skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole article makes more sense if you replace gaming with crypto as Nvidia really meant it

>“Our crypto product sell-through projections declined significantly as the quarter progressed,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
TLDR: he needed cameras to do AR. They were hard to get at the time. Dummy thrown out of an airplane with a bunch of sensors and cameras failed to deploy its parachute. Scavenged two cameras out of the six on the dummy to build his AR system.
All you have to do is look at press releases from 8 years ago and see how many of those plans actually happened. You should expect the plans from today to work out similarly.
Five-Planet Nice Model
People don't want to admit it involves hard work and luck - they'd rather think that Bill Gates got to where he is because of his parents (even though there are thousands/millions with similar parents and backgrounds who didn't get even close).

Because one line of thought leads to: "I couldn't do anything, the game was rigged from the start" and the other leads to "I didn't do as much as I could have done."
How can I measure my heart rate with it while I’m running? How can I do pace training? When I’m walking in a city I don’t want to take my $1200 iPhone out while I’m trying to find directions. I can just glance down at my watch.
That $400 isn’t de novo is it?
IMO Russia is just a pawn in this game with China. US is in two win-win scenarios with both Russia and China. Currently Russia has its hands tied and cannot interfere or support China if the Taiwan thing gets bigger. Also, irrespective of Russia winning or loosing, Europe will increase usage of American oil and gas.
If China wins in a Taiwan takeover, the semiconductor industry will double up in America and if loses, then America will have military dominance in the region.
Unless something really crazy happens, US will come out on top again and crush both Russia and China and also increase exports to Europe.
Not sure I'd go that far. I am getting paid to work full-time in Rust right now, but... My experience is the # of companies doing this that aren't "web3" companies is pretty small. Insignificant as a % of the total industry. Rust forums on LinkedIn are dominated by chatter about Solana etc. When recruiters reach out to me about Rust, it's almost always some blockchainy thing. I wouldn't characterize that as mainstream.

Type "Rust" into a job search engine and see what comes up, it's mostly blockchainy stuff. Or a few shops that are "looking into" doing Rust for new projects (which is encouraging, but hard to say how that will shake out).

I personally won't touch anything "crypto", so I feel somewhat lucky to be getting paid to work in Rust right now for something that isn't. But I fully expect that once this gig finishes, it'll probably be back to C++ for me.
Perhaps it's a commentary on how similar the US political parties are. The tone of the comment suggested the commenter is from the US, and thus the US is the only place :-)
Because the CO2 cost of manufacturing a new ICE car is comparable to that of a new EV, but the lifetime CO2 contribution of a new EV is far lower than that of an ICE car.
I will tentatively say "yes".

I had one project I inherited that was fairly clean. The codebase was well structured, tests existed and would run, there was documentation in place and it was relevant.

I have personal preferences that were fairly different from the original authors (namely - they chose coffeescript, and had a fascination with single line methods and chaining) but I can't really fault them a ton there - to each their own.

It helped that it was a very small project, so there just wasn't much space to get lost in the weeds, but it's still probably one of the better organized legacy code bases I've been handed.
> The stumble over abandonment of ICE vehicles.

> By 2030 (8 years from now) at least six manufacturers will have stopped making ICE vehicles entirely.

If those two seem out of step with one another then I propose that one of them will relent with regard to the other. (No one is making these six manufacturers stick to their forecasts.)
> Do you also have scrum-of-scrums?

I remember my previous employer trying that out in one or two departments. Ultimately that company landed on SAFe Agile and it was a complete and utter shit show.

Where I'm at now is "doing" Kanban but the standup is really just a daily status update. I'm slowly getting the management to recognize that these things are problems, why they are problems, and what can be done about them. But I'm much happier with this situation because I can actually push back against it and try to improve the thing. At my previous employer, any attempt to even begin highlighting problems would render you standing alone against what amounts to a committee of management (in this case, specifically, people who are only employed because of the fact that they use these extremely heavy processes) if you wanted to discuss these things.
The Complete Collection of Data Science Projects – Part 1
Just error detection for corrupt or partial disk writes.
Hydrogen fuel cells are more expensive than batteries, because they either work at room-temperature and they need expensive catalysts using platinum-group metals, or they work at high temperatures and then they have a short lifetime, requiring frequent replacements of most components.

Also the efficiency of a cycle of storing energy into gaseous hydrogen and then recovering it is limited by fundamental reasons to low values.

For cars, it is likely that batteries will remain the best solution, due to the high efficiency of a charge-discharge cycle.

For long term storage of energy, further improvements of fuel cells might make them the best solution for recovering energy stored in chemical form, but not using gaseous hydrogen for storage, but other more appropriate substances, e.g. hydrocarbons, alcohols, ammonia or solid carbon.

