skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data-driven robot control methods for solving furniture assembly.

It's an interesting problem, requiring both dexterous manipulation and long-term planning. It's also compositional, so I believe some form of hierarchical control and planning can solve it.

www.clvrai.com/furniture
As the earlier poster said, half of the point of prison is that it keeps people out of the general public and thereby temporarily unable to commit crimes against them. Now, we'd certainly like to reform them in prison, but the idea that we can simply, e.g., lift everyone out of poverty and eliminate crime is unrealistic. Certainly, it might remove some portion of crime, but it's not going to stop, say, the serial killers who are primarily motivated by sexual gratification.

Dahmer, for example, killed because it gave him a sexual high and he didn't like having anal sex performed on him, so his gay boyfriends didn't work out and he sought to create a zombie who would never leave him via a crude lobotomy technique. I suppose there's some argument that even he reformed in prison--he converted to Christianity and later helped those studying serial killers--but I wonder how many people would have been willing to let him move in next door to test the extent of his reformation had he not died in prison?

None of this is to say that prison is good or even desirable. One of the worst things it has done is to create a culture for criminals and criminal gangs and thereby facilitate the growth of criminal organizations.

I don't have any grand solutions to any of this, unfortunately, but neither do I believe some of those offered by others.
I'm a complete dinosaur using Paypal. It emails me when there's a payment and I manually respond to the customer. They have to wait until I check my email since I don't even get notifications. Sorry customers. Paypal is a nightmare of course. Don't be like me.
I have a public IP.
Google, a company that sells adds for a living, has absolutely no marketing skills whatsoever. Anyone that uses any of Google's products, you are living on borrowed time. This has been illustrated over and over and over. Its not even a meme anymore.

I wanted to say that I fear for the "do no evil" Google, but that company has long since disappeard.
I've been following this situation somewhat, and although Google's outreach has been lacking, there are signs that they're working hard behind the scenes. Apparently they have over 100 games launching this year [1], have been consistent in releasing new games with the pro subscription [2], and are delivering a number of talks at the upcoming GDC [3].

I can see why gamers are frustrated, but from my point of view the community hasn't been particularly happy with any kind of news. Not to be derisive, but I don't really understand the tribal fanaticism both for and against the service.

Yes, the service is missing promised features, but it's actually pretty good. For someone like me (in my 30s, don't want another box that I have to keep upgraded), I've been enjoying it for what it is — with a decent internet connection, you can play a modern looking game with very little effort.

Google did promise more, but I still haven't given up on their ability to deliver. Seems like a lot of moving parts, and maybe only their community management is missing.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/16/21068913/google-stadia-12...

2. https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/28/21112300/google-stadia-pro...

3. https://www.neowin.net/news/google-announces-schedule-for-it...
I have a backed up digital and a print version of a "bureaucracy-folder" where those kind of documents go. There is a section for things that I reasonably often need access to (e.g. certificate of employment, copy of working visa, vaccination certificate, etc.), the rest is basically just an append-only store.

I like to keep my personal life simple, so there is not much documents overall and i pretty much never needed access to anything older than weeks. When I was freelancing I had a more elaborate document management system in place regarding that work, but now this works just fine.
Bank branches mostly exist as an anti-fraud device for mortals.

The lesson is, someone call tell you there IS a problem on the phone, but don't trust ANYTHING else, not even the description of the problem.

