skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few notes.

1. Rasterization is, conceptually at least, the painter's algorithm. You conceptually paint the "backmost" triangle, then paint the triangles "on top" afterwards. As long as you paint from furthest back, to front, you will get the right image. The textbook algorithm sorts all triangles from furthest back to front, but O(n*log(n)) sort is obviously too slow for 100-million triangles 60-frames-per-second that video-gamers want.

2. Culling modifies the #1 algorithm by removing triangles from consideration. Traditionally, this is done by ASIC parts of a GPU (I mean, traditionally, the whole GPU was ASIC and non-programmable. But even just a few years ago, hardware culling was not yet done in shaders). If Triangle#5 is completely covered by Triangle#200, then you can "optimize" by never drawing #5 to begin with, and instead just drawing Triangle#200. The GPU's hardware can detect cases like this and automatically skip the "Drawing of Triangle#5)

3. Primitive Shaders / NGG and other features from Vega onwards of AMD allow for data to be passed between the rendering pipeline in new ways. This seems to enable *software* culling.

4. Its not too hard to do software culling per se. What's hard is to do software culling that its worthwhile (aka: faster than the hardware ASIC culling). The claims here are suggesting that software culling is finally worthwhile thanks to these new shading units, new ways of passing data back-and-forth between stages of the GPU. With these new datapaths, it is possible to implement a software culler that matches (or exceeds) the speed of the hardware culler.

5. That's what a "shader culling" is. Software culling that's faster than the ASIC-paths of the GPU. Fully defined in software, so you can make them more flexible / tuned for your specific video game than the hardware.

6. Video games do often have CPU-side culling before sending the data to the GPU side. Its also culling, but in a different context. I believe that "shader culling" implies the low-level, fine-grained culling that the GPU-hardware was expected to do, rather than the coarse-grained "X character is on the wrong side of the camera so don't draw X or the 200,000 triangles associated with X" that CPUs have always done.

7. On #6's note, there's lots of kinds of culling done at many stages of any video game engine today, from software/CPU side all the way to the low level GPU stuff. Since this seems to be a low-level GPU driver post, you can assume that they're talking about low-level GPU hardware culling specifically.

8. I'm not actually a video game programmer. I just like researching / learning about this field.
Cheers for this, looks interesting!
Really cool project, I like the "reaching out via email" and "reading time" feature. However my plan with the app is to make it more like a second personalised internet. I'll give an example: lets say you have been reading HN for some years now. Every now and then you have come across an article talking about the how to hire as a startup. Back then you found it interesting but you weren't in a position where it was relevant information. Now however you have your own startup and have to hire. Now you wish you had those articles. Maybe you have bookmarked them somewhere but can't find them because they got lost between the 100s of other bookmarks and/or in a complex folder system. Maybe you even forgot that you have them somewhere. And when you google for tips the only articles that come up are generic corporate tips. This app will help against this. You dont event have to remember that you bookmarked it. If you search in google, the currently empty right part of the screen will be filled with results from links that you have bookmark and fit the query (based on categories assigned to the bookmarks, most used words in the article, bookmark title and notes)
I thought biomass was marginal but you actually produce almost as much electricity with biomass as with natural gas. I stand corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
Not sure how any of that is relevant in the context of Ontario or the linked article.

> pernicious influence of centralized energy overlords, and their wars.

My centralized energy overlords are extremely well run and regulated nuclear power operators. Seems great to me!

And I can't remember the last war over nuclear fuel...
Well, I think the clarification is important. It's not like you just go for a vote, and if there's no consensus outcome, boom, mistrial.

Judges aim for consensus, and juries are intended to debate/discuss until they can reach it. So the complaint about "well, prosecutors can just keep trying" rings a little more hollow in that case.

(Again, there are a ton of other reasonable complaints--bullshit forensic "science", the fact that expert witnesses cost money that defendants don't have, mandatory minimum sentences, federal prosecutors' aversion to risking losses at trial, the awful penal system, etc. But this is a weird one to be hung up on, I think.)
Thanks for the reply!

GrapheneOS looks cool, but it only supports Pixel phones? (I have a Moto X4)

I'll look into the Aurora Store.

Duo's call interface is practically identical to POTS calls on smartphones, so I use it to call my mom.

Signal can do video? Didn't know that.

I set up a private Jitsi meet server two years ago, but it insisted on directing mobile browsers to the app. I was able to configure it to not do that, but friends complained about high battery usage. Has that changed since? Regardless, I'm not sure how I could call someone on it, aside from sending them a link and hoping they open it. It's more of a videoconferencing system.

I've used Chromium on a few Linux installs, forgot it supported Windows, too.
Afaik only GOG sells games without DRM. I have bought EA/Ubishit games on Steam which when you open the game, it installs Origin/UbiWhatever and then run through them only.
How will renewables help this winter?

