skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point the v4 compatibility feature is not going to be attractive to significant nr of people. Just like parallel ports in PCs ceased to be. So yes there's a force favouring legacy support, but it's only so strong, and prone to weakening.

The transition will take a while because of old devices, I agree with that. But still doesn't change the prospect that v4 will go away eventually.
Lack of demand I'm guessing. Within cities it's much easier to find healthier food at restaurants.
Someone clicked a link from mass distributed spam email? ...and everyone working on Windows I bet.
You can do healthy meal delivery plans or for the really rich, hire a chef. The healthy for life plans are quite good. I lost weight on them.
Both of those changes increase parallelism and concurrency, they do not decrease latency by themselves.
Common refrain:

The Raspberry Pi is more than it's hardware.
Software support and Community support make it what it is.
My understanding is this is precisely backwards: using BMI to gauge your own health is inaccurate, but using it to analyze populations is the intended purpose.
The problem with FSD is that with humans, if they can’t see the road because a window has ice on it, they would go and clean it till they can make good enough judgement. But FSD just keep on going with less performance, whether you know it or not.

They need to clean themselves reliably
China's Camps Have Forced Labor and Growing US Market
Netflix show "Rotten", Season 1, Episode "Garlic Breath". It's been a hotly contested episode. I haven't seen any debate about the peeled garlic, though.
From the article:

"It boasts a stealthy low visual profile and the ability to fly even in strong winds of more than 50mph. It was the only nano-UAV able to cope with the uncompromising weather during a recent Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) event hosted by the Ministry of Defence’s Future Capability Group."
You're right that it's technically democracy. You're wrong that there's simply no other way. I don't know what that other way is, but the society needs to keep evolving.

The current state of democracy in countries like UK and US brings to mind that famous Churchill quote:

"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

The common conclusion seems to be "oh, okay, guess that's it, then" rather than "maybe it's time to try something we haven't yet".
If it could take 50g of cargo, that would be just one run over the border to pay it off, if you know what I mean. I guess cartels would be all over this "bug".
I think everyone working in tech knows that sometimes simplistic solutions handle the vast majority of cases. The people who are muscular athletes are probably not worried about their BMI, but if they are, they can discuss with their doctors.
This is about photorealistic game graphics, which are indeed hard, because there isn't enough computational power to really simulate the world, so it's 99% tricks that look "almost right".

I'd like to add to this that another reason game graphics are challenging is schools don't teach it. If you get a compsci degree and focus on video game graphics, the most you'll likely do in the courses is make an incredibly unoptimized software raytracer render some shiny spheres, a task that could not be farther from actual game engine development.
I can understand that. I was thinking more along the lines of helping people break out of the conditions that force them into terrible work environments, though of course the nature of that depends on the country. Could be anything from direct cash payments to funding education or groups working to change policy. I just want to be able to pay for all the externalities, but it's extremely hard to know where the issues are let alone the people equipped to address them, for each item.
or it will stop randomly with: "hooman clean me"
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/751475650439966722/ph...
I could probably pick an average lock after only a few hours of training. It would probably take me a good few years to get to the point where I would be able to run a successful hack.
As the Daleks put it, "EXTERNALIZE!"
Same type of genre, but perhaps you've already seen it, is "The Way Back". Colin Farrell is particularly good in it. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/
It’s surprisingly hard to find good charts on this topic, but I stumbled across this thread today:

https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1343955297073770496?

These charts very clearly show an uptick in the nationwide homicide rate starting in 2014. It then levels off. And then there’s a big jump again this year.

This is entirely consistent with my claim that rates are way up nationwide and that they started going up before 2020.
There's a point where you can actually see the robot dripping fluid.
Drones are integral to current warfare and will continue to become even more important. And as we've seen in the Caucuses, the nations with the most effective drones will easily conquer other countries without or with worse drones.

Aside from that, we've come really far with drones which are amazing technology-wise. We have small drones like these with a 2km-range and large drones that can carry huge payloads, i.e. payloads in the tons of kg, while also having ranges in the thousands of kilometres. Although it is remarkable technology-wise, I believe it foreshadows a horrible future for humans that we have such advanced murder weapons. And especially now that drones have become cheap to produce.
Yes uncensored sites will have distasteful, terrible, and repugnant content.

That is a GOOD thing, and a FEATURE not a deterrent.

