skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It becomes important with low resolution framebuffers and once things start to move. Triangle outlines in early 3D games tended to wobble and jitter because the 'math' didn't work at subpixel precision (many PS1 3d games suffered from this).

With subpixel precision (e.g. you do all the math at a higher precision than the framebuffer resolution, and preserve the fractional part of pixel coordinates in all computations until you actually write to the framebuffer), the outlines remain stable even for small movements. IIRC Quake (with the software renderer) was one of the first games which paid proper attention to subpixel accuracy, and they showed this off with a very slight camera movement at the result screen after a multiplayer match. Triangle edges were properly 'crawling' instead of being all jittery.
I wouldn’t say it’s always comparable like that. I takes me twenty minutes to walk to work, but there is a 200 m elevation difference. I don’t walk back up home and take a bus instead, which does take a bit longer, but i think walking back up would still be easier than cycling.

Some of the pedestrian route isn’t really bike accessible too, as stairs are involved, there are alternative routes of course, but some can be considerably longer.
But the Mac Pro was always for a highly niche market. Even the cheapest Intel-based Mac Pro is $6000. And that's with a pretty meager 8-core CPU that gets worse single-core and multi-core Geekbench scores than the M1 Max found in a $2000 Mac Studio.
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You'd probably want to process multiple lines at once and use scatter to do the pixel drawing, I guess? But if you have one long line and a bunch of short ones, the perf would tank due to the lanes all dying, like gpu shader divergence.
Many of us, myself included, do not want to read about patent encumbered IP in general. It doesn't matter who owns the patent, or how you purport to wield it on this particular day, in this particular year. You are essentially doing the equivalent of traversing the internet, planting mines as you go.
Maybe not immortality but living longer isn't what it's all about?

Before we were dying in our 20s, then in our 30s, then in our 60s, now in our 80s. Perhaps in 200 years we could say we die in our 120s? That would be a good thing (and no, this doesn't mean to live the years between 90 and 120 in the worst conditions possible, barely able to walk, eat, talk...; it means to extend our good years and make the 110-120 just like our current 80-90).

I myself am in my 40s but I look younger than many people in their late 20s/early 30s (mainly because I don't smoke, and I don't eat crap. I excerise regularly and sleep a lot). Some celebrities right now in their 50s look younger than many regular people in their 30s. So, I think there is hope for future generations to extend their lives by a lot.
I'm all for longetivity, but I admit what he said has substance.

It's not (only) about old people having short term vision/not enough time for reeducation.

25 or 30 year old people are already very often set in stone and unable to change their views and they have most of their life ahead of them.
Hard disagree: 100% coverage is not a "good low bar" and does not increase code quality.

Depending on the language and the particular project, my sweet spot for test coverage is between 30-70%, testing the tricky bits.

I've seen 100% code coverage with tests for all the getters and setters. These tests were not only 100% useless, they actively hindered any changes to the system.
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The very first paragraph says:

A near-death experience (NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death which researchers claim share similar characteristics. When positive, such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. When negative, such experiences may include sensations of anguish, distress, a void, devastation, and vast emptiness. People often report seeing hellish places and things like their own rendition of "the devil."[1][2][3]

A post only listing the positive reports is wildly biased. Collect enough data and ignore whatever doesn’t support your views and you can eventually find “evidence” to support anything. You can use the same methods to show NDE are positive, absolutely horrific, or shockingly mundane.
Can't really imagine a use case for this but looking through the code it looks a bit simplistic:

- Only checks for non-empty fields and not valid fields
- What use is a progress bar if the progress is invalid?
- Seems like it would only work with text inputs (No radio/check/select etc.)
And, obviously, this decisions kill the universities forever. If free speech is organised around a rule, a norm or a law, then it's not free anymore and I don't want to participate as a free individual.
And many people is gonna decide the same way looking for parallel ways of demonstrating their knowledge out of the formal.
Would love to see a proper, fully fledged Mammatus. Also a decent Asperatus.
Walking is also good exercise. I often walk when I live in a very cycle-able city, to add to low effort exercise. Cycling is too easy :-)
Out of curiosity, why has a replacement for this service not been created?
I don't use the product myself but love the developers blog.
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This is so cool. A lot of prehistory and anthropology has been upended in the past few years, like human inhabitation in the Americas thousands of years before the Bering straight froze for crossing.
"retard (n) person with a cognitive disability, person with autism,"

Autism is not the same as mental retardation. That's really offensive Stanford.

