skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our warranty of Spot becomes void and we may disable some or all of its functionality upon any such use.

So Spots are connected back to Boston Dynamics (like Teslas to Tesla) and they can brick your device anytime?

What kind of metrics are they collecting?
Bi-Whatever Transformations
I've had a pretty disappointing run with those Google Wifi routers...

It started with the lack of ability to have an open guest wifi... Like - it's for my guests, I want anyone to be able to connect, and I don't want to be faffing with passwords or guests having to ask me... I have to name my network "My House - Password Is password"

Then every month it seemed to do some kind of update and disconnect wifi devices... Sure - it's only for 30 seconds, but a disconnection is a disconnection. Thats going to boot you off whatever game you are playing...

And now I've got the trouble that as you have a bunch of mesh points, you can't walk between them without glitches in a video call... Like seriously - I should be able to start facetime and walk round my house without random freezes for 5 seconds while it reconnects to a different mesh point.

Google Wifi has been out for years now, and not a single one of these bugs is any better than it was at launch. Not really acceptable for a $400 router setup!
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> competency of the average vehicle driver

As long as you give a WIDE berth to blue trucks you should be fine.
Yes. Back then cold calling was welcomed. Everyone picked up the phone with excitement of who's calling. All I had to tell them is the name of the company and how they can benefit for the software. Honestly conversion rate was close to 100%, its just some locations had headquarters across the country and I didn't feel like flying in winter time lol.
Grandmaster Flash is ok i guess :p
This article reminds me of this:

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf

I especially like the Atiyah quote.
It's funny indeed that a field is not constant and decreases over space so after some point the potential goes "down" ?
I think the idea of having a long term support release for 5 years was great [1].

FreeBSD 11 has been around for some years now, getting an update to which 11.3-RELEASE can be upgraded with minimal hassle is a major plus for FreeBSD.

([1] edit: referring to https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Fe...)
Seems he had an approach to reviews worthy of emulation:

"Code reviews from Bruce came in three flavours, "mild", "brucified" and "brucifiction", but they were never personal: It was always only about the code, the mistakes, the sloppy thinking, the missing historical context, the ambiguous standards - and the style(9) transgressions."

Source: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contrib...
You are refusing to accept, that I am talking within the context of this thread. There are some premises here, which I explained in detail and take for granted in further sentences I am writing. I refuse to define everything to first principle in every sentence, because your only goal seems to be to go one step further up and suddenly you are right. In that sense, you or anyone does not need to do anything at all, because you don't even have to live. But then this whole discussion becomes really pointless.
> Users don't tolerate the inherent delays caused by this approach anymore.

Well, I'm from Germany, but have a 6-y/o Android phone and live in a rural area with poor EDGE connectivity (~50kb/s). Most "modern" websites don't load/work for me.

From my personal experience, there's quite a few people now saying that their computing devices are getting faster and faster every year whereas the majority of websites, uh, webapps are seemingly getting slower each year...

This is also not just a problem with mobile and poor connectivity. Here's an example from my high-powered desktop work-station with a 100 mbits: When I open https://github.com/, my repositories (on the left) are server-rendered and shown instantly as the site is loaded, which usually happens in under 1s. The activity feed in the middle is rendered asynchronously on the client. It usually takes around 3-6s to finish rendering on my machine (while there is space for 5-8 activity feed items on my screen).

Optimizing SPAs is notoriously hard. You don't really have to optimize HTML.
My dad tried to beat into me that more cunning employees and managers often keep blackmail files as insurance.
My limited understanding is that these orgs compete with each other for budget allocation and would never allow access into each others systems, but I could be wrong.
this is a fight a developer alone cannot win. my first job after college was in a company that created a software to manage industrial production. they were on their third refactor of their frontend. first was polymer?, then angular and now they were trying vue. I spent a lot of time and energy trying to convince them to write they own framework, if they like frameworks so bad. funny story, that's how I built FOS, the framework I use on my website. anyway, I was hired by some other company and don't know the end of the story there, but I'll bet they went with vue, just to rewrite the whole thing in react in a couple of months
Adam Savage over on Tested does a bit of a review of one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-PdPtqw78k
I might have to revisit my perspective, thanks for this!
I had the latest Windows update break printing, but in a different way. It could no longer connect to the network printer (hosted via CUPS on a raspberry pi). I could load the URL for the CUPS printer just fine in Chrome, but Windows itself couldn't see it. I was also unable to edit anything for the printer in Windows (the option simply wasn't there, and everything was greyed out).

