skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I know, but his car designs usually also involve the front (it is all about the gimmicks, fire and razors and I don't know what else).
So a neuronal network would definitely not be able to make a perfect model out of it, but maybe enough to have a somewhat blurry version in tux cart for example.

But I will teach him blender soon, so we will get there eventually, but doing it automated, would be very cool, too ;)

https://supertuxkart.net/Legacy:Kart_Creation_Tutorial

but doing this with a automated version, will be hard ...
HAHA! What an absolutely trash service, in that page it says:

> Facebook says that it does not listen to, view or keep the contents of any video or audio calls on your Portal.

No mentions about on their servers though, which we know they do!

How do I report articles on HN for misleading trash? This needs to be deleted from the internet.

How dare they give 5* to a fucking FB property.
If they had, they'd still have mechanical pivots and so forth that can wear, but the article specifically mentions pulleys and cables:

> The team also inspected flight control pulleys and cables, which are routed through the wings to the systems bay, as well as the aileron trays on the outboard portion of each wing. (Ailerons are the hinged part of each wing that control roll or maneuvers, and are controlled by the pilot via wire pulleys that run through the wings.)

I suppose that the cables have to run out of the wings and into the cockpit in order to be useful, and that you could put you adjustments for cable stretch, etc in a place you could get to them easily. Or add access panels, as you suggest.
Californa, US West Sinking into Megadrought
Well, that's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_function

vs. this:

http://openmusictheory.com/harmonicFunctions.html

Maybe, at some fundamental level, they are the same...
I'm interested in Erlang, since I first heard about it when I wanted to write plugins or work on the Wings3D program back in 2003 or 2004. I chose playing with LFE over Elixir, because I prefer Lisp syntax to Ruby-like syntax, but limitations of the BEAM, and core have some gotchas for running a Lisp. I'd like to try Gleam. It looks clean, and I like the fact that it is typed. The Erlang/OTP and other BEAM languages work well for what they are intended for, but if you do any number crunching they are slow. The Elixir/Phoenix stack seems to be a great combo for web developers. I'll give it a try by compiling it on my Windows box with Rust, since my iMac Pro 27 is mid-2011, and my Linux notebook is busy right now for other jobs.
Because people are online more since they can’t go outside.
Just because you don't like their style doesn't mean they shouldn't exist.

That'd be like me saying you should be fired from whatever job you have for posting this comment. It makes no sense, doesn't help the dialogue, and comes off as unnecessarily antagonistic.
> Rapid iteration was a potential source of improvements (never going wrong since you can always adjust next week vs potential big fail every N years) and that it would yield better understanding of users by throwing every possible solutions at them.

> It will have to pop and rebalance itself because it leads to fatigue and false sense of progress.

Totally agree, it's ended up turning into a stream of pointless side-grades and regressions, forever.

Progress come from thoughtfulness, vision, and luck. You can't replace any of that with A-B testing and little experiments.
It was a hard structured science, hicks law, conservation of complexity, goms analysis, fitts law ... we've tossed these decades of hard work in the garbage can because somebody in marketing didn't like the colors.

It was like during the VCR wars of the 80s when consumers wanted the most features but yet the fewest buttons. Then they complained how you had to basically play rachmaninoff on their sleek minimal interface to set the clock.

We need to be like other industries; "that's too bad". Seatbelts are inconvenient? "that's too bad". You don't want to stay home during a pandemic because the weather's nice? "that's too bad" ... you want a bunch of incompatible UX goals that leads to trash? "That's too bad".

Sometimes the opinion of an uninformed public shouldn't matter. We don't go to a doctor and pass around ballots to the other people in the waiting room to democratically decide on a diagnosis. Knowing what to not listen to is important.
This is the insanity of overreaction. Let's shut down all outdoor activities and force people to huddle in tightly enclosed spaces. Sounds like a great health policy! So draconian and unnecessary.
The Scholar's Vocation
Also, you have to vote on a product to see its "creepiness" rating breakdown? I would supposedly be using this site before purchasing a product, how would I know how "creepy" it is? This site seems more akin to a Buzzfeed quiz than a Mozilla project.

That said I think this idea has a lot of potential, but this is perhaps not the best form for it to take.
Forgive me, I'm ignorant -- what's erlang for. "Concurrent applications" is the raison d'etre I see espoused. What's that mean?

Does it make concurrent applications easier to write? Does it make it easier to use the SIMD instruction set, how hard is it to get a function written in erlang to run on a gpu?

Is it like nodejs but more performant? I appreciate anyone who has answers here, I try to position all the relatively interesting things I don't have much time to dive in to in a mental model with opportunities for future promotion.
Show HN: Play Fishbowl at your next virtual hangout (free, open source)
I'm feeling this is well-meaning but really misguided, in multiple ways.

