skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I’m afraid the video I’m referring to has been pulled, and the in-person demonstrations I’ve been asked to not talk about or publicize

Interesting.

Let's take a second to take this from back of a fag packet physics.

To produce a 100mph drone is easy - lets take one of mine (there's nothing special about it) as a starting point and then lets see what we can change to achieve load carrying while retaining this speed.

Each motor & prop combo produces 1.5kg of thrust. They do this while drawing 40amps each from a 6s - which they can sustain for up to around 10 seconds before burning out MOSFETs on the ESCs (not to mention deforming the battery plug due to 160amps passing through a 60amp connector). This craft has a weight of just under 350 grams and when coupled with an 1800mah 6s, has an all up weight just under 650 grams.

We want to carry "several pounds" - lets make it easy, lets say 2lbs - and retain that 100mph speed.

Adding 10 grams prevents us hitting 100mph, we need to scale up our thrust. First problem - there's no other prop pitch or blade count for this motor size which will increase thrust while retaining prop speed, so we need to move up a size in motor. Since we need to carry 2lbs, you might think we only need each motor / prop combo to produce at an extra 0.5lbs but in practice we're going to need more than this because we need to sustain the aircraft vertically, whilst also providing enough thrust horizontally to reach the target speed, so in practice we will need more than an extra 8lbs of thrust (remember how 6kgs of thrust is needed to carry a 650g craft to 100mph - you don't just get to add 2lbs of thrust and call it done).

Problem - we need a motor / prop combo that produces above 2.5kg thrust each - so we're into 14 inch propellers and we need a motor heavy enough to take around 60amps at 6s (i'm being conservative to try and make the maths work out in your favour but i hope we can both agree that only 60amps is pure fantasy here).

That's a new problem, our weight went up and so we need even more thrust to compensate.

That's another new problem, we have more thrust but now we need a power supply capable of a higher discharge rate - that kind of battery entails even more weight.

But now there's a new problem, our larger props mean we're well away from the happy 300-400mph tip speed and now we're approaching the speed of sound - which of course means we can't fly.

But now there's a new problem, the battery that can supply that discharge does exist, the only problem is it weighs almost 2kg by itself.

And so we're back to you can't fly 2lbs payload at 100mph on today's battery tech.

Camera operators have been trying hard for years at this point to put a RED or some other expensive heavy camera / lens combo right next to race cars on track. There are two solutions for that today: 1 - fly the heavy lens and get that sweet image but do it at 20mph or 2 - keep up with the 100mph+ action but film it on a gopro or similar.
Feels like a race to the bottom. More features, lower cost, every week. No idea where it’ll level out, but I like it. Just bought some more Dalle credits today because it’s so much fun. This is a revolution in ‘art technology’ it’s like Steve Job’s bicycle for the mind. Best I could do a month ago was a stick figure in MS Paint, but now..
so wacky so made up https://kotaku.com/keffals-clara-sorrenti-twitch-streamer-tr...
Another justification people give for Google staffing levels is keeping talent locked up/not competing with Google. To the extent that's the case, thinking wouldn't be along the lines of "could we get by with fewer workers?"
> What's more important is how those false positives are handled.

Is it really though? If there's a company that has to defend / apologize often (Facebook/Meta maybe) I'd be way more critical of their apology than if one guy who didn't have a case like that before apologying a bit too late for some people or not in the way they wish he would. There's also a lot of information we don't know yet, we don't know what happend behind the scenes and when he was provided with the final verdict and facts.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people. Good riddance. Squatting the name "open" and trying to reap the benefits therein while being anything but.
I think it's fair to say that we don't have to do something just because there's a plausible mechanism for a benefit. If there are clear and obvious health benefits that are far beyond what you see with a regular calorically restricted diet, I haven't heard them well explained.
You can make content soar with Wagtail 4.0
EDX 6.002x Circuits and Electronics, which is not longer available in that form was alright.

For me, I knew a lot of the electronics so it turn out to be mainly a refresher in doing algebra.
That's just your definition of "reasonable".

They provide users with an expectation of what information they will receive if they pay for the content.

The fact that this "glimpse" of the content pollutes your web searches is a search engine problem.

It would be trivial to filter sites with paywalled content. But Google refuses to let you do that. Hope someone else will come along and help with that.
So you don't sympathize with a single "terrorist" on the planet? Don't lie.
"open source" hardware is never going to work the same way as open source software does. Hardware is fundamentally capital-intensive to produce. Software can be produced (compiled) using hardware that many people have readily available. This is a fundamental, intractable difference.

