skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just how high can a minecraft server scale in player number? I know the worlds are effectively infinite (well, until you get so far out that the terrain generation algorithms actually start to break in the Edgelands), so space isn't an issue...
I definitely used servers with hundreds or even thousands of players in the 2000s, so they can scale relatively high in a single instance. I wonder if a clustered minecraft instance could scale effectively infinitely, as long as they synced time?
Ascii85
- They could park somewhere else, underground, or just be always in use (for shared cars). This alone would cut space usage in half for typical streets with parking on both sides

- Near-perfect safety would reduce the need for structural safety. That could cut size and weight drastically

- Coordination might allow more efficient use of roads, obviating the need for multiple lanes, allowing cars to travel bumper-to-bumper, drastically increase throughput on intersections
> ELFs still don't even have an accepted embedded icon standard FFS

Also Apple does not embed icons in their binaries. Their app bundles are not binaries, they are a directory structure. The icon is just another file, just like the _actual_ executable(s).

> you could publish a binary containing native versions for all existing architectures

This sort of ignores the hardest part of shipping binaries; linked libraries. Dynamic linking everything is simply not always feasible. Not to mention libc.

Also I don't really understand why anyone on Linux would want this. The fact that I can recompile all of the software I use, is a really important feature to me and not a distribution problem. I can see why Apple wanted this to simplify distribution via their Appstore, but IMO that's mostly to work-around their specific distribution problems. I don't see any of those problems on Linux.

(edit: wording, see below)
Are you at liberty to elaborate what the discarded longer challenge was?
>Despite the greatest of precautions, every time the standard kilo was handled — for example, to compare it to another unit that could then be used to calibrate instruments — it would shed some atoms and its mass would be slightly changed. Over its lifetime, that standard kilo is estimated to have lost about 50 micrograms.

Why did the standard kilo ever need to be handled? Just store it on a balance and only handle the comparison unit.
Holdsworth works for programming.
Those aren't incentives, those are just operational parameters.

The incentive in both cases is money, specifically from people who feel vulnerable enough to pay but not so vulnerable that they give up hope.
Dealing with deer, hogs, cows, etc...is a much easier problem than obstructions in an urban area. Heck, even the roads are easier to deal with since where those lines are faded are only two lane anyways.

But self driving cars aren’t even aimed at rural areas anyways. Rural areas simply don’t have the traffic or parking problems that make self driving cars incredibly desirable in urban areas.
I would argue that while yes, I want to be "in on it" as far as knowing the realness of the speaker, I also want AIs that do sound natural. Even the Google thing that handles phone reservations or whatever: so long as I'm aware I'm listening to an AI, we're good.

If I want a Dan Rather news reader application that parses text and says it to me (and obviously, Dan Rather is okay with it), I see no issue with that. I don't want to be distracted by the artificial tone and attempting to parse it on my end.
Read your contract before signing. For my two most recent books I retain the right to buy the publisher out (not a traditional publisher but one serving the self-pub market).
K&R == kidnap & ransom
wait, something that teenagers can see, but parents can't? who would want that?

($B in 15 minutes)
>The issue even with a DRM-free local iTunes library is: how are people going to keep that over 30 years?

Parts of my MP3 library are 20 years old. Why do you think keeping them spinning a few more decades will be any harder?

>But for a local iTunes library you need IT admin skills to manage it, to back it up, to transfer it from one machine to the next, perhaps to understand that you can access the music without iTunes, etc. The vast majority of the public don't know how to do that.

Honestly, I think that's why streaming is taking over. Apple's approach to solving the sync problem was to rethink the whole paradigm, and so we got Apple Music instead of smarter iPhone/iPod sync. Sure, they get service revenue in the bargain, but to me it seems like an easy play.
I fly Gdansk-London Luton, less frequently these days, but I used to do it every week. It was definitely not an all day enterprise. I even managed to get back on the same day few times.