Mostly context-free. I'm guessing they're targeting mostly non-technical, retail consumers. Which is fine, but raises a number of other questions. Like, why is Mozilla especially well-positioned to review consumer electronics? And why are random consumers going to trust Mozilla?

Related, but this reinforces several bad messages about security:

- That it is an objective, scalar property of a thing,

- That "one size fits all",

- That infosec is a shopping exercise, not a process the user has to participate in.

Also, just, why? Who really thinks there's a Mozilla-shaped hole in the shopping-guide world?
I guess we'll see what happens TBH.
I didn't realize it'd been available in JunOS since 12.2 which covers a variety of devices (even some old stuff I've seen on customer sites), I've yet to come across a site with it deployed. Maybe I should do some consulting for folks.
This is pretty cool! I wonder if he could also figure out, which attempted balls would naturally go in vs through the help from the backboard!
The "Slide up" is gone in next LTS due in a few days.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-fea...
For those on Rails, do yourself a favor and add this great engine: https://github.com/ankane/blazer

Life-changing!
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453550
> Vox saying face masks aren't the best way to avoid Coronavirus. Actually basically the mainstream view in the US at the time

It was the mainstream view in the US because the media built the narrative that masks wouldn’t help...
That gives a current IFR of 0.6%. Most cases haven't resolved yet and South Korea is showing that the death rate inches up over time as deaths take much longer to resolve than recoveries.
The problem is that neither your chimney nor hot water pipes are continually piping heat. So the transient effect of the warm/cold cycles would likely make frostbite even worse.

...and leaving those heat sources on continually... well... that's very energy inefficient, to say the least.
I think I've seen the number +15% for traffic.
Lots of video conferencing/entertainment/online shops will have increased traffic.
Wait until somebody wants to send giant advertisement signs to LEO.

When money is involved, somebody will find a way to ruin it.
How about allowing `return` to be used as a qualifier within a function or prototype's argument which, if present, would adjust the qualifiers of the function's return value to match those of the argument, e.g. adding "const" or removing "volatile" as appropriate?

This, if one did:

char *strchr2(char return *restrict src, char target)
{
while(*src)
{
if (*src == target) return src;
src++;
}
}

then one version of the function could support both const and non-const usage.
BTW, I'd also like to see "register" and "return register" be usable as a qualifiers for pointer-type function parameters which would promise that the passed in pointer wouldn't "escape", or else that it could only escape through the return value (so a compiler that could see everything done with the return value wouldn't have to worry about the argument escaping).
> Unless there’s a reason we can’t repeat the famous infrastructure jobs programs from a century ago

That had positive effects in the USA, but in Europe the economic woes of the 1930s led to WWII.
Aye, any attempt at retirement would quickly result in a new '.io' gTLD replacing the '.io' ccTLD. The more reasonable concern is not that the ccTLD is retired, but that registration rules and/or prices are changed.
At the very bottom is the Facebook Portal. How did that get on this list?
Just hit the Escape key. You can also just start typing your password. I often type my password and press enter before the monitor is even awake.
We just text all doctors 2x a day (but are ramping down to 1x a day now that things are a bit calmer).
Hypothetically speaking, what would be the best way to handle voting rights and distribution of power in a domain registrant coop?

Does every domain holder have the same amount voting power, like in a democracy, or do large orgs like Mozilla or Wikimedia get proportionally more votes like large shareholders in corporations do? And if we allocate votes based on stakes invested, what would stop someone from buying their way in and taking over the same way it happened with PIR?
Microsoft Teams also supports custom backgrounds - adding instructions for how to use them seems like an obvious value-add
You have to add: discovered inside itself.
> Grapes - grow very well outside, lots of tasty fruit, sensitive to mildew

When things open up again, you might consider visiting the are of Tenterden just to the south of you, which due partially to a warming climate, is now growing wine grapes for French winemakers (it used to grow primarily hops), as some grape growing areas of France have apparently gotten too warm.
Am I the only person who dislikes the word "creepy"? It is of unclear meaning, and is based on emotion (even prejudice) rather than reasoned judgement.

My concerns for my own privacy are not grounded in some emotional dislike of "creepiness", they are grounded in reasonable apprehension of the potential negative real world consequences.
For context .yu was the ccTLD for Yugoslavia, and .me is the ccTLD for Montenegro, which is one of the states formerly part of Yugoslavia before its dissolution.
I'm generally not a hamburger menu fan, but I've come to accept it in Firefox/Chrome/Edge/etc because I rarely ever need to bring up the menu anyway so it conserves precious vertical space on a widescreen display.

When I DO need to bring up the menu, I'm usually one to two clicks from where I need to go.

