skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm building a quadruped robot a-la Boston Dynamics/MIT Cheetah. I'm not really happy with the state of legged robots in terms of affordability and performance. I've found there are two classes of robots; robots in the first sacrifice mobility for the sake of driving cost down, either limiting the legs to move in a single plane, or using lower cost, but extremely slow servo motors [1][2][3][4]. Robots in the second class don't compromise the performance of the robot, but cost at the very least $6000 [5][6][7]. I'm working on using an underactuated leg (3 degrees of freedom, but only 2 actuators instead of the typically used 3) to bring the cost down, as actuators are the largest cost center for these robots. It should also (hypothetically) have better performance than other robots which use 2 actuators per leg but constrain them to a single plane.

[1]: https://hackaday.io/project/171456-diy-hobby-servos-quadrupe...

[2]: https://stanfordstudentrobotics.org/pupper

[3]: https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io/

[4]: https://stanfordstudentrobotics.org/doggo

[5]: https://hackaday.io/project/176487-k3lso-quadruped

[6]: https://build-its.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-mini-cheetah-robo...

[7]: https://shop.bostondynamics.com/spot?cclcl=en_US&pid=aDl6g00...
It speaks for itself that yours is a very fringe opinion: none of these claims are strongly supported with evidence at this point of time.

Saying the privacy properties are already solved and settled is ridiculous, none of the literature or other information supports that

Only a fool would say it is certain that everyone will have magic instant, scalable, cheap, perfectly private btc transactions and it's already solved and settled
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You get 2 or 3 free looks at Creator X's stuff each day; you pay 10¢ for all Creator X's stuff for 24 hours. In return, no ads, no tracking, etc. Hopefully will help journalists, web-artists, writers, musicians, educators, and other smart creative people like you.
Tools for Rust. Currently wrestling with dev ops for a crates dependency visualizer. Also on the list, a bootstrapping template for commandline application in Rust (https://github.com/rust-starter/rust-starter) and also planning to develop a Rust job board.
I love the teacup mascots with the "refilling each other" visual. Nice touch.
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with every pull request. Jest automatically uploads the report to codecov and codecov has a bot to generate coverage results.

See: https://github.com/jalal246/dflex/pull/158
Glass was never a finished product. It was sold as a dev kit that non-devs snapped up.
Because new age UXers came in to run the product and thought it was too repetitive to have 2 almost similar functionalities in the right click context menu. It wasn't aesthetically pleasing they said.
It is not react, but there is Apache Rivet: https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/
I couldn’t get the information out of the article, but I would think conflating the working poor with the non-working poor makes that statistic unfair towards the working poor (and, because there are relatively more non-working poor, more unfair than conflating the working rich with the non-working rich)

Even if the working rich work more hours than the working poor, the situation might be reversed when one includes commute time from and to, and between jobs.
I wonder if anyone has tried not paying their US jurisdiction property taxes that lives on supposedly Indian land now.
These low level graphics API wrappers have so far proven to have very little overhead. Probably because metal, vulkan, and dx12 are a lot more similar than opengl and dx9 were.
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A few things.

An implementation of bitfunnel search in Go which I plan to put into searchcode.com at some point once I get all the issues resolved and if performance is acceptable

A command line search tool which brute forces with search ranking https://github.com/boyter/cs/ mostly for code but works pretty well for other things as well

Atlassian Confluence Cloud plugins. Mostly out of personal interest and because there appears to be a good marketplace to produce mostly passive income there.
Thanks for Elixir and to the team as well for the work you put. I'm new to Elixir, had to learn it at work and it's been an interesting way to solve problems. I'm looking forward to deploying a few prototypes this year using Elixir. Thanks.
Try Sonobus or JamKazam (the former is FOSS). Actually designed for the “playing together” use case.
Async/await with Reduce function in JavaScript arrays
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I gotta mention JackTrip in this thread. You can stream full quality audio with near zero latency. If you're within a ~300 mile radius of your peer, it boasts <20ms latency, which is low enough to feel instant. I've tried it with a friend and it's pretty incredible.

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/09/18/jacktrip-software-allow...
> If you insist on comparing it to Perl, you could consider it "Perl Re-Imagined". Just like "The Lord Of The Rings" is a re-imagination of "The Hobbit".

The Lord of the Rings is a sequel to The Hobbit, rather than a re-imagining. Of course there was a bit of re-imagining necessarily involved, much like the relationship between Star Trek: The Original Series and it's sequel The Next Generation.
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I second this. Mumble across different continents has less latency than Zoom in the same city.
They’ll move over to Parlor I guess.
There were a handful of events like what you describe, but the violence was overwhelmingly inflicted upon protesters by police. This came in the form of physical violence, aiming projectiles at protesters' heads, and of course the various chemical weaponry that was used in such quantities that it appeared on NASA weather satellites.