You do not defeat bad ideas, and repugnant ideologies with suppression of speech. Sorry it does not work that way no matter how much the Authoritarian Left and the Authoritarian Right would love it to
You blame yourself, sure. "It's on you". But the other person committed a crime, and that's separate to your view on the matter.
Alternative version: I remember watching your great grandmother's legs cavorting around in Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" video ... in 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
Man, those humans are so dumb thinking they can drive safely just by looking at the road /s
In an ideal frictionless gas (zero viscosity), the flow after the object has passed through will be identical to the flow before the object, so in that sense the air moves "seamlessly" around the object. But during this process, the pressure of the gas still changes. You can think of this as just newton's second law: in order to change the velocity of an air packet, you must apply a force to it, and pressure is just force per area. So any time a gas flows in anything other than a straight line, you know that there was a pressure gradient involved and the pressure was not constant.

It's a common example in fluid mechanics textbooks to derive the flow of a zero-viscosity gas around a cylinder, you can get an exact solution e.g. here: http://brennen.caltech.edu/fluidbook/basicfluiddynamics/pote... . Note that in this example there is no drag, but there are two zones of high pressure in front of and behind the cylinder. Those zones would have higher-than-ambient temperature.
Crazy idea: Why doesn't Intel launch their own cloud IaaS offering?

Value proposition: Intel needs to scale manufacturing and R&D, in a way that doesn't leave them in a performance bind (ie without performance, they can't sell at scale, and thus can't afford to buy performance). Abstracting compute behind an IaaS offering would let them do exactly that while providing an alternate sink for binned chips.

Furthermore, they've got decent HW/SW integration talent in-house, and they could offer a key feature other clouds couldn't: vendor agnosticism. Building {PaaS product} on an Intel cloud seems strategically smarter than building on one of the continually-vertically-integrating clouds.
I think it happens in just about every realm when you get close to the innovative edge, especially in tech: you can be really excited about some aspects of $SHINY_NEW_THING while recognizing that it has serious drawbacks in other realms--possibly realms that people expect $SHINY_NEW_THING to excel at as a contender in the space.

(inb4 "Sure it goes fast, but the panel gaps!")

Personally I love Tesla-the-company and my Tesla vehicle because of the innovation it's driving in the space--and I'm willing to tolerate the ways it falls short due to how incredible it is in other ways.... but I do try to be up front about those shortcomings when I discuss it, at the risk of being one of those "I love my Tesla, but..." people.
> As an outsider, why doesn't/can't Ruby implement a full actor system like Erlang/BEAM?

Do you really want an actor system?

Actors are non-determinsitic, extremely prone to difficult-to-debug race conditions, and inherently stateful. They're a classic concurrency foot-gun from the dark old ways of doing things.

Don't we want to be moving away from these models that we know trip people up? Can't we do better than this for Ruby?
Oh come on. I'm overweight by BMI behind lifting, but take a trip outside a coastal city and you will find that the number of people in similar positions amounts to rounding error in the general population.
One of the best episodes!

It’s like a totally different series to that last season with vr-gay/not-gay falcon man and Miley Cyrus signing a bad NiN cover.

But yea. The mean robot dogs, just good short form story telling with so little dialog.
They already had this debate in the 1980's -- that video games were "taking over teenager's minds", that they were "promoting violence", etc., etc.

What a lunk of crap!

I mean, back then we didn't have 16 Million colors or high-resolution monitors with small fine pixels -- all the games used color palettes of 16 or 8 colors, and they were blocky as hell... like my tank (represented as a block) shot a smaller block (the bullet, use your imagination, work with me here! <g>) into your tank (represented by yet another block of a different color!) and the "explosion" was that the other tank would turn a series of (lame) colors -- and disappear!

So my question is, WHERE IN THE HELL IS THE ACTUAL GRAPHICAL DEPICTION OF VIOLENCE? -- in these early video games?

This is like saying that "Pong" -- made people violent!

It didn't! (Well, unless they were violent to begin with and lost a game of pong, and were prone to violence when they lost various games! But those people are the exception, not the rule! <g>)

You see, that video games cause violence

was a lie back then,

and

it's still a lie today! <g>
Anything you miss from Rails now that you're primarily using Phoenix for those use cases? Elixir/Phoenix does look pretty intriguing to me, though the support universe is smaller.

What held me back so far is that a lot of simple B2B, low volume stuff doesn't seem to benefit from the high parallelism that BEAM brings.

But I'm wondering if it brings enough other advantages that I shouldn't view it that simplistically.
Jesus y'all are so cynical, commenting on how these are war bots and gonna automate everything away, I just think it's an engineering marvel that these insanely complex robotic maneuvers can be done so fluidly now
> In the meantime, OSM generally doesn't even have place addresses in my experience.

As @matkoniecz pointed out, OSM is quite capable of having place addresses mapped to a specific spot. If your experience has been that they are missing, then that is most likely because no one has added them to OSM for the area's in which you have looked.

But the good part about OSM is that anyone, including you, can add those details, and they appear in the main map within seconds to minutes of someone adding them. So you could help rectify the missing situation by adding some of that missing data.