The absolute only thing they're allowed to tell you is that you need to visit your banking provider tomorrow, not some other bank but your own bank, with only family, and ask what the actual problem is.
I wish things were as simple as this, however scientists' desire to share and collaborate stands directly at odds with state actors desire to access the technology differentiators. Would be nice to live in a world where these technologies weren't deployed against other humans (on all sides) but that is not the reality we live in.
I'm working on figuring out four different ways for somebody with a light background in electronics (basic soldering really) and has a Technician or General class ham radio license to get on the air, from scratch, for $100. No added expenses. It's possible, and a fun challenge. Its research for some writing I'm doing.
Looks useful. Would it be fast in huge codebases?
I don't get this sentiment at all. China is notorious for stealing IP, they're a major military player (threat), and this professor lied about his ties to China and still worked on DoD funded projects. The government reaction seems pretty reasonable.
Interesting project! How does the type system work with variadic types and arbitrary tensor manipulations? e.g. a function transforms tensor[A, B] -> tensor[A].
No doubt, but it was engrained in Valve's culture too, yet they managed to fix it.
I don’t know what PPS is, but that is an inaccurate sentiment. Running as a kernel module allows you to achieve higher throughout and lower latency.
As someone who was messing around with computers back then, I'm jealous of kids who are getting serious about this stuff now.

I was lucky to have a computer at all to learn on. If I did anything remotely hacky, I would be warned about breaking an expensive and irreplaceable piece of equipment.

There was no help or documentation. No Internet to download the most basic of resources. If I didn't stumble upon HyperCard at 12 years old and figure out what it was through trial and error, I may never have got the spark of curiosity that put me on the path.

Some of the projects that exist now would have blown my little mind back then. People are reverse engineering my favourite old games and making them better! Insanity! And free 3D game engines!

Using a nicely configured IDE with autocomplete, format on save, linting, etc. allows the mind be so liberated from the tedious details and really focus on the actual problem. You can actually do interesting things in JavaScript. It's a world apart from when typing <blink> tags into Notepad was enough to impress your friends.
Agreed, this is made clear in the process of NIH, DoD funding. Initially I thought prosecutors and media wasre overreacting, but the scale of both the foreign funding sources and NIH DoD funding is not something that anyone could overlook unintentionally. Its a shame for such and accomplished scientist.
So he was a board member of Burisma Holdings too?
The study applies to "a third of individuals in solitary confinement". I guess those were the extroverts. What about the other two thirds of individuals in solitary confinement? It seems likely that those people don't support the desired conclusion.

Whatever the case may be, there is also the matter of them being a bad influence on each other.
What does "excuse" mean here, as opposed to "reason"?
Is there a good high level explanation for what this is for someone not already familiar with LInQer or C#?

I'm googling around and still kinda not sure.
Hardly...this is not even novel. There are stories of this happening over the years.

Also...Chelsea Manning got gender reassignment surgery in prison? The government cannot just neglect you if you have a condition.
Apple Pay on web is fantastic. I don't use an iPhone, but specifically use my iPad for online purchases from any retailer that supports Apple Pay.
You spend $100m on stop motion the same way a you spend $100m on any other film: paying people for their technical and artistic skills. Stop motion animation is a very time-intensive and precise art.

Or do you not understand why people would fund $100m into a stop motion film?

Probably because the financiers view stop-motion as an art worth funding. Art shouldn't need to come with financial gains to raise funding.
We're trying to improve the security of the Internet by replacing Certificate Authorities with a distributed root of trust.

DNS is currently centralized and controlled by a few organizations at the top of the hierarchy (namely ICANN) and easily censored by governments. Trust in HTTPS is delegated by CAs, but security follows a one of many model, where only one CA out of thousands needs to be compromised in order for your traffic to be compromised.

We're building on top of a new protocol (https://handshake.org, launching in 7 days!!) to create an alternate root zone that's distributed. Developers can register their own TLDs and truly own them by controlling their private keys. In addition, they can pin TLSA certs to their TLD so that CAs aren't needed anymore.

I wrote a more in-depth blog post here: https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-d...
How large is Valve?
I just started looking into WireGuard and was disappointed to find out that pfSense has no support for it. I don’t like messing around with packages outside of the pfSense repo, even if it’s kinda supported in FreeBSD.
In the US for home connections (cable, fiber, DSL) everybody gets an accessible IP address pretty much -- the worst is that some ports are blocked like port 80 or 25. Phones don't get a dedicated IPv4.
They made a post on /r/stadia a few hours ago announcing some free games for the month which has been well received.

