skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to guess at a possible future, I can imagine edge computing servers that connect over 5G or fiber to your device. On these edge computing servers, they predict using AI/ML what you, as a participant, could do (video including facial and hand gestures, audio including Toastmaster type fillers like ahh, umm) in the next 50-60ms or longer and transmit their guess using rendered video frames and audio in time for the other videoconferencing participants to see “no latency” interaction. Done right, it would seem real. Done wrong, definite Max Max Head Headroom feel.
Neat! But I can't say I'm a fan of the analog TV static. That's mixing the metaphor.

Reminds me of the Truck Simulator games that had support for streaming local stations over Internet radio in game.
Scout2: Security auditing tool for AWS environments
T-Mobile’s outage yesterday was so big that even Ajit Pai is mad
Anti-asian for sure, probably not as much anti-white since white applicants can get lower academic scores than Asian people and still get accepted. Discriminating against a minority that makes up only 5% of the population is ridiculous.
The FBI wouldnt call it fear as much as they would call it multiple departments dedicated to busting child predators and other predatory behavior which is something the FBI works with almost every major video app to regulate, and take very seriously.

Your comments are not demeaning to me, they are demeaning to the severity of this issue worldwide.

I will forgive your comments and pure ignorance because I'm sure if you were educated on this topic at all in any kind of statistics based context you would have to be majorly sexist in addition to wrong.

Even zoom has recently used the excuse that they will not end to end encrypt video sessions for non paying users, because paying for it requires validation of identity through certain forms of payment and verification which can be tracked by law enforcement, because unverified accounts are the primary venue for the predatory behavior I speak of.

The previous CISO of Facebook who now works with Zoom on this very issue worked with the government to help catch child predators on Facebook as well and currently is a Professor at Stanford researching safety of specifically these types of chat apps. I'm quite sure these questions would be on the list of recommendations the FBI would encourage you not to ask, but if you feel so strongly I'm wrong about this I would encourage you to reach out to the world leaders on cybersecurity and the FBI and NSA on global efforts to reduce the kind of predatory behavior these questions invites.

I'm going to be ignorant and presumatory assume you're a man, and also ask you to please educate yourself on this topic before/if you have children. You'll be a much better parent.
I remember that Fujitsu fabricated the SPARC processor, but what other semiconductors is Japan known for?
Yeah it looks like they wanted to know how long each crate took to build individually.

But as long as we're nitpicking, nobody should just pipe `ls` into `xargs` like this, since it fails if anything has spaces in it.

Instead, do:

for cargo_toml in */Cargo.toml; do
crate="$(dirname "${cargo_toml}")"
pushd $crate
# ...
done

Don't be that person who writes a script which won't tolerate spaces in filenames!
> One has to wonder, at that point, why do anything at all?

Still prevents the most casual attacks; obscurity is sorta technically better than nothing. (Or worse, of course, if it gives the incorrect appearance of actual security...)
Interframes are not a problem, as long as they only reference previous frames, not future ones.

I was able to get latency down to 50ms, streaming to a browser using MPEG1[1]. The latency is mostly the result of 1 frame (16ms) delay for a screen capture on the sender + 2-3 frames of latency to get through the OS stack to the screen at the receiving end. En- and decoding was about ~5ms. Plus of course the network latency, but I only tested this on a local wifi, so it didn't add much.

[1] https://phoboslab.org/log/2015/07/play-gta-v-in-your-browser...
Counterpoint: No.
We've gained nothing from this comment. It is a joke about robots taking over the world. $7.4M number was put in the comment deliberately to get attention and then proceeding to inquire whether it comes in Dalmatian spots painted over. Will they deliver themselves? Perhaps I should respond with "haha"? What should I say?

If this isn't Reddit, may be I need to go there again, perhaps things have improved?

