skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Navigation in VR is a barely solved problem. Most games have players teleport between positions instantly because a continous motion would create a sensation of conflict between balance reported by the inner ear and the perceived motion. That means instant nausea.

Positioning objects in 3D precisely and conveniently without a 3D pointing device is hard, too. The best option for that is a mouse and crutches like handles oriented along coordinate axes. But that only works because the mouse pointer has a reference plane it moves on (the projection plane for the 3D view). In VR, this plane is tracking the head precisely. You cannot reasonably put the mouse cursor on that plane. You would need a different reference plane and then you're back to all the problems that 3D input on a 2D screen has. And a positioning objects in 3D with a keyboard is even more tedious.
Good to know, thanks. Something I'll have to do a bit more reading up on.
Nothing but NumPy: Creating NNs with Computational Graphs from Scratch
Knowing I can't change the past and don't care much about the future beyond the near term success of my platform, I would target the languages that have an overwhelming majority of developers.

I have a sense that the web stack makes up a large majority of developers who can/do develop UI-centric user applications.
One of the key tools of the 9/11 attacks were box cutters.

It's said the Russians influenced - and are still influencing (per Mueller) - our elections and (said) democratic processes with a few buckets of cash and some well placed internet misinformation.

The threat of a cyber-attacked is very real.

And we're still building multi-billion-dollar 20th century-minded war ships???
Very well put, and I love your use of "dunking"
"There is a trade-off for the low price. The devices typically have slower and less powerful components, only basic cameras and their screens are usually just a few inches in size...."

IMHO, that's a feature, not a bug ... if all you really want is a phone.
They brought it up themselves too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xozVBAWo8XI (not dubbed unfortunately) where their users would accuse them of being antiquated for not doing any server sync'ed messages but it's all by intent.
Your local library probably provides content for free if they subscribe to news services, paid for with your tax dollars. Paywalls are just a tax on those too stupid to go to one.

Newspapers never made their money from subscriptions or from selling papers on the street. What kept newspapers in business was classified ads, which was disrupted as a revenue stream when Craigslist came around.
Limits like 18 missiles are very easy to change in a war. Firing 100 vs 18 does not involve some huge leaps in technology, just a different focus.

Subs are extremely dangerous places or be in a war and should expect heavy casualties. However, from a military standpoint if the sub is destroyed after taking out an aircraft carrier that’s a major win.
> Honestly there have been very very few times where my knowledge of mathematics has directly helped me

And that is the intended use of math! Knowing math is like knowing judo or another powerful martial art. You take great effort to learn and master it, not for its "practical applications", but because you are honestly interested. One day, hopefully never, this knowledge will save the day, and you will be the only one around who has it.
Since I first saw it posted, I've probably played thousands of games of chess on Nanochess. Impressive achievements, I'd love to learn more of what they've done
They do, however, have a right to an affectional preference. And if a person is selling affection for money, lying isn't OK.
Yes I can. All of those except for facebook (because facebook is a sprawling platform) seem reasonable to be able to build without a build system. And with using es6 modules it's not "putting a script tag in HTML", you have a proper module loading system without needing any builds or libs.

I'm not saying it's some sort of lost knowledge like Damascus steel, I'm just saying that many people these days are so caught up into the current dogma of JS that they never consider a simpler but still modern path.
What we could do is set up special camps to help these poor misguided souls. The camps would concentrate all the ignorant people into one group so that they can be more efficiently dealt with.
In a traditional business, if a retailer imports an item for sale, who else would be responsible for making sure it complied with US law?
A filesystem, a shell, a program loader, and a hex editor! Well, maybe "editor" is overselling it. But from my point of view, it's as much an "OS" as MS-DOS was. MS-DOS also depended on the ROM BIOS.

I agree that it's probably not practically useful. But it's a brilliant hack!
I’d say quite a lot when you consider local municipalities, churches (at least in the south), and small businesses. Historically, high positions in those places have been held by predominantly men. This isn’t news and it’s irrefutable.

Why does it feel like people are combatant to historical facts?
All the repos in the org looks pretty interesting: https://github.com/nanochess
If you were given access to a list of all the porn content you've viewed along with the associated metadata neatly categorized and documented it might change your outlook on the issue. It's not just about the subject matter, it's about what conclusions can be correctly or incorrectly drawn from the data. Metadata such as date and time, location, etc. would be of interest. All this being said, "I'm a sick fuck, I like a quick fuck"

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/pornhub-views-spiked-...
Question: will the OpenAI fellows curriculum ever be released? I need a nice, structured intro to deep learning research and feel like the curriculum modules your company has developed would have the highest quality.

