skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some precedent for this. Precise digital surface models are useful in geomorphological studies, and the state of the art for producing a new one in the field is laser scanning. But earlier this decade, researchers started using differential processing of sequential images taken from a platform moving arbitrarily (plane, helicopter, drone, etc.) and were able to produce DSMs with elevation resolutions below 10cm, which is sufficient for a lot of studies. See this paper on "structure from motion":

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X1...

The big difference between this and driving is that in SfM, the platform moves arbitrarily around the feature of interest until it has enough data to build the model. Driving is far more linear; your car can't circle an unknown object 5 times until it understands what it is. So, it might be more important for driving applications to maximize the number of different channels of sensor data available to integrate for creating a model.
>The bills are already there. They've likely been piling up for years, and continue to do so.

>If you're $20k in debt, and it keeps growing, and every time you've tried to save up a few dollars to pay it down you've had to spend the couple bucks you managed to accrue on yet another critical bill you can't put off any longer, it starts to feel pointless to save.

If they have so much debt buying so many lottery tickets? Seems like a bad idea. What if they never bought lottery tickets to begin with? Who keeps extending them credit when they clearly never pay any bills?

Do you extend this same logic to firms like Amazon? Amazon spends virtually every dollar they make, does that mean they are poor? Should the government step in a give them money because of how poor they are?

I don't see why, "You have to stop buying lottery tickets" is a non-starter when talking about Americas poor. First stop buying lottery tickets, then we can talk about money problems you may have.
I made a satanic pentagram :3
They are cheaper because of different development level of countries. I doubt this can be classified as racist.
Tenure only exists in upper levels of academic career.
Also why bother with microoptimizations? Just sound like easy ways to justify excuses — “Welp my 3pm window passed, maybe tomorrow!” The best method is the one you actually do.
I don't think they need to cite something that's literally in the text of the posted article. This is a comment section to comment on that very article!
Works for me with Firefox Nightly, Ublock Origin + Privacy Badger on Ubuntu.
Facility at a reasonable development process, is a useful thing to measure. E.g. if I could sort resumes by who has experience with GitFlow and who doesn't, that'd be a help, not a hindrance.
A very good article, with a very poor title.

It's actually a summary of the legal regimes involved, and some thoughts on the ethics of moderation, as it applies to entities at different places in the stack.
Ok I might have to give in with the syntax sugar part, but safety?

Here is my example in C#. So now C# is unsafe?

class Point
{
public int x, y;
}

static class CSharpIsUnsafe {
static void ByPointer(Point p)
{
p = new Point();
p.x = 12;
}

static void ByReference(ref Point p)
{
p = new Point();
p.x = 12;
p.y = 33;
}

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
p = new Point();
p.x = 23;
p.y = 28;
Console.WriteLn($"The point is {p.x} {p.y}");

ByPointer(p)
Console.WriteLn($"The point is {p.x} {p.y}");

p.x = 23;
p.y = 28;
Console.WriteLn($"The point is {p.x} {p.y}");

ByReference(ref p);
Console.WriteLn($"The point is {p.x} {p.y}");
}
}
Yes, but they had to teach me how to read later in life. This is a two-for-one strategy, because the reading skill transfers much more easily.
The Hunt Is on for Alpha Centauri’s Planets
Sudden sleepiness/fatigue is a symptom of benign brain tumors. You should get an MRI scan.
Internationally, countries that export illicit drugs are countries that have a shortage of legal exports and desperately need a cash income. I think if you want to talk about The Drug War in the US, you need to talk about institutional racism and its roots in a history of slavery. There are myriad ways in which the African American community has been victimized in the US and it's all interrelated. You can't really isolate "this one thing."
Can you explain what you see in this graph? I'm baffled, I don't know what "suspects" means, nor why Canada has 10x as many as Mexico. (Presumably the x-axis is police per million population, or similar.)
How can Fedex breakup? I thought Amazon had upper hand in this.
> a weird aberration we will look back on in hundreds of years as completely insane

I am hopeful that by then the concept of us eating animals will also be gone by us synthesizing all our meat instead.

At that point, everything to do with animal consumption and animal production for consumption will seem like a weird aberration; a mere blink of an eye that was part of the process of us transitioning from animals into a civilized intelligent species.
Any one should be able to visit any national park, wilderness area, or other beautiful place and take as many pictures as they want... as long as they follow the rules and regulations.

Park your car where you are supposed to, stay on the trail, don't use a drone if it's not allowed, carry out your trash, don't feed the animals, don't leave your toilet paper under a tree, etc.