I come on HN to get away from jokes, especially of the type in the parent comment. Allow this and then the top comment in every thread on HN is some form a joke. The internet is filled to the brim with entertainment and jokes. It is nice to come here on HN and participate in intellectual, curious and informative discussion. A little humor here and there is fine.
That’s so weird.
A while ago I switched to a habit of eating only one big meal a day to get the bulk of my nutrition. The timing doesn't matter that much, just whatever is convenient and what feels good for me any given day. It is flexible though. It might be one big meal and a second smaller meal. Or one big meal and small healthy, nutritious snacks throughout the day to make up for whatever the big meal lacked. This works a lot better for me as I do not have to plan for 3-4 meals every single day. Being human, I might not want to eat the same dish more than once, so I have to figure out different things for each meal which really stresses me out. 3-4 meals a day might work for me if I was always eating prepared food though. With one meal a day, I simply cook 3-4 servings of whatever I felt like eating and eat all or most of it in one sitting until I feel satisfied. My intuition also tells me that digesting one meal only at a regular time every day is better than digesting 3-4 different meals spread across the day. The concept of fasting is to give your body a break from digesting and stuff right, giving it time to naturally release any bad stuff through the natural processes. If one day I've eaten too much junk and feel bloated, I give myself the next day a break from eating at all. Like a 24 hour fast. Or you could just do a 16 hour fast and only eat a small healthy dinner. What's valuable to me is this flexibility. I've read that before farming, food was harder to come by, so humans back then didn't really get to eat 3-4 meals every single day. They might catch something or whatever and eat all of it that day like a feast, and then it might be another 1 or 2 days before they can eat that much again.

The number one benefit of one meal a day perhaps for me, is that you can organize/plan your digestion, if you know what I mean. Imagine being able to control and plan for when you need to poop. I can do that with this diet. I basically never have to use public restrooms except for urination. It's a blessing really.
Video is related to this though. If audio is synced to the video then a delayed video stream also means a delayed audio stream.
OpenBSD is the BSD that supports Gnome

FreeBSD is the BSD that supports KDE

or thats how it's been explained to me. So if you want Gnome you should try OpenBSD.
You may want to read the wartime letters of the German writer Heinrich Böll. A rather unique perspective on WWII by a conscripted soldier who would later become a Nobel prize winner.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_B%C3%B6ll
I don't know what century you've tried freebsd, but trackpad works nearly otb and otb in new xorg. Accelerated graphics works fine with intel (YMMV depending on the chip), nvidia (if you install driver from nvidia and not opensource one), amd.

> There is no Slack desktop client.

There is no Slack desktop client for any platform. It's just a web browser. You can make "desktop client" yourself.

> You cannot run Docker natively, and instead I ended up setting up a Debian guest OS under bhyve, which harkens back to how Docker is run on Windows/OSX and all the caveats that entails.

Actually, this setup works MUCH better than Docker on Mac. Which is good enough for developer. Looking at 3 laptops right now: mac, windows and freebsd. Docker user experience goes linux (non-rhel based) > linux (rhel based ) > windows > freebsd > mac.

That being said, FreeBSD isn't "Oh, I will try running freebsd on this machine", FreeBSD is "I'm buying this specific machine because it runs FreeBSD". I use it both on my desktop and laptop.
The biggest contribution by interceptors was arguably the MiG 25 which was badly misinterpreted by western analysts, prompting the creation of the F-15 to counter the perceived threat.
Ask HN: Is this title good? – “The Fitbit to get your Business in Shape ”
My pre-release campaign is ongoing. The current title is "The Fitbit to get your Business in Shape!". Is this okay? Looking for better ideas. ref- https://www.gox.ai/two-minute-reports/
When China picks winners, it benefits the US because those subsidies lower our costs of goods.
"We wanted to know and understand every line of code being run on our hardware, and it should be designed for the exact hardware we wanted."

This rings very true for every high-performance thing I've ever worked on, from games to trading systems.
Using Poetry to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation
The Next Step for Generics
Everyday Life
“The Lazy Learner”, k-NN #1 and #2
I've been using syncthing for several months now, syncing lots of files (code under active development) between a total of five computers, Linux and MacOS.

