skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with a researchers who use LIDAR heavily. Amazing technology, but aside from cost/weight/size/expense there's one big disadvantage. LIDAR doesn't work like eyes.

So in certain conditions LIDAR can see better than human eyes, like say complete darkness. This could lead to a car behaving differently than a human driver which might well cause an accident.

In other conditions LIDAR can see much worse than a human. Depending on the fog, snow, rain, dust, tumbleweeds etc can look more solid to a lidar than a human eye. Which can also cause accidents. A human might recognize a whisp of fog, whose outline and volume look like a fallen tree, but a camera would have a better chance.

So even with a magic LIDAR that costs $100, has good range, solid state, etc. it's not clear what LIDAR offers over a pair of cameras, or other cheap sensors like cameras, mm band (60 GHz) radar, and ultrasound.

Additionally LIDAR systems need cameras anyways. Is that a ambulance or UPS truck? Schoolbus or city bus? Police car or Camry? Does the police car have it's lights on?
Did someone flash their high beams at you? Delivery truck or post office truck? Color is hugely important in predicting what's going to happen. Sure you can add cameras to LIDAR, but then why? Doubly is you have two cameras for distance.

So I'd love to be wrong, and indisputably LIDAR is getting better, but seems like pairs of cameras might well be the best fit for driving like a human. Doesn't seem like it could ever be LIDAR, but LIDAR + cameras could compete, but what does LIDAR give you over a pair of cameras?
I gave some thoughts earlier in the thread about how we see spaCy fitting in to the NLP ecosystem. Here’s another answer that’s maybe more direct, through an example.

Let’s say you wanted to build a system where you used an efficient bag-of-words text classifier to select paragraphs that might have information of interest, and then you wanted to run an entity recognizer and recognise relation triples between predicates and pairs of entities. When extracting the triples, you want to use the lemma of the relation word, so you want to map “dove” to “dive” when it’s a verb etc.
It’s possible to build this system directly using PyTorch modules for the various model parts, but you’ll need to write the various bits of logic to string together the model predictions yourself, and for tasks like lemmatization that are pretty easy, you’ll struggle to find existing systems that you’ll actually want to use. A lemmatization system that’s published for PyTorch will probably be designed for languages where lemmatization is really hard, but for English it’s really easy.

spaCy has a good architecture and API for this system level stuff, where you’re putting together models into practical solutions. It also has a Doc object that makes it really easy to actually work with the system outputs, especially to relate multiple levels of annotation to each other.

Partly because orchestrating a number of models is kind of a hassle in lower-level frameworks, a lot of guides will encourage you to take entirely joint approaches to this type of system. In theory you can bypass problems like the lemmatization and NER if you take a sequence-to-sequence approach, and generate the relation triples as just arbitrary data. But this has a lot of limitations. It’s difficult to express structural constraints that you know should hold about the triples, the system will be much much slower, and might require vastly more training data. It’s also difficult to divide the task up between different people, and it’ll be difficult to analyse the system errors, iterate on individual parts, or inject rule logic to ensure certain invariants about the output. All these facts about joint approaches increase the risk of the project failing; they add large uncertainties that keep projects from getting out of the prototype stage.
Sourceforge is down (in “Disaster Recovery” mode)
This isn't a defense of greenfield -- my point is that if we haven't had a need for AOT for the past ten years, we don't have one now. I imagine 99% of big Java apps are in a similar position. Getting a legacy Java app to compile AOT isn't trivial either.
Maybe so but being the most popular option made Microsoft some money it never actually made it very good. In all honesty Gnome + Fedora + Wayland is a mediocre work compared to windows. At that point the only reason to use linux is cost and given the cost of a license it really isn't a very good one.

I wont feel bad about running a niche distro or even a different OS any more than I feel bad about picking Linux over windows in 2003. There is no accounting for taste and there are probably more people listening to Britney Spears than Beethoven. Its OK if you want to be involved with pop music there is money in it and it still requires the same skills to produce good sound regardless of the artist.
Most of the JVM ecosystem doesn't work with AOT due to issues with reflection.
Never let a situation go by if it can be exploited to strip Americans of their rights.
What collateral can be transferred in real time that would not also get caught up
in market issues that would likely cause counterparty risk of some sort? Even US treasuries vary in price on a day to day basis, based on market conditions.

