skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the people I mentioned
Were ever “addicted” from their point of view.
Just something to help them relax.

I get that some people can smoke a joint every few weeks and not have an urge to over due it.

Probably 60% of extended family is hooked and either dead or living with a dead beat.
Same with the Arduino framework, if we're talking about languages/frameworks:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/espota-server
preferably OP or moderators should add (2018) to the end of this title.
Well that was certainly embarrassing. On the other hand I overlooked that in my test scene it samples the lights at every vertex, and I forgot it had textures which needs at least 2 coordinates per vertex. So it needs at least 10 * 32 * 2 = 960 random values for that.

I also recall that we tried MT but found a quite noticeable impact on speed compared to what we had, and on the PGC performance page MT is listed in the tens of GB/s. Perhaps our implementation was considerably worse though, I can't recall us testing it alone like that.

As I mentioned though, that renderer was more about physics and fidelity. Typical render times for even a preview would be a minute, for final single-frame stills tens of hours to several days on a single computer was common.

For animations you don't have that kind of time, so you need a orders of magnitude more samples/sec.
Does anyone remember song tapper?! (I might be misremembering the name)

It was an old web application where you tap the beat of the song you're looking for on your keyboard, and it presents you with a list of close matches. This was way back before smartphones and the AI revolution were a thing!
If you think the 3-minute video was slow, the actual original took 45 years.
Having uBlock Origin but for real life, must be very pleasant looking.
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
You need stable business with at least few people employed, to make sure the lights don't go out, and that people fix issues when they come up. Storage cost is probably only small part of the price.

You also don't want it to be VC backed because such businesses will not be worth billions. (and if it will try to become such you will have similar problems as google)
That was my point. Announcing that something will (i.e. may) be available in the future is a sure way to shoot yourself in the foot and lose a lot of sympathy.
Yeah, my first thought when seeing the cofferdam was "hey, I know what these things are!"
Hey, cool, I was actually just using TCP myself working on a new high-performance beetle database called TigerPayments: https://github.com/coddlehark/tigerpayments

Comments like this are just spam and don’t contribute anything to the discussion. If you have some interesting insights, share them, but don’t shift the discussion to your own completely unrelated project.
The NY Post is old (founded by Alexander Hamilton!) but in recent decades has truly evolved into a gleefully trashy and conservatively opinionated newspaper, having been run by Rupert Murdoch for some time.

I completely fail to see how their rights are somehow being impinged here. They have their own mini-media empire and are part of a larger media empire.

How... exactly are they being stifled and why is Twitter obligated to amplify their voice?

I would certainly agree that this does fall afoul of Section 230, which I think was a great foundation but could use some serious rethinking.
I'm happy everything worked out for you Ryan. But I was left so queasy by this whole read.

This is presented as a victorious journey. By the end of it he's got his health back, his kids, an easy job, lots of money. The company's in good shape - everyone's a winner.

And you're telling readers - it's GRIT! I'm a super Gritter! I never give up!

Mate, you got so lucky, to be alive, to have kids.

Yet you lost years of your life, plus all your kids' early childhood fretting over terrible bosses. And by the end of it you're still wondering whether in future VCs will find you worthy of investment.

And in our day and age you're considered a winner!

You're the person YC points to and says - See him, you could be like him one day!

"Life, if you know how to use it, is long.

But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless;

one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth;

one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain;

some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own;

some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great;

many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own;

many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new...

Ask about the men whose names are known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks that distinguish them:

A cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master."

-Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
That's interesting, I've never heard of a stateful microservice repackaging itself into a library that directly reads/writes to the database. One of the main advantages of a service middleman is encapsulation, and enforcing rules on what database operations are permitted.

The article mentioned that there are many different teams using this service/library. With the library approach, each of these teams has full permissions to the database. As long as they all remain disciplined and only ever access the database via the library, this should be fine. But I wonder how long it'll be before another bright developer somewhere realizes that they can write stuff directly to the database, in completely unintended ways, by bypassing the library.
Yes, to take predictions seriously, we should ask the visionary for a rough timescale. And we should also ask not just them but their peers on how likely they think the prediction is to come true. It's not impressive to identify an existing trend and say that it will continue; all of Kurzweil's peers would have been able to see that. Similarly, it's not impressive to keep kicking the can down the road as a prediction eventually becomes truer, but only 50-100 years behind the timeline the visionary implied. Ultimately if the prediction doesn't follow fairly rigorous criteria, it's neither falsifiable nor impressive.
>> Tabloids are nothing like the NY Times or Washington Post, which attempt to present objective, unbiased news. (Now you may argue that they fail at that -- but they do profess at least to aim for it, while tabloids don't even try in the first place.)