It's been fantastic.

It works well, it gets the job done, it doesn't pester you with notifications and upsells. It also doesn't eat all of your CPU/battery by watching changes everywhere, like Dropbox does. And it doesn't try to get at your photos. And other stuff.

I have not run into a single problem with it over the course of several months now, which is impressive.

I am about to sign up and start sponsoring it on a monthly basis — I started doing this recently with open-source software that I rely on. If everybody chipped in, we'd be in a world of great sustainable software, with people able to make a living on developing solutions like this.

BTW, a plug for another similarly impressive piece of software: https://vpncloud.ddswd.de — if you need to set up an encrypted VPN between a bunch of servers.
Do you mean NomadBSD? Hearing MonadBSD and thinking about Haskell, I suddenly got really curious, but couldn’t find anything on Google...
Like BigDog? Not quite horse capacity, but still rideable in terms of load, although I don't know if it would screw up the balance
Link to the current draft:

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
What can Philosophy teach Machine Learning?
I have the corresponding ebooks too, so I open up the whole audiobook as one file and guess where the chapters are from the waveform. I listen to the guess and compare to the ebook, checking whether I am too far or too early. Once I find the correct position (and I got quite good at spotting it from the waveform), I set a marker and start with the next chapter. In the end I split it along the markers.

I was planning on writing something to spot when they say "chapter" as it is always the same but I never got around to that. Also, doing all that work was almost meditative :)

A way to share the corrections would be to export the markers from audacity but sadly I don't have that data anymore, though I could calculate the markers from the files I exported if you are interested.
Flying aircraft carriers are possible (and sort of crazy)
> Where is the energy stored in the meantime? Where does the extra energy, if the ship falls into a heavier planet, come from?

Take your reference from the Sun, not the planets.
Wunderground was an amazing, amazing website from when it first started, in the late 1990s, through about ~2012 when it was sold to The Weather Channel, and all the sterotypical corporate buyout things that happened afterwards.

The UI was completely rewritten, from an information dense, fast, easy to use interface that had grown organically as the NWS put more and more data online, to the "web 2.0" interface with gobs of white space, information removed or placed in hard-to-find areas, and the UI performance is less than one-fifth of what it was previously, even on modern computers with fast connections. It is a pale imitation of what it once was.

To their credit, you could still access weather underground "classic" by browsing to classic.wunderground.com, but in 2015 they finally shut that site down, shortly before selling it to IBM. Wunderground has only gone downhill since being bought out by IBM

Wunderground was an amazing website, the classic version is still the best weather website that the internet has ever had, but it's gone now, and the shambling corpse that still remains does not deserve any praise it gets at this point.

It's long been about halfway down my list to write a fully open source clone of classic wunderground, but I probably won't get to it this year. I have a bunch of screenshots/rendered CSS etc as source material if anyone is interested in taking this on.
Thank you so much for acknowledging my feedback. I strongly encourage you to reach out to security consulting firms and get multiple blind reviews to vet the work. Video chat apps are tricky but they can be improved for the betterment of everyone. They are expensive but cheaper than lawsuits with the government. The least you can do here is educate yourself on the legal risk the owner of the company assumes with this technology and work on identity verification of some sort.

And I'm really excited to see the demographic using your app and I'm really glad I can help. What you are doing is great, and great leaders surround themselves with diverse people who have constructive feedback, so it's great to see that quality in you. I'm excited to see where this goes.
I actually made my own CLI frontend just because I didn't want to try and memorize ffmpeg options to do the simple things that I want to do most of the time. Now I can just do `--h264 -s X -e Y` to do a h.264 encode from X timecode to Y timecode.
Hasn't FreeBSD 12 been out for a while now? This is just a LTS release?
You can lead a Mars river to water, but you cannot make it flow.
Maybe we should just go back to divine right kings and cut out Harvard as the middleman.