Cash is the only thing with an agreed upon fixed value
The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again
You can hardly really advertise it. Nobody invests in 100 GbE NICs taking advertisements seriously rather than knowing some reasons to choose/avoid particular brands/models.
Heh, I had a IMSAI 8080, pretty sure it has a S100 interface for add in cards. I started with a paper based terminal then upgraded to the Hazeltine 1410 I think it was. Amusingly the paper based system (teletype) was 110 baud, but had flair/drama. I remember playing star trek and listening for each position that was a "." for empty space or ** for an enemy.

Playing the same game at 300 baud on the hazeltine 1410 was pretty boring in comparison.
Nothing changed for me. I still have no ads on YouTube after my Play Music switched to YouTube Music.
For testing, something like iperf?

https://iperf.fr/

https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/howto-install-iperf...
More importantly, 10GbE cards are cheap as free on eBay. That + a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN and some direct connect cables you can have a 10GbE network in your house for well under $300.
It was in the .pl domain and through domains101
How often is "something more to the story" solid technical reasons vs something like kickbacks and bribes?
The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture is a cypherpunk chronometer
I believe you're close to correct. According to a paper in 2013 by Graham Coop (an evolutionary biologist from UC Davis) every living person of European descent, if you trace their family trees back 1000 years, likely shares the same list of ancestors. And that list of ancestors is more or less all the people alive in Europe at the time who had descendants surviving to the present -- about 80% of the people alive at the time. Joseph Chang, a statistician from Yale, has also written a great deal on the subject.

Not the most detailed link, but illustrative:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/one-big-european-family-video/
The vaccine screw-up wasn't even the only... interesting part of the European pandemic response. For example, there was a very public push by the EU itself as an institution for member states to reopen travel in order to save the critically important summer vacation season that was just quietly forgotten about by the media after it turned out to be a terrible idea. Complete with a certain amount of pressure on the UK government to try and get them to go along with it too. The vaccine problems were just too visible and undeniable to ignore.
Welp, that's weird. Time to do some digging I guess.
There are quite a few caveats with all of the items he lists:

> We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime’s insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the Climate Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, marketplace, infrastructure cloud computing, Career Choice, and much more.

1-click was hardly an "invention" IMO, the Kindle was "just another e-book reader" (arguably the best, but they did not "invent" the concept), Alexa is a Siri clone, and so forth.

Only "infrastructure cloud computing" is something there Amazon really took the lead and invented stuff. Not a small thing, but also hardly worthy of the bold claim in the article. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Sun, and many other companies seem to have done more invention than Amazon.
Have you ever looked at the annual expenditures of the entire Church [0]? Most of their income comes from interest on investments, and they manage their money well enough to cover their entire operating expenses and make a tidy profit which stays within the Church.

The story that the Church donates most of its money "to help the poor and disadvantaged" is a reassurance which is meant to paper over the fact that the Church is not a very transparent organization.

In terms of bringing in money, the vast majority of parishes and dioceses are on Church-owned land and have some sort of tax benefit or writeoff. This makes them far more stable than their surrounding community members, and somewhat ruins the image of the humble parish priest simply trying to spread the Good Word; his employer is certainly not humble in wealth.

[0] http://www.ior.va/content/dam/ior/documenti/rapporto-annuale...
Managing with Context, Not Control
Do you have a citation for this? I found an relatively old FINRA document that sort of seemed to say the opposite, but it wasn’t obviously in reference to stocks and I think it also predated Dodd-Frank.
I've never understood why cuneiform is so _complicated_. There's only 112 syllables in the chart in the linked blog post... why do some of them require more than 10 "wedges"?
Just because you can specify something doesn't mean you always should

There's a cost to type coupling and over specification
Yep. I am a satisfied Stadia user
Joe Hockey: Git gud noob[0]

[0]: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-09/joe-hockey-accused...
This sounds like a inverse of "kidnapped people are usually famous and famous people have their name in the paper."
I read it in college for a science fiction class. It was amazing. Orwell also thought so(https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/jun/08/geor...).
I have a random memory of the website at hanson.com having a banner alerting visitors that the website of the popular late-90s boy band was in fact at hansonline.com, and that you would only find information about guitars made by the Hanson company should you further browse the site at which you currently found yourself.

Curiously, that domain now redirects to some concrete company, Hanson guitars existing instead at hanson-guitars.com.
Belly flop - https://youtu.be/vRPrLvVaQq8?t=145 (Yes, to reduce the falling speed. No, it lands vertically).