There are fuel cells for the other fuels mentioned above and the only advantage of the hydrogen fuel cells is that they currently have the greatest power density, i.e. the speed of reaction of the hydrogen per area of electrode is for now the greatest (leading to the greatest electrical current density), but only either at high temperatures or when using expensive catalysts.

The mitochondria from all the cells of our body are a demonstration that it is possible to make a very high efficiency fuel cell using hydrocarbons as fuel and without using any rare or expensive materials for catalysts.

While the solar cells already exceed the efficiency of plants at capturing solar energy, the artificial fuel cells have a long way until becoming competitive with those used by the living beings.
Same here. But the one I'm using is 7 years old. Very nice code, some opportunities here and there, of course.

I always mention this when I'm hiring: our codebase is "old", but the code is actually well written and tested. I've seen worse code in projects that are just a couple of months old.
Yep, there is probably one clock domain for all the ADCs, although there are two different prescalers (one for ADC1/2 and another for 3/4/5).

I could see one of the writes getting lost. In this case though, the ADC enable is what seems to be timing sensitive, however the ADCs always end up enabled properly. It is just that a write that was significantly earlier (the one that sets the prescaler) seems to be lost, despite the register reading back that it was read correctly.

I would expect that if the synchronization failed, reads back would read the wrong value?
Co2 is important but water is also a pressing issue:Today it takes 441 gallons of water to produce one pound of boneless beef[0]. There are a lot of numbers for this on the the web,and this may not include water for feed and processing/packaging but its a lot of water,when for example, lake Mead is about to become a deadpool.
[0]http://meatmythcrushers.com/myths/myth-it-takes-2400-gallons...
Part of it was "developer betrayal" - if you were a fan of the SimCity games, you might "eh" the Sims, but Spore was just not at all related (and overhyped, to be fair).
Love this! Just used it to archive one of my slack communities and it worked great.
+ is not a cancatenation operator in excel. It is numeric addition. It is added the numeric values of which the letter characters are merely a representation then that answer would be the same as if excel treated them as numeric data types.

Alternatively, if you don’t want excel to perform addition on underlying numeric values but instead only on defined data types then the formula could result in NaN which would signal to the user that the explicit data type was not compatible with addition.

I know, complaining like this probably doesn’t make sense. It’s a minor issue to begin with and I’m probably an edge case as far as excel users go. It doesn’t make sense for MS to tailor its product for my type of user.
Here's my method: start by drawing on a piece of paper. Doodling helps with focus and is something you can’t really screw up. Do that for a while until your brain becomes more single-tracked. Helps me every time.
> 60% seems like a lot, but it actually isn't: there are a lot of consumers (like myself) who would be more than happy to eat nothing but plant-based burgers, now that they're within spitting distance of meat in terms of taste and feel.

Quantify "a lot."

> I'm not a vegan or even a vegetarian...

Maybe so, but your food choices seem to be similarly driven by some kind ideological motivation.
If you're talking about me, I believe that when people are ready for it, "governments" as such will cease to be relevant.

To put this another way, I am NOT advocating for getting rid of governments, because a) they already don't exist, and b) right now, if we "got rid of government", let's say by somehow stopping all political, police, military and other activity, there most likely would be chaos, as many people like being told what to do, and maybe do need a imaginary father figure to make decisions for them and punish them if they do "bad" things.
> On the other hand, it's just creepy. How do you prevent the next apartment over from spying through your walls? Is the hotel wifi going to recognize and catalog physical activity between two people?

I would imagine you just take the "country/private club" model and extend it out.

e.g. a private club enforces limits on who can access the club and you get more "privacy" since the other people in the club also had to pass through those limits.

In this case, the club/hotel/builder of your house can say "the walls are all Faraday rated so that you get audio, visual and EM privacy when you stay here"
Nice one IRS, try again next time :-/
Literally an arms race.
For current mainstream text generation models it doesn't really depend on where the bot is and what time of the day it is, that's kind of the whole point - their text generation process simply doesn't use the current time as a possible input factor, these models would provide the exact same result (or random picks from the exact same distribution of potential results) no matter when and where you run them.

They would be expected to answer with something matching the day/time distribution that was represented in the training data they used; like the answer to various prompts of the "current president" question is dominated by Trump, Obama and a bit of Bush and Clinton, simply because those are the presidents in the training data and the more recent events simply aren't there yet - like the many models who have no idea how to interpret the word 'Covid' simply because they have been trained on pre-2020 data even if the model was built and released later.
Slides for the intellectually sloven https://yale.app.box.com/s/7f6agg5ezscj234kahx35lil04udqgeo
Absolutely wild that apparently the Twilio team doesnt require any sort of MFA to access internal data, and then even wilder that this incident report doesnt even mention this.
I said he isn’t controversial now and not in the past. Key word is “and”. Both things aren’t both true. According to you, you have now slandered me by twisting my words. According to you, that’s evil.

