skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the big risk with infrastructure being privatized. The big tech companies can shut down things they don’t want to see in public.

Now imagine roads being fully privatized. Yes, you can assemble somewhere but the owners of the roads can make sure that nobody gets there.
Not sure if this is still the case or not but at Maryland circa. 2007-2010 it was school policy that no class could have attendance factored into the grade. If you wanted to skip every class and only show up for exams, that was your choice. Privacy implications aside, I feel that this should be the case everywhere since college is effectively a business transaction. What you decide to do with the product after you've paid should be entirely up to you.
That hasn't stopped hunters from shooting at optic fiber before...
Talk about a decentralized Internet
My understanding is Monte Carlo method refers to sampling using a random component, evoking the casinos of the real Monte Carlo
Yes. There was very obvious CG mistakes such as the lack of shadows, cats floating above the ground, collars clipping through their necks, name tags missing text from cut to cut, fur on the hands not being motion tracked correctly, etc.

But that was actually entertaining to laugh at them.
You read my mind. Those are exactly the ones I was thinking of. They're expanding.
If I remember correctly, we suggested the user tune with a particular fret held down.

If you are talking about tuning at 441 etc instead of 440, that was easy enough as it was just an input parameter the user set.
Thank you for the shout-out! Will add that to the feature list. What's your desired font?
Translating via English consistently creates nonsense even in similar languages (English and Swedish!). Though Google Translate can't even get English right, it thinks “cheque” (the monetary instrument) can be translated to the Swedish verb corresponding “check” (to look at) :D
Yes, Northern R'Lyeh closed many of their routes recently, which caused unknowable horror to descend over Innsmouth (among others on local stopping lines).
I agree it sounds like fun but it’s probably pretty tone deaf to do so. Whoever does this should quickly clear this up just for their own sake.
That was a white lie to justify the strategic necessity and short term macroeconomic benefit of opening China.

The West didn’t have a choice. A chaotic, desperately poor, nuclear armed Chinese state was a wildcard that wasn’t sustainable, which is why Nixon and Kissinger opened the door.

Everything since then has been a great money grab. The price of peace has been selling off everything and shifting the “axis” of power east.
If you're aware of a language/platform with a better productivity/performance ratio, I'd love to know about it. I have not found one. The only languages/platforms that can beat Java at the workloads it excels at -- large concurrent server applications -- can only do so with great effort. If Java is slow and sluggish, then JS, Python, Go, Haskell, C# and Erlang are more so, and there's a reason companies prefer it to C/C++ for a great many applications. That Java is speedy isn't theory. The world's largest tech companies and largest non-tech companies stake many of their critical applications and a lot of money on it, and depend on it being speedy. Smaller companies (like Twitter, Soundcloud, Spotify, Uber and recently GitHub) regularly migrate to Java when they need more speed or better hardware utilization. So you're not personally convinced because you just don't feel it? That's OK. Those that need to be convinced are.
This is the standard way of doing real-time networked multiplayer games, first pioneered by John Carmack in the Quakeworld codebase in 1996

> Instead of expecting everyone's messages to be dealt with at once, I now deal with each packet as it comes in. That player alone is moved forward in time, and a custom response is sent out in very short order. The rest of the objects in the world are spread out between the incoming packets. There are a lot of issues that that brings up. Time is no longer advancing uniformly for all objects in the world, which can cause a lot of problems.

> It works, though! The average time from a packet ariving at the system to the time a response is sent back is down to under 4ms, as opposed to over 50 with the old dedicated servers.

> Another side benefit is that the server never blindly sends packets out into the void, they must be specifically asked for (note that this is NOT a strict request/reply, because the client is streaming request without waiting for the replies).

> I am going to be adding bandwidth estimation to help out modem links. If quake knows that a link is clogged up, it can choose not to send anything else, which is far, far better than letting the network buffer everything up or randomly drop packets. A dialup line can just say "never send more than 2000 bytes a second in datagrams", and while the update rate may drop in an overcommited situation, the latency will never pile up like it can with the current version of quake.

> The biggest difference is the addition of client side movement simulation.

> I am now allowing the client to guess at the results of the users movement until the authoritative response from the server comes through. This is a biiiig architectural change. The client now needs to know about solidity of objects, friction, gravity, etc. I am sad to see the elegent client-as-terminal setup go away, but I am practical above idealistic.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-ar...
Very much the same experience. A small plug for archive.org’s copy of the MS-DOS version which we played: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Castle_Wolfenstein_1984
One possible source:

> New swarming drone technology could help find lost hikers, study wildlife

CU Boulder Today, Sept 16, 2017

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/09/06/new-swarming-drone...