It's the difference between free knitting patterns and free cardigans.
Next week?
It is theoretically possible to have Reflection.Emit and DynamicMethod for less critical cases by using an interpreter - this happens in certain scenarios already.
Based on the increase in daily recruiting attempts I receive from those companies, I would guess that they are not looking to trim fat.
Is this what you're talking about?

> "Arguably the biggest improvement around UTF8 in .NET 7 is the new C# 11 support for UTF8 literals."

> "UTF8 literals enables the compiler to perform the UTF8 encoding into bytes at compile-time. Rather than writing a normal string, e.g. "hello", a developer simply appends the new u8 suffix onto the string literal, e.g. "hello"u8. At that point, this is no longer a string. Rather, the natural type of this expression is a ReadOnlySpan<byte>. If you write:"

> public static ReadOnlySpan<byte> Text => "hello"u8;

> public static ReadOnlySpan<byte> Text =>
new ReadOnlySpan<byte>(new byte[] { (byte)'h', (byte)'e', (byte)'l', (byte)'l', (byte)'o', (byte)'\0' }, 0, 5);
The .NET framework has changed a great deal between versions 1 and 6, so I don't agree that it's sufficient just to say that I am experienced with .NET and leave it at that, nor is it equivalent to listing library versions. Besides I'm a contractor; potential customers are usually looking for someone who can hit the ground running, not spend a month skilling up.
Scott Forstall: Just the iPhone stuff [video]
My mind might have quite a bit of recency bias since I just wrapped siggraph a few weeks ago (without catching Covid!) so I’m a little scattershot. I might come back to this later to post more concrete lists but here’s what came to mind first.

I should add that my point is more that there’s not been a slow down in ML research, and the ebb and flow of interest on HN isn’t indicative of accelerated progress in the field. Simply of what things have captured the public mind.

Anyway on to the links…

Disney had a slew of papers out this year, the facial motion retargeting ones in particular are very interesting for use in production of films and “metaverse” characters

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/machine-learning/

Luma have had a lot of progress in their Nerf capture and on device representation which will likely have huge effects for e-commerce use cases among other things

https://captures.lumalabs.ai/unbounded

Nvidia released an ML based version of OpenVDB that will potentially improve effects in films, but could be huge for games

https://youtu.be/uAs8X5es1DE

There were also a ton of neural rendering papers at siggraph that I still need to separate in my head mentally since I saw them presented back to back, so I apologize for just sharing a dump

https://twitter.com/neural_fields/status/1555947856271446018...

Apple released some neural rendering content too that has a lot of implications for spatial product training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13751
I did an analysis. See Twitter thread and let me know where I made mistakes.
I considered adding "...under current ecological conditions", but I though it obvious that natural flooding cycles were not responsible for this incarnation of the Salton Sea. I guess not. There is a good documentary on the Salton Sea entitled The Miracle of the Salton Sea that has outstanding old film footage from the early days, and explains how the current incarnation came about, though the Wikipedia page probably gives the same, if less well-presented, information.
First comment in Punjabi on Hacker news :) ... You right, we are together in this climate change disaster
> Do you think that's just a lie he's telling to somehow get richer? That he doesn't really have that concern or aim?

Yes, that aim is impossible for the forseeable future, and for the effort and resources you would spend making a self-sustaining Mars colony, if it's in any way possible, you can definitely make the Earth habitable after any possible disaster that doesn't destroy the whole orbit.

For the others, find me one other example that has so constantly spread such lies.
I think this post has the best information on it as I am also learning here https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

It is not just `magic` syntax imo, it is viral to your codebase. The blog post does way more justice than I can explain.
...and replaces harmful AMP pages with fishy blockchain crap.
Designed to Last: 10 of the most ingenious buildings
I haven't tried copilot either, but one of the things I'd be curious about is how well it can conform to a company's coding style guidelines and/or match its coding style with the existing legacy code that's being modified.

One of the major annoyances of working as a team with legacy code is when someone forgets to, or deliberately avoids, conforming their code to the style and techniques of the surrounding code. Nothing grinds my gears like working in a 500 line C++ file, where_every_function_uses_underbars, has consistent 4 space indentions, avoids exceptions, and passes by reference, but right in the middle is that functionThatMiltonWrote that uses camel-case, has 8 space indentions, throws exceptions, and passes-by-pointer.
Internally developed, although we just started using an ATS and they had some of this included. Filled out post interview and then we have a person dedicated to running the follow-up meeting. Amazon style bar raiser.
> I think the question is applicable to more than just engineers. Our economy is a paperclip maximizer of sorts - in the sense that its maximization target is far removed from the target of building the best possible world that we can imagine building.

My impression was that the maximization target is the building of the best possible world that can be imagined _for the owners of capital, in proportion_.

