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The amazing engineering work at ISRO is mostly engineers from regional non-IITian colleges.
Go on some of the most popular Twitch.tv channels, you'll see lots of that happening. Too many to count on two hands. It's unbelievable and quite sad.
Really hopeful for the UI changes.

Crazy question. Is anyone working on a VR interface for Blender?
How are missile defense systems not useful? The most obvious example of a useful missile defense system that comes to mind is the Iron Dome Defense System.
The Tesla Model S has a Coefficient of drag * area (or CdA) [1] of 0.562 m² so to have 40% less drag, the Lightyear One will need a CdA of 0.337 m² or better. (Choosing the Model S as I can't find CdA figures for the Model 3)

The GM EV1 only seats 2 passengers, it's 1.77 m wide and 1.28m high, it even has fender skirts [2]. Its CdA of 0.367m² is still only 35% below the Tesla.

The Lightyear One seats "5 adult passengers", and it's 1.90m wide and 1.43m high.

So the Lightyear One is wider, higher, and has 3 more passengers than the EV1 - but it's going to have less drag?

One of us might not be reading what's in front of us, but I don't think it's me :-p

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient#Dr...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
> Power? I don't see much power being granted here.

And I am not going try to convince you in a popularity based forum, but that is generally the objection.
Very, if you like high quality items.

Unlike plastics and most other metals, Gold is easy to work with (i.e. non-brittle, low melting point, easy to mold/cast, it is conductive so its easy to plate other metals) and it is non-corrosive. Therefore, gold jewelry is historically a finer end product that can be made with less skill and the result lasts longer.

To a lesser degree of importance for jewelry, but still a prized property for wearable items, gold is antibacterial and anti-fungal.

Sure people may collectively decide the market price of gold, but people never collectively decided the properties of gold were valuable, those properties are inherently valued by people and Gold happens to have them.

Silver has these same qualities, hence why both Silver and Gold are historically used for jewelry in the first place. People didn't start making jewelry out of Gold and Silver because Gold and Silver was "valuable", rather Gold and Silver were used to make jewelry because of their ideal properties for jewelry, and its the properties of these metals that make gold/silver valuable.
I think the key is looking for longevity. A book at the top of a bestseller list for a week is a mere blip. Books start catching my attention when I seem them out there for about 3 months- its not some flash in the pan or selling just because the author previously wrote a good book. Around 6 months, you start getting stuff that is almost certainly going to at least be entertaining. If something has been on the list a year or more, this is likely going to be a thought provoking book and something highly enjoyable. This scale has never really let me down- except maybe in the case of The Alchemist. That was such a miss and the language just so... vapid... that I actually downloaded a copy off the internet just to see if I got a bootleg mistranslated version or something. I read tons of books, 99/100+ times a book on the NYTimes Bestseller list for more than 6 months has been worth its time to read.
This is exactly right. The Moore's law slide is a cute comparison that has been used to try and demonstrate that sequencing volume has outpaced our computational ability in one context or another. Variously, it is used as commentary on computers' ability to keep up, our need for better storage , our lack of trained professionals, and so on.

Dollars/Mb is not a super-meaningful statistic anyway. If you include quality/value (either as raw base confidence or the value of that base in the context of longer read lengths), the Dollar/Base/Value number has likely kept falling. It's just hard to quantify the "Value" as a number.
Yeah, here's a great makeup tip: draw a 3d barcode or marker on your face so that the tracking doesn't fail as easily.
It was a nice idea in theory, but it basically required re-implementing everything twice.
It's disingenuous to imply that most extensions are just replacing "cloud" with "butt". There are plenty of browser extensions that are necessary and vital for millions of people.

I agree that extensions do need to be adequately audited more, though Firefox does audit every browser extension they offer through their store. Safari similarly does, and Chrome just needs to catch up.
I don't think she was using the filter because she was self concsious, she was trying to mislead young men so they'd give her money. Similar things happen on twitch. There was one woman on twitch who hid her marriage so people would think that if they donated enough money, they'd have a chance at a relationship with her, and people who donated thousands of dollars to try and win her favor were really upset when they found out she's married. The streamers are just selling a relationship fantasy to lonely young men.
Some states, like North Dakota, have common course numbering to make sure the credits can transfer from the community colleges to the universities. If the local community college doesn't offer the specific class, you can often get a distance learning option through the community college.
Far less than half, I'm actually pleasantly surprised.
To look at it another way, some people have a natural advantage in life that they did not earn. This helps even that playing field.
Id leave households out of such a system, they need water to drink, and pay more than 'free' + externalities anyway.

