skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was one of two people in the "research department" at Unimation. I believe we were the first to connect a general purpose computer to an industrial robot. The first connection was a Data General Nova, connected to a 2-arm robot. That project was led by Pete Rogers. The second was a PDP-11/03 connected to a Unimate. William Perzley led the "research department". Curiously his name is never mentioned. Also, no one ever mentioned Maurice Dunne, the chief engineer.

The 2-arm robot built speed regulators for automatic transmissions.

The Unimate worked on the problem of training a robot in a static position but playing out the training in time. The robot was trained to weld a car "in a static position" but later to weld the car as it went by on a conveyor line. I worked on the mathematics and computer programs to do the time/distance translation.

I also worked with Vic Schienman and did modifications to the VAL language for robot control. Vic was an interesting guy. He did the first demo of his tabletop robot on my desk (I sent him the film shortly before he died.) During that demo the arm motor failed. He used our machine shop to completely build a motor from scratch and then re-ran the demo.

I was the "technical liason" to SRI (Stanford Research Institute). There Bill Perzley and I learned about Denavit-Hartenberg matrices from Richard "Lou" Paul.

We also did a lot of work on "out of position seam welding" for Kawasaki Heavy Industries. In many cases seam welding is done by rotating the part so it lies flat. Only master welders do things like vertical seams. Kawasaki built ships like oil tankers and they can't be rotated flat.

Joe Engelberger was an interesting guy. He would go to various industries and then come back to Danbury. He kept explaining different things he saw and asked me to figure out how to get the robot to do them. For instance, he saw a company making bricks. The bricks have to be stacked a certain way to cool properly. We talked about ways to get the robot to do the brick stacking problem. One difficulty was the robot used a plated wire memory which was quite small, not large enough to handle the number of bricks in a pallet.
"qualities" and "quality" are two different things. Pushiness is quality as in "property", but not "quality" as in "the degree of excellence of something." In this case, lower quality individual bubbles on top, cause other horses don't want to deal with jerks aggression.

> If the animals making up the hierarchy disagrees with the individual on top, they remove it from the hierarchy. Easily. That's the whole point of herds, packs, and hierarchies. Together stronger than alone.

You write about it as if animals were rational systems thinkers and that is just not so.
If I remember correctly, that was the case, according to some high officials at the time. Alfa asked for written orders but they were refused.

Regarding Lithuania's January events, other units did refuse to operate even back then. IIRC Pskov airborne unit was given unwritten order to fly to Vilnius, but the commander refused.
Because it's something of (potentially great) value to the employer, which can be traded for something of value to the employees.

If the contract is time-limited, then you retain the leverage at the time of negotiating the next contract (though not between: that's the trade-off).

I understand they're also quite normal in some, more consensual, Northern European situations when the relationship between union and employer is sufficiently consensual that the union can be confident a strike is unlikely to be needed in order to address grievances.
> I'm curious how no other company has managed to even directly compete with Musk when it comes to a service like Starlink.

Simple: to provide maximum speed to the end users, you want a large amount of small cells so you can better use the allocated frequency spectrum. However, launches used to be really expensive, so operators had to go for high orbits covering large areas - Iridium, for example, cost 5 billion dollars to build for 77 satellites, meaning a cost per satellite of ~64 million dollars (hardware+launch).

In contrast, SpaceX is at ~250k-500k dollars for the satellite and anything from 30-60 million dollars per launch of 60 satellites, so total cost of ~750k-1.5 million dollars per satellite [2]. That's a whole order of magnitude less cost than Iridium.

And on top of that, SpaceX's lower orbit also means better service quality due to lower latency and better signal quality. Established satcom providers physically cannot compete with that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellatio...

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/12/spacex-starlink-satell...
Thank you!

This is an awesome list of questions and it's incredibly thoughtful that you documented and shared it with us.

It reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide where they know the answer but need the question. So many answers are out there floating around that we are often trying to force into certain frames for various motivations.

Having questions that get us thinking, recognizing how unclear things are in current state, this
feels like such a powerful thing to share.

Apologies for the diatribe, very much appreciated.
That seems even slower and lacking the most important advantages of actually writing: you're articulating your thoughts via a slow medium which forces you to actually think through what you're putting down. Also writing by hand activates your motor cortex and that's beneficial when studying.

If you don't have time to write, you don't have time to think thoroughly.
nice, there are thousands more, I prefer them in the machine-generated-audiobook version
> That was a very human mistake to prioritize politics (people) over essential root-causes (money).