(For reference, I’m an undergrad looking to get into this field)
"“I think when the Navy started off, they had a really good plan,” Paul Francis, of the Government Accountability Office, told the Senate in 2016. “They were going to build two ships, experimental ships.” But in 2005, having assured itself that “optimal manning works,” the Navy decided to skip the experimentation and move straight to construction. From this point on, whenever the Navy tried to study the feasibility of minimal manning, its analysis was colored by the fact that—on these ships, at least—it had to work. Dozens of littoral combat ships were on their way. The Giffords was the 10th to deploy."

Taken from:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/future-...
It's the opposite. Business success (e.g. being able to pay people to work less hard and enjoy free lunches, etc) is linked to happiness.
On a similar note for anyone who might find themselves in the UK the "National Museum of Computing" in the grounds of Bletchley Park is also a great visit https://www.tnmoc.org/ , with the guided tour especially.
I think if we're all being completely honest with ourselves, we're all wrong a lot. We just don't publicize it because nobody, sometimes including ourselves, ever notices. The thing that should matter most is how well we learn from our mistakes so as not to repeat them.
I'd really love to buy something like this for my 80 year-old mother in law, she's absolutely terrified of mobile phones and still uses a landline. Will it be available in the US?
Also tangentially related, but apparently, moon rocks were once fed to cockroaches and injected into mice: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/us/nasa-lunar-samples-testing...
I wouldn't single out those communities. Take the top 20 subreddits, and you'll see the ones that aren't just meme feeds are driven by outrage.
Nice, wasn't even aware that Svelte was a thing, thanks.
I think their answers are pretty representative. Your requests wouldn't hurt the business per se but if they would bend over to accommodate everyone's small requests, the company would loose the illusion of control they have over their slav... err ...workforce and they can't have that.
> Without pants, our repo would be a mess.

Filed under sentences I never thought I'd hear.
So you think, in defense of free speech, Google shouldn't be allowed to talk about what it found in Apple's products.
It is more likely to be a slippery slope where you begin completely believing your technology will work and then over time it becomes more and more fraudulent. At the beginning I think she completely believed the technology would work. After a year and no progress, what do you do? You raise more money and double down. Fast forward another couple of years, do you admit you were wrong and tell the investors the bad news? Do you take the humiliation of the failure? In her case she doubled down again and although must have known by now it would never work, she carried on with the pretence. Like a kid caught in a lie keeps on making more lies to keep the façade going.
I've had C++98 at school, but how would I learn C++17? Scott Meyers wrote C++14 but he retired from C++ development so what are the best alternatives?
Wealthy parents giving up guardianship of children to qualify for financial aid
The military got the best and brightest during WWII because the US was fighting Nazis ... and a foreign enemy who had attacked us on our own soil.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball2019/

For Vietnam, they had to draft because few believed in the cause and what they got where those too powerless to escape the draft
After two weeks, Andy Rachleff’s class in business school was the only one I considered dropping in my entire academic history. What made it even worse was that I had burned one of my two “silver bullets” selecting it.

But I decided to stick it out for one more class...and then one more.

By the end of the course I came to the realization it was one of the most profound quarters I experienced. He was brash, strict, and a bit arrogant. But he knew his stuff. He pushed me to think about the world in an entirely different way.

I still disagree with him on a number of startup related issues (talk about arrogance on my part!), but he did what the best teachers do - forced me to take a hard look at preconceived notions and challenged my view of reality.

2+ years later, I still reflect on his lessons and the insights from the founders he introduced us to. A truly remarkable guy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball2019/
So - shareholders better stay away from explaining business matters. You have no idea about the value the 30% brings.
You can't check for causation unless you manipulate a subsample of the companies randomly.

Article: "However, the authors cite studies of changes within individual firms and organisations which seem to show that improvements in employee morale precede gains in productivity, rather than the other way round."

A theory could be that employers see the improvement in productivity before they are measureble by the methods employed and therefore are happier. E.g. bad processes are replaced which gives happier employees before the gains are evident.
Game consoles are also not hugely profitable. In fact they are sold at a loss for the most part for the first few years. Microsoft loss billions selling game consoles on the first two or three generations. Even now, the mobile app market is larger and more profitable than the console market for Apple with them taking a 30% cut.

On top of that, Apple already announced the subscription Apple Arcade service and their games will run on iPhones, iPads, AppleTVs and Macs.

Between Microsoft and Sony, they sold a little over 100 million of the current generation consoles during their entire existence (https://www.cinemablend.com/games/2417541/ea-reveals-how-man...) - many of them at a loss. Apple sells 50-70 million iOS devices every quarter.

