skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dangerous Amusement Rides Around the World
So, looking at the video and "press release" with a jaundiced eye...

What is that big unpainted aluminum box sticking out the front? Why is it sticking out the front? It makes the machine look like a prototype, not a production machine. Aren't they "for sale but sold out?"

The video section subtitled "The bedtop is scanned to detect weeds in realtime" https://youtu.be/vSPhhw-2ShI?t=58 is ...odd. The two camera shots on the left show just weeds (top) and just onions (bottom). One would expect the "before" camera to show both weeds and onions. The "after" camera shows only onions so the machine must be 100% effective. /s

In the same shot, the ground under the machine does not look like it has any onions and it looks like it has only a few weeds, many fewer than the "weeds" camera shows. You can see "sparks" where the machine is presumably lasering weeds, but there are many weeds under the machine that survive the "weeding".

The press release
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210413005415/en/Car...
is oddly interesting too. Only one farmer is quoted. (Only one? I though the production machines were all sold out. Where are the other farmers who bought machines?) The quote is pretty specious and his qualifications to judge the machine is very vague "[he] has utilized Carbon Robotics’ technology on his farm." So he apparently does not own a production machine. "Utilized" is a very nebulous term - could mean he used it to weed his fields (mmmmm yeah) or the company used his field to run tests on the machine (seems more likely).

I love the summary quote of Mr. Johnson: "These robots work with a variety of crops, are autonomous and organic. The sky’s the limit.” Doe people actually talk that way? No farmer I know talks like that. Sounds to me like something a PR flak wrote.

Back to the original article... "Even farmers who can afford to buy the robot might not be able to get their hands on one for some time — Carbon Robotics has already sold out of the bots it had available for 2021 delivery." I'm guessing the number of bots it had available for 2021 delivery is zero, in which case the statement isn't quite a lie.
Voice commands aren't going to give you an exhaustive list of possibilities, they're going to play the top result.

Q. "Play Diamonds by Rihanna"

A1. "Playing Diamonds by Rihanna from Youtube Music"

A2. "Playing Diamonds by Rihanna from Spotify"

Either A1 or A2 will happen, but not both. There can be only one.
Where Is America?
Benign neglect is what I'm looking for from top management. A CEO might be like a fire extinguisher; you need to have one, but it rarely does anything but sit there; but, when it's needed, it better work?

Actually though, setting up and maintaining the organization so it can self manage is harder than it looks. Of course, some CEOs have good results with meddling too. It's hard to have two CEOs and A/B test them, although RIM/Blackberry had two CEOs for a while, and there's some other companies that tried it too.
Being alone and far away from other people turns us somewhat savage. That's why these superficial interactions help, they are akin to walking around as a minimum type of movement one should do before it becomes a serious problem that requires a lot more effort to get out of.
I agree with you on general principles. However, the whole point of this case being in front of SCOTUS is that other courts have ruled that schools aren't obligated to provide that experience. Levy's suing because she disagrees (and I do too).

I think she should be allowed to be a cheerleader even after complaining about her coach and school, as kids are wont to do. Now we'll find out if the courts see it the same way.
That's a really interesting idea. Unfortunately, most of Intellectual Venture's patents are broad and apply to using a method rather than a specific implementation. In other words, it doesn't matter how unique your mosquito laser is, the fact that you are using a laser against a flying insect is enough of an infringement.
I think that if you took the US exactly as it is, then make tax records public, after the initial explosion of interest, nothing particularly would change. The reason is that although the records would be available, only a tiny fraction of people would look at them a tiny fraction of the time.

On the other hand if you took Sweden as it currently exists, and put up a real time scoreboard on every office wall with the name and total comp of all employees (or all employees of that particular department, or whatever), you'd have pandemonium--except in workplaces with homogenized, formulaic compensation.
I think the proper technique was using conditional jumps (that always end up jumping) so the disasm thinks the next instruction should come right after it (in case the jump isn't taken). It then becomes undecidable which is the correct path.

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Huh, you're right, IDA works around some basic examples I threw at it. Who knew.

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Oh, I forgot to strip symbols... successfully managed to confuse IDA with a few tries :)

https://gist.github.com/tostercx/899630ba3d01cb98fcf7faf8bf0...
Either YouTube requires VP9 and then everybody has to implement it, or it allows other codecs and leaves Roku alone.

What's the point of singling them out?
Thanks, edited.

I first understood the conjecture as bounding the exponential function on the size of the graph of an element of `F_H`, but apparently the odd thing is the exponent depends solely on `H`.
100% agree on lack of vulnerability. I am hoping that COVID-19 showed us that a social life on social media isn't a social life at all.
I don’t think that’s true. If you visit a convicted rapist in prison when nobody else will do you condone rape? Or are you performing an act of kindness?

