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Launch HN: iiCasso, an augmented reality based industrial robot demonstrator
A fun little augmented reality (AR) based demonstrator was just released by KUKA and ARBIRA that lets you have an industrial robot working in your living room. (Disclaimer: I am the founder of ARBIRA.)

The idea is that you can pick a line-drawing, customize it with some text and then watch how an industrial robot draws that on a sheet of paper. You can also take pictures alongside the robot. So basically having a bit of AR fun.

The presentation is done using AR, that you can watch on your Android smartphone. Drawings can be created on the website linked above.

On the one hand, this demonstrator is intended to showcase the potential of AR in industrial robot presentation, but it is also created so tech-enthusiasts can have a little fun asking robots to draw and write funny stuff.

Enjoy! And if you have any comments or remarks, please do share.
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The article has this mistake later on:

> But, as our colleagues over at TechRadar pointed out, ARM isn’t a stranger to flirting with ARM-based chips.

So I’m guessing they meant to say “AMD”. It needs a proofreading.
It is confused... also from Dec 2020...
Fully agreed. My model of engineering productivity (wrt specific tasks like hiring and working with colleagues) has a pretty large coefficient on individual talent, but I was looking to learn from a dissenting view.

Unfortunately, while the article is pretty well-written, it's comprised of naked assertion after assertion, with no attempt at justifying them.

Not to mention the non sequiturs: even if you accept that we're born blank slates and anyone can be nurtured to any level of (non-physical) achievement, that's only relevant to hiring if companies were buying infants and grooming them for their precise employee needs they'd need in 20 years. In reality, timing matters, and someone who can't be as productive today but will blossom into a productive flower given enough time carries higher costs and higher risks to the employer than someone who meets the mark on day one. In fact, I'd personally call this explore/exploit trade-off the defining struggle of my career: implicit negotiations with my employer over how much unprofitable education they're they're willing to implicitly give me (by allowing me to work on things relatively far from my competency) in exchange for doing work I'm already highly-skilled at (and often bored by), all while compensating me well.

I hate how mean-spirited this inevitably sounds, but so much of the discussion around talent's role in engineering that I've seen (largely on HN) falls apart upon the slightest scrutiny and I can't shake the feeling that I'm just dealing with a mountain of cope. I firmly believe that talent isn't everything, and further that there are many who overstate the innateness and immutability of "talent". But "talent isn't everything" is leagues away from "talent doesn't exist", and lazy analysis doesn't justify lazy analysis in the opposite direction.
Nix seems to be the Crossfit of the computing world.

How do you know someone uses Nix? They'll tell you :D
Yep, I’m on DECUS tapes from ‘82…spoke in front of darkness filled with 6,000 people reacting to every one of my jokes many years before I could shave (and also before I worked for DEC). In the old days, pear shaped bearded gurus ruled —from 2000 until recently that was frowned on, but you can bet I gotta beard now lol..totally resisting the pear shape tho) ;)
5G Network Rollouts: Autonomous Drone Inspections Are Helping Tower Companies
This is what they call unrealistic expectations acquired from media.
Should be marked as (2020).
> Honestly, what do we need POSIX for in 2020?

You've never written portable software, have you? You can't write portable software without a common interface. Have you ever looked at what autotools vomits out? You'll see shell scripts containing the likes of "echo $1 | sed 's/^x//'" in order to just get things to where they have a chance of sharing enough commonality to compile. Imagine how much worse it would be without POSIX. Nothing would run on anything that the developers didn't account for, this includes OS (plus version), environment, and hardware architecture. That is the world you are asking for, not the one we presently live in.

> What is the benefit to sticking with an rc script architecture designed to run a handful of processes on a pdp?

Freedom, for not only the end user but all the way up to distro packager. Systemd is designed to be non-portable, and force a network-effect pressure. I was similarly suspicious about WSL designing toward a linux API instead of POSIX... an effort to reduce the potential for alternatives emerging in the future, where your choices are windows or linux.
Hell, even the NSA is going after the wrong overloaded definition of "capability". When every OS defaults to giving away the store to every process run by the user, you can't ever get things secure.. you can only waste billions trying.

