skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found it a little surprising that companies haven't built/funded a open-source organization for parametric mechanical CAD, similar to Blender for games or KiCad for electronics/PCB design.

The upside for a ROI seems like it would be enormous, and pretty easy to make happen. Industrial seat licensing for products like Solidworks, CATIA, Inventor, and (now) Fusion are enormously expensive. It's not just private organizations either--CAD proficiency is such a basic skill that every serious engineering school has an organizational license for their students too, which I'd imagine also costs a bundle. It's not as if the tools themselves are expanding functionality at some sort of rapid rate, either; I haven't done much CAD in the last two years (so maybe I somehow missed some sort of feature explosion), but while a regular user between 2013-2018, I saw basically no change in the vast majority of my most-used tools for several different CAD programs, with the exception of some improvement in out-of-the-box simulation capability.

The existing FOSS alternatives just aren't at par. I've tried FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, etc., and most mechanical engineers/CAD specialists wouldn't touch a code-based editor. They're certainly better than before, but the rough edges exist and some of them appear in areas that need to Just Work (like assembly and drawings). From my understanding of their contribution graphs, private organizations putting even two or three full-time developers working on those projects could push them much, much closer to being a drop-in replacement for a lot work that gets done, and potentially even save those orgs some money in the short-term by reducing the total number of seat licenses they need in to function.

Edit: Added mention of KiCad, bc that's kind of important too
Ghosting on completely black regions in Half Life Alyx was the only complaint I had with my OLED HMD. I tried an LCD one and my brain was better at ignoring the extra brightness than it was the ghosting.
The standing rule has always been 5th grade math comprehension.

As with most things, switching from too much to none is generally not an improvement.

Perhaps languages should have 8 levels of precedence instead of 18.
Logging in to Multiple VCenter Servers at Once with PowerCLI
Olympia WA, 60 miles from Seattle, 100 miles from Portland:

A recognition (debate, but at least some recognition) of what is called "The Missing Middle" (medium density housing, alternative options, not just SFHs and "high rise").

A proposal is put forth, and there are screams from homeowners, because the study shows that the Average Property Value in the urban growth area will _slow_. Not decrease. But instead go from 12% YoY growth (which is insane) over the past 10 years to, if all measures are put into effect, an estimated 7% YoY growth.

Somehow these homeowners have got it into their head that they "have a right to" property value growth which, at its worst, will outpace inflation _by a factor of TEN_.

So back to the drawing board we go...
I wonder if they have a plan to move to iPad their codebase after it’s battle tested. There’s a lack of a serious editor over there, and in particular VS Code can’t compete because of it’s business model.
Yeah, I am interested in adding LPR to my car's computer at some point, but it'd be locally processed and stored for personal reference.

I'd maybe like to know if it detects the plates of people I know well nearby (sometimes I wonder when I see a car I feel I recognize), and I'd want to be able to mark bad drivers I see, and be warned if they come near my car again.

My thought is that if I am driving around a driver bad enough that I think about the risk of accident, I might want to know if they're close to me again in the future.
> Reddit was 5x cheaper than the next cheapest source

I applaud anyone that can monetize the reddit audience. I've dabbled in their ad platform and had no luck at all.
Or there is no such template by default, but DMT causes it to be created in a similar way across people taking it, and the differences in what people experience are filled in according to their personality/life/...

Sorry, too busy too look up the exact terminology and hypothesis now, but IIRC there's these 2 major theories on how the mind/drugs work: one camp (a bit like your statement) says things are built-in and certain feelings/states/thoughts/.. exist by default but in a 'normal' sober state the neural pathways to them are not active, and drugs just open the correct gates to be able to access them; the other camp (more like what I wrote) says drugs alter enough things in the brain to create those feelings/... from scratch i.e. not opening a gate, more like creating a gate then opening it and keeping on creating what lies beyond.

I can recommend the thought experiment of trying to figure it out which one it is, especially when on drugs, it's rather interesting :) Personally I settled for believing it's a mixture of the 2, mainly because I find it hard to believe the circuitry for some of the things I experienced is readily available whereas at the same time once you have a certain experience it can have a lasting effect and the neural connections remain somehow, making it much easier to have a similar experience next time.
Why not just make a separate facebook account? I think people are making a bigger deal out of this than it is.
It's worth checking out if the Neovim VScode plugin[1] works for your workflow. It's not as mature, but was much smoother when I tested it out. I'm not able to make the change until they implement a "toggle vim mode" command available... but once they do I'll jump. Also check out Onivim[2]

