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Ask HN: Is there demand for specific-purpose live collaboration tools?
Live remote collaboration / conferencing tools are ten a penny (Skype for Business, appear.in, WebEx, you name it ... ). However, all of those try to be everything to everyone and to accommodate each and every possible use case, often trading in quality for additional features.

Specifically, each and every tool of this category seems to try and provide video chat - more often than not of only barely acceptable quality - while in many professional contexts a video channel isn’t really required.

Hence, I was wondering if there’s demand for live remote collaboration tools designed for specific target audiences.

Software development of course particularly comes to mind: A tool that’d allow you to share and collaboratively work within an IDE or browser session sounds very useful to me.

Other disciplines such as - broadly speaking - teaching or coaching probably could benefit from remote collaboration tools tailored to their respective needs, too.

What do you think about this?
I would add that it RMS would actually prefer that over current GPL. GPL was created as a response to current IP laws trying to use it against itself.
I'd be surprised if you could 3d print lego bricks with sufficient accuracy to get proper clutch.
Samsung deepfake AI could fabricate a video clip of you from a single photo
For sure. They didnt say anything about humidity and specifically didnt want to run the fan all night, so... /shrugs. Options!
>I'd make the point though that any culture which acknowledges even minimally the true nature of the living planet that is our home would appear mystical or religious to the deathly bloodless denatured worldview that so ruthlessly holds power now.

I call it the 'Global Non-Denominational Death-Cult'. Ultimately it favours no particular group, but the tithe is very high.
The best part of this paper is that they used mannequin challenge videos as their training dataset. That's super clever.
The tone may not have been clear, but my post was at least partially tongue in cheek.

I'm sure someone could come up with this idea and probably did, but getting to the stage of actually releasing a commercial product with a crank makes me think there is more to the story.
Melatonin can help the nights you're struggling to fall asleep, but personally Ritalin made a huge difference because of the short half life

When I was on Adderall I found it very helpful to take the medication after a large early lunch (hopefully 11am or earlier)
It’s surprising to me that throwing isn’t more instinctual. If not taught how to throw, people will generally throw things by extending their elbows from their chest. This is “throwing like a girl” though it doesn’t really have anything to do with gender except we teach boys how to throw things.
if you don't want to deal with Torrents, there's NZB (usen... ssshhh!!! first rule!) and Good ole Google (intitle:index.of MKV <video>)
The actual superseding indictment: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Assa...
Yes!... except that if we let medieval French people have their say, they would raze everything to the ground and build something entirely new. That's what they did in the 11th century; the previous cathedral was at least 700 years old and they destroyed it without blinking.

For better or worse, we have developed a fondness for past artifacts that they totally lacked; it may make sense to build something modern on top of the old structure, but we need to save what can be saved.
It also isn't mandatory to respect copyright. It's unenforceable and a lot of people ignore it happily.

> Creators tend to choose copyright because it is in their best interest.

And some peole choose to emit tons of CO2 because it's in their best intrest. The question is, is it in everybody's best interest.

A lot of people would be culturally poorer and more isolated if not for piracy and 100% secure copyrighted content wouldn't be as popular.
> One proposal, posted on Twitter by Adam Bonica, a political science professor at Stanford, was for a 100% tax on wealth beyond $500 million. He based it on what he called “Beyoncé’s rule,” which he explains as, “Think of the most talented and hardest-working person you know, and think about how much money they have and how much money they deserve.” Queen Bey, he tweeted, has an estimated net worth in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars. “Let’s have Howard Schultz explain to us why he should be worth more than Beyoncé.”

I don't think a statement has ever made me more furious than this.
Video of Pelosi Manipulated to Make Her Sound Drunk Spreads Through Social Media
what's the range you see for "competitive compensation"?
> between feudalism and a system where a tiny percentage of people control the vast majority of the wealth

In feudalism, the working class is considered the same as a home -- a part of the land -- that can be sold along with the estate. Asking how this differs from a free society with a subset of rich people is like asking how chattel slavery differs from modern society.

The fact is that Bill Gate's wealth does not impact my personal freedom or ability to collect my own wealth.

> Freedom isn’t just freedom from government

The purpose of government is to ensure freedom from other people -- that is why government is the one entity allowed to use mechanisms no other individual is allowed to use.

My fundamental disagreement with you is that I do not believe Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet's, etc, wealth impacts my inalienable right to life, liberty, and property.
> That's yet to be determined. Disney is a big influence on the length of US copyright protections. Let's see what happens come 2024

I'm well aware of Disney's role in copyright law.