10 more years until Capability Based Security takes off.
Yep, as is any science major. Otherwise known as having a "traditional education" at a university level, as opposed to med school or an engineering or vocational program. It's closely linked to the idea of science in itself.

As per Wikipedia [1]:

> Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis "free" and ars "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic program in Western higher education. Liberal arts generally covers four areas: the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Its central academic disciplines include physics, chemistry, biology, philosophy, logic, linguistics, literature, history, political science, sociology, psychology, and mathematics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
> There is a "very credible case" that the Chinese government is carrying out the crime of genocide against the Uighur people, according to a formal legal opinion newly published in the UK.

So where is this source?
I'm sorry if my comment sounded very harsh to you. On the "bright" side, if my country ever gets destroyed, I have an insurance citizenship that "only" costs a few hundred dollars per year (and the nearly impossible restrictions when doing "weird" things like becoming a private contractor)
Crusher: Flatten Deeply Nested JSON Sting/Files
Love it when one off scripts get generalized enough to become standalone packages. Had some time to kill on the weekends. So, turned this JSON flattening script I wrote to automate a boring part of writing REST API docstring into a PyPI package.

https://t.co/czDrSMrCgM
Which default camera app? From which version?

(The proliferation of manufacturer camera apps is one of the worst things about android)
> I read recently that there are over 600 Linux distros

How old are you? Everyone knows there are many Linux distros. Distrowatch has existed for almost 20 years. The issue isn't the number of distros; it's the marketshare. There are only a few distros with significant usage. The fact that there are many others is irrelevant because no one uses them.
After reading your comment, I realized that I had to do this on my own site as well. Harsh but valuable comment (to me).
What I wonder is how climate/geography pushed advanced (by that I mean enough brain power and memory to recognize siblings and belong to an group) species to evolve to the point that they didn't consider each others as parents.
This article sounds unreliable. First

> That’s because AMD could be making its own ARM-based chip. According to hardware leaker Mauri QHD, Intel is working on two M1 competitor chips. And these are apparently “almost ready.”

Is it AMD or Intel? Next:

> Like Intel, AMD makes chips and processors based on IBM’s x86 architecture, which has long underpinned laptop and desktop silicon.

IBM is not behind X86, Intel is. Next:

> But, as our colleagues over at TechRadar pointed out, ARM isn’t a stranger to flirting with ARM-based chips.

Meant to say AMD isn’t a stranger.

It needs a good editor. Then there is the fact it is from early December 2020.
Show HN: Kreya, a gRPC GUI Client. Like Postman, but for gRPC
Amazon warehouse workers to begin historic vote to unionize
I would spend it all on one monitor
Author here: We started developing Kreya a year ago when we felt some necessary GUI tooling around the gRPC ecosystem was missing. We didn't just want to create a simple gRPC client, but wanted to add powerful features such as environments/templating or global authentication configurations, so you don't have to enter the same values and configurations tediously again and again.

We're curious to hear your opinions on Kreya, so hit us with any questions or feedback!
hah, I did not know the AudioContext could do FFTs. That's cool, although I'd have to see if it can be coerced to do that for arbitrary (non-audio-like) inputs. I've always used an emscriptened KissFFT for stuff like this...
I'm not familiar enough with SSO flows to be able to quantify any kind of risk, but it makes me very uneasy when things interconnect with my bank. Everything always seems secure until it isn't.