I guarantee you that people existed before money, and that people create(d) money. People are the root cause.
Ask HN: Could something similar to Stable Diffusion be used for web development?
Could an algorithm similar to stable diffusion generate a scenegraph in HTML and CSS based on a prompt of a web page design?
So a bunch of corpses and tons of climbing trash does not desecrate the place but flying a drone does?
This article seems to be politically biased BS. It goes into where most bicycles are made, yet completely leaves out Taiwan, which is a huge manufacturer of bicycles (including most of the high-end carbon fiber ones). Giant is the largest manufacturer of bicycles in the entire world, and is a Taiwan company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Bicycles

Instead, it names "China" as the #1 producer by far. Taiwan is a separate nation.
Re 2

The camera is mounted on one of the best gimbals available. The DJI drones also do an amazing job at being stable during windy conditions. And sure, there could be some additional video editing later, but probably marginal.
Cracking effort either way...

/coat
Vi predating certain paradigms explains why it doesn't follow them. But it doesn't make it any easier for a random developer who grew up in the context of those paradigms. A new developer wondering whether they should adopt some modern vi is not being unreasonable for searching out something that does follow the prevailing customs. (But they are on a fools errand, because there are exactly zero good general purpose developer environments and the question I have is which of gvim, intellij or vscodium pisses me off least today.)
I'd agree about the first one, which looks a bit of a mess, but I actually quite enjoy the "another example just down the street of a very old building with an unhappy juxtaposition" example (I quite like brutalist architecture when done well, and like the juxtaposition there). It's a bit of a shame to me that the Costa frontage has replaced what was presumably a rather nice ground floor though. I think what I mind most is blandness, which is in the third example.
I don't disagree. There's no lack of empathy. My only point is, things are made for people that will use them. If you don't like those things then that means they're not for you, use something else instead of complain about it.
As of now it's 'access denied'.
This would be a lot more helpful if they would say exactly what the problem is. “Shady” partner? Who is that? Transparency report - what is expected here? I work with people who rely on VPNs for personal safety, so I’m very interested in anything that can compromise that safety. But this article raised questions but did not answer them in a way I found useful.
Here’s the graph limited to ages 25-54:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

The shape is the same, with a peak at ~1999.

There is a large difference between the labor force participation rate and the unemployment rate because the LFPR can’t be gamed. A stark way to think about it is to consider that, if every person currently looking for work were to fail to such an extent that they just gave up, the unemployment rate would drop to zero.
> Meanwhile consenting adult sex workers are consistently driven out of legitimate work, and restricting any kind of content no matter who it harms is called censorship.

Sometimes I really have no idea what points people here are trying to make... are you arguing that child porn or snuff movies should be legal?
What's the point of a company entering a contract with a union if the union refuses to abide by the terms they agreed to? The company agreed to higher rates, better benefits, etc and gets nothing in return.

It's a bad sign for anyone who might consider joining as well- all the benefits you think you get by joining a union or any sort of collective go out the window the moment it becomes inconvenient for the collective to back you.

Next step: you're still disenfranchised, but you've traded the farmer for the pigs.
On Artificial Intelligence in User Experience Design
I’m interested in a platform like this as well.
By a bizarre co-incidence I just posted an article to HN now on pretty much the same topic: https://blog.willgrant.org/2022/08/30/on-artificial-intellig...
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I think it's interesting that this reached the front page of HN at all, and I have to think it's _because_ of the cult of personality around Musk.

Some of these comments suggest that having satellite internet onboard a cruise ship is a new thing. It's certainly not.

After some quick googling it looks like the current provider is O3b Networks (now part of SES), using modem equipment manufactured by ST Engineering iDirect.

I somehow doubt that when O3b Networks won that contract in 2013 it made the front page of HN. But now, there's "SpaceX's Starlink" in the title and it sits on #7 on the front page with 130+ comments.
Mechanical keyboards are a small niche. I would be suprised if they make up more than 0.5% of the keyboards in use today.
My experience with the fixed version was not like this, it worked very well, and this is in a location with huge trees in all directions(redwoods).
>I won't be "upgrading" to Windows 11. Once W10 support has ended I'm moving full time to Linux.

I've been hearing people make this vow for decades now, but they almost never follow through.

>a level of arrogance I thought had been extinguished in Microsoft after the Windows 8 debacle. Clearly it hasn't.

Microsoft has always been arrogant; this is nothing new.
Is Voice Interaction a Solution to Driver Distraction?
Not true about the corvids. They thrive in cities.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/14/1820

"The majority (72%, a total of 424 articles) of the studies reported positive effects of urbanization on corvids."
I’m assuming NAS is a local server with a hard drive.

What is is Xunlei and BaiduPan?
This being cruise ships, will it cost a kidney or half your house and a kidney?
Lazer? Sure, if you can aim it that well. Highly targeted radio? A bit doubtful, at least not without increased transmission power.