When a hamburger menu encompasses the whole UI (metaphorically speaking) I'd definitely agree it's problematic-- and the same goes for random placement of menu items into a hamburger menu. That's just lazy design.
Up and running with Rust and Godot: A basic setup
> AWS seems to be _much_ busier than usual, and spot capacity is all but gone, at least at the price we were paying before. I'm not even sure why that is.

With so many people inside everyone is using online services: streaming, shopping, chatting, video, audio, gaming.

Almost anything "online" is very likely to run at least something on AWS these days.
Infection Trajectory: See Which Countries Are Flattening Their Covid-19 Curve
> Except you can't really have such a thing as a large group of people have an equal say in control of anything, c.f. democracy. It is the mechanics that are the issue.

Sure, you might disagree that socialism is possible without big government, but that has nothing to do with the definition. My only point is that it doesn't inherently have anything to do with control. The problem with saying that socialism means big government is it associates it with decades of red-scare propaganda and makes all discussion impossible.

> If you are talking about workers being "shareholders" then that's still capitalism.

Not really, if the workers have ownership over the company and the capital, then they "own the means of production".

> The fundamental problem we are dealing with is allocation of resources, and the masses not being sufficiently informed to make decisions. Until you solve that problem every system you put in place corrupts, some worse than others and some with few mechanisms for correction and recovery.

Sure, resource allocation is hard, but "lets just let the rich/monarchs/the lizard people decide" is a cop-out.

For what it's worth, you should probably engage with some 'real' socialist literature beyond just sound bites from Twitter. Many of these questions are considered. Richard Wolff might be an interesting starting point.
Please keep personal attacks off HN, regardless of whom you're attacking. Maybe you don't owe crypto bros better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. Your comment would be fine with just the last two sentences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Next level: a camera and a couple of motors to see the speed/location of the ball and adjust the backboard accordingly.
What's the point of this? Currently you can link your credit cards to Google Pay. Google has access to all transactions regardless if purchases went through Google Pay.

I would think that Google would be more interested in the data than potentially splitting transaction fees between the bank and payment processor. Why not put their resources to convince more people to use Google Pay?
Everything! Art prints, books, photo books, workout gear, gardening equipment, seeds, kitchen equipment. Purchasing tangible items seems to bring more joy than it did two months ago.

If anyone is looking for a good way to support an arts non-profit with their stimulus check, checkout Aperture, they are having a huge sale on books. I'm not affiliated; I just like photo books.

https://aperture.org/shop/books/library-sale/library-sale
Vfg
It's worth noting that Mozilla is not a very good privacy advocate since they are a puppet to Google, a surveillance capitalist.

This fancy looking site is pretty unhelpful, and also has sinister tracking analytics which does not help their 'privacy cause'.

My assessment is that I would highly not recommend this site.
I think one of the hallmarks of great leadership is to inspire people to see beyond barriers. Melt-blown fabric is not likely to be the only or even the biggest hurdle.

Maybe it will take months/years to go from zero to production quantity/quality no matter how hard we try or how well we organize. And maybe by the time that production capacity is active the market will be flooded by PPE from China (let's hope). Yet I would still rather be over-prepared and with people actively productive compared to behind the ball with people sat at home.

Maybe I'm just tired of the government telling us to be patient while we continue to hear reports like this. I want someone to tell us how to be proactive.
Liberate California
and bring closer to your face to zoom in
>Anyone who’s serious about being fit will not want to be seen playing a game to get fit.

Sports?
>The sentence very clearly implies all, and nowhere in the post is an indication that you mean any restriction to part (vs all) of the med/pharm profession

Huh? Not trusting someone is not the same as implying that everything they do is bad.
In what style is JWZ a nonprofit?
This article strikes as blog spam to push this companies domain migration service.
It's fine if you disagree, but it would be constructive if you can at least disagree with what was actually written instead of your interpretation of it.

Also, please keep in mind that "that tweeter", as you call him, taught bioinformatics at Stanford, has published papers in the field of clinical/microbial genomics and founded a biotech startup that sold for 375M. He's considerably more informed about the topic than any of the reporters sparring with him. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228752554022068226

And yes, he does have an axe to grind with Vox: https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228447944287932416

As someone watching the whole thing unfold for months, from far away in Taiwan, I think he's completely right on this one.
.name was created (pretty late) for that purpose but it never really caught on.
“the 5th button from the left”

Exactly. That’s how I work in applications I use a lot. I don’t look much at the symbol and certainly not at the text. Same for buttons. It’s highly confusing when they shift icons around. Office 365 has become pretty bad that way. Every two months something gets shifted around. No new functionality. Just change for change’s sake.
I work on a project meant to sell a service and meant to manage the service being sold to the consumer. However, the button to actually buy the service is hidden by a scroll bar on all but the widest of screens. Unless you scroll the widget or have a 22 inch monitor, you will not see the purchase button.

