skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lights aren’t exactly cheap either way; even years ago they would be about $100 a pole just for the light, modern LED ones are about that [1] and cities can have thousands of them [2]. For example, the 250,000 lights in NYC at $125 per light (without even considering installation) would get you about $30M.

[1] https://www.edn.com/weighing-the-costs-of-led-street-lights/

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/infrastructure/streetligh...
Neither does this headset. Oculus Go has at least a 6D IMU, that gives it 3DOF (no position tracking), while this headset has a 6D IMU. The Quest and Rift have cameras on them for positional tracking. If it was possible to have reliable positional tracking just from an IMU, John Carmack would have delivered it on the Go.

This OSS headset has "experimental positional-scaling" using "any camera". On github, they say: "The tracking is still very experimental and can only be run on NVIDIA GPU due to the usage of CUDA. The tracking makes uses of only a video input and an Artificial Neural Network AI trained to estimate a 3D body position. This method is nothing close to the precision or freedom of movements of a dedicated sensor however we believe that the model can be trained and improved by orders of magnitude."

Again, this is a fun project. Probably as fun as the cardboard VRs Google used to hand out for free.
Even if we managed to shut down the world simultaneously, the viruses can linger in animals, so we’d presumably eventually be back to where we are today.
> Why does a GPU use PCI-Express still? I understand why they used to use it, but now they are not only standard, but in some cases the most important part of a PC.

PCIe is the fastest I/O mechanism in computers these days.

> I feel like if we could break the basic components out of the card, and bring it closer the system with a more modular design a bunch of things would be better.

GDDR6 and HBM2 RAM cannot be broken out. GDDR6 requires you to solder the RAM directly onto the board, while HBM2 RAM requires an interposer with 4096 individual wires connecting the HBM2 stacks to the GPU.

> more modular design a bunch of things would be better.

Its very difficult to make a "modular" set of 4096 wires (HBM2). Or a "modular" set of GDDR6x (which is now using 4-bits per clock cycle per pin, thanks to PAM4: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15978/micron-spills-on-gddr6x...)

The quality of the connections requires direct soldering in the case of GDDR6x, or incredibly specialized packaging in the case of HBM2. These RAM architectures, while incredibly fast, are almost impossible to extend.

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> It feels to me like moving these pieces to the motherboard would be super beneficial.

Xeon Phi tried to do that, and it failed. I'm not entirely sure what you expect to gain from moving the GPU closer to the center of the motherboard.

Again: high-speed RAM trades flexibility for high-performance. So any GPU using the high-speed RAM like HBM2 or GDDR6 will be stuck at very limited configurations.

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DDR4 and DDR5 are an order of magnitude less bandwidth, but their ability for multiple configurations is what makes the motherboard even possible.

Remove the ability to buy more or less RAM per computer, and what do you have? You just have a graphics card. Its not like you'll be able to pipe information from your hard drives or SSDs faster than a PCIe pipe anyway.
I'd also recommend "How to Design Programs", newest version is here: https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/index.html. It's a much more accessible version of SICP.
> was

There's the important bit. Code can be wrong, but it gets less out of date than its comments.
> However my assessment is a video has much less revisit value than still images.

I would say the same, only for text versus images. and yet for some reason I'll never understand besides being only in my early 30ies, people prefer images. and videos even more.
Four Indian Startups Funded via Abu Dhabi's AWI Fund (Middle East AI News)
People even tell their friends and, I think, legitimately mean it - for the last 10 years nearly everyone I know in Portland (Ore.) has said they want to move to a smaller city... so far I am the only who has left. And cities keep growing while rural areas keep shrinking.
I would love to do that!

For our effort in SD specifically, we need to add more help and voices to get 2 ordinances passed, to establish oversight of existing & future surveillance technology. Once we are successful at that, we will have a huge amount of work ahead of us to process San Diego's existing inventory of surveillance tech. We need volunteers to help do that work. We need a lot of them, to help keep the workload manageable.

For other cities, you need to get started by challenging an existing surveillance tech & assembling a coalition. Then you can work to establish local oversight of your local surveillance tech.
You can also use a camera app with more settings like ProCam which lets you set the white balance manually.
They also have a much lower dynamic range, less colour depth and let in less light.

If you want the best of both worlds you can get a mirrorless which is less bulky, but still have a big sensor.
A turn based game like Civ is the next milestone in AI I'm looking forward too. Researchers have focused on more popular games like DotA or StarCraft, but I would be more impressed with an AI that could beat the best human at pure decision making in a turn based game like Civ.
Have you checked the numbers in Europe?