I think the ironic and not obvious answer here is that we stop committing people to the garbage heap of humanity via religious-like shunning. That reaction is what gives bad ideas power.

People are complicated. You can’t boil them down to a true nature that is “good” or “bad”. That’s “us vs them”. Only ideas can be judged that way and history decides what the bad ideas are.
Usually yes, but Indian government’a propaganda machine is strong. Heck, if you open Twitter’s COVID timeline (which they feature heavily), it only shows official tweets from the Government on COVID.

All of them downplaying the pandemic, praising the handling, and painting a rosy picture.
Every time you attempt authentication, and it doesn’t recognize you’re wearing a mask in particular, it’ll “retrain” the model when you authenticate with your passcode. If it was only a little bit off, eventually you’d retrain enough to get there with a mask. They mention this in their Security doc if I recall correctly.
I can see why you would think that but if you try out some Zig coding you will quickly realize there is no parallel here. It just doesn't make sense to try to compare them. I'm at a loss as to how even to explain it.
> Continuing association with someone who is, for example, is supportive of ethnic cleansing, is expressing that you condone those things

I disagree. Why should associating with someone automatically mean you condone all of their beliefs/actions? You can disagree with parts you disagree with. Otherwise that's like a religious person saying they have to shun all democrats, because to associate with them is to condone abortion.
I'm doubt there's an immediate application for this result but have there been any similar proofs in the past and what have those been applied to?
I'm pretty good up to around 10,000 feet these days due to where I live, but I felt like it took a few years.
Comcast Internet down for “routine system maintenance” all day long?
I am in Fremont, CA, USA. This is bizarre and obviously unacceptable.
“We're currently performing routine system maintenance. This may cause an interruption to your service. We began work on 04/26/2021 09:23 AM (Pacific), and this is expected to end 04/26/2021 04:00 PM (Pacific). We appreciate your patience. Would you like to receive updates via SMS about the progress of the outage?”
What percentage does Roku take? I wasn't aware that they were in the same rent-seeking game as the other app stores. They do talk about their "Platform Revenue," but it seems that's mostly generated from ads.
I google'd around and I can't find anything conclusive about whether a fish literally rots from the head down.

I'd be curious if it's merely an expression or a true thing about fish.
Most of the so-called "investment" is real estate based. They will most probably develop some very expensive offices, fancy stores, put some additional people to work there, and call it a day.
The ‘Worst Hack in Years’ Hits Apple Computers
How does it compete with organic farming robots that are paid ~$4-6/hour to kill weeds?
Doesn't it cost Google more in either bandwidth or patent fees if they don't support VP9?
Hey Floh, love your work! It's validating to hear you say these things. For me, the biggest annoyance with Godot's code base is the lack of clear ownership semantics (no use of smart pointers), and the use of fully hand rolled collection types for everything. It makes it hard to inspect variables in a debugger! Also the performance of the collection types are bad because of all the allocations. Seems like those problems will never get solved as it would be too expensive to rectify.
Bluehost Stores Passwords in Plaintext "last four characters of you password."
You are required to give them your last 4 characters of your password over phone support in order to cancel.
But YouTube is a music streaming platform. The most popular, in fact (no, not YouTube music). I constantly listen to music across both Spotify and YouTube. YouTube serves video and doesn't present music in the way we usually think of it, albums sorted by artist, chronologically presented... But that isn't really how the younger gen listens to music. It is a music app and a common way a lot of people consume their music.
We have the same problem in Okteto. We've been investing a lot on building tech to prevent this (I gave a talk on this during the last eBPF community days -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tplv3Hjjv2Q), but it's tough. We spend a LOT of resources fighting it.
An even better solution would be to just show the "unlock with passcode" button at all times, and not just after Face ID has spent 15 seconds not recognising you because you have a mask on.
I think your point is that not everyone who gets paid a lot deserves it on merits? I agree with that.

Still, do you think that compensation and merit are correlated? I do.
In a bit of synchronicity, Dubai has sponsored development of more efficient and longer lived (via underdriving) LED lamps, and exclusivity enforcement means that you are prevented from being able to buy these longer-lived lamps: https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...
10 years later

Users: Now if I want good results, I append site:news.ycombinator.com before every query.

Advertisers: Hmmm...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/08/typograph...

Typographic ML attacks work and are pretty funny.
You're looking at gross profit, but you really need to look at net income, which averages about $13B.

