skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a functional light field video and photo camera* a few years back and the results were absolutely stunning in VR. That was before the LLFF paper was released, so it was relying on simple depth-maps to generate a geometric proxy, and having enough viewpoints to brute-force non-lambertian surfaces. Still, it allowed for a completely photorealistic reproduction of most scenes with full 6-degrees of freedom within the capture volume.

However I've been surprised at how there's hardly been any commercial applications of light-field technology. Lytro unfortunately folded despite having large amounts of capital, and the only company left is Raytrix, which uses light fields largely only for single-camera depth map generation. Google has released very nice tech demos, but that's about it.

*See here for a few test videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Buj8WWhGrA&list=PLzhX-LcIzx...
I'd guess there are plenty of people in high-rent areas who'd need larger and more expensive living quarters to work from home long-term.
It’s definitely interesting! I think the iPhone hardware is amazing, and Android is the only alternate OS I would consider running so it’s just a great match. Fun project.
Seems a reasonable, if conservative position to take?

The alternative would be some creative-commons type license I guess, but then people argue over if commercial derivative works should be allowed.

This arrangement means it's realistically only going to be for fun - which might be a good thing.
Rendering “indeterminate” progress bars in the terminal using Python
> And there is absolutely nothing wrong with it but it's naive to think that they just fall into hundred million dollars deals without being savvy.

I never said he wasn't savvy, I said that savviness wasn't directed at "tailoring content" or his "image" in a way that's duplicitous as you were intimating, and that's typical for traditional media.

Rightly or wrongly, Rogan believes and does the things he says he believes and does, and he's genuinely interested in his guests and only interviews people who interest him. It just so happens that plenty of people find Rogan personable, the people he interviews interesting. In a world with over 7 billion people and with low barriers to entry, like streaming on YouTube, it's statistically inevitable that a Joe Rogan would appear.
Related, if maybe not quite the same thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Creating an office at home? For a lot of people, making your home a viable working space is very expensive. It may even require the worker to purchase a home or apartment with an extra room.
Yeah it reminds me of a project at my company that was an attempt to automate certain development processes so that people could ship features without developer involvement. Cool idea! So they built this wonderful system and now there's a team of 6 devs solely dedicated to maintaining it lol.
Well, it will not be his primary desktop system.

Off topic, but I have recently started keeping an "always on" Mosh (like SSH) connection between my iPad and my remote server. With tmux this is actually really useful if you mostly live in the command line.
Do you have any sample of a thread that you used for this strategy? I have a content generator app and have been using reddit on my own and having fun entering photoshop contests but I want to branch out and get evangelists of people in other ways on Reddit.
Warning for the U.S.: Diabetes and Coronavirus Killing People in Mexico
FastoCloud v1.1.0 have been released
The top answers are good at explaining why he is popular in general. As for why he’a mentioned here: he has the number 1 podcast in the world. So, it’s natural to see him mentioned. His audience also skews male (~70%), and so do the audiences of reddit and HN.

So you would expect to see a fair bit of mentions. Finally, he interviews people from many walks of life, so you can expect an episode to be relevant to a variety of conversations.

So I don’t think he necessarily has an outsized share of the HN/reddit demographic. He’s just damned popular, and easy to mention.
Sometimes getting emacs to do what you want can take a ridiculous amount of time.

However, if there's something you really cannot do in emacs, my advice would be to try praying, because at that point nothing else can help you.
But now your RSS feeds are on your work computer. Isn’t that worse?
Yes, actually. I legitimately think that no viewpoint or idea should be censored no matter how distasteful I may find it to be.

Would I prefer to live in a nazi or communist society? No, but I prefer to live in a society that in theory can, in a worst case scenario, turn into either of those eventually than in one that cannot.

edit: unless we include some sort of utopian society where we're ruled by some perfect AI or where everyone has perfect information access and decision-making of course but that's science fiction.
> Almost all countries have legislation that mandates fuel usage of [sic] passanger cars has to be at most X liters per 100 km. Or at least there's an incentive system with taxes and other bills.

I'm not sure that's a great example. At least in the US, adoption of more fuel-efficient cars -- and the ascent of the Japanese motor industry -- started from the 1973 Oil Crisis, whereby oil prices skyrocketed due to a drop in supply.

American automakers had been shipping gas-guzzling land-yachts for years, but pricing changes drove consumers to buy fuel-efficient Japanese cars, where they stayed because Honda had invested in "customer service" and "building reliable cars that worked", whereas Chevrolet's R&D budget was divided between tail fins and finding new buckets of sand into which GM and UAW management could plunge their heads to pretend the rest of the planet didn't exist (to be fair, they're still really good at that).
Most companies or individuals with media driven personalities use tailoring to target an audience. It is a marketing tool used by the smallest content producers to the largest ones. I wouldn’t take it as a nefarious comment or dismissive remark. It is simply a tool in the marketing kit.