Seriously, though, it is a complicated problem. Elites are going to get a leg up in any system. It's just a bad look when you're giving one group advantages because they are supposedly disadvantaged while also giving a leg up to the super privileged.
This is such a politically charged story that it's very well possible that a rumor is being spread that cop spread a rumor that...
Yes and no. Like everything in Erlang, hot-swapping relies on code being structured as servers that responds to messages. In this case, the VM sends a message to the process telling it about the code upgrade. The process has to handle this message "manually" and do what it needs with it. For example, changing its internal state or updating database schema if it uses external storage.

But you don't have to use the gen_server framework to accomplish this. It's perfectly fine (but not recommended as there are lots of details you want to get right) to write your own code for handling hot-swapping. See http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-4.9.1/doc/design_princip... for some details on server principles.

Immutability in combination with Erlang's process centric view is what makes it possible.
You're clearly either not interested in or not capable of taking part in a conversation where you aren't needlessly condescending so tomorrow you can save yourself the effort.
> I would go even further: Natalie Wolchover only interviewed string theorists and quantum field theorists. They all assume that gravity in some way or another will just be yet another quantum field theory.

I didn't want to push that point too much. I am personally uncomfortable with the lack of emphasis on empirical evidence. However, that's not to say there can be fruitful results.

In terms of re-thinking geometric approaches, I quite liked (what I understood of) Nima Arkani-Hamed's suggestion for avoiding issues with localization. Similarly for Penrose's twistor theory.
ffmpeg is absolutely phenomenal. I recently used it to combine multiple separate audio tracks from a webrtc session into a single file.

For anyone that hates compiling ffmpeg from source, John Van Sickle does an amazing job of doing the work for you by making binaries publicly available for each version:
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
This is sad. I had a girlfriend 10 years ago who was studying to become a nurse. She was fantastic at passing tests (rote memorization) and did not care a yota for the science behind it nor had any compassion for people. I had no idea what key answer banks were before she told me how she studies. Shes a nurse now and does it solely for the good money. It’s sad that jobs that require compassion are assailed by motivated test takers. For all she cared she would pursue anything that would make her money and nursing was a low hanging fruit. Now 10 years later the competition in nursing is even more intense and good test takers have a clear advantage.
Welcoming the Octograds of 2020
> In January, a Kansas police officer resigned after it was revealed that he had written "fucking pig" on his own McDonald's coffee cup and posted the photo on Facebook.

> In July 2019, an officer in Indianapolis accused McDonald's workers of taking a bit of his McChicken, but later admitted he'd "forgotten that he had previously bitten the sandwich."

And yet, their testimony in court is generally treated as more reputable than an average citizen's.
I thought I was terrible at time management but I was actually terrible at saying no. I would just agree to do everything for everyone and then realize there was no way I could do it and then do none of that stuff and work on something I actually wanted to do.

I learned to say no to other people and that didn't work. Then I learned to say no to myself. That helped a lot.

Turned out I was saying yes to everything cause I liked the feeling of being important because I had a lot to do.
We're pretty new to it but anything and everything ops related is running through it with minimal effort –

* Lookup various account types and see all relationships

* Editing accounts

* Changing permissions and verifying accounts

* Uploading logos to S3
A formal news entry isn't up yet. Expect it in a few days.
SV did well because it was one of the first places that didn't enforce non-competes.
They have other options soon. See

[1] https://minimalfab.eu/ and notice the address.

Progress!

[2] https://minimalfab.eu/news/jaxa-aist-paving-pathway-minimal-...

[3] https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2019/05/20190510a.html especially Figure 3
It was only the police that got sick, how could that be?
I needed to read this. Just today I realized today that my ego was distracting me from learning and being effective at my job. I am a new dev, <1 yr experience, and I've often found myself not reaching out for help when I need it. For no good reason, of course, but for fear of outing myself as not knowing something I perceive others might view as basic.