To get to the airport on time I need to leave home at 4am. Not exactly convenient, but doable. A bit over an hour to get to the airport, then I have about 45 min at the airport to get through security, eat breakfast, wait for my flight etc. 6am flight leaves, just under 2 hours later it lands at Luton, but there is a 1h time difference so it lands at 7am local time. Now the worst part of the whole journey, getting through UK customs - if I'm lucky it may take 10 minutes. Otherwise if lots of planes just landed there is a huge queue and an hour long wait. However, it is very rare that I would leave the destination airport later than 8am local time. Then there is a 10 min bus ride to the Luton Parkway train station. Fast trains to London leave every 10-15min. I'm usually in central London no later than 8:30-45. Just enough time to get a coffee before starting work at 9am.
RSS feed of music review blogs. Works well enough.
I just watched the video and the presenter makes it clear that Google picked Swift ultimately and eliminated Julia from evaluation in previous knockout rounds.

I don't use either and to be honest was surprised that their original set of languages evaluated was C++, Rust, Julia and Swift. Seems like an odd list of languages to start with when discussing ML.
No. I would heavily scrutinize the FAA testing. Boeing denied there were any problems until their planes were grounded around the world and then all of a sudden they said Hey! Here's a problem! No way. They lost my trust and I for one am going to make them EARN it back. I'm not volunteering my life to be their testing guinea pig.
Blob: A Community-Governed Stablecoin Backed by Stablecoins
Codethink is hiring software engineers and kernel engineers in Manchester UK
I'm definitely on board with physical media. Almost all the vinyl I've bought comes with a download code anyway, and album artwork shines on a 12" x 12" canvas much more than it ever could on the tiny thumbnail you get on a music player app.

That being said, indie music stores like Bandcamp are digital only, but offer one-click DRM-free MP3 downloads for purchased songs/albums. The UX is focused on buying music first and supporting individual artists, rather than commoditizing their sound into an algorithmic playlist where they're lumped in with everybody else.

I honestly find Spotify and Apple Music bad for music discovery if your tastes aren't really adjacent to Top 40 (is that even a thing today?) style pop music. Back in the day, Last.fm used your iTunes/Foobar play history to show you bands you'd like. The algorithm was based on user-submitted tags, and the recommendations weren't limited to bands that had deals with the platform. I discovered a ton of new music across very different genres there. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the site is very active these days.
Slack on the other hand embraced that problem so much they made their logo a combination of the 2
Preventing Hacks at CERN
Of course it amounts to fearmongering. People are insufficiently afraid of global heating, fearmongering is appropriate.
Let me reply to that we another example: If you fly an aircraft in GTA you are not doing a million-core-hour direct numerical simulation of the air flow around the jet. That doesn't mean it's not cool and playing with simplified models might still allow you to study the dynamics of 2 on 2 aircraft fights, but it is not the same as a physically self-consistent simulation starting from basic principles that we understand.

Another example to illustrate the difference between "physics based and good enough" to "accurate but expensive" would be the algorithm by Jos Stam in a paper title "stable fluids". It is fast enough to run real time fluid simulations e.g. for water in a computer game, but is very dissipative, i.e. it removes small eddies. So while a ship moving through water simulated with that algorithm is going to LOOK great, you will get a totally wrong and inconsistent estimate of the drag on the hull. Not something you care about for a computer game, but something that might change your results if you try to do science with it.
>For a detailed nuanced piece [...]

I don't see any nuance, I see invented complexity masquerading as something sophisticated.

This article is written as if they're trying to suss out the perfect boundaries along which to apply censorship. That frame of thinking is a con. They will never have a perfect censorship implementation because there is no win state.

Let me back up: As you read this, facebook has a censorship policy. What would it take for facebook to be know they're done arguing over what does or doesn't get deleted? How do they know when the censorship policy isn't good enough? Advertiser pressure, press pressure and political pressure. i.e. fashion.

