skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, also a good one. I'd recommend pretty much all of Lex Fridman's and Eric Weinstein's podcast episodes in general. Lots of insightful conversations with (in my opinion) some of the most interesting people in the world.

Links for anyone curious:

Eric Weinstein's The Portal Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq9jO8fmlPee9ezOraOHA...

Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK...
A: Hello
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B: Does that answer your question?
A: Yes
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A: Acquire attention lock
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Palantir targeting 3 class voting structure giving founders perpetual control
This job already exists as either Business Intelligence Business Analyst or Business Intelligence Developer. The professions have existed for decades.
The US did some disproportionately heinous shit after Pearl Harbor. For example: 2,500 people died in the attacks on Pearl Harbor. The firebombing of Tokyo killed somewhere between 90,000 and 120,000 people - most of them civilians, and most either incinerated or asphyxiated by incendiary bombs over the course of six hours. It's the single most lethal day in human history - even greater than the atomic bombs, where over half the deaths were lingering affects of radiation over weeks, months, or years.

Curtis LeMay, the Allied Air commander in the Pacific, freely admitted that he would have been tried as a war criminal for the firebombing of Tokyo had the Japanese won.

Don't rush to justify everything the US did just because we weren't the first to strike.
Customers don't care about this lol. This creates a worse experience for customers if anything and the App Store in no way cannot be described as a monopoly
> As a former member of the Army

...you're a cold-blooded serial killer who cowardly hides under the protection of the state in order to escape the legal consequences of the carnage you want to perpetrate.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/the-crimes-of-seal-team-....

and the million people you monsters killed in Iraq after the Saudi terror attack on 9/11.

> May I suggest that a disagreement or a difference of opinion on this is a good thing allowed in a free society

Suggest that to those your kind killed at Kent State, after infiltrating an FBI informant who shot a pistol in the air: https://www.cleveland.com/science/2010/10/analysis_of_kent_s....
I agree, there are many better ways to categorize them, e.g. puzzle games, text adventure games, etc.
Laravel is decently popular, has the most *s on github for a backend framework I believe (or it did at one point in time) and in a number of Fortune 100 companies.

May not be as popular as React/Flask backends, but it ain't nothing.
Reputation has a value, and companies/founders who fail to deliver on a crowdfunding campaign incur a huge reputational cost.

Investors are far more willing to support founders after an earlier failure than crowdfunding customers are after an unfulfilled campaign.
It certainly means that if you're a video game making company, the market of potential customers is huge. That seems valuable.

This argument seems popular with people who like Very Serious Video Games, and are affronted by being associated with filthy casuals (the gamers, not the brand).
It might not be worth it for you, but it definitely is for a lot of people, i saved a lot of money not buying premade PCs that you have to chase people for minor issues.
The president has extremely broad powers. In general I think it safe to assume he can do these things (sans demanding a cut of the proceeds). Typically these powers are granted during emergencies, but again, the president seems to be able to declare those whenever he wants.

It's just before now they were wielded with restraint and mostly ignored. This should be a wake up call.

Part of the issue is there is now a real discussion over whether or not this is allowed. In a previous United States that this discussion would have existed would have been ludicrous. The basic premise of the IEEPA seems valid, but there seems to be very little effective check by congress.
Would it teach principles of deep learning in the same depth as if I slogged through the YouTube videos of cs231n?

A legitimate question as I'm considering embarking on one of these two paths. As most of the people here my programming skills are more honed than my math skills so the fastai path looks like the easier road to take but I'm not sure if they both lead to the same place.
That was helpful. Thanks!
I wonder if the lack of extraction will doom cryptocurrencies to not being suitable for the impoverished masses; without a government which needs the cryptocurrency to be used for taxation, it seems like coin usage would ebb and flow along with the tides of the market's capitalization.
I would have said "what about the playstation" but thats kind of a mess too.
Then say that you're blocked and need the answer soon. Communicate what you need instead of making the person you're reaching out to guess.
SFF build will not cost you more, unless you custom watercool it. Custom watercooling is only necessary if you're going for a super optimized build.

SFF cases are around $250-300, which is $150-200 more than a similar-quality ATX case. SFF CPU coolers are around the same price. SFF PSUs and motherboards have a small markup over ATX.

For example, here's a build for $3600. The GPU is not watercooled, though, since you can't fit a second radiator into the NZXT H1. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Cr8cJb. This build has specs equivalent to the Corsair One a100, which retails for $4000. The H1 build also has a better upgrability path. Also, the 2080 Ti's price is massively inflated right now because of Ampere's imminent launch -- this build should really be only $3000.

You could also look into the Ncase M1 if you want to watercool the GPU, but I won't create a build for that because you would have to research hardware compatibility.