I need to teach myself to take the ego hit and that in the long term it'll pay off more than independently struggling on a problem.
Would if be computationally cheaper to just simulate our brains (our just one brain. Yours!) to give us the illusion the universe is whatever it is (quantized or not) rather than simulating the actual universe?
Man that episode was spooky. Good stuff though.

Some of the autonomous micro drone stuff is also pretty scary. I think there is a (fake) youtube vid about them that's pretty scary.
> supports trial execution, 21 CFR Part 11 compliant remote data collection, telemedicine, biostatistics, sample kits for at-home specimen collection, and protocol writing.

Does that not make sense to people in this field?
It's not really correct to say they discontinued it. They basically just started selling it under the MacBook Air brand.
Learning local and compositional representations for zero-shot learning
You are concerned about Google having "access" to network traffic, but you have no concerns about putting TeamViewer on someone else's machine?
This is patently false. https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
If you aren't familiar with it, take a look at their examples. You can do whatever you'd like with it.
They specifically said the protests were fake and the media was lying.

Let's not beat around the bush in terms of language they used.

Once again, we have a company choosing not to do business with another company and allowing it to advertise on its property.

Free market at work, move along.
It’s depressingly common. There was a police office last year who claimed a McDonald’s employee took a bite out of his sandwich before serving him. On investigation he suddenly “remembered” that he’d bitten it himself. There’ve been at least a couple of claims of coffee shops serving cops cups with “pigs” or similar written on them; all revealed fabrications when followed up on. In the last few weeks of protests many police unions have tweeted out hyperbolic descriptions of threats officers faced: claims of IEDs thrown at them, etc. The accompanying photos revealed the “IED” to be a simple house candle.

Police officers imagine themselves to be an oppressed group and frequently fabricate slights to support that narrative and attempt to highlight the lack of respect they claim to perceive. That these fabrications directly lower everyone’s respect is no small irony.
I'd argue the best known monk in the sciences is Gregor Mendel , who was an Augustinian friar and genetics research pioneer.

As an aside, it always rubs me the wrong way when people insinuate the (Catholic) church is anti-science when the long list of contributions to science says otherwise.
No it's not. It's one of two things:

1) A mistake. This happens, especially when tensions are high right now. If I'm a cop, and two other cops get sick, and we ate at the same place, 1+1=2.

2) Malicious. If that's the case, the damage is done. The people who want to believe this happened won't see the redaction, and if they do, they won't believe it. Compelling, negative narratives are more powerful today than ever before, regardless of truth.

Either way, it's not weird. It's either stupid, knee-jerk reaction, or malicious intent. One of the two.
> looking at how the UK government is willing to work with smaller, domestic firms owned by friends of members of the government for government services

FIFY.
Glad I could help—and thank you for making this!
They don’t even come up with plausible lies.

You ... forgot that you’d already taken a bite? Come on.
Also, depending on your level, you may be eligible for an immediate Permanent Residence permit. This gives you a lot more rights in Germany than the Blue Card, but ironically fewer rights in the rest of the EU.
While I don't entirely 'pay for my shoes' developing software - mostly client side web stuff - it's a part of what I do and I can understand the frustration that other parts of the field seem to have when looking at situations like this.

Namely, we're at a point where agile practices have become so common that nothing is ever 'done' and it is acceptable to ship something with errors, assuming it can and will be patched later.

Both Mom & Dad started out as COBOL programmers on punchcards, and I've heard plenty of 'war stories' about how these kinds of situations were far less common because an error meant your program simply didn't run.

Unlike say a web browser which will mostly spit back out whatever weird HTML and CSS you feed into it, errors and all.

In consumer software, it's not, 'we follow orders or people die' but for people working on this, it probably feels that way if your stuff is used by enough people (iOS) or is critically important (medical billing).

If it doesn't do what it says on the tin, people are incredibly unforgiving of even the smallest mistakes.