skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might even be argued its rendering techniques either weren't that revolutionary, or turned out to be dead ends.

Don't get me wrong, it's a technical masterpiece, but one of execution rather than innovation.

It's main feature was dynamic lighting and shadows, which it accomplished with dynamic lights, normal maps and stencil shadows.

Dynamic lights and normal maps were nothing new even back then, I remember multiple titles using them, but not this well and not to this extent.

Stencil shadows were kind of unique, they worked by extruding the geometry from the light's perspective, and figuring out what was inside the light's shadow by counting front and back faces.

Unfortunately, since they used geometry, they looked really blocky and sharp, with no smooth edges unlike shadow mapping.

Imo they looked kind of bad, a step down from the beautiful pre-rendered lightmap shadows we enjoyed years before.
Love using Depot. The speed improvements are insane
That's in line with what GP is saying. Companies were already able to get your salary history anyways.
Share the company name / picture please :)
The idea that you could raise money based on a powerpoint presentation, like Dropbox did, is laughable in UK.

The investment culture is hard to describe with a word other than cowardly.
On desktop you see the image as a background on the <body>

@media (min-width: 770px)
body {
...
background-image: url(/img/niconiconi.png);
...
}

And on mobile you see that footer

@media (min-width: 770px)
#footer-image {
width: 0%;
}
>Keep in mind that a freeze could slow down application processes for things like a loan, a job, or social service benefits

hmm.. what does that mean? I can be refused a loan if I forget to unfreeze before applying?
Honest question and frankly scared to ask because it sounds stupid: if you have like 30 mins of downtime on AWS every year and spend 3x cost on managing their infrastructure risk by deploying it on multi-AZ and multi-region (and thereby AWS pushing reliability management back to the customer); is the value proposition of cloud just some dude to install a disk if it goes out on a rack in your office? May be there is a reverse incentive for AWS to keep their AZ's slightly unreliable so that customers spend 3x or 9x or what have you to make sure nothing ever goes down.

Like what's wrong with on-prem? Lack of diesel generators? We could just have that without AWS. Bare metal datacenter. Counter to most opinions, I think managing a server isn't that difficult. I am sort of a semi-professional and prosumer that has no trouble managing servers for years on end with less downtime than a whole fricking datacenter.

There is more serious discussion and new revelations around this [1], [2]. Sometimes it is hard to ask questions about layers of abstractions that have built up and no one dares to think about getting rid of them.

[1] https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-o...

[2] https://oxide.computer/
> Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has asked Optus to cover passport application fees for anyone caught up in last week's massive data breach, which affected millions of Australians.

I wonder if this is actually intended to be an "ask", or if this is polite language for "we will legally compel them to".

>Passport numbers are among the personal details accessed in what the federal government has described as a "basic hack".

>Optus says the data breach was due to a "sophisticated" operation.

It would be good to know more details of the hack itself.
1. Experience (in business and the industry)
2. Expertise (in the business solution)
3. Communication (speaking and listening)
4. Honesty
5. Stability
6. Commitment
7. …and some of the things listed in the tweet
The other browser engines have other security CVEs. Switching engines on the backend does not materially reduce the total attack surface for vulnerabilities for any given everyday user. Using security vulnerabilities as a primary condition of existence also leads to the introduction of engine oversight, review, and adamant “update or be removed” policy enforcement upon third parties, all of which who will complain endlessly in the press about the draconian App Store policies they would be subject to. I expect a better case will need to be made to convince Apple.
Salary history bans preclude the employer from asking you and your current/former employer about your salary. It doesn't stop them from asking Equifax.
This is often suggested on HN anytime there's some minor issue with streaming. Piracy isn't a solution to anything. Yes, there are issues with intellectual property, but most of the issues aren't with movies/TV/art. Without people paying for these things, studios won't invest vast sums of money in them and we wouldn't have the vast amount of high quality content we have today.
I'm not advocating that millions of people die in a vacuum, but millions of people risking death so that the other billion people in China could live a normal life is at least worth considering the trade-off.

The median age of a Covid death in the US, with its obese and unhealthy population, is around the average life expectancy with some room for error. I can't imagine that China fares worse in that regard.
As much as I understand why people would want this, I'm not sure that I do. It's bad enough that wages are stagnant, but now we're making it more difficult for people to effectively sell their desired pay to prospective employers? A big reason why my pay increased substantially is not because of bonuses or loyalty but because I asked new employers for way more than what I was paid before, and this worked in part because their job posting didn't include a salary range, thereby not leading to a situation where I ask for what I think my time is worth and get laughed at because it's beyond a listed number they will inevitably low-ball on.
Oops. Thanks! I'm not sure how I missed that. I've pushed a fix that should be live in 10 minutes.
Yes, Steam was smarter about licensing (though I do believe they've completely pulled a few games entirely) than Amazon was.

