skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the surface, this is an easy case for Apple. Their argument is simple: iOS is not a licensed product like Windows. You can’t run it - virtualized or not - without Apple’s permission. I do think Apple will win the follow up appeal.

For even a billion dollar company (let alone a 2 trillion dollar company), their legal team has had some surprisingly bad failings.

I recall another “cupcake” case they lost a few years ago because they walked into the courtroom without sufficient evidence (despite it being clear the other party was a copyright-infringing troll) and lost the ruling. Once a legal team starts taking things for granted, it’s time to find a new one.
Not super pleased to acknowledge robots can now dance better than me
Correction made. The ones which were caused by a GPS have been prominent in the Mojave desert.
There is no evidence the sun will rise tomorrow either.

But it is still rational to use logic and experience and assume that sunrise will probably happen as usual tomorrow, and these vaccines probably behave like other vaccines.
You may underestimate how expensive imaging sensors are in low quantities, a sensor available in single quantities at mouser is the cmosis cmv1200 apsc sensor for $1600-1800 a piece, full frame cmv5000 is $5000+ afair. A whole ecosystem probably wouldn't get the quantities.
>If conditions are bad enough to cause a FWD or RWD car to hydroplane then there’s nothing AWD can do to help it given the same tires.

How can anyone say this with a straight face?

Spreading the motive power out over twice as many tires does a ton to help.
In a high level dynamic language with exceptions, there's already so many implicit "colors" to a function that I think this is still the right choice.
You can't run Linux on Apple ARM hardware. It's closed, undocumented and proprietary.
It’s all very cool looking.

However when I watched this video my first thought was “my god they’re going to bring the drone wars to the ground.” I am a robotics engineer and have been focused on robotics my whole life. I worked at Google X on a robotics team with some great ex-Boston Dynamics people, and some of my friends have since gone to work for them.

So I do understand what they have achieved. It’s fantastic from a technological perspective. And I know they have non military funders now. There’s a great many labor applications for machines like this if they can sell them for under half a million dollars and get them to do real work. I understand all that.

But I fear that if the US military orders some, the company would happily oblige. Maybe they’ve committed to only peaceful non military use. But these extremely agile and capable machines to me seem like some military strategists dream come true. So when I watch all of this achievement from a company that for so long survived off of military funding, I am deeply saddened by the implications.

Delivery robots and warehouse workers would be great. But these seem like in ten or 20 years time they’ll be another extension of the US global killing machine. I dream of a world where we can use robotics to make the world better, and the potential military use here leaves me uneasy. I cannot celebrate what I fear will be the dawn of ever more inhuman military conflict.
Relying on GMaps can be dangerous especially in winter, because it doesn't seem to take time of the year into account.

A few years back we travelled with friends to a mountain resort for the new year's eve. Instead of choosing a longer, well maintained primary road to our destination, it chose a slightly shorter secondary road through a high mountain pass, where it was snowing like hell and obviously no ploughs were around.

I was a passenger and wasn't involved in route selection, but the lesson is that it might be good to take time to discuss this before. Also, zoom out before driving and see high level plan instead of blindly following first-person view of the road. Or, you know, old school low tech solution: call the locals and ask for best road.
Hearing aids have been doing this for 20+ years. The big players in the market have been fine-tuning their algorithms and hardware for a long time to be able to fit even severe hearing losses with a good sound. Modern aids also very impressive with sound localisation and context-switching between people speaking in groups.

Edit: That's not to say this isn't a cool project, it is VERY cool.
I'm kind of curious, what would this do which actually requires GB ethernet? Seems like processing limits and SD card speed would get overwhelmed quickly.

Does this have enough HP to work as a caching proxy or mini firewall?
Ted's+Awesome+Woodworking+(Optin+Page)
This reminds me of my favourite Windows application ever: EvalDraw.