How do you think I have so many specific examples of Peterson? I’m speaking from specific examples of hearing him speak.

You did a whole thing of what you find slanderous. You didn’t explain why. Everything you write are some vague stuff. Nothing specific or substantive.

Are you saying Peterson isn’t a raging bigot against lgbtq people? I’ll stick to one example because you consistently do not respond to any specific critiques. I gave examples of Peterson specifically being a bigot against lgbtq people. Including very recently with his Kulinski interview.

Either he is or he isn’t a bigot [against lgbtq people].

> Are you sure it serves you to hold the opinions of him that you do?

Him being a bigot isn’t an opinion. It’s quite messed up imo to call his homophobia and transphobia “my opinion”. You’re insulting a whole lot of lgbtq people. Some would think that’s basically evil.

—

You’re afraid thing doesn’t make sense. He hadn’t helped a whole ton of people in 2016 yet. He wasn’t famous when he began his narrative BS on the pronoun bill. Having a made up narrative concerning someone like me isn’t good. Some would think what you are saying is basically evil.
What actions are you taking that could potentially cause billions of individuals to suddenly act as though the concept of scarcity doesn’t exist? If the only path forward you see is for every single human to start acting differently, then you don’t see any path forward.
What Is Elon Musk?
Back in 2001, Blogspot[1] was a good option but it had no comments (Guest Book). So, a good Russian developer approached me to try out his commenting system called something like "Blogcom". I think I used it for a year or two.

Blosxom reminds me of that BlogCom.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
Dutch disease is only one aspect of the resource curse and classical "Dutch disease" has little has little to do with overexploitation post colonial or otherwise -- I don't think many people were claiming that the Netherlands were being exploited in the 1960's. What it does mean though, is that a resource rich country may find is currency strong and any manufacturing or agriculture less competitive on world markets - again this has little to do with overexploitation.

Other aspects of the resource curse that are relevant to resource rich African nations are economies that fluctuate wildly with world commodity prices which lead to whipsaw effects and difficulties in planning and investment, a lower return to investments in human capital and natural resource development being more amenable to corrruption than other industries.
> The majority of the CO2 cost of a car is in the manufacturing

Is this true over the life time of the car? Studies indicate this may be a widely believed myth.
A traditional rails structure does not age well. It must be a nightmare for any new hire to understand the domain and boundaries.
The hard problem is making these products have the same nutritional profile of beef, even the low quality one

It's not going to happen anytime soon, just like Soylent isn't goings to replace meals for regular health concious people
I'm on Penang, Malaysia right now. Sort of stumbled into the digital nomad lifestyle: was living in Berlin and decided it wasn't going to be a good place to be during a pandemic, so I flew to Singapore back in March '20 and just kept going since then.
Nomad tax setups vary, there's no one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on your citizenship(s), residency/ies when you started nomading, income, location and type of employer/clients, and where you want to spend time.
So I guess the real story is that Twilio does not require second-factor authentication for employees that have access to user data?

It seems like hardware-based 2FA with something like FIDO/U2F would have easily stopped this attack and generally make stealing credentials really difficult (it's still technically possible if you're able to spoof the target domain, but that's much harder than registering a fake domain).

Kind of weird that they only mention "security training" as a remedy, which is obviously never going to be 100% effective, instead of a more effective technical solution.
"leaders"? More like the inner sanctum of the echo chamber.

EDIT: If you look at historical influential figures most of them were controversial.

That's not surprising... "leading" society means leading it to a new place, not keeping everything as it is.
Why would it require that? In the UK instead of doing all that the councils have been installing EV charging points into streetlights, negating any requirement to dig up the pavements (beyond that required to replace a streetlight) to install these.
I’ll be honest, I stopped reading after this:

> Did not America threaten to use nuclear warheads in Afghanistan? It literally went into Iraq after the made-up threat of nuclear weapons in Iraq.

No, America never threatened to nuke Afghanistan.

Also, I never said America doesn’t have the capability. But one country is using it as their lifeline to make sure they aren’t ripped apart by the rest of the world and one doesn’t even bring it up. Be anti-American or whatever all you want, but what’s the point in lying on the internet where information is so easy to simply Google?
What struck me was the irony of having to skip over its rambling introduction.
Last time I felt like this it took a couple of months until I broke down completely and was fired, so take care of you!

If what's stressing you out is the work you have to do or where you're working, now is actually not a bad time to search for a different workplace. You don't have to prove anything to anyone if that means that your mental health takes a toll, and you'll not be able to prove anything anyways in such a state.

