skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the picture of the experiment setup in the article, it's hard to infer the bee understands 'three-ness'.

Based on this reasoning, does the bee already understand 'flowerness' since it knows to get nectar from many different kinds of flowers?

Do dogs understand 'dogness' because they know to sniff the butt of any dog that crosses their path?

Pretty sure I can create a simple AI that can distinguish three of something under many different kinds and orientations within suitable constraints, and have that capability associated with another easily distinguishable visual code. Yet, I would never say I've made my computer understand 'threeness', as the computer has no abstract reasoning capabilities whatsoever.

In general, how do we know when something understands '____ness' in the way we understand '____ness'? Per my previous examples, either the article's meaning is trivial, or unsubstantiated.
Although multi-threaded engines are now standard, this model adds complexity and is overkill for most games beginners will make (and many commercial indie titles). There is also no reason not to start with a single threaded renderer and move to multi-threading in a later article. Right now it isn't even past creating a window...

Honestly, if you're going to be so critical you should suggest the tutorial should use Vulkan instead of OpenGL, but wait neither of those support all gaming platforms so you have to write a low level API wrapper for Metal and DirectX12 as well, then write a shader translator... Etc. The gap is large between a toy engine and a commercial engine, but there are a lot of fun games you can make with a toy.
They could hire them.
I was a huge proponent of this in the early days of the web and was leading the crusade for reader engagement, championing the idea of anonymous commentary and a pure marketplace of ideas.

Well, it turns out I had an over-optimistic view of people.
If is confidential how is it that TechCrunch knows about it?
yep, I choose C89 for this project because there's no Object/Prototype/Class/overloaded bullshit, you get what you wrote and no more, i think it's easier to understand than any other high level language where you have to use obscure things by design.

Actually, this tutorial is not just about "building a game engine in C89", it's more about learning the concepts behind game engines, the language and the code is just illustrative examples.
Awesome video of the drone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJtmx5f1Fc
Not to mention people's heads! I have faith in agencies like the FAA to keep things safe and reasonable, and where that isn't enough NIMBYs and municipal governments will pick up the slack, no doubt.
lol life imitating art?
Shutting them out of the US wouldn't change much. It would stop their Alaska cruises, but everything else is mostly non-US countries. It is somewhat common to have fly to some non-US country to get on your cruise already. Those who drive to Texas or Florida to get one will be harmed, but for everyone else they are already flying so where they fly to is just a detail.

The real losses are to the US cities (in Florida, Texas, California, and Puerto Rico) that lose the tourism trade.

Now if other countries like Jamaica get on board things would change fast - but here is a case of each country acting alone loses, only by acting with others do they win. (and there is reward for cheating: if everyone else enforces this and you say you will but don't you get the tourism trade).

Of course if Carnival's customers start caring that will drive changes.
I understand what you mean but USPS post office would be lot better than most of the buildings in university I attended in my country :)
Who even votes for such corrupt bills, and how much bribe money did they receive to do it?
53% of millenials have a favorable view of socialism today. But in th 20th century when we were fighting wars to "contain" it, we had senators keeping lists of people they suspected had favorable opinions of it. It used to be an extreme view.

This seems like another example of containment, but it's scary because what's normal today might be an extreme view tomorrow... and what's extreme today could be normal tomorrow. As much as I detest the idea of ideas like white supremecy spreading, I'm not sure I like the idea of fighting it by hiding it from view.

Yesterday was the anniversary of Tiananmen square. China avoided democracy by hiding all evidence of this terrible event. I think most people can agree the government hiding the truth is wrong, but if social media is the new public square (which the supreme court in a way ruled to be true when it ruled Trump can't block his tweets), I think these ideals of not hiding information still applies. The 1st amendment, and what it stands for is truely in jeopody with these actions.
An extreme view is anything that may reduce income by making advertisers leave.
It's like every commenter here is allergic to turning off the computer or putting it to sleep when not using it.

If used sanely, the power consumption cost is tiny compared to buying a new computer.
And naan bread.
Yes, there ARE ghosts in the machine
What about the time investment? How can you take that into account in an unbiased (or least biased) kind of way?
sad, but true
Not really. We got lucky last time. It is not given. Given the advantages the U.S. has over nuclear weapons, there is a big asymmetry here (not to say symmetry is more stable, but to layman's eye it intuitively feels so).
Iron has a rather baroque API and was pretty much unmaintained for a very long time.
Yeah, if you want to search more on it, the technique is called vegetative propagation, it is a procedure by which potatoes are cloned rather than bred. It happens to be really easy for potatoes. Searching for "mcdonalds genetically" is bound to be saturated with GMO articles.

