skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a Mitsubishi RV4FR or RV7FR series arm[1]. It's a full on industrial arm, not an in-house solution. Industrial arms are some of the most well engineered devices on the planet; they are expected to last decades of nonstop, maintenance-free operation in factory conditions. They're supposed to go hundreds of thousands of hours without performance problems, while holding .005" precision (for this robot, +/- .0008"). This arm costs as much as a nice car because it has the absolute best components that can be built.

If it's the M class version then it's rated to IP67[2], and it can do all of the above while underwater or in a sandstorm.

[1]: https://us.mitsubishielectric.com/fa/en/products/industrial-...

[2]: http://www.dsmt.com/resources/ip-rating-chart/
What is your location?
Many early/seed stage startups are starving for operational people who can take care of a broad range of tasks. We are one of those - I can't find your contact, so please email me.
Finding bigger prime numbers has no impact on cryptography at all.

The large prime numbers needed for cryptography are a few hundred digits long. The are generated by picking a random numbers and checking it’s neighbors for primality.

The largest prime numbers that have been discovered have millions of digits. Finding a larger prime would have no effect whatsoever on our ability to quickly generate primes with a few hundred digits.
> And one more thing that isn't really 100% Signal's fault but absolutely drove me mad when I used it on Android as a replacement to the default SMS app: there's no real way to know when someone sets up Signal and then uninstalls it, and Signal defaults to sending secure messages every time.

I'm using https://silence.im/ - A Signal fork - instead of Signal for this exact reason.
Judges use historical cases as guidance. To say there is no precedent is misguided. This would still be the case.

More importantly, judges do not pass legislation. They adjudicate law.
Not sure how you could go 8 months and fail problems like that. Maybe after a month or two you should have focused a bit more on what the interviews are looking for...
As a rational asshole, I love the idea of optional billing for trash pickup, because I can save money by dumping my trash in the nearby national park under cover of darkness.

My neighbours don't feel the same way, so we have mandatory trash pickup, a.k.a. a tax.
You may appreciate this: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

If you run firefox mobile, you can install it along with uBlock Origin and the world wide web becomes a pretty great place again.
Does discord even have the option to make you IP address public? I thought you only have the option of private.
Are the some PI-like constants, but much harder to calculate? Like even a million digits would be hard to calculate?
Telegram user here. For me, by far the best use case for it are the bots. I live in Brazil and can't stand my relatives barfing bullshit about that idiotic Bolsonaro on WhatsApp. A simple bot on Telegram is the perfect antidote against political stupidity. Bye, bye WhatsApp...

Give me bots on Signal/WhatsApp and I'll begin paying attention. Before that, no thanks.
It'll be more costly for them if the EU ban all combustion consumer vehicles and VW are left unable to sell to the european market.

That is beside the point that the author of this article will be on the wrong side of history.
> Would it be more or less heart-breaking if they all starved homeless on the street instead?

Did you read the article?

> They were often chained up in a barn and forced to work long hours in the field. Milton remembers being called a “slave” by his new father figure, a label he accepted at the time because he didn’t understand what it meant.

> RaeAnn left home at 17, shortly after undergoing a brutally traumatic situation. As a young teen she was kidnapped and raped, which resulted in a pregnancy. She was sent away to a home for pregnant girls, and had her baby adopted when she returned.

I think plenty would take homelessness over slavery. Add in the physical and sexual abuse that's probably commonplace in "hey I went out and bought a kid" scenarios, too.
Actually not so long ago countries like Sri Lanka and Colombia made a lot of money providing "orphans" to couples who wanted children in Europe. Caused quite the scandal.
It's actually reasonable. There's a little animation that show "live" updates to donation value.

If you were to implement this, would you have every active client update live on the actual amount of donations, or would you just calculate the trajectory from past donations?

