) there is a clinical definition of “smoldering” myeloma which I understand to be a pre-cancerous condition. There ought to be more of those
It’s reprehensible for sure, but I’m fairly confident it’s not all that uncommon in war.

It’s just the first time in history that the whole world sees the horrors of war streamed live.

Which is a good thing I guess, there’s a whole new generation now that might learn ‘never again’ without actually having to go through the experience.

Edit: Of course we always had the news, but a reporter showing the aftereffects from a safe distance are a bit different from the single soldier streaming the images of the Russian warship before telling them to go fuck themselves.
There is no reason for solar or wind to suffer regulatory overhead. They pose no existential threat if built or operated unsafely. Worst case, they fall over.
I mostly go from csv to csv but nushell handles table data in files really well [1]. I've done a little but of json manipulation with it but not a ton, so I can't say it's a silver bullet.

1. https://www.nushell.sh/book/
The thing is that perfectionism isn't smart. Instead, it's a mental illness called OCD.

It's also literally impossible to achieve perfection since you only approach the epsilon distance to perfection.

That's why smart people stay away from perfectionism, because wanting perfection is a mental illness.
One of the a little weird things about btrfs is that some Software (e.g. OBS) seems to have a hard time to get the free space on disk. Maybe because they assume the usual ways of getting free space works (which doesn't on btrfs)
Well, nothing is new under the sun!

There has been an inflection on off shore wind since 2018; approximately double the amount came on stream then vs any previous year and this has been sustained.
Easy lesson from distributed systems, most of the time is spent in communication instead of actual work.
We could have put troops in the country before the invasion.
Try here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220308070724/https://seema.pag...
this one: https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
I think the Windows version of Fork is .Net/WPF.
Many nations now provide for bank bail-ins from deposited funds.
Greece showed the modern way of theft.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070115/under...
Windows isn't the only other OS out there, plenty of them on IoT, mainframes, game consoles.
Nuclear weapons are in play. If not for that the Russians would have to face the rest of Europe and possibly other countries as well.
It's just a Russian propaganda in a compressed form. It's much easier to show contradictions in Russian propaganda by removing unessential fillers, which are used to separate contexts, with the goal for A to be equal to FOO in one context and A=BAR in another context. By extractions seeds of propaganda from different contexts and putting them side by side, it's possible to make a shortcut in the brain of a victim of the propaganda, so he will be confused with question «How it's possible for A to be FOO and BAR at the same time?».

When your brain is not affected by Russian propaganda, then the text above will look like garbage for you.

Shorter text works better than longer, because it's easier to create a shortcut with short text. Also, it's easier to remember, so harder to forget, easier to pass around. We used short anecdotes, single-sentence shortcuts, etc.

I saw about a dozen of Russians with same «some football fans are using Nazi symbols -> Azov battalion is created by football fans -> Azov is Nazi -> Azov is part of Ukrainian army -> all Ukrainians are Nazi», but you did nothing to stop that.

If you think that Russian propaganda enhances your site, then go ahead and ban me.

If not, then propose a solution.
And in some instances that’s a valid claim. The problem here is you’re taking two massive generalisations and assuming they’re always mutually inclusive.
Even with using a pre-certified BT module there is a $9600 deceleration fee to SIG.
Apparently she worked for years as cabin crew. Cabin crew do get subjected to more mutating cosmic radiation than other people.

Some routes are worse than others of course: the worst are the ones over the North Pole (Europe-Alaska or Europe-Japan/Korea/Beijing) where the Earth's protecting magnetic field is weaker. I've been told that one such flight provides a dosage about equivalent to that of a CT-scan. Imagine doing that every day.
> I’m long past the point where I’d be fine calling their bluff

What do you personally stand to lose if you call the bluff and it’s not a bluff?