The lack of identicality of the fries themselves turns out to be a part of McDonald’s’ broader engineering, as a matter of fact. (You could have expected this—this is the same company whose chicken nuggets come in well-defined named shapes—but it’s not terribly well talked about.) If all the fries at McDonald’s were uniformly long they would have bad stacking properties and would give you too much in your fry cup when filled, etc., so any new potato brand that they accept, or any change to their procedures for cooking their fries, must pass a bunch of stringent tests including having a certain distribution between shorter and longer fries.

In this case there is a page on McDonalds.com which specifies the only four monocultures which they exclusively farm to make McDonalds fries.
How to building and selling app in the $300B retail healthcare market?
>The number of languages is stunning.

True.

From the article:

>According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. However, figures from other sources vary, primarily due to differences in definition of the terms "language" and "dialect". The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than 10,000 people.

When I was in high school, for instance, Hindi was one subject. Our teacher told us that there are a few major versions, like Khari Boli and Braj Bhasha and maybe Awadhi was another one (don't remember). For example, we read poetry of Tulsidas and Surdas, which were, IIRC, composed in one of the first two languages, each. Good poetry, BTW.

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

Yes, Awadhi was one:

Awadhi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awadhi_language

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

Braj Bhasa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braj_Bhasa

Khariboli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khariboli_dialect
To play devil's advocate to the "private platform" argument: we force tv networks and radio stations to give equal air time to all presidential candidates.[1] NBC is a private a company but if they permit one candidate to host SNL they must give the other candidate(s) an equivalent opportunity so as not to unfairly sway public opinion. I don't necessarily think that "infringes" on NBC's right to run their platform as they want. They're still given the option of whether or not they want to wade into politics on their airways but once they do they're obligated to open their platform to both sides.

Now you could argue that Donald Trump expertly exploited exceptions to the "equal-time rule" in order to get much more coverage than his competition, but that's more to do with the structure of the law than the spirit of what it's trying to accomplish.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
We have people who don't want to exterminate anyone being described as 'fascists' for supporting until-recently-uncontroversial immigration controls.

If half of the US is described as extreme, then we can justify shutting down their voices.
Couple of interesting items from this US census data (month 6):

1. There are more people over 74 than under 5; there are more people over 80 than under 3.

2. x = [12, 62], y = 74 - x

It's a near linear relationship between those older and those younger for this age range, i.e. those older than 62 outnumber those under 12 and those older than 12 outnumber those under 62. Make note that the y-intercept equals the under 5 comparison age.

3. There's a large difference between the populations of those age 63 and 64, those born around 1946-47. The baby boom
> but not for the war itself.

Have you never heard of Lebensraum? Generalplan Ost?
How do you reckon that the government won't keep cutting the cost to make budget for the next shiny fighter jet?
This is how literally every "inspection" of everything ever works at scale.

"Oh, the X department has a review coming up, better send the X review prep team to make sure X is Xing like they should and light a fire under their ass to fix it if not".

Sure X is supposed to be ensuring compliance continuously but we all know where that falls on the priority list so hence things only ever get fixed in the pre-inspection inspection.

Edit: Yes I know they falsified records. I'm talking about the general case here.
The Pro-Life Movement at a Crossroads
It's not really surprising the FBI would look into it.

(Especially since spreading rumors of a monster in the woods would be a great way to scare people away from your illegal drug operation)
Using Secure Configurations
Protecting Our Creativity from the Side-Effects of Technology [video]
A lot of people got tricked into using Chrome.
It's probably not fixable if it's really that. Even if mtDNA is fine the mitochondria have their own mechanism for senescence based on other damage, just like cells.
It does not even have to be caused by radicals.
TLDR: Cochran sent a hair sample which was deemed to be "from the deer family".
I particularly loved their insistence that "that's just how it is, there's nothing wrong with it". Perfection.
Stabilizing is the primary goal of the stable (1.0) release as well, so there is no reason to argue.
Ask HN: How to leave my startup after my stock vested?
I'm leaving because of personal reasons, I still believe in the future of the company and would like to make my exit tidy. After 4 years, the vesting schedule is over, and I own approx 40% of the company. I only have 1 other cofounder and some investors. What do you recommended to do in this situation? How should we structure my transition out to ensure the company keeps running smoothly (decision-making, compensation, incentives)?
Remote work eliminates any incidental information transfer. It makes it much harder to have a company culture, which is especially difficult for juniors and new hires to get an understanding of what's important and what's not.
> But I DO know that removing videos from YouTube won't make it better. It may make it worse.