Unless the user is going to keep the browser tab open for days on end without reloading, this is going to be a fair and efficient approximation of the actual value.
Telegram's clients are nominally open source.
While this is nice, I think it should be emphasised that the blob-tree-commit-ref data structure of git is not essential to a DVCS. One of the disadvantages of everything being git is that everyone can only think in terms of git. This makes things like Pijul's patch system, Mercurial's revlogs, or Fossil's sqlite-based data structures more obscure than they should be. People not knowing about them and considering their relative merits has resulted in a bit of a stagnation in the VCS domain.
A delightful list of personal tech blogs
Ha-ha, been there, done that.

It takes a lot of effort, energy, support from the spouse, ...

I often say - if I could go back in time, I would go visit younger me, single, with 9-5 job being only obligation. I would go there, and slap him (myself) across the face for complaining about not having enough time. I mean, seriously?

And a note to those parents with one kid - enjoy your spring break. That's what it feels like compared to having two kids. Wouldn't dare to think about how it is with 3+.

Enjoy your time with kids, you won't get another chance with that. With side projects you can always start over.
Indeed, see http://www.tarsnap.com/open-source.html and https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/COPYING
> No attachments larger than 8 MB

The limit goes up to 50MB if you pay for nitro or nitro classic
Um, sure. But I don't think anybody really cares if pi is compressible because it's ASCII representation of numbers. At best, you'd be getting some constant factor improvement due to the unused bits, but there's nothing specific to pi in that.
the US government can literally take your life, imprison you, etc.

techcrunch just wants to sell you stuff.

there’s really no comparison.
Yes, but the US uses middle endian.
Facebook was actually using Erlang way before WhatsApp

https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Erlang-chosen-for-use-in-Faceb...
While clever and elegant, this method does suffer from the flaw that all multiples of f=1/latency will also resonate.
>Is there scientific applications where they would really need more than 40? Or is it just the author making some guess?

It is still not clear whether Pi is a normal number or not [0]. Such calculations could in principle give an insight here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Irrationality_and_normality
SpaceIL – Beresheet's Journey to the Moon
Depends on whether the crash is intentional :/
Types of Entrepreneurs Explained: Which One Are You?
Just to throw in another alternative: Some might know XMPP [1] for being the IETF standardized instant messaging protocol and Conversations [2] as one of the modern XMPP clients.

Recently, the main author of Conversations created a new version of his app called 'Quicksy'. Quicksy is still an XMPP client but with the ease of use other messangers deliver. For example, you don't have to choose a provider. Yet you still have features like federation available. So a perfect solution to invite others to join the XMPP world.

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...

- https://quicksy.im

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

[2] https://conversations.im
Many times going through code bases I have seen an entire library included for 1 method that could easily be replicated in code.

I've seen this too. Initially, I thought it was an internal joke.

Lastly, license type matters a ton,

Probably more of a concern for established companies, startups usually don't pay much attention to this.

A fourth question closely following is what dependencies does it also introduce to my system.

This could be very time consuming for dependancy-rich libraries. At least license types can be auto inspected with a recursive tool. Dispelling security concerns would require some serious auditing.
i was referring to their attitude towards automation, not how happy they are in general.

all societies have issues.
so, yeah, every time you open your desktop you need a cellphone
almost same thing here.
It were 14 years of entrepreneurship ( i'm 45 now ) and i didn't have a college degree ( when i smelled the bankruptcy, went back to college and took a 2.5 years "short graduation" ) but even before that i had landed my "first" nine-to-five job... since then, moved to better and better positions 3 times, as long as you can code, you will be just fine.
Personally, I find iMessage's clients to be far superior to Telegram's offerings. They're more reliable, lightweight, and just work better and look nicer overall.
Oh wow, just realized by clicking through that that grandparent poster is the mind behind Bulma.css.
You can’t say that though. For one thing code reviews are almost hopeless for catching normal bugs in the first place. For another, just because code is available does not mean anyone is actually looking at it. The people who are qualified to do this stuff quite likely will not do it for free.
Show HN: Google Scholar Accelerated – An Extension Enhancing GS's Case Search
Instead of ugly "https://www.google.com/amp/www.example.com/amp.doc.html" links as it displays them now when clicking AMP result on Google.com it would display "https://example.com/amp.doc.html" even though example.com was not contacted at all.
It was a near perfect experiment. She raised the price from $0 vs $12 to $0-plus-time-spent-finding-real-copy vs $12 and instantly saw the supply/demand curve move as it should.

