skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What criteria should be monitored to request compaction in a long-running process? Is a timer sufficient (at what interval?) or are there other tools available in Ruby to make that decision?
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If this is such a high concern, why don't they go on a fox hunt? HAM is pretty popular in rural areas and HAMs love fox hunts. With the frequency and length that these things are up, they should be able to close in on the operators fairly quickly.
This law will have to change as more illegally weaponized drones replace traditional drive-bys or other assassinations.
How machine learning is unlocking the secrets of human movement
Initially this seems asymmetric for no reason: why would you interpret the data in the most optimistic and not the most pessimistic light?

One reason for this asymmetry comes to mind after a few minutes. There are two sources of errors: known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Known unknowns can be handled with statistics and abstracted away when comparing different plans.

Unknown unknowns, on the other hand, cannot be accounted for in advance by definition. The worst case is always that an unknown factor will make you lose everything no matter what. On the other hand, the best case is limited by the plans you're making. So it makes sense to go with the plan with the best payout in case there will be no unknown unknowns.
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Is There a Model Zoning Code?
Person: Pick up a big red block.

Computer: OK.

Person: Grasp the pyramid.

Computer: I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHICH PYRAMID YOU MEAN.

Person (changing their mind): Find a block which is taller than the one you are holding and put it into the box.

Computer: BY "IT", I ASSUME YOU MEAN THE BLOCK WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE ONE I AM HOLDING.

Computer: OK.

Person: What does the box contain?

Computer: THE BLUE PYRAMID AND THE BLUE BLOCK.

Person: What is the pyramid supported by?

Computer: THE BOX.

Person: How many blocks are not in the box?

Computer: FOUR OF THEM.

Person: Is at least one of them narrower than the one which i told you to pick up?

Computer: YES, THE RED CUBE.

Person: Is it supported?

Computer: YES, BY THE TABLE.

Person: Can the table pick up blocks?

Computer: NO.

Person: Can a pyramid be supported by a block?

Computer: YES.

Person: Can a pyramid support a pyramid?

Computer: I DON'T KNOW.

Person: Stack up two pyramids.

Computer: I CAN'T.

Person: Will you please stack up both of the red blocks and either a green cube or a pyramid?

Computer: OK.

Person: Which cube is sitting on the table?

Computer: THE LARGE GREEN ONE WHICH SUPPORTS THE RED PYRAMID.

Person: Is there a large block behind a pyramid?

Computer: YES, THREE OF THEM: A LARGE RED ONE, A LARGE GREEN CUBE, AND THE BLUE ONE.

(continued, see linked article)
Makes you wonder how we as humans haven't evolved the ability to innately perceive being crushed by large objects.

I know I become hyper aware of any small black specks in my peripheral vision since they resemble spiders that could have posed a threat to our ancestors so we evolved these heightened senses to avoid them.
Semblance: An empirical similarity kernel on probability spaces
We evolved to run, but not on surfaces as hard as concrete and asphalt. They’re far more brutal on the joints than even hard-packed clay, which would be the extreme in most natural environments.
This reminds me of Tribes Ascend snipers wanting to play with bigger latency because the adjustment would help them more than the lower ping.
I bought Lenovo laptop few days ago and installed fresh Windows. Then I enabled WiFi and left it for a hour. It installed ALL drivers including Nvidia drivers and Nvidia control panel. I checked driver versions with Lenovo support page and every driver was fresh. Windows did awesome work with automatically installing drivers. Nvidia driver was not fresh, I think it was from July, 22, 2019, but I don't think that it's that old anyway. So for ordinary users Windows does very good job at installing drivers and I would recommend against doing anything by hand, unless absolutely necessary.
Merry Christmas HN. Thanks for keeping this a valuable community! See you all in next year's thread.
Did you perhaps mean "consciousness"?
Curious are you anti-the power of attraction or anti Oprah recommended books that have mass appeal when they shouldn't.

Reminds me of Led Zepplin.. music snobs will profess to how bad stairway to heaven is but love black dog or battle of evermore on that same album. They hate stairway to heaven because others like it. If the song was hated they would be the first to love it.
I think Squeak Nebraska can handle multiple Hands. I admit BubbleOS's Yeso doesn't have any provision for multiple pointers either.
This is awesome. The case fabrication looks great. What materials and fabrication process did you use? I'm particularly interested to hear more details of how you made such a pro looking design.
https://youtu.be/cix07R1vlhI
Arma 3 is the most advanced I know of, accounting for bullet drop and speed loss when passing through different objects with different caliburs
I'd imagine that already being bought into a car is part of the problem. If you already own a car you have significant monetary investment that you will never get back. Double so if you car is in well maintained order. At the very least you probably have 6 months of car insurance that you will be stuck paying. Now you are looking at minimum 6 months return on your commute before you even start saving money. Basically you are taking on a huge probably year long inconvenience for a small cost savings that won't even start showing up until the first year is over. Meanwhile you have that car is sitting around beckoning you to go back to its convenience.

