skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the problem is to display something for a moving angle, not display something for everything. As best I can tell, it is a different problem.

I want to restate what I'm hearing so you can correct me. You are saying something like "Gee, if we could show any retinally-matched conic the user's pointing their eyeball at? To do that we'd have to have the entire scene rendered anyway"

I'm saying you can't do it now. It hurts when I do that. So stop doing that. Instead of trying to render stereo scenes quicker, try to render a moving conic real-time quicker. When the codec runs, it's optimizing areas of a frame changing over time. If instead it optimized possible vision movement paths, you'd end up solving the framerate and resolution problems. Then you could concentrate on optimizing the codec in a different way than people are currently trying to optimize it. It couldn't hurt, and there may be opportunities for consolidation if you look at the problem as visual-movement-path-rendering instead of frame rendering. I don't know. I just know it's a problem now. Set your constraints differently and optimize along a different line. Sometimes that works.

Does that explain the differences here? Or do you want me to start spec'ing out what I mean by retinal-path codec? At some point this will a bit over the top.

ADD: I'll say it a little differently. Our constraint now is "how fast can you render this frame". Codecs are built for rendering frames on screens where people watch movies and play games. But that's not the world we're trying to solve a problem in. They may be configured the wrong way. Instead, require that anything the eyeball is looking at should render consistently in, say 5ms.

This sounds like the same thing, until you realize that the eyeball can't look at everything at the same time. Different parts of the image are temporally separated. So if I update the image in back of your head once every 200ms? You're not going to know. As far you're concerned, it's all instant.

It becomes a different kind of problem.
(Disclosure: I work at Pulumi)

> I may be wrong, but from what I can tell this is really a souped-up framework for working with clouds. Most of it looks like primitive for immutable infrastructure, so Terraform but as a library. As far as can tell, there's no deployment system, no orchestration etc. -- a "Pulumi app" doesn't know how to deploy itself. Is that accurate?

Not quite. A Pulumi app is always deployed through the Pulumi CLI, which deploys and manages Pulumi programs. Note that most Pulumi code runs at deployment time, not runtime. Instead of specifying resources in a configuration language, you write them in code. The Pulumi CLI turns this code into a declarative plan, and updates your infrastructure when you run `pulumi update`. You may find this doc page helpful: https://pulumi.io/reference/how.html

Docker builds, plus provisioning of a container registry instance (and deploying to it), are handled automatically. This blog post walks through the e2e container scenario (but on AWS, rather than GCP): http://blog.pulumi.com/deploying-production-ready-containers...

> Typically applications aren't self-contained enough that they can, or should, declare all their resources. So presumably then you have to centralize common stuff (e.g. your central Postgres server) in a shared module that all your apps import. Now you get into versioning hell as your app depends on an old version of the "common" module and "pulumi update" tears down your Postgres 10 install and creates a 9.6 install instead. (Presumably it asks first. But still. Versioning has got to be a challenge here.)

This is just one way to architect an app, and it's unlikely to work well for a database, as you say. In this case, you'd likely use a `database.get` call, where you reference an existing database, that may be managed in a different Pulumi program or stack, or even outside of Pulumi.
Ask HN: Homebrew RFID/IoT solution to monitor an Alzheimer's patient location?
I have a parent suffering from Alzheimer's who has been brought home by the police twice this week, so I'm researching solutions to notify a caregiver when he leaves the house. It seems like an ideal solution would be a little dongle on his keychain that uses RFID/IoT type functionality to trigger some behavior (e.g. an SMS) whenever it leaves his home's wifi signal, presumably via dead man's switch. I'm having trouble figuring out which devices might work, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has built anything like this already.

I've done some research and have some ideas, which due to the character limit I'll add in a comment.
Yes and no. My biggest gripe with Electron is that it tends to murder battery life. It still gives you native text rendering, and it gives you native menubars which have some options if not always as many as I'd like. At least there's not a fake menubar at the top of the window.

There are other issues like contextual menus, in VS Code they're handled well and give you all the actions you'd expect. But in Slack it gives you the bare minimum OS included items and has their own "..." button on each message for things that ought to be in the contextual menu.

It can also do multiple windows (again, see VS Code which is a good example), but Slack stuffs everything into one window (preferences overlay is a good example of what should be separate) because it's a much simpler wrapping of a webpage instead of being designed as a native app would be.
The only thing I could find is a set of 'browser.tabs.remote.*' options, that are all enabled by default in FF 60.

That seems to indicate it is enabled, since the old option was 'browser.tabs.remote'? Or has it changed to something else now?
People always say this but I am a contractor and I have health insurance.
The RyuJIT transition is complete
Sure, its clear to you and I. But we on HN aren't whom you have to convince.

