skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the model, but I think that your impression of Roomba, either through experience or the technology that the author of this article presented is really out-of-date. Even on past models, they have Visual Simultaneous Location and Mapping (VSLAM) tech that is far, far beyond dead reckoning. The even more recent version (not sure if there's been a release since) also has persistent maps, so it actually can find itself on the map and choose routes[2]. I'm not sure what exactly the processors are, but considering the supply-chain investments that've gone into mobile processor development for smartphones, I think it's likely unfair to characterize them as "tiny little processors".

Disclosure: I did an internship at iRobot a few years ago, although the overwhelming majority of my work wasn't related to Roomba products.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/iro...
[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/new...
(Med student here with only limited knowledge).

This is correct. The active form of Vitamin D (Calcitriol) can be both helpful and harmful to bone health.

I think the mechanism is not fully understood but in short doses it stimulates bone growth and is a treatment for osteoporosis. In chronic doses it actives cells caused osteoclasts that reabsorb bone.
And if the city tries to “soak” Amazon too much, they will move outside of the city, too.
Keybase's chat in the app was never verifiably end-to-end encrypted
Sure, but this is not a sustained trend. It's a panic buy right after a major disruption to the market.
Yeah I mentioned in another thread but the Rails and Phoenix communities both reject the approach of thick clients driven by data access APIs, in both theory and increasingly in practice.
It's incredible the amount of unknowns even at this point in the epidemic. Anyone who claims to understand what's going on is just frontin. That's my big takeaway so far.
Because it doesn’t add anything to the conversation - what articles, where, can the poster add their own anecdotes, or data?
This measure will last far longer than the pandemic.

We can be arguing two different things:

1) Signatures are not a good proof of identity

2) We should require government ID for proof of identity

> Why the sudden concern now?

It's not. This has been a debate for at least a decade if not more.
To the Mods Who Blocked this Post

"Excellent article. I have been trading large positions since 2008, with a few hundred invested on any given day. I have seen this eveidenced in the real world many, many times. It is easy to verify if you doubt it. Read the filings of people like Empry, Sabby, and track the penny stocks they buy. It’s like clockwork for these guys.
This is a MUST READ and should be shared in all of penny land."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052058
I am not a doctor but fwiw I was told by an NHS doctor that the most recent scientific understanding of vitamin D is that the recommended dose (based on old science) is far too low and 5000 per day is a good amount for someone in the UK (due to the amount of sunlight we get on average here).
There are some brain-dead behaviours on Reddit's site. They do a JS render-then-fetch, which is the worst way to load data. They also seem to stick the data fetch inside a requestAnimationFrame, which means it only runs for foregrounded tabs. This is basic stuff. I don't see how this could be an accident.
My browser constantly pegs the CPU, Firefox performance manager indicates it might be Facebook but CPU metics never seem accurate. I use the new layout and swear the issue occurs after a tab has been left open for a long period of time (8-16 hours).

Anyone else experience this?
Google employees are told to expect to work from home for the rest of the year
> Ubisoft is going to start letting people return to the office

You say you're working at Massive which is a studio "part of the
Ubisoft family". Is it the ubisoft part that hinders
remote-work? I would have thought that such technical things are
in responsibility of the local business. And I think the
decision of going back to the office should also be in the local
business as it's highly region dependent.

Would you say you work for Ubisoft or for Massive?
The inferred IFR from serological prevalance and deaths in NYC is ~1%. NYC's demographics skew favorably compared to the nation, but assuming ~60% of the country would get COVID-19 if not for restrictions, 2 million is right on the money.
> there are lots of programs the prover can't effectively handle right now

And always will be, due to Rice's Theorem. Can still be useful though - various formal methods techniques are like this.
> decriminalizing drugs only helps eliminate a portion of the chicken/egg variables.

If the last forty years of Southern Strategy has taught us anything it’s that you must seize every inch (portion) of ground you can.
Feel the same way with lambda.
There is/was a blacklist of words / domains in the client, the filtering done locally.

https://twitter.com/jernejv/status/671620692924846080?s=19

It's still censorship.
Thank you, think about possible introduction of speech -> text transcription under each voice. It might not be perfect but useful for rapid communication.
On the contrary, majority of audio content could be conceived as a background. Text or video require more attention.
Even that’s debatable, and its own ideological rabbit hole.

Today is my birthday and my wife is waiting for me, so I’ll have to tap out.
It's looking increasingly likely that the economic hardship will kill more then the virus itself. Especially in the third world.

Also California is reopening since all their predictions turned out to be way off the mark.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2...