Perhaps if insurance companies would get on board full it could help along with some sort of broker service to help quickly offload the car would help.
I switched from Linux to Windows 7 or 8 about 5 years ago and haven't thought about drivers since then.

For most people, drivers are likely something they never deal with.
Fascinating! That's actually the image from which I first learned about this star.
I have a non-computer-savvy friend who regularly has to reinstall nvidia graphic drivers because windows 10 update REGULARLY overwrites them with drivers that CRASHES blizzard games (world of warcraft, overwatch). Has to be done every 4 days or something like that.

It's really weird to not know who is at fault here, if it's nvidia, microsoft or blizzard. There are no good way (other than disabling updates) to prevent windows update from overwriting drivers.

I wish microsoft would do something about this. Can't even remember if I submitted some feedback. Not to mention this computer is crazy slow since the upgrade from win8 to win10. I know the usual "get a SSD", but that computer was NOT THAT SLOW before the upgrade. Anyway this computer is a all-in-one, which has weird hardware. But still, it's a i7, with 6GB of ram. It's hard to believe it takes so long to open the start menu or just a folder.

Oh yeah, other thing: another friend bought an used laptop which had some insider preview enabled. 3 weeks ago her microphone just stopped working. Apparently you cannot remove an insider win10 build WITHOUT REINSTALLING. I was not able to fix it. I'm not even a maintenance guy.
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It’s not the driver signing that’s the problem. It’s that Apple is a gatekeeper for driver signatures and won’t release drivers unless it suits them.

I know the GTX 1080 works on High Sierra, but that OS is at (or near) the end of its supported life.

Microsoft manages the driver signing process but doesn’t play these games. If nVidia wants to write and maintain drivers for macOS, why get in their way?
I bought Lenovo laptop few days ago and installed fresh Windows. Then I enabled WiFi and left it for a hour. It installed all drivers automatically. I'm sure that there are cases where Windows won't install proper drivers, but from my experience Windows does awesome job at installing proper drivers.

PS I also booted Ubuntu LTS Live CD and while it worked, hardware support was not very nice. Display FPS was set to 60 instead of 144 and after 5 minutes it turned display off and I couldn't turn it on. I guess, with enough tinkering those problems could be solved.
(mumble) Nintendo Wii (mumble)
'through' in the title connects with 'introduction' not 'machine learning'.

e.g., introduction to space-shuttle flying, through flight simulator on a gaming console.
FBI Records: The Vault – Nikola Tesla
Freelance Journalists Sue California over Controversial Labor Law AB 5
There's actually many games that account for bullet drop! The article talks about this, but off the top of my head there's PUBG, and any game that involves a bow and arrow as a weapon.
> Santa Claus is one of several manifestations of a particular wintertime character, probably originating with the pagan, pre-Christian Germanic and Norse god Odin.

No, 'Santa Slaus' is a distortion of st. nicholas, to which people may or may not have ascribed characteristics of previous 'wintertime characters', as attested to by the further examples of: Sinterklaas, Mikulás, which are both actually not distinct entities, but both 'St Nicholas' in their respective languages. One can make some anthropological case that these are 'manifestations', but in the case of 'Santa Klaus', the core 'identity' is still a 'nicholas figure' to which people may or may not have ascribed other attributes. Lineage and conceptual transactions are important here, esp. since this makes a less appealing narrative to spin, when one is trying to downplay the second-ranked feast day in the official state religion of an empire that viewed itself as the direct and legitimate successor of imperial christian rome.

e.g:

"It wasn’t really a festival exactly, but more of a somber religious holiday marked by fasting and long church services in Old Church Slavonic"

This is what feast days (aka 'festivals') are in orthodoxy. Followed by a 'feast'. So yes, it was a festival, "exactly".

Christmas was a major day of important significance in imperial russia, and Fr. Frost was directly promoted as a secular replacement for St. Nicholas, because soviet-style communists are militantly athiest and hostilly anti-religion. The very fact that this figure exists is a testimonial to the need to provide a 'foil' for the people to accept his removal, rather than just some casual 'cultural shift' to a different 'winter character manifestation'.