Do you believe the US DOJ or more powerful states would go after Alphabet/google? That's the ones that count. I just can't see our current administration going that avenue.
Someone here on HN had recently shared some hairstyles, facial accessories, and alterations that prevented common face detection implementations from recognizing your head, which seemed relevant and pretty cool from a tech punk perspective, too.
There was no material consideration to begin with. If I agree to paint your house for free, and put it in writing, and then later decide not to (or decide not to unless you agree to some post-hoc rule), you have no tort against me -- there was no consideration to begin with.
Ask HN: How much traffic can free heroku handle?
Or, you don't think about all the exception paths, and just add a mechanism for humans to override the system's decisions. Which clearly no one managed to do in a timely fashion in this case.
I use the term "partner" because I'm in a civil partnership. Same legalities as being married but without the terminology and ceremony, not to be politically correct, respectful, or to maintain privacy.

So it depends on where you're from, partner could be the legally correct term as opposed to just meaning "significant other"
Oh wow, how have I never noticed that.

In fact there are individual channel feeds (https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<>) and this is a wrapper around that. That's great!

I currently receive email notifications for subscriptions, but I've noticed I don't always get emails for all the uploads of some of those channels. A direct RSS feed should solve that problem too.
Ideas so far:

* There are "notify you when your child/parent/dog leaves a certain area" commercial solutions, but they all seem to rely on GPS, and hence include hefty ($20-$40) monthly charges. They are essentially just little screen-less mobile phones, with all that entails (SIM, data plan, frequent recharging). Since this use case doesn't need GPS, these seem like overkill.

* Some articles[0] seem to suggest that there is such a thing as an active RFID tag that broadcasts a beacon signal over WIFI. That would be perfect - unfortunately, all I can find on "wifi rfid rtls" is sales brochures from the manufacturers of big integrated solutions for industrial applications. Active RFID tags can be bought in small batches from Alibaba, but I haven't figured out how to figure out which ones can use wifi, what equipment is used to program them, or whether they require custom wifi APs or not.

* Another option would be a non-RFID IoT device, like the Amazon IoT button[1]. I have one of those, it works great, but it's predicated on the idea of "you click the button, it does something" functionality. I don't think it's possible to give it beacon type behavior (hitting an endpoint every X seconds instead of only when the button is pressed). A similar but more hackable competitor to the Amazon button might work, but I haven't found one.

* I guess the last option would be a miniature general purpose computer, like a Raspberry Pi, which would definitely work but also seems like overkill in terms of complexity, power usage, and size. If this is the only viable option I will probably just hope the alarms on the doors are enough.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or info!

0: https://www.technologyfirst.org/magazines/2015/21-august/106... - "A beaconing active tag is most often used in RFID over Wi-Fi for Real-Time Location System, RTLS. This type of tag sends a short message at a pre-programmed interval to provide location updates"

1: https://www.amazon.com/AWS-IoT-Button-2nd-Generation/dp/B01K...
Does this have anything to do with Google removing their "Don't be evil" trademark? Maybe huh?
10% is a very big deal. We talk about trying to 'eat healthy', but what happens when all your food is becoming less healthy? This is a tragedy of a worldwide commons. Because it's not just rice, extrapolating from it, this is something that affects all plants globally. And it isn't just humans that are affected: this affects the animals that eat plants. What happens to environmentally stressed endangered species who now get less nutrient value from what they eat? This isn't an isolated study: people have been looking at this (albeit with little funding) for 20 years.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953470...

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrie...
That's a very good question. Supposing YT is still unprofitable after all these years, isn't that evidence of dumping? In other words, evidence of Google/Alphabet illegally pushing in to take over this market?
So far.

The US has never really faced a peer that was both economically and militarily its equal. The USSR never was. China might end up that way.

Israel has had nuclear weapons since the mid 1960's, yet still fought two existential wars. Nuclear weapons aren't a panacea; if your opponent thinks you won't use them, then they're worse than useless.
I fail to see how this behavior helps artificially preserve their status as a monopoly or constitutes a nefarious dealing to create a monopoly, and the fact that Blender is using this opportunity to switch to another provider is not going to reinforce your point about YouTube being a monopoly.
Having never worked with Redux, what is its point? Is it really so hard to stick app state in a JS object and databind off that?
I bought an iPad Pro and pencil with the hope I could at least draw figures and take notes. I gave up after awhile. Still doesn’t beat pencil and paper.
That's the point. It's the mind that separates objects out from the global mess, from the single process that unfolds. It's a good thing in a sense that it allows humans to function in the world and create more humans. Downside is that it leads to lots of unnesessary suffering when things change. And they always do, all the time.
Nope. It just verifies that the apk came from Google Play to start with.
What made you think that you were entitled to something that you were supposed to receive on a date which was later than the date on which you resigned?
Maybe enough to skip through the automated checks, maybe not. I suppose it depends on whether it's being done through an ID verification service or just a payment processor putting a hold on the card.

