skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, one big problem of the strings theory was the shape of those strings: the theory allows many, but our universe uses one and we don't know which one.

I think there's a good candidate for this shape. Many books, rather old, but completely inadmissible in the court of modern science, describe the smallest particle in a way that curiously resembles a string. The string forms a coil, very similar to a wire coil in electromagnets, that revolves almost 3 times around the central axis and then returns back to the entrance. The outer shape is an oblate spheroid and the entire thing is dynamically stable. The coil itself carries electricity, and because of its shape, it produces a magnetic field that streams thru the center. The particle performs rapid gyrations around the central axis - that's probably the same effect as the Lamour precession. There are two types of this particle: one with clockwise direction of the coil and the other with counterclockwise. The string enters and exits the area in a direction perpendicular to all 3 dimensions, so it kind of appears from nowhere. The string itself is made of a finer coil, and that of even finer coil and so on a few times. If the 10 dimensions guess is correct, then there are probably 6 or 7 such finer coils. If the entire thing is unrolled, it would form a circle of very large radius. While such a particle, that probably corresponds to the electron, has enormously complex internal structure, it's still a fundamental particle of 3d world, because cutting the string in any place makes it recombine into numerous tiny coiled strings, but all of them freely float along the 4th dimension and barely interact with the 3d particles, so they become kind of background noise of unknown origin. The magnetic stream that flows thru the central axis of each 3d particle is made of these tiny 4d particles, and those probably replicate the entire arrangement at a smaller scale, so there probably are even smaller 5d coiled strings and so on.

Like I've said, this kind of description is inadmissible in science, but it's ok to "guess" it and invent a plausible explanation that this shape minimizes some weird functional in a hilbert space of the strings theory.
>Some readers may ask why I am not considering the failures of the White House, and making the case that the President is also a joke.

Some readers implicitly understood why when the author presented the pricipal disaster of 2020 as the death of '1/4 of all small businesses' and bailed before 20k words of statue-avi rationalist faux-erudition gave them aneuryisms.
>These conclusions apply to the third world, not the rest of us. Here in Europe for example

Oh ok because the United States is the richest third world country. Makes sense!
Man, this is a bad take. It makes passing mention of Google, ignoring the herd of elephants in the room. Google effectively did a bunch of dumping for years to grab market share, and the second they felt like they had it locked up they started turning the screws. No mention of that. I honestly can't tell if this is astroturfing or if the author is oblivious.

A bunch of companies contributing to a shared maps service is about as scary as a bunch of companies contributing to the linux kernel.
He's suggesting that the PCR tests are too sensitive to produce meaningful information.

Here's an article that explains how a false-positive rate of 0.5% and an infection rate of 1% can result in 40% of positive results being wrong:

https://www.icd10monitor.com/false-positives-in-pcr-tests-fo...
Yeah I think that's always been the appeal of BD, they are bleeding edge in terms of mechanics / robotics. The brains are being developed by entirely different companies, but eventually they'll meet one another.
And a new edition of robot wars. We deserve to see the human-like robots doing realistic sword fights.
Ask HN: Opensource/Free Alternatives to MS Projects
I'm looking for something like MS projects (timeline tasks, with herarquy of them, more than 1 user, etc) wish that can be online like Google suite and real time, and be free
I've lived in multiple states in cities that were at the top or near the top for annual population growth over multiple years- and it was fine.

Where I am now is #1 [0] and while property values are going up, there is plenty of housing being built, and since so much of Texas taxes comes via property taxes, there is an incentive for capping top end housing costs.

The city council has been approving higher density housing than the area has had historically, despite some grumbling from the SFH owners. The master plan is oriented around mass transit in an area historically devoid of it.

People complain about regulatory capture, but California has been captured by incumbent property owners and is now drowning in perverse incentives of their own invention. For a state that owes its success to innovation, there is zero innovation, let alone basic competence, coming out of the state/local government.

