skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are amazing at adapting to things that give them more of something.

What we need as a civilisation is people wanting less of everything, but that's really hard. People take things as given and if you even suggest taking away those things they get irrationally angry and dig down even harder.
You can use the search feature of HN and ask to order by date.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Bifacial fencerow panels work with almost any crop, orchards perhaps excepted. Since there is so overwhelmingly more land available to put solar on than is needed, only the very best-suited for it need be used.

Some crops do better under horizontal panels, protected by them from harsh rain- and hailstorms. Since there is no need to pack the panels as tightly as they could possibly fit, you can leave plenty of room between for farm tractors. Most stuff towed behind a farm tractor lies much lower, and has no difficulty running under panels mounted at head height.

We may count on farmers to decide how best to deploy solar in their own fields, without second-guessing them.
If you found your company in the us, some legal people say that you can't be GDPR compliant, unless a lot of laws are changed.
It does, on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
Because all of the above criteria is subjective? The US Supreme Court has repeatedly denied the constitutionality of hate speech laws throughout history on the grounds of this and it violating the concept of free speech
My first self-published book sold maybe half a dozen copies, and there even was one refund. The reason is simple. It is a bad book.

The next one sold none. Which is expected since I made it openly available from my site. It hit about half a million downloads in the first year. Alas, most of them were from one IP somewhere in Czechia so I guess someone's spider got stuck in the web. But real people downloaded it too, about 12 000 copies. I even got a positive review from John D. Cook of which I'm extremely proud https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/04/24/programming-langua...

I'm now working on Geometry for Programming book for Manning https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers. This would be my first collaboration with a publisher and so far it looks like it will become a moderate success. The early access sales are good, the reviews are encouraging. Even though, I would expect first year sales to be in thousands, maybe even low tens if we're lucky but no more. Definitely not enough to live of.

So while the post doesn't reveal any specific statistics, it does agree with my experience. Most books might indeed sell in very low numbers but they are not really published and maybe not even really books. If you're working with a well established publisher, you will get some moderate sales numbers guaranteed, and a even small chance to go big.
Just a note, but you can’t delete a comment if it receives a child comment.
In my experience friends and family often tend to want to be given copies—which they may or may not read.
I had a similar idea, but swapped the Legos for the ikea replacement parts catalog. What’s the cheapest standing desk you can build with these cheap and easily available parts?
Smoke detector? Although that can be linked to better technology too. I don't know tbh.
It might be interesting to explore with the students why this would not be quite right for a general 3D view, and how it could be fixed. Conic sections, etc.
Cool, I recently started with GLSL, and it’s interesting there are many roads that lead to a similar solution (how I draw circles or make a center is tad different)

Where or how did you learn GLSL?
Sure, but size is not what matters, density of population is. Of course nobody is expecting (equally good) public transport in all of Texas.
In this case at least 8/10 options including 2/3 depicting her in older age are freely licensed, so it seems to not be license based.
A fair number of books in this vein are also published electronically in some form free of charge. There may also be a physical book because why not. I’ve done that myself.
Canada is even more federalized than the US in many ways and it works great. It's something that is strongly defended politically and culturally (provinces control things like healthcare insurance). Municipalities are also very powerful.
Lazarus IDE – write once, compile anywhere
They have a replacement parts catalogue?
Code for any that lacked features would still build on a more complete implementation.

This is fundamentally different from the Pascal case where extansions absolutely necessary for the compiler to be useful at all differed radically from one to another.
> During Tesla’s last earning call, the CEO encouraged entrepreneurs to get into the lithium processing business – referring to it as “a license to print money”:

>> So it is basically like minting money right now. There’s like software margins in lithium processing right now. So I would really like to encourage, once again, entrepreneurs to enter the lithium refining business. You can’t lose. It’s a license to print money.

https://electrek.co/2022/09/09/tesla-license-to-print-money-...
I've been advised not to use point sprites. Apparently, most GPU inplementations merely convert it into a quad in the backend, and gl_PointSize seems to have a soft maximum that depends on implementation.

I've found a mechanism that uses the "interleaved attribs" feature of transform feedbacks to spit out 4 verts at a time (as six to draw two GL_TRIANGLES) into a buffer that a quad-drawing shader program consumes.