We should absolutely expect any move off the $12 to cause a similar response. There is almost certainly a maximized price/units point on that curve somewhere below the $12... King's to the publisher brave enough to look for it first.

(It should be noted that its not just $12 right now either, its $12-plus-the-hassle-the-DRM-puts-you-thru).
I'm at 81% :) The fun part is over now with my e-commerce project. I have to integrate with payment provider, design a checkout form, create a shipping API, write legal text, subscribe to callbacks, etc :)

I will push it though, it's just boring stuff that must be done, but luckily I have the chi inside me thanks to the 80% fun part and positive feedback that I received during it.
I don't disagree with you. I meant in the context that someone with a passing familiarity with Python can generally jump right into GDScript and get acquainted very quickly, which reduces the learning curve.
The art of scientific glass blowing (2018)
Because they were built by Africans with wide noses. When they were conquered, they were altered to look more like the new king/god. See: Sphinx's tiny head
You start with microservices when you realize that including the Elasticsearch API in your jar causes dependency conflicts that are not easy to resolve.
No. To set up Signal Desktop on a computer, you need a cellphone once.
There is literally no downside to end-to-end encrypting text messages. So it should be default. It is just harder to implement technically.
He does frequently bring up retraining, but in the context that government-sponsored retraining programs have between a 0% and a 15% success rate. E.g. the graduation rate for former military employees who then go to college is 0%.

So retraining isn't a solution to jobs being lost by automation and even if we get significantly better at retraining it's still probably not a solution.
Great! Thank you for writing an iterative one.
Tools to help you get paid for open source
How easy do you imagine it is to get that many people to put their name on a list saying they want you for president?
I doubt that decisions of this magnitude are taken in spite of the big players or without their participation.
Congratulations on the funding!

I don't understand under what specific use case ArangoDB works best; the comparisons section lists Cassandra and Neo4j, and my understanding was Cassandra was for something like chat apps and Neo4j was for something like GIS analytics. Enlighten me?

Also, how convertible is a proprietary query language like AQL/CQL to SQL? Is it fully declarative, and version completely independently of the database core?
I also feel managed service is quite critical offering they're missing right now. Considering recent AWS and Elastic debacle, market is going to be tough for Open Source products like ArangoDB.
I have some tips for you, coming from an illustration background. You can see some of my work here:
https://shirajg.wordpress.com

Try charcoal and a white pencil on toned paper at first. Work from dark to light, applying large areas of tone with the charcoal, then picking out light shapes with a kneaded eraser, and finally adding highlights with white. This is a lot like what you eventually do with paint.

When starting to paint, use oil paint, or acrylic with a retarder in it to slow drying time. This will give you a lot of freedom to fix mistakes.

Work in layers when painting. This can let you tackle different aspects of the painting independently. You can start by toning your painting surface to a base color, then doing a sketch on top of that to establish the big shapes and edges. Once that's dry, you will always have the underdrawing to help you along as you paint. If you screw up the painting, you can scrape off the paint and start from the drawing again.

Learn to see values. The best way to do this is to squint. You'll see obvious contrasts in the light and dark, these are the values. All the detail within those values needs to sit very close to the value it's within. It will seem like there's a lot more contrast when your eyes are wide open and you're focused on one area, but you'll lose the gestalt effect of the light if you do that.

Work your paint from thin to think. You can be more sketchy and loose with thin, flowing paint. Save the thick stuff for the end, when you're sure everything is in the right place, looking how you'd like.