[0]: https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2020/07/26/austin-ar...
I am a musician. I use my phone for the things I can do while I'm outside the studio / with no access to an instrument. This means like listening to demos, taking notes on things I'd like to change, humming into the recorder app to save an idea for later, etc. So in that tine on a train, waiting for the doctor, etc., I consume my own stuff so I can possibly better create later.
Also provides plastic pollution
Add a Camera Feed to SwiftUI
Many industries are having the "and then they came for me"[1] moment, but it is particularly pronounced in academia. Intellectual giants such as Steven Pinker are attacked regularly by fellow academics on the basis of not conforming. People such as the group here must take a stand to stop this behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_..
Might be the right time for any associated professional associations to review their code of conduct.
Are HPE, Oracle and Palantir the "tech giants" we think of?

I have pretty negative opinions of their future, financially and otherwise.

I think there are plenty of things wrong with local governments, taxes, and policies - but I'm pretty sure each of these moves are easily explained financially rather than something "animosity".
Regarding "Bishop/Kearsarge passes are quite remote and rugged". I'm not sure what this means, but obviously everybody has their own personal database of experiences.

The town of Bishop would be your base, and you can get there with public transportation from the airport in Reno, NV. Good stores if you need to replace equipment.

The roads to the trailheads are paved - a normal passenger car can handle the roads. Only about an hour from Bishop. There are commercial shuttles too. Even hitchhiking (I've done it, and I'm an ugly old man, and still had no trouble getting rides). The parking lots are already at high altitude, about 10,000 feet, so you only have to go another 2,000 to get over the passes.

The actual trails are in good shape, good surfaces, not narrow, not scary. There are places to camp both before and after the highest point of the passes so you can hike at your own pace. If you wanted to camp at the trailhead the night before to get adjusted to the altitude, then go just, say, just 5 miles and 1200 feet your first day, you could do that, and the trails are beautiful the whole way.
That's a great point... and in theory the government elected by the voters is supposed to reflect he will of those who put them into office. But in practice, I don't always see it panning out that way. Prop 22 being a good recent example. California voters elected a state assembly, which passed AB5. But then Prop 22, by direct referendum overturned AB5. So wouldn't this be a case where the government didn't act consistently with the will of the voters?
> LGBTQ creators can be marginalized based on how they act, look, or simply identify. There is nothing about those 3 things that telegraphs "a man's bedroom activity".

When they "act, look, or simplify identify," in a way that easily identifies them as not cisgendered and/or not heterosexual, how are they not telegraphing information about their bedroom activities?
You mean, if they bought the return but then lost the principal when the price declined? Yes, it could.
Westport is home to Bridgewater capital, and Fairfield was until recently home to GE headquarters ( which also used to mean a lot more ).

I haven't lived in the area for some time, but I haven't heard of many new businesses form in the last ~20 years.
The linear assumption I'm referring to is forwards-looking not backwards-looking. Up until say last year I think the consensus was that a production-deployed FSD vehicle was ~5 years away. It shipped this year for both Waymo and Cruise. Unless you're arguing that the pessimists and optimists have just been arguing over the slope of the line, not the curvature (which may be fair.) If that surprise is any indication it leads me to think a similar consensus-breaking event may happen with Tesla, but time will tell when that is, since as you state they are behind in several ways.
I mentioned something similar in another comment. This is the big failure I've seen with Google Maps. Secondary or very secondary roads in winter snow/ice. Doing the country drive thing is (mostly) OK in good weather. It's annoying or worse in a snowstorm or even residual snow.
> push notifications

Dear god no. These should never have been a thing in fact. Especially for untrusted websites. I should make a website that abuses them just to make my point. Their only value is getting an eyeball back on to the ads. This is one thing Apple did right.
Not if the reason the voters keep on voting for the same policies is because they’ve slowly been indoctrinated to believe in the politics.
Thanks. I've seen people order "and no bun." I want to get in and out, so i just order the quarter pounder and throw away the bun.

