skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a small LED picture projector you could project hawk/owl movies on those moving vanes. Birds are hard wired to detect and avoid hawks/owls, so such a project at a cost of ~~$500 per tower would help. They could even use UV LED projectors for a night viewable hawk.
Just a hint would send the bird into evasion mode. Making the hawk seem to originate on the blades would optimize the evasion away from the blades.
It could even run on solar?
I was curious about why OrpheanBeholderScryDoubt was chosen, found a unanswered question on security.se[0]. Did some more research, and found out the likely reason:

Most probably just a nod to OpenBSD (look at the initials), since the algorithm was made for it. Here[1] is the original commit that introduced the string.

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/237690/2876

[1]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/crypt...
It's a sentiment that gets expressed under most every blockchain-related submission on HN, and I wonder why.

Maybe it's something about blockchain tech, but I have the nagging feeling that HN is just getting old and complacent. If this community had existed, in 1995, on a BBS, it probably would have found nothing but fault with the emerging web.

I can't understand why a tech-minded person would find blockchain repulsive. It's (in the case of Ethereum) the biggest and most powerful distributed computing environment. BTC has a history of no major losses or exploits in 10y of existing in the most adversarial environment I could think of.

HN meanwhile: let's get totally over-excited by a new ePaper reader with drawing functionality.
Yes, PoS has been proven to work. The research problems are solved. A public testnet of Ethereum's proof of stake is currently live. https://medalla.launchpad.ethereum.org/
What Firefox 78-80 brought was hardware video decoding under Linux, not hardware video decoding in general.

Under Windows and MacOS, it has been implemented years ago. Under Linux, it wasn't. Linux has API for video acceleration and players like VLC, mpv or Kodi have been supporting it for years, as well as ffmpeg, just browsers ignored it.

I'm not going to belittle the effort, quite opposite, but it is telling when this feature has been implemented by Redhat employee and not Mozilla.
I (and I believe most of us) never use the email address that the ISPs provide, just so we can have our own. Who would ever want to use the HenryBemis4618362783@ISP.com???
GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones
I have been to the Portland location, and as amazing as it is the Hyde Park Powell's will always hold a special place in my heart. I spent many a day in college wasting time in the shelves of Powell's and spent a lot more money there than I should have. My interest in graphic novels was started by a book (Dash Shaw's Bodyworld) I stumbled onto there, my interest in poetry the same (Stanely Kunitz' Passing Through). Perhaps most significantly, I discovered a book on cellular automata there that really kicked off my interest in computer science.
Yeah, but it’s not cheaper than AWS or rather it can’t be profitably cheaper IMO because of lack of scale.
So as long as AWS option is good enough, as a CFO I’d go in that direction.

Nebulous claims like cloud neutrality don’t pay the bills and I have not really seen businesses jump from one cloud to another seamlessly, no matter the software.
How does cheat detection works? Does it compare tour moves to common ais?
But they have a valid point that many things could be more useful if they were thought more general.

I feel like software development could be significantly more efficient if all developers would work together and not against each other, or just with much more foresight. We have so many programs/code/libraries that do almost the same stuff. But then, we are already super efficient compared to what we could do 50 years ago.
I had a quick look about to see what the eye/brain can actually perceive and the below is interesting. We can appreciate frame rates far higher than I thought.
A pilot identifying a plane displayed for 1/220th of a second (reddit link) is pretty impressive.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-highest-frame-rate-fps-tha...

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1vy3qe/how_many...
I've actually never seen this opinion before. The amount of background knowledge you need to understand a match LoL is so much higher than something like CS, which I think is definitely the easiest major esport to consume
> Ethereum is switching to proof of stake, which uses a normal amount of electricity and forever solves this issue

This has been said for a few years now. The originally deadline for this was January 2020. Suffice to say, it didn't happen. I'll believe it when I see it.

Ultimately, Blockchain seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem. There are a lot of issues with the current implementations, and a lot of words about how to solve them, but these are hard problems, and there's no guarantees they're going to be solved, and they are often problems that our current financial tech industry just doesn't have.
The same with Discord or Slack that could be removed, or Facebook
Infographic: Visualizing the Social Media Universe in 2020
That's true, but then you don't need something like let's encrypt. If you're doing this for an environment you already control you can have your own CA. Unless you are proposing a solution where each installer for these applications bundle the root cert so only one need be installed to trust all others. That's an interesting idea.
See also Facebook, as well as large swaths of Google. A generation of our best and brightest are using their talents to spy on users and get ads into their eyeballs.
This article does not answer the question how Apple‘s privacy and security model would be impacted by 3rd party stores. In fact, there already have been 3rd party stores with business certificates and you can sideload without a developer subscription, although the app will stop working after a week. None of this has impacted the App Store model so far. I have yet to hear a good argument that this will be the case.
I doubt you need to be close to $100MM in ARR to raise at this valuation, given the current state of affairs.