You see tailoring in the images on Instagram, the word choice on their website, the sound bites or clips chosen on their YouTube pages etc. They consider their target audience all aspects.
Mediocrity? He's just licensed his podcast for three years for over $100m. He's a very successful comedian. He's one of the most well known personalities in the MMA world. If that's what you judge as mediocre I'd love to know what you judge as successful.
There's a 3rd option between latest vs replay called older episodes you haven't watched yet.

He has almost 1500 episodes covering thousands of hours. Many people listen to the back catalog while waiting for the latest episodes or more content from the interesting guests and topics.
Nothing sketchy, i just linked to the semi-offical english Swiss news-feed. It was distributed in our local languages through all the standard media yesterday and has been the center of discussion in (virtual) office chitchat today.

This is real and now Swiss companies have to figure out how to deal with it.
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> wont this just push rents up?

Perhaps, but that hardly seems to be something that should concern the courts?
I get what you’re saying, I just see it a bit differently.

With a majority remote workforce, the company’s physical plant expenses should be reduced, effectively shifting the cost of utilities to the employee. All things being equal reduced expenses mean increased profits. This increase in profits generally does not go back to the employees, so even though their personal assets are effectively serving as a rent-free physical plant for the company, there’s no consideration of that in the company’s bottom line. Depreciable expenses plummet for them, and on and on.

I don’t like marrying it to salary and definitely prefer a reimbursement model, though that has a few new burdens for the employee, but that’s acceptable.
I hate the fact that Americans say “liberal” when they mean “left-wing”, or vice versa.

Classical liberalism / neoliberalism are not left-wing ideologies. They are, at best, centre-right if the Overton window is set to Western standards.

Edit: I love being downvoted because I care about the meaning of words. I clearly stepped on some American nerves. Thanks HN.
It's Switzerland, salaries are already distorded there. They might as well push it a little more.
He's kind of all over the place, which is why I think he appeals to a lot of people (myself included). It's hard to put him in a box.
> Visual Studio supports CMake nowadays.

It tries to embrace it, but this is not necessary (and limited for non-trivial cases - and what isn't non-trivial for serious projects). CMake itself has good VS support for a long time. I always try to create VS solutions in parallel with ninja, nmake, jom, whatever completely from it without hand-holding of some integration.
Magit, the magical Git interface (2017)
If you use that new-found freedom to pick an area with a lower cost of living though, you're going to get your salary cut.
I have used Emacs for 30 years or so, but only started using org-mode a few years ago. I'm using it for activities of the kind you mention.
What places?
Exactly, the mainstream has always been there; but the "mainstream" media has long been talking down to it rather than with it, and this void in respect of the common man and woman is something that centrist people like Rogan fill by just being open to a variety of opinion and ideas, and refusing to demonise people because they don't sign up to ivory tower prescriptions and proscriptions.
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Yesterday I wanted to buy a specific brand of chocolate.

It wasn't sold in any of the stores I usually go to and already pay a considerable subscription cost for.

It was only sold in some other store for 3 times the price chocolate usually goes for.

That store also refused to just sell me the chocolate, they required that I eat it inside of their store under their watchful gaze to make sure I wasn't sharing it with anyone that didn't pay.

They also made sure I ate it on a plate and using a spoon and definitely didn't touch it with my hands.

It's only available at this store under these conditions because I assume greed.

So I used my powers of PsychoKinesis to create an atom-for-atom clone of the chocolate for sale so I could eat it at my convenience.

Then the police arrested me because I violated Nestle's ownership of their recipe for making chocolate.

+100 upvotes.

Just buying Nestle's "raw chocolate mix", melting it, putting it into trays and then letting it harden in the fridge is too hard?
Yes if I had to sum it up in one word "authenticity" would be it. It seems like he truly doesn't care what other people think of him. If he thinks something, he'll say it (but not in an arrogant way like Trump). If the "mainstream media" doesn't approve of a guest on his show, doesn't bother him, he's still willing to hear them out - and more importantly will call them out on their bullshit. He doesn't even pretend to give in to the identity politics bullshit that for whatever reason I can not comprehend has taken over the public narrative.

This is not something you see on mainstream media, where everyone is carefully crafting their words and hedging every statement to ensure they offend as little people as possible, ultimately saying little of interest and disillusioning the public because everyday people feel that no one in power is a real human being who understands them. When someone will just bluntly say the obvious that for whatever reason the establishment won't, it's refreshing.

