skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair, but regarding the catch-up: The main difference is that Java can actively improve things both on the language side and on the JVM side. Kotlin can only improve on the language side.
did anyone made tensile tests on a roman concrete specimen?
Rebar is wildly used because reinforced concrete is not only used in compression but in beams, slabs ... and could be avoided in arched structures. Arches and domes can last a lost longuer but limit choices in what can be built. Roman concrete should be compared to modern concrete without rebar or this is comparing apples to oranges.
"A man can do what he wants, but not choose what he wants"

- Schopenhauer
Well, yes. It's literally a protection racket, what do you expect from making that legal?
And people 'pushing the boundaries of machine learning/computer vision' are not there to win a research competition: they are just using linear algebra for their field of applied statistics.
It's generally understood that motion planning for nontrivial problems is very non-convex, and it's basically impossible to predict if a given initial condition can be optimized to the global optima. Even simple convex 3D geometry in the environment projects to very complex non-convex geometry in the configuration space of the robot (the space you're performing optimization in).
The amount of people defending Razer is incredible. They fully buy the idea that internet connection and accounts are necessary to use a mouse, or simple features like changing the dpi.
And it works with Linux distributions.
Could you please stop posting flamewar or political battle-style comments to HN? This is unsubstantive, baity stuff, and not what HN is for.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. That goes regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes
This fits Occams Razor much better than what the article proposes.
His later writing wasn't far removed from Qanon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208047
Reminds me of this riddle

https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/83152/a-strange...
> Why not let them stay in that state for days until you need to ho[o]ver?

Risk of personal injury. (The Lego-on-the-stairs scenario.)

Also, some people just like a calm visual field at home.
Ships do hit each other all the time. 24 large cargo ships sink every year.
As an anecdote, I recently bought the Quest and have had a really seamless experience. None of these issues around display ports or configuring the play area for Guardian are a factor with this version.
It's the capitalistic viewpoint that these people have that grieves me; internet should be considered a utility, everyone should have access to it, it should be affordable, and net neutrality should be guaranteed.

I mean you don't get multiple water lines for different purposes... actually don't quote me on that, they could have a 'grey' water line to use for flushing toilets and the like. But my point is, you get a connection to the water mains, as long as you don't use excessive water (and even if you do, you "just" pay for your usage), what you do with it is nobody's business. Same with electricity.
Do you really feel that adjusting ingredients in your meals is equal to changing your entire lifestyle?
Humans have a mental model of humans, they can predict what another human is going to do with reasonable accuracy.
Robots are wholly artificial so there is no existing mental model we can apply to them to understand why and how they act.
But if not this way, then should every city in the world get a cut of the tax? Can a tiny place in Holland then get a cut of the taxes?
The FAQ had nothing about developing for the device.

Facebook TOS prohibits making multiple personal accounts. So one might assume company one works for then provides a company account as using the civilian account is not really a good thing.

If they mandate using the real civilian one then it’s maybe a good reason to finally ”close” it by removing all friends and photos. It’s just a dev account for oculus then.
> what actually does convex mean in the context of optimization

It means there's a deterministic solution.

Longer explanation:

When you're optimizing a function in math, the function's solutions exist in N-dimensional space. If the space of solutions is a hyperplane in this space, and you want to find a value on that plane that minimizes the function, a convex plane will allow you to find the minimum every time, deterministically -- one way is to simply follow the negative gradient of the plane. A non-convex plane may have lots of holes or other shapes (e.g "saddle points"), so if you follow the negative gradient, you'll end up thinking you're at a minimum, but turns out you're only at a _local_ minimum and there may be another, better solution out there.

So whenever you see "convex" read: a best solution exists.
Whenever you see "non-convex" read: an approximation is your best hope. Motion planning is non-convex.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_function: "Any local minimum of a convex function is also a global minimum. A strictly convex function will have at most one global minimum.[4]"
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot and we ban such accounts, for what ought to be obvious reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We've also had to ask you multiple times already. That's not sporting.
It breaks down catastrophically with diacritics https://imgur.com/8U3IKR9
While I, for one, am sick of regulations that hurt everyone except the budgets of incompetent bureaucrats or incumbent monopolies.
One reason to turn cities off is to see if you can turn the people against the city government and get them to back down. If that tactic works, then other cities might think it's not worth trying.
Handwriting generation with an in-browser neural network
I guess breaking the rate limit is a user error — e.g. sometimes if you continue with could get your access revoked.