Disney's opportunity to do extend the term was before Dec. 31, 2018. That's how they extended copyright durations in the past - preventing any new works from entering the public domain at all. It's much harder for them to retroactively amend the copyright term now that some of those works have begun to enter the public domain.
OS X is NeXTStep at the core. It dates back to the 80's.
Yep, I bet that's it—thanks! :-)
Right. If you want something modern, build a new cathedral.
It has a lot to do with how much of a craftsman you are too. The really good people in the high power rocketry hobby can get above 100k feet on a budget of maybe $3-4k

These rockets are almost always 2 stage designs. The most expensive parts are the motors and electronics. Typically, you'll have redundant flight controllers for the booster and sustainer plus GPS/radio trackers to find them once the rocket eventually lands.

They aren't much different than the typical little hobby shop rockets just bigger and faster. The ones i've seen were maybe 8-10' tall, hand rolled carbon or fiberglass fuselages, and peak at around Mach 3.
These planes flew south over the Hudson River at 1,000 feet last weekend, circled the Statue of Liberty, then flew back up north before taking off for Europe. Quite a sound.

Local news: http://newjersey.news12.com/story/40497087/12-fighter-planes...
I wonder when the common overhand throw was first tried out. Presumably, it was an evolution, but Id guess the first attempt was more of a fling...
U.S. unveils espionage charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Likely to fall under fair use, both for the research aspect and given the very low impact on factors 3&4 of 17USC107 for videos used to train neural nets.
>Streaming audio services decimated private trackers like What and Waffles

Citation needed.

Private trackers are and were always for data hoarders and bitrate freaks. The average Spotify subscriber was never the target audience of private trackers.
Heat pumps are more efficient than a compressor and are more effective than a radiator. You could power it with a solar panel to get power when you need cooling the most.
Native Advertising: Expectations vs. Reality
The government is in charge of determining what types of businesses are profitable though, so even areas where the government hasn't been effective usually still require better government policies in order for the markets to be able to offer solutions. There are certainly problems that businesses can ameliorate given current government policies, but it just isn't realistic to think that we can solve every problem on our own by routing around government.
So, the M5 (M05) needed more power?

As somebody who started out in the 80s with Apple II and C64 stuff the year before going to college, I always laughed at the old “Star Trek’ episode where the new computer has to tap into the main engine for power. After seeing your new bit of kit, that doesn’t sound so far fetched :-)

Have fun with this beast.
As I understand it, the field is going in the other direction, namely JVM/CLR COBOL. This means that companies can migrate their COBOL codebases to “commodity hardware”, save on mainframe costs, and then progressively refactor into Java/.NET replacing bits of COBOL piecemeal.

The main company I’ve heard of doing this is MicroFocus, they have all the dev tooling for it for the major IDEs, compilers, etc.

One of the main things that complicates the problem, again as I understand it, is that there is no official COBOL spec. There are several versions from several vendors, but compilers have to account for mainframe hardware bugs, so there are many different targets that have to be supported. Most companies want a different, specific, set of compiler features.
If you're lucky enough to be earning a decent amount, you can simulate this (kinda) for yourself. Following the Mr Money Mustache approach, save a good portion of all your income (>50%), invest it, and work towards an early retirement. Instead of a work week that's 1/4 the hours of everyone else, you'll have a career that's 1/4 the years of everyone else.
I'm happy for someone to correct me, but my understanding is in exchange for the IRS to work with these companies on their free service the IRS wouldn't /run/ a competing free service and the contract was renewed every couple years. The IRS could develop something, but couldn't launch it until the contract expires...which would take a few years, anyway.

Those terms didn't seem that unreasonable to me.
> I'm sorry but that's absolutely wrong. You don't become an Architecte en chef by promotion, it's a competitive exam

No, Architecte et urbaniste de l'État is an exam (like everything regarding the civil service in France). Architecte en chef very much is a promotion. It's the grade following Architecte de l'État and preceding Architecte générale.

> Most architects with this title have businesses of their own

No, they are all civil servants and work for a minister.

> navigating the civil service

Yes, being promoted is very much about getting old and navigating the civil service. Architecte et urbaniste de l'État very much is a managing position with all it implies when you are working for the state.
Assuming the OP expects to gain something from this conversation, the most benefit that can be gained is from telling them why their idea makes no sense. That is what "good faith" means and that is what I did.

Your comment, on the other hand, seems to be confusing good faith with indulgence. Just saying "yes" to people and being nice to them does them no favours.
If it's signed with Secure Boot keys it's no different for loading signed Grub image. Grub would also need to be unencrypted to work.

As for signing kernel: https://github.com/andreyv/sbupdate
i've been in the high power rocketry hobby for a year or so.

Mostly it's getting everything to go right a the same time. Fin flutter destroys rockets, so does wind sheer, so does bad flight controllers or bad programming. Parachutes not deploying properly in low pressure high altitude flights, second stage igniters not working as fast as they should at low pressure, the list goes on and on.
Also, a quarter of working Americans are early in a career, and people generally earn most of their retirement wealth later in a career.