I don't think you need to change ownership of the water, a tax to cover the externalities would suffice. But I agree, it would probably never happen.
> My biggest question would be how many security vulnerabilities Google uncovered and disclosed on their own platform.

130.
Pay-for-attention is what's occurring there, in most cases. They're attempting to buy attention from the woman in question. In a context of competition, where there are many men trying to talk to one woman, spending money is a means of stepping above the crowd that is trying to get her attention.

It mirrors what goes on in the physical world. Men spend extraordinary sums of money to attract/buy the attention of women, using status objects or spending lavishly.

And of course the perpetual debate between whether this is a normal biological behavior for signaling purposes, or whether it's mostly society induced and isn't necessary or useful.
I would consider it part of laptops and desktops, for which macOS is essential.
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Why would a retainer be something we should put tax dollars toward? Why not pay them when they are needed, instead of paying them for who they are?

Reminds me of Nixon trying to get rid of the Tea Tasting Board.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/13/archives/nixon-drops-plan...
Wow, this shows how out of touch I am with social media and technology. I know that Apple's 3d-camera phones enable chat via Animoji, but that applies a cartoon image across your face. I didn't realize reality-enhancement filters (e.g. face thinners) were good enough to work in real-time? I'm confused because the links in the article just show the woman's real face [0], and not footage of when the filter was actually working. I guess I expected to see the glitching in real-time, like the "Mission Impossible" hallway scene [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8m4jYaALIA

[1] https://youtu.be/qtA0JS1lBaY?t=359
These two and decorators (including function/assignment decorators) are the top 3 on my wishlist.
> The attacker can't know if they passed the captcha until an hour has passed.

Naah. The attacker just does batch learning: dump a ton of comments, wait an hour, spend a few minutes training, rinse-and-repeat. Your users also won't tolerate tons of delays.

> You can then slow it down further with some randomization.

So now I wait a few extra hours, and have 99% accurate data. That's still pretty good, honestly. Ideally, a neural network can get a good model from less accurate data than 99%; just tweak the learning rate or use sgd, modify mini-batch size, etc.

The advantage of the site, of course, is that legitimate businesses are likely more able to afford people with this sort of knowledge. The scammers are probably script kiddies who clone a template and tweak a config; they'd have real jobs if they knew more.
But in the hn reply box, how do you type it?
I, unfortunately, am forced to do business with Wells Fargo. I recently purchased a house using a different lender and they sold my mortgage to Wells Fargo. Nothing I can do about it. I now have to have a Wells Fargo account to pay my mortgage and am just dreading the day when they start adding features to it that I didn't sign up for. About a month after learning they'd be taking over our mortgage, they got slapped on the wrist for some sort of mortgage-related fraud. It's really infuriating. At some point I may refinance just to get it moved to a different bank, but it wouldn't make financial sense to do it just yet.
did anyone notice the landlord got arrested too? when you see it...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/seattle-woman-arrested...

okay I'm dying laughing here, so much win and fail at the same time.
I'm impressed by how far technology has become to the point that she could do this.
I don’t understand why he would brag about it online. Isn’t that just asking to be caught??
put a year on this title I think it's from...2000
I dunno how to put this in a non-controversial way, but...at some point, I switched from thinking a desirable, throw-the-money-at-them developer is somebody who writes a lot of code to somebody who understands things and is capable of understanding new ones when they arise.

I'm not saying that to excuse thrash. Thrash is bad. But like..."oh, at some point you'll have to have somebody who actually understands how the thing we use to make money works"--you should have that person anyway! It's an existential threat to your business not to.

Understanding things is our job. Unless you're somewhere where understanding things isn't valued, and 1) it's gonna eventually fail, and 2) you have better places to be.
Much the same way that you're aware of each spoonful scooped up.
Correct. It was just an example that came to mind. There are plenty of streets, statues, etc dedicated to scientists however.
It's 2006 again.
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The current generation of headsets is unsuited for showing large amounts of reasonably sized text. The display resolution is not there yet. If you map your desktop into a plane in VR space at the proper distance, your UI text shows up heavily aliased and barely readable due to the texture resampling that happens in that process. You need to increase resolution by another factor of two or three to make that actually convenient.

