skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither surface nor weight seem to be issues: they're used for multisurface forklifts, they do fine on grass or dirt or sand, they're used for heavy lifters. They're expensive and heavy though.

But I'd be more worried about operating speed, mecanums have maybe 60~70% of the traction of a regular threaded wheel, and probably behave much more poorly at high speed.

On a regular car, you're probably better off with auto-parking (the tech is getting pretty damn reliable, it's just a question of having it trickle down from the luxury segments) or even just parking assist.
To be fair, predatory schemes can take many forms. Bad financial products, pseudo-science products, even a lot of advertising strategies these days use predatory tactics.

At the heart of it is the fact that these needs that you talk about people filling can be needs people think they have, but don't actually have. "My chakra is out of balance and it's the cause of what is bad in my life. I must buy this raw water."
You are not life, you are a human, a lifeform - product of life.
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> technical merit was now taking a back seat to a political agenda

I think we read different posts.

AFAICT, the project is going to get the help of an intern at no or little cost, but he got emotional because he opposes attempts to get underrepresented groups involved. His post was purely political, with no concern for what is best for the project.
Even maintaining a patch against a rapidly changing codebase takes work, and then you've got to make builds. This is why people contribute changes upstream rather than everyone maintaining their own modified version of every application and library.
Most of the DTC stories I hear seem to be very US-centric, including most of the companies mentioned in this article. What are successful DTC companies coming from outside of US?
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> even after rereading the scant instructions, I could not get it to do anything better than a compilation error

To be honest, that's my usual experience with any open source project, especially with something based on C/C++ (modern languages usually have much better and stable tooling).
he isn't on the right =)
Looks like you're also assuming most people can afford cleanings twice a year...
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Google have monopoly on search (up to 90% in some markets). So anything they do with AMP is anti-competitive, for example.

Google have monopoly on business email, close 85% if you trust reports from Datanyze [1]. And now they are pushing AMP for email with exactly 0 external input [2][3]

[1] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/email-hosting/gmail-fo...

[2] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597

[3] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13623
You can only read it that way if you ignore the fact that this same agenda is being pushed everywhere else. See my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16994302
I listen to a interview with a higher level Googler that explained why and it made a ton of sense to me.

They were tired of writing something up as a paper and then someone implemented as OSS and then companies and engineers knew the OSS implementation instead of their own.

So instead do a OSS version and then drive what everyone learns.

I found this a bit funny. One solution would have been to not write the papers. But so glad Google does. Spend a lot of time on their research site.

https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
While there is merit to clientside hashing, you should always hash serverside as well, lest a leak prove catastrophic.
Not true. Ex-googler.
This is a pretty par-for-course academic paper written on the philosophy of Aesthetics. The writer is using themselves as a subject via introspection, which is perfectly allowed, and attempting to highlight the aesthetic comparison between three of their favorite hobbies.

This isn't supposed to be a hard sciences paper. Aesthetics can, validly, be introspected on a personal level. If reading the paper makes you feel insecure, then you should probably engage in some self-introspection as well.
>The "left" wants to police speech

I am the left, and I don't want to do that.
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Just like aikido, the teaching of other arts also varies... and yet those who like to badmouth us at every opportunity will assume the worst aikido school in the world is exactly representative of all of us.

And there is some utter nonsense out there, definitely. But we're hardly unique in that.
I'm sorry you feel that way, because Google Cloud is really nice and if nothing else, it provokes a lot of thought. It's worth evaluating in my opinion.

I'm not saying it's better than other offerings - It's not all around - but the building blocks are really nice.
Probably improvements later on
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Actually more interested in how you're handling this than the PC fight that's breaking out around the thread.
Don't get me wrong, 250-300 MB is perfectly fine. As long as it doesn't grow exponentially and take over the system like Electron apps do, people would love to use this. I think you've got a solid product at hand and you should try to grow this commercially.

I tried `https://httpbin.org/deflate`, `https://httpbin.org/status/418`, and `https://httpbin.org/brotli`, and they all failed on me. It would be cool if you could use httpbin as a test suite.
"As someone who has a PhD in biochemistry and has been coding since age 5, I find the headline rediculous. You won't be computing in biology.... principles from CS applied to biology which has some validity."

I think it may be worth reminding people that modern-day computing is only a subset of computation, and not even necessarily a very large one. Computing with biology has extremely different characteristics from computing with modern computers, and the field of Software Engineering may not have much to say about it except in the vaguest of terms, but Computer Science may still have quite a lot to say about the limits of computation on this new substrate, how to do error correction, and all sorts of other things.