I expect we have a few weeks until we have nearly 0 restrictions in place.
Auroville is mentioned in the Apple TV+ series “Home”, episode 6 “India”. Anupama Kundoo's Wall House is just outside the Auroville city limits, in an area designated for experimentation. I saw the episode recently so was surprised to see Auroville pop up here.
>You know why there's no fraud? Because it's a crime

When has the law ever stopped bad actors? It's naive to think fraud doesn't exist when at least a dozen times each election there are some kinds of issues getting votes counted.
>> Except the claim was that there are more than one strain and the author is responding to that.

Doesn't matter, the author still made an unsubstantiated claim, and hence is unscientific. He should change the title.
What’s the business model if it’s free?
That's a nice wet dream of being the sole contributor to the taxes of an entire nation. But the truth is your contribution is a drop in the bucket, and what you get out of society is so much more. It's what gives you the security of not being murdered one night and having all your stuff stolen, assuming you don't have your own private security. And guess what, you live off the taxes from a great number of people who DO support the idea that their taxes goes to supporting the less fortunate. Feel free to put your money where your mouth is and find some private island and private security (since you'll need it) to live on.
Is the site down? I get a 502 error.
I have a Samsung phone. It doesn't seem to have an option to automatically disable MMS downloads, and last patch is from March.

I'm wondering if I'm vulnerable.
Here is a fantastic list of compelling resources about Vitamin-D: https://www.grc.com/health/Vitamin-D.htm
In America? By the person getting the surgery, through the opaque proxy of their insurance plan.
Food stamps are much simpler than Medicare. It's basically just cash and you pay market rates for whatever you buy.

It seems we are on the same page.
Are you using https://www.sitespeed.io/ under the hood or is your tool custom-built around lighthouse reports?
I miss going to the movies...I'm not sure if movies in the theater will ever be the same, given how profitable direct to streaming has been (e.g. Trolls 2, which netted Universal more money in 19 days than the original did in its entire theatrical run of 5 months). I have 2 home theater setups (one indoors and one outdoors) with projectors and 100+ inch screens and Dolby atmos surround in each, but there is still something magical about watching movies in the theater.

I also miss restaurants. I love cooking, but not every meal every day. Delivery is a nice break, but I like sitting in a restaurant, and having someone else cook and do the dishes.
Respectfully, I've never understood this viewpoint. If the configuration options are importable from some external repository (as the vast majority of dotfiles are), "as fast as possible" simply becomes "how quickly can I install git (or my VCS of choice) and pull down my configuration options?"

For keyboards and other physical hardware, sure, you can't remap on the fly. But I'd wager the the vast majority of productivity-customizations that people implement are software-level.
I suggest you revise your definition of cloud.
Sounds like a good product, with a well thought-out process/vision, and a great team that enjoys working on it.

Congrats on the success!
This is standard arguments of libertarians and market fundamentalists - "we understand economy, you do not". Most of people arguing for lockdowns understand perfectly what are the negatives consequences of paused economy. Killing off all old are sick would also improve the economy, why would not we do that? Death rate among the older people is close to 10% if not more, why would you focus on only 20 year old young someone. Numbers from NYC and cruise liners suggest that the death rate is close to 1%, and this is a huge number. Now, you mentioned the externalities of not getting of elective surgeries - how does it exatcly relate to the quarantine measures? No measures -> higher load on the healthcare system -> lower number of elective surgeries.
"Just think of all the money you'll save NOT being surrounded by slot machines!"
This is also true for other well established web (not JS) frameworks like Django or Rails
Playing team sports
Mapping the twist-angle disorder and Landau levels in magic-angle graphene
Love this, OpenCV and all WebAssembly projects. I also use next-translate now and then so kudos for that!

I have been putting AR in-browser when Java applets with JOGL was a thing! I've been nominated twice this year for the Webby awards on AI and AR in browser (1). Small innovative team who have been utilising Emscripten and likeminded technologies for a few years from when Emscripten and WebRTC was starting to be a thing.

I wanted to share some pain points taking this tech to production.

- Bandwidth

This is huge with OpenCV, ~4.5Mb+ to take a picture is quite a difficult bandwidth cost to accept. Especially the clients I worked with have millions of views per day. The total binary for Max Factor VMUA (2) is the same size which includes a large data set needed for a neural network for skin tone analysis and face feature detection.

Learning: Do not include all of OpenCV. You don't need it all, but if you do cherry pick the parts you need. I do recommend writing the simplistic parts (this is for you who just use cv::mat!).