For what it's worth, this attack can be sidestepped fairly easily just by not using open frequencies, to which microwave ovens are usually tuned(for regulatory reasons). This is only useful against drones that are available to buy for individuals, as they are forced to use the same open frequencies. Anything military grade is likely using other frequencies, and you can't use cheap microwave ovens to generate ridiculous amounts of them.
YOLO object detection and its applications in computer vision
In fact, you can paste a .torrent file into your baidu drive and it’ll download the torrent for you right into your drive. If someone else has already downloaded the same torrent then it basically appears instantly.

The catch is that the only fast way to download files from your baidu drive is to install the client on your computer, which I’d only do inside a VM.
> Remember this is a global service

International service. Maybe they are aiming to be a global one, but not there yet. Starlink is not available anywhere in Africa nor Asia, two of the most populous continents in the world, together accounting for more than 50% of the total population.
I think they excluded birds colliding with the base as that was suspected to be unrelated to the actual turbine blades. Removing confounding variables is part of statistics and always up for debate but the article/paper did not measure the effects on birds colliding with wind turbine bases, just birds killed by turbine blades.

Then again, a lot of bad research results have come from ignoring the "right" data points.
My guess, they’ll contract this out to a player like Cloudflare (like with iCloud relay).

e.g. I can see Apple building a framework for “isomorphic” Apps. Where the front end in SwiftUI and backend in SwiftStateful (a hypothetical framework for permissions/auth and connecting to cloud databases) compiled and deployed to CF Workers or some other edge deployed service.

I think they might even take this one step further and make some future version of MacStudio+WiFi that downloads and executes CFs Workers. If they went this route, it’s unclear if they’d need or want a partner like CF just to deploy and cache the workers.

Disclaimer: I have an investment in Cloudflare. I have no real idea about anything really.
Even worse when your grandparents couldn't hear it and thought it's perfectly OK ta have TV buzzing 24/7 in the background.
Yes, it's sick, and so is that phrase.
I feel the same. If you want to dig even deeper, I find the array languages extremely fascinating. Look at APL for instance. I'm really excited about it coming to android, as it's terse enough to work well on phones, especially since phones can handle any arbitrary keyboard layout.
> Developers created a solution to the old deployment problem by abandoning it and doing something else

Also by shipping a standard webview and js app, if you want to go that route. But there were plenty of cross platform solutions before that, most notably java.

Of course you know all that, guess I'm just trying to remind us that desktop deployment wasn't that unsolved and still isn't.
If you’re new to TTRPG world I’d recommend Quest (https://www.adventure.game) as it’s free and super easy to learn. Also it has a free companion app called QuestCompanion (https://www.QuestCompanion.com) which makes things even easier.
> Stable Diffusion has been trained on millions of copyrighted images scraped from the web.

My brain has been trained on even more copyrighted material. Every book I read, every tv show I watch, the toys I played with as a child. It's hard to imagine that I could come up with anything that is not inspired by copyrighted work.
Isn't goatse in this category?
No, I was referring to when Khrushchev just arbitrarily transferred the Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR.

It had been independent / Tatar before, and Russification meant it was mainly populated by Russians.

The issue is that Ukraine refuses to allow for the self-determination of the Crimea and Donbass since Euromaidan. Why can't they just allow internationally managed referendums to take place? This would be far better than warfare and paramilitary killings, etc. for both sides.
No freedom of markets!
As others said, and from personal experience, yeah, neither the camera nor the drone itself will move, even in high winds. It's amazing.
Here is a github repo embedding PlantUML in the Markdown: https://github.com/jonashackt/plantuml-markdown
One Year of DDoS Attacks Against a Cloud Provider: An Overview
This is 100% true.

Stephen King's writing is extremely popular, but definitely not "highly regarded." His novels are widely considered to be low quality pop fiction by literary critics.

This isn't meant dis, selling massive amounts of books makes more money then pleasing literary critics.
Birds are colliding with skyscrappers and bridges all the time despite no moving parts.
Germany is dominated by the US since WWII (having been invaded and occupied) in the same way Japan is.

India is neither aligned nor allied with the US. They share interests particularly when it comes to containing China. But again India's interests on this have nothing to do with being a democracy or with China not being a democracy.

The US are of course heavily involved in Brazil, including by supporting the military coup there in 1964... following which the military government was unsurprisingly completely aligned with the US.

I think that there is a 'survivor' bias here because most countries are not strong enough to resist the US so either they are 'friendly' or something might happen to them... Iran did democratically elect a President once but he was not 'friendly' so was promptly replaced by a friendly dictator.

To assume shared geopolitical interests only because two countries are superficially "market democracies" sounds rather naive.
Harry Potter is a trademark. It protects and distinguishes identity and authority. It is much harder to get a trademark, and is also harder to fairly use one. Different issue.

If your fan art is infringing, it was infringing whether or not it was on a mug or on dropbox.