Wolfram Alpha tells me a quarter pounder is 42g carbs, and it also tells me that the bun is 23g. So the quarter pounder that I just ate goes in my diary as 19g carbs, and the bun goes in the trash.
Please if you leave California, leave the bad ideas and echo chamber there.
The thing with Hatred is that it isn't all that good of a game; so it doesn't make for compelling critical analysis of social response. It has detractors but lacks many supporters, and so it was easily swept aside.

Presently we are seeing significant alarm raised by media over the content, not bugs, within Cyberpunk 2077; accusations have been raised by major outlets that it includes bias in support of law enforcement, a transphobic setting, and bog standard sexism.

But despite its severe bugs and missing features, it's enjoyed three solid weeks as a top seller on Steam and easily made back its expenses through PC pre-orders. For all the flak it gets, the game has an enormous and happy fanbase.

What I see happening is a bifurcation in game players: those who reject the gamer label and reject moral terpitudes, and those who embrace the gamer label and tolerate or enjoy moral terpitude.

I expect that in ten years we'll see an industry with healthy diversity in players and content; divided into their separate groups and with stores that have adapted to cater to specific groups.

A hundred years ago there was the Bay and Sears, and now those have been superseded by a large variety of clothing vendors. I don't expect to buy a cardigan and leather bdsm mask in the same store, right?
Modern equivalent: Rail Settlement Plan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Settlement_Plan
Interesting description, thanks!

>>"decelerate no more than 60km/h in 1.2 seconds"
>>"never send signal AebBreakRequest=1 for longer than 1.2seconds"

I'm surprised to see these specified like this. It seems like it would be much more useful and responsive to real world conditions to specify it is G-Load profiles over milliseconds, especially since the effective braking force is dependent on so many conditions of the vehicle & environment.

So, what do I not know about your system and dev environment?
I don’t think its to double down on controversy but to not be afraid to make product changes they believe in despite the predictable ensuing controversy.
With a cell phone and Google Maps, you can get distance, elevation, obstacles, and more with good-enough precision.

Or, even use our own mission planning software against us - ATAK[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Team_Awareness_Kit

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atakmap.ap...
Totally lost me at

> “IQ” is pseudoscience—no one is intelligent. There is no such thing as intelligence—just inverted stupidity.

Yeah, IQ isn't a great metric. No, the entire concept isn't bullshit.
Just remembered this interesting provocative video from 2011 - https://youtu.be/00gAbgBu8R4
As I understood right - to achieve something like unlimited detailed geometry we need to store objects in adaptive vector form which is very fast to render in current zoom level and will need a little bit of computation if zoom also changes a little. And what encoding form of models/geometry will be the fatest way for rendering? From 2d/ui engine perspective it's just a pixel cache and we only need to copy pixels to viewport. And there will be max zoom level where it makes no sense to cache pixels for bigger zoom level because of memory overhead and ability to render straight from original vector representation in realtime.
But what is equivalent of pixels caching in 3d world? Due to ability of viewing objects/geometry from different sides/angles (without changing distance from camera to object e.g zoom level) we need to have something like 3d pixel cache which seems like huge memory requirements. Maybe voxels or points/splats? Or maybe just same 2d pixels cache but for each 6 sides of object (like 6 edges of cube) and do some pixel interpolation for intermediate viewing angles?
It doesn’t look like they’re marketing their brand to me, more like they’re having fun.
This is like the opposite of anti-vaxx.... any-vaxx? Just shoot up millions of people and hope for the best!
This narrative has been recycled for as long as I've lived and its not wrong but just continues to re-highlight what is actually just a constant current. California is a place where technology companies are birthed largely due to the educated talent here along with progressive values. When those companies become mature they start looking for tax cuts to bolster their established revenue model. Texas and the like is where these companies go to live out the rest of their lives
AAA Triptiks used to. (Maybe they're even still available.)
You trust everything you read?
It is very hard to explain the Covid response, given that this is not the worst pandemic humanity has faced nor is it extremely deadly.