All the stuff you describe are need at least 2 years. At least. Plus, they are expensive. Energy will come with a huge premium in Europe. This is the time that Putin needs to build the pipelines to other countries.

Let us not forget that NOBODY is against the war: not a single South American, not any African country, not China, not India. This is a US/Canada/Europe/South Korea/Japan/Australia thing. Nobody else cares. They are happy to get cheap energy soon.

Short term impact on Europe:
- cold winter
- populism
- crashing economy
- gov financial support and more inflation
- no inflation control as we cannot let Southern Europe crash, hence, no interest rate hikes

Mid-term effects
- Expensive American dirty LNG
- No competetive advantage anymore

I disagree with the West to 100% and hope that Putin will finish off Ukraine asap so this topic is finally closed.

Disclaimer: I have Ukranian roots, visited Ukraine often, support refugees here in Germany from day 1 and was for many weeks at the border when the war started. So please go away with your "morals" and value bs.
The rational calculus here is "Russia will keep doing this as long as we let them".

The time to start getting off Russian gas was 2014. The EU, and Germany in particular, let a gun be pointed at their head for far too long.
Bearing in mind the contents of this graph and that unlike gas nuclear power isnt dispatchable, how much difference do you think it would make?

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
It was the future! Compared to all 8 bits games of the time it was such a HUGE step forward, everyone who saw it was absolutely amazed.
See Thru Jet Engine
Europe is until now unwilling to tap available resources. For instance the Groningen gas field is not running at full capacity [0] (for various reasons)
I think Europe is naive and should expect Russia to halt all exports when they need it the most.
[0] https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/06/groningen-gas-should-b...
HIMARS is a very formidable addition to the arsenal, but in general quantities supplied are extremely modest to really turn the tide. Hopefully the deliveries will step up.
I understand the eternal desire for optimisation, but it’s a game of diminishing returns.
Most of the items people agonise over in taskman.exe aren’t using negligible memory and cycles. The software for your RGB keyboard is probably less efficient. Kill Teams, browsers and anything edge that actually handles content, and you’re probably at 95% capacity.
I once had these in a speakeasy in downtown Louisville, KY with a cocktail called "Acid Cat Spirit Guide." We ordered a round of them and all the guy said was, "eat the flower and drink the drink."

It was a pretty fun experience! The flower itself does not taste good—very grassy with an unpleasant texture—but the numbing effect was really fun, especially experienced as group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acmella_oleracea
Except that now you have created a pending ecological disaster should the containers of crude oil break out of whatever vat you're storing them in and seep into the local water tables.

That and it would do nothing to remove CO2 or Methane from the atmosphere, so even the process of getting the oil to bury would be carbon positive in the first place.
the next 4 quarters will decide about the downfall of Europe (and ultimately the US)

The US is not particularly dependent on Europe. Total trade with Europe, both import and export, is just 3% of the US GDP.
Eh. That was the original question, but I think the implication of some of subsequent questions can be interpreted in multiple ways.
People who celebrate the deaths of others due to their lack of perceived intelligence is absolutely an example of natural selection being applied to an inappropriate, scientifically devoid situation.

I agree that self-harm isn't social Darwinism. People sharing amusing stories of self-harm and chuckling about "cleaning the gene pool" absolutely is.

Natural selection is not the right tool to downplay and excuse harm to others, and has nothing to do with the scientific theory of evolution.
https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...

I'm on the fence about an all electric future- we simply don't have the grid capacity in most parts of the world - but the Germans and French who control the EU should have been developing SMNR years ago. They are now in an energy checkmate situation with a hostile country with an economy the size of Italy. Not clever,
> Solution #2. Forget about the climate for the next 5 years, turn on all coal, nuclear powerplants.

Nuclear power is perfectly compatible with climate goals.
Not after Stripe decided not to IPO.
Yes.

Western countries have dealt with and enriched nasty reigimes one way or another for centuries
Maybe I could have phrased it differently. I really appreciated what you wrote and wanted to add to it, saying that often people don't realize they implicitly trust the sources that they do.
We have different perspectives. Are there challenges? Absolutely. Conversely, the free world ("United States and Co") has strong incentives to not allow Europe (a NATO ally) to fail due to Russia's actions. Direct military action is off the table at the moment (it appears?), but the US has robust economic capacity to assist logistically speaking. India may do nothing except get a deal on Russian energy, but China is in no position to assist considering the economic razor's edge they're currently on (they're even considering accepting imports of Australian coal again due to internal constraints).

Also, I take issue with "Expensive dirty LNG." While a greenhouse gas, fossil gas burns clean. It is a fine short term solution until this conflict reaches resolution, as long as you can shim in import infra at underutilized infrastructure intersections. The LNG shipping capacity is not a challenge (although import logistics are, as mentioned), and the cost premium is the cost of energy demand during a conflict.