So it's completely feasible to build an SFF computer for less than what Corsair charges.
> - So In a majority christian state, is it ok to discriminate against jews?

People would still be discriminated for wearing a big cross in France as well, it's just not that common.
I never said that the judiciary was controlled by the president, I said it was controlled by the parties through nomination. If you have control over the parties for long enough, you get total control over the judiciary. Therefore, the judiciaries are not truly independent.

In the same way, Xi Jinping doesn't have total control over China - the National People's Congress has the authority to remove the President at any time. But because the CCP is by far the most popular party in China, the party is truly in charge, and the checks and balances do not really work.

Both China and the US, are in theory democracies with an unlimited amount of parties and separation of power! And actually, 20% of congressional representatives in China are independent. But in practice, it's mathematically unlikely that another party would achieve a majority. In the US, too, it's mathematically unlikely that either of the two parties get replaced by a third party.

So in China, to have effective absolute power, you need to control the CCP and discourage people from running as independents. In the US, to have effective absolute power, you need to control both the DNC and the RNC, and independents naturally cannot win. So in both cases, separation of power is theoretic.

But, in practice, the US has more diversity between the two parties, while in China there is more diversity inside one party. In both cases, the judiciary, executive and legislative are indirectly dependent because they are all dependent on the same parties.
Also aka.ms/nohello.
Keep in mind that 1/3 of the population suffer from motion sickness, so for them (I'm in this group) VR isn't an option for the most part.

Of course if this is a solvable problem - those who otherwise suffer from motion sickness are symptom-free in any VR application - then I agree VR could have a bright future.
Camera mics are trash, if you care enough to use a Sony camera as a webcam you probably have a microphone you were already using.
that's odd reasoning. if you're upset with one thing, you should be upset with both. they're both erosions of the foundational principles that hold a society together, with corruption, bribery, lying, self-dealing and a whole host of other upper-crust criminal activity just sliding right by for the moneyed, with punishments perverted to be lighter for greater amounts of societal harm. that all create the us-vs-them dynamics that breaks societies apart.
Yup, super weird sentence.

It reads as if it is either between us and the sun, or close enough that you'd see it roughly up to the same distance we are from the sun.
That matches the experience of a few friends at VA state schools (UVA and VT). You could definitely fail out. At least this was the case back in the 90s. If you had below a C average, you went on academic suspension for a semester (or year?), then you were allowed to try again, but at that point you were so far behind that getting the GPA back to an acceptable level was really hard.
That's why I said "in theory".
Ghosts of Tsushima may be the best Playstation game I have played EVER. It's a testament to how late in the console release cycle, developers are just now mastering internals. It's the ideal video game: open world, 13-century feudal Japan, Age of the Samurai. High contrast "Kurosawa" mode, 4K HDR is cinematically photoreal. I really hope it remains a Major IP for many years to come ;)

https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2020-shading-cours...
>So they do actually manufacture the modules in-house.

Someone has to put the RGB on.
this is cheeky, I like it
I misread "Minecraft" as "Minesweeper" and was briefly bewildered by the idea of Minesweeper VR. Kinda want to play that now.
> "A few hundred dollars? What does that buy you?"

Let's just say that the majority of characters in Fate/Grand Order and other Asian gacha games that one can roll for are young and female for a reason...
Maybe the real world is so out of control, the virtual world is one of the few places you feel in control.
That can probably be trained away.
Laws: https://www.thebalanceeveryday.com/why-are-so-many-competiti...
Wow, I didn't know that they were giving kids Apple laptops.
That was actually really fast considering how long wireguard has(n't) been around. We don't even have it in stable Linux distributions yet.

I guess there is some significant demand for it from Mikrotik's customers. I'll probably use it.
As far as large lenses and sensors not working well on sensors, I think you'd be surprised just how well large lenses designed for the sensors they belong on can work. Indeed, by far the reason why photography lenses are huge is because of lens IS and zoom. Making small, light, fast normal lenses with larger stabilized sensors works perfectly fine and can be made very light.

The current cameras and lenses on the market work very well, that's not the problem. The problem is that even "small" cameras and lenses are huge in comparison to what can be integrated into a robot. I use a couple M4/3 cinema/studio cameras for vision projects because they're the smallest affordable cameras with controllable interchangeable lenses, and even with their "small" size they are at the upper limit of anything I could hope to fit in a practical robot.

After all, humans have two huge sensors (slightly bigger than full-frame) with f/3 lenses, and it works perfectly fine.

The human eye is vastly more complex and capable than a fixed plane imager and capable of much more complex focus behavior than any existing lenses are. Camera-eye comparisons are appealing, but the focus behavior of them is really very different.