Sure I get annoyed when people take too long to snap their photo, but I also get annoyed at people at the grocery store, on the train, etc. You just have to deal with it and go on with your life! Just because some one else likes to take pictures, doesn't mean you should shame them for being a "millennial influencers". But we all should shame the people who don't follow the rules (and these people have been around since before instagram).
OP's implications were in the context of a modern factory farm. You are describing the life of a cow on an old fashioned farm. Not existing is objectively better than being raised for veal. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with factory farming, I honestly don't recommend going down the animal lib rabbit hole it's incredibly depressing. It's a water slide of cognitive dissonance until you hit rock bottom and realize there needs to be reform.
Jackson hole has started a campaign called "tag responsible" urging people not to use specific geotags, but I doubt its had any real impact. No place is secret anymore
Youre own picture is proving yourself wrong. There is clearly lights in north Korea.

Do you understand Korean geography? The majority of the peninsula is mountaineous jungle. Of course there is plenty of areas that don't have lights.

I never said it was a futuristic paradise or comparable to south Korea. But saying it is living in the dark ages is just a flat out lie.

They have lights, computers, televisions, radios and many other of the modern amenities of the first world.

Yes they may all be pyeongyang but that does not mean the country is living in the dark ages.
Might be the cynic in me, but that just sounds like p-hacking, they probably tested several "stress indicators" and chose the one that was below 0.05.
The effect is very pronounced on the Greek island of Santorini. The rise of Instagram (among many other factors) can be correlated with the expansion of tourist season from ~5 months to 10.

Each day, dozens of young brides from every corner of the planet must wait to pose on the scenic steps with blue domes that is present in everyone’s consciousness, in the split-seconds when the shot is free of crowds.

Watching that scene play out over and over, and the general anxiety level of everyone involved, I found to be quite fascinating.

Everyone was working very, very hard to recreate the popularized conception of the experience, rather than just being mentally-present in an otherwise pretty place.
That is very similar to the way I handled errors back in my C days.
I don't think trashing of beautiful places is any worse now than previous generations.

I've seen tons of old broken glass and aging trash in the desert. A good amount of southern California has been paved over. Most of the northeast US is private land and the spaces in between given over to vehicles.

Yeah this new wave of disrespect isn't great, but it is nothing new and I don't think the focus should be shaming the instagram selfie crowd. General respect and teaching is still the way to go.
Depending on how much work you do on your own car, and how long you keep it, new cars may not be a great investment, since they depreciate so rapidly. Basically there's a bathtub curve: too-old cars have very high repair costs, and too-new cars have high depreciation. So if you really want to be frugal, you want a car that's between 2 and 10 years old I think, depending on your finances and what you want to drive.

>This kind of assumption also hinges on the idea that newer cars don't break down as often (which may be true statistically, but is nowhere near guaranteed).

It's absolutely true statistically. It might not be guaranteed because there are lemons out there (as well as Chryslers...), but in general it's absolutely true: machines wear out over time so of course older cars have more things breaking on them. But some are definitely better than others. I know someone with an '01 Toyota Camry with 300,000 miles on it and it's still running great, though it's needed a few minor body things fixed (like a side mirror, probably broken by getting hit by something). I wouldn't expect an '01 Chevy to be that reliable, and certainly not an '01 Chrysler.

>I routinely haul enough stuff to justify at least an SUV, if not an outright truck

My suggestion here if you want to save gas is (assuming whatever you're hauling isn't too heavy, and this is an occasional task and not everyday) to get a car, add a tow hitch, and get a 4x8 utility trailer. I had one of these for a while and it was pretty fantastic for things like hauling appliances or furniture in town.
To be fair, they innovated a tonn in the space so they can beat FedEx with their insane efficiency.
I don't see how transaction privacy is improved significantly.

Goldman Sachs still sees every transaction, just like any other credit card's issuing bank.

If I want transaction privacy I use cash, full stop. There is no other solution that's guaranteed to be anonymous.
>> If you want to understand why America's police act like an occupying army... then you have to start with the Drug War.

Go back much further than that. Go back to the civil rights movement. Go back to jim crow. The history of the American war on drugs was born of racism and continues its birthright. That is the real sticking point, the source of the high emotions surrounding drugs. The drug war is a proxy for much more difficult issues.
Not a downvoter, but you're probably being downvoted because it's clear that "mental" IS being used to mean "crazy", and quite obviously so.
I remember at some point while playing, the main page of the dota 2 client was full of porn. I thought my DNS cache was poisoned at the time, and now, some years later I find out it was an exploit.
Hey thanks this is really helpful, appreciate you taking the time to explain.
Microsoft Fluid Framework Vision Keynote Demo // Microsoft Build 2019
In Defense of Sparta
No, but I have heard vegetarianism being described as extremely unsporting, given that vegetables do not have the opportunity to run away.
Hm, maybe that explains why so many people didn't know what I was talking about when I mentioned the series. I think the series was a bit of a niche, but outside those I watched the series with, nobody seems to have ever heard of it. Already thought of a conspiracy...
Not sure of this is related but I live in Mexico and I've only had problems when I receive Amazon US orders via Fedex. The last one happened just a few days ago when Fedex tried to charge me the taxes that I had already paid.
Took me song long to realize this. Just * do it is so often a more effective/efficient methodology than "optimize first". Once I have a strong understanding of scope, marginal adjustments carry more weight when starting something new.
Mitigation of seismic waves: metabarriers and metafoundations bench tested
Install persistence, stealth like clearing logs, gather more information from AD, run code that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.

