skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do only have an API and the (trained) model (parameters) are not released. But I believe the "semi-public" here refers to the fact that access to the API is limited to invitees (with the ability to add your name to a waitlist).
Iiyama? They sell great high-contrast LCDs in various ratings, typically starting at 8/5 and up to the obligatory 24/7.
For HN'ers coming from a common law system: the hours in court are probably also fewer, because unless the case is unusually complex, they'll only be arguing about the facts of the matter, not arguing about which precedents to apply.
And then you tried to explain how it's even worse to let advertisers know enough information about you to target you specifically, I hope.
If I make a lot of money in a way that has negative consequences for other people, then it’s human nature to find ways to discount the negative impact. You delude yourself to feel better so you can take the money and run. Not sure I’d be any different, although I like to think I would be.
> This is a red flag. If you're hoping to write functions with cmake... You're doing it wrong. Very wrong. You add targets, and you add rules to the target. If you find yourself wanting to do anything other than this then you should take a step back and read a modern cmake tutorial again, because odds are you're doing it wrong.

so how do you propose to do code generation, parsing stuff like /etc/lsb_release to work around a bug for people building under ubuntu 16.04, or that kind of thing ?
Slightly off-topic: Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted open source analytics that can handle a large volume site (think 500.000.000 impressions per month)? I can't imagine systems with MySQL/PostgreSQL as database can handle this.
I've wondered if you could run JS code, keep track of runtime types, and generate interfaces off of that. Of course the program wouldn't know what to name the interface, but it's still better than nothing.
I see that you entirely invented "without borrow checker" and marked it as if it were a quote from my text. Who did you imagine would be fooled?

You might not care if Rust fades into obscurity, but many do.
I strongly disagree!

I have seen fantastic results with stereo cameras, colored lights, and self-calibration.

For most use cases, it's no problem if your robot will stop for a few seconds, rotate the camera axis around a bit, and then continue. But that appears to be good enough to calibrate the features for tracking things like a reflective and transparent glass jar.

As for the precision, I agree that 1cm at 10m distance doesn't work. But 1cm precision at 50cm distance is doable. And for a robot arm, you mainly need the precision when you're close to the object.

And yes, I am talking about what you probably meant with learned stereo matching. I would call it close to solved because we can by now do unsupervised training and achieve usable results. While I had trouble reproducing this specific paper, the general idea is valid:
https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04998

We are also seeing good results from using random YouTube videos to train AI vision.

But given that you are so sure that this is unsolved, I wonder if I should start a company to sell my depth estimate pipeline. Would you have any example image pairs that are causing problems, so that I can see visually what fails?
They are using https://github.com/webview/webview under the hood, which is using Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10.
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This post is also missing so much. It's almost worse than PG's one, which didn't really pretend to be an in-depth analysis. Some starting points:

- Taxes are guaranteed, but growth isn't. It also doesn't come for free, it takes work. You can't just say "hey S&P returned 10% last year, I'll assume that for a given". Also wealth is often non-diversifiable - Elon Musk's or Jeff Bezos' wealth are tied to their companies. They could feasibly take a 50% tumble in a year (can't see how but it's totally possible). Of course these two will still be very rich even then, but what about 'minor' millionaires?

- People with these levels of wealth already pay, or should pay, high taxes on other things: CGT, VAT, income tax, corporation tax, land / real estate taxes. If they don't, then this is the real problem, you shouldn't fix it by just adding another patch on top of a stack of leaky patches. Already, in all developed economies I know of, a huge chunk of income tax comes from the top earners.

- And further to that, taxation isn't simply about maximal resource extraction from a productive population. Tax is a societal commitment to fund things we all care about. It is generally widely understood and accepted that wealthier people pay more, because the poor can't. But when the rhetoric becomes "let's extract as much as we can from the rich, look here's a notebook that shows we can", I'm not surprised people start looking at tax avoidance. As the rich person, you become dissociated from the society - they are only there to shear you, so why should you make an effort to give back?

- And it's not inherently wrong to be rich, also. Sure, some people are rich and abuse other people, possibly with some strong ties between one and the other. But the solution isn't a punitive tax. In a way, that makes it worse - makes it feel like you paid your dues and now you're really above the law.

- The point of wealth is that it should be productive. So the business of being rich is to have money, have it return an interest higher than inflation (on which you already pay CGT usually), and consuming the excess. It's not enough for the tax to be below average growth rates.

Perhaps I should explain, that I write this from (a) outside US where there doesn't seem to be such a toxic inequality in the society (and not simply because of wealth taxes...), and (b) I'm not rich, but hey, I'm working hard to maybe be there one day. I don't want my hard work to then turn around on someone's misguided notebook.
Not the OP, but I was wondering the same thing. I also don't know which devices I'm talking about.