Using GL_POINTS/gl_PointCoord is probably better though just for teaching children fundamentals, I just wish that it actually worked properly in practice.
Great write up, that was a fun read.

In understanding how the rotation was implemented, it took me longer than it probably should have to realize that the normal map (which I think of in terms of lighting) is actually a radial position on the sphere.

I had to go back and forth with the final and original code a few times, and finally noted that "n" gets renamed to "point" when it becomes an argument to colorLookup.

This dual usage of the normal for lighting brightness calculation and as a radial position on the sphere surface for looking up the color makes sense in retrospect but is also a somewhat subtle aspect that you might want to address more explicitly in your text instead of just silently renaming the variable in the code.
Extraordinary artists and technicians are not necessarily the most skilled with the tools. Sometimes they just filled a void and did something new.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/spare-parts/

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Longer distances also encourage plane and train use. Public transport is not about distance, it's about density.
agree, cookie popups should just be banned entirely, sites should be required to default to the minimal cookies required to implement the site's functionality, and users can opt-in to analytics if they want
beautiful article.

Our actual world isn’t totally broken. I do not take for granted, not for one millisecond, the open source components and sample code that made this project possible. In the 21st century, as long as you’re operating within the bounds of the state of the art, programming can feel delightfully Lego-like. All you have to do is rake your fingers through the bin.
Made me chuckle. Funny custom, in a positive way.
You can. Within a certain amount of time of having submitted.
Ask HN: Would you hire someone who memorizes the System Design Interview book?
During the system design interview, my colleague gave a common question that was found in System Design interview. The candidate seems to be able to give a perfect answer (covering what the book is advising).

Objectively the candidate passed. But deep down I felt that passing the interview doesn't show me about what real life design problems that the candidate have faced before.
I remember soho as being a viable competitor to google docs, back when gdocs was new and exciting. And then they faded out and I kinda thought they had died.

Then a few months ago I started seeing zoho ads in all the elevators in Dubai.
I wouldn't be so sure they're out of the question.

See https://altris.se
Very cool, but can’t we already do this with impulse responses? This seems kind of overly complicated to emulate something that already exists.

However, I can imagine this becoming much more interesting - describing some tone and effects and having it make a custom cocktail of sounds would be nuts.
"Rendering Pool Balls"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32797146
> But several years down the road demand for PCs and other client devices will rise once again, and so will demand for memory. Which is why SK Hynix is already preparing for this with its Fab M15X expansion plan.

It's great seeing the market react to the shortages. Of course these things take time but the way the semiconductor supply-side organizes such huge amounts of capital and large scale development projects is quite fascinating.

Hopefully it will pay off in a decade and we won't have to worry about shortages for some time.
I wonder if we'll ever be able to buy a Pi again. They've been out of stock everywhere since forever.

You can get them now, if one or more of a few things is true:

1. You're willing to pay exorbitant scalper prices. In that case, just head over to Ali-Express and you can pick up a Pi with no problem.

2. You're very patient and willing to watch rpilocator[1] a lot in order to score a Pi. I do that and managed to score one more 8GB model during a 24 hour (or so) long window when Elektor had some in stock last week. Just keep checking, they pop up here and there.

3. You live near a Microcenter store. Apparently they get stock in every now and then as well. Sadly that only benefits the people who live near by. A group which I can't count myself among. sigh

I'm starting to consider it a dead platform and looking at different hardware (example Odroid.)

Things are going to get better eventually. That's very close to 100% certain. Pi's aren't in short supply because of anything the RPi folks are doing wrong, it's down to the global chip shortage that's affecting just about everything.[2][3] But the bullwhip effect will almost certainly play out, like it always does and at some point there will be glut of all the chips that are in short supply today and probably a glut of Raspberry Pi's as well. The only issue is predicting when that will happen.

[1]: https://rpilocator.com/

[2]: https://www.yahoo.com/now/chipageddon-could-last-until-2023-...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%93present_global_ch...
Awesome!!

Would it be possible to release this bit of the library, if not the whole thing (for any definition you like of "whole thing") à la Movie Maker (https://twitter.com/foone/status/1511808848729804803)?