- Speed

If you want a 60 FPS AR effect / AI algo on an Android device OpenCV isn't always the fastest approach. Do not rely on a framework, you will need to get your hands dirty and optimise/rewrite the slow areas. WebAssembly is fast, but not as fast as the desktops and native environments you normally create this code on.

- Market

Not everyone has an iPhone in London. Bandwidth means seconds, JS and WebAssembly execution adds to this. In a world where m-commerce is king this does matter. Think Poland, middle of nowhere in Ohio, Brazil, etc. If it takes 60 seconds for a web app to run on 3g and then another 20 for the executable to start, and then the experience is then sluggish it wont be commercially successful.

- UX

When you put this into a large site most traffic will come via instagram and facebook. On iOS this is typically within a WKWebView which does not support getUserMedia. Make sure you have some nice hints on how to open within iOS Safari (or Android Chrome if the parent app has not enabled permissions).

Nevertheless I wish this blog post existed when I started out. I regret in not writing something similar. In this post I especially love the simplicity of the Emcripten pipeline which is great. It is a fantastic demo post. I do hope it inspires many to play with this innovative stack.

1) https://twitter.com/Holition/status/1258068773623431177
2) https://www.maxfactor.com/vmua/
Love this comment!
Altspace vr
This is almost certainly true, at least in part. Fasting is another such intervention.

The patent system is probably an overall benefit, but as with everything else, it can't be better in each and every case.
Okay the comment was a bit sarcastic but I think the improvement is pretty obvious: use gender-neutral language!
FWIW, automation is certainly eating jobs in the back office. I push a button and my pivot table gets updated in a few seconds whereas that used to take somebody a couple hours to assemble. Why do I need a second staff accountant, again?

I think it's inevitable that the "junior" office jobs (where many get their start) will be/are replaced by scripts & API's.
I kind of get it. TempleOS seems like a pretty cool project, and making it into something suitable for actual modern use sounds fun and ambitious.
Web security sites for practice and Docker and book
>Assets tend to be very large (double digits gigabytes), so having fast connectivity is expected in many situations, and slower home connections are rather painful for that.

If that were the case... I would probably look into using X-windows forwarding or remote desktop. Wouldn't it make more sense to keep all assets on the on-prem network instead of sending it back/forth to the employee's remote workstation?
Tunable correlated states and spin-polarized phases in TB-B graphene
Auroville is the product of a fringe spiritual movement, but not an outright cult. Back in the 1960s, Auroville was able to attract so much approval from representatives of various governments and the NGO world because the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were seen as relatively reasonable people, in spite of their utopian visions. As far as fringe spiritual movements go, Auroville is comparable to Rudolf Steiner, Gurdjieff, the spiritual side of the Esperanto movement, etc. which definitely have their share of critics but are large, institutionalized phenomena where people can enter or leave the movement as they please, and lives aren’t completely controlled and subjected to the whims of a single living leader or a committee thereof.

Also, when you actually visit Auroville, you find that it has splintered into disparate communities that sometimes outright dislike one another. Again, this seems very different from cults, which tend to insist on forced unity and orthodoxy among its membership.
Oh, my apologies, I did not at all intend it to be taken like that.

I meant to say that while the book js2 linked is surely welcome information to have in this discussion, this doesn't absolve the OP of the burden to back the claims with something more substantial given how strong these claims are (and, as the thread shows, controversial).
Go betweens exist and on Planet Money one was interviewed: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/842095406/episode-993-negativ...

Their website: https://www.thetanktiger.com

> The objective of the Tank Tiger is to serve as a clearinghouse and a single point of contact for parties who desire terminal tank services or utilization of midstream assets and to bring them together with the companies who own these assets and seek further utilization. It also provides for tenants who are leasing storage to find subleasing opportunities, when it makes sense for them to do so. Our expertise in this field provides a fast and efficient connection so that the uncertainty of storage availability is eliminated from the supply and trading equation. The Tank Tiger can facilitate and reduce market inefficiencies and illiquidity by providing this service.
> of evidence that might mean COVID-19 is even worse than we thought.

As a scientist I say sometimes that one of the unnoticed victims of SARS-CoV-2 is media reporting. Some newspapers here (Italy) really love gruesome details, to be honest, but they conveniently forget talking about the frequency of said details.

I mean, if you have a respiratory disease that can blow your head off (this is just an absurd example), you prepare differently depending if it happens in 50% of the cases or in 0.5%. This is completely lost in news reporting.

In addition, the news (but sadly, some experts too!) treat SARS-CoV-2 as a magic virus that does everything different from any other known biological entity. While I was initially surprised to hear those cases of meningitis, I then found in the literature that other coronaviruses can infect the central nervous system (e.g. [1]).

