skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered if these foundational utilities could ever evolve a bit.

I'd love to have a "ping --reachable <secs> <host>" that just silently returned a return code whether a host was pingable.

(of course you could do "ping -w 5 10.0.0.1 >/dev/null 2>&1" but still)
I’m asking the same question. What possible home run could any electronic company create that could be a larger market than the phone market? There are 2.75 billion phones in use worldwide. Anything is going to pale in comparison to that market.
Congratulations on the launch, Jason! This is a super helpful and promising product and we at Raicut will definitely be giving it a shot. Wish you and the FeaturePeek team all the best, I'm also promoting y'all on Twitter...
The USA built 4 to 6 carriers and their fleet per year during WW2 [1] [2]. They were complex gizmos too back at the time. Ok, the whole county was fully committed to that so it could be an unfair comparison but it shows the difference between wanting to ship a product that works on a tight schedule and trying to build the dream project. Plenty of examples on the history of IT.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex-class_aircraft_carrier

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence-class_aircraft_...
Note that Godot is still not great at high-end 3D games because of various performance issues and missing features. (The reddit link explains how the Godot third-person demo is showing its weaknesses)

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/9n53ij/wha t_do_people_here_make_of_this_detailed_and/

Fortunately, the next expected release of Godot (4.0) might be able to solve a lot of those problems. It's going to be ported to Vulkan, the renderer is going to be multi-threaded and optimized, and a lot of the lighting related functionality from major game engines is going to be implemented.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Godot-4....
That’s interesting I wasn’t aware of that. I guess trees are different than agriculture.
> The display quality of the new Index (for instance) is sufficient...

Is it? Are the lenses that much better? My Lenovo Explorer WMR is 1440^2 px/eye, and thus has a similar angular resolution to the wider FoV Index. Both are RGB, not Pentile. But I find each eye gets a central circular region something vaguely like 300 px diameter where subpixel rendering is worthwhile (I've a custom render stack), and less than 600 px before the lens blurs pixels together. That's 1980's VGA-like resolution. And it gets even worse as objects move in from infinity and thus out of these regions. If you disable the "oh, its an HMD, not a normal display" feature the OP speaks of, you can easily throw up a pixel-aligned test pattern image. The results are... blurry.

So I use DJI's 1080p drone goggles. Readable 5 pt fonts, almost corner to corner. With shutter glasses, because DJI didn't expose the two panel feeds. :/ And reading glasses, because DJI's lenses... sigh. It's a placeholder kludge.

Nreal's 1080p AR glasses could be available in a couple of months.

> the critical show-stopper is not being able to use your hands to type onto a real keyboard

I've been using my unremarkable laptop keyboard since Vive, by doing pass-through AR with a camera gaff-taped to the HMD. With a browser-as-compositor stack, it's two-video-dom-elements trivial. Though I've heard with a SteamVR stack, pass-through latency can be a challenge.

Hand tracking is more problematic. It's a poster child for acquisitions wiping out market infrastructure. The sole hand-tracking survivor was Leap Motion, which fumbled its couple of Apple acquisition attempts. It's been Windows-only, stalled, kind of crufty, and now has finally been acquired, with uncertain consequences for future availability. And one can kludge. But it isn't pretty.

> When there's a good solution to this I suspect quite a few developers will give it a go when they want a fully immersive in-the-zone experience.

And shallow 3D seems to have interesting possibilities for IDEs.
This sounds like a garbage patent. People have been stacking LEDs in series since they were invented. They put them on a single, transparent substrate. Big deal, seems obvious to me. Is there something special they developed, like a nifty manufacturing technique or previously unused materials?
Small since ~80% of our traffic is mobile and we also serve static ads to most adblock users on desktop.

Google Analytics is the only analytics product that can support the data we need processed at a reasonable price. We do use their IP anonymization by default and it's pretty easy to opt-out of GA tracking.
Natural human grammar is error correcting codes, essentially. If sentence should e corrupted, e.g. like this one is, it usually is immediatly visible that is wrong, and what the “correct” should be.

IIRC, one of the criticisms of Ithkuil is that there’s so much semantics packed into the syntax that this doesn’t work for it- a corrupted Ithkuil sentence often turns out to be a valid sentence with a different meaning.
"But law has apparently nothing to do with fairness. It's based on rules, interpreted by people." That`s why I`m chaotic!
https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/
I need help with this one since you have some experience.

School bus 6am with its blinking lights in Mountain View CA about 8 years ago my wife got pulled over for driving past (she slowed down but didn't stop and wait). So if this happened at 8 am it would have been kinda legit. This was at 6am where there are no kids outside, taking buses.