More specifically there are two components to this question - it being OK for the code to be released, and the code itself being available to be released :). I'm specifically asking after the former; if noone knows where the code actually is right now, well, it can be dug out later.
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It's gotten worse, too. There used to be a limited amount of colors. My daughter now has a lot of of the Lego Friends series. It's very difficult, because there's pink, light pink, purple, light purple, and some sort of lilac. So if you want to perfectly build a piece, it takes a whole lot of searching. But then again, it's kinda fun too because you're forced to substitute.
Far more than 0.01% of websites use cloudflare.
presskit() – spend time making games, not press
I used to have a friend (we moved countries so we don’t talk as much) and she was just a natural. Whether it was just making conversation, defusing tension or suggesting we could do work, it just rolled of the tongue. I tried to learn from it, but some are just naturals at it and I will never have that same level of ease and charm.

I echo what you say about maintaining friendships, having two people invested in a friendship is the best thing.
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So, what's the name of the movie? :)
It is a tiring comment given that they're not mutually exclusive and that the forms of public transport that are mutually exclusive like railways are horribly expensive to the point that they're almost not viable. Bay area rail costs are like 2-3 billion per mile. The areas where these kinds of public transport solutions are most effective are also where it's the most expensive and most likely to face extreme friction.
Speaking anecdotally, I have nothing but issues with LSP. It's a pain to use, a pain to configure, gives sub-par results and is usually wraps with extra "features" that change how code gets edited between different languages (I know this is less LSP's fault).

Not to dismiss the mountain of work people have put into it, but it feels very hacked together and clunky rather than a shining achievement.
That hasn't been a blocker in the past (see: all the other taxes that exist), why would it need to be going forward.
That's far from clear. Even just screenshots plain text snippets are often strongly assumed to be true and are difficult to deny even though it's utterly trivial to fake them[1].

Even with Sufficiently advanced deep fakery they'll never be easier to create those fakes than text and the text is already strongly presumed to be real even if denied.

[1] https://files.catbox.moe/fu8d08.png
I'd really like to see 'forever' domain registration.

Pay your fee once, and the domain stays active forever.

The cost of running the servers for a top level domain are really small, and probably going down with time, so it should be possible for the domain registrar to keep operations going with just a trickle of new registrations.

As a compromise, perhaps you could charge a nominal fee for domain name ownership transfers.
The US has by far the highest number of immigrants, so apparently it’s not just Americans who’ve been “brainwashed.”
/r/chess on reddit is almost wall to wall with this, and there is a huge megathread about it. It is known (further details are slowly dribbling out) that Niemann cheated in some online games some years ago, at ages 12-16. He claims to have not done it more recently than that. He claims to have never cheated in an over-the-board (i.e. in person, not online) game.

Opinions vary but the most widespread one is that while Carlsen may have had suspicions, Niemann didn't cheat in this specific game. A bunch of cheat detection specialists and the arbiters have gone over the game and venue and not found anything untoward. I tend to also believe this, though it is very hard to prove someone didn't cheat.

One not obvious thing is that cheating can be very subtle. If you're a strong player you don't have to play engine moves, which tend to be noticeable. There are 3 kinds of chess positions: 1) there is obviously only one reasonable move, such as a recapture, so you make it. 2) There are several reasonable moves to pick from, so you pick one. 3) It LOOKS LIKE there are several reasonable moves, but deep analysis will show you that only one of them is the right one.

Of course, identifying situation #3 above is very difficult in its own right. Kasparov has said that if a computer could identify such positions and alert him just once per game, that would give him a huge advantage. It wouldn't have to tell him the right move. Just knowing that there was a unique good move in that position would tell him to spend the necessary thinking time to find it, instead of just doing something that looked reasonable. So you need only 1 bit per game from a computer to cheat effectively, not a stream of engine moves.

Someone on reddit told of a time he was playing someone at a tournament, when he noticed that a small crowd had gathered around his board to watch the game. That told him there was something particularly interesting about the position that had developed, which hadn't otherwise occurred to him. So he sank into thought and found a clever way to win, which he wouldn't have even looked for without being alerted by the interest of the spectators.

There is a recent video of two GM's (Naroditsky and Nakamura) discussing the Magnus situation and cheating in general: https://youtu.be/mHZy9TNOGCk

It is about 45 minutes long, but quite interesting. The anecdote about Kasparov is from that video.
In my experience, these slackers do exists in meaningful numbers (maybe most of PIPed but I know at least a few long timers). That said, an even bigger problem is that the majority of people are incentized to slack in some capacity.