I agree the radio silence wasn't great but blasting Google has become the new pasttime here.

Does anyone else feel like we're just becoming a predictable echo chamber?
I mean to replace the ones that we use today. Not the ones we used 30 years ago. General purpose operating systems. Perhaps with a distribution we can download for free and install on commodity computing hardware, and actually use today for our primary areas of work/interest.

Note the section 1.7 in your own link ("End of the Lisp machines"). The Lisp software ecosystem was never as rich, broad and varied as the C/C++ software ecosystem is today, before it died.

BTW, I only stumbled across your comment by accident, since you replied to the parent poster instead of me. Parenthesis mismatch?
A previous thread about WG had some discussion about obtaining a publicly reachable^1 IP address. No doubt many readers are interested

Can you tell us anything about how you obtained one

1. No ISP firewall blocking unsolicited incoming traffic
It certainly would be pretty awesome if there was a modification of this chip without a TPU but with an MMU instead, so it'd be capable of running a proper OS rather than FreeRTOS or bare metal.
Interesting, thanks. Sounds like it's something that could eventually get done... (On ChromeOS I often split-pane Squid and Xodo, or a video player -- not that I would ever expect that to work on e-Ink! -- and just embed complicated diagrams, long code blocks, or video stills in my handwritten notes.)
1/3rd of people is more than statistically significant, so yes, it does support that conclusion. That solitary is bad for your health, and worse than general prison life.
The Original Palestine National Charter (1964)
It's a status symbol. People pay lots of money for status symbols even though other products which provide similar levels of service are a lot cheaper.
> How would anyone ever figure out how to split-screen multitask on the iPad if they didn’t already know how to do it?

Or if this article hadn't just taught me how to do it. Be right back, about to go multitask on my ipad for the first time...
Accepting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and then lying to your university, the DoD, and NIH about it has nothing to do with "free scientific exchange".
The fuck is this relevant, the dude was given substantial in pocket money for facilitating unilateral technology transfer that he did not disclose.
A polling/batching implementation of WireGuard would be faster than the Linux kernel implementation although it would be much less convenient to use. If WireGuard spends, say, 90% of its time in ChaCha20-Poly1305 (which is already highly optimized) then there's only room for less than 10% speedup.
The Practice Fusion ones almost certainly would fit your crieria. Ie “after [x] type of surgery, fentanyl and oxycontin are reasonable painkillers”. (Both entirely legal and widely prescribed today)
It’s hell adding recurring events in Thunderbird that only happen at non-standard intervals.

I work a rotating six week schedule with different workdays week to week. In iCal/Apple Calendar, I can intuitively copy/paste events to a different day of the week if the rotation changes. Thunderbird, with its 90s UI, doesn’t provide you with this option.

I’ve found refuge in eM Client on Windows, but it took a while before I came across the app.
In graphics, you can try some visual effect projects. What about morphing one 3d model into another? For example: given a 3d model or a man and the target of, let's say lion; the system should produce the fluid transform from a man to the lion. You can even package it into a simple easy to use product maybe a SAAS product and earn some money with it.
Target the steam runtime. All popular distros will either support it out of the box or have an overlay to do it. And it doesn't change very often.

Open source is a million times easier. Your source is available. It's up to the distro's maintainer of your package to deal with compiling and binary compatibility.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime
Be careful white (which are actually blue) LEDs may be damaging to your retinas.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5313540/

CONCLUSION

The study results indicate that LED blue-light exposure poses a great risk of retinal injury in awake, task-oriented rod-dominant animals. The wavelength-dependent effect should be considered carefully when switching to LED lighting applications.
Not at all, that sounds like the most ideal candidate possible for bankruptcy. The situation you describe would likely be a "no-asset" chapter 7, where the person filing doesn't have to surrender any assets. The majority of chapter 7 cases are.