Entrapment?
The difference between a headset and a monitor is that in VR when you lean in the text gets sharper.
While quite possible, it’s important to point out that police are tools of the state. The areas that the State considers respect worthy get better treatment. The police have thus been wielded for pretty inhumane purposes; and we need to view them with a very honest and critical eye.
According to 538, the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan are the most unpopular wars in US history, except for Vietnam which is #1.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/most-americans-agree-th...
A simple upvote is not enough of a show of agreement for this perspective. Genetics should not be own-able.
This calls for a noble peace price
Totally agree. Tried this on an Oculus GO. Didn’t work well. Not enough resolution and the dev envy leaves a lot to be desired.
Hierarchical layout demands choices be made, but there are advantages in grouping source packages by language:
1) can naturally reflect object packaging models of target language (eg python, jvm).
2) this can encourage reuse of packages across projects.
Tcl/Tk is one of the cooler tools out there, though I wish it were not so... string-based.

Much like Clojure took a bunch of neat stuff from recent programnming languages (first class hash maps! immutable data structures!), I'd love to see a Tcl variant that takes some inspiration from recent trends.
Unblinded tests mean that the tester knows where the bomb is. Imagine you have a bomb on a table. Someone brings a bomb detector over and when they point it at the bomb, it indicates that a bomb is detected. Point it away, and it stops. This is a very convincing demonstration if you don't suspect shenanigans.
How many requests per second are you dealing with? Scale changes what you look at.
Right there in the name: Police Officers.

First and foremost, their job is to police society on behalf of whoever is in charge here. They don’t answer to just anyone, they answer to the people that sign their paychecks, and while on some level that might be you or I when we pay our taxes, it is actually the local Chief of Police, who in turn is paid by the Mayor or whatever the local executive body is, who in turn has his own ambitions which are balanced against the interests of his constituents. But since he is only human, his ambitions generally win out whenever and however possible.

In every city in every century, you’ve had an upper class, a working class and a dissatisfied class. Some members of the upper class might be less than satisfied because they’re not the mofo in charge today. Some members of the working class might be dissatisfied because they just got stiffed by whoever writes their checks and they went home to find another guy in bed with their wife. In either case, the police might be a nice cudgel to have, but it isn’t always the best one for the job at hand.

Members of the dissatisfied class are professionally dissatisfied for lack of any other profession. The police are around to deal with them and any dodgy looking outsiders that wander into town. If a rich aristocrat has a well paid job for them or their good buddy from the bakery down the road needs help teaching an adulterous woman and her last night’s partner a lesson, the police are absolutely there to help “you”. Otherwise their business is that of policing society and enforcing some codes of conduct. They might be common things that people do, don’t do and their common expectations as to what happens when they do or don’t do those things; or codified on some stone tablets for all of civilization to see; or simply a canonical list of vices and virtues. Either way, it’s a good stick to beat the dissatisfied with and someone needs to do it.

Social work isn’t police work, police work is preventing the complete breakdown of society by the judicious application of the State’s monopoly on violence over a sufficiently large area.
Towards Real-Time Ray-Tracing of Combinatorial Solid Geometric Models
What are the lessons you learned? And/or are the lesson plans available online?

(And hi, Ben!! Your awesome holiday card is still up on our fridge. :)
If you want to make APIs simpler, a project we have on the backburner is to start getting adoption for folks to offer Tree Notation apis.

In the 2000's APIs were in XML/SOAP/WSDL and were a total pain. JSON changed all that.

In the 2020's Tree Notation is going to do something similar.

Here's the idea from 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV4Nv23bBwQ (Tree Notation was called "Space" back then)

Here's the current Tree Notation project: http://treenotation.org/
I disagree. Given their history and given their capability, I give them an excellent chance to hang on to their current dominant position. They're still producing drool worthy glass.. the RF 28-70 F/2.. the RF 50mm 1.2 is the tits. The new 600 F/4 III is sublime.
As if Amazon wasn't scummy enough. What's next, a partnership with MS-13 or maybe the bloods or crips? Of course they are going to coordinate their messages and make it seem like this is a positive thing instead of a way of expanding the surveillance state. Sure, for now people will opt in to share videos but for how long? How long until the police start pressuring home owners to share the videos when they can't get a warrant? This is one of the most despicable partnerships I've heard about in some time.
That only holds if the laws allow the large corporation to treat people unfairly.
Yeah...

I tried to make an open source radio system like LoRa before LoRa existed, but I mostly failed to deliver on my kickstarter. :-/

I did make a 915/868 MHz frequency hopping radio protocol that is open source, as well as ARM powered hardware to drive it, but it turns out everything I wanted to do was way more work than I realized.