It should have been obvious to everyone present at (or read about) the meeting in this article where Facebook attempted to invent a principled stance that allows casual misandry while banning similarly-tempered casual misogyny. But I'm perfectly willing to believe Facebook can't see it. I can explain.

Facebook's stance towards nudity has a very clever property (that is almost certainly unintentional). It allows users to lie to themselves. Facebook could automatically hide nudity to everyone who isn't an opted-in adult, and still throw it behind a twitter-style click gate so there is no accidental NSFW at W. But they don't. They'd have to add an "I'm not a prude" checkbox. And THERE'S the rub. The lack of such an option lets people uncomfortable with nudity tell themselves that they're not the kind of person that's uncomfortable with nudity. The want to think they're sex-positive enough to have nudity, and just a reasonable person who doesn't mind if it happens to be banned. Even more importantly, it lets people them avoid thinking about the question "am I so uncomfortable with nudity that the idea of other people - the WRONG PEOPLE - seeing it makes me uncomfortable?"
I see what you are saying too but I don't think speaking/understanding two different languages are the same as using two different keyboard layouts.

If I never seen a qwerty keyboard before and only used dvorak, I could probably type with it, it would only be a bit slower than usual. Same when I see someone with a dvorak keyboard. Although the layout is very different, I could still use it, but it slows me down a lot.

However, if someone only speaks/understands Esperanto meets someone who only speaks English, it will be way harder for them to understand each other, harder than trying to understand another keyboard layout.
Grumpy Cat Has Died
Love Gilbert Strang's original linear algebra lectures on YouTube [1]. They were a huge help while I took the course.

In my opinion, he takes great care to motivate each topic and express his train of thought when working through problems.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c
"the dong & swastika problem" -- not the future I had envisioned as a kid (where's my flying car?). Jokes aside, glad to see a company being proactive, rather than reactive, to the "dong & swastika problem". Hopefully that becomes more of a trend.
Usually it’s to enforce traffic laws, like obeying the speed limit or yielding for traffic signals. Are traffic infractions not common in the UK?
Officially, not really. The 'scene' is a tad too big for that, although some circles publish on bandcamp sometimes (mainly those who can't attend the physical convention).

In the west, there used to be forums (like doujinstyle) dedicated to sharing new releases after every event, which turned into large discord servers in the past year. Otherwise, a lot of the releases can be found on Asia-oriented private trackers as well.

These are often the only way to get a chance of actually listening to the album, since there's generally a limited number of physical albums available for sale at the event, and reprints during the next edition of the convention are uncommon.
Same. Especially with technical books that include illustrations, graphs, etc.
Quoting from an old comment of mine;

Every other other Level 2 system advertisement I could find shows the driver with their hands off the wheel, at least to some extent;

[1] - Nissan - https://youtu.be/HkL67DgleQY

[2] - Ford - https://youtu.be/Z_9218dTXXY

[3] - Audi - https://youtu.be/nUlK6fpveXg

[4] - BMW - https://youtu.be/xsQvq4WlUYU

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19290518#19292141
Does it? If customers can't run code on those servers, then these CPU level side channel attacks aren't an issue.

This assumes the servers for S3 etc are dedicated to the task.
The previous version of the language was called “T0” and used for BearSSL. They were first, not Apple.
With 15/hr minimum wages, restaurants and bars in NYC have to aim for something like 8% of revenue spent on rent to break even (meaning you need to target 50-60k a month before you begin to break even on a fairly small space)
The suburbs are a problem. We badly need to re-urbanize and live more closely together so that public transit works better.
The primary symptoms of spina bifida are incontinence, bladder control, and limited leg movement.

Unfortunately, all three of those things are just characteristics of being a baby, so it’s difficult to tell until the child is older. The best you can do is give them physical therapy on their legs and make sure their shunt keeps working, so they don’t develop hydrocephalus.