In addition, he is radically open-minded in a way that's very rare from these kinds of hosts, and people in general. Most people are very rigidly set in their ideologies, which leads to many people sounding like carbon copies of one another (boring). Rogan will consider any idea no matter how outlandish. And he is very curious and asks insightful questions, while knowing when to shut up and let the guest speak (helps that the interviews last 1.5-3 hours).

Also as a comedian, he's significantly more entertaining than your average dry newscaster.

I'm not glorifying Rogan here, just trying to articulate why I enjoy his show, despite the fact that I don't really listen to many other podcasts. He certainly is not perfect and has his weaknesses - for example when discussing technical topics he doesn't dive as deep as I'd like (eg. Elon Musk, John Carmack, Neil DeGrasse Tyson). But overall, he does a great job of bringing interesting guests and getting interesting conversations out of him, so it's not surprising to me that he's so successful.
There are two ways I've done this.

1. Pass in a value called `now func() time.Time` into the constructor function of my struct. This allows me to call `inst.now()` on a particular instance of my structure.

2. Have a global field in a package: `var Now func() time.Time = time.Now` This allows `mypkg.Now()`

All of this avoids taking yet another external package dependency with only a couple of lines of code.
The OP believes the covid-19 crisis has shown us "many truths we've long ignored," and that once the pandemic is over, humankind will come together to address them. Among the long-ignored "truths" mentioned by the OP, these resonated with me:

> This pandemic has shown us that constructs called "states" are good for nothing. [...] It’s against nature that an administrative system from the time of horse-drawn mail coaches is still in place. [...] Nations, borders and flags work against the good of humanity during common disasters, as we’ve experienced during this crisis.

> We saw yet another truth: The ability to win elections and the ability to lead a society are entirely different skills -- skills at war with each other. Elections are often won by those who lie the most, those who play the epic soundtrack louder than others. But those same people cannot lead with wisdom. We have seen many examples of this phenomenon.

> This disaster has also been the dress rehearsal of a major change in history: workers stepping out of their traditional place in the chain of production. Thanks to the Internet, people’s mental contribution to production has increased while their physical role has significantly diminished.

> We are learning that some people having more money than they can spend while others remain penniless and without shelter can create a "common" disaster. If you can’t save a market worker in China, you can’t save the prime minister in Britain.
Because SF & Seattle are some of the best labor markets for tech talent in the world? How is this a mystery?
> I believe most companies or individuals with media driven personalities use tailoring to target an audience

I agree. I'm saying Rogan isn't one of them, at least not in the traditional sense that you mean. That's part of what makes his podcast compelling.
>you probably prefer to have teammates in your timezone

Probably, but not everyone at one location actually lives in the same timezone

My personal timezone is shifted three hours to the west from everyone else here
Named entity recognition using spatial clustering
I would say that our current situation with "choose ios or android" is a more meaningful problem.
a) The linked article never states that it is based on an article which is based from a court decision from 2019 - it reads and presents itself as if it applies to the current pandemic "every-body-works-from-home"-situation, where I could imagine a judge would rule different.

b) Not my point. Translating from one language to another is prone to loose some information. Whoever did the translation, might have lost some information. However, this cannot be cross checked, as the source article is behind a paywall.

c) That's where I got my facts from - not from the article itself.
Recent CS graduate here. Used org-mode for every assignment and report. Used it at every internship. Will be using it in my full-time work. Use it at work to automate pull-request bureaucracy and notes. Use it for design notes and render into other formats.

It's the highest productivity format I have ever encountered, and we haven't even touched org-agenda.
>You deprived someone of the revenue generated by their property

You have not; that revenue never existed.

Squatting is sometimes legal (in the UK at least) and squatters can end up owning the property if they live there long enough.
> The fact that the average American can have this conversation and not seeing any contradiction and labeling Bernie Sanders far left as opposed to, say, Sweden or Finland just shows how distorted this conversation can become.

This is disputable. Did you have thoughts on the story a from a couple months ago about the Swedish journalist making the point that Sanders supporters would be considered far left in Sweden:
https://theweek.com/speedreads/896948/democratic-socialist-b...
There are multiple presidents that are French.
This seems weirdly combative and aggressive. The original question was "I don't know why people think Slack is a remote working tool" so I'd say a legitimate answer would be "Well they say so themselves in their marketing copy, maybe that's why people think they are?"
They just announced the vault. Which uses what they call "community points"

https://www.reddit.com/vault/
New tier IV data center in South Africa
His type of long form interviews would be simply impossible on traditional television (even though it's a podcast, I always watch on Youtube as do many others). He tapped into an unexplored demand that lives directly in the blindspot of the traditional media.