My guess is that fast growth + $35-40MM in current ARR should have sufficed.

Just my 0.02.
But if you think that this is just a problem with crypto, you should look under the hood of today's top S&P500 corporations and academic institutions.
The Fed did such a great job printing money to meet its 100% employment mandate that many people can literally feel their jobs getting more useless by the day (but at least they get to keep them).
Intelligence has become completely detached from utility.

Also, I have never seen a project simultaneously so intelligent and so devoid of wisdom (or vision) as Ethereum. Its complexity is going to turn people insane. It's a case of the blind leading the blind; making things up as they go.
The poor sap who motivated the whole snipe hunt got a mention in the third sentence and was never considered again...
What costs? Of course I'll pay for internet/power/water.
I don't know about "repulsive", but currently it seems like blockchain burns a lot of electricity (=> CO2 emissions) for very little purpose. For that reason I currently stay away.

Perhaps at some point someone will design a distributed blockchain system that (a) isn't a total power hog and (b) provides some sort of human curation that I can do so that I'm not hosting someone else's NSFL picture collection.

Until then I'll just watch from the bleachers.
I don't see anyone be forced to engage with Google, and it's not as if the play store doesn't provide value back to developers. It's enforceable because it isn't one sided. In a perfect would we hold the legislators accountable for this mess since they're the ones writing these laws.
The traditional american school of thought on money is that

1) the optimal supply of money is externally determined by the needs of commerce for liquidity,

2) new money can be created to meet the needs of commerce through public loans secured by real property pledged as collateral without any fixed artificial limits on supply

3) money may be circulated with an expiration date to discourage long term hoarding,

4) general governments should retain the ability to suppress the private issuance of bank notes and regain public control of the circulating medium of exchange in order to emit unsecured notes to pay for defensive war expenditures in the event that it cannot obtain loans from private banks and it is existentially necessary to do so

So some of the ideals espoused by blockchain activists may clash a bit with that.
There is no market force to provide for proper price discovery of those services. It's only fair to regulate it if Apple is unwilling to subject that business to competition.
Just the monitor cables alone would never handle the bandwidth required.
Yeah, and it really is everyone. For example, remember when the White House Press Secretary tweeted a video that had apparently been doctored to make it look like a journalist had attacked one of their staffers? There was a really clear, convincing comparison that overlaid a semi-transparent version of that video on the original, showing that it leapt ahead in the part where his hand went near her because it had been sped up to make the interaction look more violent. Many people spread it, including YouTube debunker Captain Disillusion with this message: "Getting lots of requests on the topic, but there's nothing for me to examine. This person has examined it, very simply and clearly. And I concur." https://twitter.com/cdisillusion/status/1060564297103917056

Now, having compared the two videos myself and not found anything like this, obviously I had a look at it - and worked out the trick almost immediately. The comparison had the overlay ahead of the original by the same number of frames the whole way through from frame 1, but it was so faint that during normal viewing the difference was only visible in fast-moving parts, creating the illusion it leapt ahead in those parts. Easiest trick imaginable, could probably have been done trivially with film a century ago, and fooled someone who'd built a career and reputation around debunking faked videos along with many others.

(As for the White House video, that's a long story but the short version is that it seemed to be pretty much exactly what it purported to be, and the only actual "doctoring" was probably the obvious, intentional stuff like repeating parts of the video zoomed in.)
It's an invitation to define (or re-define) creativity, my friend :)

If it seems ridiculous to you, that's a good signal that you'd get a lot out of digging into philosophy of mind.

Where do our thoughts come from? Creativity? Is it so preposterous that these too arise from probabilistic electrical storms - but in wet matter as opposed to hard?

Where thoughts come from may be too complex for us to model now, maybe ever. But if you look deep enough, I think you'll find at heart deterministic processes driven by networks that were trained through nature + nurture.