The worst part of the process would be getting together the few hundred bucks you need for the lawyers fees.
I hate that this is true. I've posted here before on the same topic[1] and although we know a lot of stuff about computers, we don't really grok them. Or at least, not a lot of my peers do, and I'm sorely missing some info myself. My friends just don't care. At all. About anything related to lower level computing. I explain things and they ignore me, even when I try to make it relatable (without being patronizing). I'm glad I'm not a teacher because I don't know how to get people interested in what I'm interested in.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21707864
You haven't even tried to understand what we do and you've made a ton of false accusations in the process.

We're 100% compliant with Google policies I think you just aren't familiar with the rules in this regard there are literally hundreds of rewarded apps on Android that's not a violation of their terms.

You're not wrong about cryptocurrency being a rough area, but you are wrong that we haven't done our homework. We know every policy of every app store and ad network and mail newsletter system, etc. We read the terms of everything. We know where we stand.
Define "the authors". Gérard Huet, who wrote the software almost 35 years ago was definitely aware of the meaning, and indeed this was done in order to overtly piss off the prudish Amercians.

In the current core development team, I think it is reasonable to say that most people range somewhere on a scale from "don't care" to "mildly annoyed". Amongst the annoyed group, some actually advocate for a change of name.
I think it's pretty common in the US with the various providers. You get a public IP. I didn't do anything special for that.
I'm not sure that's fair. Most of their reported budgets are around $60M, which is high, perhaps, but stop motion at the scale they're executing is a lot of work. And their films have consistently been critical successes -- if they've had trouble finding audiences, it's not because they're turning out mediocre schlock.
You can also use type safety to enforce input validation in C. Just return an error code from the initializer, and annotate it must check. (Or, if you want to couple memory allocation with the checks, write a factory that returns null on input validation errors).

Various parts of the stdlib do this, though often without the compiler annotation. They often hide the struct members inside a compilation unit to prevent callers from bypassing the check (as much as is possible in a language with unsafe primitives).
Yeah but Stadia just barely launched. They usually wait until there's a solid user base before flushing all the data.
It's a bunch of functions that can be performed on an enumerable (array, set, , etc) type. Commonly several are changed together.

Select (aka map)

Where (aka filter)

SelectMany (aka Flatmap)

Accumulate (aka fold)

First (with optional predicate function)

Max

Min

GroupBy

Count

And so on. The readme lists them all
I hear people junk talk the iPad all the time but I love mine. I rarely open a computer at home because of the iPad. A lot of times I don't even turn on my TV and just use it as my mini TV. It's basically a laptop in a truer sense of the word IMHO.
Can it not simply be defined as making them unwilling to commit further crimes?

As for torture, in my view, they're simply saying that our goal is not really punitive because we're not actively trying to make prisoners miserable. Our incompetence, uncaringness and willingness to allow prisoners to be taken advantage passively creates misery, though.

No one is suggesting that we should torture anyone, only using it to point out that the prison misery comes more from apathy about prison conditions rather than some active attempt to create misery.
May you succeed with this endeavor.

An ex-dentist attempted to strong arm me into a receiving an occlusal adjustment because my TMJ popped during a single visit. I knew this permanent procedure is rarely the best solution for the scenario. The dentist subsequently became irate and told me, "You'll lose all your teeth and look like an AIDs patient!" You can probably guess what era he's from.

I wanted to file a complaint, but it would've been my word against his, his assistant, and his hygienist. Absolutely ridiculous situation. It also provided a snapshot into how medical professionals exploit patient ignorance for revenue.
Why this world need to plan when we will release Half Life 3
I have a VM running OS X Server 1.0's kernel & userland rebuilt using DR2 for over 900 days!