The impact & output of work within Google follows something like a perato distribution and yet the payscale is pretty flat. It creates this weird incentive system that almost encourages some base level of slacking unless you really want that promotion. And the difference in output makes it pretty hard to staff project and superstars often end up overworked which is hardly fair to the people doing the work.

This wasn't always the case, but is probably the norm at larger companies. It does seem to me like the way comp is modeled isn't ideal, but I'm definitely not a comp expert. My guess is that more discretion in pay would open companies up to all kinds of legal liabilities not to mention actual unfairness.

All that is to say that there is likely some extra slack that can be let go with little effect.
The probability that SARS-CoV-2 is A genetically modified virus
It's not so much about giving up something they want but about giving up something that is fundamentally better than the alternatives (except of course for the externalities). It would be like getting people to go back to going to communal laundry facilities or washboards.
RSS is a straight up fascist organization:

"India has the longest-running continuous fascist movement in the world – the RSS was founded in 1925. It’s nearly 100 years old. Their internal language hasn’t changed; they’re still using texts by Savarkar or Golwalkar for indoctrinating their members – and Golwalkar famously thought that the Nazi example of getting rid of Jews from Germany should be followed in India for Muslims."
https://thewire.in/politics/benjamin-zachariah-fascism-sangh...

"In the 1930s Hindu nationalism borrowed from European fascism to transform 'different' people into 'enemies'. Leaders of militant Hinduism repeatedly expressed their admiration for authoritarian leaders such as Mussolini and Hitler and for the fascist model of society. This influence continues to the present day. This paper presents archival evidence on the would-be collaborators."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4408848#metadata_info_tab_conte...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/20/hindu-supremac...

Vembu's hobnobbing with such organizations, should make Zoho untouchable for any reasonable person.
Alcohol is rather easily created. All kinds of synthetic fuels can be, well, synthesized.

The reason we just pump it out of the ground is it's cheaper.
Impulse responses don’t capture distortion or compression, just frequency response
The comment should have been the post.

And this is the unsurprising TLDR:

"The long and short of it is publishing is very much a gambler's game, and I think that has been clear from the testimony in the DOJ case. It is true that most people in publishing up to and including the CEOs cannot tell you for sure what books are going to make their year."
I was around and writing OpenGL when we started getting the first programmable cards. Nvidia shot out first with their Cg language, but I held back and waited for the "Orange Book" to come up. I bought it right away and learned from it and by looking at other peoples shaders.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opengl+orange+book

Also the quick reference card helps

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=glsl+quick+reference&t=h_&ia=web
And how about storage of radioactive garbage? That seems to be conveniently omitted too
You can hack your way around that stuff. Just add a CSP policy telling the browsers that any connection except to wjtv.com should be blocked, problem solved. Granted, your trackers can actually handle having their connection broken without breaking the entire rest of the site.

This obviously won't help if you for example sell your backend access.log to the highest bidder, or do backend tracking somehow.
You probably don't need the hash to be cryptographically secure.
The simplest solution might be to use several uniquely keyed siphash instances, as siphash is quite cheap to compute, was designed for use in hash tables, and two siphashes with different keys behave pairwise independent, which roughly means there are no observable correlations between them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SipHash
As far as I know, even before loris post pcwalton has been poking at zig many times.
More like 20 birthdays. Each of the dozens of territories she ruled over finds its own convenient time for a local celebration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Official_Birthday (also an example of a page in flux, with about half the references updated to refer to the king instead of a queen).
If you're based in the US with no presence in the EU the pragmatic approach may be to be sensible from the start about personal data handling but to ignore the GDPR, and not to bother blocking anyone.
If you cite a price that high for bulk data then if you get an answer of "no" it won't prove anything. Try asking about a competitive price.

For ballpark numbers, youtube dedicates 1200kbps to 1080p videos in VP9. Let's say we have a 10 minute video with an RPM of $3.

We can arrange a CDN to deliver files at $0.005 per GB without even putting effort into it. And that's at a super low scale. The price drops a lot from there as things get bigger. So I'll use that number, and note that it's being generous to google.

So that's 0.3 cents of revenue per watch, which is 90MB of data that would cost .045 cents to deliver.

One view would pay for about 7 downloads. And how many downloads are we likely to see? Probably under 10% of viewers.

I'd turn that option on.