My daughter is seven months old with spina bifida, and we get “hints” sometimes, like she grunts while pooping which is a good sign, as it indicates she might have bowel control. She kicks her legs but not often. She wears little leg braces an hour or two a day to straighten her little feet. She doesn’t move her toes at all, and you can smack her feet (babies HATE that) without her reacting.

It all depends on the individual case though, and sometimes as someone grows the spinal cord can snag on the bones and someone who once walked can become wheelchair bound. As someone else stated, they’re just much more delicate. It sounds like this surgery tries to put the cord back inside the bones, but I’m not sure.
Sure, the two are not exactly the same, as the MAXes appear to have crashed because some pilots weren't trained/knowledgeable enough to understand how to address a software malfunction, whereas the Teslas appear to have crashed because some drivers weren't trained/skilful enough to react quickly enough to a software malfunction.

I'm not convinced that distinction makes a tendency to accelerate into static objects a comparatively acceptable teething problem for the autopilot software though, even less so for people who support Tesla's stated aim of full autonomy asap...
Do they really need to apply all mitigation patches if they only execute their own code on machines running S3 and other managed services? (For EC2/... of course they do because they execute customer code.)

I wonder if I can skip the performance penalty for my own (hardware) server too... But I am not smart enough to answer this question myself.
Apple does not use ELF for their binaries, MacOS ld will produce mach-o format.
Flickr lost all my photos when it was acquired by Yahoo, so I'm with you on this one... The cloud is useful... but don't trust it too much.
I had a similar experience last winter when I popped a CD into my desktop. Probably the first time I had heard music with a bitrate higher than Spotify’s 320kbps in a few years. Within a day I was off buying my favorite albums on FLAC and making a CD wishlist. Made me remember why I bought nice speakers in the first place.

And I’ve thought this for a while: With gigabit internet connections spreading, video streaming services that soak up bandwidth (10-20+ Mbps all day), WHY are companies stingy about audio bitrate? My connection can stream multiple 4K videos, yet audio is the same (or worse) bitrate than what I burned on CDs in 2003.
Ahem, with a mass of 1kg. They might sell you a particular weight but it won't be the same when you get it home to your [local gravitational] field!
Software Engineer Needed in Melbourne, Florida Area
Hiring for a software engineer for BK Technologies in Melbourne, Florida. C++ and software/hardware experience required. I can be reached at katytheranger@spherion.com.
Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
> I’m pretty sure this couldn’t happen. I’d end up in jail myself for filing false police reports before I got anywhere close to double digits.

To your point, just this week Chicago Alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno was charged with "disorderly conduct, obstruction of justice and insurance fraud" for saying a woman stole his car after he lent it to her.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/15/18626936/ald-pr...
> Could you expand on what you mean, give an example of the research situation and scope?

Well, if someone wanted to research a music discovery algorithm, then they would need to a have a large collection of music to test their algorithm, for example. Or perhaps someone wants to research differences between music preferences based on ethnicity, using some automated data analysis technique. This would also require a large collection of music.
Do you have a trustworthy source for MS "switching" to Youtube? Their self hosted videos of Build 2019 [0] is what they directed me to when i was searching for sessions. I later found Youtube versions through some other source as well (probably a link on HN), but this seems more of a PR move ("we don't do evil walled garden anymore") to me than a technical necessity.

I do agree with your core message, that video is hard and not something a small player should build their own solution for. But saying video is to hard even for Microsoft seems a bit of a stretch...

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build eg https://mybuild.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/77571
I saw the same thing in Tokyo. It may have something to do with the common courtesy of the bikers to yield to pedestrians and not buzz past them. Here in NYC, I'm much more terrified of bikers who stick to the road (given that I occasionally have to cross the street) than I was of bikers on sidewalks in Tokyo.
I like the idea of auto-formatting code, like go does.