But no let’s just forget all of the reasons we use group policy and principles of least privileges.

Imagine if your initial foothold is user with Steam installed. You just got SYSTEM for free.
> I'm pretty sure this is performed to avoid liability and replacement due to theft.
Can you turn this into an interactive thing like Duolingo where you grind through the exercises? Much needed in the developer community...

PS. If anyone else is interested in building this, happy to collab!
Of that 70% is a large chunk who never even attend church, who claim to be Christian for reasons unclear to anyone.

It turns out about 27% of Americans[0] read their Bible several times per week, with more than half of those reading it daily.

[0] https://www.barna.com/research/state-of-the-bible-2018-seven...
Yes, you can do 320x240 with modified raspiraw parameters. But you will get the same framerate as for 640x240, for v1 as well as for v2 camera.

You can do the opposite and increase horizonatal resolution for line scanner type of application with still impressive framerates:

"v2 camera can do 3280x32@720fps and 3280x64@500fps with frame skip rate less than 1% (tools attached)."

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1091...

You can do quite impressive gobal external shutter capturings (with v1 camera only!), eg. capturing a 109m/s
airgun pellet in flight on a single multiple exposure frame 10x:
https://github.com/Hermann-SW/Raspberry_v1_camera_global_ext...
Tail of the snake tries to eat its own head
> I'd love the check the pricing

$0/mo | Every month | 2 Exponential Trends

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Yep, I knew a guy at another job who did this with his wife: when she wanted him to help with laundry, he'd intentionally do it badly enough (probably involving bleach) to ruin clothes, making her so frustrated with him that she always did the laundry.
Thanks Streetcat1! What would you consider as derisking? I think the product is still at conceptual stage with most major functionaility not yet developed. Would that be considered derisked?
> People are visiting cool places and trying to take a cool picture of it.

This is not what they're being publicly shamed for. They're being shamed for trespassing, trampling, damaging the locations and littering.
treasures from the wreck of the unbelievable!
>> ... countries that export illicit drugs are countries that have a shortage of legal exports and desperately need a cash income.

I don't think China lacks export opportunities, yet is the source of most all of the worlds fentanyl-type drugs. Up until a couple years ago Canada was a huge source of pot for the US. Canada has a thriving export market. Mexico too.
Yes, it is coming (google Ship with Amazon) but UPS will be fine.

In much the same way Amazon has a head start on other e-commerce firms, UPS has on Amazon. They have been customer-obsessed in one of the hardest spaces (Meatspace logistics) for literally 111 years. This kind of thing is extremely difficult to get right, and Amazon has a long, long way to go before they can compete with UPS.
I'm genuinely curious - can you give some concrete examples of what you consider to be such BS ML systems?

It would be fun in a TheDailyWTF way :)
Well, they became a problem due to their firm control over the system where they mostly profit from work that others do for them for free.

If scientists write the content and other scientists review it, merely publishing the results of that process shouldn't cost that much. Elsevier is extracting a lot of value from the work of others, and locking the results of that work up.

The act of publishing does add value, but not nearly as much as the researcher and reviewer have added, and yet Elsevier takes ownership of it all, because they happen to be sitting in a position of power built on that work done by others.
Pesticide 'contaminating' Prairie wetlands: scientist (2014)
I looked at it this way too but right now I just understand it as "normal" distortion from techno-economical evolution.

Everything modern is about putting things away to enjoy benefits and ignorance.
It's not much faster as in "over 50% faster". It's faster to invoke as you have much less to type to scan recursively with ignore list. However I find that in many projects .gitignore is too extensive, because it includes generated code, that many times is quite informative. Then it's still nice to use those alternative grep-likes, but not by much. Besides, when you can't install easily it's hard to beat something that it's already there and everywhere else.
The attack here is simply another login on the same machine can get the token. I think that’s how I discovered it, I logged into another account on my machine and Steam logged in using my other account on start up with out asking me to login again.

I should also mention the trend towards these Vault services to store secrets is even worse, as that they effectively make all secrets on a machine world readable since an off box service can’t determine what user is making the request. And the trust on first use idea is lacking in most implementations and vendors like HashCorp in fact don’t want to add it anymore since apparently their users had problems using it and would lock their apps out by accident. So... yeah.
Another interesting aspect is to set SSH to realtime. When you log in you set it non-realtime if you work is not important to avoid sinking the server into oblivion by a simple command.