I don't mean to spread FUD, it just seems needlessly risky to make banks the central point of auth.
i was less concerned about authentication issues and more about routing issues as ARP would lead to results depending on time and location inside the network topology...
No, what's not reasonable is being expected to do creative, novel work in little 30-60 minute slices of time between status meetings or slide deck presentations.
Mostly everything - I live in the region. Slovakian people, similarly to Czech people (my own birthplace) are very unhappy about non-white people. Many of them are openly racist, thankfully that's slowly improving, but I still wouldn't want to be non-white here. It's better in the capital cities but even there you'll get weird looks and verbal attacks. Physical attacks are not unheard of outside the capitals.
Not a good idea - I can pay for an ad for an app I don't like and it will be removed.
Hey folks! Nitish and Sneh here from Kloudi (https://kloudi.tech). We are building a Universal Command Line that enables developers to enter commands and queries to search, view and perform actions on data from all their engineering tools. Some of the tools that we currently support out of the box are Sentry, Github Issue, Jira, Datadog, Rollbar, AWS etc.

Kloudi was born as a solution to the problems faced by us while running our previous startup which was a managed freelancer marketplace. While freelancing and handling development for a lot of startups at a given time we realised that any other engineering team uses on an avg 10-15 tools to monitor various aspects of a developers workflow however there is still a lot of staggered information that any developer spends time knitting together. This continued problem was what became the trigger point for building Kloudi. We currently support tools like Sentry, Rollbar, Datadog, Github Issues and our planning to provide support for a bunch of dev-tools in the future.

Some of the key things about Kloudi is that it is locally hosted on your systems. Which means all the keys and data reside on your system. Making it 100% secure and extremely fast!

We are still in our early days of building the product and would love for you all to take it out for a spin and give your feedback. Cheers!
Also China is a very big country with very different people and cultures. Including cuisine. Same for India and Europe. "European kitchen" is also a very wide term. Can not really put what people eat in Sicily and Lapland to the same pot.
The new evergreen Googlebot (2019)
It happened coupla times in Moscow, around Kremlin so that for anyone around it GPS showed they were in Vnukovo (~27km away).

But since it royally fucked up navigation, throwing taxis, rental cars and general traffic into chaos, they don't seem to do it any more there.

Capability is certainly there though.
> "unix? That's Linux, right? Oh, and free bsd..."

Arguably, this is sort of true today, adding MacOS to the mix. With Oracle Solaris discontinued, and Oracle Linux being where the work is at, plus a bit of IBM AIX and HP-UX used in some companies server but less common. That's mostly where the POSIX/Unix-like landscape is at today.
Right, which is a massive problem. If these people and those like them were prosecuted then we'd have far less of a problem.
Re: “this post as a stalking horse...” see: https://realclearconservatism.com/2021/01/18/in-defense-of-a...

The Republican Party is no longer truly conservative, but populist and/or right-libertarian.

Forgiveness is needed by all sides and is also needed well beyond politics.
Great stuff Jake, thanks for sharing. I watched that pricing change very closely as we have a similar progression from solo to multi-player at [https://grain.co/pricing] but very helpful to hear the reasoning behind it.

Completely agreed that the nuance is critical to this discussion and the absolutism makes the great clickbait but isn't supported by reality.
Ha. The story behind my username.
What makes programmers so special? Don't we have ton of grunt work as well? Don't most of us also work on rather trivial CRUD applications? And what work is actually interruptible? Is a sales rep. preparing for a meeting interruptible? Is a project manager planning the next quarter interruptible?

I agree that context switching and interruption has a high cost, but isn't the cost pretty much the same regardless of your job?
Just to be clear, I think it's within the responsibility of the government to pay for much of the hardship incurred by lockdowns to help get society and the economy as a whole through it halfway intact; but I do not think that applies to _everything_.

Two examples: If a Business is closed due to lockdown - there should be government assistance to compensate. Buying masks for employees and changing interior layouts to allow for safer interactions, to comply with new regulations - cost of doing business.

This alone:

>Because the government is the party deciding on the restrictions.

is not a valid reason to me. We don't (or at least I don't) expect the government to pay for every impact of new environmental legislation either even though they ultimately pass the legislation.
The article is so badly written that I thought the presentation will be in June or July, but I looked at the date.

