skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're working with triangle meshes, I think the approach of extruding triangles into prisms looks promising. It allows drawing arbitrarily long trails with OK performance. Sadly it did not match the constraints of cramming the whole scene into a shader, hence the weirder volume-based techniques.

Fast analytical motion blur with transparency: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009784932...
Just checked my Zelle limits are $1,000 day, $2,500 per week, or $10,000 per month
> in-laws

i'd rather rto
No, that you are supposed to have a basic level of autonomy and attempt at understanding before using a forum as your own personal search engine
edited my comment to say that SF gas prices are $5. It was two separate thoughts. The broader point is that gasoline vs electricity is energy either way, and the cost of different kinds of energy aren't always going to favor electricity in San Francisco in the near future, it seems.
San Jose is trying to 10x the size of the reservoirs but an Indian tribe is claiming that land is “sacred”. I guess it’s like the Navajo Indians claiming the moon as sacred and asking NASA to not land on it.
> the samples were sent before Smashmallow signed the deal.

Yes. Samples that Tanis claimed were made by automatic machinery which is why Smashmallow signed the deal. That's what made it fraud.

That's exactly the timeline I'm talking about. I really don't understand what you're arguing...
You know with this state being how it is, pge will manage to put it in front of voters and confuse them enough to vote against their own interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM_adaptor

It's very likely that the 44.1 kHz rate comes from the PCM adaptors that were designed to take PCM audio and convert it to something that a video tape recorder would accept.

I watched a YouTube a few months ago about these adaptors and the presenter did the calculations showing how the 44.1 kHz 16-bit sample rate lines up with the video fields. There was a valid engineering reason for this sampling rate.

However, the stories about one of the Sony executives having a particular piece of music in mind are true, and have to do with the diameter of the disk being enlarged compared to what Philips originally had in mind. By that time the bitrate was already decided.

I still agree that 48 kHz is a better choice today, especially after reading this paper.
It's relatively common problem here in Russia when some people share the same full name and birthdate even in same region. Tax/debt collectors sometimes issue requests to wrong people because of that.
chuckke nobody buys a car because they feel like giving a billionaire money.

I mean, if you can afford to spend $100k just to simp for Elon Musk, god bless you, but the rest of us want $100k of value when we pay $100k for a car.
I have a Rivian. It's equivalent to 16.7 mpg given its mi/kWh, and electricity and gasoline costs.
> You know the obvious no-brainer ones already—don’t interrupt, don’t look at your phone, make (frequent, but not creepily constant) eye contact, turn your body towards the speaker…

These "obvious" things are so unnatural for me that doing them consumes so much of my attention that I don't actually hear anything the person is saying.
> assembly is comparatively easier than, say, formal logic or partial differential equations

Can you explain how, exactly, one compares the ease of assembly to the ease of formal logic, such that one can then make a definitive and sweeping statement about that comparison?
> options makers or writers or whatever might set a price based on what they feel is fair/good for them/whatever

Former options market maker. We basically made money because of (a) people setting prices based on gut feel and (b) retail investors buying options for leverage and then forgetting to exercise barely in-the-money contracts. The first has largely left the market; fortunately, the second came in with gale force.

> Robinhood buyers + supply/demand are what drives IV in reality

Of course. Supply and demand drive price. Volatility is a measure on price. Options are principally an instrument for trading volatility.
That isn't really on the same scale as 1.4 billion litres of hexavalent chromium. I'm not sure if they are meant to be the same incident, but at $10 million/life, $100 million in savings at cost of 8 lives would be an appropriate design choice. We have to draw a line somewhere. I don't think that is the comparison you're trying to draw, but I'm not sure what you are trying to say, so...

Life be risky. Perfect safety is not a reasonable goal.
I find it hard to quantify wrong in this context.

Maybe wrong / right are endpoints of a sliding scale of accuracy, and maybe certain quantities on that scale become qualitative in my perception .
The California Water Project was intended to have enough capacity for three years of drought. It was when we started having 4-6 years of low rain that it got bad.

I don't know if they still have it, but at one time the California Department of Water Resources' control center had a sign "California Drought Control Center" on one side, and "California Flood Control Center" on the other. The sign was turned over every few years as appropriate.
I’d recommend getting into role playing and paying attention to how good game masters get their players to elaborate on what sort of actions they want to take.
> If one would actually use it to price options one would lose money

If you try to fly a rocket across the solar system using only Newton's equations, it will crash. That doesn't make Newtonian mechanics useless. Almost every option-pricing engine in the market starts with Black-Scholes-Merton. Smiles and skews are all dealt with on the vol surface--it's an expandable variable.
Vietnam and Taiwan want 51% of starlink. South Africa 30%

The Feds still haven't issued a sanctions waiver for Crimea and 2014 occupied Donestsk and Lughansk. They bought unrestricted dishes instead.