It's like this, except that beyond drawing single-argument f(x) -> y functions, it also draws f(x, y) -> z heatmaps, f(x, y) -> (R, G, B) colored heatmaps, f(x, y, z) -> (R, G, B) volumetric 3D graphics, and all these have also a f(..., t) -> ... variant for animations. And then you dig in and discover it somehow also has keyboard & mouse input handling, can play sounds (and can be used for live procedural music), simulate a piano keyboard, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. It was my go-to tool for visualizing any kind of math back during the university years.

In fact, I just took a look at it again (after not using it for years) and I discovered it has networking capability, IDE features, and - I kid you not - it seems to compile the scripts down to native code, offering a helpful x86 ASM output in the built-in debugger. It can dump executables, has bindings to OpenGL and support for old-school VR (colored stereoscopic, NVidia 3DVision).

All in an executable that weighs 746 KB.

It's hands-down one of the most impressive pieces of software I have ever seen.

http://advsys.net/ken/download.htm#evaldraw

EDIT: And if you give it a try, be sure to check some of the ridiculous amount of examples it comes bundled with, which include games, explorable explanations, infinite calendars, optical systems simulations, and a whole host of other stuff.
Every AWS product I've used has gotten cheeper over the years (excluding the free tier / beta free periods)
surely if you have a js asset on one, official server, then it will just be cached once and you'll never have to serve it at all after that, and as such serving it "fast" isn't the issue?
Important context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419844

The author of the blacklist retracted the list and apologized.
Perhaps the issue is that the funding agency is not sophisticated enough to realize that there's no value, or more value elsewhere?
Could be, other night in the United States. You’re required to use actual production versions of the food and ads here.
Thank you for your feedback! Getting it to be good enough for HN'ers is the right first step :)

The hypothesis is that "niche" might be good enough to bootstrap something more generally interesting.
Sorry, I should have said user-exposed/user-visible (and I've edited). It's the same situation with the PS5.

Clearly, Nintendo doesn't consider it good enough for general use. And having played with it, I very much agree—it doesn't work on lots of sites and likes to crash a lot. I assume the PS5's browser is the same.
(2019) please
Yup clearly the people saying this have never been the younger kid around an asshole older one.
What would be a better word to describe someone who is passionate about maps?

Perhaps I used the word “cartographer” incorrectly. I apologize, my native language is German so English is not always 100% forthcoming to me.
Personally, no. They distract me from content and I often find myself jumping to comments directly if I know there are some.

I'm from a region where they're pretty common on news sites, so I've created a Firefox add-on that hides the comments from about 40 local websites that I chose via Alexa ranks.
But can I inhale sharply and hold while measuring?
Well this discussion is about snow/slippery conditions, engine torque is largely irrelevant.
And maybe even more because they didn't even have customers at all until recently. In fact nobody wanted to even buy their business. Who's laughing now? (probably the robots)
Now try hosting two different web services on two different hosts inside your NATted network on port 443, so you can use https:// without specifying a port.

Because that's the big advantage with IPv6 and users getting subnets instead of a single IP.
In 2008, Facebook was hailed as tool for democracy. Then Americans democratically chose someone that the creators of Facebook didn't like. Now it's a 'doomesday' tool apparently.
Completely agree on the first point - x86 will be around for a long time - but I do think they need to get it onto a cutting edge process, and that means TSMC and quickly.
Don't Be Too Quick to Judge Sweden's Covid-19 Policy
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YouTube is free to do what they want but sensible actions should be informed by the law. Currently, you can't be charged with anything for describing how to do something.

It goes even further: you can sell a kit with instructions on how to make something illegal and this is perfectly fine.
It could also just be that it took 100 takes to shoot this little video. You might stop to watch the first 10 times, but the third day, it's become routine.
It strikes me as odd that these resources are listed by title, not by author. In my (natural science) field, it's very much the reverse. I wonder whether this is a disciplinary difference, or just a reflection of Gordon's preference.
I ran into a surprising problem with Google maps recently. "Ok Google, driving directions to Fremont Central Park"

Google locates the park address as 40000 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont 94538. The pin is dropped in a fine place, at the building by the Lake Elizabeth boat ramp.