Here's [1] a interesting set of data that demonstrates
this. Here's an age breakdown of the worforce [2].

Since about a quarter of the workforce is under 25, I'd not expect them to have much retirement at all. Sure some older people also have too little, but this article makes it sound much worse than it probably is by treating wealth as static.

So since younger workers generally (and historically) have had little net worth but ended up with decent net worth, I wish articles like this would point this effect out and explain the nuance better.

[1] https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states/

[2] https://dqydj.com/workforce-by-age-calculator-united-states/
Assange faces 17 federal charges in new complaint
And machine learning is still stuck in the sixties...
Did you know that you cannot legally stream My Fair Lady?

I found this out when I tried to show it to my daughters.
Apparently the copyright agreements don't cover how to split the proceeds from streaming, so nobody can sell Amazon, Netflix, etc the right to stream it.

But it is on The Pirate Bay...
As a side note, it can be a permanent thing for some cathedrals.

I'm thinking of Beauvais Cathedral:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Interior_of_Cath...

This cathedral is the highest in France, but it had some design flaws, with part of the vault collapsing during the construction, and then, the huge spire collapsed during Ascension Day in 1573. It was never finished because of that.

This cathedral is also quite interesting because of this unfinished state as it permits to compare the old roman cathedral vs the new gothic cathedral, showing the huge increase in scale between the twos:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cath%C3%A9drale_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvais_Cathedral
Now let's wait another decade before they add BigDecimal...
> Because the Constitution -- or more generally if you like, the idea of what a Republic is -- has a lot more to it than the question of whether an income tax is within the powers of its institutions.

An income tax is wholly different from a property tax. A fundamental tenant to liberalism is that you have an innate right to your life, liberty, and property. Taxing income does not tax your property; it rather taxes the rate at which one acquires property. A property tax is a tax on an inalienable right. It's like the government requiring you to pay a specific tax in order to have particular freedoms. I find that to be morally questionable.

> "the government has any right to tax private property at whatever valuation they see fit"

You are insisting I am arguing against income tax. I'm not. The article (did you read it?) suggests a tax on personal property including real estate, luxuries, etc. These things do not have innate value that can be measured unless sold. Thus, someone needs to come up with a valuation.
Yeah, I'd much sooner consider the likes of Best Made Co. as "preppy" outdoor gear than Patagonia.

The contrast is quite stark.
I see articles like this from time to time, and from my own experience, can't help but wonder how much of said inability to cover a $400 emergency isn't self-inflicted.

My personal anectdatum:

I was not smart with my money in my younger years. I spent my money freely on whatever I wanted at that moment, and then was always wondering why I was so broke all the time. Savings? Why would I do that when that means I can't have money right now to get the thing I want right now? It took the clue-by-four that was the 2008-2009 recession to get me to realize that living beyond my means with no savings and a growing pile of debt was in fact a Bad Idea. During that time, and in the first few years following as I educated myself about finance and slowly cleaned up the mess I made, I also would have had a hard time covering a $400 emergency. But, that was my own damn fault now, wasn't it?

In the time since, as my financial situation has improved, both because of the economy picking back up and my financial education helping me to be smarter with my money, I've been increasing my savings, reducing my debt, and getting less stupid with my purchases. And doing this, I am now able to cover a $400 emergency without stress. I did exactly that just last week.

Yes, having a higher income now than I did then has certainly helped with that. But as I've reviewed my spending habits from my $20k/yr days, I've become a little embarrassed by them. A modicum of savings discipline would have let me ride out the 2008-2009 crisis more smoothly, and I'd be in even better shape today.
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. I never said it would be illegal, I said it would demonstrate a lack of care and consideration -- like Prohibition (also passed legally, without doubt).
That’s not true. If an organization benefits its customers/users in some way, it’s still doing a good thing if it captures some of that benefit in the form of profit.
You do ‘t happen to have a spare CS-80 or Jupiter 8 lying around about to make its way to the trash heap do you? I could take either of your hands, free of charge ;-P
> The current approach to its restoration fails to take account of the interconnected structural “engineering” of Gothic architecture

Why is engineering in scare quotes?
I refuse to believe that anyone came up with a crank based input system organically.

Is there a Hurdy Gurdy app yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy
With the baby boomers planning for retirement, housing over-valued, and land likely in a similar over-valuation (anywhere that's actually useful)...

Where exactly should I be stashing my retirement to last past when the baby boomers?