[darwin:~] root# uptime 12:34PM up 922 days, 15:02, 2 users, load averages: 2.71, 2.16, 2.03 [darwin:~] root# hostinfo Mach kernel version: Kernel Release 5.5: Sun Apr 30 10:53:53 SGT 2017; root(rcbuilder):kernel-7/BUILD/RELEASE_I386 Copyright (c) 1988-1995,1997-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Kernel configured for a single processor only. 1 processor is physically available. Processor type: pentium (Intel Pentium) Processor active: 0 Primary memory available: 512.00 megabytes. Default processor set: 36 tasks, 61 threads, 1 processors Load average: 2.33, Mach factor: 0.30

It's on VMWare ESXi 5.5 ... It's been surprisingly stable.
Around 800. It's not really a relevant factor though, the size of teams shouldn't impact the quality of their communication work.
>The class of exploits that are currently being discovered are often discovered via tool-assisted analysis

Which tools would I start googling if I wanted to learn more about this?
Word is not a text editor. Neither is Excel a list editor or a database. The inscrutable features of these tools have an actual purpose for the minority of users that need them.
From /u/GraceFromGoogle's response:

"While I don't have product updates to share right at this second, I can promise you that I have been, and will continue taking feedback posted to r/Stadia and other channels, like the Stadia Community Forum, back to the Stadia team."

They can't even scrape together an update for a thread of thousands of people who paid good money and are foaming at the mouth.

Gaming, community, and customer service could not be further from Google's DNA.
Polynesian culture didn't develop in Indonesia though. And as evidenced by the history of Indonesia, the various cultures there aren't overly good at living and let live.

Polynesians had agriculture, but they also had limited natural resources on account of, well, living on islands, and limited arable land. They developed extensive trade networks to overcome these resource limitations[0], but their migrations tended to occur when overpopulation led to warfare.

On the agriculture - fun fact, the staple crop of the Polynesians who settled New Zealand was kumara - a sweet potato. Sweet potatoes being native to South America.

[0]https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21796/ancient-p...
This is actually even more interesting. Now, China can get buy-in from the UK. The two are basically married now.

Huawei can require that the UK certifies the source code, and to even do the actual compilation step itself, and to sign the final executable programs and configuration files. At which point, the binaries are created, and the UK will have a cryptographic signature of the file.

Thus the binary is now cryptographically secured, that even China, with their mysterious black magic, cannot break the mathematical and thermodynamic laws of nature. /s

The UK team then approves this binary, and allows Huawei to begin mass installation on the hardware via firmware flashing. Then Huawei will initiate mass production, and begin shipping out the hardware to worldwide customers. Then the UK can post-certify that the same source code that they compiled and published, is the exact same code that is in the hardware.

The same process can be done for continuing code updates.

Huawei can mandate that the UK provides a team to do the final compilation and verification step, and this team must promise (by penalty of law) to remove themselves from any conflict of interest, meaning they cannot work on similar technologies in the future, to compete against Huawei. It’s like a non-compete agreement. And they also cannot disclose any Huawei trade secrets, or algorithmic details of Huawei’s 5G hardware. Their responsibility is to just ensure security, and do penetration testing for security weaknesses. And China can even mandate that the UK team relocate to China, to view the source code onsite.

And they can even run this for all hardware blueprints too. And monitor the code that also goes into the other chips on the SoC motherboard.

Then Huawei and China can claim that the code was validated by the UK itself, and here’s the genuine certification ID. And that it’s free of any known defects or spyware code.
There are countries where law enforcement is weak to virtually nonexistent. They’re not desirable living locations by any means.

Deterrence is one of the main pillars of law enforcement. There are plenty of people who reach the end of their rope and act out of desperation. Deterrence is something that limits that. There is a point where that effect plateaus and people will take the risk regardless of penalty, but lowering penalties to the point of being worthless does let crime breed.

Just look at countries where corruption laws are ignored or unwritten. They’re corrupt. Countries that don’t protect women have more crimes against women. It’s how it goes.
Is it soap proof too?