1: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...
2: https://www.onivim.io/
AFAIK, passenger oxygen masks on airplanes use a chemical oxygen generator, which only works for a few minutes before it's exhausted (the pilots use a different system with oxygen cylinders, and IIRC the rest of the crew has portable oxygen bottles).
Amusingly I'd not noticed either of those keyboard behaviors before today. And then it turned "Darth Vader" into "Daryl Vader" and randomly capitalized a word when I went back to edit and then back to the end to resume writing. The mail issues have definitely been a pain, but I honestly couldn't tell if it was the Mail app or the connection with gmail (which has had issues with other mail clients for me).
I suspect they get the idea.
Panic is almost better at clean Apple-esque design than Apple themselves.
>Quest 2 requires your Facebook account to login

What a joke. I deleted my Facebook account years ago, and if you try to make a new one now it gets banned instantly for no reason at all. I've tried doing it over VPN, using different email address, nothing works. I literally cannot even use this product if I wanted to.
> installing a trap on a bike in order to teach bike thieves a lesson. It won't really reduce the problem

Maybe it is reducing the problem, but not enough people are installing traps to make a noticeable difference? Or the number of new thieves is cancelling out the number of thieves being put out of business by traps? Is there data for this?

Or maybe the traps just aren't sophisticated enough?
Yup, vim all day every day.
Why use a whole freaking library instead of just writing a one-line function?
> Houston and Phoenix are both larger than the Bay Area metro is currently.

Not sure where you're getting that number from. Are you just referring to San Francisco / Oakland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%...)? That completely leaves out San Jose and many other areas. The entire Bay Area is nearly 10 million (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area)
Indoor Air Pollution Is an Overlooked Problem
All of this is interesting from a legal perspective, though it's worth noting that it's trivial to get into the park through Arastradero or down from skyline and bypass the "gate"
How whiny. 10 years ago the net was in a much better state.
The review is wrong about the controllers though
> I’ve been practicing every morning at sunrise, but still can’t scan barcodes with my eyes.

rofl. Great writer.
> Maybe people don't want those houses

It's not clear what kind of houses you are envisioning.

Go to Zillow or Hotpads (rentals) & search for less prestigious homes. You still don't get places that can be afforded with a HS Graduate income.

tl;dr: People can't move out in their 20s because of math.
That's a good question. For me it is mainly to tidy things up. I feel more at ease when I know where everything is and when everything is simple. It's a similar feeling to working on a messy desk vs a clean one. Disorder places a tiny amount of additional mental burden.
Except that extensions will inevitably blow up in your face and then you're going to migrate elsewhere anyway?
There seems to be a lot of comments here that think Scientific American (and the media in general) should strive to be nonpartisan and treat both parties equally. For those that think that way, I would like to know how you think we should handle a scenario where one political party is legitimately acting in a non-equal, extreme manner. Consider:

- Candidate A lies 95% of the time.

- Candidate B lies 5% of the time.

For the media to objectively/truthfully call out candidate A would be to act, inherently in a partisan, unequal manner. There's no way to both accurately report the difference between candidates A and B while also pursuing moderation and consensus.

This is essentially the dilemma faced by the media, and is why we're in this situation where despite the fact there is overwhelming evidence that the majority of what Trump says is a lie[1] - the media treat it as the truth, which is an enormous advantage to Trump (candidate A). A democratic system that relies on informed voters selecting their political representation breaks down when one candidate is allowed misinform voters, at will, by the media.

This is the same sort of situation with climate change, where the outlier scientific view (climate change denial) is given equal weight and validity in the media.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Dona...
Will Wheaton, James Marsters, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Kramer and Kate Reading are all excellent narrators.
I wish that kind of free-market-driven correction were possible, but passengers have no control over which airplanes they fly in. You don't book tickets with Boeing or Airbus; you book tickets with Southwest or Spirit, and even if they tell you the make of the plane you'll be flying, they can change it up at any time without refunding you.
Nice to see "Simulating Ocean Water", a beautiful classic CS Graphics paper still SOTA ;)

https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~jtessen/reports/papers_files/...
What blows me away is that you can now get a watch which is constantly illuminated by LEDs and they're claiming "up to 3+ years" of battery life.

https://parweber.com/pages/introducing-endurolume

LEDs are slick.
Installing for me right now
what's the blocker with the FB linking?
So new construction only?

And sorry, but in markets like mine, over the last year the average house has spent about 72 hours on the market and "the same house" has been sold multiple times in the last decade each time for approximately a 20% increase.
There's only negative comments on the thread, but what most people missing here is software development takes resources. Heck, just keeping an online product alive costs money (check GCP/AWS pricing). A software engineer in the Bay Area costs $200k/year on an average. If you want to hire quality engineers, it takes a lot more.