> Both of them are explicit about their support of Biden.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_media_endorsements_in_the...

This doesn't really contradict crazygringo's statement.
They did the legal bare minimum in terms of attribution, but you're very unlikely to find it unless you're looking for it.

I don't usually read through files like ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/bhdnlmmgiplmbcdmkkdfplenecpegfno/0.0.1_0/NOTICE.txt (though perhaps I should).
I'm sure some feel that way, but I'm unconvinced this is the main reason for their dislike. Even cultures whose religions and coming of age ceremonies are centered around various drugs don't take their consumption lightly. The compromising of your reason, judgment of danger, accurate perception of physical reality, control of impulsivity, and overall executive function are not unwarranted concerns.
I think casual polymath seems like the wrong descriptor to use - as they're not experts in other fields.

They're experts in one field, and (most probably) dilettantes in other fields.

The trick however, is that they use their expert status from one field, to reach their audience. And then their followers will take that as domain authority, because they're perceived as authority in some other field.

I'm not going to name names, but this certainly fits the pattern of a lot of people in the VC-industry. Not that they brand themselves as experts (sometimes they'll explicitly state that they're not experts) - but their followers will assume that it's expert knowledge.
1) the emails weren't hacked

2) the NYT articles about Trump's tax returns that were obviously obtained illegally weren't given the same treatment.

3) apparently tweets were also blocked based on hashtags:
https://twitter.com/ChrisGolas/status/1316806523243225095
Twitter reversing course on “hacked content” censorship, will use labels instead
Are there extenuating circumstances? Does a food fight justify propagation?
I've never used Tasmota (though I've heard great things), but I'd like to give props to ESPurna, another similar project:

https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna

I use it for so many things around the house that the WiFi spectrum is probably completely saturated, it's fantastic. It even supports auto-update over HTTP, so all my devices periodically talk to my home server to see if a new firmware is available using a simple server I wrote:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/espota-server

Since I'm very familiar with ESPurna but not with TASMOTA or ESPHome, I can share some of its drawbacks:

* Provisioning is hard. I have tens of devices and I want to deploy firmware on them with specific settings already preloaded, so I can just flash it and have it automatically connect to my Wifi, MQTT server, autoupdate server, etc. Not only do I need to compile my own firmware for this, but I need to compile one version of the firmware per device type. This isn't too much of a hassle, I wrote a simple for loop to do it, but what is a hassle is that my configuration needs to be in the form of #defines in a header file, which makes updating a big pain, as I have to figure out what upstream changes were made and how to merge them with mine.

Actually, that's the only drawback I've found, it's otherwise worked perfectly, the community is great, the maintainer is very responsive and the software does what I need and more. Definitely recommended.
Your confusing hardness of work with grimness of life. No one was working 200hrs/week to make polio vaccines from themselves.
I wish more people knew how good Flutter for desktop already is. So far it's a competitive advantage for early adopters.
Use AI to Convert Ancient Maps into Satellite-Like Images
Great stuff! GC ORC is an amazing improvement over existing memory management models :) I hope to see more Nim projects adopt it!
OSM shows all of the paths. It doesn't say which are the best ones to use.
The OP posted "Show HN: Headless Recorder" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577642> 22 days ago. Amazon forked and released it as a service. They are efficient.
I don't think anyone's debating your claim. It's a fascinating point of view, and reflects closely to the conveyed image of the matter.

What people are disputing, though, is more closely tied to the story. Right now, many people see NYT and WaPo as NYPost-likes regarding their journalistic rigor.

If it feels like Windows and runs like Windows, but has a different-ish UI, people will treat it like it's Windows-esque even if it's Linux.
"Not a valid scientific technique" is not a valid objection to a nonscientific process.
> As humans, we have a tendency to be pessimistic

Maybe, but it is not because we tend to be overly pessimistic in general, that serious problems cannot happen to us. Entire civilizations have diapered in the past, so we should remain vigilant.

After all, another bias that humans have, is a strong tendency to believe that what is true now, will remain true forever.
According to Section 230, probably yes.

But I don't think Section 230 is adequate to the task.

You realize, of course, that even HN is strongly moderated? The mods kill a lot of stories here. And HN is a better place for it.