I guess there was nothing about ARM on CES?
> Any idea if that will end up costing me a fortune to go Aurora?

Define a fortune.
I've read a lot of your work and appreciate it. I don't agree with all of it. But all of it is good.

And indeed you have a distinct style.
>bolt-action

The fact they're bolt-action is irrelevant to their grip. I'm still not convinced banning semi-automatic rifles will lead to (or has lead to) mentaly unstable people bieng unable to commit crimes. There's still a large selection of pistols (especially rifle-looking pistols) and lever-action rifles. You can still shoot them as quick as you can aim.

>inexperienced person

It's very inadequate to target a small minority of people with laws that are based on wishful thinking, sacrificing the vast majority. Do you not find it easier to simply take action with mental healthcare for the weeks, months, and years prior to the shooting?

>We can't ban mental illness.

Of course. Because it's an obviously failed concept. When you ban weapons you can always cherrypick statistics to show loose correlation (not sure by which criteria it's worked out well in California when Chicago's gun laws don't repeat the results). It seems like the banning attitude is the wrong approach, and the issues at hand are far greater than a single handwave of the senate or similar.

And let's not forget how easy it is to make DIY pipe bombs, flash bangs, stinger grenades, molotovs, poison gas grenades. I'm certain pipe bombs are more dangerous in close quarters than guns because of their spread. If you've barricaded the classroom door, all you need to do is stay outside the deadly funnel and there is no way the firearm will hurt you. But explosives have no such limitation if you can fit it in.

>go to the range and get better

This isn't about skill but visibility in low-light conditions, easier target acquisition, and actually having a guarantee of what you're looking at. Any benefit you gain from training will be increased with an infrared scope.

>They simply don't want to have to worry about themselves or their children getting shot by some lunatic with a gun.

Mental illness is a major cause of worry right now for America's youth. The easy and naive handwave solutions of banning mentall illness and guns are, at best, tangent to the goal of reducing violence, and at worst rob people of the right to defend themselves or use tools they are well trained in. It is the easy short-term way out to use non-combative and 'safe' gun owners as scape goats. It is the easy way out to tell someone what his use case, goal, and constraints are, and back it up with strongarm authority.

It is not the easy way out to admit a complete failure of the federal government to implement mental health care. It is not the easy way out to push changes that will span several presidents. It's not the easy way out to cooperate with all sides of the community. It's not easy - that's why we trust politicians with our taxes, so they work it out the best way, the most rational, informed, and difficult way. Isn't that the point of politics - to abstract away the angry mob seeking retribution?

By the way, I'm not American. I live in the EU but have had the privilege to spend hundreds of euros on trips to countries to shoot some guns. Thanks to EU gun laws, the best defense against getting robbed or home invaded is to know civilian-safe, ethical tai chi.
What stops them bundling something malicious into the “security patch” and then not writing it into the change log?
> But we did not ratify it. It is not legally binding on us.

Yes, mostly.

“When a state has signed the treaty but not ratified it, it is not yet bound by the treaty's provisions but is already obliged to not act contrary to its purpose.”
DeFi explained

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2021/02/...
How to Make Money from Clubhouse
So that only worked because Bette Midler was very well known AND the main reason for using the impersonation was to get that recognition.

So you could still deep fake voice actors with the intention of just saving money rather than wanting people to recognise them.
HEY THIS IS THE PERFECT MOMENT TO PLUG MY SUPER MINI PROJECT: https://scan.lol

Excuse my caps!
Childhood diet has lifelong impact
Reminds me of the brother in "Leolo" [0]. Super dense movie right on the verge between tragic and funny.

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104782/mediaviewer/rm2696479744/
The NSA has been pushing in the wrong direction, probably because they want to be able to hack everyone else...

meanwhile actual security languishes in obsecurity, only pushed into view on occasion by obsessive types like me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

Computers CAN be made secure, but you have to give up Linux, Windows, etc. to do it.
I think maybe you don't see the problem in citing a bunch of heavily left publications saying a heavily right publication is fake news.