Most countries have twice as many cases now than at their peak in Spring and the trend is accelerating. As for most of Latin America, they are just not reporting the numbers because they are too poor to test.

Sky high death rate? Not even close. The worst hit countries, deaths per population are the European ones. Again, that is not a reflection on the societies, just perhaps their age distribution and other factors.

That the US is doing really badly is just propaganda fueled by the imminent election. Again, it is normal, election propaganda is anything but fair.

US is actually doing well overall.
I’d be curious to see such a list, just out of my own morbid curiosity.
I highly recommend https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh to solve the annoyance of the terribly bloated and poorly built Certbot application.
Yea it is - the US has a pretty clear and sane definition of what speech should be protected at a national level. Cities and states have no business trying to muddle the line of what speech should be protected.
One of my favorite things about HN is that it quickly surfaces the alternatives.
Are there transcriptions available of voynich script into ascii?

Someone with access to GPT3 should try having it translate some bits into English. Would be the most shocking 'look what GPT can do' moment, to me!
The image is transparent. Here's the same link wrapped in HTML so you can read it:

data:text/html,<img src="https://cdn.the-scientist.com/assets/articleNo/67690/iImg/38474/uploads/what%20is%20r.png" style="max-width:100vw;max-height:100vh;"/>

Also, I don't see the annual flu on that graph.
You'd restrict an enormous amount of commerce.
Could it also be that due to all the attention that Covid gets and the saturation of the health infrastructure, no one is bothering noting down the normal flu numbers in those countries?
A common comment I see on Tiktok videos is something like "I've finally made it to [niche interest] tiktok", it's something I've experienced myself when the algorithm started showing me videos from the crew on cargo ships as they talk about their favorite ports to dock at, or their experience going through E.G the Panama Canal. I don't know any other platform that emergently figures out that I have an interest in international logistics without me specifically searching for it, and it's one of the reasons TikTok is such a great platform for content.
I notice you guys mix the .com and .ca version of the domain on your site. Might be worth running through and converting them all over to the .com .
There are many out there for whom it may not be worth it.
It's not really a true reboot unless they get rid of the Newsfeed in this space, and doubtless they won't.
You don't have that equivalent signal, that's what matters. i.e. Twitter doesn't know if you even finished reading the tweet which is what is providing a strong signal in the case of TikTok, skipped vs watched once vs watched multiple times.
Ah so the city thought if they wasted enough money on their CCTV cameras and got add on features then maybe the populace would let them keep them.
At least in the German mainstream discourse the proportionality of specific policies as well as it's costs and benefits are reoccuring, if not central themes.

This is, of course, currently about covid-19, but I think that the political arguments mostly apply to infectious diseases in general. ..once they gain a certain significance.

I don't doubt your perception though. The discourse might vary greatly between countries, languages, etc.
Witness: Police shot Portland slaying suspect without warning or arrest attempt
I think the end-time theology thing is understated. There's a significant part of the US population who actually believes that the reason they don't need to be concerned about the environment is because God will rapture them up before the shit hits the fan. This also allows a fringe of that fringe to actively ignore political leaders who don't cater to their specific subset of interests because they "might be the anti-christ."

Between Obama + Antichrist and Trump + Antichrist alone there are over 7 million results on google including a ton of kindle books.
> artificial scarcity

Remember, Facebook was running on a PHP backend. Apache spins up an entire _process_ for every HTTP request it receives. Facebook was most likely buying their own hardware. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were running their servers at capacity and dealing with both hardware and software scaling issues.

Edit: FB is also an image heavy website, which at the time was considered a heavy website.
The difficulty is accurately taxing the embodied carbon of imported non-fuel goods. Figuring out the carbon footprint of a barrel of oil relatively easy, but figuring out how much carbon was emitted to produce a shipping container full of electronics is not. This is important because if you underestimate you are effectively subsidizing foreign industry.
Really? The general sense about AMD has almost always been the reverse, both as compared to Intel and Nvidia in those respective spaces.
No lasting impact, but it may take influenza a few years to return to previous levels.

In general biological systems always run at maximum [carrying] capacity. If something blocks them it might take they a while to return to maximum, but they always do so.