A computational formalism can easily be applied to something like an anti-body, and of course, anything larger than that. The primary thing that stops us is the fact that we have such a poor picture of what is going on that we don't have the data to create the formalisms correctly, nor machines (biological or otherwise) to manipulate such formalisms. But that's a human limitation and in some sense an engineering limitation, not a limitation of Computer Science.

Whatever we are coding in biology will be radically, radically different. Entire classes of squabbles in our industry become irrelevant; you won't get a concurrency choice (it's just "yes, all the time and everywhere"), there will be no meaningful debate over mutability (again, "yes all the time and everywhere"), "structured programming" is just meaningless since the entire concept of "scope" will be out the window. I don't know what it will look like. But I do know that whatever it is, quite a bit of Computer Science will still apply to it. Biological computing will not be immune to information theory. It won't be immune to complexity theory, although a whole new suite of classes will probably have to arise, and there will be a lot more probability in it (but recall that complexity theory already extensively uses that, so it's not like that's a new thing). And even software engineering won't be entirely tossed out... for instance, "leaky abstractions" will be an even bigger problem than they are for us now.
Freight is easier than passengers due to safety concerns (and G-forces). But saving 70-80 minutes on an Abu Dhabi-DXB trip is probably not enough to make that viable. You could already get a ~40-60 minute trip time with traditional rail (which would be cheaper) and I don't know where the demand for that extra 30 minutes saved comes from in Cargo. Passenger transport would definitely be a market but has much higher hurdle. You either have to go through the sea (very long bridge?) or will have some turns in the route, in which case I don't see how they can achieve those speeds.

For cargo to be competitive, this would have to run over long distances that have a lot of cargo traffic, e.g. China-Europe. That would definitely be a killer application but also extremely hard to get approved in all countries.
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"Lasers." (although, line of sight, point-to-point communication is admittedly less trivial to interfere with)

The point being that, if "criminal gangs" are up to no good, but they're parting their equipment with off-the-shelf Best Buy and Radio Shack products, they probably aren't programming DSP interfaces, aren't encoding and decoding raw bit streams, aren't masking binary objects with base64 blobs, aren't rolling their own encryption.

Or, if they are rolling their own encryption, they're using Excel spreadsheets to do it. [0]

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/ba_jihadist_trial_s...
A very justified question, and it seems clear that database systems will increasingly do this automatically in the future.

For comparison: A very similar issue arises in Prolog, where indexing is traditionally performed only on the outermost functor and arity of the first predicate argument to efficiently decide which clauses are applicable if that argument is sufficiently instantiated at the time the predicate is invoked.

In the recent past, Prolog systems have employed increasingly sophisticated techniques such as JIT indexing, multi-argument indexing and deep indexing to automatically select applicable clauses very efficiently in much more general situations.

So, the actual question seems more like "Why don't databases create their own indices yet?", and if the developments from the Prolog community are any indication, then maybe more urgent or more interesting tasks had to be solved first.
I welcome everyone to India's reservation system. I am proud to see that the culture is spreading to the whole world, where in the name of equality, you discriminate against everyone by giving unfair chances to the so called minority, instead of actually giving everyone equal chance based on merit.
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> Really, the solution to exposing passwords to the endpoint is to do key-derivation client-side, with a server-provided salt.

That sounds a lot like Secure Remote Password protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
Maybe. We're talking highly educated immigrants though, whike you're probably thinking of immigrants who are not as educated.
You should take a look at Rokas Leo's journey on youtube. I feel his journey is identical to what any open minded aikidoka will go down eventually. He trained for 13 years before beginning his journey and only recently got to the tail end and made a few important distinctions about why he will keep training aikido and how his teaching techniques will change, similar to a lot of the stuff you have echoed here.

edit: with some exceptions, he no longer believes aikido can help with self defense in any form (including against untrained attackers) at this point but does believe it has great benefits for other reasons.
A word of caution. I looked into this and it seems extraordinary complex to design your own speakers. Even build them seems tricky.