Maybe creativity is less ethereal than we perceive. Maybe it would benefit us to start considering how non-sentient intelligence can achieve it.
Cya bish
This much is key to observe: this isn't a partisan maneuver by Google, as much as people may want to slot it into that. It smells much more like a control maneuver: a perceived competitor.
Ruby might work out of the box if it can produce JSON strings that are not obfuscated by the debug adapter in vscode!
The claim was one could live a worry free life with a spouse and child to support. Pre tax or post tax, that hasn’t been true for decades (unless you just choose worrying about things most people worry about such as healthcare and education).
https://www.contagionlive.com/news/cdc-analysis-suggests-flu...
If you want to be legalistic then the person who used the wrong email is in violation of CAN-SPAM[0], though my guess is courts don't have the time for petty matters like this.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
sounds like a legitimate service a miner could offer for (real) money
In the context of NFS, it's a trade-off that enabled higher performance (and some new features too).
I got a technician license at 16 and joined the local club. I was surprised at how hostile the majority of the members were. Since I didn’t learn code, I couldn’t use the HF bands and talk to people a little more tolerant. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the hobby in general.
Google is removing Fediverse apps from the Play Store
That sounds about the same as what I've heard from game developers I've talked to in the States as well.

Games are massively difficult to develop, and because of that there's this idea that insane crunch is inevitable for all projects. But every single story I've heard is that project management for just about every game is horrible, even in comparison to badly managed software in general.
I don't know, but there are several different assumptions we could make - another being 'oh someone else took over and immediately sought a bunch of money'. The truth is probably a blend of everything we could dream up.
The thing is games are relatively innocuous but then when it works well you'll see ai applied to higher stakes decision: why not trading by example? Is AI trading a thing? Does it provide an advantage yet? And what is the impact on trading when all of it is automated?
FWIW, Epic removing the gambling aspect to loot boxes a lot on Fortnite: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47039090

I am alright with cosmetic microtransactions, but I think "loot boxes" should be relegated to rewards for play. Microtransactions should be to buy specific items... but leave loot boxes as a way to get random ones for free through normal play.
This is an exercise in self-validation because author has invested into an ecosystem. The examples are cherry picked, and motivations are invented to justify author's own bias, while ignoring all the evidence that would discredit the arguments. Notice additionally how the legal 'mitigation' is assumed to be flawless and can only ever be used against bad actors, it's the classic cartel defense of "their store their rules". Think _very_ carefully to when you saw a similar set of behaviors and what impact those had on the technology ecosystem.

This is a legal between two greedy, monopolistic bullies. It is not necessary to pick sides, and it baffles me that so many commenters feel the need to do so. Neither company cares for you; their interests may sometimes _align_ with yours, and they will exploit whatever means necessary, market whatever features necessary to focus your attention on those specific attributes. But make no mistake that their first duty is to their investors.

No dear author, I disagree that you are paying for any of those virtuous virtues that you tout. You are paying to enable a terrible set of behaviors which you are unable to forgive in another company, while you advertise your iBlinders™ to the readers.
I won’t dare to speak for anyone but me, but personally the issue I have with blockchain is that is a solution looking for a problem.

If you’ve ever done any business (sales/purchasing), you’ll soon see that trust is not really a problem. Trust is only a problem in single-transaction deals (two entities trade once and expect to never trade again), which is pretty rare. Even in that weird case, branding and reputation are actually quite good ways of providing trust.

In fact I would go further and say that the only entities that are impervious to the “conventional” approach are governments, by virtue of being monopolies.

I’ve heard amazing tales of what blockchain should be able to do, but so far it looks like they’ve failed in everything they’ve set up to do.

Blockchain currency (I’ll generalize a bit) was supposed to be a store of value. They are so bad at this that they’ve become an investing bubble, and one of the assets with highest volatility out there.

I’m still waiting for useful demos of blockchain technology that aren’t contrived situations or just smoke and mirrors for startups to get funded.
Is your position (that they should unbundle the App Store and OS) based on their market share or actual principles?

As in, do you think that console platforms should also unbundle those things to make it easier (or possible in some cases) to run separate app stores and/or apps on them?

Because, and maybe this is just me, I really don’t see what market share matters here. Certainly not as a comparison to MS of the 90s.
Our NYC school tried to make a quick switch from zoom to google meet when zoom was having issues with people porn bombing meetings. It was not a smooth transition and took over a week before we saw all the teachers and kids on it. The kids and teachers were already using google classroom for all other communication so I can only imagine how the transition would have been if they had to setup new accounts.
The SC thing was to save on costs, now since this many years passed and no one got killed ( yet ), they are confident they can move it all there, where the sun is bright, the unions are pretty and the wages are low.
Update: I take it back what I said. I found another video [2] that clears the picture. The guy wasn't running away from the shooter, he was chasing the shooter and throwing something at him. He then kept running after him and the shooter turns around and shoots him. The confusing part is that she shooter is shown coming from behind after the shooting happened. But it's because he goes around the car after the shooting and comes from the other side. I now believe all the shooting he did that night was self defense. He wasn't supposed to be there and play police but that's a different story.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmji3EVxqLM
It's the developer who pays, not the user. The price is set according to demand. If Apple takes 30% from that or not doesn't influence what price you can set because it doesn't influence what people are willing to pay.

