skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you think my personal experiences... are patently absurd...?

Huh!
After BLM, the S&P 100 added more than 300k jobs–94% went to people of color
I don’t think that’s quite true.

There are actually some interesting patents related to the star sensor in the devices, particularly related sky background gradients. Northrop’s patents are more interesting than Lockheed’s, IMHO. In all cases the patents mention using an IR-pass filter to improve contrast.

The sensor is essentially an analog lock-in/synchronous detector with a rotating shutter and a wedge prism that nutates the star field about the boresight. the patented component in most cases is the shutter (there are different patterns, and Northrop came up with some clever designs).

You end up with a frequency modulated signal from the photomultiplier tube (carrier is from the shutter, modulation frequency the difference between the prism and shutter).

By measuring the phase and magnitude of the modulated signal, you can steer the telescope onto the star, and the “coding gain” from the lock-in is substantial.

Edit, previous comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27084261

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23238437
If my business is making games, I don't want to fix/modify/add things to a game engine.

You do need to innovate on the foundation if you plan to maintain your game long term: new consoles support, new hardware support, obsolescence of old platforms, etc...

You do not need to innovate if you plan to let your game rot and become unplayable 10-20 years later.

Yes having a FOSS solution for the foundation would be ideal. That was not the topic of the discussion. The topic was about the claim "we can fork if we're not in agreement".

No, as a game developer you won't be forking and maintaining a game engine. No a "just fork it" is not a viable solution in the majority of cases as you need a strong community behind you and your fork to make it last long term and not rot after 2 weeks.
I'm eating exactly 2000 calories today in his honor.
> It was technically possible to wire up entire countries and continents for electricity and phone service, so I doubt there are any technical hurdles in doing the same with fibre.

Wiring up some places for electricity is really hard. I live in a huge country (Brazil) with a sprawling integrated electricity network, but there are still over a hundred small localities (source: https://www.ons.org.br/AcervoDigitalDocumentosEPublicacoes/R...) which are not yet connected to that network. Most of them are deep within the Amazon forest, a few are in a state (Roraima) which is separated from the rest by the Amazon forest (though that state used to have a connection to Venezuela's electricity network), and one is on an island (Fernando de Noronha) which is far enough from the continent that a submarine cable would not be easy.
To me, this pales in comparison to the part about the large empty medians being designed for moving tanks from coast to coast.
Very much feels like long term brand building has fallen out of fashion. Has the incentives shifted or is it just viral greed?
Hardware keys don't want to transfer the private key out of the hardware gadget, because that compromises the security model. That's their whole point, you can't extract the secrets, the hardware would rather self-destruct than expose the secret. Lack of "sync" (while retaining ease of transferring the key between computers) is the the primary purpose of a hardware security key.

You're opting to a lower security level by wanting something that can be synced.
I might be wrong, but I believe when people say "in property" it means they do invest. In real estate.
There was US mapping software (not the international scientific survey semi open source stuff, commercial mapping for US public) in the late 1980s and 1990s that actually had positive longitude displays over the US mainland so that their users didn't have to think in negative numbers.

As I noted elsewhere in this thread, large swathes of US software couldn't handle mapping computations that straddled the date line and it's breathtaking that this is still an issue today.
That is for taking "dark frames". "Flat frames" need light going through the optics so that things like dust and vengetting can be detected.

This link explains them in more detail:

https://www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hub/post/astro...
Is that still unpatched on the Pixel 6? As far as I can find the CVE has been patched in the Android security bulletin from 2022-11-05, which the Pixels receive (that + the patches specified in the separate Pixel security bulletin).

It looks like the Pixel 4 didn't get the update. From what I can tell, the Pixel 4/4 XL received the security updates as promised by Google during its announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20191015163036/https://support.g...

I don't really understand why you would spend Pixel 4 XL money on a phone that will only receive three years of updates, but it's not like Google hid their support timeline from any of their customers.
It turns out that way more than one person is on HN and they don’t always agree on every topic.
I’m guessing that the reasoning behind this is that it would make things simpler if there were synchronous/blocking interfaces into libraries?

I’ve regretted that every time I’ve done it in my career, especially in network programming. All the different error conditions and potential blocking conditions that tcp connections can end up in are just easier to deal with on async interfaces.

I guess a different question I would ask is, what can we do to make async programming easy enough in Rust such that people don’t feel a need to reach for synchronous/blocking interfaces?
On the Future of Cloud Services and BYOC
For me, trust is the default position, but if you betray my trust, it is very hard to earn it back again.

So a more fitting saying for me would be, "Trust leaves on horseback and returns on foot."
Not surprising from a Chinese company
Is there a reason for this trend? Why does so many companies seem to have stopped caring about their long term reputation?
I think it's also worth pointing out that DJI's first-party app isn't required to operate many of their drones. Most of their drones, apart from all but the most recent (i.e. the one this announcement is about probably won't have support for a while, but the previous gen will) has support through apps like Litchi and Dronelink via the developer API, which have additional features and don't have the exact same permissions/data requirements as DJI's first-party apps.