And sadly, nobody is going to ever really care.
There are some interesting variations in different scripts thanks to how they were handled in pre-Unicode encodings. Perhaps the most interesting divergence is in the various scripts derived from the old Brahmi script. These are all abugidas (as are the Japanese kana) where vowels do not exist independently of consonants. But in Thai, for example, the syllable NA is written นา with น and า treated as separate characters, while in Devanagari, NA is written ना where न is the N sound and the A sound ा is a spacing mark which changes the shape and spacing of the first letter to give ना. Although a Thai reader will read the combination of consonant and vowel as a single entity, they are treated as two graphemes by Unicode, while the equivalent in Devanagari is a single grapheme (and it’s not simply because they’re printed connected since नाना will be connected but treated as two graphemes).

Perhaps most interesting in this respect is the comparison between the Devanagri ि and the Thai ใ which both appear before the consonant that they’re attached to, but in Thai the input will be ใ + ค to get ใค (so you input in the order of appearance rather than the order of pronunciation) while in Devanagari, the input would be क + ि to get कि (so you input in pronunciation order rather than graphic order).
I've just tried with a VPN and got to phone number screen with an IP geolocated near Kyiv. What's the error you're getting?
Yea what's the tldr on clojurescript
Is there an alternative to selecting 'allow all' on Techcrunch? On Vivaldi for Android and I can't see any other buttons, portrait or landscape.
> akin to saying you don't need to understand the history of physics

I must have expressed myself badly. I think it's necessary to understand the history of philosophy. I think it's mostly history. Is post-modernism history yet?

Well, unless you are an actual historian (or an academic philosopher), you aren't usually qualified to trace the threads of thought development through time, and across continents and language barriers.

As it happens, the philosophers I focused on for my BA[0] were Nietsche and Wittgenstein. In both cases I read all their published work; then read many commentaries and books on each; then re-read the base works (all in English of course - I had only conversational German).

But I was doing a degree; I had to read all of Nietsche, because I was writing a paper on him. It's perfectly OK to approach the work of philosophers through the commentaries (although it's a shame not to read the base texts[1]).

[0] I scraped a pass. Nietsche wasn't a popular topic where I studied.

[1] Postmodernism crashed in after I studied, so I missed that boat. From what I've read, I wouldn't include that in my remark about base texts)
...and they wonder why piracy is a "problem"...

YARR motherfuckers.
That 1984 incident never fails to amuse me. Of all the books that it could've happened to, it had to be that one.
In theory, any of the BuildKit frontends like Depot or Dagger, should be able to pass through cross-build caching from BuildKit.

This is how they all scale builds, and hopefully things become more standardized with a reduction in vendor lock in. It is surprising to me how much of the world relies on moby/buildkit, and scary if you've ever looked at the code. Primarily a single developer, not straightforward to understand, comments & docs are basically non-existent. Looks like that might be starting to change with so many companies now building and SaaS'n on top of BuildKit.
The terms of service here are too intricate and contain provisions contrary to the average "purchaser's" expectations. There was no agreement here.
The reMarkable would have been lovely to have during my university days.

A laptop can be a source of distraction during lectures, and paper isn't as easily searchable.
> Upon investigation, it turned out that her name & SSN were being used simultaneously by more than 50 different workers in the meatpacking industry.

How the fark does the IRS not notice when a single SSN gets W-2s from 50 different employers, each with a different payee name?

All this stuff is completely computerized. Unlike tax returns, it is no longer possible to file W-2s on paper. You must file them electronically.
The reports linkedin in this thread said 62% of SF homeless had a place to live in the city for at least a year before becoming homeless. It's not as simple as "all the homeless here are transplants who are here to mooch off our goodwill", although there is certainly a sizable population that is true for.
It will be hard for future (>700 years away from now) historians to discover a lot about what we thought today: writing personal and professional letters (e.g. "letters to the editor" in learned journals, letters to an uncle living in a different city) and diaries is happening less and less compared to the last 200-300 years.

Perhaps we should go ahead and have a few hundred thousand emails printed with a special lasting ink on velum to pass it on to our successors ("Codex Electronicus"). On reflection, my own inbox is perhaps rather too nerdy - it would introduce a strong selection bias to posterity's view about us.
Hilarious, how just over a hundred curmudgeons who just don't like optimal line width for reading could be able to block this.
Yes they would. Russia was one of countries working with China to create an alternate reserve currency. (https://coercioncode.com/2022/07/25/russia-and-china-announc... ) Sanctions on Russia over Ukraine is accelerating this.