If you don't want to learn all the OSM details, and provided some background details are present (generally building outlines for address data questions) one easier way to help add the data is via StreetComplete (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete). It asks simple questions, you enter the answer, and the app handles the low-level OSM tagging changes based upon the answer given.
The car is comfortable, responsive, stylish, fun, and feels great to drive. The cruise control is fantastic in stop-and-go traffic. I always look forward to driving it. And then every once in a while does something that drives me absolutely crazy, for a minute, and then goes back to being fun again.
People might say use your head more next time, but no one blames the person who was mugged.

They do, quite often. Same is true for rape victims. It may even be that weak-seeming people are more likely to be blamed as victims, because they serve as an uncomfortable reminder of danger and have already shown that they can be defeated. Think of negative feedback loops where people start to avoid someone they perceive as being unlucky, thus leading to poorer outcomes in future.
Yeah, I just worked backwards from the metrics they provided and at my height I would have to be under 165 lbs to not be considered overweight. In high school I weighed about 180, and was not overweight in the slightest. I had a six-pack, and was fairly active. Yet my BMI suggests I was half-way through the overweight range on my way to obese? That seems somewhat ridiculous.
I hiked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundy_Footpath in highschool. Was definitely a fun experience and not too challenging.
So what's the main barrier to using these industrially?

Is it reliability? Did this video a zillion takes?

Is it manufacturing? Maybe it's hard to scale them up?

Is it battery life? Maybe it can power itself for just a few minutes?

Is it object manipulation or sensing/world understanding? Maybe it can't apply the right forces to a soft thing or a flexible thing or know what it can step on vs over or what will move or stay still?

Is it just that anything worth automating is worth specializing, and there are better robots for different specific tasks?

We've seen industrial robots for a while now, and these more general robots have gotten really good, so where are they?
From the article: Hedge fund Third Point, who are said to own > $1B of Intel shares, is
pushing Intel to explore whether it should keep chip design and production under one roof.
This is in response to
Intel's having lost to TSMC and Samsung the top spot in semi manufacturing, and
losing market share to AMD and Nvidia.
Third Point suggests that
Intel’s most urgent task was addressing its "human capital management issue" as many of its talented chip designers have fled, "demoralized by the status quo".
>Accurate body fat tests either require expensive equipment or training to use.

I agree, that's why I think it's lazy and disingenuous. Look how much we fund global warming research. But when it comes to calling something a "national health crisis," we don't even bother and take something invented around the time of Andrew Jackson's administration. Good enough, right?

>There aren't that many people with overweight BMIs that aren't overweight.

How many people would you estimate have overweight BMI's aren't overweight? How are you even defining overweight? See how it's a soft metric? Countries basing taxation and policy on this stuff.

You are overweight and part of the national health crisis, period. No discussion because the BMI doesn't allow it.
It’s not a solution because a critical mass of consumers aren’t going to boycott tipping in the absence of a massive and effective collective action.

Organize this movement, give workers fair warning before acting, and then act – and then you can say you were being honest and principled.

Stiff an individual worker as a grumpy, self-righteous individual consumer, and all you are doing is exploiting a tacit agreement and risking someone’s ability to pay their bills. Someone who doesn’t have that many options for employment, otherwise they wouldn’t be working in such a risky arrangement to begin with.
So you're making my point for me? Even the most vertically integrated manufacturer, who tries to avoid Chinese dependencies for strategic reasons, can't avoid it.
People read entire machine translated novels. It's not too uncommon with Chinese xianxia/xuanhuan novels. We're talking thousands of pages. It's not as incomprehensible as you might think. I didn't find it enjoyable though. I can certainly see a place for automatically translated manga. It's not a sellable product though.
> It boasts a stealthy low visual profile

The one in the article's picture looks like a flying brick. A lot of money to be made in this field - there's a low barrier to entry in the market.
There are missing women even in Australia and Canada - son preference is cultural.

https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/the-missing-girls-never-bo...

"mothers within some key migrant communities are recording sons at rates of 122 and 125 for every 100 daughters in later pregnancies."

The solution is for migrant-receiving countries (ie. the West) to place a limit of 49% males from any one country on any type of visa. This will dramatically boost the intake of females (for some visas and countries eg. India, the intake is 75% male) and thus their value to society in their home country.

Alternatively male migration could just be banned altogether from countries which practice systematic sex-selective abortion.
What excites me about Patreon and Substack is the underlying cultural shift that makes them possible.

10 years ago, users of a free service I run urged me to put up a Paypal donation button like they were dying to throw money at me. After months of urging, I finally did. ...I received so little in donations that I refunded the money.