[1] https://flylitchi.com/

[2] https://www.dronelink.com/
My mini 3 pro follows me… I’m not sure what you what you mean
I came here and hit command-f "Apple" to see if others had the same opinion.
To be briefly serious, there are basically three colliding things here:

a) posture is dramatically overrated, in general. Having good posture confers few benefits. Would love to see studies refuting this but I'm not aware of any.

b) Posture is a habit. If you change your habits, it will change. There's no magic to it. Just remember to sit straight. If it's uncomfortable... that's just how it is. I don't recommend it. People have been lounging and slouching since we started walking upright.

c) Postural muscles are often weak, so general strength and conditioning can make a big difference in how taxing it is to use your postural muscles often. A deadlift and some heavy shrugs or farmer's carry are often more effective in my personal experience than any amount of reminders and bracing.

Anyway, there's no time like the present to make a change like that, and you're never too old to start. People in their 70s benefit markedly from strength endurance training and calisthenics as long as they're slow and cautious about ramping it up. I don't imagine you're 70, but even if you are, get a doctor's signoff and go nuts.
I am under the maybe-totally-wrong impression that people are saying that the runtimes are incompatible, not that you merely need to think harder about the scoping rules and type traits; do I misunderstand what is going on?
Small correction: Ben Rich, not Joe Rich.
Researchers found multiple types of dopamine neurons with different functions
But do we need 9999999x the amount of information to critically be thinking about, is this going to be helpful ?
Ask HN: Looking for an open source VTuber program
Hi, HN.

I've been exploring the world of VTubing and I'm on the hunt for an open-source VTuber program. I want to create a virtual persona for livestreams and videos without the need for expensive proprietary software.

Are there any open-source projects out there that can help me achieve this? I'm looking for something that allows me to create and customize my VTuber avatar, control facial expressions, and integrate it with streaming platforms.

Your suggestions and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!
I'm not quite finished with it but I thought Masters of Doom had more drama. This one had more personal/childhood stuff, which I wasn't personally interested in. Romero's narration of the audiobook was a bit quirky though
Creative people suffer from a lack of neural plasticity? Interesting…
For example, we could ask whether anything that we think of as "existing" would be missed by simulating the equations of physics with the empirical starting conditions of our universe.

There are real limits in what humans know about the universe. But it's possible in theory that everything that is "real" follows from some differential equations.
I don't understand why "big tech" is forcing tech workers to go back. Have they specified the reasons? Perhaps at bigger companies, it is easier to "hide" and not be productive, while working from home? Or is it because, if for some team members remote work is not productive (e.g. due to the surrounding environment), then it is better for the whole team to be co-located? Honest question, because I really can't say. For the past 8+ years, I've now worked at two fully-remote companies and found it to be a perfect fit for me personally.
> Food, which is why we have vast areas in the USA where it is impossible to buy groceries without driving 40 minutes or more

Can you name where these reasonably densely inhabited areas are? That's difficult to believe.

Sure, there are vast areas in the USA where grocery stores are far away, because vast areas of the USA are nearly empty from inhabitants. But can you name a few towns with reasonable population where they have to drive >40 minutes to the grocery store?
We've come full circle on low-rez graphics, at the time it was the best definition they could generate but now it's an aesthetic.

The original Doom graphics work surprisingly well in VR, too. Fire up GZDoom with the VR mod (some fiddling required to make it work in Windows MR) and it works in a way I wouldn't have believed without seeing it.
I wonder how the investors are feeling about their decisions.
I mean that it can't be completely described by mathematics
Why Not Rust Crypto?
I wonder if it was easier to work with Portugal because they own the Azores, a collection of islands pretty far out in the Atlantic and a convenient stopover before hitting the main continent.
> to clarify it’s not the international date line but the latitude?

Longitude.

The vertical one that goes from negative to positive at 180 Longitude East or West.

Maybe you should get a map out and have a look.
This is a repeat of the reddit API backlash and protest. Moderators deciding to close down subs or to change the rules to hurt reddit at the expense of their users and community.

Many of which have already backpedaled or opened up. It was important to look involved during the important parts of the protest but now that its blown over subreddits are silently reopening and back to business as usual.

Some subreddits have taken to outright lying to their community in order to continue with the reddit-bashing or as an excuse for bad moderation or other issues.

I forget the subreddit but AutoModerator comments on every post making sure to mention how the API limits don't allow them to use the tools they need to moderate properly, blah blah, etc.

Except Reddit confirmed that only ~8 bots total on the entire site were going above the free usage limits and were willing to help or work with them.
I may be the minority. But part of me being a nerds absolutely love this crazy idea, and it will brings huge efficiency improvement, cost reduction and potentially quality increase in AAA games. May be all at the same time. Exciting.