Photograph one is not true. For commentary it can be by audio, or printed on a mug or whatever, commentary is transformative. Go out and take a photo of the world outside, if you live in a city you've captured thousands of copyrighted materials in your image. Maybe it captures someones painting, maybe it doesn't. Whether its fair or not is if it's transformative, the format doesn't matter.

I'm not seeing an ethical difference from any of this. Or did I miss the point?
"The only people willing to go through the trouble of creating a new email address or listing someone else's address just to get another trial, are people who love your product."

Completely wrong.

I've seen plenty of cases where initial setup went wrong and there wasn't a way to reset the account to the initial state, so then creating a 2nd one was the only way to actually do the trial.

Also, life sometimes gets in the way so that I sign up for a trial and then the 7 days are over before I ever had time to login and look around.
I stand corrected !

"Requiet in pacem" is what I usually see on teh interwebz, which proves absolutely nothing.

FWIW I quit Latin in 10th grade.
That's a good point. Over a few decades the availability of cars naturally destroys the usefulness of other modes of transportation unless there is active effort to prevent these effects. Once most people have a car, small local shops aren't really viable anymore, for example. Too many people drive to the more convenient big shop that is further away.
> First, the bicycle stock data are difficult to obtain directly from statistics because most countries do not have bicycle registration system like that of cars.

I didn’t know that bicycle registration is a thing in some countries, though it does make sense why it’s required when I think about it.

Where I live, if your bike is stolen, you’ll just have to pray that your bicycle is unique enough, because like most cyclists, you probably didn’t bother to remember any of their bike’s identifying id.

And considering how much of a mess the government is right now, setting up a bicycle registry let alone any other bicycle-promoting initiatives are probably never considered. It’s a shame because cycling is fun, but if you’re a risk-averse, you’re limited to only a few safe cycling spots.
See my comment above, you might understand it. I don't bother with source sets for different resolutions and file types, I just assume Retina and always serve a well optimised webp from a different cookieless domain.

I did try AVIF but I have 60% iOS and those iPhones don't read AVIF, or didn't until last time I checked. Like yourself I was struggling away with the compile but then I wondered why I was bothering when I had something good already.

For VIPS I use PHP. My index.php expects params of width and height in a query string. This sits behind an Nginx proxy that caches based on query string and accept headers. This is the origin server for a CDN that respects the headers.

I am glad to see you are doing the colour profiles as sRGB as I do that too. Look into the trick of serving webp when another format is requested, it works great. You can then simplify the HTML and use picture elements for more fun things such as responsive things.
> outstanding people go work on some useless software at a big adtech company rather than helping to improve the world

Considering how well central planning has worked historically, allow me to approach this issue with a bit of skepticism.
My approach is to be clear about the difference between what I know and believe.

Accreditation, publication and citation mean nothing to me. Experts mean nothing to me. Flattering titles mean nothing to me. I want to hear the argument, and I want to understand how I can verify it for myself.

If I can't verify it - and climate change as presented is unverifiable, unfalsifiable - then what am I meant to do with all these heartfelt beliefs? Should I believe them anyway because everyone else does? What relation do lots of earnest beliefs (and some dishonest, alarmist mouthpieces - the media) have to do with the truth?
It‘s a fundamental part of any Tarifvertrag (collective bargaining contract) in Germany - as long as the contract is in force, strikes that aim to change the contract are illegal. The legal term is Friedenspflicht https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedenspflicht. Some contracts even specify that the Friedenspflicht extends beyond the contract until a first attempt at negotiations, possibly including mediation has failed.
> They are doing it by rigging them up with cheap aftermarket parts and then rigging the AUX light on/off to trigger the drop.

I feel like this implies that they're using DJI/consumer drones. They aren't, those are too expensive and too slow. They use custom-built FPV drones, which are much faster, cheaper, and much easier to build from parts.

The phrase "rigging them up with aftermarket parts" doesn't really apply when the entire drone is "cheap aftermarket parts".
Because of it's geography (only high peak in a plain), climbing mount Fuji gave me pretty much the same vibe, except that the landscape is quite different and it's doable by most people without risking your life.
The previous main argument against these was that "they didn't work" or "these just encourage people to invest in fossil fuels".

I guess the fossil fuel industry didn't agree.
I'm not sure if you are serious, but just in case: no, this is very much not like Hawaii and Florida. We are talking about countries with history, that were forcibly annexed by the Soviet Union.

Also, there are no elections or parliaments anywhere within the Soviet (or Russian, for that matter) sphere of influence. There are "elections" and "parliaments".
Not at all. Goatse is a shock image, not creepy
Astray: A performance-portable geodesic ray tracing library
I did an ACH transfer recently between my own two accounts. It took two weeks. What the hell, it's just one addition and one subtraction operation, taking nanoseconds on modern computers.
Is a clause about mandatory overtime legal, and if so is there a limit to the amount?
Finding Flow at Work