Here is a German shop that sells kits:
https://acoustic-design-online.de/de/

They had once kits to build your own electrostatic speaker (warning, high voltage, danger!): http://silberstatic.de/
Actually 88% but close.
> work 40 hours a week just to feed yourself and pay the rent

The problem isn't actually doing that, the problem is when you can't actually pay the rent on the money you earn. Both you and your potential employer lose out when you're hired because you're perhaps not quite good enough to warrant the $150k+[1] salary required, or because there's always going to be someone a bit better at that rate. It's not about not wanting to take the job at $80k[1], or the company not wanting you at that rate, it's that you can't afford a sustainable lifestyle at that salary. Never making it onto the first ladder, you're never going to climb it (or, you're going to climb it much, much slower). This also feeds into education credentialism as a "shortcut" to access this ladder - etc, etc.

The people who actually make it onto the ladder are for the most part going to be fine.

1: Adjust for the numbers that are true, these are just rough ballpark figures. The point it, that threshold exists.
Wow, that's awesome. I've never been able to get glasses in less than two weeks. Last time I went to Lenscrafters was 20 years ago, I guess they have changed a lot since then.
In addition to the other explanation, check out today's NYT article on how one guy cracked the lottery because of pseudo-random behaviour in the lottery code.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/magazine/mone...
And if it wasn't true, this wouldn't happen:

https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/...

You can't conclude too much from an isolated example.
GraphQL: 3 years in, and lessons learned
Amazing how often that gets forgotten, the internal ERP I develop (inherited) did horrible things, domloaded could be 5-6s on an internal gig network.

It wasn't until I demonstrated what that would be like for a sales rep using a VPN on the road or at a suppliers in India that my boss started to realise why I care about crunching assets, rewriting code to not do stupid things etc.

Speed is nearly always good because of the edge cases.
These are so damn cool. My old FIRST team wanted to use these but the lack of traction was a real problem. Great for moving heavy & slow, not so great for fast turns (even with relatively low center of gravity).
Analog computers were just digital computers with a different computational paradigm. That is, they had the same IO mechanisms, just how the Input became Output was slightly tweaked.

Biological computing will be interesting primarily because it will be able to build things, which neither analog nor digital computers are particularly good at. It's an entirely different paradigm. The act of computation can also be the output.
How would you know about the emails to you that were blocked and false positives?
I totally recognise where you're coming from. I was the same, skip raiding, etc. One Christmas I asked for a present which was a job lot of ex-mainframe PCBs I'd seen advertised in the back of an electronics magazine, Can't remember the cost, but a significant chunk must have been delivery, because it was a fair haul. The boards were just stuffed with 74-series TTL DIP chips, and a lot of red LEDs too. Pretty much every logic chip I used throughout my teenage years came from those boards, and I know for a fact I still have some of the LEDs in my collection - I recognise them by their rather pointed profile, not as cylindrical as modern ones.
No, it's just that HN's comment parser interpreted the > as a part of the URL. Here's a working link: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/
The Google Reader one is so baffling and love to hear the real story at some point.
This guy seems to have had a nice tube amplifier. At the first look I thought he had mine:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/N3MAAOSwLApZ3LWg/s-l300.jpg

They still sell for about 500 euros for a used one. But it is not the same. Can anyone identify the amplifier?
The whole point of binaural recording is to exploit the shape of the human ear to encode spatial information.

A binaural recording setup uses an artificial head with artificial ears, with the microphone capsules located where the eardrum would be. The microphones capture the phase and magnitude effects of the head and outer ear. Unless you have really weird ears or really bad headphones, the effect is extraordinarily lifelike.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTkVnb3TXO8

It's also possible to process sounds digitally to create a binaural effect using convolution. Using a mathematical model of the ear and head (a head-related transfer function), you can position sounds in a 3D space around the listener. Many games offer HRTF audio and it provides remarkably accurate spatial information. HRTF audio is a key aspect of the immersiveness of VR experiences. It's possible to generate a unique HRTF based on your own anatomy, using either an audio capture from a microphone placed inside the ear or a 3D scan of the user's head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dxIK3-vqpc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMDVJWExcxY
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Exactly in the US. Both Dems and Repubs base on the consumer being harmed.

That would have to change first. I have my doubts. Repubs do NOT want regulations. Dems and SV are pretty tight.
Sure parts of Android are open source, but what makes Android what it is to most users is the open source part + a bunch of closed source Google parts. Google has been closing more of Android over the years....

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on...
Oh my god, I didn’t know that and to be honest, I’m surprised. My first reaction was that must be a satirical site, but no it’s a real and claims of legality are accurate.