As for people 'forgetting how to celebrate christmas' during soviet times, please recall (whether positively or negatively) that Mr. Putin's mother had him baptized in secret from his communist father and he makes pilgrimages to monasteries regularly. The current high place of the church in russian society did not just originate in some ideological vaccum, many never gave up in the face of overt and militant religious hostility.
When someone tries to take down your site and fails
Why does attendance matter?
See also Aaaaah, a social network for yelling existentially into the void
https://twitter.com/chromakode/status/1186348053575262208?s=...
Even so a property owner should have a right to decide whether it is used on his property
For what it may be worth: As a lifelong member who knows many others and reads a lot, I am completely unaware of anyone hating correlation. It has never come up in any conversation or thing I have read, until now that I see your comment. On the other hand, I am aware of tremendous amounts of original historical source materials and information on many topics that have been published and made freely available on the 'net, to anyone, including about experiences and statistics around polygamy and many other things). When I compare the journals I have read (handed down) and oral family history stories, personalities I have known, etc etc., with what I have seen of Church publicationis and online materials, I see nothing being whitewashed or hidden.
Project reality, squad even more advanced with wind and smth about earth rotation I forgot the Name of it

There's also the ace3 mod for Arma 3 which makes bullets behave more real
What they pay does not offset the total costs of maintaining these facilities, and these allies still levy significant import duties on US goods that traverse these shipping lanes, so I don’t know what point you’re trying to make other than pendantry.
Anyone have any good resources they’d recommend having done this?
Are you based in the UK? I assume that everything is based in USA so it's strange to see a pound sign and that the cost is "2.9%+20p". [Hi from Argentina, anyway.]

If you are charging $0, how do you expect the business to get money?

Can someone send a donations that get automatically distributed in funerals that are not reaching a minimal amount of money?

The guy in the tree in the about page in a site about funerals is creepy. I see it and I imagine he is going to fall. Perhaps it is a cultural thing, perhaps it is only me that get concerned.

Do you have any protection for spam? [There are fake Facebook profiles that send friend request to many user, and some of them accept the request. I imagine that as a follow up scam, they can send a money for a fake funeral from your platform.]
Sweden launches inquiry on how to ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars
Football.... that’s so vague!
The vast majority of windows drivers can be installed and upgraded in place, since at least NT/windows 2000. That is unless they regressed something in win10. Back 20 years ago, I was doing windows driver development and even then outside of some storage filters, and maybe IIRC the graphics drivers all you needed to install/update a driver in place was the package/.inf files.

I'm pretty sure that continues to work as of at least win7 where one can go into the device manager and click hardware without drivers and install/activate most things without rebooting. Or upgrade/switch drivers for a piece of hardware. Its only if windows fails to stop the device does it request a system reboot. Probably the biggest problem, are the stupid little monitoring utilities that some vendors provide that open the device and never respond to device state change requests.
SpiNNaker – A Massively Parallel, Manycore Supercomputer
Could you elaborate on "Poland was occupied by Russia"?

Let's put alone that in 89 it was USSR so Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, etc. all together.

In any case there were no Russian troops stationed in Poland. Quite opposite, Poland and its army was one of leading members of Warsaw Pact (the name, sic!).

So what does "occupation" mean in your statement?
No, it prevents the government from censoring the press. It does not require that any given press publish you. In other words, if you're going to consider that "Facebook" is like "The Washington Post", you have no right to be published in either.

And the government forcing either to publish you is an attack on the freedom of speech of the publisher. Because forcing them to say something they don't want to is a clear and obvious violation of their freedom of speech.
For many simple use cases, it is vastly easier to count zero crossings per unit time. One period of a sinusoid contains a single positive-to-negative and a single negative-to-positive transition. No DSP required, though you may first bandpass the audio if you've got a target frequency range. Assumptions: the fundamental is the strongest harmonic present, negligible DC offset.

Simple example: For a 1.0 second audio sample, if the sign changes from +/- or -/+ 880 times, the frequency is 440Hz.
> Apparently you cannot remove an insider win10 build WITHOUT REINSTALLING.

Well, yeah. If a beta takes a wrong direction in the design of a new on-disk data structure, do you really expect them to write a reverse-migration that turns it back into the old format? That's a lot of work for a tiny point-release on branch of development they're not even sure they're going to make public. No commercial OS supports this.
Thank you for your story. Don't waste your winnings on feeling guilty.
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The equivalent functionality is the File Browser tab when you open RawTherape. You can filter images, assign ranks/color labels, create queues, do batch edits, assign a dark frame, etc etc.

It doesn't have "collections" or "catalogs" per se, if that's what you're specifically looking for.
Yah, I don't understand why MS doesn't just make sure more of the drivers are in windows update or updated on a more regular basis as part of the driver signing program.
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>Dark Souls doesn't really model swords colliding at all.

Does this really make a difference? There's nothing fundamentally different about sword to sword vs sword to body is there?

The anim set makes hits look good even though the impact is not physically calculated for collision angles and impact velocity and such. Perhaps you mean model in this way?
Even still, the game has to at least do a hit detection on a deforming hitbox.