Edit: Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECVU): https://www.colorado.edu/recuv/

Edit 2: This has been a fun topic to research! Here’s a link to the list of equipment used by the Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing (IRISS) team:

https://www.colorado.edu/iriss/content/equipment
Show HN: Quickly create and share events
I looked around the repo. While I can't read the comments it looks very much to me like a one-person project. We should all be so lucky that anytime we throw something on github people assume our work is state sponsored. I have done similar so I guess I am serving US imperialist masters.
Heh, I recognize each and every situation mentioned and could add a handful more.
One of the things I've really liked about my local commuter rail (Virginia Railway Express [0]) is the level of detail and communication they have with the community/riders. Their RSS feed typically has a post if there's any delay over 10 minutes explaining the delay and how long it is expected to be. They'll also post when the GPS tracking for a train isn't working but is still on schedule. The after-incident reports are also really nice; this one [1] resulted in delays of over an hour and a half because of track slippage leaving a station. Since then VRE has been letting us (riders) know if they're reversing the engine placement to mitigate possible slippage, so we're able to see that they're actually implementing the changes they propose. Other disruptions are also communicated fairly clearly and promptly [2]. As a side note, I'm pleasantly surprised by the transparency with historical service levels [3] and passenger utilization [4].

Saying all this though, the level of service is low when compared to other countries' commuter rail systems. One of the challenges VRE works with is that it hasn't owned the rail lines it's running on; they're owned by a freight railroad and passenger rail is typically run at a lower priority than freight. There has been some recent movement though by the state [5] to significantly improve passenger rail transit, especially in the northern part of the state (almost certainly related to Amazon HQ2).

0: https://www.vre.org/

1: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAVRE/bulletins/26a...

2: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAVRE/bulletins/26f...

3: https://www.vre.org/service/daily-performance/

4: https://www.vre.org/service/rider/train-utilization-trends/ (not actually trends)

5: https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-releases/2019...
A Mobile Alternative to ChatOps
JavaFX is alright. Its just not what JS/webdevs are used to.
I trust citing sources.

I trust multiple sourcing.

I trust verified data and leg work.

I trust intellectual honesty (eg updates, errata, retractions).

--

I was an activist for a while. Election integrity and voter privacy (secret ballot). I blogged about my efforts. I shared all my work, so people could factcheck too. I revised my views as I learned more. I tried very hard to present the alternate views (conclusions) of the people I disagreed with.

It's no different than investigative journalism.

The real trick, the hard part, is figuring out how to fund the work.
Ask HN: Why seed VCs don't invest in every single company?
Let's say you're an early stage VC with $1B. You invest in every company that is closing a seed round for the next 20 years starting from 1995. That's about 20K companies. Let's say you invest $50K for 1% and by the time the companies IPO or get acquired it drops to 0.25%.

Just with Google, Amazon and Facebook, you're looking at almost $3T. That's about a 10% yearly return. Just with those 3 companies. That means you'd be beating Sequoia Capital, (the best VC ever) which has annual returns of 12%. Why is there no one doing this? Seed stages require very little due-diligence. Please don't tell me this is YC's thesis because it's not. Just like every other VC they're extremely picky. They just happen to invest in companies without an intro.

Edit: btw, if you run the same experiment from 1965 to 1985, the returns are even more staggering, since there were way less VC deals at the time but an equal amount of great companies (Intel, Microsoft, Apple). Also $50K would get you 10 times more shares.
Victim today. None in past 10 years. But two international transactions at travel portals. Luckily found and blocked the card for now.
the movie where he doesn't know how to use the 3 seashells?
Right, I can definitely see the danger with something public being taken private, but I feel like it's happening more often in the opposite direction. I just read this recently (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/business/walmart-edna-tex...) and it's another example of the same thing. If a business/platform/whatever becomes wildly successful, to the point where some large % of the poluation relies on it, then when should it be regarded as "infrastructure" where people's individual rights come into play?
This seems rather niche. Most real world applications don’t provide the luxury of knowing your desired response ahead of time.

Also, consider implementation in an FPGA where there are decades worth of validated IP to select from vs. this.
It’s definitely a high cost implementation but it’s worked well as a brute force solution for multiple non linear measurements like multiple cameras + sonar etc.
Congratulations, good work.
I’d be really curious to hear principles from other teams. They’re not always explicit, but I found that teams working on something for a long term often have some.

One interesting thing Sophie mentioned is that principles should be disagreeable, i.e. not universally accepted truisms. For example, I can flip around most of these and they would still represent a legit (but very different) approach to building a UI framework.
Ask HN: Front end CSS frameworks for 2020
I'm starting to blog again after a long hiatus. I am a lapsed author, and the design of web design utterly terrifies me because I haven't done it in a very long time.

I would like to make my blog my own, build out the scaffold and use a CSS framework as a head start.