I guess maybe that's why people buy so many guns and such, they have a valuation and will be worth something come revolution or as collectors items...
Regardless of your thoughts on Julian Assange's personal behavior, this is extremely frightening to me. Sure, there have been cases in the past when the U.S. has cracked down on free speech in the name of "national security secrets" when it was really about keeping downright evil things from the public eye, but this one goes beyond the pale. It seems like the kind of indictment you'd see from a banana republic or an autocracy.
Andy has previously had some asshats telling him he's wrong on things where he obviously is not. I don't know if there is one individual that holds a grudge or if he attracts an annoying number of know-it-alls.
This is a great hack, but I'd love to see more detail on how they did pose initialization to approximate ground truth on depth/pose from the Mannequin set. The paper says they are using ORB-SLAM2, but AFAIK ORB still needs a height label.

Maybe it's the case that this system doesn't actually return an X,Y,Z camera pose, but rather just a pixel specific depth, and not a recovered pose for new inputs.
Just how bad is Midwest, Plains flooding?
Is it basically just a Peltier cooler? I thought those things had terrible efficiency?
I agree that the reconstruction needs to be of its own time and place, building in the spirit of the original, not the technology of the past. One of my favorite proposals for the restoration that embodies this approach is that of architect Vincent Callebaut: http://vincent.callebaut.org/zoom/projects/190503_tributeton...
This idea (replicate old structure in a new material) is not really a thing in building conservation. One reason for this is that the dimensions of structural elements are a function of the properties of the original material: it just doesn't make sense to replace a timber beam with a steel one of the same dimensions.

The presence of timber in a historic structure obviously makes it less durable and fire-resistant, but it is authentic, and that is something that is taken very seriously.

It's like an old recipe, an old painting, or an old piece of music. Nobody who is seriously engaged with those things believes in improving them by substituting modern high-tech elements in the course of recreating/restoring an original.
One could argue that we do have moderm day timelessness; single use plastics that will take a few thousand years to be destroyed.
> more interesting research environments generally are beyond the scale of academia

I think the real impairment to OS research is deployment. If your idea isn't compatible with one of the existing OSs, in such a way that it can run a web browser, then nobody's going to use it. Heck, even Windows Phone couldn't get adoption. OS ideas that require people to completely rewrite applications and interaction paradigms are non-starters no matter what benefits they offer - unless they can fulfil a need that can't be fulfilled any other way. So quite a lot of work goes into bypassing the OS entirely for hardware-specific single-program networking applications, and everyone else has to keep with their existing paradigms.
> aren't things like education and affordable housing also problems that governments have been tackling for decades without much progress and even often making things worse

Not exactly. Government has been throwing band aids at the symptoms, while continuing full steam ahead with the underlying policy - an inflationary treadmill that keeps pushing "full employment" at a time when human labor is rapidly less required.

Housing is not affordable not because it has become expensive to build, but because it has been effectively financialized into a rent extraction scheme. And changing those fundamentals would disrupt the exit plans of everyone that has bought into the bubble.

I'm not excited about private industry approaches - they can succeed in isolation but they can't change the game. Even if innovation does say, bring down the cost of housing. The explicit government policy is to then raise prices across the board to make sure that average costs still keep going up. Essentially, economic progress itself has been turned into a zero sum affair for everyone but the upper class.

This feedback is exactly what happened after free trade and big box stores brought the benefits of cheaper goods and economies of scale, but also hollowed out our local economies. Rather than everybody ending up with more buying power that compensated for the local lost income, prices were raised to erode those gains. So we were left with lower quality goods for the same price, and displaced workers unable to take over a share of the still-needed work, as the still-employed had to keep working "full time" to keep the same buying power.
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Why wouldn't they use 3d renderings as a large part of their training data set? You could have perfectly generated depth outputs generated alongside the image input, and you could adjust things like focal length to all kinds of values that would make this able to understand how shifting items correlate to depth across a variety of focal lengths. To be honest I'm not even sure how they're training them with live footage, how are they even getting the depth maps from the training footage to begin with?
Interesting. Is that TCS in India, US, or elsewhere? I am still there in the US, also directly out of college, and hadn't heard of that happening here.
Jesus. Why couldn't they use embedded video files instead of 30 megabyte gifs?
You are comparing historical mirrorless performance with DSLRs, but article is comparing them to medium format cameras, two different things. Medium format cameras were slower than both, older consumer/compact mirrorless cameras as well as DSLRs.

BTW.. Its fair to assume that these myths are common, than to assume that someone purposely chose to perpetuate them with bad intent.
Own a language: C++ vs. Go, simulate CPU in Go and a Go + WASM tic-tac-toe bot
I was almost expecting something like this to follow:

I am certainly not authorized to give away the public key but I have a private one that I would share if necessary.
Is there any country on earth that would've done differently given the same circumstances?

Russia or China would probably just carry out a secret execution.