Ukrainians think a whitelist is beyond them after asking for service beyond the frontline for over a year.

For the Feds they'll have federal Esims and the traffic will be forwarded to their cell core.

Spectrum issue disputes with other countries are a State Department & Commerce Department issue.

If they want SpaceX to transmit illegally regardless they know what to do.
The PG&E rates are hard to believe for anyone outside their grip of death. From my February bill:

peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWhw

partpeak: 51.3 + 11.1 = 62.4 c/kWh

offpeak: 34.4 + 09.8 = 44.2 c/kWh

Electricity is my third largest monthly expense (after mortgage and food) but at the current rate of increases, it'll be the second largest in a few years.

This is for a tiny house with nothing special using electricity.
At best it will look like what lawyers writes, and that takes way longer to learn to read and write than what programmers do. It isn't an upgrade, it is a downgrade.
Hi, just checking out the website reframe.is and I'm getting:

404: NOT_FOUND
Code: DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND

Would love to know more about what you guys do at Reframe AI
IMHO the problem is that utilities are like no other company in that they have a monopoly but are supposed to be reigned in by regulators. But the vast majority of regulatory bodies are either captured or incompetent at regulation.

Public versus privately traded doesn't matter as much as the fundamental conflict, wherein they profit more when the costs increase, and there's no penalty for literally killing people.

HIPAA violations result in jail time for executives. Meanwhile PGE illegally raids safety fund accounts to pay executive bonuses while regular people are killed due to failing infrastructure.

CPUC and PGE executives need to face serious consequences, and most certainly jail time, for their malfeasance.
I also use it, like you, because there is no good replacemt.

However, I have to say that Evernote is improving since it was bought by Bending Spoons.

I don't understand the general opinion of Hacker News, that it is dying. Evernote is in fact better now than one year ago.

Maybe these US developers were not as good as the Italian ones. Well, I mean, they guys in charge of the team were not good.

I don't know. But, now, Evernote is better.
{{citation needed}}

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s...
With enough money...

Larry Ellison used to have a TV projector in his house, with the light output for a drive-in movie theater but aimed at a small screen, so he could watch movies in broad daylight. That was before everyone got bright screens.
Also we're not just paying for GPT4. The paid version comes with image, so you can take photos of log dumps or diagrams. It also does some image manipulation stuff for me and passes me the code.

There's also DALL-E 3, but it's more of a bonus than something I'd pay for. PDF is cool too, but it's not the only service out there.

I'd likely have unsubscribed if it was only 4 because the API version is better.
> can still crash into someone else's $120K car

The significant increases in relatively irreparable high value cars on the road is presumably a driver of increasing insurance rates.

One solution would be to cap liability for damages to other people's cars to the median value of a car on the road. If you own a car worth more than the medium and want/need damage insurance for the full amount, you should take on that cost rather than saddling the public with it.
> Taleb and Derman have argued that put call parity implies BS but other disagree quite strongly

I mean sure. They're related. Same way the Michelson-Morley experiment implied special relativity. That doesn't detract from Einstein specifying just how. (Derman is legit but Taleb is a hack.)
Thanks, very much for this pointer. I used to listen to these on Youtube but the channel got deleted. I am glad to know that the episodes are still available.
OpenBSD – rpki-client 9.0 released
> Their equipment has led to many wildfires

Who are the antagonists in this story?

California decided that people who live in fire areas deserve (1) the last marginal sales price of the homes in their burnt down area (2) paid by taxpayers, in disguise, through their utility bills (3) and in exchange, get what?

Why should anyone be living in the places where these ancient powerlines are?

The essentially infinite land the US + cars have played an important role in keeping home prices from rising to truly stratospheric levels in the urban US. So I understand that it also benefits many communities to have the escape valve of this housing.

But there must be better land and better places than wildfire prone California. You have to draw the line somewhere. There are people who in the same breath say PG&E is the antagonist, that they are to blame and not the recklessness of the communities that live in these places; but then, they complain about wetland restrictions being rescinded and that taxpayers should not be paying for repeat flood victims in Florida, Louisiana, whatever, in red states. It's the same fucking thing!

I don't know why the money to achieve this ridiculous compensation scheme has to meander through the utility company's liability. Obviously if it were an ordinary tax - I mean, it's a tax, that we're paying, through these utility bills - people would not do it. The only reason PG&E liability is on anyone's radar is because of some kind of complex political shenanigans that I do not understand and I wish were not a part of my community at all.
I actually think this is a golden opportunity to recognise Taiwan. The PRC isn't ready to invade - Russia's performance has them doing some soul-searching, which will ultimately result in a stronger military, but right now they're on the back foot. The Chinese economy is struggling for various reasons and export restrictions are already in the air, making this a particularly bad time for them to start a trade war.
Lets solve the children being shot in schools or being denied food and housing, before we tackle the children in the womb.