The gift card number wouldn't be visible to the ID verification services as a credit or deposit account, and that'll certainly knock points off in their scoring system.

I suspect it would just shift the point where someone eventually notices either way.
Wow this really cool! Never saw PeerTube before. It's UI is far away better than Youtube!
Here's the Wikiepdia page on EDGE:

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

This seems to be a fairly close descendant of the older dataflow designs that also inspired out of order computing. The problem with dataflow processors, as I understand it, was that the fact that they weren't pretending to execute instructions in order meant that they didn't provide for the precise exceptions you need for memory protection, multiplexing across threads, etc. Is there a standard EDGE solution to that?
“The Machine” used to be a metaphor for the mindless beaucracy of the State and the mindless profit seeking of Capital. They both operate algorithmically, although their “hardware” were still humans. Now we are cutting out the human entirely from The Machine, hooking control of the economy directly into trading algorithms, and the control of humans directly into automated bureaucracies.
Ah, I think the USAF is doing a fine job with what it's been dealt with. It's made a few procurement decisions that have been a bit questionable, but much of that was driven more by the Executive Branch than the Pentagon.

Airpower is really quite limited. Boots on the ground will always be required, and that's something the US has grown tired of providing.
I had a sort-of related experience with PayPal where the machine said "No."

I've been using it for at least 10 years at that point.

What I did was try to pay for some cheap VPS hosting in Italy. The transaction was denied. I thought there was some problem with my CC, so I immediately tried to do a $1 transaction with some other company and it went without a hitch.

So I contacted PayPal support about it and the next day I actually get a phone call from one of their support staff.

He says my transaction was flagged as "suspicious" by the fraud prevention system. So I asked, okay... but now a Human has looked at it, can you manually approve the transaction? The answer was "No, I am not allowed to tell you why".

I was incredulous, so I asked "Wait... you acknowledge that I'm not a scammer or a terrorist (since my PP account still worked and does to this day), and the party I'm trying to purchase from is obviously not either since they're still accepting PP, but The Machine thinks there is something fishy about us two specifically and there is no way for someone to manually approve this transaction?"

And he said something to the tune of "Yes. I'm sorry, but there is nothing I or anyone at PP can do about it, and for security reasons we're unable to offer further details."

So yeah. This was just a minor nuisance for me, I purchased similar services elsewhere. But the whole thing was a real eye-opener. That was the day I realized that there is no pleading or reasoning with The Machine.
"but this net neutrality hysteria in general seems to me like a lot of well intentioned folks are trying to solve a problem which does not exist"

It very much does exist. https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/expla...
I never understood the obsession with native navigation libaries.

I built a bunch of apps with JS navs and nobody ever complained...
That is a completely different thing. broadwayd is only a display server. Qt for WebAssembly runs in the browser in the same secure javascript sandbox.
I can't wait for a real competitor to YouTube to pop up.
Bitcoin and ethereum are such successes! On a smaller scale but growing, 0x is doing an amazing job.
This is interesting.

On the one hand, you have been promoted to a new role, so you have reached a compatible level of expertise. You can put that role on your resume and sell yourself.

On the other hand, you never, ever actually performed in that role, with the new responsibilities. How can you list that on your resume !

I am not sure what is the right answer here... but as your new employer I would take your last promotion with a big grain of salt. A resume is not a score sheet of levels accomplished in a game, it is a list of things your have actually done.
Etsh Project (V6Shell)
Last time I did this, the "we're starting a redirect, contact us if this is odd" letter was sent after the redirect started, and it was helpfully redirected to the new address!
If you can use Expo you're probably good to go without much tooling.
This is highly laudable and a great step in the right direction. Something that struck me though: what about all the time drivers are

- idling and waiting for a ride

- driving to a pick-up point

- driving to and from a high-demand area

It seems like the act of working as a Lyft driver would contribute more carbon dioxide than other jobs or contract positions.
This is why I'm hyped about the fedi. This is what it'll finally take to break our dependence on a centralized web. Essentially, the email model. I wish we followed this model earlier in the web 2.0 days.
That's exactly what I mentioned in my first comment. There are some hops to take, but nothing that could actually stop any competent developer.

Sure, you can use Electron right away, you don't even need to understand what you're doing. That has probably a great value for people who want to learn or for scrappy hobby projects, but shouldn't matter for anything serious.
Crate.io raises $11M and launches its hosted IoT data platform
To me, this seems like it is either an issue of confidence or passion.