This isn’t the first attempt. Yuan is already increasingly held by central banks (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-v...) but I was thinking of a composite currency that included the Yuan. I don’t remember the article talking about this

Also keep in mind that Russia is not a part of OPEC, though they had historically worked with OPEC until the sanctions over invading Ukraine.
Eero’s realizing that wires can be good
You can get full quality photos of you're a paying Google customer right?
> VLC is a far better video player

Not for my use case, but maybe someone here has a solution. I watch lectures and lessons, as I watch I will change the playback speed constantly. I use a Firefox add-on for keyboard control of the YouTube video stream speed.

VLC also has keyboard control of the playback speed. However, when changing the speed VLC will skip a split second of audio. This drawback negates all the benefits of playing faster over the non-essential parts, because when we get to an essential part I'll lose some if it. This is on Kubuntu, across many versions over the years.
I don't think anybody on /r/datahoarders believes it's possible for a private individual to archive the entirety of Youtube. More than 200,000 hours of video are uploaded every day. Generously assuming something like 1 GB/hour for 1080p, that's 200TB per day that you have to add. No home array can handle that.
What constitutes a "political" add?
Open Source Initiative expands its role to AI and machine learning
"neuromorphic memristors" let you build neural-nets in hardware. Memristor act as a sort of variable resistor based on how much current has flowed through them. The weights in neural networks can be stored as the memory effect in each memristor.

A few years back HP was researching memristors to produce neural net processors, but I never heard of anything coming from it.

It's a pretty clever way to deploy a neural net algorithm using very low power. Maybe HP was looking at the wrong market.
I don't have gun for that, but a baseball bat instead. That scene from Office Space made such an impression, and I swear one day, I will recreate it on a piece of gear that steps out of line.
Don't be the fully grown elephant restrained by a rope only capable of holding an infant.
I feel that a lot of posts like this might be under-representing the true costs of running your own hardware. I was only tangentially associated with a large-ish operation and I can tell you that there are loads of things that take a lot of time but are often over looked. Things like detecting and replacing bad hardware. HDs don't last forever and when they go bad it's not fun; especially if you have to source some specific model for your 7 year old server platform.

Understanding your licensing and warranties is another huge cost that people don't take into account. We used to spend hours and hours figuring out if we could replace systems and what it would cost us.

Finally, you have to dispose of all that hardware when it gets too old or out of warranty. If you've never had to do that you probably have no idea how hard it is to do it correctly and so that it satisfies your SOC2 auditor.

All of these things (plus more) really add up. It's not just purchasing the components and installing them in racks. The management is probably even more expensive than the hardware.

And all of these problems go away with a cloud provider.
I assume he was talking about a high voltage line? Aboveground power lines are quite common.
Amazing!

I notice a slight difference between

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generat...

and searching for 'cat' on canweimage.com

Is there some query processing needed?
I would say even China isn’t technologically sovereign, depending on how broad the definition of technology is.

As a general example, even the Chinese attempt at building a commercial airliner still uses Western engines and other avionics.
Fair, but if the underrepresentation is 50% say, half of a large number is not tiny. Tech nowadays is a major career path akin to law or medicine, less of the niche idiosyncratic subculture it was 20 years ago.

Anecdotally, my socially conservative church is full of FAANG developers & one of our lay pastors is a highly-cited ML researcher
Pirating is the solution if you want to watch Final Space in the year 2025.
You mean I have to pick up a broom and sweep WITH MY ARMS?! This really is the darkest timeline.
How does the "tax write-off" work here, does anyone know?
> Will millennials produce the number of kids needed to offset their losses?

Yeah, this seems very doubtful. High housing cost + large student loan debt has delayed family formation which means fewer kids.
Say I want to advertise my new documentary on climate change, should that be banned?
I'm in favor of a system of free(ish) markets operating well, with big fortunes made from value creation and not rent-seeking behavior. If that results in wealth inequality, so be it; the old idea that a rising tide lifts all boats has not been invalidated yet.
Thank you for your kind words. I've learnt a lot about art styles while I've been putting the site together — both from the DALL-E 2 generations and research I've done to make sure those generations at least somewhat match the style I requested.

I'm not sure if you know (it might not be obvious — my fault!) but you can click on a prompt heading to see all 20 images created in one place, if that's more useful to you. e.g. https://generrated.com/prompts/16thCenturyPainting
That and 7 years of savings between now and then but they asked why you would get one and that is one reason why.
Taking into account what Docusign are doing, they probably need legal in retainer for every single of the 180 countries they sell to. How many languages do they need to support in the software? And don't forget sales. Stuff adds add quickly. Then, remember, productivity is sub-linear with headcount.
Yeah that part I would be weary of.
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/03/inflation-status-u...
> If you think Apple can just buy their way into fab success

No one is saying they can "just" buy their way into fab success. However, I think they do have the cash and clout to make it happen on a decade long timeline, possibly in league with Intel/Samsung or the US Government, or all three, etc. Obviously that would be enormously costly and risky, but any move to eventually do so is a threat to TSMC, so even if they don't do it they have a negotiating position with TSMC right now because the relationship is enormously valuable.
Wait how did you make your career using Google search?
Doom Emacs: a configuration framework for GNU Emacs
These numbers are wrong, the $622m is for 1 qtr.