They're not blocking it behind a paywall. It's still free. I understand that for hobbyists, it can be expensive. But if you are using things beyond the free tier, that's more than just a hobby. And I know this is an unpopular opinion, but being a Software Engineer, I really hate it when anytime a software company tries to charge for things, it's unfair and it's price gouging. But people fail to acknowledge that it is the only industry where you can even pick things up as a hobby for free. Literally anything else you want to pick up as a hobby costs money upfront. If all of the 645,000 users were willing to put up with those upfront costs, they wouldn't have had the need to price their plans so high.
Banks do that all the time with monte carlo simulation. Can't get a closed form solution? Simulate every possible outcome and aggregate them.
Who else in this space do you think should have blocked it?
Sure, when you look at the whole metro area, you can get good prices. Most people don't consider the whole metro area. There is usually a specific area they want to live in, to be closer to family, to get better schools, to be closer to work, etc.
I'm in Indianapolis and just look at the difference across this one affordable metro area.
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/in/indianapolis/real-estat...

Your other point about houses being "better" is also false. When you compare to economic items, you don't compare against something you can buy and something you can't buy anymore. The houses for sale are the "better" houses. That's the simple fact for Americans. It's because our culture only builds for the wealthy. The poorer get their hand me down houses.
do you work for FB?

within FB people 'assume good intention'.

outside FB not so much.

think about why
Isn't it just the same justification why some individual might want a private garden? It's nice to have peaceful nature areas that don't get too crowded.
Not available in Germany.
Sorry didn't see this. I don't really see it as time spent being a mod, it's time spent "being on reddit". Instead of just looking at the latest posts, I get to act on the ones that break the rules. When reading comments, I do the same with comments. It's just a parallel cycle to consuming it, I think. And we're talking of one click to remove things here, not a complicated workflow.
Inspiring: Local Uber Driver Makes $100k a Year Driving 84 Hours a Week
I never smoked DMT, but I smoked salvia a lot. To avoid crazy trips, you have to take it horizontally in the dark quiet room. About 50% of trips started the same: the UFO arrives and hangs over me. Pulsating tunnel is started to connect me with the ship. Then 'they' start to drag me to the ship. The result depends of the smoked quantity. If you got 1-2 hits, you will not reach the ship. Yes, they will help you, they will drag you, but with no luck. But if you took 2-3 hits, the next what you will see is the space. With ships and 'lands'.
So I felt those entities like good older brothers. In IT terms I was like junior and they like teamlids.
I agree that that world feels more real than this one.
Both Google and Apple currently subscribe to the "open internet" philosophy on mobile phones. This was their selling point against the old, "walled garden internet", vendors. If they change that and start blocking the sites, I think we will see a serious backlash. We will begin to switch to Linux phones then. :-)
Serial number 88490818 at https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/search-...

"IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Downloadable web site development software; Downloadable computer software development tools"

I guess the trademark it's very specific and not in conflict with let's say a model of a car. But also other companies can challenge the trademark later if they deem it in conflict with theirs.
Augmented Reality, as demonstrated by the Hololens 2
What's the best alternative that doesn't require a FB account?
Been waiting for this for some time as a previous Coda 2 user for a while.

Looks good.
Wood smoke is something to be avoided if at all possible. It's actually a leading cause of death in developing countries.[0]

[0]https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/safe-efficient-cooksto...
How can it be objective when every single individual would bid a different price for the same product, if asked without being shown the market price beforehand? It's all about perception and -my friend, I have bad news for you- perception is all but objective. Yes, perception of value can be manipulated through tools like marketing. That doesn't make the product itself anymore (or less) valuable than it actually is.
> "...allowed the PC oculus software to stream to it"

You can do this with the Oculus Link cable. It makes the Quest essentially into a Rift.
It's really great to see VR coming down in price and becoming more accessible... but it's coming at the cost of quality, and it's bringing the rest of VR down with it. As an example, Onward VR recently added support for Quest in its game. The process of doing so required a significant scale down in the quality of graphics, sound, and all kinds of things that were great about the game. Over night the game took a nose dive, and that's not even mentioning the complete community change that came along with it.

EDIT: here's a video with examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVgxk0ytTyI&feature=emb_titl...
Microstrategy's bet on Bitcoin as a corporate treasury reserve
Faithful iPhone SE (1st gen) user checking in. Thankful to still be in the club. This will likely our last.
You can't get that through to the parent poster. He only see's spherical cows, not reality.
Hm. It's weird to dump growth and discovery into one pot, unless growth has a specific meaning there. You need to be able to add new users to a service... otherwise it's kind of empty, which defeats the point of a messaging service.

Discovery I agree is a trade-off of security vs usability / service attractiveness.

I'm fairly certain you could create something very hard if you assume 2 users meet in person once to exchange long identifiers and keys via QR-code scans. Add in burner phones and/or public WIFI and tracking that stops being feasible and you'd rather follow the human.

However, that'd be very inconvenient and maybe impossible for many - and you'd be back at empty. And possible to target entirely.
It reminds me of people who blame programmers for "dark patterns". Sure, they implement them but they aren't the ones who decide that they should be implemented. However, both programmers and Boeing engineers could (should) quit if they feel what they are doing is unethical.
Also nothing in Croatia (Europe) so far.