The numbers for suicides in Japan should give pause to the increasing restrictions being applied everywhere, but instead even more restrictions are being put in place.

I fear that life won't be allowed to return to normal until fall 2021, but I hope to be proved wrong.
One way to punish them is to simply buy less. Upgrading electronics is usually superfluous.
> What's troubling to me is that people like you act like some kind of saviour for women yet you don't appear to have ever spoken to or really, really listened to one of them.

Your choice of words is curious. Unless you yourself are something that women need to be protected from, nobody is trying to be a saviour here. I'm not overly concerned if you want to dismiss me as a white knight, since it's not my own social abilities which are in question.

> They don't want to go to work. Who the hell would?

You won't find much argument from me that the modern working environment is inhumane. If this is the root of your argument, you can drop the sexual angle entirely -- we all want fulfillment, no matter our sex. Patronizing women and dictating their social roles to them will not bring us any closer to achieving that as a species, nor will falling into the trap of trying to wrap human social behaviour up in a nice little bow with overly simplistic biological hypotheses.
> They're a classic concurrency foot-gun from the dark old ways of doing things.

Sure you're not thinking of threads? Actor's have only really been done in Erlang, and more recenetly in Akka and Orlean's. AFAIK, there aren't any other paradigms other than CSP or threads for concurrency.

Actor's can have race conditions, same as any other concurrent system but I've personally never actually had any given the design patterns in OTP and Elixir. It's really helpful (to me) that each actor is always deterministic in itself and doesn't share data, only messages. It also maps nicely onto multicore.
Shop bought drones don't have arbitrary, often nonsense requirements. This one advertises that it'll work in 50MPH winds. How common are soldiers dealing with combat in 50MPH winds? It's likely there are other, similarly arbitrary and nonsensical demands that were placed on these.
Wow, whos payroll is this SFGate writer on?
> Taxes!

And specifically, how about a tax on the unimproved value of land? Addresses housing costs pretty readily, and no room for loopholes (you can't exactly move land overseas).

Replace all taxes with LVT, replace all welfare with UBI, cut all other expenditures to a bare minimum, and bing bang boom you've got a system that works to everyone's interests.
I guess in many ways we're doing that already with pine board ply and bamboo benchtops.
Torque is highly relevant, the entire 'benefit' of AWD is being able to distribute torque to all four wheels instead of two. Thing is, with winter tires even a Prius has enough mechanical grip to put the extra torque from the MG's down and many AWD vehicles won't be able to max theirs out with all season tires.

When it comes to winter driving the entire perceived benefit of AWD vehicles for commuter use goes out the window as soon as you need seasonal tires, basically. Yes, it will still better help put the power down given equal tires - but at that point the extra cost of the AWD system isn't giving you too much benefit if you are only buying it for winter driving.
try sin(8 * x)/2 * x/sin(t)

or even

sin(b * x * t/clamp(b/10,x/t,t)) * x * clamp(b/40 * t,x/10,t)

or
sin(b * x * t/clamp(b/10,x / t,t)) * x * clamp(b/40,x/10,t)

or
sin( b * x * t/clamp(b/10,x/t,t)) * x * (x-x * x) * clamp(b/4,sin (x * t) * x/10,t)
You can embed a comments API using micro - m3o.com. Sign-up, run the comments service, copy/paste some JS code and there you have it.
It can be an engineering marvel and practically useless in the industry at the same time. I do love the dancing though. And the fact they actually went for boogie-like steps and a choreography rather than a more technical presentation.
> immediately after this become public, Apple put Wistron on probation

That's far too late and at that point they had no choice. They deserve no credit for doing it.
San Francisco's housing prices have risen the same percentages for the last 100 years straight.

People blame whatever recently changed in any city everywhere.