Shouldn't we really pinpoint exact people & groups who push for these kind of things? We need to put faces on this ideology. Who exactly is responsible for this?
I have a friend who always says “hi women” when meeting up with our group, no matter the genders of the people present. Nobody is getting offended.
It is true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity#United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011
Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory.

I came across an old box of 3.5 discs a few years back that I had stored away since the early 90's. I recovered them using ddrescue to create images using a cheap USB floppy drive.. was great fun.
I reject the notion that anyone hearing or reading a word from this list could possibly experience anything properly categorized as "harm".

This is what's known in the sports world as "flopping" - feigning an injury to elicit a penalty on the other team.

Except academia has taken it even further. You don't even need to pretend that you're the one injured. You can make up an imaginary person and pretend they are injured, i.e. "maybe somone will hear the word tarball and think of tarbaby and then they'll feel bad" despite the fact that this has never once happened in recorded history.

This way you can search for infractions and more expeditiously accuse and eject your rivals (people whose work is better than yours).
How does it compare/differ to/from Anbox which has a similar approach?
> I have always wondered: why do these industries effectively bet their industry’s computation on the whims of a company like Apple, who does what they (Apple) want when they (Apple) want and loves to shut out integrations?

Do they? Last I heard, most of the industry uses Linux render farms...
Copyright Holder Wants the Term “Troll” Banned at Piracy Trial
Ok so, the final display gamut, initial source color gamut, and working gamut are three separate spaces. Effectively, the gamut defines where your primaries are, which are the positions of the unit RGB cube within a larger volume. These three working spaces can be all completely different, and the only thing to ensure is that you are consistent about transforming from one space to the next. It's possible to do operations that take you outside the final gamut, after which you clip or do some other operation. There are no hard and fast rules, although some approaches will certainly look much better depending on lighting conditions (color temperature) and so on.
I'll check out your suggestions. I'm not sure you explained why cheap and easy are logically conflicting, though.
Seems to me that this could happen just as well with allowlist and blocklist
> When our time passes, we will live as strangers in a strange land, drowning in the sea of nostalgia.

I feel like that now, in my, ahem, later years, and watching the 20-somethings tie themselves in knots over things, that are actually quite trivial. Friends and family are important, social media not so much. I don't really get it. When I was that age, and I was angry, it took a bit of effort. I'd have to cut the letters out of newspapers, glue them to a bit of paper, and post it to people.
It doesn't really matter if it is fun, sad, entertaining or boring Python. The post wrongly claims that putting all these tools in a project will lead to "code quality". It says that at the very beginning as I quoted it. This is harmful, especially for a junior developer or someone that doesn't have much or none experience coding. It will make the naive reader believe that having those tools in place quality code is being produced.
> You can study anywhere in the EU. Why limit yourself to France.

I'm not in France anymore, I can come back depending on opportunity, but for now I'm in my home country where the cost of living is low so I don't burn my savings.

> Would a Scandinavian country work? The courses would be in English anyway. Everyone speaks English (I assume in other Scandinavian countries than the one that I live in - DK)

Oh YES, that would be amazing, I would love to if possible. Even better if there are some programs where companies can finance studies.

> And also why math and not CS?

Because out of all degrees in my country Math is among the few ones that are recognized by developed countries. That would let me go somewhere more developed for my masters. I would do CS if I go abroad though, and later go into Fintech.

>Are you interested in software development or just hacking stuff together?

I am interested in Software development and after playing with stable diffusion, machine learning.

Can we chat? I have some questions If you don't mind, now that I now you are in DK.
I applied the same logic as you when I picked my laptop (6800U so Zen 3 and RDNA 2, using Arch) but unfortunately it has not been a very smooth sailing. It works well enough for daily driving and the performance is amazing but the GPU glitches and crashes are frequent enough to be annoying.

It seems that the firmware is to blame because only BIOS updates seem to fix the GPU bugs I encounter.
First, don't second guess them if they are paying you more, or see more value in your work than you do yourself. Maybe they are idiots, but it is not worth spending time on things that are of concern to _them_.

Second, you must have an internal compass; you must work on deriving satisfaction by contributing something of value. I used to tell a boss of mine, "I can't let my job interfere with my work" ... he still recalls it with a laugh 30 years later.

I tell my students to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset wherever they are, even if they are part of a big company ... identify your customer (*), work on a problem that your customer cares about (the tech bits), show why your work is better than other solutions or is good for the customer (this involves networking and marketing your ideas), take it to an appropriate level that will fund the project and deploy it. You act as a startup within that ecosystem.