If it's something different then feel free to chat here, or write me via mail(if you want to vent to a stranger), or look after your mental health by visiting a professional, if that's possible for you.
I’ve always viewed his content through the lens of being your own boss, so being overworked and taken advantage of by an employer might happen, but if you don’t have the ability to work through things you don’t want to do, you can rarely succeed on your own. A boss is a great way to always have external motivation. That doesn’t exist when you work for yourself.

Great points by the way. I would also add that Jocko Willinck is a master teacher in self promotion. The pioneer of “monetize my navy seal career”, but I do feel it’s mostly genuine and valuable content.
There are services that will do this, but I would imagine that many of them only handle formats where there's enough demand to justify the necessary gear and setup. It's definitely the sort of work where someone really into that specific thing can devote more resources than your average video/film/etc production and distribution house.

I've done a bit of this with personal material (friends, family, my own stuff). Even then it's just when I have the necessary equipment already. Currently it's just a flatbed scanner, VCR, cassette deck, and capture card.

They don't get a ton of use, but when someone mentions having old tapes they can't watch anymore, I usually try to give it a go.
>The example you give with mangroves is a great one which does in fact work. Pragmatically and historically most of the attempts however, have not due to mismanagement and other unseen complications.

You need to cite this if you are going to keep making that statement. I'm not arguing that markets are well implemented, that common practice is well defined or even very useful, or that we're even prioritizing for the right outcomes, but the notion that forests don't sequester carbon over significant time horizons is 100% false. Global forests represent the most significant, straightforward opportunity for removing carbon from the atmosphere, no debate. Yes we need to do better at managing them from a climate change perspective (good fire, biodiversity, water), but there is simply no better option right now for doing any kind of meaningful drawdown of carbon from the atmosphere than forests.
I heard about many companies in this space that have since shut down / become acquihired. Root AI acquired by AppHarvest [1], Abundant Robotics (shut down) [2], Traptic acquired by Bowery [3].

To me, this suggests that the problem is hard. Last I checked, the state of the art in robotic grasping seems similar to the state of many other AI systems before ML hit the scene. It's super-mathematized all to the questionable end of analyzing how a few points points can optimally apply forces to simple convex polytopes.

A similar feeling exists when you look at the state of path planning for robotic arms. There, collisions must be avoided at all costs because we don't have the mathematics for it. So you make this super precise plan that carefully snakes its way around all the little voxels that happen to become occupied in your occupancy grid. To execute these plans we need to manufacture robots with expensive harmonic gearing and sub-millimeter level repeatability. These types of robots would not be economical for outdoor picking tasks.

To make progress, I think there will have to be new ML techniques and new lower cost robotic hardware developed in tandem.

[1] https://www.appharvest.com/press_release/appharvest-acquires...
[2] https://www.therobotreport.com/abundant-robotics-shuts-down-...
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/16/following-acquisition-by-b...
You'll be downvoted for saying this.

EDIT: just as I'm being downvoted. The echo chamber cannot be called out.

EDIT: the guideline of not discussing downvotes hardly applies here!!
Sidekiq and Request-Specific Context
Virtual Reality.
Face race?
- Wikipedia page for Vetocracy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetocracy

- Notable prior HN coverage of topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29625988
Isn’t SMS based 2FA responsible for a lot of Twilio’s revenue?
Yeah, I have (maybe slightly fond?) memories of using Forth to develop a tape drive reader and writer for an undergraduate lab project. It is wonderful for some things, although in this case, where the problem was literally which addresses the instructions got assigned to, it is unclear if it would have made anything better.
"If the audience is supposed to accept that genetic determinism is true in Gattaca, then no amount of Vincent's hard work should make Vincent a hero. He's just a fraud. If the audience is not supposed to believe that in the world of Gattaca genetic determinism is true (that is, it's false), then it should be interpreted as a story of discrimination, and a story of the underdog's heroic hard work overcoming the negative effects of a corrupt, wrong, erroneously-discriminating society."

from http://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/Gattaca.pdf
While I think not allowing windows is a silly policy, Apple laptops still sell for a serious premium after 3 or 4 years of use. I've worked for companies where this was the sole reason for Mac being the default laptop you got. If you wanted/needed anything else, you had to specifically ask for it.
I 100% agree. I really miss going to the office. And even if you really work 8 hours a day at home, being able to walk over to someone's desk and ask a question is an underrated privilege.

That said, it's still not worth commuting into the downtown office every day.

> In San Francisco, an estimated one-third of the city’s’ workforce is remote. City officials said that remote work cost it $400 million in tax revenues last year.

It's not just on companies - cities are really going to be hurting in the coming year if workers don't start coming back. And a lot of this is largely on cities to fix by physically moving workers closer by building more housing, or providing better transit options.
Thanks, I commented without thinking.