A farm in any time period is built to maximize the success, convenience, and happiness of the humans who own and operate the farm, right? Not the happiness or convenience of the chickens or pigs. If making the livestock happier and better fed helps the farm's goals, it will be done, and if not, not.

This frame of reference helps explain a lot more about the world than imagining that anyone with any relevance actually cares about the world being good for most of the people in it. Most of us are just livestock, a means to an end for the proprietors.
Get caught in a lie in front of a jury for a white-collar criminal prosecution with any sort of competent lawyer, and you never regain credibility. Regardless, the other points still stand.

It's incredibly hard to defend yourself if your head of security decides to extort you. They are the ones that design the protections to keep insider attacks from working. Luckily for Ubiquiti - the attacker screwed up his network configuration (VPN leak failure) which is also somewhat ironic.
That doesn't seem to work well.

For example, take this NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/health/life-expectancy-co...

Google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:... -- 404

OP's service

https://cfworker-beatthatwall.jayass.workers.dev/?url=https:... -- works.

However, one can adopt your bookmarklet to use OP's service when needed instead of installing extension/userscript that seem to match all the sites.
Videos. Tiktok. Video calls. Zoom.
You can go to the Swagger Editor [1], download the default Pet Store schema as a JSON file, and upload it here to see an example in action.

[1]: https://editor.swagger.io/

Edit: Apparently their URLs are public, so here is the Pet Store schema I uploaded https://easysdk.xyz/sdk/openapi.json-a09be341882b7aa7b87eb40...
Nice! Any plans for generating C# sdk's?
Because society created laws in that way?
Last of Us Part I PS5 remake review
I know I always ovulated with my fleet mates in Eve
What would make it "more innocent"?
> We know about the state of the world back then. We have history, archeology, the knowledge of that era, and much much more.

You don't know everything about that time. Do you have a recording of everything that was communicated between any party? Historical texts and archeology give us snippets from that time. We can get some general idea but we can't make absolute claims about every detail with 100% certainty.

> Even the non Muslims admit and are in awe of what happened.

Some.

> He proved that what's written in the Quran correct, discoveries made just a couple of hundred years ago.

You can claim that a million more times. I saw no proof.
There's a big difference between talking shit about people and telling others to harass people until they get to the stage they commit suicide. You've shown me that he talks shit about people, you haven't shown me him having an agenda of trying to get these people he's talking about to kill themselves, which was one of my original claims.
L.A. plans end to Covid-19 protections against evictions, rent hikes
I keep hoping they'll find a way to break down plastics. Having a cost effective plant-based alternative that degrades quicker is great as long as the process in creating it isn't equally as damaging to the environment, but that still leaves a lot of petroleum-baeed plastic.
This is just nonsense. I pay (a small amount) for both. They have different strengths and it’s fun to compare. Adding new features to a product is not a sign of panic, it’s just normal.
A "right to be forgotten" is probably fundamentally incompatible with the First Amendment in the USA. While people have the right to their own identity, they do not have the right to absolute control over their reputations. The best they can do is sue when they are defamed.
> You probably never noticed this, but physically, an Atari joystick port is just a serial port with a lightly modified design

It's not any kind of serial port, modified or otherwise. What makes a port "serial" or "parallel" is the way the data is transferred, not the shape of the connector.

Each joystick signal (up, down, left, right, trigger, paddle A, paddle B, plus power and ground) has its own pin. That makes it a parallel port.

Now, the Atari SIO port, mentioned by another poster, and used to connnect peripherals (such as disk drives and printers) is a serial bus, but the joystick port is parallel.
No, actually it isn’t.
This is why "sole sources" and publications based on them can't be trusted
If you have heard of IPTables, go grab OPNSense.

Mikrotek makes sense when you really really really care about having the cheapest possible 10g switch.

AFAIK, there is nothing that competes apples to apples with the UDM in terms of a entry level managed switch / router / WAP offering (or the UDR, which does UDM + Telephony or distributed global management)
Please, no more name changes.
Non-fiction books. The Economist.
I wasn't around for the rentacoder days but it just sounds like the inverse of fiverr, upwork, etc.
Yes, there has been a cycle going on in the most recent era of flipping between glaciers growing and shrinking. I don't recall the actual date but the most recent maximum glacier coverage was on the order of 30,000 years ago. The whole of human civilization we know about more or less happened since the last retreat of the glaciers.

There have also been times when the polar caps melted completely and there were rainforests pole to pole.
Stable Diffusion is arguably better, has more features, and is free. OpenAI can't compete with free.