I don’t know what to say.
Astonishingly good article, written with a conciseness that often escapes other writers (esp. myself).
It's the case as long as you manually recompile them once a week when the code signing cert expires. It is deliberately impractical to actually distribute apps this way.
The US Air Force has sent unescorted B-2 bombers into enemy territory prior to establishing air superiority.
One thing I would add is constantly pushing the web standards forward with little regard to other players. They are adding features so fast that only the biggest structures can keep up. Many of these seem to exist just so ChromeOS can actually be considered a real OS.

Writing a secure and up to date HTML rendering engine from ground up is now almost impossible (kudos to Mozilla to actually doing that).
I have a friend into binaural recording, he has a rig shaped liked a head with 3d-printed ears. He wanders around the woods recording birdsongs with it. I would imagine that provides a fair degree of verisimilitude.
Yeah, this seems like the least frustrating way to do it, rather than trying to express one kind of path in terms of the other kind.
Aren't coredumps static copies of the memory state at time of termination - usually unplanned? So not really the same thing as having ongoing access to a program's memory; I can't really see a debugging process that would involve viewing memory in a dynamic way, whereas it's somewhat of a concern if coredumps (an important debugging tool) reveal plaintext passwords.
Two things different in the US. First, monopolies are defined by harm to a consumer.

Second, monopolies in the US are NOT illegal but certain behaviors when you have a monopoly are.
Otherwise, it's not their business to do anything about it

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. If a company or organization receives multiple independent accusations against someone, it is absolutely their business to look into it and decide if this is a person they want to keep being involved with, completely separate from any police involvement. It may even be their business to bring this information to the police and provide any evidence they may have if the accusations are serious enough.

At most companies just the serious suspicion of financial fraud, repeated sexual harassment or the covering up of these is plenty enough to get you fired.
Very much. I watched the show for the first time by "binging" the first four seasons, just ahead of the season 5 premiere, so I went in already having heard all the buzz about the showing being "Mr. Chips to Scarface." By episode 2 or 3 I was already thinking he was always Scarface.
It should be stated that it there are PLENTY of questions about the effectiveness of Krav Maga. Any martial art that cannot be trained at high intensity against a resisting opponent should be looked upon with a healthy amount of skepticism.
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I have to judge the words I read at the link I click.
It's funny, some people are so opposed to increasing capabilities of law enforcement but they conveniently ignore that the capabilities of criminals are increasing too.

Law enforcement should be as many steps ahead of criminals as possible, provided their capabilities do not infringe on our rights as citizens.
This was article was making the rounds a few days ago, as the amount needed to bring housing costs down to a normal amount of average income:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/solve-affordability-crisis-bay-are...

Take it al with a grain of salt of course, it's just a newspaper columnist and not a full analysis but it's the best I've seen and he cites his sources.

The build rate required to hit that is about 65,000 units/year, which was about the rate that the Bay Area built at in 1971, which has severely tapered off since then:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/8g7qyk/to_sol...

That trend on not building in recent decades is state wide too:

https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/05/03/82720/five-reasons-cali...

However, everybody I hear talking about remodeling or building is saying that right now there's a construction labor shortage in the Bay Area, and we're nowhere near building 65k units per year, so it's going to take many years to build up the labor force and construction capacity too.

Building is a long term, but necessary fix to the housing crisis.
Does this work?

I had the impression, you can't out-light shadows for example.
That post is something else. Are we really believe that an internship for Pacific Islanders constitutes a plot against White Men? At least you didn't go all "Cultural Marxism" like Damore.

I do hope that this is the hill that the anti-diversity agenda chooses to die on. The logic here is so transparently hypocritical, self-serving and stupid that I suspect it will really crystallize the "sides" involved here. Similar to the notion that gays didn't really lack the right to marry or that "all lives matter", the argument betrays a kind malicious rejection of equality and justice that really demonstrates in a very clear way what these people are really about.

So I say, go for it. Protest against every attempt to include minorities. Resign when they announce the next "Women in Technology" event. Raise hell if some damn SJW dares to include a Code of Conduct that forbids sexual harassment. It will be very interesting to see where this strategy takes you.
They don’t. South (or, very rarely, west) is all you can do from there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DASO_25_Video_(Cleared_fo...
In 1998, Brin and Page admitted that the future Google would biased and poor quality:

“The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.”

“We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.”

“Advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results.”

“Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries. This type of bias is much more insidious than advertising, because it is not clear who “deserves” to be there, and who is willing to pay money to be listed.”

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
You could do waypoint so the drone isn't being controlled by the controller.