Snopes is cool, though.
I think we are talking about telling rather than asking though. “I told the cat food company they could save money.
> I did but I’ll make it more clear: I licensed my content to you, with the expectation you would honor my license. If you use the technology I distribute my licensed content to you to violate that license you’re undermining my ability to determine the terms under which I distribute my content.

Your licenses have legal limits, including fair use.

Too many authors seem to believe that once they have created something, they should have total control over all copies of it made in perpetuity. That's not how it works even today (and today is closer to that "ideal" than just about any other point in history).

If I buy a physical book there are all sorts of things I can do with it. I can cut out the pages and use it in an arts-and-crafts project. I can even burn it should I wish. Many authors are horrified at some of the ways their books can and have been used, but they cannot legally limit these things.

PDFs are not physical books, and any analogy between the two will eventually break down, but I do not consider printing or copy-pasting from a document to be "bypassing the terms under which the content [I'm] accessing were shared" when many possible uses of these are 100% legal, just like photocopying a few pages from a book at the library for a school research project is 100% legal.
Many competitive sports have requirements to be unbalanced for weight reasons.

E.g. pro cyclists have to avoid any upper body activities like swimming since they'll put on upper body mass that hurts their performance; the opposite is pro climbers where training quads will lower the performance since they'll grow extra leg mass that arms will have to lift.
my anecdotal experience is similar, there's quite a few products we use because we started with the free plan, and now pay for the product. One of the big problems over the last few years is we have ended up with a LOT of useless subscriptions (often cheap ones) sitting there doing nothing for a long time, so it gets tricky, people want to have conversations about what we will be getting out of a new subscription to a product before we have started to use it in any meaningful way ( there's a lot we try out and abandon ), even when cheap, the ones we integrate, its a no brainer paying for or bumping up to the next tier as we use it more.
Beyond the Harvard Way: More Meaningfulness and Accessibility
Nah. Bodybuilders are fat by mbi. BMI is or was used also in context that where it literally harmed bodybuilders - by BMI they are fat.

Politicians doing these decisions dont go too deep. BMI is widely know, easy to calculate metric everybody knows. And that is all there is to it.
Clubhouse App Offers Chinese Rare Glimpse of Censor-Free Debate
Maybe I'm a luddite but updates are not always necessary. It's a barcode app, what updates does it need? Is there a cve that needs to be patched? No? Then I don't need a new version
Alas, stable API doesn't mean the software itself is actually stable and bug-free
I have no idea why you're getting downvoted into oblivion. These all sounds like excellent ideas. Can someone elaborate what's so controversial in this comment?
The point I was responding to was whether the western audience is well served if the media only focus on the negative side of the China story. It is not the same as the local paper's focus on crimes and tragedies. My main concern is that my boys don't get conscripted into serving in a future war promoted by people who don't paint a realistic picture of the world, on both what China is and on how much power the West (or anyone else) has over China.

P.S. As for the Brahmaputra river, according to Indian officials: "Out of five major tributaries of Brahmaputra, only three come from China, rest are from Arunachal Pradesh. Of the total water entering (Brahmaputra), only 7% is contributed by precipitation in China." https://www.livemint.com/Politics/jksr4ft6Jn5wjvJAEGwD5L/Ind...
A Silicon Chip Shortage Is Causing Big Issues for Automakers
> We are not talking about patching. We are talking about updating.

No, he's talking about all auto updates. Here's the interview with the quote in question: https://archive.org/details/LundukeHourApril14RMS
Aurora's autoscaler is fully in your control. Aurora Serverless is usage-based, but regular Aurora is just an AWS-optimized Postgres distro. You should not receive any surprise billing based on scaling, unless you specifically configure it to do so. Based on those usage patterns you explained you could do a scheduled scaling event that would scale up your Aurora cluster to have more capacity during business hours. If its a read-heavy workload then read replicas are a cheap and easy way to scale.