They were police riots.
The amateur radio rules prohibit music (except a weirdly specific exception for NASA). Also, HF tends to be really noisy and low bandwidth, not sure it'd be very pleasant for music.

Edit: And another problem that's probably even more important for this use case, most common ham radio equipment is simplex (only one person can transmit at a time). In the VHF/UHF range you might be able to engineer a high bandwidth duplex (or TDM) system, but then your range would be limited to a few miles.
Thanks for the comprehensive answer. I have similar experiences, treating the coverage numbers as a KPI will eventually trigger difficult decisions in writing tests.

What I’m wondering is what would make „more sense“ if one wants to track the code quality and test coverage in a broader sense.
It's as Australian as Russell Crowe!
Journalists and office staff in First Look's line of business should definitely be aware of these risks.

But it's certainly possible that they simply failed here. That possibility warrants an internal investigation, to determine the nature of the failure, and to signal internally and publically that they take their responsibility to sources seriously.

No organization likes to be criticized from within. But some organizations are strengthened by their reaction to criticism (whatever the source), and others are diminished.

Laura Poitras is a credible party. I'm inclined to believe her side of the story here.

Related (though not directly): Bellingcat is doing impressive work. https://www.bellingcat.com/
Anti-nuclear environmentalists are directly responsible for our continued over-reliance on fossil fuels. Add anti-damming and anti-windfarm environmentalists into the mix, and the environmental movement is anything but.
> from what ive seen

Have you been peeking through the windows of a bunch of rich people's homes?
I'm not sure that if I use ES in my datacenter I would be effected as long as it's internal tool for analysing data.

I'm not lawyer but this is what I understand from their statement.
>...media controls easily accessible - on Apple Watch, they’re always moving and hard to get back to especially during a workout.

Swipe right from workout screen.

(Finger moves right to left... not sure if that is swipe right or left :)
> ecosystem before that system again reaches equilibrium.

How do you know that the system is at equilibrium ("at rest") now? Why is the current ecosystem the most right ecosystem since the birth of the universe? Why should there be no disturbance of the current equilibrium?

And, if we value equilibrium so much, shouldn't we undo the previous disturbance and remove most of the current inhabitants of Australia?
Agreed, this seems like the most interesting part of the site to me. Fascinating history. I wonder what else remains to be discovered?
You're too kind. My Dementia focus comes from personal experience with my late grandfather. But there's no reason something like this couldn't work for general care.

I should throw together quick video of what half baked functionality I have thus far.
Where did you find the memes?
Sure. So in a few years, an all-in-one 80% solution like Palantir Foundry will come along and there will suddenly be a lot less demand for data engineers.

Anecdotally, the former head of QA for Palantir UK is now the head of data engineering for Palantir UK, and Palantir does have an out-of-the-box, end-to-end, it-just-works product that handles 80% of ML workflows. You're betting your career that they won't put it in a box and sell it at commodity software prices?
After building the Go SDK, I think the next step would be to build a CLI.

That would help dogfood the SDK, and allow it to be used across all languages and environments.
Yep, it's the de facto automation language for IC design and EDA. I use it everyday. It's not a language I'd use for anything else, but as almost all EDA tools embed it, you have to learn it to be productive in the digital EE world
Does zoom use opus, or what other audio codec?
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the US did do something very similar. A lump sum to individuals + huge increase to unemployment insurance + grants to businesses with the stipulation that they don't lay people off.

Sometimes I think everyone is so caught up in the narrative that nothing progressive ever happens in the US that they don't stop to celebrate wins like the CARES act, because it was frankly a huge win for the progressive agenda even if temporary.

But anyway, we did the expensive part of spending all the money. We just forgot to do the second part of locking people down and getting the virus under control. People were mostly always free to hang out with friends and family and congregate anywhere that wasn't closed. In some places there was better messaging in terms of trying to guilt people into not doing that, and calling it a "lockdown". But I don't know of anywhere in the country that actually had any consequences for individual people that chose to just ignore the guidelines (occasional businesses or organizers of large gatherings got fined, but not individuals).
Fair but they don’t seem to actually want pragmatic/realpolitik solutions. Did Trump deliver something that revitalized these communities? Anything? Was he promising anything for 2020? Seems like he just made them feel “represented” in a completely shallow and meaningless way. Meanwhile in your random town in WV things keep sliding towards extinction
Not even remotely an ML expert. Just some ideas I had:

Speech recognition + basic NLP for automatic customer support triage. None of these are great to use as a customer, but they seem to be effective enough to continue using and save companies lots of money.

Automatic "offensive" content detection for social media. I'd bet they use ML to do a first-pass on uploaded content to make sure it doesn't contain porn, gore, etc. Probably lets these companies save money.

Automatic defect detection in factories. Instead of training humans to detect subtle issues in manufacturing issues. I think companies like Samsara are experimenting with offering this tech as a service.