Rather than just plunking down Bootstrap and moving on, I would prefer to have a more hands-on approach with some other frameworks.

I've used Zurb Foundation in the past, mostly as an antidote to seeing Bootstrap everywhere, but lost interest when I found Tachyons -- which was the first thing in a long time that gave me a 'wow' moment.

Real life got in the way, and things slipped, and now I'm trying really hard to re-rail and improve myself. I am going to dig into Tachyons once more, and I've also long-listed these frameworks for a test drive:

* Inuit (https://github.com/inuitcss/inuitcss)

* Tailwind (https://github.com/tailwindcss/tailwindcss)

* Pure (https://github.com/pure-css/pure)

The blog environment is straightforward: a PHP + MySQL CMS running on Nginx. There's no React, Vue, or other JavaScript magic. I'd like to minimise or remove reliance on any frontend JavaScript if possible. I don't need a static site generator.

I would like to make a good-looking, performant site and be able to understand what's happening, learn about the building blocks and become less reliant on the framework as I get more confident.

With all this in mind, what other CSS frameworks are worth looking into?

Thank you, and seasons greetings to you all if that's your thing.
Nokia and Ericsson are not government entities.
I checked this issue before. One of the explanations was that Google Drive also counts history in the space. Not sure whether this is still true.
I mostly use the well-known distinction: with libraries, you call the
library code, but with frameworks, the framework code calls you.

Frameworks are often architecture-first and functionality-second, which
is vice-versa for libraries. Instead of learning to “do X” you are now
learning to “do X using Y”, and that Y often prevents you from knowing
and using the full potential of X.

Also, when I say that Go is idiomatically anti-framework, I mean that
most idiomatic Go code I've seen, in the stdlib and in the code of the
prolific gophers, tends to shun the structure of frameworks. It's in
the “Zeitgeist”, if you will. In fact, in my experience most frameworks
are written by people who come to Go from other languages and try to
take their habits with them. A good example of that is the Martini HTTP
framework, the author of which later acknowledged that he was trying to
“write Go as if it were another language” and started creating
stdlib-compatible middlewares instead.
Why would you add an FPGA for a simple standard algorithm like this?!
The main reason to take a role at a startup "crappy" or not is to leapfrog your title. Want to be a Product Manager or Growth lead or Senior role? You can immediately at a startup and even if it fails, you have that on your resume for the same role elsewhere.

Just take a look at the titles you want at all the unicorn companies and see where their careers started out.
The space bar isn’t typically associated with a “big” action, but Enter is.
If it turns out that this was used to prepare for a terrorist attack then law enforcement would look pretty negligent not having looked into this. I think if you do something on this scale it’s just common courtesy to inform the public what you are doing.
The title is misleading, I thought this was about littlewood's rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_rule).
Thanks for noticing: https://thezenjournal.com/#privacy

Pretty deliberate about the policy. I don't care about third-party analytics, especially in a journaling app.

I use this to app sometimes multiple times a day, on the go. But I wanted to make sure the experience is as close and stress-free as pen & paper.
With Flutter it's fully AOT compiled to binary ARM code and is a compelling choice for IoT applications as well.
I think the issue is that people are going expecting a movie version of a musical with an entertaining plot, and Cats in any form just isn't going to supply that. The casting is all over the place, and the way they animated the cats sealed the deal. I just don't think it should have been made into a movie, or if it did it shouldn't have been expected to do well in a mass market. Your watch case makes sense but seems like an outlier in the general population.
Anything linear should work well in the presence of chords, I would think? (Although maybe PLLs would work better, depending on what you're doing, despite being nonlinear.)

The HN discussion has some good information, but it also has some mathematical errors.

Presumably you don't mean the School of the Arts or Summits on the Air (though both involve detecting frequencies), so what is SOTA?
S3, cloudfront, route53 for the hosting. Your text editor of choice for generating. Git for version control :)
China did exactly what they should have done for their own self interest. However that self interest is not in the best interest of the US and western democracy.
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The link between drawing and seeing in the brain
An NLP model that can't even (implicitly) segment CJK languages is laughable. It's like saying ‘sure, Magnus Carlsen is really good at chess, but in draughts you can take multiple moves in a row.’ If you can handle the ambiguities in natural casual English, you can handle a little inflection.
I’d revert to my prior, just like here.
What OS are you using? At least on Windows there's a Win32 API to change window focus: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10898560/how-to-set-focu...

On macOS maybe this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41309910/how-to-regain-s...
Regards input, getting from a user to their happy regions of a high-dimensional specification space, I wonder if improving tech might permit a richer dialog, an more interactive and iterative process?

AR is improving 3D measurement, material modeling and property inference, and VR motion and force sensing. So we might imagine a much richer input stream becoming available.