Last year, my users urged me to put up a Patreon and, expecting the worst, I finally did it. The service isn't nearly as popular as it was 10 years ago, yet they've committed $300+/month which is enough to at least pay for some of my time to improve the service, a service I considered taking down.

It's hard to overstate what's going on here. There are avenues opening up just when I thought, yesterday, that they closed off for good.

Just like Adsense created a content renaissance that let small creators (on a couple mediums) make a living, it might not be overstating it to say that we're seeing the next one, this time with direct, recurring (important!) funding.

Aside, I wonder what the historian's analysis of the cultural shift would look like mapped out. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitch was the lynchpin in normalizing direct contribution.
My definition of "winning" is making a useful product that sells & turns a profit. But if the liability is unlimited & unknowable, your new chemical might turn a profit & do some good - or you might be sued into bankruptcy, and you can't know for sure which it will be, no matter how much study you do. It's just gambling.

With liability limits, you can do the math on whether a chemical is worth the risk because while some things are unknowable, your maximum liability is already established.

That's why I favor a "due diligence" regulatory arrangement.
The Columbine murderers played a bit of FPS, I wish it had reduced their anger.
Cool! Almost makes me forget that BAE Systems defrauded the American public by bribing Michael Chertoff to buy full body scanners from BAE Systems for $3B. Chertoff then joined BAE Systems as a Chairman of the Board.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/chertoff-joins-defe...

https://www.aofs.org/2010/04/12/secretary-michael-chertoff-b...
Shouldnt they allow data export in a way that could be used to upload all content to a different platform? I think that's GDPR data portability clause. Unless YouTube is exempt (and probably technically is exempt as no civil servant will dare to touch such a giant)
But just the fact that this exists at any price means that it will eventually become ubiquitous, unless something even smaller and more capable takes its place. That price was in 2016, so who knows if it's already down to $100k or below. In 10-20 years, these things will be priced like laptops and be far more capable than the current models.
I've got my first good pair with open domes when I was preparing for university. They are still good, and I let my hearing aids be programmed so that the lowest gain setting was the most comfortable, with two directional microphone configurations for different circumstances. But still, the extra noise coming with the additional gain is wearing me out. Perhaps it's some another condition I'm not aware of. I am quite sensitive to noise despite being half deaf with ~50% loss.
Conservatives like you seem to decide whether they want to conform or rebel based on what day of the week it is. It’s hypocrisy up and down the ideology.

Is privacy and anonymity important? Well yes it is! We don’t want draconian measures like universal background checks for gun sales. That would be an invasion of privacy. But wait, we can’t have people wearing masks, that increases crime by liberals! You can’t just walk down the street and be anonymous!

Is pollution important? Not when it comes to ensuring that the economy keeps going and that American business can operate. We need to get rid of the job-killing environmental regulations! We need more coal to help the miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia! Did you know that windmills cause cancer? But wait! No no, masks are wasteful, that would harm the environment!

Conformity is okay too! Don’t speak any English? Get out of America! Don’t like saying Merry Christmas? Maybe try a different country. How dare you take Under God out of our pledge of allegiance or stop reciting it entirely! By the way, Trump is right about everything, full stop. BUT WAIT wearing a mask is conformity!!! That’s bad!!

Rebellion? That’s really good! Let’s hang up a confederate flag and be proud of our rebellious nature. Only American patriots are able to rebel against the British Empire. Let’s literally make a Republican Party faction called the Tea Party, in honor of the destruction of property (riots) against our oppressors. We’ve got our second amendment to prevent against government oppression. BUT WAIT!! You can’t let Antifa or BLM or anyone anyone not-white rebel! Thin blue line, support our troops, blue lives matter. How dare anyone question our great police!

The truth is that people like you don’t actually know why you don’t like masks. You can’t explain it because it doesn’t make any sense, it’s literally just selfishness, paranoia, and meaningless contrarianism. Wearing a mask is supposed to be some kind of big deal compared to showing your ID with all of your personal information on it to buy a beer, or getting your nude body scanned at the airport, or letting your employer see your financial and criminal history. But no, it’s the piece of cloth over temporarily over your face that’s invasive.
I would bloody well hope that people manufacturing COVID vaccines are the quintessential essential workers, who should be the first in line for getting COVID vaccines.

On the other hand, given how poorly essential workers are actually treated by our society, I doubt that's how things actually work. (See - senior hospital administrators getting vaccines ahead of front-line medical staff...)
>Hoover was a criminal

Are you really saying that the FBI has and continues to celebrate a criminal [1] and their own criminal behaviour as most exemplary? For nearly half a century now? And no bi-partisan political rebuke? And are not treated with total contempt by every adult in the USA and every court in the world?

How is that remotely possible? Surely this is a conspiracy theory?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building