It is possible to do when you have shared servers as well, by letting root log in to another port instead and setting that process to realtime instead.

Thoughts in my head but never got around to do it.
What? I grew up in a small town in the country and you get to know the butchers and farmers.

Now I'm from Canada where we have less in the way of factory farms, but all of the farmers I'd known preferred to have their cattle graze and chickens run the lot... that's the default.

(I know: as kids we used to sneak around the farmer's grazing fields and mess with the cow fences—see who could take the [mild] electric shock the longest by holding onto the wire...)

Maybe in places where they raise no animals at all—but I imagine that's relatively sparse in much of the continent. I'd have to look that up, mind you.
There was definitely racism in the passing and enforcing of these laws.

There was also definitely communities overran with drug related crime that were desperate for help. When a single mom can't buy her kid a bicycle because the last 3 have been stolen out from under him by addicts looking to score, she's going to ask the her elected representatives for help.
If the margins are very low then at some point relationships are not worth maintaining.

Perhaps due to the volume, Amazon was trying to negotiate rates that FedEx felt were not in its interest.
They seem to be dinosaurs. If the UPS website is any indication, they're deeply dysfunctional. Mind you, they're both worlds above USPS.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw that.
Have been booting proxmox machines off ZFS for a few years now, and the only bad experiences have been with grub. Troubleshooting at the intersection of grub and ZFS is..., well..., giving up and reinstalling is usually quicker. So I'm hopeful that Ubuntu's focus on ZFS boot will eventually lead to some of these issues being ironed out.
My guess: Walmart.
Does Your Microbiome Shape Your Friendships?
I've believed this to be true for a while now, as I've gotten older this has gotten obvious to me.

When you're younger everything works so well you don't notice the subtle differences often times. But as I've rounded 40 I've realized just how big a difference good sleep can make.
>This kind of argument relies on the idea that human beings and animals are fundamentally different

The argument that humans have any sort of ethical duty at all assumes that humans and animals are fundamentally different. Animals don't have any ethical duty to prevent their food from suffering.

EDIT: Furthermore, human suffering is categorically different from animal suffering because human suffering can be inter-generational and have very long-term consequences. Animals don't transfer their suffering and their morality between generations, and that fact does make human suffering much worse than animal suffering, because human suffering can lead to arbitrarily catastrophic consequences. A tiger biting a human can lead directly to the complete extinction of the tiger. The emotional content of the suffering my be similar, but the consequences are not.
You can block that, though I’m sure some gets through.
Pihole and an add blocker work pretty well for me, and it’s really surprising to me that people tolerate browsing without some form of protection.
Was posting this item again a mistake?
I believe (without linkable evidence) that Roman Catholics are far less likely to engage in daily reading that protestants, but 27% of Americans[0] read their Bibles several times a week or daily.

[0] https://www.barna.com/research/state-of-the-bible-2018-seven...
“Something else to think of is if not for being grown for food they wouldn’t have existed at all. Is not existing better than that life they get? It’s an interesting question.”

By that logic we could grow humans in concentration camps and make them perform slave labor for their whole life. Their lives are miserable but at least they have existed.

You seem to have a very rose colored impression of how life is for most animals is on farms or feed lots. Their whole life is miserable and stressful.
This app does this exceptionally. It does limit you to 5 minutes a day though, but at times does offer you more time. https://languagedrops.com/
Violence is what every govt threatens its citizens with to ensure peace ( irony no ? )

What is not common in the US is a respect for others. The police do not respect the citizens. The citizens dont respect the police or the govt.

Respect is earned. Tell me you think the police or govt has earned our respect ? Because of this mutual lack of respect
violence is almost certain.
1. Changing your diet is not so easy when the society around you has optimised for something else.

2. Culture - if your family has historically relied on meat for sustenance, you can't exactly go vegetarian with the flip of a switch. It requires a shit ton of planning, asking questions, identifying what you like, resetting your taste palate and expectations meanwhile still entailing a fair bit of confusion. OTOH, Grandma taught Mom who taught her children on how to cook meat.

3. Younger ages are tough since you would probably be living with family and decisions regarding what is bought and cooked are probably being made by parents who might not exactly share your inclinations to go meat-free.
Did you try watching German movies or tv shows with German subtitles and translating every word you don't yet understand? It's like immersion but on steroids. It naturally prioritized and trains your brain on all the common words and you get to seemingly impossible levels of understanding in the shortest possible time.
Pretty sure it's hyperbole. Here's the page linked to from the OP, "Access to Elsevier Articles", that mentions (only) the first line in the quote above.

[0] https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/pub...
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Tcl TV's can send the sound over WiFi to a phone. I can listen to TV via my phone, hear clearly, and nobody farther than 5 feet can hear a thing. It's a solved problem.