Edit: it just appeared 3 min after I posted this. Downloading.
Do we have to fear that some of our apps might not work on iOS 14?
expectations may be too high due to the constant stream of luxury lifestyles that we're being fed on TV

A vague quote comes to mind, something about the peasant classes of a few hundred years ago would have overthrown the ruling classes a lot sooner if they had any idea the luxuries the ruling classes were enjoying.

I.E., maybe what's happening is thanks to TV maybe we're finally understanding how good some of those on the top have it.
I wasn't commenting on that, I frankly don't care if you think a service that gives people felonies (Doctorow's main complaint) is abusive: I know it is, and your lazy argument about convenience isn't going to change that. This person wasn't commenting about whether or not it was abusive, however: they weren't commenting about anything.

My comment was asking why 'forbiddenvoid wrote his comment, which literally contributed nothing at all to the discussion. It's pure fluff. It took no stance, and literally made no statement beyond "I use the most popular platform to listen to my ebooks." Completely void of substance in any way possible.
15 July 1991 — "The package costs $499.95. Registered users of earlier versions of Smalltalk/V Windows can upgrade for $25. …

Digital's Smalltalk/V Macintosh will continue to cost $199.95, but eliminates the previous per copy run-time royalty fee."

https://books.google.com/books?id=jVAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&dq=d...

Did Turbo ever have it's enterprisey moment?
Availability of fun games you can play, no need for external PC, no complex environment setup, and the sticker price of $300 vs. $1500.
Fair to assume the 'hobbyist' license was being used in large scale production in cultures where people are comfortable being dishonest about such things.
I live in DFW as well (Oak Cliff), one thing to keep in mind about home prices are schools. In East Dallas, on the border of Lakewood schools, there's literally a $100k difference between one side of the street and the other. A good public school in DISD is rare and so home prices around it are very high.

I think the quality of the local school drive home prices considerably.
They tease it through the text editor environments screenshotted in the Nova page!
It goes both ways. Many weak deadlines allow engineers to slack off when they otherwise might not have.
I should call the guy up sometime and get the details about what they were working. It wasn't a run of the mill analog computer, but who knows how novel it really was.
> I would suspect that if it can't even show a prediction, it's confidence score wouldn't show either (being that it would be 0%).

Recognizing that something is a license place, and being able to read the plate are mutually exclusive things. People can identify license plates even if they can't read them, and people who don't know what a license plate is my still be able to read the numbers on them.

The ML has to do two things; the first is reject anything that isn't a License Plate, the second is OCR License Plates.
It's the most developed VR experience out there?
As I read your comment I suddenly decided to blow all the air I could from my lungs and see how long I could go without a breath. I lasted 10 seconds.
> JAMStack is about pre-rendering HTML from dynamic content into static files.

Where do the "Javascript and APIs" come into play, if not via AJAX?
99.9% of android camera, modem, GPS, wifi drivers are closed.

"several privacy-focused, open source Android distributions" also includes proprietary drivers, in most cases they have no choice.
Smooth on my 2015 MBP in Safari.
Can you expound?
Better title: “in informal survey, cyclists rationalize their lawbreaking by claiming it is for their own safety.”

I’m sure all the cyclists I see running stop signs and red lights on their $2,000+ Tour de France cosplay setups have safety foremost on their minds.
The free drivers work in the sense that you get a working desktop. But by no means can you get good performance on something that puts something other than light burden to your card. Nvidia gives no clues as to how to implement clock boost over the minimum base frequency in driver, so the free driver only uses the minimum available computing power, enough to get the desktop running.
Delighted that it includes Perl support!

(full list: CoffeeScript, CSS, Diff, ERB, Haml, HTML, INI, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, Less, Lua, Markdown, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Sass, SCSS, Smarty, SQL, TSX, TypeScript, XML, and YAML)
I'm glad to see they support it but requiring 3GB of free space on 16GB(minus OS) is gonna take me a few nights to squeeze out. I just wish the iTunes install could use swap on my computer.
They make it up by taking a 30% cut on any games you purchase through their store (which is the only place you can buy games for it), similar to consoles. This is much more money than user data is worth. (Not that they won't use/sell that data, too, but let's not confuse ourselves about how much it's worth.)
I scan it for different colors in VS Code quite often. Oops, something red down there. Or quick scan to see where the various colored things that represent git diffs are (red for deleted, green for new, blue for changed).

But as you said, can get the same in the scroll bar.
The original bar plot came from a water level
That’s a good idea. Thanks! I’ll give it a try.
Support for extensions (scripts) is one of the things banned by the hobbyist license.
I saw this and was surprised because I’m pretty sure I don’t need to do anything to switch between my Mac and my iPhone.