Heck Apple will probably sell more Watches (at a profit) than that during its first 5 years.

People are already spending more time on mobile devices than consoles.

As far as cameras, the standalone camera market has been declining for years because of the smart phone. There is only so much you can do with cameras in phones because of both physics and the cost has to be low enough to make the entire phone affordable. I’m sure no one at Apple is thinking about releasing the Apple QuickTake 2.
"Why another death on trail to 'Magic Bus' from Into The Wild won't stop adventurers"

It's sad people want it stop adventurers (kinda implied in the article)

I thinks it's a compensation for their boring lives, or bringing others down to lift themselves.

It's a hard trip that's dangerous, people can die. That's why people do it.

An easy trip is to the 7-11 to buy chips. Not all of us want this in life.

And the reason rescuers volunteer is in a strange way linked. It's part of their life, it's fun, it's hard, it's dangerous, it's accomplished. Without misfortune they'd miss out on that important part that brings them meaning.... complicated.
> without programmers on staff, how can you evaluate if someone is a decent programmer?

I work in .gov and have heard many variations of that problem. A really common non-solution is to hire a second contractor to oversee the first. In theory that’s not a completely horrible idea but there are relatively few contractors who are certified to do business with the federal government and they usually aren’t trying to make waves, not to mention how job hopping makes for a lot of personal incentives which aren’t aligned with the clients’. Since getting and breaking contracts is so hard — and the big guys will definitely play hardball if you do – it has to be a pretty epic disaster to have real consequences, and that’ll arrive after years of billing very well.

The answer should be having more staff positions at competitive rates so agencies have qualified staff for oversight or simply doing the work but that has been politically untenable for decades.
I agree. This is basically every pessimistic article on every subject by a non-expert and almost all of them should be ignored.
You are thinking of the old Google.
"The coming war" definitely paints their view of the future as cynical, but as someone who works in robotics for military use it's hard to argue with it...
I would call it some sort of language, or substitute "sort" with "type" if the word seems too casual for your tastes.

I agree that there may be a lot happening in this world we're unable to perceive, and then your whole argument can be summarized as "anything is possible, we don't really know for sure".

Which I now see is why scientists insist on sticking to things that can be measured, proven and quantified. Anything else is drifting into the territory of religion, superstition and imagination. Humans have been known to worship certain animals as supreme gods after all.
Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe
I don't know...reading around it seems the mirrorless fans that dominate photography discussions REALLY hate mechanical shutters and optical viewfinders with some passionate fury. I feel like an old man shouting at clouds when saying I prefer DSLR.
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.

The large screen concept is a bit problematic. A large planar screen distorts the portions you're not in front of because you're only seeing them at pretty extreme angles. A cylindrical screen distorts projected content, e.g. photos or 3d graphics displayed on it. A better solution would be to treat each window as a flat rectangle that can be freely positioned in 3d. So you can arrange the most important window around you in ways that you can conveniently look at them by turning your head and you'd still look at them dead on. For implementing that, a 3D pointer is by far the best option.
In fact those techniques have even gotten substantially better with technology. It is fairly easy to create a laser microphone that can pick up sound on the other side of glass. There are even devices that can do it through solid walls, but sensitivity is vastly different between these. These are huge advantages though because you don't need to get close to the target.

We have telephoto lenses and a 50 megapixel camera is only $4k. Imaging has gotten both substantially cheaper and substantially better.

We also now have IMSI-catchers that can easily be deployed. Which makes wire tapping much easier.

By all accounts everything that could be done in the past can be done substantially better and for much cheaper while having a lower risk of an operative being caught by trying to place the spying device (since we can increase the distance). Which also means the term bulk has changed.

I'm sure reading encrypted message would make their job easier too. But I'd need to see some hard data on how effective advancements in other areas have enabled catching terrorists, because I highly doubt they have.

Also, backdoors seem self sabotaging. If you have operatives in another country don't you want them to have easy access to encrypted communication lines? If only spies use SuperSecretCommunicationApp then that's pretty easy to trace. I've understand this to be the whole reason for releasing Tor to the public. Gives a lot of cover. Besides the fact that your enemies are also going to get ahold of any backdoor created.
I used virtual box running xp a few years ago for a vba project I did for a contract. I never ran into any issues.
How do you know iOS sends all location lookups to Apple?
"when feminists demanded that every man accused of rape be punished"

Where did you get this idea? That sounds like precisely the type of exaggerated nonsense that fuels things like the Men's Rights movement in the first place.
What does AI’s success playing complex board games tell brain scientists?
Who has two C-Suite jobs? The people at that level are frequently the ones working the longest hours.
I'm liking the new UI a lot better. The old one reminded me of Lightwave 3d, which I struggled with.
>Is there a specific men’s rights subgroup the author is referring to that’s very loud