It doesn't mean this complication less severe, when it occurs. But it's not a feature of this virus alone.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2018.0038...
Depends on the way you look at this, and what your politics are.

Underemployed hospitals means a lot of procedures are not happening right now. Lots of chemo and similar things. Those will be facing long waiting lists once the state opens back up. If you even get those patients to come back in the next months. I think the risks are somewhat distorted. If you are skipping chemo because you are scared of Covid19, you may be missing something. And yes, chemo was deemed not essential as far as I can tell. I think they call those excess deaths, and it's very hard to say how those will shape up.

From a resident perspective, I see a flat curve with plenty of capacity, even of ventilators, and still a closed up state. But that's getting us into politics. The governor is following a timeline of opening up to normal maybe within 4-6 month. As long as sections are closed up, you need to sustain comfortable unemployment benefits to keep people even halfway in line to play along. Soon the money for that will run dry. It seems like she can extend stay-at-home orders without democratic agreement, but once the money runs dry, she cannot make a budget by herself. So things will get ugly eventually.
This is amazing.

I am putting as much as i can into my TODO+archive database (see https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo#workou... ), and it is pretty neat already for analysis with querying and visualization. But your stuff is orders of magnitude bigger. Possibly I will set up HPI for myself some day.
This is not really an issue of whether prices can go negative though. It'ss whether IB supported negative prices, and whilst it's true the drop happened quickly, this was a known likelihood for a few weeks. The fact that IB kept letting people go long at positive prices, knowing they couldn't execute stop loss trades at negative prices is frankly terrible.
The underlying graph and automatic bidirectional linking are not "trivial to add to an existing text editor". Roam is fundamentally different than other note-taking apps. The interface and editing experience are of secondary importance. If backlinks and transclusion strike you as irrelevant, you haven't even scratched the surface w Roam and, respectfully, aren't in a position to dismiss it.
I think Sam Harris feels very strongly that consciousness is real. I don't think he cares how you get that. Panpsychism gives you that for free. Ergo...
The CNN headline for the article you linked to is:

"WHO says no evidence shows that having coronavirus prevents a second infection"

The second paragraph of the article literally quotes a published brief from WHO:

"There is no evidence yet that people who have had Covid-19 will not get a second infection," WHO said in a scientific brief published Friday.

The headline is literally taken from the WHO's actual words. There's a case to be made that these sort of articles need to be more deeply contextualized with respect to how science works and what the implications of findings are (and what they aren't), but that gets into deeper questions about scientific literacy -- not just for journalists, but for their audience -- but it's hard to point at this and say that this reporting is making it look like the WHO was saying something that they weren't.
Argh. These sorts of coined puzzle words need to die. (And don't even get me started on the "rona".)
If you think websites from 1995 were driving the same levels of engagement that FB is in 2020 you would be really, very, extraordinarily mistaken.
And that is the nature of the problem. It is far easier to throw out a random anecdote then to prove or disprove it.

I remember hearing a story of a solder that sent a single bullet into a pole mounted transformer. The oil leaked out, it over heated and exploded. Power went out to the block, maybe taking connected devices with it.

A two second act that cost less than a dollar, destroyed something that was orders of magnitude more expensive and took orders of magnitude more time to put in place.
The people in charge in America only fail upwards, never down.
Along these lines, I still think Marshall Brain is likely to be proved correct, he predicted automation would instead replace middle management, and then direct unskilled labor in his novel Manna[1].

1:http://marshallbrain.com/manna.htm
Practice.

I think I would call it focus instead of patience. It's often useful to have a goal that is motivating.
He agreed to have material tweets reviewed by Tesla's in house counsel before publishing. With a specific definition of material and examples of content that would be material. This tweet IMHO doesn't fall under that definition of material. Even if you think it did, you're blindly assuming that this tweet wasn't reviewed (which it might well have been, if it was reviewed it was certainly legal instead of probably legal).

The SEC doesn't have a choice to tolerate or not tolerate this behavior. They basically lost the last time they sued (it ended in a settlement where the only concession to them was rephrasing an existing agreement after a judge said some strong words), and they would probably lose again if they sued this time.
You've heard nonsense. There's tons of studies and clinical trials about the use of vitamin D. Here's an article listing just a few: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322619

Every time you "hear" something about a topic that's important (e.g. in this case: health), just don't take anyone's word for it (doctors are people, too and have their cognitive biases and non-fact based opinions).

It's not that hard to look this stuff up and just do a quick check in relevant publications or sites like research.net - https://www.researchgate.net/search/publication?q=vitamin%20... - to get a more accurate picture.