I read 50x as "something not your fault" went wrong.
Trust is a continuum. I don't see how you can say that you do not trust humans at least to some extent, no matter how tiny that sliver of trust is.
I discovered when doing something in this space recently that even the simple case of doing optimal planning for a particle under Newtonian dynamics, with limits on eg. velocity and acceleration, is NP-Complete.
It is the least-worst IMAP client (but that's not saying much)
Umami – A simple, fast website analytics
interestingly, before shareholder-value primate reaching the last exec, the companies with big research units were economic and innovative powerhouses. E.g. think of the Olivetti corporation (which sadly died after it's leading personel exited.)
Make is like an assembly language of the build systems. This layer gives structure and debuggability (otherwise you're spending time poking at some opaque UI or something).
Netflix is testing a ‘Shuffle’ button
Because of the shift in how people use TV and public access channels, in the Netherlands they simplified the whole scheme, got rid of the TV license entirely and just pay the public broadcasters through the regular state budget - e.g. "regular" taxes. It just saves a ton of headaches and complexity. I'm not "smol government" or whatever, but I do think laws and the like can be simplified by a lot.

In a similar vein, they simplified tax brackets for last year, instead of four brackets, there's now just two, and most people ended up paying less taxes (see https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/belastingplan/belas... for an infographic; keep in mind that while the lowest incomes do pay a little more taxes, they also get more money back from the government in stipends and subsidies for e.g. rent, health insurance, and a fixed 'discount' on taxes)
New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums
>>>One person dying is objectively worse than one person going bankrupt, this is ethics 101.

The argument of the anti-lockdown crowd (at least as I understand it) is that the second- and third-order effects are just rich people going bankrupt, but middle- and lower-class people being forced into dire economic straights up to and including starvation, or a drastically reduced ability to afford esssential life-saving healthcare for other non-COVID conditions.
30 years ago I had an Apple (one-button) mouse switch go bad. I was good at electronics and could easily fix in 5 minutes if I could get a switch. (Lived in the boonies.)

So I called Apple (this is before 'genius' (hilarious) bars).

Me: I want to fix my mouse. Sell me a switch.

Apple: We don't sell switches.

Me: Why not?

Apple: (After pause) It's only an $80 mouse. Not worth it.

"Only." That's $135 in today's money. (A better mouse now sells for $7.) I should let Apple charge me $135 to replace a microswitch?

You could just watch it going south. It all started when the Mac came out. (The slim II manual had peeks and pokes in it. They actually supported hobbyists and learners.) The Mac dox (think it was 3 huge volumes) had huge lists of names of calls you could make. Just names. Soon the rainbow apple turned to a chrome apple.

My next 'Mac' came from Power Computing. Yeah, Apple slipped up and put a gate in the walled garden for a couple years. It worked great for 7 years. At 160MHz.

Software got SO much better. So, yeah, I slipped up and got an iMac -- cost me twice what a similar PC would. (But all my music software was for PPC and hardware used serial ports.) That iMac burned me in multiple ways.

I thought all that was horrible. Those times were gentle compared to today. RUN AWAY
That's a BS ruling; it's the people that would be responsible for damages, and only if they moved into areas they're not supposed to.

Parks are public spaces and they should both applaud and put a bit more money into them for what Pokemon Go managed to achieve.
> it creates some other kind of mental load:

I find it's actually the opposite. Writing things down means I can forget about whatever it is and focus on the task at hand.

> it's not as important as it seemed yesterday

This is a good thing in some situations. I generally write down ideas whenever they appear. Coming back to the ideas in days/weeks/months helps to provide some perspective. If it still looks like a good idea, it can be acted on.

Bad ideas can be discard or ignored.

It's a better outcome than spending a day getting side tracked only to wake up the next day to realise the idea was rubbish.

It doesn't hurt to have a backlog of things for those slow, inspiration free days either.
What does this mean for Moore's law being dead or not? Anything?
I'm not sure I follow this line of thought. Without an account, what would all the game purchases you make be associated with? What about friends lists? Support requests? The Oculus, and the vision for the product, is more akin to consoles than it is your run-of-the-mill PC.
> how do you explain all the millionaires taking up residency in Florida to avoid NYC taxes

They treat Florida residency like a flag of convenience[1]. There are some who legitimately retire or move to Florida for a lifestyle change - not exactly a new phenomenon - and a bunch of young professionals who choose to live in Miami because it's Miami, but for most it's just paperwork.

David Tepper is a great example. He "lives" in Florida and moved Appaloosa to Miami, but Charlotte is now the center of his personal life and he spends almost half of his time there.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
Just curious to understand what does Exhibit n + 1 mean?
Would you kindly explain?
Porn tax. They can combine it with cute cat video taxes as well if need be.
Motion planning is also an Open Problem for Humans!

Let's say we are standing on a high hill and I point to another hill and say: "Walk over there". Do you expect any human to find a reasonably good path by themselves? I would personally try to use a map. How do military robots solve this? They use satellite images.