Rapidly reusable - You can land it directly on (or next to) a launch platform, refuel it and launch it again the same day. Same as a regular aircraft.

The Space shuttle had a disposable tank (which was lost on launch), recovered but basically destroyed solid rocket boosters (ditched into ocean) and finally on landing it had (potentially) damaged heat tiles which all needed inspection and which were all fragile and different.
That far I could vaguely guess, but I don't see any connection between these fact.

First off, what do you mean by "Robinhood's most recent miserable failure"? The story as I know it: WSB pumped up GME, somebody (Melvin's Capital) majorly fucked up and lost money, somebody (Blackrock, Citadel, some lucky traders) gained something from the situation, basically, business as usual. Then Robinhood screwed over it's customers, by forbidding them to perform some operations, motives for which remain questionable and may result in a prosecution (because of affiliation with Citadel), but AFAIK that's very theoretical and right now Robinhood didn't really suffer any loss.

None of this really fits the description of "miserable failure" on Robinhood's part, as far as I can tell. So what do you mean? Am I missing some details?

Is he blaming T+2 for forcing him/Robinhood to prevent users to buy stock? How so?

Second, I still don't quite understand what T+2 means. All trades look instantaneous to every particular seller (including all Robinhood clients), right? Also, all trades are recorded by a centralized entity (NYSE), so there also cannot be any disagreement between brokers about how much who owes whom. Actual money/securities movement between brokers is T+2, but in the essence that is just some bureaucratic bullshit, and shouldn't affect broker's clients' (including all Robinhood users) ability to buy stock, right? Also, whatever the current regulations are, Robinhood somehow performed under them until now, so it somehow managed to meet whatever clearinghouse requires of them, right?

So, in the essence, I still don't understand what the fuss is about, and how Tenev could possibly blame T+2 for anything (which, btw, I don't see him explicitly do: he doesn't say that it was because of some clearinghouse requirements he was forced suddenly to shut down free trade of stock on his platform, does he?)
It would be really interesting to know how fast the LEAN 4 version is compared with C/C++.
If you’re having kids to hand things down to then the added environmental cost of the headphones you buy is a microscopic rounding error.
And IBM invented the hard drive, (arguably) computer product lines, the relational database, and standardized the 8-bit byte. Pretty sure I'm leaving stuff out. They're not quite Bell Labs, but they're incredibly influential.
We also do not give children the virus.

Currently we do not give children the vaccine because the relative value of giving it to the elderly vs. children is considerably tilted towards the elderly and it is a limited resource.

It does not imply anything about the safety of the vaccine vs. virus itself in that age group.
SK Hynix Ready to Roll Out First 128-Layer 4D NAND Flashes – Businesskorea
> Sony MDR-7506

But how do you connect them to your phone. I wish this wasn’t a thing.
What’s the probability that today’s scientists look as ridiculous in a few decades as the ones from a few decades ago look like today?

Asbestos was considered a great building material.

While science had improved in absolute terms, there is a chance to screw up in new ways.
What I'm saying is based on first hand experience not being sedated by video games and other mindless entertainment which normally serves as a cheap substitute to real meaningful life experiences which
seem to have vanished from most regular people's lives.

An unfathomable number of people alive today have totally pointless lives because all the good stuff has been taken out and substituted with cheap thrills.

It's no coincidence that rich people have many friends and experience a lot of positive emotions in their lives. I guarantee you that poor people experience very few positive emotions and they don't have a choice. The glass ceiling is unbreakable.
Gnome Wayland and KDE Wayland already have this figured out via xdg-desktop-portal-* and pipewire. 21.04 is going to try to do Wayland by default for non-Nvidia as part of a run up to enable it for all by default in 22.04 LTS.
How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis
I may have done something wrong, but I remember that when I would do 'return {"json": "yes"}', it would not set the content-type to json. When I discovered this, I had to go back through a bunch of code and convert it to either fastaspi.Response or JSONResponse.

Creating the Response instance proved to be a better approach, because it makes it much easier to set content type, status codes, cookies, headers, etc.

Again - I might have done something wrong, but if you have an instance just doing 'return {"key": "value"}', check it with curl or browser dev tools to see what the Content-Type is.
Another reason is the extremely toxic response of proponents to legitimate criticism. I'd link what is effectively a response from the primary dev of sway but I think I might get banned for the language.
You can still do that in Windows 10. I just tried it and discovered that the screen saver settings dialog looks like it hasn't been touched in about 20 years. It still shows the screensaver preview in a CRT monitor frame...
Yup, messing up both would have been catastrophic. Just a shame it took so many deaths for the UK government to wake up.