However, modern autofocus has progressed so much in this time-frame that it has solved almost all of the issues of SfF

Canon has done a very nice job with their autofocus, but I will believe they have solved depth perception with phase detection when they apply it to their industrial cameras. Canon makes very nice RV-series parts recognition cameras that do a very good job with challenging materials, but they use structured light. In theory, phase-detection SfF would be perfect for these cameras but they haven't done it.

It is true that modern cameras actually do move the focus and re-calculate depth, which might give the impression that if you wanted to calculate depth you would actually need to move focus. But in reality, this is done in order to correct for the small misalignment in different lenses, as well as for the fact autofocus motors do not have accurate encoders and will very frequently miss steps. But a modern camera already knows how much the image plane needs to actually shift before even engaging the autofocus motor at all.

The minor problem is that you generally want depth plus RGB, which is obviously solved by adding a second camera but then you face basically the same size and overlap issues that stereo cameras bring. Not entirely a free lunch.

The other problem here is political, namely that SfF via phase-detection is (at least for now) entirely in the hands of Canon and Sony, two companies (Sony in particular) with track records related to robotics and machine vision users that can best be described as ranging from "somewhat uninterested" to "useless" to "self-sabotaging". Unless one of them commits to making an actual product and ships it, we will remain in a world where phase-detection SfF is technically possible but entirely out of reach.
The point was that it's a free market, like it or not. Companies won't treat investors the same as employees. They never have. If they do, let me know.
No answers here... for me the meta-question is why are they so bad at user-facing software? (I don't really know about the quality of the firmware, it gets the job done, I guess). I like their cameras -- I own an NEX5N, a6000 and an RX100 -- but interacting with their mobile and desktop apps is always such a terrible experience.
> I would imagine that someone who only played Candy Crush would not understand how to move their camera around in a 3D environment, for example

Now would someone who only played NES games, or Civilization VI, or Papers Please. Are we defining 'games' as meaning '3D walk-y about-y games', here?
For me this depends on the context:

1. On the first message of a conversation I prefer a wall of text, because that lets me read all of the details really quickly.

2. If the conversation is likely to be short I prefer the one message after another since my attention is already on the chat, and I might as well be reading what they're typing rather than watching the "x is typing..." indicator.

3. If the conversation is going to be long I much prefer a call, I don't have the time to wait for someone to type all day. Context switches are expensive so I don't like reading occasional long messages while I'm trying to work.
The problem there is the lack of couch coop in modern titles
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Apple vs. Epic, or Tattletales vs. Rebels
Missing the point. Minecraft started as a creative style game that hit massive popularity in all age groups, and encouraged players to build to their heart's content without much of a goal. It didn't start in VR as well.

Beat Sabor is one of the first "killer app" VR games, with a clear goal with emphasis on reaction time and immersion using the VR tech behind it.

Both are played very differently, the former a game you come back to to refine your work over and over in a creative way, the other using reaction time to score better.
The bit many people are not realizing is that e-sports will overtake current sports within the next few decades.

For now, e-sports is at that sweet spot of good production value and a reasonable amount of advertising. I predict we'll be back to sitting through 3-5 minutes of commercials for every 15 minutes of gameplay within the next decade as advertisers realize how willing gamers are to spend money on virtual stuff.
Ah hypocrites. Yes. This is exactly the case. You need to bribe your way into fancy universities like the rest of the rich people - otherwise, it would have no value. The other option is to be a son/daughter of a politician. My favorite photo is of Dr. Dre's daughter getting into USC:

"My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own," the rapper wrote in the caption. "No jail time!!!!"

(Dre made a $70million dollar contribution). Thanks Dre! Continue to fight for social justice!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/entertainment/dr-dre-daughter...
The best part about the play store is that you aren't in any way required to use it. Also, all pixels come with unlockable bootloaders so you could as well root your phone or use a custom ROM if that's your thing.
If stereotypes are accurate does it follow that discriminating on their basis is legitimate? Or can they be accurate patterns that we are obliged to ignore? Must we make no assumptions and treat every stranger as a blank slate to be ethical? Or is it sufficient to update strongly on specific observations as they come?

If stereotypes are accurate then the optimal amount of prejudice is greater than zero, as long as it is outweighed by postjudice.
Yeah, no. I don't think I've ever seen any kind of support for Linux from Sony. I have to dust off my ancient windows laptop whenever I want to upgrade the firmware on my cameras.
You're thinking of Penn Station, not Grand Central. Grand Central was always that way.

Penn Station was originally above ground, and then rebuilt underground in the 60s, beneath Madison Square Garden, built at the same time.