Companies like Wal-Mart generally have low profit margins, because there's not much of a barrier of entry and no valuable brand or intellectual property.
5G on eSIM with Verizon worked great for me when it was all I had or it’s the only one enabled. 5G wouldn’t work at all on either line if both SIMs were in use.
In the sense first and foremost that you may produce and design it, especially if production is structured in a co-op way, in the sense that you use it, especially if it's a consumer/worker co-op but also in a worker co-op, and to a lesser extent in that you are part of the society which produces it.
But can you make real connections without small talk first?
>That's really trying to frame the world through a lens of racial or class bias. It's not the reality. You're the one making the unsubstantiated bold claim here.

The war on drugs was literally a war on black people and "hippies" by the admission of Nixon's domestic policy chief. So no, I'm not making unsubstantiated claims.

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-n...

>At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. "You want to know what this was really all about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
I thought that AI could identify someone even if they were wearing a mask and our iPhone's were being silly. I've seen a few videos of Chinese grocery shoppers paying with their face with a mask on.
> with the amount of features it's packing and everything that is possible

And it's FAST.

Really good engineers they got over there.
Apple's insistence on only having face ID when competitors have fantastic and very fast in-screen fingerprint readers is just idiotic. I was kind of onboard when they first introduced FaceID, the argument that they don't want the sensor on the back and there is no room on the front was fair enough, but right now the technology has caught up. It's crazy that you can unlock a Samsung with your face OR an in-screen fingerprint reader, but you can't an iPhone.
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Hyrum's Law Mitigation in API
I don't know if it is industry standard, but it would be good if a user session (ie. bearer token, session id, cookie) was valid only on the designated API version (no mixed usage among different versions using the same token). The user then would have to manage distinct tokens if he decided to use two versions of the same API simultaneously.
Yeah I'm hoping Canada maintains some memory here, too. Biden kept in place Trump's vaccine export restrictions. But Trudeau and Biden have a better personal relationship, so we've gotten a bit of charity dusting from them. 1.5M (like... a week's supply) AZ that they couldn't use and was expiring, from a factory that it turned out had quality control issues... Hooray!
Yea, I'm sure they're actually using crypto instead of any other currency in the world that could actually be used for spending without $20 fees. Or if they want to keep their VALUE they could hold literally ANYTHING BUT the currency that's being inflated.
Software is absolutely inadequate to prevent you from being distracted... You can block a couple of things but it's an uphill battle, because there are no limits to the number of things more interesting in the short term than writing unit tests.

It's import to identify and address the root of the problem rather than just the symptoms. Do you find your work rewarding? Will these unit tests help you to complete the goals you hold for yourself? Are you healthy enough to faciliate productive work?
Etherscan.io shows all the transactions being POW. When will we start seeing POS transactions?
I am, not sure how common that is. But only when downtown.
Most software engineers are not experienced software engineers.
Roku does not support multitasking. I would not expect a voice search to close the app I'm using. If I want to switch apps to listen to music, I could hit the home button, then voice search and let music preferences launch the appropriate app.
Hi again leoh. Did you try searching for "goolge" like I suggested yesterday?

If so can you confirm my results?

If not, can I have your cookies (just joking).

If you happen to work at Google, can you tell them that this is another way that they drive even previously ardent fans to hope that Google will sooner or later be split up so they can start focusing on search again instead of plotting for world domination.
The "Unlock with Apple Watch" feature was the reason I used all the betas, thankfully they were totally trouble free for me this time.
I have my Android phone linked to my Bluetooth headset, so my phone remains unlocked while I'm at my desk - I really like this feature.

Another neat feature was/is "trusted location", where your phone would remain unlocked while at home, for example. I used to have this enabled, but unfortunately the option disappeared after an update on my Xiaomi phone a whole back :(
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>"Jaron Lanier’s old idea of an internet based on micropayments has finally arrived, but it has been transformed into an internet of micro-ownership."

The idea of a blockchain is, a defined protocol (like tcp/ip) where everyone can join the mining pool, accept and process payments. The quickest he processes the transactions, and the more transactions one processes, the more profit he gains. An open global competition for transactions. This trait gives the blockchain network incredible resiliency.

Amazon AWS, Ms Azure an' all, are not as resilient as a blockchain network, because not everyone can join and accept tcp requests. The tcp requests are accepted exclusively by the company's computers.

There are cases, in which we want to be absolutely sure the request will arrive to the destination the fastest possible. I.e an oven we control from our mobile phone. We want to be absolutely sure the oven stopped working, i.e the request indeed got to the destination the quickest possible. The information we want to travel with maximum speed and resiliency to errors, is a paid transaction.