Even if you don't want to take the 30 seconds to set it up in a free Google Colab environment, the paid DreamStudio version is still half the price of Dalle.
yes, ofcourse
A polite way to describe most serialization tooling in the .NET ecosystem would be "bad". It's unfortunate, but it's good to see improvements happening. I still try to avoid JSON in general on .NET since I've had so many bad experiences with the various JSON libraries out there.

Sadly if you want to ship well-performing software in .NET it's still mandatory to run it under a profiler on a regular basis, both to spot frequent unnecessary GC allocations and to spot CPU bottlenecks. Either one would probably catch this particular problem, thankfully!

I use the built in VS profilers sometimes, and other times I use Superluminal's excellent CPU profiling.
If there's one thing I really hope people take away from this entire story is not to use security researchers' statements in constant appeals to authority. I hear so many questionable-to-bad takes on cyber security that basically amount to Bruce Schneier, Brian Krebs, or Troy Hunt said so, so you're absolutely wrong if you don't obey them.

It's really important to remember security researchers and experts convey what they feel is the most accurate or best advice or information they have at the time, and it may very well turn out to be completely wrong or misguided later. The fact that these individuals are popular does not mean they are an authority on anything.
That may be your opinion but lots of parents would not agree with it.
I don't think you can look at Amazon's "dependency" on revenue through that simplistic of a lens. AWS is purported to be much more profitable than their retail operations.
> The language itself isn’t the core issue, it’s the overt repudiation of someone’s identity.

If gender is a social construct then it doesn't really exist except as a cultural artifact. If your identity is based on any kind of social construct, I don't see how it follows that anyone has to agree with or affirm that such claims ought to be a cultural norm.

Furthermore, disagreeing with such claims are cultural disagreements rather than moral disagreements. Cultural disagreements are not innately hateful. Therefore it doesn't seem to follow that affirming gender identity has any moral force, or that not affirming it is innately hateful.

That said, this obviously doesn't justify harassing trans people in any way, shape or form because of such disagreements.
>but I kind of expect RPG games with fully AI-generated aesthetics / graphics and stories,

I think Dwarf Fortress has the story generation part. The aesthetics/graphics part not yet..

And I think its procedurally generated, but with complex and strange results.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/2ztnkw/i_thi...
Exactly!

Much of my learning was on vacuum tube technology (often of the HV transmitting kind) and almost invariably anode supplies etc. are isolated from the mains so relying on ground-fault detection is, as you say, a waste of time. Actually, a microwave oven is a high voltage vacuum tube (magnetron) transmitter and should be treated as such.

My experience has been that it's easy to become careless and blasé through familiarity and that's when nasty things happen.

Every time I've been zapped (and it's been many) it's been through carelessness. Fortunately, most of those shocks were of the 250-400V DC variety inside a chassis where it was only my hand that was between the 'hot' point and earth.

Nevertheless, I've also had a few very close shaves and I shudder even now whenever I think about them. One was on top of a microwave tower in a rainstorm whilst adjusting a klystron that had slipped outside its AFC/S-curve range. It was fed with a -1500V (on the heater circuit which one usually thinks of as being at ground potential) and the other supply was +800V at the collector. Water was everywhere. To make matters worse, at the time I was standing on wooden 2x4s outside the tower which also supported the link. It was over 150' to the cement below. Right, I must have lost my presence of mind.

I don't mention that just for dramatic effect (after all, it's quite embarrassing that I could be that stupid), rather it's to show how easy it is for this 'blasé' effect to take hold when one's wrapped up in the minutiae of what one is doing.

One thing I've learned is that once one's equipment hits 400/500V and up things become very different and much more dangerous. For starters, component layouts often change due to large components and HV wiring often isn't located in just one part of the circuit but rather it can amble widely. Moreover, manufacturers aren't consistent in labeling the HV parts of the circuit. Where possible, one should always try to keep one of one's hands in one's pocket. ;-)

In some ways the problem is worse nowadays as everyone is now used to working on low voltage solid state devices, thus most will never encounter very high voltage electronics until they open their MW ovens and come across its magnetron's HV power supply. It's a worrying problem as many such ovens have inadequate or no HV warnings inside the case.

Incidentally, not long after posting my comment I noticed a few people down-voting it without comment. Sometimes I think I should not interfere and let evolution follow its normal course (as it nearly did with me).
I mean, given that most signs point to the culprit site there being kiwifarms, yes, yes!

More generally, swatting people is bad (and also illegal!), people should not do it. Sites that encourage it should not be supported. No equivocation there.
Differential privacy for large datasets with Tonic and Hasura [video]
> It is so interesting that you draw that conclusion. I draw the opposite: that whether Cloudflare withdraws services or not is going to make no meaningful difference to whether KF remains online

How is it the opposite?
They are serving different content to Google than users, and are then upset the version they served Google is available to users.