Facial recognition/tracking for law enforcement/defense. Ignoring the ethics of it for a moment, it seems like governments would be willing to pay a good amount of money for this tech. Could be used to automatically search through hours of footage to find which frames (if any) contain a target.
It depends. Homestead act properties have land patents, which are legally perpetual to the assignee and their heirs and subject to no superior landlord, which means immune to liens, property taxes, and basically everything else (not sure on eminent domain). In practice though the US federal government is just as happy to ignore its promises to Americans as it is those to the sovereign tribes.
>Possible toxicity of something that we deem safe could be an explanation.

This has a notion that high testosterone levels and high aggression are something normal and perhaps desirable.

I think the most probable explanation is that people are just evolving to be less aggressive naturally.
Visual cue is important in playing music together.

Unless everyone just jam to a click track instead of each other, it's very hard to play together without seeing the body language.
Thanks for the feedback! If you don't mind me asking, what other pricing are you comparing ours to?
What a very interesting topic.

I found a more recent paper [1] that concludes it is beneficial to soak the beans and then discard the soaking water prior to cooking.

I prepare dry beans regularly and almost never discard the soaking water. Time to reconsider!

[1] https://nuppre.paginas.ufsc.br/files/2014/04/2010-Fernandes-...
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>"What is mmWave?

mmWave is a sensing technology for detection of objects and providing the range, velocity and angle of these objects. It is a contactless-technology which operates in the spectrum between 30 GHz - 300 GHz. Due to the technology’s use of small wavelengths it can provide sub-mm range accuracy and is able to penetrate certain materials such as plastic, drywall, clothing, and is impervious to environmental conditions such as rain, fog, dust and snow.

mmWave sensors transmit signals with a wavelength which is in the millimeter (mm) range. This is considered a short wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum and is one of the advantages of this technology. Indeed, the size of system components such as antenna required to process mmWave signals is small. Another advantage of short wavelengths is the high resolution. A mmWave system that resolves distances to wavelength has accuracy in the mm range at 60-64 GHz and 76-81 GHz.

o Additionally, operating in this spectrum makes mmWave sensors interesting for the following reasons:

o Ability to penetrate materials: see through plastic, drywall and clothing.

o Highly directional: compact beam forming with 1° angular accuracy.

o Light-like: can be focused and steered using standard optical techniques.

o Large absolute bandwidths: distinguish two nearby objects.

PDS: This sounds like it could have applications for exploring underground caverns (including Mars?), and possibly for space flight and space missions, like Star Trek's scanner, version 0.000001...

Also, weird idea: Perhaps there's a wavelength such that you could bounce it off of a small object, say a microchip, and then read the scatterings of those waves at some distance, maybe several meters away...

Net effect would be that the waves would expand, and would magnify (as a scatter pattern on the larger object which might be a screen which detects EM waves of some sort) the smaller object, without needing a microscope...
You see what you want to see. Classic confirmation bias. I watched the livestreams, and most of the time it was a lot of running and massive amounts of tear gas, and occasionally police brutally escalating violence against those protesting police violence. I think it's rather telling that you describe fireworks as mortars to try to make them sound more threatening.

I haven't seen any videos where a BLM protestor beats a fallen cop with an American flag, or kills a cop. Both of which happened during the violent far-right insurrection on January 6. I have seen many more credible stories about data and studies showing that violence from far-right extremism is a much more dangerous current problem than far-left extremism.

I will continue to call last year's protests what they were, remarkably peaceful world-wide protests against police brutality and for police reform. And I will call the Jan 6 event what it was, a deliberately stoked violent insurrection against the US government in an attempt to overturn the results of a democratic election, on the basis of nothing but lies and grievance. We should strive to accurately describe things as they are.
That would be pretty easily proven as defamation/libel, and thus not legal.
Not neceassary it's overall positive. You usually kill best&brightest from oponent side first, so summing over average capability of human population wars can cause regressions.
From the little bit of reading I just did, it sounds like only some people with peanut allergies will also experience reactions to other legumes - my brother being one of the unlucky few. I do not believe it was contamination as it was behind a bar vs a kitchen, but no one knows for sure.
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I agree that this is not a solved problem. I even reviewed all the GTD apps some time ago. None fit perfectly my understanding of GTD. This individual aspect might be a challenge for a product solution, but still worth trying imho.
I’m working on a market validation web app to help founders and small business owners identify emerging trends and common DIY solutions/business ideas using Reddit data - and once the ideas are put into play, to identify, save and act on mentions and feedback to help iterate around their customers faster.
I think this is much needed, I've spent half a decade switching between solutions, and I agree with the problems you listed. I have recently found two apps with new solutions, Slash and Serene. I have not had the chance to try them out thoroughly yet, but they show some promise. What I would prefer is an app that draws inspiration from Franklin's way of journaling.
> Glass was never a finished product.