Edit to add: it's pretty hard to imagine a TV broadcaster would try to tap into this niche, imagine a TV channel that has 3 hour interviews uninterrupted by ads (experience using ad blockers), on a wide variety of topics, no filter, across a wide varity of political views.
the timely object lesson of America's ridiculously inferior health care infrastructure is on full display globally right now

The US is currently expected to have fewer per capita deaths from COVID19 than the UK, France, Spain, Italy & Sweden.

See: https://covid19.healthdata.org/
South Bay was probably the cheapest place to buy land at the time, it's only so expensive because now so many companies are headquartered there. I'm still not convinced that east bay is cheaper than south bay now, despite your assertion.

Berkeley is hardly cheap (more expensive than Seattle, for instance)
I recommend trying OSes in this order:

- iOS/iPadOS

- Android

- ChromeOS

- MacOS

- Windows

Only if none of these work would I recommend trying a Linux distribution. Even then I’d try a more modern OS like Fuchsia or seL4 first, just for kicks.
Lots of countries can't deal with the pandemic, including ones that were universally agreed before 2020 to have great health systems.
Hard to believe that when the COVID-19 subreddit is firmly promoted on the front of the website and the mobile app.
People say DNA is not like computer code. However, it seems that people are really saying it is not like human written computer code. Otherwise, it is still a digital code that is turing complete.
Are you willing to consider the opinion that CS people can make a similar mistake with out of field problems as people with a PhD in Biology make about CS problems?
Haven't tried Appveyor so can't compare experience. I'm a travis convert came for Windows with my open source project. Just glancing at the Appveyor pricing chart I guess my open source project would only get one parallel job on Appveyor while on GitHub Actions it's unlimited.
You realise he's hugely popular outside of the US? In other words I doubt Fox News and American conservative politics has very much to do with his popularity. It maybe affects some of audience but there is a large contingent that doesn't care about that nonsense.
Can I use org-mode without emacs?
I have just hit on the "indeterminate" progress bar issue in a new open source app (which is also an example program for a new chapter I am writing for my Common Lisp book): when automating fetching and analyzing information, it is hard to predict how many steps will be taken to normalize the 0 to 100% nature of a progress bar.

I thought of flipping the color and restarting at 0%, but ended up scaling down the amount of progress so any operation usually finishes way before the progress bar goes to 100%.
Please show me where OP was talking about HiDPI and scaling.
Something like the cxx crate[1]? You specify your shared objects between C++ and Rust, and it spits out code for both sides.

The guy who maintains it said in the reddit thread[2] about this same topic that the Google people have been sending him good PRs, which is presumably related to integrating Rust into Chrome.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/cxx
[2] https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gpdorw/the_chromium_proje...
Yeah, but the best of the best? Most of those people relocate.
Why don't you just watch / listen and find out ?
Bingo. Its one of their biggest infosec ops. The rest are 'power users' and moderaters selling influence to the highest bidder. Its actually quite insidious.
Thankfully, hide glue is still readily available. There may have been some limited experimentation with modern glue in stringed instruments, but pretty much everybody is still using hide glue today.
Totally soveable. We have tax accountants. We have real estate people. We have conventions for dealing with this sort of thing.
Lots, if not all, of those people are available by themselves though and usually in much better form. To use a famous example, watching Musk's talk on Neuralink, or the orignal MCT/ITS talk was fascinating, but watching him "smoke" weed or pronounce the name of his kid is pretty boring.
> Mexico is safer than the US - some will find that unpaletable. Get over it.

This is quite verifiably false?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid...

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

edit: fixed link
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> I don't get it. Why should someone working from home make more money than someone who does not?

Well, take a job that requires a truck, or expensive construction equipment, or whatever, to do. Is it surprising that a job that requires the employee to furnish his own such pays a bit more? In this case, the employee is asked to provide his own office (in a country where real estate is immensely expensive).
> In their quest to avoid binary blobs

I don't think you're the target market for this device.
"Now"?

This decision is from 2019, so they have to deal with it since 2019. Or did I miss something about the swiss legal system?

And, if challenged, I'm pretty sure that judges might "judge" different if confronted with the current "state-of-emergency"-kind of situation.
OTOH, you end up with a great Shadowrun campaign hook generator?
That's great but is there anything that has the best of all worlds? Low barrier to entry and maintenance of a fast workflow after years of notes?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-employees-may-fac...
Well my point was that the 10600K made a choice less clear when it comes to the current offerings from AMD. I want to upgrade my gaming rig and was basically looking at either the 3600X or 3700X, but it looks like either CPU is easily beaten in games by the 10600K for a very similar price. If I waited a little bit for the 10600KF then the price difference shrinks even further. That's why I'm saying I'm waiting for Zen 3 - I'm sure it will absolutely dominate on the desktop, so it seems like it's better to wait a little bit rather than buy now.