Whats the point of saving them in the womb if they will just get murdered in daycare?
Can confirm, I could never forget this article since I read it a long time ago and have developed a habit of always checking every butterfly depiction I see if its in a dead pose.
I like how it flipped from being easily gaslit to arrogantly overconfident lol
> The biggest problem is that the people that work better in an office tend to see that benefit because there are co-workers there. And if half the people are working from home, the co-workers aren't there. So you can really only make one group optimal, and the other one suffers.

That is exactly what I noticed in 2020 mostly. The people who kept going to the office were almost screaming and crying on the internet about working in an empty office and basically begging everyone to come back and keep them company.

All this time we'd accepted that as the norm. Dare I say it, the world favored extroverts. And in 2020 for a brief few months, it didn't. It was interesting seeing the table flipped.

Of course that's kinda exaggerating. Lots of people are "fine" in either situation. Lots of places were closed for a while and even after, there was still a spooky vibe to it, so WFH wasn't quite as nice.

I love socializing and stuff. TO me there are other reasons I prefer WFH - for example, the business district my company HQ is in, is very VERY pedestrian unfriendly. It's basically a corner of 2 super busy 6-lane streets. Walking to get lunch is impossible. Getting parking is a nightmare. The commute to/from the office is awful. I don't even like the town the office is in lol.
This article seems written by AI. It has the same structure as post written by ChatGPT.
Do you know how many businesses software is used for? Look at every local business you go to and enumerate the things they use software to accomplish.

When they pay their local utility bills, is that international? How about paying their rent? How about filing their state taxes? How about ordering from local suppliers?

Very little of the world is international business. That tiny slice that is just dominates the zeitgeist because it’s international.

For some examples of things well known that absolutely don’t need global data centers:

- airbus and Boeing

- Coca-Cola

- Marriott and Hilton

- the entire US federal government (apart from some maybe military applications)

- McDonald’s

The list goes on forever because it’s literally nearly every business. Unless you’re in real time markets or operating store fronts globally where latency hurts sales, putting up regions all over the world is a complete and utter waste of money.

Making global regions as easy as a click of a button was one of the greatest marketing ploys of cloud providers to date.

“Of course Good Will needs a Singapore data center!? How will we meet our P99 goals otherwise?”
No, It's not a coincidence.

Unfortunately, majority of "large" user-facing programs or services are not open source.
Yes.

It works in much of the world. Plenty of places have have government run the power companies.... like, for example, the capital city of California, or the largest city in California (LA). And SF, another major city, is looking into having a municipal power company as well.

I grew up in a small town on the east coast, and we had a municipal electricity company. Service was better and cheaper. And we got discounts on next month's electricity if the company accidentally ran a profit the prior month.

Americans have such a visceral reaction to their own perception of communism they forget that it can work, even in America.
This is literally a story about the gut feelings of a middling financial academic [1].

His one macroeconomic paper starts with "how should monetary policy respond to evolving financial conditions?," and then answers it with a toy DSGE model [2].

[1] https://fnce.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/gomesj/#research\

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4393209
I didn't, and I'm happy I didn't. Evernote is improving since it was bought by Bending Spoons.
It's not $100M savings, it's $100M paid to executives, illegally, instead of on the safety repairs.

As far as whether trading $100M is an appropriate tradeoff for 8 lives, well.... let's hope you never are in a position to make a choice between $10M and a person's life.
Initially that company didn't even have their own computer and mailed programs to a bureaux with a two day turnaround (I read previously on her website). So being in the office didn't noticeable speed things up.

The bureaux was a third party, I think their clients didn't have a computer either but I don't know.
Idiot Plot
It will look a lot like this: https://chat.openai.com/share/345d0bca-7fc3-4b91-a1f1-95b1e8...

In other words, English (or your human language of choice.)
Sorry, but the nature of the material and the HN audience at large is leading me to hesitate. I'd be happy to share privately, the material that spoke to me. Contact info in bio.
Is there a right amount of cancelling someone before it doesn’t become sad anymore?
A SQLite database is not really proprietary though. It's easy to work with. And perhaps there is an export function too in case you want to move.
Evernote works well now. It has improved.
I agree. What seemed to be a game changer at the time and maybe was for a short period, the blitter and the bitmap concept, showed later on to be more of a burden than an asset.
That's not a cloudflare issue. archive.today (archive.ph) does the infinite loop on purpose for cloudflare users because they do not agree on their handling of EDNS location data. They style it to look similar to the cloudflare captcha.