> I disagree with the West to 100% and hope that Putin will finish off Ukraine asap so this topic is finally closed.

Speaking only based on factual information, this is unlikely. Putin is in poor health (shaking in public, puffy appearance likely due to heavy steroid use, putting off events without explanation), and the US will remain solvent longer than Russia can continue its military actions while under crippling economic sanctions. To allow Putin to succeed would set a geopolitical precedent that the developed world can't allow to be set. The American-supplied HIMARS are proving very effective in recent combat ops (per The Economist) against Russian assets, which is a positive sign that Ukraine continues to receive military support. In short, Putin will fail eventually because he cannot be allowed to succeed, we're simply haggling over the timeline.

Disclaimer: US citizen, not a warmonger, pragmatic about the application of military force as a necessary evil.
Have you seen any impact of the Euro's drop against the dollar in your day to day life? Say, things from American companies getting substantially more expensive, or salaries rising to keep pace with American counterparts?
> blog posts on mass on all sorts of subjects

"en masse"?
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I am a fan of nuclear energy, but German nuclear powerplants have been underinvested for years because of the pending Atomausstieg (nuclear exit). It didn't make economic sense to maintain facilities that were on their way out anyway.

So they are likely not in shape to be turned on again.
Companies were outsourcing 20+ years ago so I doubt the WFH binge will change things all that much. And unless there's a tax nexus in the foreign country than the foreign workers will either be contractors or workers for a company that provides workers. Whether they're hardworking or not is up to the situation, but having cheaper workers 14 hours away by clock might be a recipe for high turnover rather than high productivity.

They've torn up real offices to create the bullpens and thus save on $$ for office space. Yeah, they might reverse the process and spend more on the office environment but I would not bet that most will do this. Suck it up will be the argument that's presented and they'll claim the recession as the excuse.

And as this is HN, I don't really care what office workers who aren't developers do. There are other forums for such discussion with other needs and views. Sales, marketing, all of these kinds of things aren't pertinent to my discussion. And as far as communication goes, all of my coworkers share slack and email connections. Thus, a portion or the entire company can be easily reached with a single post/message. I suspect most tech companies are similar.

Re: sunk cost, the fact that the company owns or has a long-term lease on a property isn't relevant to how they treat their employees. Or shouldn't be. If you prefer office work, go for it, but many don't especially in the current office conditions. And yeah, I feel that there's a socialization component in bullpen offices that might be useful but it's not work. I've programmed a very long time and the act of software development (aside from initial design) is totally opposite from socialization.

If you want to hire the best workers, and many companies claim this, then you either accept WFH or you're really looking to hire the best workers who will rip up their home environment and move to take the new position. Piece of cake for somebody single, rather annoying for those who are not. It's not like there's lots of pink-collar jobs that could accommodate partners...

And if the people at the other end of the zoom aren't important enough to bring in to brainstorm, then nobody will listen to them F2F.
I am not even using hindsight though. Even in Feb 1st you'd have to be ignorant to think the self-sanction regime will do anything.
I was part of both as well.

I don't condone any of EA's behavior at the time, but the lawsuit benefited the lawyers way more than the artists and developers. I wish there was a resolution to the situation that allowed EALA to continue as a major studio. The talent there was amazing. Some of the blue sky projects that never made it to production were really interesting.

Unfortunately -- lawyers got paid. EA made some rule/structure changes. And EALA lost most of its square footage to a 24 hour fitness. Makes me sad everytime I drive by.
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you nailed it.

neither LTO nor panic=abort can be used at dynamic link, no stable ABI is another thing.

to me it means Rust is not a good fit for embedded space for majority of the use cases, sadly.
I think this argument is very short-term thinking. Letting Russia take Ukraine would have enormous security implications long term.

I mean the lack of sanctions, hasn't stopped Russia after taking Crimea, so it's only fair to assume Ukraine wouldn't be the end to Russia's (Putin's) expansion either. They implied so many times. Their enormous investments in the destabilization of foreign politics, have made it a very real possibility that the U.S. might drop out of NATO, if Trump gets reelected. Orban and Erdogan are also wild cards.

Such a development would put Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, and Poland at risk.