And in general, this article seems very pessimistic to me. My home-built computer vision pipeline can do localization and mapping, loop detection, object segmentation and depth estimation at levels that are "good enough" for indoor drone flight. So I would assume that someone with a generous serving of financial resources would be able to solve most of those problems, except for 2 issues:

1. You need to memorize how the environment works. That's why newborn kids take stupid decisions, they lack the stochastic priors. Lucky for us, memorizing is AIs strong point.

2. You need to have mechanics that are more forgiving. If I accidentally position my hand the wrong way, I might accidentally squeeze someone a bit, but I won't crush their bones, because the mechanics of my arm are flexible. We'll need better accentuators and elastic casings.

And just for the sake of discussion, here's my replies for each problem category.

Simultaneous Location and Mapping: There are libraries that work well enough for your robot to localize itself in a building-sized environment with just a single camera. I'd consider this solved. https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2

As for the obstacles, also for humans it is mostly guessing if you want to step on that blanket or if there'll be something fragile or slippery inside.

Lost Robot Problem: Most SLAM solutions are good enough that you could just regenerate the map from scratch every time that there was a gap in your perception. ORB-SLAM2 also has a loop and merge detection module so that if you reset its tracking and then it walks into a known environment, it can merge the old data into its new state.

Depth estimation: It works well enough in practice. https://www.stereolabs.com/zed-2/

Scene understanding: I don't know about you, but when I drive the highway, I sometimes have dead flies on my windshield. Apparently, they aren't that clever after all.

Position estimation: It works exceptionally well for VR markers. In general, those solutions tend to be called "Visual Odometry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5dLF3dmr0

Affordance discovery: This is mostly a memorization problem, so a perfect candidate for AI.
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Citation needed; cable / internet companies LOVE the idea of them being able to get money from both consumers and content providers like Netflix. Facebook wanted to make its own internet in areas with low internet penetration where people had to pay for non-Facebook traffic. I'm sure it's the same with a lot of other tech companies.
All very reasonable arguments. What I don't understand is cleaning up in the evening. There is no visual field to perceive if you are asleep.
Damn I guess I have good news for girls: https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/vaginal-ph-b...
Call me old-fashioned, but does anyone else find it a bit strange that one needs to log in in order to use a display device?

That Oculus had better have some pretty special pixels, if they need a network connection to even be visible.
Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
The parent to your comment said this:

> As of recently, I had to work on Microsoft Azure IOT: Their "embedded" library doesn't even load into memory if you are not plugging in an external ram on the most beefy MCU on the market.

AWS Greengrass has the same issue, it only runs on Raspberry Pi's and up, which is like using a semi-truck as your daily driver in a city where a good bicycle is all you need. At worst we need things to load into 0.5MB with room to spare for our own code too. At best we'd like things that could load into 32KiB with room left over for our own code too.

32KiB lets me get temperature/humidity monitoring over WiFi working at <$2 per sensor+wifi+mcu. So if you need 200 sensors to monitor a space, that's just $400 for bare minimum parts, not including enclosure or power supply.

0.5MB raises that price to $5/unit, but mcu's that can handle this can also generally handle generating/using enterprise-grade wifi certificates, which might be nice.

Using AWS Greengrass / Azure IOT means I need to use a raspberry pi, so $38 or so per unit. Now instead of $400 you're looking at $7,500 for baremetal parts. Put another way that would raise a hypothetical consumer-oriented device's MSRP by $100 vs whatever it would be if it could use the lightweight $1 mcu.

Overview of AWS IoT offerings and what they can run on: https://blog.ippon.tech/exploring-iot-infrastructure-support...
That used to be normal in Berlin too 10+ years ago.

The last couple of years barely had any snow though.
Confessions of a Xinjiang Camp Teacher
> No, it's not. It's like less than 0.5% of the tax you are paying (considering income tax, social tax, residence/homeowning tax, VAT...). They just keep it because they can rile up /distract people when they increase the TV tax by 5 euros.

You don't know my income,monthly expenses, how many kids I have to feed, whether I have a mortgage, an alimony to pay or not... You have no idea what my budget is.

So less than 0.5% of what disposable income I have exactly? Tell me.

I'm not paying a flat tax (the tax doesn't depend on household income as you are insinuating) for something I have no use for at first place.
http://archive.is/d3GZA
This is largely about the Oculus Quest, which is a self contained device (i.e. a smartphone in a VR headset)

I'm assume their tethered display devices will still work without an account, assuming you don't want to use their store/apps.
Starlink is not live for general usage yet.
I don't know about any report, but an analogous problem (to "get me a beer") might be something like: -

"Hey Siri, write up minutes of the meeting we just had and email them to everybody".