By your logic, HN should now be liable for anything that anybody posts. Is that what you want? Does that seem like it's in anybody's best interests?
Virtual First Toolkit: How to communicate effectively
Yeah part of the social contract for open source is people get appreciation, respect, and visibility in exchange for their contributions ..
But then it depends on what kind of people with what kind of mindset make such decisions, doesn't it? (Hint: It's not the altruistic "share with everyone" mindset they have.)
For most of human history most people didn't "do" laundry.
We have people tearing down statues in America.

Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln.

This isn’t out of the blue, people are stirring them up. People that have agendas.
Google Warns of Zero-Click Bluetooth Flaws in Linux-Based Devices
The OS maps include all legally-designated public rights of way, and some permissive paths. It doesn't show if they're passable, safe or easy to use.
The link is broken, it should be https://2020.nixcon.org/live.html
I'll address this from the perspective of a company that's been delivering complete custom data applications for enterprise for the past seven years. More context about problems here[0] and here[1]. The risk is so high that we're building an ML platform to address those.

First, the initial conversations take time and depend on the maturity of the organization data wise, and all our clients are huge organizations. You keep exchanging until you find a problem. Sometimes they come to us with a problem in mind, ut it's almost never formulated. We have to extract it and formulate it.

Then we have to understand the problem, why is it a problem, what's the desired state. What success looks like. This is not trivial, as many things are qualitative and how do you mesure that? Many people must be involved.

You must also address the data question early on. Is there data to work with ? What kind of data? Is it enough ? Do you have to work with several sources, etc. But for now, you want 'some' data. Who has it ? You'll iterate over this multiple time as they send you data you can't work with. Is it sensitive data ? What regulations exist around that ? More people get involved (legal, security, etc). You also have to address ethical questions and what you will and will not do. These are long, long conversations.

One aspect not to dismiss is that there may be people who feel threatened by the project. If the project is to reduce menial work, or reduce the skill level required to do something, some people might try to undermine it.

Then in the rare cases where you got these right, and the data is good, you'll explore and iterate to train models. This often is the easiest part, but there are challenges for teams on collaboration, tracking, deployment, and including domain expertise in this step which can drag the project further. That's what we're building to solve.

Once you have satisfying results, you'll then want a system to make this operational. We built applications to allow clients to use our models under the hood to do something. The deliverable isn't just a model that spits back predictions. This is a software project. You also need to make it possible to adapt: data changes and you have to take that into account (data pipelines, model training and management, concept drift, etc.)

All this takes time and money and the effort of many people who are committed to do it, with diverse backgrounds and roles: you need to be able to build relationships and trust and get the help of domain experts. It's an all inclusive or nothing. Frictions, or people moving at different speeds.

The ticket price for a data project can be hefty, and there are too many reasons for them to fail.

[0]: https://iko.ai/docs/

[1]: https://iko.ai/docs/story/
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I am a grape grower & hobby grape breeder so might have a perspective on this that others don't. There seems to be a few misconceptions in this thread.

1. Grapes are almost always propagated clonally, through dormant hardwood. Only grape breeders really grow grapes from seed, and they're not using the seeds from open pollinated grapes like these, they're doing deliberate crosses from pollen. If you could grow out the seeds (hint: you can't, it's seedless) from this grape you would not get something all that similar to its parent, and only maybe 15% of them would even be perfect flowered and fruit bearing. This "EULA" doesn't seem to cover pollen, which I don't think would be legally enforceable anyways.

2. Non-propagation agreements and propagation fees are extremely common. Newer varieties of grapes almost always having a fee back to the breeder.

3. Nobody is making decent money breeding grapes. Most new varieties are from university research departments on constantly decreasing budgets. The propagation fees are typically there to help offset losses.

4. The only thing unusual I see here is printing this kind of label on the package and also the proscription against growing from seed. Not sure why they'd bother. Propagating grapes from a grocery store cluster would be extremely difficult. To get a clone from it you'd need to do labratory tissue culture. To grow from seed you'd need to find the one grape in thousands that freakishly actually produced a viable seed (this variety is seedless) -- cold stratify keep it in the fridge for months without it drying out or getting mold and then plant it out in the spring, and even if you planted hundreds you would be unlikely to get a vine worth bothering with.

EDIT: Also, let's say you actually legitimately wanted to grow or even breed with this vine, and you lived in the narrow climate range where it would succeed in growing. You could probably purchase dormant hardwood cuttings from a licensed nursery for less than $5 a vine. I don't think that's so odious. Or if you're a breeder you might even be able to coax another person with the same passion to mail you some pollen from it for free.