Why? The UI was designed in on a wide screen and we developers are just the implementers of the picture. UI is quite often taken from a drawing and little else. It looks great in a mockup, but it isn't all that practical.
Snipcart might solve your problem!
Apple and Google Will Track Covid19 Infections via Bluetooth. What About Privacy
I'm seeing the opposite. I'm seeing clients who are able to turn off a $30k/mo ad budget and instead seeing sales double based on such an increase in organic traffic from strong SEO.
With the possibility of moving to a city where housing options have been decimated by AirBnB, I really hope this happens.
Is all frustration felt in different parts of the digestive system?
Medicine is one area where measurements are key in determining health outcomes. I don’t see any reason why an inference engine wouldn’t be at least as good as a human doctor. Although, self-supervised learning will need to become a reality, before these systems have any practical use IMO.
I've taken the name out of the title above, in the hope of provoking fewer comments about the name.
In contemporary America, there are host of issues where polls consistently shows majority wants x, but it does not matter in actual politics. Two parties mean that average person opinion on this or that issue does not matter all that much.

Same if other countries I am sure, but America is the topic.
Very true. Most people get measured by how much churn they create. The more the better. Even if it’s 100% correct for the business you are digging your own grave if you leave things the way they are.
You can fork! /s
> Living your life like a prisoner because some authority tells you you need to be scared of this is unacceptable to me and.in all honesty I would rather be dead then live in a world like that.

Stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines are meant to be temporary until

1) treatments for Covid-19 are available

2) a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 is available

3) and/or immunity is widespread.

Your rhetorical posture makes sense if you live in a dictatorship and are confined from now on. However, if you live, say, in the US (which I do), such posturing and impatience seem counterproductive.
The ability to use pointers to structures with a Common initial Sequence goes back at least to 1974--before unions were invented. When C89 was written, it would have been plausible that an implementation could uphold the Common Initial Sequence guarantees for pointers without upholding them for unions, but rather less plausible that implementations could do the reverse. Thus, the Standard explicitly specified that the guarantee is usable for unions, but saw no need to redundantly specify that it also worked for pointers.

If compilers would recognize that operation involving a pointer/lvalue that is freshly visibly based on another is an action that at least potentially involves the latter, that would be sufficient to make code that relies upon the CIS work. Unfortunately, some compilers are willfully blind to such things.
> reassemble like a puzzle

That’s a good enough analogy for modern DNA sequencing.

The code of DNA is an image trapped in an opaque box. Instead of being able to image the complete picture of an organism’s DNA, you take thousands of identical images in opaque boxes, smash the boxes and their contents into tiny pieces to get bits of image out, then line up the now exposed fragments to see the original image.

It is the realignment that is the computationally expensive part of the process.
Bronze Age Swordsmanship
"President" was supposed to be the most boring title. It was chosen because the role was supposed to be simply that: To be present, while the rest of the federal government did its thing.

As the government evolved, the title gained more meaning. I sometimes wonder if the leaders of younger countries that use it understand its original meaning.
Instead of a tractor, wouldn't robotics work? [1]

The scale would be much smaller, and the cost higher of course.

[1] https://www.postscapes.com/smart-greenhouse-robotics-materia...
I was wondering how you could get an analytical solution, but I think you’d have to define the problem much more rigorously to do so. As he mentions in the video, different basketball paths can contact the same point on the backboard from any number of angles, so it seems fairly clear that there is no perfect solution.
Airbus Carries Out World’s First Ever Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts
Not unless you have a material that conforms nicely to a face. But you can still buy face pieces. The filters are what are hard to get.
Covid-19 Genome Tracker
Hol' up, are you saying that there's a reason besides economics that the government might introduce protectionist trade measures to keep some critical manufacturing domestic for use during an emergency when you cannot trust your supply chains which come from hostile -- or even friendly -- nations?

It's funny because this was a U.S. conservative talking point going back as long as I can remember (for me that's the mid/late 90s). There's even an episode of The Office (U.S.) where this point of view is lampooned (Oscar to Michael: "Wouldn't you say that the services sector is much more relevant than manufacturing?"). Never thought I'd see it expressed openly on HN, and with upvotes!
This reminds me of Kepler’s idea that nested Platonic solids describe the relative orbit diameters of the (known) planets:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum
Not in this case. It's basically Simpson's paradox. Honestly I think the study is basically useless, because instead of a random sample, it's a sample of people who, when they saw an ad on Facebook for a free Coronavirus test, decided to sign up, and then actually show up for the test.

The point is that the higher your (voluntary) participation rate is within a group, the less chance you have of selection bias. This goes up to the limit of 100% participation, where you have no selection bias.

What we see in this study is that groups with a lower participation rate (Men, nonwhites, people farther from a testing site) have a higher positivity rate. That is exactly the selection bias we would expect. They then proceed to "correct" the data by undercounting the group (white women that live near a testing site) that has the least selection bias.