skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. For the literal first prototype you get out of the door, yes, having some baseline UI work done for you would be nice. For the sake of the argument, let's assume that the code generated by said tool is at least somewhat reasonably structured so refactoring the code isn't a nightmare either. You wire the UI up to some data and get it out of the door to get some feedback. The problem comes after that initial step — you show the first prototype to some test users or stake holders and figure out what needs to change. Integrating the now changed output of the updated UI with the code you already have will no longer be trivial. So long as the prototype is lean, this will be manageable for some time, but sooner or later it will not. The problem is that for most projects, the initial prototype stage is a very miniscule part of the whole product lifetime. Getting one prototype for cheap can be good, but there are UI prototyping tools that can do this. Using those tools instead of trying to reapply the updated output to your now-existing code base will most likely be less work.

In general I do think that tools in this niche will mature over time, but in my very subjective opinion, they won't be the holy grail of cutting down development time. Most of the time, the hard part of software development is the long haul, not the initial kickoff.
With young kids though, a lot of the time it's down to the parents. I know most of my son's clothes are a result of his mum wanting to buy him things. Only a tiny proportion are things he wanted.
You had me at "indentation-based syntax". :)
There is no statute of limitation on civil tax fraud in the US. There is a limitation on criminal tax fraud, but for example, filing a false return to evade taxes (such as by not reporting cryptocurrency related capital gains) is a civil matter and the IRS is unrestricted in being able to attempt to collect the correct amount of tax at any point in time.

edit: see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6501 for the exceptions.
Could it be that calls to glibc never get inlined, since inlining is essentially static linking by another name? Or since they're in separate compilation units, without LTO you'd never perform the analysis to figure out if it's worth it. Would LTO inspect across a dynamic loading boundary? Just speculating, I really have no idea. Everything I work with is statically linked, so I've never really had to think about it.
Yup. We use this for every meeting at my local hackerspace and it's been great.

Bonus: it tells you when connectivity issues are on your end or someone else's end, everyone's network stats are visible.
Looks like a great tool for small business owners. Tools like these are perfect for light weight work and churning out quick social media graphics.

Btw how is it different from other design tools in the market like Canva?
The client is a web browser. There are web browsers on Linux. I use hangouts in both Chrome and Firefox, and haven't had a problem with either of them.
I also think that. But it appears we're both being downvoted for saying so.

I'm not sure I understand why? HN is usually pretty tolerant of healthy skepticism. And it's not as if we're saying "this feat is impossible, Boston Dynamics must be lying". We are (or at least I am) saying "the thing I'm looking at doesn't look real".
Persuasion on social media is certainly effective. But I think it’s also worth reflecting on the number of people who would still believe false news stories/conspiracy theories/etc in a hypothetical world without social media, and what techniques we might use in that world to combat the issue.

As for original thinking, I may not be as well-read on these topics as others. Some of the ideas seemed obvious once I read them, but I didn’t think I’d seen them before. Example: “disinformation” becoming a catch-all word for “things I disagree with”.
Yeah you're not allowed to leave the pump running unattended as far as I know, you have to hold down the pump at all gas stations I've been to.
Does SerenityOS require all apps to be implemented in C++ or even C++20? I guess not (didn't have a close look at it yet).
I know, it's 100% trace-proof!

> If users spend funds immediately following the lock time in the first 2 blocks allowable by consensus rules (~20 minutes after receiving funds), then there is a good probability that the output can be identified as the true spend.

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/monero/monero-bug-could-impact-...
If we retain the same semi-centralised power structures for governing society, then I think it's unavoidable that we will face the scenario you mention. We need to decentralise governance and power in a massive way if we are to avoid negative effects from these incredibly powerful technologies.
It's not their job to name alternatives, it's their job if a tool complies to the laws.
Kris Newby produced the propaganda documentary Under Our Skin and her conspiracy theories about "bioweapons" are nonsensical on their face:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-review-of-under-our-skin-...

https://theconversation.com/no-lyme-disease-is-not-an-escape...
Right, blame it on social conservatism when the HPV vaccine costs $1000 even if you have Medicaid or ACA. In fact, Medicaid and ACA don’t even cover it. The cheapest price for the HPV vaccine in rural America is at the nearby Walmart. But it is $330 per shot, and you have to take 3 shots, and Medicaid and ACA won’t even cover it.

If you’re blaming social conservatism, then I’m calling you out for an out-of-touch liberal.
"Just as, say, smoking causes cancer, consuming bad information must cause changes in belief or behavior that are bad, by some standard. Otherwise, why care what people read and watch?"

This is the most interesting point in the article. Why should we care? People believe all kinds of crazy stuff, and still do good things nearly all the time.