I mostly know where I'm going anyway, and as I come up Washington Blvd I notice it's asking me to turn early, so I follow just for kicks. Inexplicably, gmaps directs me to an area about a mile to the south of my destination, at the end of the Railroad Ave trail (https://goo.gl/maps/G5xV7MDemtbtmNYRA). It then appears to suggest that I park and walk the trail for a mile to get to my destination. In the middle of downtown Fremont! When using driving directions!

The weirdest part is that gmaps clearly knows that it's taken me to the wrong place. There's a dotted line instructing me to walk a mile along a footpath. But then, why not just take me to the actual destination address in my car, which has a huge parking lot? I can't wrap my head around what's going wrong in this scenario.

This wasn't a fluke. I reliably get told that this is the best way to the park. If gmaps can be this wildly wrong in the middle of Fremont CA then I can only imagine how bad it gets in rural areas.
> Whilst trying to avoid the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, I'd argue that this system is FP only in name,

I think that, at least for the purposes of the way of thinking that I am moving toward, it isn't exactly that, so much as that we seem to have hit a point of very vehement agreement, except perhaps for some slightly different coloring on the pessimism/optimism scale.

I agree with you that well-done functional code is much nicer to work with, or that the spot where this code I was working with went off the rails is that it kept departing from functional style when the original authors though it convenient to do so. It's more that I'm discovering that FP has an Achilles heel, and it turns out that it was exactly the same Achilles heel that produced my ultimate frustration with SOLID: In typical usage, it's an unstable equilibrium point. I suspect, in retrospect, that one movement failed and the other is doomed to fail because, as you allude to in that last paragraph, they're both trying to solve the wrong problem.

Other background information here is that I've lately been learning Smalltalk and Rust, and, as a result, seeing how eliminating state is far from the only way to tame it. And I've been noticing that, from a readability and maintainability perspective, many of the most compelling open source codebases I'm aware of tend to be neither functional nor object-oriented.
I'm a fairly recent graduate from school- I accidentally carried a pocketknife in the bottom of my bag from grade 6 to 11, never had amy problems with it.
I find that in big organizations, this is is a very frequent pattern. There is a commonly accepted approach that is obviously wrong to a subset of people. However, the people that are able to see the "wrongness" either don't have the political skills to accelerate a mental shift for the entire organization, or they choose to apply their limited "political leverage" to a different (often smaller and more tractable) problem instead.
[x] Doubt

I've built dozens of multirotors and you can clearly see AMAXinno motors on the thing, (https://uavtek.co.uk/uav-fleet/bug) plus the big bulging 18650s. 99.9% chance it's using a COTS multirotor firmware or some variant of Ardupilot, and the camera looks like an old-school analog FPV camera. From the specs sounds like they have it running on the 5.8Ghz ISM band, so the thing will fall out of the sky the instant it encounter interference from some poorly configured consumer electronics.
“This is cause for concern but not alarm,” the federal scientist said of the arrival of the variant in the United States, noting that there is no evidence it causes more severe infection. But the scientist added that the United Kingdom variant, as well as one spreading rapidly in South Africa, “appear to be more transmissible, meaning they can move rapidly through a population of people. And this is one more reason to do everything you can to prevent infection and its spread.”

How likely will this spread like wild-fire across the US? How will we know if the current vaccine can work against this variant?
That is also a good idea because people are motivated more to act when something goes wrong; and a close second is when they are excited to share a good discovery. The DefaultReviews [1] gist may offer some guidance:

"...rating by default is the equivalent of saying "everything is okay". That rating is made without you having to lift a finger. You only have to lift a finger to change it to "awesome" or to "sucks" or to add a elaboration for others to read."