As much as I’d like to hate on the politicians, this isn’t a repeatable game where the outcomes average out.
How would Google pay them, with the sanctions?
yes, but much of it may be out of your control. See earlier post on air pollution, likewise water pollution, and add any number of other environmental impacts. Some of which you can mitigate through personal choice, but there is also a case that these are societal problems which need societal/institutional solutions.
What can possibly go wrong? The conflict in Ukraine just reminded me how really unsafe urban areas can be for nuclear energy. If Ukraine isn't a safe place to build nuclear reactors without somebody trying to blow them up (or doing so accidentally), then no part of Africa and large parts of South America and Asia are neither. And there goes much of the idea of replacing fossil fuels with nuclear energy...
Proofs certainly aren’t the only aspect of what one might call “understanding mathematics.” Aren’t proofs generally limited to very specific mathematical courses (at least until you get to the cutting edge where new results inherently require proofs)?
Fyi, rxin is co-founder of databricks.
Isn’t that exactly the kind of the arrogance of the West pushing the boundaries as the East has argued is its red line ?
My most successful Sugru fix was the following.

I had two non-working phone holders for my car. One was a good fit for my phone, but was supposed to stick to the windscreen and didn't stick properly. The other was for an old phone, but it fitted well in the air vents.

Using sugru I was able to join together the parts from each contraption into one which fitted nicely in the air vents but held my new phone.

For the right job, Sugru is pretty useful stuff.
Oddly, my solar projects have not had 5x, 3x, or even 1.5x cost overruns, never mind multi-year unplanned delays. And, they started producing immediately.

Carbon footprint is not in play.
I think you can't leave out how much html/css/js has progressed since Netscape Navigator in late 90'ies.

Modern browsers and web backends makes it so much faster to implement functionality that takes forever to implement in a native Desktop app. People who are "native app" envangelists tend to completely ignore this major difference.

e.g. "Auto Layout" in Swift is just a bare bones reimplementation of what we have in modern css with flexbox and grid.

also: it is much easier to collaborate with other people when you can just send them a link instead of "Word doc version 2, final, really final".
Yes, and because of that, we created a new process for those types of issues (i.e. broken hardware problems that need more coordination.) That process is documented at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/embargoed-har... if you are curious.

It's been working semi-well, and gives us a way to deal with longer embargo times (like months instead of weeks and days), but it does not integrate well into the linux-distro-like way of working just yet, which is an issue that hopefully will be resolved sometime in the future if the linux-distro members wish it to be.
>Part of me also wonders, though, if OmniGroup had shifted to building web apps 10 years ago, would they be making significantly more money?

I seem to remember they were laying people off a couple of years ago.
Spring relies heavily on the more powerful features of the Java runtime which aren't available in Go, it wouldn't be possible to port it as-is. You could definitely come up with a set of existing Go libraries that implement all the core functionality of a Spring up in a cohesive way. Almost every large company I have been at has done exactly that however none has caught on in the same way Spring has.

Spring hasn't "fixed" Java development however but rather provided a consistent framework that has stood the test of time. It still has flaws but it's been around for long enough that nearly every conceivable issue you could run into already has a well known solution.
The end result is you spend very little time fixing Java or Spring problems.

In Go land however there isn't much in the way of consistent and/or well integrated ecosystems. You end up stitching everything together yourself and as a result can run into all sorts of combinatorial set of dependencies that can present effectively un-Google-able problems. Thus you spend a lot more time working out how to integrate your HTTP server, router, middlewares, tracing, logging, etc all of which are pre-solved problems with are large framework like Spring.

It wouldn't be possible to "fix" the same problems in Go unless either a new framework was developed from scratch that really took off or one of the collections of libraries was able to achieve dominance.
Life only has meaning when viewed through the collective: our purpose is to help others, make great things and self actualise (learn, develop).
Life isn’t about me or you, it’s about us.
Make plans that go beyond your lifetime - with the intention of “handing off” to a suitable person, or at least leaving a description of what you’d like to see next so that someone else can pick that up.
There are so many problems to solve, ideas to explore, others to help, people to inspire. The really difficulty lies in choosing one thing to work on at a time.
Or just go out in the sun as much as possible.