Strange beliefs rarely cause violence... certainly not often enough to worry about it. Sept 11 was probably the worst case of that, and we worried way too much.

Maybe day to day there are more minor things that add up, but there's not a lot of evidence that these minor things are any worse than before. As far as I can tell gay marriage is very widely accepted pretty much everywhere in the country. The SCOTUS decision declaring sexual orientation as protected under the Civil Rights Act was written by ... a Trump appointee.

So it really comes down to voting. That's what everyone is worried about: if you believe the "wrong" things you'll vote for the "wrong" person. It's all political.

And that makes the war on disinformation seem a lot less noble, and a lot more prone to abuse. After all, everyone already knows who the "right" candidate is, so disinformation is anything that might get the other one elected. That makes the algorithm easy.
ORNL’s simulation tool creates digital twin of buildings from coast to coast
Arming law enforcement robots must be illegal- the whole point is that you can risk the robot to restrain a suspect, it doesn't need to defent itself like a police officer does.
It is more likely the opposite - a strong immune system causes a strong vaccine reaction.
+1 for miniflux. The only place where it doesn't work is on my Kindle, whose browser is pretty terrible.
Petaluma, CA is the first town in America to ban new gas stations.
Blood Test Spots Biological Markers for Schizophrenia
Can anyone with first hand experience on this tell shed some light on why stick with Excel versus using python, R or what have you to treat the data?
The Revelation of Flooring Services in Cambridge
Well if you are facing such type of issue then you don’t have to panic because we are here to support you at all costs. If we talk about our fencing services in Cambridge then we bet that you will forget about your old fence that is irritating you on daily basis.
Wouldn't it be great, though, if humans were no longer working warehouse jobs that strain their backs and their bladders?
My son's university has been holding tons of virtual sessions for incoming first-year students and their parents. Every one has been on Zoom.

In my experience, Zoom is the standard when you are dealing with the public at large. Teams/Hangouts/WebEx, etc are the go to options when dealing with an internal organization where all of the users are "known" ahead of time.
Well sir, you would be my ideal colleague.
Boston Dynamics was initially DARPA funded and intended for military uses, so you're not wrong.

The weird thing is that the more I study history, the more I think that the real dystopia started a century (and perhaps a couple millenia) before I was born, and we're just so adapted to it that we think it's normal. Take the "[Ro]bot" out of your headlines and those would be headlines from today, and if you ignore that the media never bothered to report on those a century ago, they'd be headlines from a hundred years ago. We were depersonalized by the industrial revolution, and then large numbers of us were killed in the wars that followed.

In some ways, this gives me a weird sort of hope that our descendants will welcome their robot overlords. In others, there's a melancholy foreboding that our descendants will welcome their robot overlords.
Side note, I am surprised bostondynamics.com does not enforce a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.

https://blog.bostondynamics.com/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backf...
People are begining to post some things:

https://twitter.com/LenKusov/status/1364640007101775872
Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

I was thinking some high strength fishing line fashioned into a bolo sling would be cheap.

Or maybe just some “invisibility cloak” made out of astronaut blankets.
> fruitflies

careful with that one - there are interstate restrictions on transporting insects that are unrelated to the USPS.
do all mRNA vaccines have to be multi-dose?

I'm sure a second shot of the traditional flu vaccine wouldn't feel great.
State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020
Do do we want more uniform enforcement via robot, or do we want more leeway for human LEOs?

It used to be cops could make their own decisions on the spot about a subject (good or bad), now with cameras there is much much less ad-hoc decision making. Everyone gets booked.

It’s a double edged sword. Depends on what we want.
U.S. Treasury to oppose development bank financing for most fossil fuel projects
It is a textbook example of situational irony for people who are on the outside of this situation, looking at how the results differ from what was expected.
They funded https://scrimba.com, an interactive coding tutorial platform, that is written in Imba.
It seems like we're going to have the same discussion on this topic every day until all parts are posted.
An impressive accomplishment -- and beautiful in its own way.