Yes, and, as usual with loud, antagonistic subgroups, they look from the outside like part of the larger group's definition. But that's not an excuse - I wish people like the author would be more generous when talking about the larger groups. Men's rights are particularly affected by this, because it's a topic with both a lot of legitimate grievances and illegitimate hatred among its ranks.
That was just a typo, I meant the source for is-odd. I copy-pasted it. I use that exact syntax all the time in code, you don't need to be patronizing.
It vaguely reminds me of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary books, which if I recall correctly have the rats, underworld, technology, and more, but it might not be it as it doesn’t have the light sheets etc, I think... I’m trying to figure out where I’ve heard this one before, it sounds familiar...
What if catching the stupid bad guys just means the smart bad guys take their place? Like a spray that kills 99% of bacteria, all you're potentially doing is applying a selective pressure towards being more technically smart.

And in this case, being more technically smart might just mean clicking the link to the E2E encrypted web chat site rather than the server-to-client encrypted site. Perhaps, though, the government will start banning websites that offer E2E encrypted chat, and require hosting companies to not let you host such apps yourself.
Yes, this is quite common. The people who choose the process are not the same as the people who get stuff done despite it.

There’s also a survivorship / selection bias inherent to companies with extreme views like this. Either you both (a) agree to cheerlead & display positive affection for the religion and (b) display effectiveness in the role, or else you will quit or get fired or self-select to never work there in the first place.

So in a large part, it’s literally unknowable to what degree success is in spite of vs because of these extreme practices. There can’t be evidence about it because by definition there is the confounding factor that the employees whose productivity you measure are only from one specific sub-population (likes extreme view & delivers good software). You never get to measure what people with diverse opinions about tbe philosophy would do in the role, and you never get to measure what less successful developers would have done in the extreme philosophy.

The same effect happens with extreme coaching philosophy in sports, where again after you apply the filter that the players are selected to both be very good and accepting of the philosophy, there’s no way to measure the counterfactual possibilities, so it reduces to religion.
Remap caps lock to escape. I use vim and I can't stand the "standard" esc key position anymore.
>But after you setup the dataset definition and defined the schema, the rest can be based on neural search?

Sure, but hyperparameter tuning and architecture selection takes such an insignificant amount of any competent ML practitioner's time so as to be pretty much irrelevant.

At least for me, my time is mostly spent:
1. Understanding (or designing) the process that generated the data.
2. Organizing the training schema.
3. Understanding the customer's business problem so that an appropriate ML system can be designed.
4. Doing an initial design of the ML system based on that understanding and then iteratively designing new components for said system based on customer feedback.
5. Developing or researching how to measure model performance.
6. Searching for alternative data sources.
7. Answering customer and stakeholder questions about the ML system
8. Implementing the ML system in code.

None of these can be automated with current technology, and there's a reason for that: if it was possible to automate a task then our team already would have.
That may miss the point slightly. These are people who are on the receiving end of scorn, and their decisions to dive deeper into fringe communities only opens them up to further scorn! The very opposite of the issue you are describing, which is a situation in which people conform en masse in order to avoid scorn.
The Hardy-Ramanujan number 1729
https://www.marui-plugin.com/blender-xr/

https://github.com/MARUI-PlugIn/BlenderXR
>mainline of the genetic stream

This is a tricky concept. Could it be said over 50,000 years ago that Homo Sapiens' ancestors were the mainline? I wouldn't retroactively call it that because it presumes that it was clear at the time that it would be the definitive dominant subspecies.

I think a better phrasing would be "genetic divergences, some of which were preserved by the cross-merging with the only surviving genetic stream", or something of the sort.
This is an awesome post and I love the external links given. I've been reading a lot of satellite engineering books and resources lately but they're unfortunately mainly geared for much larger missions. This article, and really most cubeSat info, is really useful for the amatures like myself.
Three pitfalls to avoid in machine learning
Which is to say, you could get infected by already being infected, which is... not much of a vulnerability.

It's a pretty big vulnerability when you allow the malicious intent of one app to escalate to an actual malicious capability so I don't think you're accurately recalling the issue in question.
and yet everyone pretends the opposite
This post and the parent comment they responded to are both about Google?
If the OP that posted the link here is the same person that wrote it, as their username and comment history suggests, I think you are probably spot on wrt being motivated by doing it for the sake of doing it.

The HN profile of OP says: “I fight boredom by challenging myself to my limits.”

That’s the hacker spirit :)