Seems to be a finished-ish enterprise product now.

https://www.google.com/glass/start/
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macOS 11.2 Beta2 Removes Feature Letting Apple Apps Bypass Third-Party Firewalls
Thank you! I didn’t actually realize it was possible for apps to exclude their data from backup.

Here it is from their own docs: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007062012-Ne...

> An iTunes or iCloud backup does not contain any of your message history. Only new messages, not conversation history, will be displayed.
https://audiblogs.com

Let's you listen to any web article
in your podcast player
People that are interested in this blog post will interested in a book I wrote: Distributed Services with Go (https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g...). The book walks the reader through building a distributed event service from scratch that uses Serf as a library for its service discovery.
Navarro rips Google, Amazon, Apple: Parler attack ‘chilling’
Sounds like you got exactly what you wanted, faster than python but safer than c/c++.

There isn't a free lunch here. Even with eye-watering amounts of engineering into optimizer and runtime etc., you aren't going to match c performance in general any more than JVM or .NET has, for much the same reasons.

In some languages (Swift is one) you have the option of writing c-like code that performs similarly, but you can't have your cake and eat it, and you shouldn't expect to.
The bigger fool theory of investing (speculating).

Eventually the music stops on that and someone is left holding the bag.
I made a mistake. I was responding to the first commenter's words "The fading of WWII in the public memory could be argued as the biggest single risk that society faces". And in my view, the continued attempts at making people remember the war are a very bad,destructive thing, because they are used to political ends. Will remember next time to quote :)
Building a 6502 breadboard computer and a graphical 6502 computer emulator. Close to releasing a beta version of the emulator. Some challenges building both the hardware and the emulator at the same time!
It’s about diminishing returns.

E.g. getting a model from 0% accuracy to 70% accuracy might be a couple Pytorch library calls that any dummy who watched Andrew Ng’s course can do. But getting that same model from 70% to 75% accuracy might be deeply mathematical and require the latest and greatest mathmeticians, statisticians.

But in this hypothetical example, an engineer who stands up the 70% model and keeps it running 99.9% of the time, with high uptime; is more valuable to the bottom line of the business than the 75% accuracy model hacked together with scripts with 50% uptime.
no idea why I thought facebook is on that list too...
There is AWS in China, but you need to sign "special agreement"
> Latency will always be an issue here.

No, it will not. :) You can get to 5ms above the network delay, even using compressed audio (opus), though some sound devices may be picky.

Network delay can be just a few milliseconds even across a city, assuming that no latency murdering devices (wifi or nics in interrupt mitigation mode) are on the path.

This means that you can have lower audio delay from a compressed audio conference crossing your state than is achieved from speed-of-sound delays from a performer sitting on the other side of a moderate sized room!

The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed. (yet)
>reduced their QA or eliminated it wholesale

This is usually the case only for companies that work on low risk applications (I.e. not safety related or critical industries) or have been lulled into complacency (sometimes, ironically, “we haven’t had a major issue so obviously QA isn’t needed” when strong QA is precisely why they didn’t see issues)
Sure, but is this a good thing?
Yes. The featured article notes that they were providing links on their Twitter account. Their quoted defense includes, to paraphrase, the account was /mostly/ discussing open access issues, it wasn’t /primarily/ for sharing pirated materials.
Meanwhile, there's one cattle station in Australia which is 5,851,000 acres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station

Drove through it a few months ago (and another time decades ago). It completely surrounds the township of William Creek, and the main road (well, track) in the area goes through the station for quite some time.
The area above the SGV (Pasadena to Pomona area) is the Santa Fe Practice Area. A lot of first-time pilots, private plane or helicopter, practice and learn how to fly out of El Monte or Brackett (Pomona).

I've checked FlightRadar24 during the protests of June and it seemed like most of the tail numbers of the helicopters flying around the SGV were either Pasadena Police Department, LA County Sheriff, or a private (news?) helicopter. Lately the ones I've seen aren't showing up on FlightRadar24, oddly enough.
Are you planning to publish or open source this? I might be interested in contributing or giving feedback!
Parler had 12 million users at the time it was executed by Amazon.
Hola! I've got some work on this that I'd like to collaborate with you on, how can I reach out to you? Can you please attach an email or something here?
Yeah. Most Cadence and Synopsys tools for synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, all have Tcl as the built in scripting language.
It’s a stack not a queue
It's in the FAQ.

What about lectins, phytates/phytic acid, phytohemagglutinin, gas, etc?

Aquafaba by definition is made from beans that have been heat treated > 100C, and chickpeas have the least amount of lectins and phytates. If you're worried, use canned or home cooked chickpeas and avoid the other beans. There are over 20,000 members in the development group, and it's rare for people to report issues with gas, though some have.