In long, that isn't insanity at all.
A few years ago Steam began showing labeling on store pages for games that use third party DRM; and if you buy a game that has it and you did so unwittingly, then you can return it without issue provided you played less than two hours and you bought it within the last two weeks.
Doing tons of endurance cardio gives you massive carb cravings and catabolizes muscle mass, slowing your metabolism. Especially when none of it is max effort. To keep your body fat percentage low and metabolism up you really need to combine endurance cardio with high intensity cardio and strength training. This is why things like Crossfit and HIIT are so popular.
Medical leeches.
There is, through Spain. There are existing pipelines from Algeria and Morocco.
So are Adyen and to a lesser extent, Block (Square).
If anyone has been on synthroid and it stops working for you, check with your doctor about switching to natural desiccated thyroid, made a big difference for me. Also see if avoiding goitrogenic foods works for you (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous_vegetables); keeping a food diary for a few months proved to me how impactful they are for me, YMMV.
Same for me. Even as Ive tried to gain weight, my weight barely budged. 150-155 for at least the last 10 years. I have obese (300lb+) friends and they insist they don’t eat that much more than me. Except they do. We go out to eat, we stop eating after about 5-10 min. I’m full and done. They burp a couple times, then proceed to keep eating, smothering everything in Mayo and bbq sauce. Then they get insane desserts. And maybe 3-4 sodas in one meal on top of that. I do feel bad for them though, since it looks like that’s really what it takes to satiate their hunger. I could not physically eat that much even if I wanted to though.

Another strange thing about my body (if anyone cares, curious if anyone else has the same thing) is that I don’t burp, ever. I think the air I swallow while eating forms a bubble in my stomach that makes me feel full sooner and prevents overeating.
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Related content

"Trump: Germany 'Totally Controlled By Russia'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLZBVTid4I

German bureaucrats laugh at Trump after he says the country could become totally dependent on Russian energy:
https://twitter.com/marcusgilmer/status/1044604107997237249
According to the EU nuclear power is green. So solution #2 would save the climate, based on that logic. Actually inflation was already there before the war, so it is mostly because of #3.
A lot of manufacturing for these materials aren't in Europe though. New factories and associated logistics chains, finding and training workers, these things are difficult to set up in a few months, never mind the actual process of renovating millions of homes.
Is your HD on one or both of the machines possibly the bottleneck?
If said teenager was in charge of Germany's energy policy they'd be doubling down on Nuclear rather than falling back to Coal
Nordstream 2 and the general concept of "Germany buys tons of Russian gas" was very controversial in Poland and the Baltics, too.

Most of the former Eastern Bloc countries were distrustful of Russia in general, much more so after Russia took Crimea in 2014.
Besides heating, natural gas is a major component in many industrial processes. It's also used as input for a wide variety of petrochemical products. Can't make those from nuclear power.

People tend to overlook that nearly a quarter of all oil & gas goes into non-energy use. I can't think of a single modern product that doesn't use petroleum-based products in some way.
When laypeople say "revisionist history" they often think that, but the term precedes this modern meaning in academic circles and does not have the same meaning.

Somebody who writes about some topic in history from the perspective of women when it has largely only been examined from the perspective of men in prior scholarship is engaged in "revisionist history" but without the connotations of propaganda and poor scholarship.

The core problem here, as is often the problem when HN discusses history as a profession, is that few people here actually have engaged with the profession. So basic jargon of the field is misunderstood.
That's not the future, that's basically now for any Ubisoft games.
Have you considered a diet like Keto? This may help your potentially insulin related issues.
I am with ya there. But the Germans populace have been thoroughly brain-washed that nuclear is bad. So, better just to tell them : "its bad, but needed because we are in a war."
You're forgetting two things: not all natural gas is used for heating and Russia does not supply 100% of the natural gas used in Europe. If a nuclear plant can generate enough electricity to shut down a natural gas plant, the natural gas which would have been burned for electrical production is then available for applications like heating which are hard to quickly replace.

Russia supplies about 40-45% of the EU's total natural gas, so there's a big question about how quickly imports can be scaled up. The energy mix in the EU electrical grid is roughly a quarter natural gas so there's a fairly large amount which could potentially be shifted to another electrical source.

That leaves the question of how well all of those measures come together along with efficiency improvements and conservation (e.g. getting everyone in the EU to turn their thermostat down by 1°C would be roughly ⅓ of the total Russian imports according to https://www.iea.org/news/how-europe-can-cut-natural-gas-impo...). Given how seriously every government in NATO has been taking this, I would not be surprised to see things moving at faster paces than we're used to.
My point is that exactly. The "Darwin Award" variety IS a facetious form of social Darwinism.

It's not related to the science of evolution, it's using the principles of natural selection for social commentary.
It was released two months before this post was made.
They cannot be removed without good reason (like “here’s a letter from my lawyer” or “this code secretly exfiltrates credentials”), and a lock file means that even if they change, your usage of them won’t until you ask to upgrade versions.
Google also funnels a lot of traffic to itself through Chrome's search bar, and Firefox does the same. Sure you can replace the search engine, but whatever you replace it with needs to have the same capabilities or the entire model falls apart. Meanwhile, alternative means of navigating the web (such as bookmarks) are made increasingly difficult to access, requiring multiple clicks.

I don't mean to be conspiratorial, I'm sure there are good intentions behind this, the consequence however is effectively locking in Google as the default gateway for the Internet.
Corporate Media Lies, Skilled Tech Workers have all the leverage.