The thing is: to sell me stuff, you don't need to know my name. You don't need to keep tabs on me. You may offer it, but I may decline. Plenty of mortar-and-bricks-stores work this way: there are loyalty cards for tracking, but customers who forego them do not have to register to make a purchase.

Point in fact: there are also internet shops that allow such options. Sure, they need a bit of data to send the parcel and the confirmation/invoice/etc. But that doesn't require everyone to create a username/password combination - and some internet shops blissfully do not require that. They get paid and ship the purchase to the address specified, and that's it.

In this case, it seems purchases could be tied to the Oculus device specified during the purchase. While I can certainly imagine benefits to tying purchases to a user account (e.g., ability to use on multiple Oculus devices), I don't see a reason to require logging in. Am I overlooking something?
I drilled that into my kids from an early age, and they’ve always known to only input fake data... that’s why she only gets ads for health insurance, back medication, and financial investments lol!
I think Lenovo has the mute media key that fits your needs.
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If your app would scrape videos from netflix, disney+, etc... and save them locally, how would that be different from what you are doing now?

You would be blocked as well.
Your assumption would certainly be a reasonable one, though in today's world, who knows? Many mobile phones, for instance, now try to introduce additional "terms and conditions" before they're willing to work. Who wants to buy a whole Oculus in order to find out whether it feels like working or not?
That's a lot of fun to play with. Nicely done.
Ultimately, the diffraction limit means that--all else held equal--larger optics will always beat smaller optics for image quality.

Any tricks used to aid small optical platforms will have as much, or more, of an improvement if applied to large optical platforms.
I like how trivial it is over the sort of machine-learning solutions I envisioned when I clicked into it.

Does it not support a glyph? Just add it. Produces weird output? It's a bug, not a black box issue, just read the code. Want to use it or port it? It's just character substitution, go ahead.

A fun twist on the idea would be to generate an SVG path for each character and then apply some morphing to the path so character strokes are unique.
Also the Usborne Book of the Future had its Future Cities section with a picture of a Domed City albeit on The Moon.

This came out in 1977, I'm not sure if there was a ground swell perhaps inspired by the Montreal Expo 67 which had a large Buckminster sphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Biosphere
Thank you. Yes I planned to add search/filtering. As soon as I've a moment I'll add it.

To deploy, so far I'm using github pages with gh-pages and I just have to run: npm run deploy. There is a section on how I do it in the README (https://github.com/tonyaldon/tricks-app).

To update (the content), I do it manually by copy/past the content of my org file into the string orgContent in the file src/orgContent.js (https://github.com/tonyaldon/tricks-app/blob/master/src/orgC...).

If you have any idea to improve the update, let me know :)
While that is true, the critical question is whether it will be locally smooth once you get close enough to your goal. Long-distance planning is generally bad, even for humans. Short-distance planning tends to work well with A-star
Sort of hard to imagine a more ham-fisted owner for something as cool as TikTok. If IBM or GE bought them it wouldn’t make less sense.
Depends what you mean, usually there's a small 20-30 euro tax for documents.
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I would have parsed the article as saying that the facility could provide 10MW power for about five hours, so with a total capacity of 50MWh... this is terrible reporting.

Hydrostor own website confirms your figures:
https://www.hydrostor.ca/goderich-a-caes-facility/
I actually stopped to think about your question for a while, and honestly all I can think of what "we" still need to do ourselves is organizing everything - getting ready in the morning, organizing and preparing meals, and housework, even if it's helped with vacuums and dishwashers etc. I'm sure there's tech companies working in this area (like the overcomplicated clothes folding machine, or Soylent).

Right now even for those there's a solution, but they involve outsourcing things which cost more money / recurring expenses; laundry service, cleaners, takeout / delivered food, personal assistants, day care / babysitters, etc. I can't really see a revolution happening in those areas.

I mean I'm sure in time it'll be possible to buy a machine that does full service laundry, but it'll take up a lot of space. Maybe something for apartment building basements, and your clothes would need to be tagged (e.g. RFID) with ownership and washing information.

Of course, alternatively you go for the dys/utopian scenario where everyone lives in worker housing complexes, wears the same functional outfit, eats in food halls / canteens three times a day, etc. I'm sure some people do live or have lived like that already. But the issue with that is that in those scenarios, people live to work, there's not much outside of their employment, and they live where they work. I'm sure this happens a lot in SF anyway.
OMG, I didn't know about this one :-)
Did you duly educate her as to the privacy concessions she'll have to make to avoid targeted advertising?

Did you duly educate her that she already has a user profile being built within whatever apps and services you allow her to use?