Also, the final section of DefaultReviews [1] may also help solve your inevitable problem with faked reviews. Pull requests welcome.

[1] https://gist.github.com/iL3D/59df64947d42828d848ebfc1651a312...
From their marketplace business, not their platform business
Sorry for your failed relationship and also I disagree because their backflip video was a hit.
It's not the same technique. That article is describing how to plot functions when drawing them using fragment shaders, via the vertical y-axis distance to the function. So to get a constant width line you have to compensate for the slope of the line. Graph Toy is using line drawing to render the function plots, and samples the function once for every pixel horizontally, so the line width issue it taken care of. It's very easy to pop open your dev tools panel and read the source code, BTW, it's not minified or obfuscated. The drawing routine is called draw().
First, Understand the Company Goals
Thanks. Those do seem like a good option if Ubuntu works well on them and they're reliable. They claim to support full gigabit speeds on both NICs. It doesn't look like one can actually order the 4 GB model right now though.
>String theory has not made predictions that are in any sense meaningful to science.

You're welcome to set the bar of meaningful at any level you like; such a statement cannot in principle be disagreed with. However the point stands that string theory has made more accurate empirical predictions than any other theory of quantum gravity. That doesn't mean no other theory of quantum gravity will ever beat it, just that the focus on string theory among people and funders who are precomitted to studying quantum gravity is rational.
Are you incapable of grasping the concept of me just assuring someone is right to ask a followup question?
It's not relevant to determine if it is a security but if it is one it still must be of something and since you think it should be a security I asked you. Again that's me asking you for your personal opinion of what XRP/ETH shall be a security. If I wanted legal advice I wouldn't ask an internet stranger.
OR perhaps the issue that the same people who are in the clique of the said field are also evaluating the research proposals. So the funding doesn’t run dry?

Not that that’s a good or bad thing. You wouldn’t want a “non-expert” to evaluate the proposal. And perhaps a tapering of the funding is better indicator of interest/progress of the field?
Honest question in return, why should I distrust it?

The claims seem to be roughly in line with many other reports about the Xinjiang region, China's government and worker conditions in the tech sector.

Is there something you are implying?
Julian Barbour’s provocative theory offers an optimistic view of our destiny
To be fair, you equate anti-fascism with terrorism; that kind-of points in that direction
GSMArena YouTube channel got hijacked
Well, there _is_ quite a bit less funding for anything in Physics nowadays, at least compared to the Cold War era. Some professors have indeed been forcibly pushed out of Physics for this reason, but mostly it has an effect of making things more hopeless for younger folk (due to the cronyism problem mentioned above).
The channel seemed to be offering links to download pirated software too. If this was occurring, YouTube did the right thing.

"Burp Suite v1.7.30 Pro Cracked Version Download Details:- Version:- 1.7.30 Pro License Expires:- Dec 2 , 2018 Size:- 26 MB Download links:- https://drive.google.com..."
https://nypost.com/2020/12/12/english-house-with-banksy-artw...
Well, you can get pretty close with overpass, but I don't think "outdoor dining" is a tag in OSM? I don't often edit restaurants.

https://overpass-turbo.eu/

OSM is primarily a database, it's a shame mostt frontends aren't extremely user-friendly, it could easily capture a lot of users. Brouter, OSMand, overpass are gems built on OSM data.
recently downloaded before the update. With and without it so far I like everything
I think most of their robots are more research than product, except maybe most recent models like spot. It's first and foremost an amazing engineering for the sake of engineering.
So what's the deal with these guys? Obviously their tech is pretty cool since I remember the control and feedback problem for bipedal bots being described as really hard when I was growing up. Obviously their consumer marketing is great since everyone looks at these things and loves them.

But they don't have a product. What's the problem? My guesses:

* No one really needs this shit

* They have a control/feedback problem in interaction with moving objects i.e. this thing can't high-five you without breaking your hand or open a can

We usually handwave this shit with "But The Military" but like what's the use-case for the military? This fucker doesn't know how to react to anything so it's a bipedal trolley. But it's too expensive a trolley. If you take this guy with you, your mission is going to end up being to protect this guy. Take an extra human and he's way cheaper, way more versatile, and all that.