The solution was to set it as the default printer, then add a new printer with the same CUPS URL. For some reason, setting it as the default allowed Windows to see it again. Then delete the new copy, and the original began working and allowed its settings to be edited. Incredibly frustrating.
You've never listened to audiophile equipment have you? If apply "some soft clipping" it will sound bad, I guarantee you, no audiophile would like it.
I've used Workspaces [1] for simple browsing and admin because a jump server was needed for access due to latency. It is amazing that some websites actually do not work for a global audience! The cost is approx. $14 a month plus a per minute charge. Based on the specs, and shutting the server down when not working I consider it an ok expense. Some people have effectively used these for gaming [2]. If you use it for business purposes, the service charge is 100% deductible, whereas your hardware is usually deprecated based on fixed rates.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
[2]: https://medium.com/tensoriot/cloud-gaming-on-amazon-web-serv...
Typescript is leagues ahead of Python. Types and async/await are the big ones, but destructuring, no lambda weirdness, optional chaining, nullish coalescing, proxies, JSON support, and generally debugging tools are all better.
He's not talking about the Roman Empire...
Two kinds of students: Legacy and sports.

1. Legacy: If your parents went to Harvard, you're much more likely to get in. This allows the meritocratic wheel to keep turning, in theory, but in practice allows Harvard to let in many rich/privileged individuals who will not cost them and who may bring in big $$ donations over time.

2. Harvard brags about its myriad sports programs...WHY? If it's the best school in the world, why are they giving away 100's of seats to people who manipulate spherical objects adeptly? Their ability to manipulate objects or move their bodies skillfully has VERY LITTLE to do with progressing our civilization. Shouldn't those seats go to the next generation of brilliant minds, not brilliant bodies?
Wow, they should have advertised this more heavily.

Not in a braggy way, but I recently (okay, it's been a little bit) looked into which colleges would be the best for me and I was looking into high-end signalling locations before eventually deciding to go with a more frugal option.

Though I wouldn't give up the experiences I have if I had to do it again, I had literally no idea they structured like this and didn't even consider them because of my perception of the astronomical price.
> it's easy to see why any latency under the 100ms mark at that spatial scale in a scalable, mainstream product would be close to a miracle.

It seems normal phones are able to do it, though. At least it seems normal phones suffer less latency problem.

In a way, simplicity in technology often means better performance.
Looks very cool, but what would be common use cases for this robot? Could it carry bags to base camp on everest?
Also, audio quality seems to be more important for the subjective experience than video quality, even in regular video content.
VB6 had Unicode throughout, and even some HiDPI stuff (e.g. all widgets were measured in "twips", a DPI-independent unit).
They don't brick them, they impound them.

For lesser violations they can make it temporarily play dead.
It would be great if this could be enforced with browser permissions.

Allow Gmail to run as an application in your browser?

[Deny] [Allow] [Always Allow]
That may be due to ITAR.
This is where GUI's shine, as opposed to command-line.

Perhaps this is slightly off-topic, but my dream is an interface that combines the best of both worlds.

Kind of an automated GUI-builder for command-line tools, that analyzes the combinations of options used most, breaks them down into workflows with options (that can be manually named), and you can thus execute one-off commands easily and quickly without having to hunt through man pages, but still export the command as a command-line incantation for reuse, to use in a script, etc.
Bolt on a towing winch to pull people from wells and you could replace Lassie.
The Memory Palace: Exploring Visual-Spatial Paths for Infrequent Authentication
You might be right, however 16-bit sounds really harsh to my ears, and 24-bits is the only widely used standard, better than 16-bit.
Typescript doesn't strike me as a multi-fold improvement. Dynamic vs static typing is an age-old debate, and in general, advocates can be found arguing that moving your code in either direction results in benefits. So, regardless of your stance on it, it seems unlikely to be unambiguously beneficial. Many large programs exist written in dynamic languages that do just fine.
If you're interested in this, you might be interested in Datasette: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Which seems to me to be farther along in providing advanced querying/faceting/visualization/sharing capabilities on top of sqlite.

(I love jupyter, and this kernel seems neat; not trying to throw stones at anybody, just to link a project in a similar domain)
No. We extensively regulate commerce.
The two dimensions instead of three represented by the square part of the inverse square law is due to the fact that the surface of a sphere is 2 dimensional, not three dimensional. I don’t know physics well enough to dispute anything else you said but as I understand it only gravity interacts with the extra curled up dimensions, not magnetism or the strong and weak nuclear forces. How do physicists “know” this? No clue but as the article says, gravity behaves differently than the other three forces so there should be an experiment that can show the difference by measuring one thing for gravity and another for the other three forces. I understand that the experiment would have to be conducted over currently impossibly small distances to actually see the graviton disappear as it leaves our three extended dimensions and reappear as it comes back. I don’t understand why the effect wouldn’t be clear to see over cosmological distances but that most likely stems from my ignorance more than theirs.
Once crucial concept is the idea of generative codes (like L-Systems for construction/architectural design), that 's the "language" part of Pattern Language. It's like a poetic meter for physical expression that guides and is guided by the flow of events.