I think you're right, and I have some first-hand knowledge on the matter. I've debated QAnon types and flat earthers alike. In both cases, they often see an absence of information as some overarching conspiracy. I'm not really sure who is worse (the flat earthers are a subset of a broader "government-is-hiding-things" conspiracy), but they both follow a cult-like structure in that if you disagree with them, you're not "one of us" and are either not smart enough to understand the implications of their beliefs or are willfully blind to their "truth." I doubt YT would ever remove QAnon or flat earth videos, but if they did, I suspect the fallout would be far worse than just leaving them alone. In some cases, it's helpful to cite their own predictions (and have something to cite) to dismantle their argument! Admittedly, this isn't useful in direct debate, because they're forever moving the goalpost, but it can be helpful for illustrating deficiencies to third parties that might be sympathetic to their views but are still open to the idea that there are problems with the opposition's argument[1].

Now, I say this as a conservative with some libertarian leanings. I don't like censorship, and I think it's harmful to shield people from ideas they don't like. However, I think moderation within a community is incredibly important to its survival provided it is applied equally. Nothing is worse for reasonable discourse than having someone jump in and start slinging pejoratives, insults, and abuse for no other reason than they don't like what you've said. As an example, I've personally had someone stalk my admittedly limited social media presence across various sites in order to post screenshots "proving" some inane belief they had about me supporting some ridiculous conspiracy. They then repeatedly posted insults and diatribes across numerous unrelated comments until I blocked them. That type of behavior should be an immediate--and permanent--ban.

[1] We might be passed this point, because the number of undecided people with regards to any particular conspiracy (for or against) is diminishing. I used to think the flat earth groups were largely trolling, but I've spoken with some people who have encountered them in real life or have friends who have been duped into believing the conspiracy. I also know a small handful of people who believe QAnon. No amount of evidence is going to sway either party. And no, I don't know what the best solution is other than to continue engaging where appropriate and banning where there's abuse.
From my experience with State funded education in India. The quality of education is far from what you expect somewhere in West. Biggest problem is attracting teachers at professional education institutions like Engineering. The salaries are less than $1000 a month vs in Engineering companies which would pay a multiple of that. The schools do attract a talented bunch of students who have to clear extremely high entrance standards.
Is this what is being proposed though? I agree with this approach, but I haven't seen the proposals being framed this way.
I cannot speak to “these videos” as I do not know their exact content for each video. I’m against removing content because it is “extreme” or objectionable or even abhorrent. I am pro free speech and willing to pay the cost of allowing speech I disagree with so long as it is “protected” speech.
The Ferrous folks are quite well connected; many of them are on the teams. They’ve been in touch and will be doing the right thing, for sure.
If it costs $1.7B to develop a drug, can we expect to lower drug prices?
The + feature long predates gmail. Here’s an example description from the 1990s http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/index.html
Why Gen Z Are Breaking Up with Social Media
Sounds like stepping stones for censoring anti big brother ideas. Thought crime. Soon we will have fake predestination thought crime. I am a targetted and experimented individual located near trenton, Ontario, Canada - military mans son - they are data mining me - hive mind (symbolism is ants) of brainwashed, hive connected via ' prince the air technology'minded spooks. They all think they are Satan, they are backwards, and believe that they are 'saving the world or doing good'by doing wicked gangstalk street theatre - ritual esk self programming aka subversion. The shadow gov is making an army straight from the pages of biblical revolation and playing thier final card of world take over for new way of enslaving man. Basically, they are creating THE BORG from Star Trek, or that is the goal and trying to 'appeal' to god since they are trapped in the dome. The revolution is here and will not be televised. Everyone is being trauma based mind controled and doesnt even know it. Its the hypnosis of the ELEVATOR - look at all content and how its all about evil, darkness, devil worship and christian/god/love persecution.
The technique is in front of you all - first image/msg is up emotion, next is down emotion - back and forth than impliment a 'spell' or subconscious programming. All AI tailored for each person using the quantum hibe mind.
Contact me.
I need fina cial help but can give details of the program.
I assume these rules also won't apply to the ethnic group of most of Alphabet/YouTube's top management (Susan Wojcicki, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc.). I'm sure you will still be able to post videos in support of Israel and it's right to exclude and discriminate against those who are not racially Jewish.
The war where a bunch of white and Asian people fought against a bunch of white and Asian people? The one where the Nazis said that the Japanese, Arabs, even Jews could be "honorary Aryans" when it was convenient for the cause?
> What I reject is the idea that the only choices are "make this kind of switch" OR "having a dead or hardly-maintained project". Sounds a bit "fallacy of the excluded middle" to me.

