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Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497737 - Dec 2020 (136 comments)

Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22676040 - March 2020 (203 comments)
> I'm a Christian and I find most of those arguing that it's the mark of the beast (or the road there) to be disingenuous at it's root

Yes, using a 1st century AD apocalyptic book about the Romans to interpret contemporary government policy is by definition disingenuous.
Totally fair! I'm sorry to hear you had that experience, although I hope maybe you'll someday consider giving it another chance in the future. :)

My personal experience has been different, but I upvoted this because I really appreciated that you shared your own experience without overgeneralizing it.
> He’s like “well look, 90% of everything is shit”

I think there is a difference between "being shit" and "being fake" though. 'do you really think it’s true that 50-70% of biomedical research is fake?'

Fake seems more insidious and problematic.

Also this brings up a very troubling issue. If 90% of the "research is fake/shit" and lets say that means that 90% of the researchers are "fake/shit", then it means that 'scientific' consensus is also likely "fake/shit".

This is why I'm always skeptical of 'scientific' consensus. Science is about evidence, testing, etc. Not consensus - which is the realm of politics, law, etc.

And I'd suspect 99.99% of social 'sciences' is probably 'fake/shit' and that is used to push/change society/government/etc.
No, we fix the leaky pipes.

Where did your conclusion come from? Why would adding extra waste (the bottles) to the equation result in less contamination? What about my statement made you think "this man wants people to bottle their waste, rather than maintaining/improving existing infrastructure that addresses the issue"?
It's certainly possible, there's already a company[1] that sells cameras with this modification performed. And a few cameras that come from the factory with no Bayer filter, like the Leica Monochrom, but all the ones I know of are very expensive.

[1] https://maxmax.com/shopper/category/9241-monochrome-cameras
Is there a reason that these social security numbers are persisted? I can understand the need to do a credit check for a new customer but after? The only use case I can possibly come up with is for customers looking to add additional lines to the account than what was originally approved for and thus needing a credit check re-run. But at that point it would be a more secure process to just ask customers for them again.
>> Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX

Curious -- since you're only doing the inference/generation on the frame, and since you're not doing it all the time, did you need a Jetson or would an RPI have sufficed? Did you test inference speeds across different edge compute options?
+1 for this, I can't scroll at all on Firefox. Works on Chrome though
For those want to learn Elm, or to learn strongly typed functional programming in very well thought out order @rtfeldman's book "Elm In Action" is super good.

His experience working at a teaching company made his book very well structured for new comers.
I can confirm that I'm unable to scroll on the site while browsing with firefox
> What next, the IRS?

Already happened: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

They don't disclosed how many parties were included, but their description of their validation (they verified it against 60-some public figures who had separately disclosed their tax filings) suggests that it's probably a significant fraction of the US population.
It's also important to distinguish between things that turn out to be crap in retrospect and things that can be known to be crap given the information available at the time. Those are two very different things. Yes, alchemy is crap, but there's no way Newton could have known that given the data he had at his disposal at the time.
In theory, yes, to be pedantic, but for example, LibreOffice saves its exported CSVs by default as tab delimited. You actually have to manually specify you want commas to get those.
Short answer, its spirit lives on. Not to search very far, FinCEN did not stop contacting financial institutions for 314(a) compliance.

https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/314afactsh...
If you're going to gatekeep what art can be, you better have some pretty impressive creative credentials of your own. Some people say "an unlimited edition is meaningless, has no value" and all they really mean is "I'm conservative, I don't see the point of change, and I can't think of any way an unlimited edition could be interesting"
It's strictly dependent on the table definitions you use. A column with no type (the simplest way to use them) will take data in any of the natively supported types—whatever you actually insert in your SQL statement—and will not attempt any translation.¹

If you do add column types to your tables as in traditional databases, then of course you should expect some varying behavior based on that.

I can imagine some potential for issues from people expecting to insert exact decimal numbers and choosing floating-point by accident, perhaps, or using integer types for actually-text numeric ID fields. If you go all-strings on input with no column affinity, then you'll get the same strings on output, though, so that's isomorphic to good-CSV.

¹ https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html – §3.1 “If the declared type for a column contains the string "BLOB" or if no type is specified then the column has affinity BLOB.” + §3 “A column with affinity BLOB does not prefer one storage class over another and no attempt is made to coerce data from one storage class into another.”
uw madison?
Honestly some people are dumb and it’s as simple as that. No need to bend backwards to make excuses for them.
Sex. Definitely sex
Fusion - 10 years away since 1950.
> It is illegal for the US government to create a mandatory national identity system

The system can be voluntary.