Bummer that LoRa hardware is proprietary, but I suppose so was the cpu and radio chip I used. Would be nice to get some open source digital radio chips!
I am almost finished working my way through the book "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK"[1].

I dropped Rust and found SPARK easier to work with, and one of the book's authors is a professor at Vermont Technical College (VTC) in the CubeSat Laboratory[2] where Ada/SPARK are used.

The book is a great way to get exposed to a lot of subjects around high integrity, secure software. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/building-high-integrity...

[2] http://cubesatlab.org/
React and Redux and Comlink = Off-Main-Thread
IT doesn’t have any involvement when it comes to S3 buckets at any company I’ve seen. Anything in a cloud tenancy is devops acting with autonomy. Sometimes they have a security person review it, but many companies don’t do that, and the ones that do have way more moving parts than their security engineers are capable of reviewing, so stuff gets through.

Even then, it’s unlikely that a security person would recommend compartmentalizing this particular data set. Any application that needs access to some of it probably needs access to all of it, and it makes little difference if you compromise a server and get one key or if you get 30 keys. The trust boundaries haven’t moved, so it would increase cost without really mitigating any threats.
Taler from what I understand does not require full details to be shared with the tax man, only agregates. That being said I don't think taler is anonymous at all.
Maybe Brave and BAT. I believe they already have the system up and running but not fully.
Funding wasn't a problem for the client in my story. They were happy to spend money. I think the initial contract was for X million USD that would have covered something like 5000 support hours on our end (was based on time spent, not per incident) and then after, it was like 300 USD per hour.

Separate project, I know I was billed out at 500 USD per hour 10 years ago. That was working with an exchange. Initially a joint venture, my company decided to divest itself. We sold all the source for the system that we developed and theyd be running to the exchange. We clearly documented our "build" process and requirements. The core part of the system (and as far as I know the only part that ever went live) was a Python app that used very specific modules, but we also had some patches that were submitted upstream, but not yet in public distributions. So, we were very explicit that you need exactly these versions of Python, these explicit versons of the libs and you need to apply our patches to the libs. We had also only developed and tested on a specific version of linux, and made the indication they should use the same, or we couldnt guarantee the software.

Well, we handed all of the source and documentation to the exchange. They, in turn, hired an outside consulting group. For the life of them, they could not get it to work. First question asked was: did you follow the instructions? Response was "of course, do you think we're idiots?"

The assertion that they followed the instructions exactly sent me down around a 3 week debugging session, attempting to reproduce the issues they were having in our office. Starting from scratch and the exact instructions I had written up for them (I was the only author of the Python app that was failing), I could not reproduce the issue.

After 3 weeks of back and forth, escalations on all sides and some thinly veiled accusations of sabotage, I went on site, sat down with the consultant, told him to start from scratch and show me what he'd been doing.

First thing I notice is that he installs the latest version of Python, and latest version of all the extra libs we needed. He'd completely ignored all of our instructions despite telling us the exact opposite!

It took all of 15 minutes to identify and correct the issue. Ended up billing close to 40K USD in support because the contractor didnt follow instructions and, well, lied (intentional or not) about having done so. Never heard a peep about it from management about the hours or questioning the resolution, and as far as I know the exchange paid the bill without question, even in the height of the aftermath of the 2008 crash.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision to Run Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Nodes
What if that's fundamentally a flawed way of building things? Maybe your site should provide all of the assets it needs...
The Golden Age of Podcasts Is Coming to an End
Related: Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) recently lost a judgment by the U.S. International Trade Commission on their patent licensing program [0]. Lighting companies that have fought patent infringement claims against Philips/Signify and similar entities have often won but at a high cost [1]. Many others are intimidated into licensing, or they go out of business.

My understanding is that lot of it boils down to the patents being relatively vague or overly broad coupled with overly aggressive enforcement.

[0] (NOTE: PDF) Signify Loses at the U.S. International Trade Commission in
Setback to its LED Patent Enforcement Campaign https://edisonreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ITCSigni...

[1] Great analysis of the toll Philips' licensing program has on the industry by WAC Lighting, which has fought infringement claims: W.A.C. Issues Strong Response to Philips ITC Complaint
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wac-issues-strong-response-ph...
I broke my home button and lost touch ID. For a while until I could replace the home button, I used the software home button which floats on your screen. The actual home button for navigation isn't really needed and swipe gesture is a natural evolution of that. However I would prefer fingerprint to face biometrics is what I discovered during this physical home button-less period.
Yeah, it should be "mi", rather than "m"; though I don't think it ultimately caused that much confusion.
There is no compulsory license for on demand music streaming where you can choose what songs you want to listen to and when. The compulsory license was for streaming radio stations where you can’t choose the exact songs you want to listen to like Pandora.