Welcome to App. A video mirror. Let's go through your bras. We'll scan the fit of each. What do you dis/like about it? Point out where. Let's apply force measurement device X over here, yes, that's it, ok, got it. Move like so. Apply manipulation like so. Adjust X. Let's do a motion scan when you do X. Does X feel like X?

Virtual access to an expert fitter via "video phone", without direct touch and manipulation, isn't ideal, but with enough tooling, might be sufficient. And has advantages, like "watch bra fit during an entire workout". Or "today was an unusual day - here's what chafed, and the current exact adjustments". Or "here's real-time and prompted reporting over a month".

I wonder if there might also be a role for inexpensive prototypes or test objects. I'm reminded of an optical trial lens set, with its very clunky eyeglass frame, into which one inserts a variety of interchangeable lenses. One might imagine buying properties of "highly adjustable" and "transparently instrumented", with "clunky" and "doesn't last".

Basically, use tech to permit an expert fitter to succeed remotely, augmenting and perhaps eventually automating them. In a setting of long-term collaboration with the user. And perhaps input-side development might be decoupled from manufactured output, by doing product recommendations?
This article is literally nonsense, there’s not a shred of scientific method or financial analysis or empirical observation in it.

Presumably the team over there is having meetings about they are going to rationalize the impending revelation that they’ve burned hundreds of millions of dollars in people’s retirement funds on indefensible cryptocurrency “investments” and those funds aren’t ever coming back.
I understand and agree with everything you said.

My understanding is that around 2000 people were arrested[1] for peacefully assembling. It wasn't 2am, and they were not sacrificing any humans.

In the case of Naomi being arrested that I posted above, she very clearly knew the sidewalks are public, and she was very clearly not breaking any laws, and was arrested anyway. Of course charges were later dropped, because the Police very well knew they had nothing on her.

So when the Police in the USA don't like your perfectly legal use of 'right at assemble' they arrest you, fingerprint you, make sure you get a record and are out of the way for a while, then just kick you out the back door when they're sick of you.

That doesn't sound so great to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#Arrests
This isn’t meaningfully true. The monkey holding the banana is an example of standard practice OO design. The standard practice for developing a suite of libraries in Go (or indeed in any non-OO language) is to decouple them. They can still work together as a suite of tools, but they can also be used independently. Not sure if this is the best example, but I would routinely use gorilla/mux on its own.
Great and a cool project.

It looks promising for someone to share their personal profile and their Resume.

For business, The best part will be to have cards received into the System and transfer them to their CRM or contacts or some other application they use.
Every day on HN is a ritual airing of grievances.. ;-)
US: "You must embrace the free market, open the markets, liberalize everything, avoid protectionism. It's better for you because it's more efficient, you will be richer, blah blah."

Western countries: "OK."

China: applies protectionism, obtains unprecedented growth, steamrolls markets

US, Western countries: "Free market is obviously much better, protectionism and planned economies are inefficient and can't work, but... but... they're cheating!"

At least the US acts in their own interest (anarchy, i.e. the free market, makes sense if you're the strongest). What's pathetic is that European countries believe all the neoliberal dogmatic BS when we don't even benefit from it.
Clock rates are higher. You can go into the multiple GHz. Mostly useful for radar and electronic warfare. (not op)
It's pretty much this. Except that the US seems to try backdoor subsidies, which isn't really addressing the core issue. There was a pretty good analysis of the whole thing about exactly this issue but I just can't remember where it was.

I used to see the Ericsson guys once a year and they seemed to be pretty busy bragging about all the new 5G patents they have.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/us-eyes-nokia-erics...
OTOH humans are wired to find patterns, existent or imaginary if it comes to that.

Perhaps more important is the act itself of pondering your occupation - doing it long enough is bound to yield insights.
Why? Not being facetious. Wondering about the weights of benefits versus costs for users.
This is an underrated comment

And it will fix all the ads/analytics/private information leaked by the app to all other SDK it use
I was not an extrovert. Quite the contrary.

I have little doubt that (height) matters: it puts off males who have even begun to challenge me if I stretch out my arms in even the most non-threatening manner. Seeing that someone can reach you a full foot before you can reach them may put off aggression.

I had two classmates who were significantly shorter. Their personalities contrasted: one was confrontational and aggressive, often got into fights and did not do nearly as well as the other who was quiet, studious and was the first boy I knew who had a hobby: I was astonished how much knowledge he had acquired from collecting postage stamps.

I was aware that these classmates were physically vulnerable but I could only help by being a friend. In general, the shorter men I have met tend to excel in professional life.

I still think the "hand in fire" metaphor is too far-fetched. The best I've seen is someone putting a hand over a candle for about 30 seconds. He was drunk (which may account for the time) yet withdrew his hand voluntarily before others could intervene.