If you don't need an SSN today, you wouldn't need to use that system.

If some bank or health care provider only accepts such a system, just pick another one, or create your own bank / health care provider.
Yes this,

I heard several times that he "Business reviews" were a mini MBA course, but I think there was more value in watching the way leaders freed engineers to creatively solve a problem, and then reigned them in just across the line of an MVP, to focus on something new.
It was very hard for me to understand the objectives at times, but it was clear eventually that there were diminishing returns in allowing the pursuit of engineering goals over business goals.

I learned a lot, even from outside most of the interactions I observed.

Cheers to you and your team Mr Kotov
who is John Galt?
It certainly isn't unlimited. It is confined by resolution and color depth.
Slot machine Jackpots are much more common than Teslas hitting parked cars. If that is what you mean by frequent, then yes.
This is the popular wisdom but I question how universally applicable it is. We all know that having the best technology doesn't necessarily mean you win in a commercial market and we all know that being first mover can be an advantage, but those observations don't tell us what will be successful in the long term.

How often does substandard technology and technical debt become a drag on a business not long after that first move, allowing someone else to overtake because the poorly built system couldn't scale to production levels or wasn't adaptable enough for changing requirements or failed so often that the early users drifted away? How often do we see developers advocating shortcuts and showing limited understanding of basic software development or computer science ideas, only to see the product they work on being rewritten within a year or two, or the whole team shut down?

You can try to be fastest always. You can often succeed, at first, if you take enough shortcuts. But you can't sustain that pace without enough quality in your people and your code. Planning to throw each implementation away and rewrite with more resources every year or two is a very unicorn-like strategy. It reminds me of VCs whose strategy is to invest liberally, who are fully aware that most of those investments won't work out but they're hoping for one or two in each batch to become the next big hits.

Real engineering isn't done in a vacuum and its goal isn't perfection. Real engineering takes issues like costs and timescales and staffing into account and aims to find a solution that is good enough on all counts. But it still has to be good enough. Producing junk but quickly and cheaply is an effective strategy until it's not and the success of any product using that strategy comes down to little more than the luck of the draw.
It's ok to disagree with me - everyone is allowed a different opinion on art. I'll explain a bit more about my opinion, which you are free to disagree with.

Personally I don't think a machine generating pixels from neural networks trained on intentional art can create art - it can create something that seems very similar because it seems to generate the same or similar output but its missing the process and intention of art. If an artist draws random shapes with no intention or intent to communicate or evoke thought/emotion, all they're doing is making shapes, unless the random shapes themselves are an intent to communicate something (which is difficult if they're actually random).

'art is art' is a tautology with no meaning, and defining art in a way that makes some things not art is the only way you can have a useful definition of art.

Change my tire? Art. Spill chocolate milk on the table? art. vomit after drinking too much? art. because art is art, right?

I guess the question is why you think everything, including things done without intention or intent to communicate, is art?
The vaccine-hesitant people I know are waiting for the live attenuated virus and/or FDA approval...

Please show me where it lists the reasons for not vaccinating on the page you linked, as I only see numbers on whether or not people are vaccinated. As it stands, your claim has zero statistical evidence to back it up. In fact, your link has zero relevance to your claim in any way.
Apple’s biggest problem is only getting bigger
Things might magically change if we ever manage to shift the legal and financial burden of "identity theft" to the banks who made the actual mistake, and credit agencies who illegally spread false information about people.
Perhaps it was just my professor, but what really helped was we first did red-black trees and after doing that our teacher explained to us that red black trees were just a type of B-Tree. Once you have that, it's pretty easy to go from one to the other.
The externalities don’t come from living in large homes. They come from the use of non-renewable resources. Focus on that dude. Stop trying to make everyone live in an SRO.

You can easily give everyone a McMansion and live in some sub 1.5C utopia as long as we focus on where we get our energy and resources from. Stop focusing on consumption quantity because it just sounds like envy.
Leaks are for intelligence operatives to act with plausibility deniability ("It was hackers!").

They are not for you to use to create accountability by discovering inappropriate inclusions and demanding answers.
> Yes Avro supports a JSON encoding, but it's not canonical.

To be clear, I'm not talking about using an Avro library to encode data to JSON. I'm saying that when you decode an Avro document, the result that comes out — presuming you don't tell the Avro decoder anything special about custom types your runtime supports and how it should map them — is a JSON document.

Where, by "JSON document" here, I don't mean "a JSON-encoded text string", but rather an in-memory ADT that has the exact set of types that exist in JSON, no more and no less. The sum-type of (JSONArray | JSONObject | String | Integer | Float | true | false | null). The "top" expression type recognized by a JSON parser. Some might call such a document a "JSON DOM." But usually it's a "JSON document", same as how the ADT you get by parsing XML is usually referred to as an "XML document."