Like imagine a fire almost, but not completely, put out. It might take a little time to engulf things again, but it will eventually do so. (Unless of course the environment is no longer hospitable.)
You can set the number of initial technologiess and research difficulty in FreeCiv such the whole game is played in a certain period. It actually makes for a really fun game.
There are multiple liars, unfortunately: https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/06/07/video-di...

Also
http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/nsa-director-alexan...
yeah, that's me. We are well into the process of getting a Surveillance ordinance & provacy advislry commission approved via cith council. Once we have that we can establish oversight of every surveillance technology used by the city. Anything in particular I can tell you?
Also, when you are homebrewing a device, vs say, shipping 400,000 devices to users, you just don't get the same economies of scale.
my thinkpad X1 with soldered-in RAM and dead non-replaceable battery disagrees.

i only paid $100 for it on ebay, so i can't really complain, but it doesn't seem much different to the average consumer laptop to me.
And here I thought buying an expensive house in Portland was a good idea. Great. Anecdotally, I don't know anyone that's left recently.
About 15 years ago, I worked on an add-on for a large online service, using their official, versioned, documented API.

We had to build a test suite just to verify that the API working as expected, because they would break it so often, and also the documentation didn't always match reality.

This was a paid API we used on a pay-per-use basis, IIRC, and had official support for.

In the beginning, we had a false sense of security about the version numbers and such. The first couple of breaks seemed to be "just this one time". Then we realized that it was happening all the time, and so the test suite. (I was a junior, so I can't take credit for this work, just a witness.)

API is often no more reliable than scraping human UI most of the time, with the added disadvantage of being second-level importance.

Personally, I've tried to combine human UI with API as much as possible. For example, I added a feature for being able to post via direct URL entry, like so: http://example.com/hello+world

most browsers will convert the spaces for you too, so you can just type your text into the address bar.
Thank you. I really want a AMD laptop, but they don't seem to have good displays. If I am to stare at the screen 10+ hours a day, I'd like a good screen.

Do you like the display?
If it's okay to ask, was not wanting to go related to financial concerns too?
Maybe find different friends :)

Has anyone actually ever taken this advice when receiving it in the context of frustrating social media content? I see people throwing this advice around a LOT in these discussions and have always tried to find someone who actually went and did it just because someone on the internet said to.

Curious how well it worked. It sounds about as useful advice as telling someone to “just” get another job after mildly venting about a rough day at the office (or on zoom, given the state of things here recently), which is something we’ve all done just to decompress I would imagine.
America Divided
Thank you for clarifying this. Do you have a link to some overview material on the differences between laws in different countries? Is the distinction between criminal and contract law the same in every region?
Fair point - my always-angry neighbor routinely talks about how he's leaving the post-apocalyptic hellscape our city has become, but after 10 years of hearing the same song, he's still here. Still angry, but still here.
>In Civ 5-6 one-unit-per-tile creates gimmicky non-strategical combat, forces you to move units individually

For me, I think this is a good thing. It makes combat much more tactical, and there is less of the "death ball" effect. The AI criticism is fair, but I do think that 1-unit-per-tile is the way to go ultimately.
Best Practices for Secure Infrastructure Access
thank you, I fixed it. (And I feel dumb)
So repealing that would be a good thing, wouldn't it?!
I live in Montreal, which is 6 hours' drive due north of NYC. It is actually farther south than Portland, OR. In fact, by far the majority of Canada's population is south of the 49th parallel. The border is weird to the east.
Yes, because e.g. it invests in infrastructure on an unprecedented scale.
~7 years ago I got an e-bike and totally agree with this. It made it easy for me to bike in situations I might not otherwise have such as: When it's windy, biking with my friends who are hard core bikers and feeling like I couldn't keep up, when my plans were up in the air and I could be going 5 miles or could be going 20. It also made the travel time be basically the same as taking a car, where (especially when I was out of shape) biking was about half as fast.

One thing to note is that I would use the E-bike while pedaling, not like motorcycle. People who say you "cheat yourself out of a workout", which many people have, that was not my experience.

I stopped using it because of the need to haul kids around, which my ebike wasn't at all able to do.
Next will be Facebook takes on business networks with something like Blind with strong identity.
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f.lux has three transition options now

Slow: Natural timing

Medium: Adapt your eyes

Very Fast: Gaming

I don't know about the medium mode but in slow the transition happens very naturally to a point that you don't notice it at all.
The infamous Ghandi nuking requires you to have good relations with him. You have to overflow the integer such that it wraps to negative.
It would be really hard to find an American city where this isn't the case. DoD hands out surplus equipment for pennies on the dollar.
Hold a small piece of white paper up in the corner of the frame. Or get a corner of street sign, etc. (may need to make sure it's illuminated though.)
The article itself is behind a paywall, so this might have been in the text.