There are quite a few open problems in that, including analogous navigation of an ill-defined environment which nevertheless has regularities.
One reason might be that it's much easier to take a law changing the structure of the public broadcasting financing infront of the supreme court than it is to do so with regular budgeting.
Crystal Well was only eDRAM in the marketing sense.

There have been other, actual eDRAM technologies that can be manufactured on some logic processes, however none of them are compatible with the state of the art TSMC 7nm logic process.
Mac Local Items keychain backup unrestorable to different machine without iCloud
That's the question. The inhabitants of that place will use global services. Should that tiny place get a cut or should it tax its inhabitants directly?
+ CUPS. Also should mention that LLVM is huge thing.

Totally agree that Apple not tend to open sourcing software unless needed.
There are some really interesting, if maybe ranty and not-politically-correct comments on that blog.
:) I don't know why I ended with headings in question format, but It seems to fit how "my" brain works. Thank you for the links.
No need to praise for that behavior, it’s just one person doing their research; this should be the default.
hah seriously? rest of the world knew for decades that masks were effective. It's practically ingrained into asian cultures. WHO recommended against masks because they didn't want a shortage for medical professionals, again you're being really naive.
It's not absurd. If you have tuits to spare, strive to be in compliance with the standards to your best ability. Do not just relegate error handling to code you will not touch.

For example, status 422 is used for syntactically correct, but semantically invalid request bodies. Augment your graphql library or application code where appropriate.

That way, you reap the benefits of interoperability. Being in compliance makes you a good Internet citizen in the eyes of your peers.
I remember the original reddit posts before their crowd funding on how they were going to be open hardware.

Then open firmware.

Then support Linux.

Then ...
Heh, "¿Cómo estás?" -> "OC"
AFAIK Thunderbird is developed independently from Mozilla nowadays and you can donate directly to it.
It ain't the sleeping in bed, it's the crusty eyelids in the morning. :-)
He probably means that something with similar implications has happened a lot of times already and we should have already learned the lesson
How PaaS can help you built a circular business case?
What are the pros and cons to https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox for example? C++ vs. C#?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/08/17/covid-...

> ... the virus may cause significant heart damage and inflammation—but without producing any immediate or more noticeable cardiac symptoms.

?????
Thanks very much for the encouragement.
> It forces hermetic build and test environments;

how would that ever work if you want to build software to be packaged in a linux distro where your software has to comply with $VERSION of every library provided by the distro ?
The problem these small towns rarely have adequate internet for remote work. I hope this will change with Starlink.
That is as true or more of every altar[0], so I'm not sure what your point is.

0: "Worship me without salt or die!" is a reason to engage in premeditated deicide, not worship.
Norway also introduced masks in public transport at least in and around Oslo.
The Facebookening of Oculus VR becomes more pronounced starting in October
Title is incorrect. It should read "A middle manager's guide to efficient micromanagement"
OP here, its a shame that I missed this posts moment in the sun.

The Wikipedia article, which I also posted to HN, but missed the limelight discusses why it was called Seward's Success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seward%27s_Success,_Alaska
I'm sure companies that do a lot with AI - the FAANGs, universities - would have their hands on these to see if they're viable for their businesses, either for their own use or to rent out to customers through their cloud offerings. But they don't really advertise with it, probably corporate secrecy.

I think it has the same customer base as the quantum processors of today.
While I think net neutrality is very popular, I think there are quite a few people not voicing their reservations against it because of that.
I don't know if this is actually true, but I've heard that it's partly about taking away plausible deniability (for people caught on another person's property). If you had to break something/pick a lock/climb through a window, it's hard to argue that you had no malicious intent and were merely trying to pay a visit, or that it was dark and you were a little bit drunk and you opened your neighbour's front door by mistake.
Thank you.

Did you develop those games ON the DOS machine as well or just cross compile? I would love to see your games.

Does that gcc-ia16 works on 386SX (non 64bit CPU)?

"""These FreeDOS packages do not contain support for C++ or link-time optimization (LTO)."""

So there is working C++14 compiler able to run under DOS or not?
I was posting here and reddit in 2014. No they really had a terrible reputation back then too.
Being good at cold reading does not mean you can actually predict the future, which is what they are claiming to do. But if they could do so with sufficiently high accuracy to accomplish something useful, then this would still be interesting.

And frankly I think the "pseudoscience" label for lie detectors is a stretch. It measures a genuine signal. The issue is the relation of this signal with lying. They do a lot of strategy in their question selection to try and make this relation hold. And to me (trained in actual science) it makes a decent degree of sense. If it fails to deliver due to there being way too many variables and noise, so be it. But it's not magic or something like psychics. There is legitimate research related to determining emotion with various types of sensors. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=review+wearables+emotio...