Alas, I can't help but keep imagining a Terminator climbing and jumping over barriers, instead of those smaller, less-threatening robots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSXl_XKXZAI

I'm rather surprised no one else has mentioned James Cameron's robot-from-the-future nightmare so far.
> I feel like "AI Robot cops show implicit bias resulting in 3 deaths" or "Robot Cop shoots innocent person after facial recognition goes bad"

Maybe. But that's not different than human cops who already show implicit bias and poor facial recognition and kill people they have no right to kill.
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This would be a decent lookup for the atan2 function:

https://gist.github.com/mooman219/19b18ff07bb9d609a103ef0cd0...
"AI Robot cops show implicit bias resulting in 3 deaths" is a headline today if you remove the AI robot part. As evidenced by the comments in this thread and any other on these robots, the public is extremely skeptical of them. If they do indeed exhibit these kinds of harms, the public will likely enact severe restrictions on them. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up in a situation where a lot of benefits are left on the table due to over-caution, just as you might see with self-driving cars that kill fewer people but are highlighted in the news when the rare accident does happen.
https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/what-eviden...

https://www.nytimes.com/article/climate-change-global-warmin...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/weather-s...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995507/

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

https://ec.europa.eu/clima/change/consequences_en

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/climate/...

https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/effects-of-climate-cha...

https://www.myclimate.org/information/faq/faq-detail/what-ar...

https://www.ucsusa.org/climate/impacts

https://www.epa.gov/arc-x/implications-climate-change

https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/effects-of/climate-change
I'm not surprised people look at this human-like and try to attribute human-like responsibilities. It'll be a marketing trap that many fall into.

But for now, the sensing, state estimation, and energy density problems preclude the use of these robots in the real world. There's far too much uncertainty in the structure of the world or the modelling of unknown areas to do parkour outside -- unless I've missed something huge that boston dynamics has done without talking about.

As someone said below, however, if you can develop a hybrid control scheme with a human controlling a smart-ish legged vehicle, you're on a roll. That's the future for legged vehicles that I could see: something like mechwarrior or titanfall, but without the AI (remote operated). Or Dreadnaughts. But small (as someone else pointed out).
You can freeze bacon for a few months. Any longer and it will start to taste rancid.
Although I mainly use zoom for work, I've also used Google Meet occasionally and have found the quality to be on par with Zoom.

I notice you mentioned Google Hangouts instead of Google Meet, I'm not sure if they are the same now (too hard to keep track of these) but a brief google search seems to suggest they are not the same. If so, my past experience with Google Hangouts with friends would suggest it is indeed terrible. If so, you could give Google Meet a try.
FreeBSD is like a slow moving turtle. It gets things done slowly but surely! It'll let the world fly by but only adopt things that seems to make the most sense. I guess this is a nod to KMSAN and its usefulness.
Disagree with you here. For some people, accents can be a big personal issue. This helps solve that.
That's not really a complaint about languages so much as it a complaint about marketing though, is it?

I don't go learning every language to mastery level, but I try to at least keep track of whereabouts they lie in the spectrum so I can cut through marketing-speak when I see it.

The way I see it, if a thing is being dogfooded in production, it's production grade. People can debate go-vs-rust or whatever till they're blue but the reality is simply that you can ship something with either and there are always going to be proponents and detractors for each side.

While I haven't followed Imba that closely, I've been aware of it for years, and I have to say it's one of few projects that actually has interesting technical takes on several fronts.
He was speaking as if it was still 1980s. Now we have cloud based ML doing the optimization finding.

ML will (eventually) be able to generate biz logic code, and most assuredly infrastructure config (a cloud API has a limited set of possible configs of value to our sorting patterns), UI code (we gravitate towards a limited set of UX it seems), to solve much of our daily programming work.

ML can’t invent future ideas, it can’t evolve itself without us making new hardware for it. But it will implode the blue collar dev job market eventually.
So my mini fire extinguisher might be the easiest for now.
Bay Area home wealth surges during Covid-19
Note often statute of limitations often does not begin until discovery or "when the plaintiff has a complete and present cause of action.", and if they can't charge you criminally then that discovery rule may apply to civil or state law.
Things the Establishment Got Wrong About Covid-19
The tube has shorter times between trains than the New York subway. For example, Picadilly/Central/Victoria line trains run at <120 second headways on the central section. You couldn't control the gaps between trains precisely enough to demerge and remerge trains once you account for random factor of passenger loading and unloading and changing gaps between trains as they accelerate and decelerate between stations. Better to build a whole separate line, in fact this has been done already, the Victoria line is pretty much the express version of the Piccadilly line and likewise Crossrail will be the express version of the Central line.
There is weired tendency to use AI for well-understood problems that have formulas and solutions.
Many of the charities that collect clothing are 501c3 scams.

I sometimes wonder what charities are not scams?

The clothes at Goodwill are not washed.