See Living Neighborhoods: http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm

- - - -

> Something that turned me off was this book's emphasis on quality being a mystical characteristic that requires secret knowledge to understand. As the references to "the quality without a name" built, I wondered if I had accidentally switched to reading the Tao Te Ching.

Ach, well, don't read his magnum opus "The Nature of Order" then. :-)

He goes further and develops a fusion of form and mysticism. It's fascinating to me that the pursuit of the intangible in arguably the most concrete art form (no pun intended) has lead C.A. to statements that smack of the Tao.

- - - -

> I think that we, as practitioners, have an obligation to make entry into our fields accessible and attainable to as many folks as possible, and that we curse ourselves to an impoverished and impoverishing field if we narrow it to folks with enough ego and resources to self-nominate against a pervasive pressure to opt-out in self-doubt. This is, in my opinion, the book's chief failure, and one I hope I can avoid repeating.

This interpretation seems bizarre to me, C.A. makes a very big deal of including the "end users" of a building directly and intimately in the process of architectural design. Few architects have been as radically committed to making their field accessible and attainable as he.

Vol. 1 "The Oregon Experiment"

> It describes an experimental approach to campus community planning at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon which resulted in a theory of architecture and planning described in the group's later published and better-known volumes A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building.

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

He literally wants the "users" to walk the site and layout the plan with sticks and even build the building themselves (he developed whole experimental building methods that normal folks could use to "sculpt" their own space!)
John Carmack always has an interesting point to make about latency: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/193480622533120001

>I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?

and to relate to the other post about landlines: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/992778768417722368

>I made a long internal post yesterday about audio latency, and it included “Many people reading this are too young to remember analog local phone calls, and how the lag from cell phones changed conversations.”
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Indian army says 20 soldiers killed in border clashes with China
SoX is amazing because it indeed makes very nice spectrograms which visually show how audio is encoded. It makes it easy to see if this really is a lossless FLAC or a crappy 192 VBC mp3 audio source.

If you personally hear the difference is a completely different subject of course.
You're right. I'm not sure I want to educate myself on why that might have been Nazi-esque. Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.
could you open a bug in https://crbug.com/ and tag the extensions component?
It's also about making lots of money, right? I don't blame the university, though. American culture obsesses over sports. In how many towns the biggest annual event would be the baseball game of the local high schools? In how many schools members in the school's sports team are like superstars? Still remember that Caltech was mocked because they finally won a collegiate basketball game in 37 years. It's still beyond me why basketball game matters at all for a college.
What you actually see is that with two full incomes housing prices went up. That's the supply side reacting to more money sloshing around. On the demand side, when both parents work there are now expenses for childcare, prepared food & so on.

You just have increased financial insecurity because now a family must rely on two incomes. In the past, when one spouse lost their job the other might find one or go to full time employment, now both parents have to be employed to be financially stable. That isn't even progress for those who have to work for a living. For the investor class it's of course different.
Im surprised no one has made the semi-obligitory "buy Ubiquiti Edgerouter X/Lite and throw in a NanoHD" comment.
Thanks for the idea of an after-market swivel. Am going to try this out.
Could it make it across the big lawn (perhaps dropping a few batteries and electrolyte) and make it to the oval shaped room? I may have a job for Rex...
Does anyone have a better documentation source for modern ffmpeg? Usually when I use it I get all sorts of different answers with different 'methods', and the official docs only confuse it more.

Also I hope to see pure GPU transcoding sometime. H264 to h265 transcodes in pure GPU space are Uber fast, but so far only done by other software.
Yes but the comment was about people inside Germany. I can understand if people outside Germany who hadn't been exposed to Nazi propaganda could believe it was run-of-the-mill wartime slander of the enemy.
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Apple having a really fast ARM chip is both an advantage and a disadvantage. If no Windows or Linux box will run on ARM for the same typical workloads a lot of stuff never gets ported. It would help Apple if there would be powerful ARM Windows or Linux PC's.

People say Qualcomm is catching up but I'm not sure what kind of performance we'll get from the first ARM PC processor from Apple. It will probably run circles around the 8cx.
They're running CGI and writing homemade web servers in C because they haven't maintained or upgraded their software in decades.

I don't think they are low power devices. My bet would be they're relatively normal hardware running a light linux. It takes quite a bit of power to route gigabit ethernet or ac wifi.
I wonder how much bandwidth this uses. The less bandwidth it uses the higher the latency because of compression. Its much easier to get low latency video when you have large (Gbit+) links
There are several static builds out there if you're okay with binaries. This person's builds[1] have the sources and build dependencies listed.

[1] https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
> set the social fabric on fire

That's an interesting way of framing necessary change.