In general, that's of course obviously true. For software like this, that's geared toward use by businesses and SaaS applications, I agree with Cockroach Labs. Their hosted solution doesn't stand a chance if AWS decides to do a hosted version of CockroachDB, and they won't see a penny of that revenue. Since contributions outside of employees of Cockroach Labs are pretty minimal, it's a textbook recipe for eventual project death.

> But they have the right to license their thing however they want, so what right do any of us really have to complain.

Correct. And yet that doesn't seem to stop some people...

> I just find it frustrating to see people retreating from an Open Source position given my own deeply rooted ideological bias towards F/OSS.

I get that, and at some time in the past I probably agreed with you. At this point I'm too cynical to believe that Free Software can succeed solely on its merits. The economics just don't work out, especially when you're in a part of the industry with a lot of competition.

And regardless, the new licensing terms are (in practical terms) identical to Apache for the vast majority of people who already use or might use CockroachDB. All they're restricting is the ability to create a Cockroach DB hosting business, and if you really want to do that, my moral position is that you should be financially contributing back to the DB anyway; otherwise you're taking freeloading to an extreme degree there.
> Managers pretend that Seat Time = Productivity when we all know that's not the case

Who are these managers cand how can I get a job working for them.

All I have to do is show up, no goals, no performance reviews, no castigation ver failing to deliver value through working software...

Okay, snark aside, if we throw away the completely clueless managers who don't actually manage people, we have to look at managers who want you in the office AND want the job done.

We may have criticisms for them, but we surely cannot say that they think that seat time equals productivity. The very fact that they manage performance with other metrics tells us that they don't think seat time equals productivity.

So... I am not saying that some managers aren't in need of percussive cluestick application, nor am I saying that working on offices is the OneTrueWayToShipWorkingSoftware, but I am suggesting that the argument is richer and deeper than "Managers think seat time equals productivity."
It’s disengenuous to say that YouTube didn’t have rules before this. This is just another rule on what’s allowed. Is it wise? I don’t know, probably. In America white supremacy is a rising problem and they are getting radicalized by YouTube and the economics of hate for profit making a lot of money by recommending the more clickbaity extreme videos. They are perhaps correcting the course. Perhaps they are overreacting. We will see where the chips lie after this.

Edit. I looked at the way back on YouTube’s tou from when the site was a dating site and it’s always disallowed hateful content regarding race or other things. This seems like a clarification on that provision.
Sofar the best solution for creating quick API's. With support of REST API and GraphQL.
Twist: the deer was adopted.
> In most likelihood by the time you arrive your airline should already know that the bag didn't make it...

Depends on the airline. Some (Southwest, iirc) don't scan the bags at all after check-in unless they find a stray bag somewhere in the system. They'll notice and scan your bag eventually it's misrouted or misses a connection, but it takes time.

Some others scan at every handling point and can be more proactive in reaching out if the computer notices a problem. But this increases the cost of bagging handling operations for the airline.
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This is a really novel design.. few moving parts, and solves the main issue with multirotor drones.. namely that they are incredibly inefficient in terms of power required to fly.

When the initial hype about Amazon drone delivery came out I remember saying it wouldn't work cause multi-rotor drones are so inefficient.

This will make it work... it'll use a fraction of the electricity if it cruises in "plane mode".

If the max Payload is 5lbs I doubt it's going to weigh 50lbs. Maybe 10-20lbs, but the battery weight is the big thing.
Maybe residents would place beacons where they want the drones to land?
A class of Erlang monads which can do HTTP requests
man do i miss Mitch Hedberg. The Pringles joke is still one of my favorites of his of all time.
Do you now? Is there any actual study on this after the few weeks of adaptation or even at target reduced weight?
The Myth of Tiananmen
> If a private developer were to take over most residential areas in a section of town

There is a finite amount of land in a town, so a monopoly can exclude people. This is not true of video hosting - there can be as many video hosts as people care to build, and they are all equally usable from anywhere on the internet.

> Since YouTube has a monopoly on video content on the internet

They don't.

Now, if ISPs started censoring particular political viewpoints, that would be different IMO. It's much harder to get a different ISP (at least where I live) than it is to browse to a different web site.
I'm not sure if it's intended or not but every time I'm looking at this name I need to correct myself to not read/perceive it as ActiveX
ZeroRPC for Node
We’ve seen their leaked meeting videos. We know where their temperaments lie.