Not trying to be the usual HN negative because I actually think this is like the Newton or something. The tech is freaking cool, and it excites me as a glimpse to the future, but the product part is going to come some time in the future and it's going to be awesome and in hindsight we'll be like "Damn! That was the missing part. It's so obvious". Right now, though? I just hope someone will keep buying them and selling them like a hot potato so they live.
It's weird to pick one point in the abstraction chain of human technological progress and create a threshold of unethical behavior.

Technological progress will gaurantee this scenario of military use. If not BD, it will be another company. If not now, it will. If not the US, it will be someone else - China, Russia, etc.

I don't see anypoint in feeling sad about just some geeks making robots as much as we didn't become sad when we saw the transistor being invented. The future is in our hands and tech has always been at the center of military warfare. Focus should be on government policy, electing good leaders and engaging in diplomacy over warfare.
Working hours for the average worker have decreased over the last 150 years
Bitcoin Hits New High, but Cryptocurrency's Future Is Uncertain
Ruby 3.0 Changes
quick search for places in the maps.me
Oops! Retracted, thanks for checking this.
This reminds me of Grapher on macOS, which I had expected would have been removed by now, but no, it's still there on Big Sur!
You don't have to come back to the US. If it's not worth it to do so, don't. But if it is keep filing your taxes.

I could see improving things but your perspective still sounds like whinging. Accounting and filing is the cost of doing business. More troublesome is the SS and other tax contributions you're responsible for, but that just means you should charge more.

To give you a comparison, this sounds to me like people stating we should wipe out student debt. Doing so is inherently regressive. Already well off people go to college anyway and people with a degree make more over their lifetime. They are not the people who need help the most. Likewise, if you are encountering serious financial strain because of this you need to charge more, but you're still making more than most people do.
I agree with you that zero tolerance is stupid and that victims should be able t fight back. But is there any evidence that bullying is more rampant than ever? All statistics I have seen point to kids being more well behaved, less violence, less drugs, fewer teen pregnancies ect.
"One of the biggest disadvantages of static site generators is that they are static and can’t include comments."
At first, I misread this as "One of the biggest advantages...", and I still think that is the correct conclusion.
Load small things into the dishwasher: Do you want an internet-connected device that can pick up a butcher knife and move it at waist level, that has a human watching its camera to back it up when it fails? This objection applies to a bunch of your feature requests, since knives don't weigh that much :/

Open the front door: You can do this with a $5k investment in some IoT + automated door opener

Get the mail: Curious what subtasks you imagine here (e.g. outdoor vs indoor, pick up packages, climb stairs, etc)

Put shoes where they need to be, pick up socks: This could totally work today if you don't need to open doors and you don't mind organization on piles in the floor, but I think the use case isn't compelling enough on it's own to create sufficient demand.

Dust/mop/broom: lots of people have robots for floors, but higher surfaces are hard to make work. Despite this, some teams have worked on bathroom-cleaning robots with this capability.

Mow the lawn: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-robot-lawn-mowers

Fold towels: Not that hard, but small market

Fold clean clothes from a basket: Super hard if you never want to destroy the clothes, and hard even if you can destroy some clothes.

Clean toilets, replace toilet paper: People are trying! Not going to be in homes for 5+ years though.

Scoop out kitty poops: products like this exist, but you still have to manually unload them to a trash can.

Make the bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzNZrFhBeoY haha
Mortar is hard to aim (even with modern aids), in a terrain that you haven't ranged already.
A bad translation can improve bad writing. By using unfamiliar phrasing and word choice it decontextualizes, allowing the player to imagine meanings and nuance where it isn't there.
It's pretty common in Switzerland as well, though I do not know whether a similar law exists.