Or, to put that another way, Avro is a way to encode JSON-typed data, just as "JSON text", or https://bsonspec.org/, is a way to encode JSON-typed data. They're all alternative encodings that have equivalent lossless encoding power over the same supported inputs.
The EU system is decentralized.
perhaps the whole installation is art, if as a whole there's some kind of overall intention, message, or communication. Personally having trouble seeing that here. It's more a tech demo. It's a digital picture frame that generates its pictures procedurally from a neural network.
my email address at the university from 2000-2003 had the last 4 of my SSN in it.
Whilst I agree with your point, I'd also like to see an additional strategy employed.

How about emergency vehicles broadcast on 5Ghz their intended route (for the next 300 meters) or just that they are blue light in the area.

This would only be active in a blue light situation. Manufacturers can then add a detection and warn the driver.

A while back I heard about car to car communications, but I heard next to nothing these days, this is a great use case if you ask me. If someone has more details of recent developments, I'd love to read more.
Any migration scheme with a timestamp based approach is going to work well (e.g. ActiveRecord, TypeORM).
This looks like a dystopian future wrapped in slick packaging.

As I understand it, this service involves voluntarily putting myself in front of a security camera, and then being forced to interact with people irrelevant to my task on a regular basis.

How exactly is this "designed to get me into flow quickly" ?
One of my goals with https://datasette.io is to offer a better alternative for publishing data than sharing a link to a CSV file.

The trick is that if you compile data into a SQLite file and then deploy the Datasette web application with a bundled copy of that database file, users who need CSV can still have it: every Datasette table and query offers a CSV export.

But... you can also get the data out as JSON. Or you can reshape it (rename columns etc) with a SQL query and export the new shape.

Or you can install plugins like https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-yaml or https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-ics or https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-atom to enable other formats.
Fun fact, the "beast" mentioned in this part of the Bible was code for Emperor Nero. The mark of the beast used for commerce in this verse refers to Nero's face on Roman coins at the time.

Much of Revelation was the early Christian community talking shit about Emperor Nero using code so they don't get killed. It's not meant to be a prophecy of a future dystopia.
Are these the same people who want to vote without showing their ID?
I'm not sure that makes this installation art in and of itself.
also I think there is great B2B opportunity is providing PM as a service in post-COVID world.

Now tech companies hire a legion of PMs with no particular domain or tech skills just to repeat the same standup/sprint routine on daily/weekly basis. If a vendor comes in with consistent and cost-effective way to administer remote-first virtual sprints I believe businesses would pay for it. Your "hosts" are the real asset.
EFF reported on it.

https://eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-215-expired-year-r...

> "On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act—a surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuse—expired due to its sunset clause. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)."
I'm explicitly not taking funding for Pop for this exact reason: I want to keep Pop around forever. I know that isn't something most people are able to do, and I'm grateful for my past success that's enabled me to do this. But I can tell you that it was incredibly sad for me to see Screenhero die, and I never want that to happen again — both as a founder, but also as a user.
> but this began with gang affiliation lists

Civil courts have been able to exercise significant control of your life, including extended imprisonment without due process, for longer than these lists have been in effect. Frankly Americans have a lot fewer rights than they think they have, including the non-right of due process for being on a government list.

Edit: To pre-empt some comments I know are coming, civil courts do not require due process in the way you probably think of due process: a civil court can act against you without giving you representation, without allowing you to have representation, without you present, in secret from the public, and even without notifying you

EDIT2: While I'm soapboxing I'll note the power the civil court has over you isn't much different than the power three-letter agencies have over you (since they are usually given very broad mandates), it's just that civil courts have been around so much longer it's a good retort to people thinking they used to have rights. Whatever three-letters can't do to you is generally picked up by similar state agencies.
The rent part is awesome. Do you scrimp pretty hard? Or is life still enjoyable? Nice to be able to go on a little trip or eat out sometimes. Most good stuff doesn't need to cost a lot though.
Citation needed. "It's against the constitution" - where? Cite an article, quote a paragraph, something. You say the Supreme Court has decided this; fine, quote a court case. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have no idea what you're talking about.

We have plenty of de facto ID systems. But I'd argue they aren't mandatory because -there is no political will to make them mandatory-. What is achieved by doing so?