And then there is the issue with holding 3d pointing devices for prolonged amounts of time. This is taxing upper body strength if you do. The weight of thenheadset itself is also straining the neck muscles.

All of this taken together usually means that I want out of VR after about 2 hours. I barely have sessions that are longer.
I don’t pay for news. Ever.
Hi! Thanks for putting in the time to respond to so many of the comments on this thread! You've all been in this space for so long and it's really valuable to hear your perspective.

>Beware b2b with large corporates

Just a note on b2b, we aren't going after large companies. Right now we are just responding to inbound interest from users who want to offer Wren as a benefit to their employees. We don't do offsets in scopes 1 through 3 because we're focused on individuals, and as you said there are 20+ incumbents who have been doing this for over a decade, and much better than we can right now.

>Don't think you're different, special, better... that "it's different this time"

I don't think we're under the illusion that we are special. We are only trying to build a good product to get individuals engaged who haven't been reached before. We are also not trying to put down any organizations that are already offering offsets to individuals by building Wren. I don't think we're going to get anywhere by competing internally when the vast majority of the world doesn't know what can be done on an individual basis to take action, whether that's lifestyle changes, political action, activism, offsets, etc. We are here to contribute, not take away from or hurt the space. Whether it's changing our organization structure, margin, projects we're working with, whatever it is, I'd love to hear from you about what you think we should be doing better. Please email me at mimi@projectwren.com if you'd like to continue the conversation!
That page crashes my Firefox mobile... Is that some kind of inside joke I don't get?
I don't think this is a matter of self-confidence. It's a business decision. Appearing young/attractive means more money for your efforts.
We can’t deny reality though, underneath all our behavior is sexuality and violence. Beautiful people will always be treated differently, physically intimidating men will always be treated differently.

If you were born 500 years ago would you even be alive today? I had a hernia when I was 3 so I would have just been one of the millions of babies who never even made it past 5. I am constantly torn by your vision (a world of perfect equality) which is also a world of pure stagnation, and our current world.
I have lots of gray hair before 40 and don't even think of dyeing it.

Of course, this is not so different than vanity on my part, as I'd be mortified if I was dyeing it and someone found out...
Google fixes its shit before the 90 day deadline. Apple could hire the talent it needs to do the same.
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There is a video linked in the article. And I highly doubt one can produce such realistic hand movements in real-time . I mean why would Disney spend years in making a movie, then?

Edit: Okay, I think only lips are copied from real person to a pre-recorded footage of some celebrity. That is a easier problem than what I thought what was going on.
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Prettier/fairer the girl, the higher the IIT rank of the guy. Isn't that how it's been working since forever?
> In this tutorial, I will teach you how to build a modern chat app using CometChat.

I'm gonna write a tutorial, too. It will be on the subject of how to build a house using only a plot of land, a blueprint, and the services of Smithco General Contracting.
Right, it's only a Diamond if it's from the bloody regions of European colonialism, otherwise it is just Sparkling Carbon.
This addresses a real public policy failure: students with no financial means are denied all financial aid because eligibility is dependent on a third-party with no legal obligations. Imputing that a person has assets to which they have no legal title or right is indefensible policy. Imagine if receiving welfare assistance was contingent on your neighbor's income being sufficiently low and the kind of incentives that would create.

The policy assumption that parents will financially support their adult children is false for a non-trivial percentage of the population, and leads to bad outcomes for those people. People that fall into this crack are often left with no recourse when it comes to public assistance, which leads to loophole hacks like the one in the article.
There's absolutely no comparison between the horror that is/was gimp and the previous blender ui.

Its true that the new ui is an improvement - it looks cleaner and I guess things like left click to select is more intuitive. But the old blender ui wasn't as bad as people make it out to be and lots of things that sucked before like the ui for for hair particles are still pretty bad in the new ui.
> extract names of classes and methods

This is very easy to do using tools such as class-dump if you can get access to the binary (either from the IPSW, or sometimes directly from the shared cache).
Umbrella bans are never a good thing - there are tons of legitimate and corner cases.
Instead force companies to provide easy to find and to use option/toggle for those.
In the article, the example was a "space-based missile defense system".
It's the same reason people blow tons of money at strip clubs. They want someone to like them, they don't care if the feelings are fake. Some of the popular streamers also do fan meetups for their biggest donators, where they'll go on a single "date" with them.
In the scifi books of the series "Terra Ignota", they have special global minor laws, for children.

These are also extended to animals and AIs with higher cognitive abilities.