Learn to mix colors to a target value. Pick a random color and paint a swatch of that somewhere, then take another color and lighten or darken it until it's the same value as the first swatch. You can test how close you got by dabbing a bit of the new mix into the swatch you painted before. If the value matches it should fade into the swatch pretty seamlessly. If there's contrast between the dab and the swatch, the values is too light or dark. Do this enough and you'll be able to eye it.

If you want to paint figurative works, learn to draw.

Learning the 3D form of objects is of great help and should work in tandem with the visual stimulii you are observing.

Hope this helps, questions welcome.
Thanks for the link! Subscribed.
Congrats!

We've used ArangoDB for a while where I work, and have only had positive experiences so far. The query language, speed, and flexibility are all nice to work with.
Telegram is a fantastic app and platform in the IM/chat space. The feature set, speed and pace of development are far ahead of any others I've seen.

The fact that its default chats are not end-to-end encrypted and are stored in plaintext on its servers is a concern. Everyone who talks about this as a huge deficiency should also consider that this applies to email too, unless one always uses encryption (like GPG/PGP or S/MIME). Sharing personal photos and such may have shifted from emails and websites to chat platforms, but email is still a place where the most sensitive of information tends to be exchanged. That said, the UX of end-to-end email encryption in a federated and widespread way is not yet a solved problem (without kludges, like for example, hosting the encrypted email on a site and sending the link across if the email is sent to a user on another provider), whereas key end-to-end encryption on chat apps is a (mostly/completely?) solved problem.
You mean 2 decades from now?

It’s a little premature to worry about an EU ban.

Investing in battery R&D is probably important now. Meeting the requirements of China is also important.
‘We Know Them. We Trust Them.’ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave
I'm currently reading Yang's book The War on Normal People and it is kind of terrifying. I highly, highly recommend it in preparation for this presidential race, whether or not you're a Yang supporter. There is a great deal of food for thought. (full disclosure: I'm a Yang supporter and donated twenty bucks)

So, a few observations about him as a candidate. First, I think he's the only candidate really looking outside the box. It seems to me the political debate in this country is basically liberals saying the solution to our problems is more 1960s welfare and 1970s regulation, and conservatives saying the solution is less 1960s welfare and less 1970s regulation. We're stuck with a 50 year old model for the domestic responsibilities of our government.

Andrew Yang is one of us. He's from the startup community, and has seen up close how disruption works. He understands technology, and he understands numbers. And what he sees as a result of this understanding is grim - tens of millions of working-class and middle-class jobs slated for obsolescence in the next couple of decades, and no real alternatives in place for those about to lose their livelihoods. The social implications are terrifying. Don't like his UBI solution? Come up with something else, or commit to ignoring the problem until there are bread riots.

Another thing that strikes me is how he comes across. He reminds me of two important recent politicians - Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders. Obama, because he's so clearly a nerd. It's such a rare pleasure to listen to a politician that I think is actually much smarter than me and not pretending otherwise. And Bernie, because Bernie's superpower isn't his policies - it's his integrity. You know deep down that Bernie isn't lying to you. I get that same vibe from Yang, and that's a very powerful thing these days.

Anyway, just some observations.
This was in 2011. They probably got them finding near hash collisions (by hand, with pencil and paper) for mining cryptocurrency in 2019.
Sweet! Now I would want this on Gimp as well :)

Thank you for the effort of getting HDR to work on Angle.
Avoiding light grey text on a pale yellow background (like Hacker News) is a good start to saving your eyes.
They are not the same though. I got bitten by this recently (Go beginner).

In the single line form, both foo and err are scope restricted to the if block. Found that out the hard way.
Low-end arms are ~5k. This is just quite small, a Mitsubishi RV-FR series, payload ~5 kg. 300k+ robots are things like the KUKA KR1000 ("Titan"), which can literally toss around cars. It's got 200x higher payload for <20x the cost; if anything small arms are overpriced (they are- the only current use cases are pharmacies, low-end semiconductors and medicine).