Grand Central has a fairly large and very ornate above-ground structure taking up half a city block.
No. I think the hands-on approach of fastai would probably help you contextualize the theory you learn in CS231N and elsewhere.
To be fair, this area will have the exact same problem that regions with radiation problems have. Nature will reclaim the area but it won't be "healthy" nature. The animals will have increased health problems due to toxins (or radiation) from the environment.

The only reason ecosystems rebound in areas where there are radiation problems is because nobody is there to hunt or deter them. Had there not been the city Chernobyl, nature would be far better off. The same goes for this landfill. Had it not been created, the area would be far healthier.
The university pretends to have one admissions process, but quietly has another. It’s the subversion of their supposedly established process that makes it bribe like. Particularly when it’s money as a lever to get things in your favor.

In the quiet admissions process if you give them enough money they’ll act in your favor, but none of this is public or official and they pretend they’re not doing this at the same time.

It may not be illegal, but you’re shuffling deck chairs on the titanic of ethics at that point. If you’re selling slots at market price then do that, quietly taking money in a wink-wink donation for admissions slot looks a lot like bribery to me.
One bad build isn't representative of the full spectrum. My Dell prebuilt is the worst PC I have ever owned (I always built it myself prior) and consistently overheats/throttles. Your friend is at fault, not the practice of building your own.

I would "build" your PC in PC Part Picker and see what it says.

Intel/AMD: You may have a low wattage/efficiency PSU (multiply box wattage by efficiency and compare to what PC Part Picker says you need), and those are relatively cheap to replace. Your friend may have overclocked the CPU without a full stability test, that's simply a visit to the BIOS to disable.

AMD: You may have poorly installed cooling. AMD can have more problems with overheating than Intel.
Sounds awesome. What’s the best way to approach this? Do I need the book?
I feel like there's so many games that can be VR-ified like this. Even if it's just a first person, point to a square on the floor and click, sort of game, I feel like more innovation can build on top of traditional games like minesweeper starting with that.
Contributions to unions aren’t capped and don’t need to come from members. If George Soros wants to leave his fortune to the AFL-CIO I doubt they’ll refuse.
Thank you! This is such a great service to the community, really, all of it.

While you're here---do you have advice on the course vs the book? I'm a person who really prefers to learn via writing rather than via video, but if there's stuff in the course that people who use the book can't really experience...
I don't understand this naivete.

https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/china-national...

https://www.mannheimerswartling.se/globalassets/nyhetsbrev/m...

Do we really believe because, "legally", the company is not in China, is not subject to CCP control? It's not the law that binds them, it's party lines.

If Bytedance is not subject to said control, why do they ban content critical with China, knowing the possible backlash?

https://www.vox.com/open-sourced/2019/12/16/21013048/tiktok-...

US politicians’ concern over TikTok began with an investigation the Guardian published on September 25, which revealed leaked documents that showed TikTok instructing its moderators to censor videos that mentioned topics sensitive to the Communist Party of China: Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, and the religious group Falun Gong, for instance. The Guardian’s investigation came after the Washington Post noted that a search for Hong Kong-related topics on TikTok showed virtually zero content about the ongoing and widely publicized pro-democracy protests, which were a major topic on other social media sites at the time.
I’m considering something like this too. I need a way to keep it fun though or I probably won’t follow through.
> All eight teams will compete in each of the three scheduled trials. They will use the JSBSim open-source flight dynamics model for simulation environment and the open-source FlightGear Flight Simulator for the visual system. The simulated aircraft for the Trials is the publically available, unclassified FlightGear version of an F-15C fighter aircraft.

Interestingly they are using the FlightGear flight simulator.
Scaling a DataFrame in JavaScript (2013)
Lawsuit Claims U.S. WeChat Ban Is Unconstitutional
Stallman goes brrrrrrr.....
When someone uses overtly racist language and is making a blatantly ignorant statement, then I don’t think I need to give details other than to try to prevent others from reading it.
Notwithstanding PCs are not locked down platforms, which can make gaming much cheaper for.. reasons.
Ask HN: Will SPACs Replace VCs?
For anyone who follows the markets, there’s been an explosion in “blank check” companies called Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) that go public with the primary purpose of acquiring a company, which allows emerging companies to go public at a much earlier stage than with multiple private rounds led by VCs followed by a public listing or IPO.

Ironically I’ve seen very little chatter about SPACs on VC Twitter but I suspect the reasoning is that they are quite the existential threat to traditional VC model. If an investor can simply raise $XYZ and go public as a “blank check” company then it completely side steps a VC’s role in bringing companies public. And as the acquired company it means you can achieve liquidity much faster than is typical going the traditional IPO path.

For those in the industry, is this an accurate assessment of the state of the industry? Are SPACs a massive threat to VCs? Or as founders, are SPACs something you’ve looked into over VC?