I think this is a good way.
If nobody has custody then those decisions are made by next of kin which would be parents/siblings/children. I forget the specific order (maybe varies based on state law and context?) but it doesn't really matter for functional families since parents and siblings will generally be in agreement about those sorts of things.
Yes, steroids. The usage is rampant.
>In essence, it cedes everything to random chance, and makes all scientific inquiry meaningless. There is no longer any "why" or "how." There is merely, "That's just the way it is."

Which doesn't make it wrong...
That still won't work. Most people don't have 'extreme' privacy settings, so you'll again be unique. To resist fingerprinting, you want your setup to be as generic as possible. This is one reason why it's important that browser vendors need to tackle this issue by setting privacy focused defaults.
You are asking me to trust that the people making law now know what they are doing and are slowly moving things in the right direction instead of slowly in the wrong direction, while not contesting the claim that this law does nothing to accomplish its stated goal of reducing the public burden of tax return fraud.

US tax law has been dysfunctional and getting worse for decades, to me that says there are issues with how the system is designed and meaningful progress beyond “keeping the lights on” will require restructuring the law and the agency, not adding a new office here and giving taxpayers more notifications there. Those types of measures, as you correctly point out, have to be looked at as part of a larger plan for the organization that meaningfully addresses a problem, not in isolation. Except here we have a collection of measures that doesn’t coherently address a problem, so there is no way left to look at them except in isolation.
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70 Million Jobs, the first national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal backgrounds, has created a marketplace that enables employers to access the one-in-three Americans in the job market who have some kind of criminal record. The company operates a job board (70MillionJobs.com) and a staffing/recruiting firm (70MillionStaffing.com).

Since its public launch in 2017, 70 Million Jobs’s community has grown to support more than 10 million formerly incarcerated men and women, and has facilitated employment for thousands, nationwide. The company has worked with some of the country’s largest employers, including Berkshire Hathaway, Uber, Perdue, Denny’s, MOD Pizza and many others. It employs artificial intelligence to match job seekers with companies that will accept their backgrounds. The company is also building a blockchain-enabled reputation management system designed for those with criminal records.

“People who have made mistakes want and deserve the dignity of work, and giving them a second chance to reenter society is a win-win-win,” said SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. “It decreases the risk of recidivism, promotes a valuable talent pool, and helps reduce the growing skills gap in the U.S.”

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Why can't people just learn to be happy with who they are?

Perhaps the truly toxic individuals are the ones telling everyone they should indeed undergo hormone replacement therapy, invasive surgeries and other life changing decisions.

Maybe people need to actually accept who they are and by extension what they look like to actually find inner peace, and chopping off your genitals may not be the way to do that.
> Implicit in the author's reasoning is the principle that good engineers don't make mistakes; they don't break the build, not ever.

They don't, ever, because the VCS refuses a push if it breaks the build.

That's the problem with all those single-repo discussions. It works perfectly well if you have all the tooling that makes a single repo work like a multi-repo.

And it's great because you can enforce behind the scenes that everything is coherent... Except that you can enforce the same thing on a multi-repo if you write the equivalent tooling. All the points are completely moot, except the one that if you don't have a ton of tooling, a single-repo won't work at all, while a multi-repo will just be not great.
Obviously once you get into engineering degrees, computer science, finance, law degrees, and the like, no trade school or community college degree can compare.

Well, I wouldn't be so sure of that. Quite a few of the vocations can make more than what you mentioned. It is variable, much like the pay of a computer science major depending on market.
If you don't want to engage in discussion why are you even commenting here in the first place?

You are saying that this gives more power to google and someone asked if you could elaborate on why you think that. Not everyone has the same background and what may be obvious power to you may not be to others. This forum is supposed to be participated in with good faith.
Then it turns into blackmail. Indifference to their actions is necessary.
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> That's a different situation than the situation the article discusses. These kids are still receiving support while pretending not to (for financial gain).

could you provide citation?

I think article says exactly that some students want to separate from parents through guardianship concept and try to push this through court, but colleges investigate and flag such cases internally.
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The constituents of social conservatives favor this approach to governing. Those constituents don't want to punish corporations using the law because they view government regulations as bad for the economy.
I asked a similar question a previous time the mono- vs many- repo question came out, and the few responses I got were roughly "The repo became many tens of gigabytes which was unwieldy"
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I'd assume it also helps avoid the perception of a conflict of interest.