FURTHER EDIT: Part of what might be happening here is that these new table grapes are considered by some to be a bit of a major advancement. The cotton candy type flavours are novel and the nice crisp flesh is desirable, and I believe they have pretty good shelf life as well. So the breeders are trying to protect something that is a bit of a win for them. I imagine in California in particular there is a desire to avoid growers in the central valley from propagating these en-masse without license. I imagine that in about 10-15 years there'll be a bunch of new varieties similar to these out there and it won't be as big of a concern.
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> Earlier this month, Gilead said remdesivir cut COVID-19 recovery time by five days compared to patients on placebo in a 1,062-patient study.

So yeah, it may or may not reduce mortality but still reduces recovery time.
I want a device that will not control the car but will give more a ton of real-time information, ideally projected on some corner of my windshield.

Information including:

1. Speed limit for the area/road I am in.

2. Real time radar report telling me how many cars/pedestrians e.t.c are around me.

3. Information on common accident types in the area I am driving in.

4. For my corner of the world, it will be good to get a report on road status before I take the route - something like gravel, cratered e.t.c

I suspect that something like this would sell like crazy for existing cars. Basically a thing were I install a camera/sensor that is hooked to such a device.
> Why would you smoke crack when you know the navy would drug test you?

Because you are addicted.
Very cool, love their choice of designs.

I'm guessing that it would be cheaper to use, say, four Raspberry PIs instead of the single Jetson; you then get four HDMI ports, and can skip the extra display controller? Bit more software, of course.
Red Hat is a subsidiary of IBM, not acquired and absorbed. It is very much its own thing within the company as a whole.
> Once the information is out there, it's in the public interest for it to be openly available and not censored.

This is the way it works these days, but I'm not sure it actually makes sense. In a trial a judge will often tell the jury to disregard information that has been improperly brought forth. It's difficult to enforce, but what wouldn't it make sense to have something similar in the court of public opinion?

Also, it's a slippery slope argument, but I'll point out that "once it's been said, it's true" is a social anti pattern. If I lie, and someone else quotes me, does that make it information that is "out there" or is it just noise?

FWIW, the more we learn about this story, the more similar it sounds to my extreme example.
About tricking... I mean, we are talking about psychiatrists using psychedelics to aid therapy, I want to believe they are not the kind of people to trick others.

Other than that you are absolutely right. Drug effects depend on dosage and who is taking it.

Thing is anger and agressiveness are well known side effects of steroids, and in my opinion doctors are too quick to prescribe them.
I feel there is a double standard with drugs, and issues that are found in, say, psychedelics seem to be non issues with other prescription or recreational drugs. But that is my opinion and I do not think is more valid than anyone else.

Honestly, I believe all drugs to be dangerous, and utmost caution should be taken when using, even with otc painkillers.

I am not necessarily for legalization, but definitely for decriminalization. I do not believe having psychedelics widely available for public consumption is necessarily a good idea (I carefully worded that sentence, please notice). Same goes for alcohol tho.
Congrats, your work was good enough to turn into a commercial project by a major top 3 cloud provider. That would make me feel like I would stand a little taller! You basically created a new AWS service, as v1, that's pretty cool to add to a CV ;) Just be patient, and make sure you figure out the colour of your Lambo now.
That's easy to say but the bad interaction happens when the algorithms operate at opposite ends of the connection, and you often don't control both ends.

The bottom line is, you need to understand the semantics of your application protocol to best know how to apply them.
You could, perhaps, make one shaped like a triangle instead of a square, with just the one side facing out from a corner into the room. The other two sides could be just translucent to give reflected light into the room.
"Material wealth" dates to prehistoric times, that's why we keep finding all these shiny objects in graves, including ones shipped remarkable distances. What people did with it, and the relationship between status, wealth, society, and material conditions, is a much wider field.

"Banking" is continuous back to 1472: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banca_Monte_dei_Paschi_di_Sien... but recognisable systems of credit existed in Roman times.
I think in Flutter, you do not define the interface in HTML.

That is a no-go for me.

I think HTML is the UI language that will outlive all others in existence.

It would be a mistake to use something else and then have to rewrite everything in some years.
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It's very disappointing, not the laws called "facts" but this disjunction of the community arguing or even joking around simple people stuff credits. Which costs nothing to do it.

For me this never ending OSS disagreement is just an excuse to take just benefits of the community but with zero retribution (there is no progress on that).

Someday, people will understand that Software is crafted by humans but not by a bunch of companies or self-thought computers.