(I used to recommend donating to Goodwill, but their prices are getting to high. Goodwill provides 1 year of employment to felons, which is great. They pay a unlivable salary though. The only people making a living salary are managers, and regional managers, and of course key members of the nonprofit. My Goodwill, in Marin County, had three managers in a row quietly fired fired theft.)
I'm reminded of the robot that goes wrong in Robocop. Except, with Reinforcement Learning, we'll have a robot that executes hundreds flawlessly until stopped. This is the kind of advancement that should be regulated, IMHO.
Lots of systems did that, including Toronto, and for daily trash collection too. But logistically it's simpler to do that via surface streets nowadays, especially with late-night or all-night train service.
How is the battery holding up on the Pros? My 1st gen AirPods were dead (each bud only holds about 20 mins of charge) after a year. I then tried a pair of the SoundCore Air Liberty 2 (what a name...) with the same result after a year or so. I can't justify paying $200 every year, so I'm sticking with wired for now.
Could it be one executive wanting get credit for his brilliant initiative by scientifically "proving" how effective it is?

Using the uniform distribution makes it seem like it wasn't one of the researchers or anyone at the insurance company who has studied actuarial science.
Doggy day care is a thing. That's definitely something they enjoy, just wondering if a robodog would be useful.
Yes, there's an interesting distinction here. Although I'd say it's more like Chess than Go, in the sense the mechanics are really simple in Go, while Chess has specific rules for each piece and you should memorize openings and quirks to get an edge (Go is much more about generalization).

In reality, both Chess and Go and all board games are fairly simple, you can learn all the rules in a few sittings and then just focus on strategy.

In roguelikes, often learning the system is the point (or a point) of the game. The fun, at least to me, is in dealing with the unknown and discovering how it works and what works.

Nethack (a classic roguelike) takes it to the extreme -- a bit too much in fact, because an essential game mechanic is an obscure passage you'd have to deduct (Elbereth). But the fun is there: you grab a potion and have no idea what happens if you drink it -- maybe you will be killed instantly, maybe it will make you into a god -- it's not just "which of those effects am I going to get?". You have to rely on previous knowledge, as well as expectations from similar games and what you know about the game.

But isn't that quite common IRL? Like, okay figuring out what you should be eating has a science to back it (albeit quite extensive): you read the most effective diets, what risks it reduces, you health, your weight and need to make a decision. Already not very simple strategic decision. And then you need to take into account satisfying your tastes, how often diet fads reverse (is eating butter healthy? go figure), how to do it when sharing a meal with other people, and so on. The unknowns are as significant as skillful strategic planning. The same could be said to running a company: you need to manage uncertainties in a vast decision space, with opportunities like calling for partnerships, merging, buying other companies, spending on uncertain research, and much more. You slowly acquire domain-specific knowledge (with help from the vast literature, plus a few insights of yours) and use that to in turn reduce and manage uncertainties and plan ahead (here your model of other players and capability to find the 'best move' -- least risky, greatest payoff, more robust -- will shine).
> unauthorized clones

Are we really living in a world where we need "authorization" to replace some corporation's software with our own?
I've tested both EFI and BIOS boots on EC2, and they have about the same overhead.

And I've tested AMIs that are no bigger than a Linux kernel and a single static binary; times are still on par with what's listed here. Still takes 7-8 seconds before the first user-controlled instruction gets to run.
Given that these are relatively unskilled users, would switching away from Excel increase or decrease errors? I don't think it's a given that errors would decrease by switching away from Excel.
Geometry Processing with Intrinsic Triangulations [pdf]
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I have to do many online meetings, with attendants from developing countries (like mine) or unstable links. From our experience it seemsthat Zoom tolerates our unstable internet links better. I guess it has better error correction.

There's also the annotate feature is super useful, which is missing in Teams and Webex. And also offers dial-in phone numbers in more countries then the rest.

Zoom's audio design is nicer too, compared to Webex has some very annoying beeps that are a pain in large meetings.

Regarding Teams, I have a computer with plenty of RAM, SSD disks and a high end work provided smartphone. Teams is super slow in both of them. I haven't been able to use the Exe version for weeks now because it's too slow. There is also no way to quote a chat using the Windows and Web version, so in order to quote chats I have to do it from my phone.

Every once in a while I have buggy Teams or Webex meeting, that ends with a "Hey you know, I'll just send you a Zoom link".
It’s kind of hard to fling paint, but I guess just making a potato gun that spits out paint should be good.

I’ll be looking for some Holi festival type gear.
All things considered, KIWIMOB.
Because an absolutely enormous number of people involved in all ends of genomics and biomedical science have absolutely no inkling whatsoever about programming.

Furthermore, Microsoft office is installed everywhere everywhere everywhere… like it leave it love it or hate it, it doesn’t matter… it’s true (at least for huge swaths of the demographic).

So the first thing most people learn is excel and the last thing most people use is excel. It’s a database, it’s a spreadsheet, you can even use it as a word processor if you want to. And some have.

I’m not saying you could and I’m not saying you should, I’m just answering as to “why“.
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