Hell, the same political party that would object most vociferously to making them mandatory (because of religious reasons and cost to the taxpayer) is also the one pushing for laws to require issued IDs to vote, a right that -is- guaranteed in the constitution.
Imagine if WhatsApp and other apps added received photos to iPhone's iCloud Photos gallery by default.. wait, they do.
I think that's less a reflection of the "law" and more a reflection of how you're trying to apply the law.
For small/non-corporate developers, the common availability of mod_php in shared hosting setups was the main factor.
We need a "common business misconceptions for HN engineers" sticky!
Does it bring more clicks?

If it does, it's arguably a smart thing to do as long as the positives is greater than the negatives from the backlash due to wrong content...
All these features infested with emojis and negative space makes SourceHut such a refreshing take at UX/UI that is utilitarian, straightforward, ultra-functional and zero-tolerance for trendy-designer-bullshit. Exactly what engineering tools should be like. Unfortunately, I am in the minority here and most people find the UX/UI of Sourcehut ancient, unadorned and bland - IMO that’s a feature, not a bug. Check it out: https://sourcehut.org/
Who cares? It’s a computer program, just have it do what purpose you require
Osint Security Podcast
The conclusion that DT fusion reactors will be expensive follows from basic engineering considerations on heat transfer, not from specifics of any design. The volumetric power density will be lousy, so cost will be high.

> A modern nuclear plant costs about $2/Wth

This may have been the projection before the AP1000 and the EPR flamed out. In practice, the cost can escalate well above that. Their complexity made them difficult to build. And yet, these designs have reactor power densities orders of magnitude better than ITER, and are far simpler (and more fault tolerant) than a fusion reactor would be.
On Parsers
In my experience, it's not an either-or thing. I started my project to scratch an itch and only released it because I thought it could be useful to others. It originally didn't occur to me at all that my side project might influence my own career. But turns out that having a lot of stars on github attracts the attention of recruiters who use bot-based tooling to find talent and hitting HN front page attracts lurker employers. Getting stars is correlated with usefulness, and good docs correlate w/ usefulness as well. There doesn't need to be a direct causation relationship or even any specific intent, all that matters is what actually ends up happening when multiple correlations interplay.

Also, you can write open source software in big tech companies and even be paid to do it (React core team is a good example). TC39 folks spending time moving the Ecmascript standard forward is another example of staff/principal engineers doing citizenship-oriented work in order to get recognition for impact at FANG L6+. Being snarky about it doesn't change the fact that these sorts of symbiosis exist.
>As some businesses go out of business due to wages, that will put downward pressure on wages and keep things affordable for the remaining businesses.

Not necessarily. 1) there can be regulatory floors on wages. Half the folks in this thread are calling for higher minimum wage. 2) if cost of living outpaces wages, there may not viable business model at all for low wage employers. 3) it may be the case that in some markets working at all lowers the effective income due to welfare cliffs.
Under a huge number of common scenarios, adding manpower to a project INCREASES the delivery time. This has been well-understood since 1975[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
I wonder if we can even trust the CCP to not leak our party membership!?
House of (Twitch's Biggest Female Star) Catches Fire

House of Twitch sounds like it would be an awful reality show starring all the internet personalities who do nothing but talk about other internet personalities.
Technically, Sturgeon's law.
The Real ID Act has not been tested in court yet because it has not gone into effect, having been delayed a decade now. As soon as it goes into effect, lawsuits will immediately drop on several grounds. Furthermore, many States have declined to implement the part of the Act that requires them to share their identity databases with the Federal government, only complying with the "identity standards" part.

Prior Supreme Court cases have ruled that the Federal government cannot coerce the States, e.g. via taxation or regulatory authority, to do something for the Federal government that the Federal government is prohibited from doing itself. Without the voluntary compliance of the States, which is like herding cats, with respect to creating a national identity database, the net effect of Real ID will basically be more standardized State IDs.
Either the Census count is inaccurate or there's voter fraud.
Taking an SSRI and it saved my life. I‘d rather be the happy motivated SSRI addict than be left with permanent lung damage etc
Congrats on the launch! How "low" is the latency? The "Live Share" feature is VSCode gets mentioned a lot and has some advantages over traditional screen-sharing as it seems to beam the diffs of the code itself rather than a typical video stream. How do you compare to that?
Samsung makes most of their premium phones outside of China.
Now have it automatically issue one NFT every few minutes. Profit!
Given that GitHub is a large Ruby on Rails app, I’m surprised we haven’t seen Microsoft doing more to improve the performance of Ruby language given they are one of a small handful of companies that have deep language/compiler talent.

(Don’t take this as me knocking Microsoft. The speed of development on GitHub, VS Code and even Microsoft 365 has been phenomenal.)