(*) The customer could be your company's customer, or could be someone internal (a fellow dev, an HR person, a sales guy ) whatever. Your focus should be on providing value to _someone_.
So what I think is the most likely outcome is that we realise there are better ways to preserve the dead for reanimation, and nobody will ever bother working on how to salvage the crudely frozen/vitrified.

I personally think the way forward is to derive the neural connectivity and transcriptional state map of the brain on a single cell level. This can be done today, albeit at great expense, on tissue that is chemically fixed. Maybe this will be enough to reanimate someone in a new substrate. Maybe more data will be required, but eventually we’ll get there, accepting that human consciousness is subject to the laws of physics.
> I'd assume it would ... be ... whatever the previous scalar was (i.e. untouched)

It is a fair assumption these days that no instruction leaves bits in the register "untouched" unless doing so is a core part of what's needed for the instruction to work. On architectures with register renaming (which is all high-performance architectures) it can be surprisingly expensive.

The very least, it forces a dependency on all previous instructions that write that register, and adds another source operand to the instruction. And on most real architectures, this source operand would be required to be present before the instruction itself can start. This is particularly bad for load instructions, if it pushes back when the load can be submitted to cache. This can wipe out all your memory parallelism, and effectively cut your performance to a fraction of what it would othewise be.

The basic mental model you need to have is that every instruction that writes to a register always gets a new register that starts with all bits zeroed. To have anything else, you have to do work.
I studied film and worked as a DOP. There are some aesthetic aspects to frame rates many people don't consider.

With lower frame rates (24/25) you can expose individual frames longer, which leads to more motion blur with movement relative to the camera. Motion blur can be an deliberate choice, or a necessity: with higher frame rate the exposure time per frame drops, which means you need more light per frame, which means you either need more budget to light things or you need to push the sensor/film more which typically degrades color and noise performance. Nowadays this is not a big issue, but it can still be relevant if you e.g. do night scenes with available light or similar. Of course having double the images also affects the budget in different ways when it comes to storage, post production, offloading times, battery consumption, how well you have to perform your practical effects and so on.

If budget is not an issue, high frame rates change how a film or a scene feels as well. Things feel more real. Shorter exposure times/smaller shutter angles are traditionally used to make things feel more stressful. So habing a higher frame rate can be a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing, and it all depends on the story you are telling. For example a war zone action shocker with shaky immersive hand camera might profit from the high frame rates as it feels more real (and thus more shocking), while a fantasy story like the hobbit might feel a bit too real and thus uncanny using the same thing.

Art is very often about creating an aesthetical distance to the reality. That is why most masterful paintings don't look like photographs, why black and white photographs can aestheticise their motif, why directors never show people going to the shitter in certain genres etc.

IMO high frame rates in film are heavily influenced by the narrative aesthetics pioneered by video games. Many modern films have a video-gamey feel to them as well, in the way they show motion, physics and the camera angles/motions that are chosen.

So frame rate in film is an aesthetical choice, and like everything choices can be made wrong, especially since films are made 4 times, once on paper, once on set, once in the editing room and once in the head of the viewer. Maybe what seemed like a good choice on day one on the set turns out to be a bad one on the last day. Maybe on set everything seemed like the right choice, but in the editing room the focus of the story shifts and you regret not shooting it differently.

I wonder when we will see variable frame rate films where film makers can use the frame rate as an aesthetical choice on a per scene basis..
From your linked article:

> An 18-year-old has been arrested in Canada after investigators traced “swatting” calls at Volunteer High School in Hawkins County and Watauga High School in Boone, N.C. to him.

Note that the caller was in Canada, but the swatting and presumably violent police response was in North Carolina. Swatting is as American as apple pie and baseball, IMO.
Good times :)

When I want some time to myself at work, I book meetings with the title "Guru meditation". Obviously. :)
Because someone wanted to and did the work.
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Fair, but there's still a big difference between the base model currently costing $6,000 and a base model that will cost over $10,000. That's a 70% price hike.
A world where no people ever died of natural causes would become, fast, a world where war would be the rule, and not the exception. In one generation alone, Earth would go from 7 billion people, to 14 billion. It would be Hell on Earth, literally.
It constantly damages us, so yes.. any force applied to hold constantly against will damage us.
I guess I don’t really know and was kind of going off of the article. I sort of thought the industries heavily used Macs, but it does make sense that some use much more industrial setups.
Something like Philips Hue is for those people. It’s Zigbee, but as long as you stay within their ecosystem, you get a lot of automagical features.
I was confused about this too. What he means is fractionally accurate endpoints of the lines. So it's just about line endings coordinates not being exact integers.
> Probably a historical artifact from when the extra 4-8 bytes required posed a serious overhead.