What makes you say that you have junior level skill and wisdom? If companies have employed you for 10 years you are bound to have learned a bunch of things in that period of time. A lot of blue flamers[1] fresh out of college may have a fancy buzz words for describing things, but nothing tops experience.

If you truly have gone 10 years without picking up any experience that would differentiate you from someone fresh out of college its pretty evident that this is not where your passion lies. Would you be reigniting your passion, or would you be trying to improve by sheer force of will. If its the latter, I would consider making a career change. Writing code isn't the only way to make money. You'll do a much better job and get more satisfaction out of doing something you enjoy.

Obviously this is just my $.02 and I would definitely recommend against blindly taking advice from strangers on the internet.

1.https://www.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/765fk4/blue_flame...
You can start looking into Dai which serves as a stable coin using collateral or more generally into Security Tokens (here an explanation on STO https://medium.com/crypto-oracle/prepare-yourself-the-securi...) Those are going to be big very soon!
The OP is a take-off on the book: The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West, which profiles the Wrights of southern Utah, who have ranched near Zion National Park for 150 years, “long before there were any roads to get there,”
The same doctor - patient relationship that was hijacked by corporations pushing drugs and kickbacks for doctors? Who is in control then?
The logging service numbers are easily explained: the remote server might have transient failures, so the forwarder will cache stuff in memory (the alternative is to just stop reading the logs, but then you risk losing messages if the pod dies in the meantime). You complained about Go, but it doesn't help that the fluentd agent is written in Ruby. There's a new Go rewrite of it, but I don't think GKE or others use it yet.

Was COS a standalone GCE instance or GKE? In the latter case, memory will be used by the usual suspects: fluentd, kubelet, kube-proxy, docker, node-problem-detector. For both, there are also a few Google daemons in Python (ugh).
Fascinating. Ammeture question though: are there other ways to encode the images besides pixels that will ultimately be better suited to 360 content? Holograms came to my mind because they degrade gracefully as you toss out bits of the signal
oh no, now I just have even more questions, what is mastodon?
Maybe try reading the article? The person died in 2016 and the profile delete was 6 months later - long before GDPR took effect.
Me too. Last time I played with Ionic it was still mostly wrapped webviews though. And Vue-native is actually the worst. It transpiles Vue code into React Native code that then gets sent across the bridge to native apis.
No you're right, this particular behavior doesn't help to preserve their monopoly. It's evidence that they already have one.

Companies who have to survive in a competitive marketplace don't typically go around driving away customers en masse. This is like something from 1990's Microsoft.
For those unaware, I'm sure this is in competition with AWS's partnership with CryEngine.

https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/
It is really a pleasant change from what was once the preeminent ruin-porn destination for people who are into that sort of thing. What a change!!
I resigned effective the 2nd of a month, and the promo was effective the 1st of the month. See above "resignation (slated to be effective after the promo)". So the resignation was scheduled for the day after the promo.

I actually stayed an extra week to receive the promo.
Also curious about why someone would choose Vue/JSX over React. My argument is essentially in favor of JSX, if Vue or something else uses JSX in a more interesting way or creates something better than JSX, that's cool.
Yeah I don't know. With this administration, anything is possible. There's lots of bad blood between silicon valley progressives and the Trump admin, too.
Im not doing the research, so I cant answer, but it dosent seem to be weight related, as they loose the diabetes on same day as surgery. They loose none of the weight on surgery,
Too bad they are not available in Amsterdam. This is the kind of thing that would make me use lyft instead of something else.
I wish more products would be carbon neutral or negative. I also liked stripe's move and I think slowly more companies are changing this.
That safety culture wasn’t born de novo, it was legislated into being after years of fighting with them. Remember Ralph Nader? The companies that now have a “strong safety culture” were the same that fought against seatbelts for Christ’s sake. Airlines had to experience a decade+ of terror attacks from rank amateurs, Pan Am had to die before basic security screening was accepted.
At least at Google, the whole point of a promo is that you've been working at the new level for some time before the promo cycle. And the new employer was not really in the equation, I'd already received my offer from them.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with amusement. I just asked if there was any utility besides that. If it's only value is amusement and the potential negatives are enormous, it's at least worth a discussion.

I don't think it's right to just shrug and say "everything can be used for good or bad". The details matter. If you're talking about a Yo-yo, yeah, you can hit people with it or just amuse yourself; nothing catastrophic is likely to happen. This tech though has greater implications.
> And those pills are coming from somewhere.

Not sure, but if you're suggesting these are from legal prescription pain pills, please read the article and look at CDC data. You'll note that most opiate deaths aren't from pills, but from illegal heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanyl. Pain pill prescriptions are down 40% the past 5 years, even as opiate deaths are up 40%.
Indeed! I've been intrigued enough to look into hosting an instance on a video-related domain I have knocking about
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