I'm not interested in diminishing the capacity of people to celebrate their beliefs, but yes indeed, we separate church and state because it's in the best interest of society in general. I guess that's very western of me to say, but I'm more than glad to defend it in the context of many past examples of religious institutions abusing public goods in order to discriminate.
org-babel in Emacs has some level of support for passing data between different languages in different cells etc.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#meta-p...
"The extreme pressure I was putting over myself. The insanely huge goals I had established. My inclination to define my own value as a person based solely on my intellectual accomplishments. Everything mixed together. Overwhelming."

Thank you for writing, this really jives with my experience. I would read HN or various articles or do "fun" work to get dopamine hits, but the reality my psychotherapist revealed was that I internalized a lot of external pressures/expectations to do X Y Z in my career. It led to me resigning my job as an SQL/R programmer in February...bright-eyed looking for the next position...

And now I'm unemployed, so things are going super.
Moving building materials "the last mile" in places like Swiss mountains where they currently hire helicopters to move such materials.
The recent War of the Worlds reboot uses Boston Dynamic robots as the main protagonists
> The gravitational force doesn’t change based on your kinetic energy.

This is not correct.

Gravity is a function of everything that has energy (see the stress energy tensor). It’s a very unusual “force” in this regard. This leads to interesting situations like a perfectly mirrored box of light (if you could have such a thing) weighing more on a scale than a box without light in it. Also, a spinning cue ball or a compressed spring weigh more than a stationary ball and an uncompressed spring. Granted, these differences are so small as to be undetectable by any equipment we could ever build, but it’s still interesting to think about.
I wanted to create a slideshow a couple weeks ago and came across this article [0] on creating a Ken Burns Effect Slideshow. Very cool and is a great demo of some of ffmpeg's functionality.

However, the final command is a little crazy:

ffmpeg -i 1.jpg -i 2.jpg -i 3.jpg
-filter_complex "color=c=black:r=60:size=1280x800:d=10[black];[0:v]format=pix_fmts=yuva420p,crop=w=2*floor(iw/2):h=2*floor(ih/2),zoompan=z='if(eq(on,1),1,zoom+0.000417)':x='0':y='ih-ih/zoom':fps=60:d=60*4:s=1280x800,crop=w=1280:h=800:x='(iw-ow)/2':y='(ih-oh)/2',fade=t=in:st=0:d=1:alpha=0,fade=t=out:st=3:d=1:alpha=1,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v0];[1:v]format=pix_fmts=yuva420p,crop=w=2*floor(iw/2):h=2*floor(ih/2),pad=w=9600:h=6000:x='(ow-iw)/2':y='(oh-ih)/2',zoompan=z='if(eq(on,1),1,zoom+0.000417)':x='0':y='0':fps=60:d=60*4:s=1280x800,fade=t=in:st=0:d=1:alpha=1,fade=t=out:st=3:d=1:alpha=1,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS+1*3/TB[v1];[2:v]format=pix_fmts=yuva420p,crop=w=2*floor(iw/2):h=2*floor(ih/2),zoompan=z='if(eq(on,1),1,zoom+0.000417)':x='0':y='0':fps=60:d=60*4:s=1600x800,crop=w=1280:h=800:x='(iw-ow)/2':y='(ih-oh)/2',fade=t=in:st=0:d=1:alpha=1,fade=t=out:st=3:d=1:alpha=0,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS+2*3/TB[v2];[black][v0]overlay[ov0];[ov0][v1]overlay[ov1];[ov1][v2]overlay=format=yuv420"
-c:v libx264 out.mp4

[0] https://el-tramo.be/blog/ken-burns-ffmpeg/
We've effectively had 5 year support cycles since FreeBSD 6 -- we just never advertised it as such.
You make it sound like we're all using React and that's all there is to it. That's not quite true, and it's just one of the choices you have to make. So you've decided on React, but what about state management, transpilation, do you use GraphQL? What am I doing for styles, should I write them in Javascript too now? Oh no! Webpack isn't for me! Can I use modules yet? Ah bugger, we need SSR, suppose I should have managed state the "Right Way (v28.6)", doh!
It’s not spaghetti code... I just think your analogy is weak and misleading.

Not sure how you’re defining complex but humans pretty soundly refute that adaptability thing.

It’s not a “bottleneck” it’s just... life. Can you point to an animal anywhere near as successful as humans that doesn’t have.. genetic variability? No. It’s a requirement and precondition for our success, not some flaw we overcame despite.
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They make great best friends for anthropomorphic robots.
Agreed, weed isn’t addictive like alcohol or opiates/stims, but there are plenty of daily users (including myself). LSD is my favorite drug but I could never use it daily, at least recreational doses.

I pretty much always have some lsd around, but the urge to use it frequently is not there. I usually go months without tripping, not days.
Spend your novelty budget on Rust
What's SSA?