If saving lives is the end goal then countries that took it seriously from the start and had a competent strategy for social distancing and containment are still better off.

Barely a month ago Boris was promising a normal Christmas.
I think the time has come where a PWA does it for most kind of projects.
First 3D-printed home in U.S.' for sale in New York
SK hynix begins offering samples of 176-layer NAND chip (2020)
I assume you mean standing as a question of law, not morals, in which case it doesn't seem like the ancestor needs to demonstrate that they were harmed by the conviction.

> According to the Italian newspaper, any final judgment can be subject to revision if there is new evidence showing the offender’s innocence. There is no time limit to the request, which can be proposed by an heir of the convict.
KEK...this is satire right? Take that commie shit back to Reddit.

Corporations / capitalism have done more to reduce poverty in the last 40 years than any other human invention/ mechanism in HISTORY. This isn’t conjecture - this is virtual fact: the World Bank has many figures on this, including a steep reduction in the global population living in absolute poverty since the fall of the Soviet Union.

You know what’s _really_ evil? Central economic planning. Go ask some North Koreans how they feel - or the Uighurs in China.
Apple maps is inferior but it looks pretty nice and its their own service. I couldn't imagine them rolling out Bing as the default search engine. That would seem out of character.
However many is politically expedient. China, in particular, has an exceptionally long memory.
There is a ton of backend stuff you need to do to make alcohol delivery work as well as sign up the independent mom and pop shops that do the majority of the business.

So backend built, customer base, largest player in the space, and integrating directly into uber eats will definitely lift sales.

I use Uber eats daily but struggle to open Drizly for alcohol delivery, if it’s in one experience for the late majority and the installed user base of Uber eats it will definitely increase volume of sales.
golang.org + fyne.io
Specifically what rights?
Dante's a weird one. Forgotten in his own time, Inferno was found concealed IN A JAR when a cathedral was being remodeled about a hundred years after his death or so.
An adjacent rabbit hole I'd recommend ... (functional but decidedly retro nav on that site)

https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org

Besides S100 you'll find there, the Eurocard Bus which is also long-lived and flexible.

https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:ecb:st...
Plus, wasn’t the default Android sms/mms client once called Messenger? So, not only not memorable, but also confusingly generic.
I think they could have traded within their own platform (not 100% sure), but customer interest in buying was so high that they weren't able to fill trades that way. Other brokers had more sales and that's why they didn't have to restrict buys as hard, although they did still restrict them.
There are no Internet providers in Canada that do more than 1.5Gbps though (Ball Canada claims to have 1.5Gbps down) and even that is mostly just claimed and rarely delivered. These days my compute workloads are mostly in the cloud and all my files are there as well. Thus local speeds do not matter much if the Internet can not also feed them.

I guess this matters for data centres, but primarily my data centres are run by AWS and GCP, so I do not buy this hardware myself.
Yes, he means gtk+, not glib. Glib is more fundamental and good from what I can tell.
I don't agree that an economy made out entirely of smaller players is strictly better. I think there pros and cons to each of these scenarios. For example one thing smallest companies cannot do is effectively tackle problems that take huge amounts of funding, engineering and coordination.
When they do badly you say it's because of their incompetence.

When they do well you still say it's because of their incompetence.

At every turn they’ve had credible expert advice telling them to do contradictory things. They’ve had to use judgement.

If only they had the sense to use hindsight, like you.
It makes sense that the censorship conference would have content that youtube would censor - almost by definition
"Former CIA Officer".
I don’t think that’s quite right. With SN8 they ended up with low pressure in the header tank and not enough fuel for the turbo pumps.

A so called “engine-rich” burn resulted, which is why there’s a flash of green flame.

Total thrust was much lower than spec, hence the hard landing even though both engines ignited.
I have ZERO regrets about checking out of Amazon when I did. I've had an awesome life, raising my daughter, writing a DAW, living. I want for nothing, really.

There's a lot of historical revisionism regarding the early history of corporations. Claiming, specifically, as Jeff did, that 27 years ago (1994) that he had no name for his idea is ... not really true. It's likely true that when he actually started working out what the business might be, he didn't have a name. But who does?

Does it matter? Obviously that depends on your perspective. Probably not much. But it's not even particularly hard to read up on the early history (e.g. Brad Stone's "Get Big Fast"), so memory is not really required.