The last point is that with a plain tcp packet the company with the server farm, may choose to eat the tcp packet and not turn off the oven. Modeling the control of the oven, with an oven wallet where we sent the paid transaction to the oven, no one intermediary can stop the transaction we send to the oven, so we have an oven in our house which we can control over the internet, with absolutely ownership of the oven and the control of it.

Everything else of the blockchain technology, like NFTs are following afterwards. This kind of internet, is called MetaNet.
>If they were able to make drones work, it could open up more variable farm designs: rows are mostly necessary so that farms can be serviced by vehicles.

Sure, but the weedkiller isn't the only vehicle that needs to work on the farm. I don't think flying drones are going to be ploughing any time soon.
The new iPhone will include a revolutionary feature where just touching your phone will unlock it, and it will not unlock if someone unknown touches it. It will be called "dactylogram scourer".

/s

Edit: 5 minutes and already got the first downvote
Staking requires putting aside 32 ETH for something around 2 years. That's a tad prohibitive at current prices.
Exactly; if the roads are subsidized (as in GP's concern), then some of that subsidy is showing up as a reduced price of goods.
> But the NSF was not much interested in funding math in culture (2).

I'm not sure that this is supported by the historical record.

For example, from NSF's own page:
https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/overview-50.jsp
> The first NSF grants are awarded to support computation centers and research in numerical analysis. Three years later, a separate budget is created for grants to enable academic institutions to acquire major computer equipment.

That seems like it's very firmly in your (2).

Going further, I found the distribution of NSF grants for 1952. Mathematics got one grant, to Lamberto Cesari, for work on "Asymtotic Behavior and Stability Problems". Cesari has a wiki page with links to some of his articles, for example : https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-... , and a bio at St Andrews: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cesari/

Going by those, I don't see how that would not be (2)?

A little later we find UMN's "Institute for Mathematics and its Applications" (https://www.ima.umn.edu/about/history, sounds very (2)-ish) which was established with NSF funding in 1982. And a bit after that, in the 90s, I am fairly confident that some portion of my graduate work in applying mathematics to biological problems was NSF-supported.
YouTube music is a different product from YouTube itself.

If I said "search wikipedia for thing"

I'd expect to get wikipedia results back, not YouTube videos about wikipedia and thing
Drones don't need to be battery operated - but, I agree that there is no reason to use them in fields which are already designed for vehicle access with semi-standardized dimensions.
I don't have any links to back it up or anything, but my impression is that Face ID continually trains itself as you use it to help keep up with facial changes over time. At the very least I know it takes the data from failed attempts immediately followed by passcode unlock and uses it for training.

Depending on how either is implemented I could see it getting "used" to a masked face with enough samples. The question for me is if this makes it more susceptible to false positives, e.g. unlocking for people other than the owner wearing a mask.
I made this tool 15 years ago: http://move.rupy.se/file/logic.html

It has been used for everything from SQL design to quest scripting in games.

I don't use it anymore because I made my own JSON database: http://root.rupy.se
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That's just what was paddled by the british media, "the cheapstakes at the EU, are so greedy to the point of losing time to argue about pennies and killed people out of greed, thank god for brexit", and of course it's complete non-sense... it's well known that what made the negotiations drag for more time was matters about LIABILITY, which the UK and USA waved.
In my experience, pair and mob programming are just yet another scenario where neuro-atypical people are punished for approaching their work differently.
This lines up with my experience as well. At worst, you should be able to work solely on getting your sprint tasks done, but also be making notes of any clean-up/aftercare that needs to be done and any other basic codebase maintenance that you notice as well. Then these get added as future sprint tasks.

In the best team I worked on all of our sprint tasks had soft deadlines unless explicitly stated. So it was perfectly justifiable to not fully complete a sprint task because you needed to do some unforeseen codebase maintenance in that part of the project before you could get to work. before I got there, the team had inherited a python2 project that hadn't been fully maintained in a while. Our pm always emphasized to "clean up your workplace before and after every task". Adhering to that, we were able to prepare for a migration to python3, add tests and documentation, and enforce pep8; all while implementing new features and setting up a continuous delivery system.
Something about the statement 'So inequality is not the problem, poverty is the problem' is wrong. I can't quite put my finger on it -- it sounds along the lines of 'So falling from the 20th floor is not the problem, hitting the sidewalk is the problem'.

Can someone explain me to myself?
If I was Apple getting out of the Chinese supply chain would be a priority - if only to have some leverage with a second option.

It seems like a pretty high risk situation for them and has chilling effects elsewhere (content restrictions on Apple TV). It also damages their brand ethos around privacy. CCP pressure on Taiwan and TSMC is also a concern I'd be thinking about if I was them.
I think that's more a sign that Stålenhag has a good eye for practical industrial design.