In one city it's wealthy people from China, in another city its tech, in another city its finance while the tech people earn the exact same amount as in the prior city and fly completely under the radar.

It's just scarcity, no matter how it is sliced.
I don’t think you properly understand “spartan”/ brutalist. The video is using the materials in their most outrageous but possible form to demonstrate their flexibility, and executed in an imposing way. How’s that not brutalist?
Before I learned Rails I used EventMachine, which was very "async". Everything was a chained callback. So Ruby has had the option of this complexity for a while.
Raspberry Pi as FM Transmitter
A New Therapy to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection Just Started Trials
Nah, Olimex rulez. Lime2 has 1Gb memory and 1Gbps networking and runs A20 using mainline kernel with a few tweaks.

Odroid C2 has no mainline support for HDMI output yet.
Wow. Great news. Can't wait! Really looking to ditch Google Maps.
C'mon. These companies are fleeing because they can't be competitive in the local labor market.

Who wants to work at HPE or Oracle? Almost literally nobody.
Fair enough (I'm not a Neurips reviewer or author), but I can accept the idea that convex optimization papers likely don't need to pre-write a societal impact statement (although I think that, as controversial as the paper may be, stuff like the Gebru et. al. paper on large language models ethical concerns shows that there probably is room for more interesting thought than just "ehhh, efficiency" in many places).

But the subtext of this letter goes fairly deep (and to be clear this isn't meant as a response to you specifically):

- While it doesn't specifically say it, this letter does appear to be at least somewhat anti-ethical concerns in general, which isn't good.

- At least one of the signatories of this letter has not, in my opinion at least, followed the guidelines in this letter. Insinuating that a colleague of holds an opinion because they watch too much online porn is in no way civil, and is absolutely a personal attack.

- Given the "disagreement" between Domingos and Anandkumar, who as others mention, sits on the ACM editorial board, this could be an attempt to censure or "cancel" her for her personal views. This is antithetical to the values held in the letter itself, and leaves a sour taste.
Pedro Domingos, for those who don't know, wrote "The Master Algorithm" and is a professor at the University of Washington. Recently, Anima Anandkumar (Director of AI at nvidia) tried to get him cancelled/blacklisted. I wrote more about the incident in this comment from a past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871
Its a bit harder to control how much collateral damage occurs with A2G missiles. Put a rifle on a humanoid robot or small explosive on a drone like in Slaughterbots and that’s much more terrifying.
You got really close here, but in comparing USA to Taiwan somehow assumed TPTB here want to save Americans from pain and death. Sorry, you'll have to take the class over. Don't worry, they'll give the class again very soon. We had to wait twelve years last time. Now that they've figured some things out, this class will repeat every three years at the maximum.
> Many other sciences have IRB and human factors approvals for experiments that involve or may involve humans.

As far as I know, those are for experiments that directly interact with humans as part of the experiment itself. They exist because of a long history of unethical researchers testing interventions (or lack thereof) on people without their knowledge or informed consent - e.g. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, MK-ULTRA, Stanford prison experiment (there are a lot). The closest equivalent in CS of directly-interacting experiments would be HCI research as you said. I could also see a strong argument being made for research that uses the creative or copyrighted output of a person without their consent - for example, their face as part of training facial recognition software, their written words as part of training GPT-3, their voice as part of training voice recognition software, etc.

However the incident in question is really about a different kind of thing - it's asking researchers to speculate on the future ramifications of their research as it pertains to progressive ideals - in practice this means, "How could this negatively affect minorities or the environment?" These aren't inherently bad things to think about, but as you get further and further away from concrete applications of ML, it begins to look more and more like a religious ritual than something that is actually trying to address the stated problems.
Does someone know how to compute the intersection of two convex polygons?
I would like to have a linear cost for this, on internet i just found algorithms with quadratic cost. thanks!
WOW!

I will test this too!

So far i test underclocking, playing with different SD cards and so on.
That's definitely one I'm adding to my reading list! Thanks for the recommendation