The author is not paying any premiums. He is happy that the developers pay them for him and he doesn't care at all that the creators now make 30% less and have no way to go around that system.
>The fact that the law was passed by the same men who ratified the constitution says a lot about their concept of freedom of speech

You can also argue that it was defeated by the same men who ratified the constitution, and that the "free speech" side ultimately prevailed, therefore they really did mean free speech to be that expansive.
Ad with id X was shown, Ad with id X was clicked, Ad with id X led to a purchase. Is it that important to know more than that?
seems like it'd be sensitive to changes in healthcare policy as someone else mentioned eg step changes in drug pricing regulation that would make it less useful for someone to comparison shop drugs even with insurance.

in a sense, they try to solve a huge problem with our healthcare system with duct tape when fundamental change needs to come from policymakers to create "real" change.
This is great book, I have the kindle version.
I think you might have misread my comment; I wasn't suggesting whether a course of action was correct or not, but just explaining how it could technically be feasible. I interpreted the comment I responded to as not understanding how it would be possible for Google to have done this a certain way, and I was theorizing one possible way they might have done it.
Hey dang this other thread has more upvotes and comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24309632

Edit:

Well not anymore I guess :)
The irony here is that PUBG is made with the Unreal Engine, which they're being forced by a judge not to cut off from their platform, and Epic still gets 5% of all revenue from PUBG.
You could justify almost any such attack like this. Can you not just appreciate what you’re given here for free, for once? The effort people have put into this? Just imagine pouring months into something like this and getting your post as a thanks.
I'm gonna be honest, I only like cyberpunk for the aesthetics, not any of the themes. In 2020 most of the messaging behind the cyberpunk genre seems trite and obvious in hindsight (probably because of how accurate a lot of their social predictions were). I think most people agree that are into cyberpunk today are into it more for the neon signs than the social commentary.
The "depth" of the strategy is also sooo much more than an FPS

You only think that because you know more about LoL. As someone very into Overwatch, it's an absurdly complicated game where you only know about the complexity once you learn about it. After having learned a lot more about the game, I can look at high-level play and "see" a lot more of the things they're doing due to the level of complexity of the game, just like you can see that same stuff watching LoL.

At a high level, Overwatch is complicated because it effectively combines MOBA elements with FPS elements. It's not really a straight FPS, and the higher skill you get the more you have to pay attention to the MOBA elements in order to do well. As an example: Zarya is a tank whose entire ability kit (sans ultimate) is built around using an ability on herself and a teammate (on different cooldowns) to protect them from damage/negative effects for 2 seconds at a time. This ability can be destroyed if 200 damage is done to the player it's affecting, and Zarya gains increased damage if damage is done to this ability up to a cap. It sounds simple, but players who have mastered Zarya are ones who know _when_ to use these two abilities, which order, etc. which has a lot to do with the current state of the game. Bad Zarya players use both abilities instantly and simultaneously the second they see the opponent. It's all about timing abilities... which sounds a lot like playing a MOBA. But you also have to be good at aim and master the two firing modes she has, among the many, many other things to pay attention to during gameplay.

I don't whether LoL or Overwatch has more "depth", but they both have a lot of it.
Seeing the headline gave me an immediate rush, mixing horror and fascination.

The article did not disappoint.
> 5) [It's a wild west...] Respectfully, this is an unkind or perhaps bigoted statement. I have many friends in crypto who are thoughtful, kind people. They think deeply about the ethical implications of the systems we're building. The same is true of many leaders in the space.

Its undeniable that the proportion of criminals among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is far higher than in the population at large. I don't see how its unkind or bigoted to point that out.
You're getting downvoted but I think this is a fair criticism. There was a recent boom of chess on twitch.tv, and I think a big part of why it took off is that the various GMs and commentators consciously simplified the terminology without sacrificing accuracy in what they were saying. It's not a binary thing either. English Go commentators could simply adopt a dual vocabulary approach where they say things like "watch out for seki or dual life." They do this already on "beginners streams" for some of the bigger events.
How do they get prescription prices so low? And why can't insurance companies negotiate similar deals?
You can cheat, Samsung was just bragging about this earlier in August when they showed off the new Note and smart pen. They used AI to predict where the user was likely to move the pen next to cut the perceived latency even further, some really clever stuff.
Using deep learning to detect coronary artery disease based on facial photo
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