TTM revenue is $2.4 billion. Gross profit is $1.8 bill.

They are losing money because they spend a fortune on sales and marketing. As all growing enterprise software companies do. And it's sensible. To make an analogy, if you have 1000 oil wells with high IRRs, you get drilling. You'll lose money for a while because they cost a lot to drill, and then the money just flows in.... It's the same as acquiring large customers with a sticky enterprise software offering. The only difference is that due to accounting standards oil & gas companies categorize drilling as capex while enterprise software companies categorize it as operating expense (mostly, there are a few minor exceptions).
For what it's worth there are also some tools out there to mitigate stylometry identification. [1] Some discussion [2][3] I do not know if using such tools would render one's writing less interesting or artistic.

There seem to be many tools on github [4] that work with and against stylometry.

[1] - https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

[2] - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/198741/what-are...

[3] - https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stylometry

[4] - https://github.com/topics/stylometry
"Go to youtube and watch <influencer> NOW, your way of life depends on this upcoming vote!"

<influencer> on youtube: ...vote <politician>!
Lawyers think otherwise.

It's not enough to own the land and have the political permission from the relevant entity. You also need all kinds of legal permits before you can start construction. And each of those permits provides opportunities for people who don't like the project to sue you to delay or prevent the construction.

In my home country, those lawsuits are cheap and their outcomes are predictable, because they are handled by the administrative court system. The judges are not allowed to consider the substance of the argument. They can only determine if the decisions were made according to the proper processes. Matters of substance are left to politicans to decide.

Here in the US, the lawsuits are handled by civil courts, where judges have more latitude to choose which factors to consider. That makes the lawsuits more expensive and their outcomes unpredictable, which is a major reason why NIMBYism is so effective in the US.
I'm not sure this answers the question because it fails to define what "political" means.
> Your memory of Final Space will be the only proof it ever existed.

And to those who know about bit torrent.

https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?search=final+space&category%5B...
Security, Compliance, and Geographic footprint.

If you're a large multinational, you basically face the same threats as Google/AWS/MSFT but there's no way you can hire, train and keep as good a production security team as them (well maybe better than Azure, but I digress).

You can't afford the upfront contractual / capital costs to maintain datacenters in every region.

And finally you can't afford the armies of lawyers and compliance engineering teams to try and reason about your data residency and things like GDPR and CCPA.

In other words, you're mostly paying for production security / privacy incident response, compliance (lawyers) and datacenters.
A lot of the jokes in last week tonight don't exactly land when they originally air either, but that has more to do with the writers than available context.

I run into this problem not just when watching old shows, but also when watching contemporary TV developed in other countries. Usually it's references to proper nouns I've never heard of, and I do often look those up, but even once you know what or who something was sometimes you'd have to be willing to go deep into various rabbit holes to really understand it.
I really, really think we need to move away from using the term "purchase" with these sorts of things.
You are not buying the title, you are buying access to the title so long as the title rights owner feels like you should have access to the title.

Amazon isn't alone, Valve/Steam has a similar issue, all music services, eBook platforms, audio books, etc. I think the war has already been lost on that front... you do not own anything and that's not going to change unfortunately.

For me, describing this as a "lease", perhaps with an explicit renewal date (that may or may not be free maybe) would make a lot more sense.

For Example:

Lease "Final Space" for 10 years (Renewal Date: 9/28/2032): $29.99

Or:

Lease "Final Space" until 12/31/2022 (Non-Renewable): *Reduced Rate* $7.43

This would give platforms a predictable end-date, and the possibility to charge a reduced amount as the title's contract expiration date nears... plus charge a reduced fee for "renewing" a lease (and giving them future revenues on the same titles).
It's objectively weird that your salary is private, except to other employers, banks, landlords, lenders, your cable company, and literally anyone else who pays Equifax $30 to run a credit check on you.

It's public for nearly anyone who matters, and private for nearly anyone who doesn't. It's public for nearly anyone who can use this information against you. It's private if you want to use it to benefit yourself.
[] Make sure to place Mr. Epstein's gun in the table drawer. (P11)
Also, it may be soon economically viable to harvest lithium from the ocean :)
It does in New York. History can't be purchased by an employer.
Maybe? If so I guess that still beats the drug that was “grounded by a mechanism” but failed to show efficacy and still somehow wound up getting approved by the FDA.
A tech demo you say. Obvious. Doom, Doom2, Quake and Unreals and nothing more than FPS clones of the same concepts to sell engine features to third parties.