There's surely a middle ground, but where we are ain't it.

Edit: I see you've already answered the similar reply. In that case, you're saying that non-targeted ads are stupid, but you're educating your children to input fake data. That doesn't compute...

Edit 2: First sentence should read "as a result of targeted advertising" rather than "to avoid targeted advertising". Sigh.
Yep, that's what I'm using pretty much every day.

Quote from their website:

> The use case for tunshell is predominantly quick, ad-hoc remote access to hosts which you may not have SSH access to, or even the ability to install an SSH daemon at all.

They mention GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Serverless Functions as target usage areas for this tool.
It's to make sure that when you walk around half-asleep early in the morning trying to get a diaper, that you don't step on a pointy lego brick.
from the standard [1]:

>Freshly boiling water is poured into the pot

vs preparing green tea [2]

>Steeping temperatures range from 61 °C (142 °F) to 87 °C (189 °F) and steeping times from 30 seconds to three minutes.

Of course he doesn't like tea if he brews green tea with too hot water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea
Maybe it's time to start some research into making Star Trek's deflector shields a reality - not just to avoid being locked into the planet in case of a Kessler Syndrome, but also to make spacecraft of all kind (from satellites over ships to stations) less dependent on (vulnerable and heavy) physical shields.
If offered by an organisation that I can trust to still exist in, say, 40 years time, this might work. Maybe Google/Amazon/Microsoft have this credibility. Maybe. There's no way it would work as a start-up.

You'd also need to charge enough upfront that you can still turn a profit if they stop paying immediately. Asking for upfront payment of 40 years of data-storage fees, might be a problem.

> a commodity tape-library box in a basement in a farm somewhere near a freeway

I'm not a data-storage expert by any means, but that doesn't sound anywhere near good enough. You need to redundantly protect against flood, fire, crime, etc. You'll also need to be able to retrieve data at scale. You're essentially rolling your own Amazon Glacier.
I feel the same: the bad behavior from Apple somehow wasn't an issue for him while he was being the biggest fanboy and an employee. When he gets fired the bad behavior of Apple suddenly becomes important to him.
Nah, were near the scaling limit of silicon. And huge chips are super expensive and impractical.

One day we'll find an easier way to print chips. Won't end moore's law but may shift algorithm implementation back to hardware after decades of software eating everything.

Medium term, they'll get a new lease on moore's law by switching off silicon to smaller atoms. And/or switching to something that handles heat better so we can go 3D. This is already happening in power electronics with GaN. My bet is on this tech slowly spreading into digital logic
The problem with block chain is it requires the whole stack be on chain (at least if it is to be referenced in a contract). If that's the case, then you can definitely do this. E.g. a smart contract that represents the login functionality and you can hard-code it has to be some other immutable contract, and can't be changed to FB login.

On second thought, the whole issue is weird because blockchain doesn't have a login concept.
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With plain text formats such as Markdown search is just one grep away. Using ripgrep it’s also quite fast.
They have started to - they extended the relevant law to close loopholes about “real time” vs “prerecorded” BBC broadcasts, now you need a licence if you use the iPlayer for anything. Which is fair, even if it forced me to get a license again. I expect at some point the law will either get more draconian (by requiring a license for any broadband contract at home) or the BBC will become an actual streaming service like Netflix, with regular subscription (which would be a bit of a disaster, since it would basically mean the end of the BBC as we know it).
Interested in how Google TPU new generation compares to this one. Is this comparison even reasonable?
> The objections will fall in the face of overwhelming evidence that neural nets simply work better

Perhaps? But progress is stalling[1]. We need theoretical foundations.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/eye-catching-advance...
I think, the "I get it" was just saying that it was understandable that when money flew away to other pockets, and it was done in a way that used a significant amount of infrastructure they own, they wanted to get paid.

It wasn't saying that the reasoning is actually sound. It's just, can be comprehended.
Note, before the tax change we had 3 brackets, not 4.

Also note: technically we have, and have always had 4 brackets. They just merged the tax brackets by setting limits and rates weirdly.
I'd go further and say that a lot of software coming out of Japan is, if not of a poorer quality, then at least something to be assessed more carefully.

This is particularly evident in videogames, where anything for PC is liable to be extremely weirdly built and feels like it was made for Windows XP. There's a strong tendency to use archaic cheat prevention tools like nProtect GameGuard, which is a rootkit, and a weird reluctance to run servers in sensible ways. Oddly this is all actually helpful when you want to run their games on Linux because even though they don't seem to know it exists, the games are so "old" that they're pretty easy to get running.