Variable length encodings like varint [1] allows to use 1 byte for small integers and more for large. Zero terminated string will use less memory for large strings, but the difference between 1 (\0) and 3 bytes (varint length) for a 64k string is negligible.

[1] https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/varint.wiki
Please recap your old hardware before powering it on, and use a newly made power supply - way too much stuff gets fried when people neglect these things. Also if your Amiga has a working RTC, that's powered by a battery that will often leak and ruin your motherboard. So you'd need to replace that as well.
It still burns fuel and exhausts CO2 doing that.
> If you're not willing to pay for the services you require... you're going to have a bad time.

Agree. I've been using Kagi for a few months now and have been pleasantly surprised I haven't had to revert back to Google once. I resisted for a long time, but Googles results have been going downhill for a whle, and I realised that if I want to use something, somebody has to pay for it, and that somebody should probably be me, the user.

"Unicorn" companies like social media live off investment dollars then usually ads. The former has dried up, only leaving the latter. I'd never pay $8 a month for Twitter, but I also don't care about it. I'd imagine many daily users would.

I've been a part of many communities where the owners have to beg for money for running costs monthly. It's always a struggle, and I don't see Mastodon being any different without compromising their principles.
When somebody offers food and shelter, people will fill the space and they will create whatever that person asks them to do. They will create Netflix productions and Google chat apps and Meta VR spaces.

The internet allows people to connect without the initial need for funding. If funding is needed, the internet makes it possible for a team to discover investors and foundations that would add financial support.

The limiting factor are not resources but teams.
That's plain retarded!
It is done in Norway: https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/the-giant-sun-mirrors-i...

More results here: https://kagi.com/search?q=rjukan+mirror&r=no&sh=jDluj1x6n_J8...
You do not need to come up with convoluted example like PhD, just call code monkey an engineer and see chartered engineer come out of woodwork to complain that to be called engineer you need to do some random formal stuff and without that you break law in one province or another.
> I notice that idlewords is recently active on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords

We need a way to page HN users...
And it's a vicious cycle which generates support. If you can pressure a neutral to adopt your 'language', they are likely to eventually convince themselves that they support your ideals, since why else would they go through the trouble of adjusting how they speak?
In a much less extreme way, this sometimes reminds me of the cultural revolution where what was fully accepted as being non-bourgeois and non-capitalistic would then be banned the next year for being ignorant of class struggle. The reasoning seems to me to be the same, it's signalling of a subgroup's belief running amok where people end up competing as to who can be the more culturally sensitive person by denigrating terms that were previously seen as culturally sensitive.

At first, the initiative can easily be seen as good, after all who wouldn't want to give more consideration to disenfranchised people by making such a small effort to alter one's language but pushing this to extreme is more than a little problematic.

It's fascinating to see but it's very sad that an institution of higher learning is pushing this and ignoring logic, common sense and restraint.
For hobbyists/non-critical work, this is the answer. I've been using it for a while now and never had an issue. But as with all free services, it might be here today then gone tomorrow.
I'm good at #1, but I absolutely hate #2. I still can't believe anyone ever reads all that crap, and yet it exists and is apparently important. At a previous project, our team had to go through some sort of process to become agile and devops before we were allowed to deploy to the cloud. (We had no other place to deploy so we had to, and were in fact already illegally deploying to the cloud in the namespace for another application we had that moved to the cloud just before these new rules. And we were already way more agile and devops than the organisation could handle.) The process involved filling out dozens of tables on a Confluence page. We had no idea what they meant, but fortunately people were ready to guide us through the stupid process, and most of the points were completely trivial (but a few treacherous ones were definitely not) and we just slowly muddled our way through it over a period of months.
"I can't hardly believe it."

That's because you're not talking about anything I believe in. You believe in a fairy tale. Something that doesn't exist.

Nothing about my stance is "pro-big-government"... my stance is actually pro-limited government.

Again: If you trust the government to decide when people die? You're not that smart.

Then again... you think I'm pro-big-government so... not that smart.

Canada has government run healthcare and that government run healthcare is pushing people to kill themselves to save money.

That's not you deciding to die. That's you getting pushed to die to save bean counters in the government money.

YOU are so pro-big-government that you want to give government run healthcare the right to kill you because it's better for tax payers.

See how that works? I can make non-sense statements too.
Now if only these companies learned the value of retention.
Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel
Indeed, the last column with the buttons that was hidden in iOS Safari shows up on Edge/Chrome desktop.
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