Proof? A radio can play any music it wants to and an artist/record label can’t stop them as long as they have a license. An artist can stop Spotify from including them in their music library.
1. Create a random web page with some random words.

2. Add a ToS notice stating that anyone downloading it now owes you $1000.

3. List every client IP in the logs and sue everyone even if you don't know who they belong to.

4. Profit?
Yo if it was a magma ocean does that mean some of the craters could have been huge magma bubbles that rapidly cooled and then were eventually broken and eroded down to look like craters? I sure hope so.
Yes, however most ML engineers don't get to work at Jeff Dean's level to actually do such interesting work. There are very few companies willing to write their own Horovod or distributed PyTorch.
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I don't know where you live, but in Texas the sign in the store's window is backed up by state law.

If the property owner posts a sign that says no guns, and you carry anyway, you're guilty of an offence.

Source: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.30.htm#30....
My point is that people have been making the same complaint for a very long time, even back when people paid for news printed on sheets of paper.

"This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. [...] I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that ‘the facts’ existed and were more or less discoverable."

--- George Orwell, 1942
Most things that can be spun clockwise can also be spun counterclockwise.
My very first ticket, after I got my license in the mid-90's, was for the same thing -- but in Manhattan.
>There are certainly fields / problems that interest me (low level embedded type stuff, low latency programming, etc.), but they tend to not be accessible to someone with my educational background (let alone professional).

I prefer doing some projects of my own to satisfy the nerdy/geeky guy in me. It's not so difficult to pick up on some IoT hardware projects and implement your own home automation.

For starters, perhaps procure the 3-4$ IoT gadgets (ESP8266 is very versatile) or an Arduino Uno (costs about 10$ for a clone) and try to learn a bit of electronics. Instructables.com is a great resource for this.

If this sort of a thing doesn't interest you - Then may check out writing chat bots (Telegram.org has a great BOT API) and there are many open source libs that support this so that you don't have to write the underlying methods each time.

All the best and hope this helps.
He has a point. I started wishing I knew more maths when I started playing with tensorflow last year....
Ideas about where Tcl went wrong:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/WhereTC...

https://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went...

... and discussion of the page immediately above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3579088

Tcl does have a strange syntax. It tries to be "Lisp but with strings" and strings aren't even as easy to work with as what Lisp gives you, which are singly-linked lists of tokens and other singly-linked lists. And doing Lisp with other representations isn't that new: XSL is "Lisp but with XML", for example.
When you use a federated login, you still can assign an email address to the federated user. Most of them will even pass one to you.

But, do you really want your users to have the added friction and probably just move on to another site, and do you really want the responsibility of providing your own authorization? I work for a B2B SASS company and we highly encourage users to use their company’s AD account that we federate with.
>make it to France before the Russians could steamroll Germany.

Wat. France left NATO in 1966, there would be no C5s landing in France with anything.

The A10 was in fact intended to offset the Soviet Union's vast advantage in numbers, but there was no believable scenario in the 1980s in which the Soviets would have failed to force the Fulda Gap with armor within 48 hours ... absent use of tactical nukes. This is why the German people were extremely unhappy about the presence of Pershings in West Germany, because the only way to prevent the Russians from overrunning West Germany was to nuke West Germany.
Drugs are highly illegal in Japan, yet there is no major drug crisis -- which seems to indicate that it's a cultural problem, and not related to enforcement and illegality. It could even be argued that extremely harsh punishments for drug related crimes could act as a deterrent.
> I've used or tried most of the major headsets available in the market. None of them is remotely close to a resolution where reading reasonably sized text isn't straining.

I use DJI's 1080p drone goggles. With DIY shutter glasses, because DJI didn't expose independent panel inputs. :/ It looks like a 3D TV screen, not VR, but you get readable small fonts from corner-to-corner (almost, depending on whether you also need to use reading glasses with it). But with batteries, they indeed aren't light weight.

Nreal's AR glasses could be available in a couple of months.

> problematic [...] angles [...] positioned in 3d [...] arrange [...] around you

The skeuomorphic design phase with phones was a short-lived part of onboarding an untrained user population. For non-novice professional user interfaces in XR, I suggest it's... silly. :) But oddly reoccurring, perhaps because of game tooling's availability?
I don't think it's 100% the same thing (VRM appears to be full body, not just face), but FaceRig[1] is a similar concept made by a Romanian studio.

[1] https://facerig.com/
No, thankfully.

http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case456.cfm
The sketch is in reference to a real ship https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirki_(tanker) in which the bow split after it caught fire.