Sony is actually probably one of the better companies for software. But they still do utterly weird nonsense that I'd never even think of. The PS4 throttles your download speed based on your ping to the download server. It's...totally wrong and confusing. But easily bypassed by running a proxy on your local network.
I mean the "ads" part. Netflix doesn't have ads...
This would be amazing if, out of the box, it sent data to BiqQuery and/or Redshift. Postgres is fine, but for most companies this data is most useful in the warehouse. If this was a simple, drop-in solution to get well formatted data into BQ plus a bit of easy vis, that would be cool and VERY useful.
On my licence plate I have the number 418 :D
99.99% is pretty fine from the engineering point of view. The buildings and other constructions surrounds us have about the same theoretical reliability considering all the uncertainties involved like weather, load and impacts, long term characteristics, material and manufacturing uncertainties.
Of course this centuries long trial and error supported pretty simple science of construction engineering needs to be supported by law level standards and regulations allowing certain low level uncertainty otherwise the 'engineers want to sleep at night' aspect was forcing us to make only very expensive bunkers to live in (or only sociopaths becoming engineers). There is an accepted level of risk involved in engineering.

Usually mathematics and (proper) algorithms is the topic where everything is 100% (good quality actually finished work, not an early prototype released as final is assumed). It just may or may not to be fully relevant to our life.
True, why else would they pay you for a review?
I had a look at it a few months ago, and my impression is that while it's very powerful, it's not for the average user.

Heck, I work as a developer, spend a third of my day in the terminal, and I still wouldn't use it.
Can a font pick randomly between different versions of the same glyph?

I know a font can define unique ligatures for every character combo, but that would still mean the same combos like "fi" always look the same. Nice thing about this low-tech solution is that it can be trivially scaled up to introduce its own ligatures yet pick from them randomly, just at the expense of chore work (making the images).

Of course, at that point, it would be tempting to start looking for a more general solution.
Ads don't really work. At best (for the ad) they can remind someone of a provider for something they already want. At worst, they're lost of noise in the signal.

Usually they're the worst, and like the expenses associated with billing and hierocracy in the medical field, everyone would be better off with that bureaucratic effort not spent.
The Lenovo Mirage Solo had 6DOF tracking with the Daydream controller. It had an experimental 6DOF controller add on but Google killed Daydream before that shipped. Inside out PC headsets exist with the camera setup for 6DOF inside out.

Currently the Quest is the only Android based (and thus fully stand alone) headset that's wasn't Daydream branded and wasn't killed when Google mothballed their VR support. There's less now then there were, or would have been if Google stuck with it.
Like any good distributed system networking layer, this is botnet control plane.
> Imagine being able to dispatch a helicopter to drown out a typical forest fire within 10 minutes of the fire starting while it's still small. That's a game changer.

And not necessarily a good one. Many forest ecosystems depend on somewhat regular fires to "clean out" debris. The problem however is that "thanks" to climate change leading to drier forests, what once used to be a fire that only consumed fallen off leaves etc. while leaving the big trees unharmed now burns intense and long enough to actually damage the big trees.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
The tens of millions is a pretty cheap deal compared to nuclear power, which needs billions to get the ball rolling (and that's if it completes on budget)
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There is seldom need for praise, that's what makes the praise mean something. Some stranger took the time to thank a person for doing something. Huge high five, probably felt good for both of them. I don't think we should discourage positive human interaction.
I agree with this comment on how that project completely fails to provide the necessary assurances of dependable longevity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22944681
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> SLAM ... does not deal with tripping hazards.

Do we need to add kinaesthesia to the list of open problems then?
Check out Trillium. Open source, has a web clipper extension as well as a self hosted docker instance for Dropbox like syncing
Just a little remark: A "Page not found" label flashes by when loading eg. https://app.umami.is/share/ISgW2qz8/flightphp.com
> Looking at how masks are being used (reused, touched) one could argue they do more harm than good

One could argue that, but one would look like a moron without any proof, and with a lot of evidence showing the exact opposite.

Given the huge amount of evidence of transmission by cough droplets and the lack of evidence of even a single transmission out of millions by touching masks/surfaces, keeping droplets out of your mouth and nose is the only thing that helps and it definitely does more good than harm.
I think parent was referring to this:

> Honestly thinking of going back to a notebook
Any research/potential example of such actuators ?
I'm definitely not a geologist but I can imagine the "breathing" motion of pressurizing and depressurizing the mines causes some movement and damage over time.

What pressures are we talking about anyway?
Building cluster out of machines you’re not sure you’ll be able to consistently jailbreak and therefore replace even in the near term is a huge barrier to building a PS4 cluster like the PS3 ones.
> I can't imagine systems with MySQL/PostgreSQL as database can handle this.

out of curiosity, why so?