Anyway, Mitsubishi is well respected and this is a very good arm.

[1]: https://us.mitsubishielectric.com/fa/en/products/industrial-...
I don’t know how good the vending machine’s coffee is, but there’s a cafex close by and it’s pretty dang good.
As a semi-early adopter of the GearVR, to me it seems like the monoscopic 360° videos are kind of a dead end and should be a last resort for scenes that can't be captured any other way.

Once I saw the 3DOF videos where you can actually move your head around, everything else instantly paled in comparison. I have no desire to view monoscopic video after I went to all the trouble of putting this headset on (unless it's the only way I can watch that video because I'm sitting in a crowded room or vehicle).

This really is the next-gen way to consume immersive 3D content, and if what you're doing is not 3D it is probably a niche use case.
Try to get hold of this Indian book:
Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8120801636/).

I have also heard of a Trachtenberg Speed system (https://www.amazon.com/Trachtenberg-Speed-System-Basic-Mathe...).
I love Signal, but it has issues. It _feels_ slow. I've had messages appear out of order, I've had the desktop app suddenly stop sending messages while simultaneously spamming my contacts (https://i.imgur.com/QDR22xl.png). I don't love that they refuse any discussion about federation. They don't implement fun features that my friends or family want to use.

It's secure, but it seems like a niche product targeting those who really care about security and aren't able to use iMessage.
WTF Is Serverless?
I know everything once you touch my code
I struggle to see any complexity into google approach - unlike bellard's one that is an amazing feat.

They basically pulled more machine to compute more. nothing really impressive. pretty much any dev with that computing power could have done it
Telegram has done an amazing job of this compared to basically everybody else. Anybody can create a bot in a few minutes and they are full featured. You have to initiate a chat with a bot for a bot to be able to interact with you and you can block them at any time. (I'm sure they have some internal metrics that also intervenes for bots that are getting blocked a ton)

Compare this to anybody else and it is head and shoulders better. WhatsApp is launching bots, but they will be paid, they can reach out to you without you interacting with them and they will be heavily policed. (IE, you will need to get approval from WhatsApp to launch your bot)

They have also made hosting be a problem of aggregators like Nexmo, Twilio and Clicaktell. So you need to pay them as well. Clickatell is advertising over $1,000 a month to host a WhatsApp number.

Bananas and a total shame. This is the kind of walled garden bullshit that makes me sad for the internet.
I agree with your larger point about diminishing returns but I’d have to disagree with the price point of making an “amazing” espresso or latte. My $800 home espresso setup makes drinks that are at least on-par with the local 3rd wave shops (although my latte art is pretty bland). To me, the reason for those very expensive latte machines at the shops is volume (pulling multiple espresso’s simultaneously) and durability— my gaggia definitely couldn’t handle hundreds of drinks per day.
'incompetent' men get ahead – BBC Reel
Show HN: FastAPI: Python 3.6, high performance, fast to code, production-ready
Down with Meritocracy (2001)
Injection Molded Clear Case for Apple Macintosh Mac SE/30 by MacEffects, LLC
Does that include the man bun?
No live location sharing as one. This is a killer feature for my friends and I.
Why isn't erlang statically typed? (2008)
The issue is of standards and norms. People in power are held to defacto lesser standards when they should be held to more stringent ones.
It isn't just those self interested in it like say judges who do coke giving a slap on the wrist to coke dealers while giving LSD dealers life sentences because they use one and counterculture uses the other but common people who buy into the "shouldn't have Xed to not be murdered".

If they were held to the same standards as even the average middle class misconduct it would be a non-issue because everyone responsible would be in jail.

The harsh truth in spite of any claimed lofty ideals power is all that matters for rights in practice. Long have people gotten into far more legal trouble for punching an obnoxious drunk than beating their kids. We can and should fight relentlessly and mercilessly against this.