Though I think I prefer autopep8
This doesn't look like a freeform building game. It's really hard to tell from the trailer but it looks like you can pick some pre-fab constructions or animals and plop them down into specific places in the world.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if I'm right
1) boring
2) that will at least keep minecraft earth from being covered in swastikas and genitalia
I haven't heard of particularly compelling advantages for one pruning algorithm over another... So at this point, it seems best to just keep it dead simple.

Assuming the lottery ticket hypothesis, you're just looking for the strong sub network, which should stand out under a number of approaches. The vestigial neurons shouldn't be doing much...
Community-governed stablecoin backed by stablecoins
Do you donate your extra money to charity or do you save some for your future? If you have the privilege of being able to save some money for your future, shame on you! There are people starving and you’re amassing your wealth?
Accerion Is Looking for a Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Accerion is looking for a Senior Computer Vision Engineer – We offer working in a great team and work atmosphere on a new and unique positioning technology for mobile robots.
Accerion is a fast-growing robotics company based in Venlo, the Netherlands. We have developed a new and unique method to determine the position of mobile robots. By combining an advanced optical system, embedded C++ software and a state-of-the-art processing hardware, our sensor system is able to work without any infrastructure in the surroundings of a robot.

Your roles are:
• Develop and implement computer vision / image processing algorithms
• Optimize software architecture
• Improve code quality
• Optimize computational efficiency / system performance
• Prototype, implement and test new functionality based on market feedback
• Develop imaging system calibration algorithms and tools
• Preferably test and integrate your work using hardware

Your preferred skills are:
• You have a technical academic background (MSc/PhD)
• You have 3 or more years of experience in the Computer Vision / Image Processing field or relevant experience during your Master’s thesis or PhD
• You are able to work with and/or relate with the HW
• You have experience in embedded C++, multi-core programming
• You love to develop high-performance algorithms and quality code
• Experience with GIT, scrum and (embedded) Linux is preferred
• You are able to communicate in a profound way with your team members
• You have a passion for technology (robotics, sensors, tinkering)!

Keywords
• OpenCV, Image processing, Computer Vision Algorithms, Embedded, C++, ARM, Software Architecture, Imaging System Calibration, Testing, Prototyping, System Thinking, Robotics, Robots, Sensors, Vision based Localization

Call us on +31 (0)6 2123 7698 or send an email to willem-jan@accerion.tech
> using the worst input imaginable (touch screen) to do nice builds.

Minecraft's controls for building stuff is very simple - you just point and click to place or remove stuff depending on your active item. Here you can point (via gyroscope, etc) and tap and you could even "scrub" to remove stuff. This could be done with just a hand (the phone in portrait mode, you tap/scrub with your thumb).
Realistically, no city bus fleet is going to average 20 mph, 24 hours a day. Perhaps 1/4 to 1/2 of that, even with 24-hour autonomous operation.

It’s likely the electric drivetrains in modern buses will last longer than their diesel predecessors, while reducing maintenance costs.
Two obvious questions, perhaps someone knows their answers:

* Is the gap a measurement artifact? (Presumably not).
* Are there other, small gaps besides the Fulton gap discussed in the article?
If you do write a clear bug report, with a stack trace (with symbols) and reproduction steps and such, then a developer is much more likely to give your bug the time of day. In the end, though, a patch is worth a thousand tickets.
The new reference kilogram is an engineering marvel, but I’ve always wondered this: why didn’t they just build a reference gram instead? Seems like that would be at least a thousand times easier to pull off.
If any of you looking for message and streaming system under single system then pulsar.apache.org supports both and lot more reliable and scales better than kafka
You might like Boundless, it's a voxel builder in an MMO world. A little light on the MMO content but delivers otherwise
The term is pseudonymous - the list of all transactions is available for anyone to look at but in theory you can't link bitcoin addresses to people.

However, in practice, most people buy bitcoins via a method that requires ID, which links their ID to one of their addresses. Multiple addresses can then be linked together by cluster analysis based on usage patterns
More software projects should adopt C4, we would end up with less frustration around pull requests and contributions.