If you switch to a different DNS provider that won't be an issue.
This comment reeks of victim blaming. Natural disasters happen literally everywhere on earth. When someone's house is destroyed by a tornado in Tornado Valley do you tell them "Oh well you were really irresponsible for living in tornado valley"? Or how about Florida, which has been hit by over 40% of US-landfall hurricanes? Do you tell the hundreds of thousands of people whose homes have been destroyed that they should have just packed up shop and moved away since they get regular hurricanes?
workplaces still do not have adequate COVID-19 controls, so offices are disabling and deadly places.

the risk of being an office worker used to be tripping on the stairs, car crash while commuting, or sitting too much. now it means contracting a deadly virus multiple times a year.

it's too bad OSHA doesn't set minimum standards here.
We spend 1.5 out of
5 days just catching up to stuff in meetings and documenting. If it was 2.5 days of work per week, we'd just end up doing overtime to get stuff done.

I actually did do 4 hour weeks back when I was freelancing, though. It's equally efficient, assuming you don't work with a lot of people.
Ceasing the moment can avoid so much pain later. We had time before NK originally got nukes to negotiate a deal with Deng era China which would have involved a two prong invasion and giving north korea up to become a Chinese puppet state. A Chinese puppet would be infinitely better than what they have going on right now, and the folks in south Korea would sleep much more soundly.

I'm glad to see the US appearing to cease the moment similarly here.
Your mind is stuck in low cost retail shopping. Even setting aside the likely self-serving nature of that “study”, most interactions are not latency sensitive like that.

When I go to book my colonoscopy on my hospital’s reservation system, I don’t bail out and look for a new doctor if it takes me 10 tries.

There are very few businesses where UX latency at the sub second level matters and the ones that do are not the ones you want to be in.
It would be awesome to write/read the selected cities into/from the URL so selections could be shared easily.
Goddam weird how we treat a corporate as though it has history and morals: PG&E is not a person.

Projecting past crimes and predicting future actions makes zero sense.
> like the Navajo Indians claiming the moon as sacred and asking NASA to not land on it

They objected to "human remains [being] placed on the moon" [1]. (Still WTF stuff.)

[1] https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/navajo-nation-human-remains...
I think as long as an invasion of Taiwan looks _difficult_, and the overwhelming likely hood that invading Taiwan will leave Taiwan a smoking crater, that is enough to keep China from invading it. China benefits tremendously economically from trading with Taiwan and they aren't going to throw that way over national pride, _as long as Taiwan doesn't declare independence_.
Alexander was only doing what would come to mind to any horseman: whenever one has 500kg of panicked livestock putting tension on (what was once a quick-release) knot, cutting is the appropriate solution.
Wow, watching motion blur all the way down really made me think about string theory, atoms, and how the universe is made for some reason!
> well.... let's just say that I wouldn't be spending any more time around you if I could put a face to that statement. Come on.

I suspect I could be any civil engineer, assuming that I didn't remember the wrong order of magnitude. Decisions have to be made about how safe to make things. It is quite difficult to do that without putting a dollar figure on human life, and AFAIK it is order of magnitude 10 million.

Otherwise when do you stop bubble wrapping infrastructure?

The numbers are close enough that they probably were skimping, but we can't tell that from the outcome of 8 people dying.
The first question is: why would USA need help from Japan and South Korea to help build ships?
I am ten books into the Wings of Fire series by Tui T Sutherland because my grand daughter likes it. My main reason for liking it is that it gives me a glimpse of the type of anxiety that young kids routinely go through. I think the main reason my granddaughter likes it is because of the dragons.
if you didn’t enforce RTO mandates, how else would you do your 15% layoff without paying severance or worrying investors?
Yeah, I grew up in a town like that in CT. It's nice, for sure. I would call it semirural rather than suburban, though.

The issue with lovely semirural living is that there literally isn't enough space on Earth for everyone to sustainably live like that. It's a privilage to live in house surrounded by woods with grocery store a 15 minutes drive away. Many people (not you, congrats) need to live very close to one another, and the best, happiest, most sustainable way for them to do that is in a dense city with good transit, good sidewalks, and limited auto traffic.

That is all not to mention the economics of suburban and semirural living. Those nice roads with little traffic? They are crushingly expensive. Towns would not be able to afford them if it were not for huge federal and state subsidies, which are largely funded by... wait for it... tax revenue from dense cities.
Nice, I had no idea that CSS had elements to allow printing to paper! Thanks
State-run services are not communism. Don't be obtuse.
I mean when the pandemic hit we all made do with what we had, and put a office setup somewhere in the house. But not everyone likes or wants the aesthetic of living room/WFH office. And then when you're off work, your office is right there looking you in the face from the webcam when you're trying to relax in your living room.
That's what Bezos is counting on. Resistance is futile.