But... could that be explained by all respiratory illnesses being called "covid" this year? The numbers are simply hiding in another graph?
yes that was my conclusion after some research on this. there is an open issue on github for AMD support on pytorch, and looks like something works on arch linux, but really sounds like support is still in the hacking stage and far from production mode.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/10657
Gulls pay attention to human eyes
Between Tesla FSD, Neuralink, Nikola, the litany of fake listed Chinese companies like Luckin, this is truly the golden age of fraud. No surprise if this is one.
I do this with git repos: backend repo code editor and associated ttys share one theme, frontend another, and so on. Makes it very easy to know the context of what I am working with at a glance.
My hope is that, at least for some portion of society, this pandemic has normalized the practice of wearing a mask if you must go out and are sick. So even if diseases aren't totally eradicated, we can have significant reductions in spread. Maybe a false hope, but a hope nonetheless.
Why is Massachusetts #5 on the list? Just coronavirus in general? How would moving help? Is racism worse in Boston than other cities?

If anyone has a guess, let me know.

Maybe since people are working remote, and their kids are going to school on zoom, they are thinking of moving to a state with a lower cost of living? I could see that.
Thanks for this post. I own a self storage company and use Easy Storage Solutions and had no idea Storable recently acquired them. I enjoyed working with a smaller, privately owned software company. Knowing this has peaked my interest in Open Unit. Taylor - this could be a good marketing angle to take.

I have submitted multiple feature requests to Easy Storage Solutions but none of them have been acted on. If you guys are open to feedback I'd love to get involved. We could use my facility as a testing ground. I have 250 units over 15k sq ft.
No, that's not correct. The II+ was a II with Applesoft BASIC instead of Woz's Integer BASIC, and the ability to automatically boot from disk at power on. That's it.

Lowercase and 80 columns were available from third-party vendors for both the II and the II+.

Source: I still own my II. Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series
I did that on my German Apple ][ Europlus and also got a re-burned EEProm to display the lower case. I like the original Woz story but it seems strange that the later models didn't enable lowercase.
If you look at most images in web pages, I'd argue that the vast majority are decorative or impossible to explain in a meaningful way. I've been building sites since the late 90s and I think this is probably a throwback to the times when we used to generate images with text in them, which doesn't really happen any more. Although there are probably cases where it's still relevant - I just can't think of any off the top of my head.

Edit: Perhaps a news story where the victim of a crime is in the foreground of an old photo and the person who committed the crime is in the background. But then that would be referenced in the text of the story, and the alt text would mention that reference.
I live in PA and think it's too progressive for me. You'll get your wish for a more progressive environment when the legislature follows the executive branch in turning blue in the next 10 years (once urbanization get close to 85%).

There's definitely some deep cultural divides when comparing some geographic areas to others in the state. Of course this is generally true for rural vs urban areas of most states. Just like the urbanized areas outweighing the rural ones in states that have high urbanization rates.
Not the GP, but I'm currently working on a small web app that synchronizes data from 2 other web services, which means that almost every endpoint involves a call to an external API. In some cases, it involves repeated calls to those APIs, but the order in which the responses are received is unimportant, which is an ideal use case for asyncio's gather function. Using a framework (I haven't tried Django's new async views yet, but am using one of the handful of Flask-ish async frameworks) that supports async views has made this a snap, whereas before I would probably have used some sort of out-of-process work queue type setup.
It seems it’s an American pastime to threaten moving to another state or gasp even to another country whenever they don’t like something. Not many follow through. Most of them will be considering for the next few decades.
What are the advantages over the app web tools?
I would use a social network that only my actual friends were on. When I was in college I would have found a college-only social media site useful and enjoyable. The biggest problem with most social media is they are too impersonal due to having too many disparate connections (eg my aunt, a former boss, my best friend, a former acquaintance from high school) and they shove “influencers” and other popular content down your throat.

I can imagine that Facebook will be able to create a decent platform for young people if they only have to worry about adding features/promoting content that young people like.
the public hearings on this tech were entirely focused on city planning and climate action. We don't find anything on the historic record where anyone at any committee or council session even asked a question about the situational awareness module.

I'm not defending them, just telling you what we've found. Back room conversations may have occured.