Do you happen to know how From accomplishes their hitbox animation and collision detection?
Not only that, it's more effort to maintain given the number of combinations when users may selectively apply patches rather than there being one straight track of patches.
Lawmakers push ‘abortion reversal’ treatments. Study shows how dangerous they’re
It makes perfect sense... once you realize it's so the company can treat you as a product, not just as a consumer.
This looks very nice! I like the minimalism.

Somewhat off-topic, but where I work we don't need timesheets - so as an employee my main use-case for time tracking is actually to track my overtime. However most services seem to focus on the employer perspective - which is probably a reasonable product strategy.

So does anyone know a good solution for overtime tracking? Currently I'm using Nokotime in combination with a self-written node.js script that calculates my overtime per week / in total. While I love Nokotimes' UI I would consider switching if there was a tool/service that made the overtime thing easier.
Awe-inspiring space images of the decade
Having your ship's hitbox be a single pixel is pretty standard in bullet-hell games. I'd say "drama" probably figured into that choice, it's really common to see enemies shoot out a little arc of bullets that slowly spread out as they travel, and watching a decent player fly their ship right through the gaps in that arc is cool.
The Intel 8008 was designed for what is arguably the first personal computer, but its designers ended up going with a TTL CPU instead, partly because it was faster: https://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instruments-tmx-179... .
Where Is My Mind?
Mongoose 101: Working with Subdocuments
>Don't bother with Arduino

What alternatives are there then?
The connection of the solidarity movement and JPII with the downfall of communism is strong, and not without reason - official communist ideology seeks to destroy religion by force of arms.

Apparently as witnessed by downvoting, some don't like anyone to acknowledge this fact.
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C# 8 is old news, onward to C# 9
history is never one-sided like hand-picking of facts and interpretations tends to present. Together with the "occupation by Russia" Poland also got to annex significant parts of German territories (some of those had had no valid Polish claim, like for example the Prussia, some had been historically contested between German and Poland) - it was practically spoils of war gifted by the "Russian occupiers" to Poland (any gratitude for the gift?). The "occupation" has ended 30 years ago, and that is basically a right thing. Any plans on giving the annexed territories back?
Never trusting the client just means the server must assume any messages from the client may have been manipulated or fabricated. A message like "the cursor is over this guy's head" would be an egregious mistake in the protocol because the client can easily lie about that. Lag compensation is more subtle because it's the timing between messages that may be manipulated, only for a small fraction of a second, and the client will have some uncertainty about the server's actual lag estimate. But it could be abused, for example, to trick the server into applying a "player shoots" command 50 ms earlier than it otherwise would.
An ultrasound technique not requiring contact with body to see inside a patient
Get your facts straight: USSR troops were stationed in Poland.

Wheter it was occupation or not is debatable.
Do you actually want to live in this world in which every interaction that's not amongst close friends or family is necessarily bureaucractic with zero discretion?

Is it actually _better_, or does it just maximise specific metrics that you're able to easily quantify?

More to the point - do you want to _be_ that person?

I'm glad that my professors were human beings and not automatons - I probably wouldn't have done well otherwise (bureaucrats are not my idea of good role models).
This looks like a great suggestion! Have you used it yourself or just heard about it?
Ask HN: Why have post numbers become green and red?
Dear HN, I appreciate you for the minimalistic interface that just does not contain anything unnecessary. For what purpose did you start using colors in post number?

Does this mean the beginning of the end of the HN I know and love? Maybe now you will make a mobile app? Hang a banner warning that you store cookies? Forbid to use adblock?

I could not understand for a while what this differentiation means. My first thought was that green posts - being voted positively and vice versa. Now I realized that they are simply alternating. It reminds me Mark Miller's "Tragedy of Common Lisp" story, and maybe the theory of broken windows a little bit.

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I wholeheartedly agree 50K is a miserable salary in the Bay, but the original premise was $1M in the bank:

>I feel like it is hard for people to say what they truly love before they have at least $1M in their bank account. If you have FU money, your view on working at a FAANG vs building a startup can change. You will find it easier to know what you truly LOVE

The question wasn't if you can retire, or live of the investment income, but one of perceived finical security.
If someone is too afraid to try working at a startup with $1M cash in the bank, it is unlikely they ever will.

Even if someone has kids and family, $1M provides a huge buffer to find a new job if the startup doesn't work out. Maybe 20 years is a stretch, but I am utterly baffled that other posters think this would only cover 2 years of spending...
Author here.

Sorry about that! I’ll push a plaintext CSV version of the part list later today.
Not OP, but see Hungary '56 and Czechoslovakia '68 for what happens to 'leading warsaw pact members' who decide they want to deviate from the soviet party line.
It is Christmas time, green-red combo is the way to go.
Our leaders were Polish but their words came directly from Moscow. There were Soviet troops stationed in Poland ready for action were those words repeated without the necessary accuracy or zeal. I think the word ‘occupation’ is 100% correct.