But another part of me for reason I cant quite put into words right now think this is VERY scary.
Frankly, Google are too cheap and they expect their users to not care. I will never forget them trying to push the idea the Nexus 10 felt like a premium device . . . to whom exactly? Shame as well, as in some important respects it was way ahead of the curve, even if fatally flawed.

Samsung hardware (and Huawei if you can still get and use it) is superb by comparison, but they just can't help themselves when it comes to the creepiness of the user experiences.
I think you inadvertently highlighted what I suspect is the real issue; a ruthless focus on the path to calculus to the detriment of other useful maths.
> The things you can think are limited by the language delivered to you by society.

To even begin to decide whether this claim is scientific (testable), thoughts and their content need to be defined physically here.

And why care about pre-given thoughts? I care about my emotions more. Thinking is just an utility guided by them. "What you think is good" is certainly more about emotion than ideas. One can walk back from their emotion, starting from a clean sheet, gradually reconstructing the desired idea by bit - most languages have the necessary primitives available.

> The idea of purely independent thought is an illusion.

There's no need for one's thinking to be dependent on anything more or less than reality relevant to one. No culture other than one's private own needs to be included as dependency. No need to copy or almost copy another culture as well.

> It follows that independent action is also an illusion (your idea of what to do next, as well, tends to be borrowed!)

My idea of what to do next comes from my rationality. Rationality can be rebuilt independently, at least in part that covers a big part of everyday life, when a minimal amount of education consisting of self-evident truths is given. So my behavior is only dependent on me having acquired a number of ideas useful to me individually that I have also sanitized.

> 1. All thought is fantasy

"All even integers are divisible by 2." What are you trying to imply? Fantasy can be made to conform to rules and to be useful directly as functional data.

> 3. Most thought is borrowed

"Most" by what metric?

> 5. Society is the manager of thought, not the individual

I think that an individual can become the "manager" of their own thinking as well by degree such as allowed by their cultural environment plus that of their capability.

> 6. Thought advances as a whole

What?

> 7. Without collective thought as a substrate, the individual won't function

Please explain in more detail why and what is 'collective thought'.
Do you have an overview of what Pixel devices didn't get their promised security updates? I've gone as far back as the original Google Pixel and they seem to have stuck to their update policy in for that device (https://web.archive.org/web/20161122015826/https://support.g...):

Pixel phones get security patches for at least 3 years from when the device first became available, or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer.

I'm sure Pixel customers who didn't read up on the software support duration were disappointed that they only got three years of updates, but Google seems to have kept their promises with Android at the very least.

IoT crap is a different story, though. Then again, I don't think there's a single IoT vendor that I trust to provide security updates for a normal amount of time.
So language isn't mathematics? Like physics "is" mathematics?

Are both language and math a third thing? Like maybe automata?
i found that it showed me the path to that happy place, and now that i know the route, i can find my way back from time to time. Of course without mdma i can't stay there for long, but when i do visit its sublime and doesn't involve the multi week depression afterwards
The worrying part is that my friends aren’t “sad and poor” by any means. But they’re still regularly outbid (by huge margins) by these companies, which they then watch turn the properties into rentals. I don’t know what the larger trends are, but as my circle attempts to break into homeownership for the past 3 or 4 years, I am the only person who managed to dodge this trend (truly through luck alone) and remain the only homeowner.
Kids’ competitive activities don't lead to debt by themselves, it is an overall thing. You go in debt when you spend more than you earn.

So what causes the debt? The expensive activities for the kids? The new car? The big house? The latest tech gadgets? You could point at any one of these to be the cause of the debt, but the reality is simply overspending.

Maybe there is a small portion of parents you get in debt for their kids activity because it is an absolute priority and they already did everything they could have done to reduce spending elsewhere, but it is certainly not 8/10.
They also need an initial fix before take off and that could be day or night depending on the mission.
Is there a citation for that? I thought Adobe built this with NeXT separately but clearly Adobe would know of NeWS too.
> By definition - isn't the market going to be dominated by successful participants?

They said well-off, and when it comes to book sales being part of the successful masses is a few steps short of making you well-off.

> writers

Almost all of these are from the 1800s? That doesn't contradict the idea that a group "not always" dominated but has "long" dominated.

You only named two authors that are clearly recent enough to be relevant to the argument.
The amount you’re playing with is called your “stake”. (Same root as “proof of stake” in crypto.)

You might stake another player (loan them the money and collect interest/vigorish). In modern high-stakes poker, you might also “buy a piece” of a player where they put up half and you put up half and split the win/loss (or have another split).
Are Google's promises worth the paper they're written on?

Call me when they actually provide the 7th year of updates.
Work specific notes are local only, but my other notes I store in a git repo.
Yes, and I believe upvoting/downvoting reflects how HN people collectively think to some extent. I might be wrong and the upvoting/downvoting can be all artificial, of course.
Used to have extreme migraines. Any exposure to Fluorescent light would leave me mentally disabled within 10 minutes. So I could enter any grocery stores. Or go into work. Blue light filter glasses did little to nothing.

I got some FL-41 glasses that covered top and sides. I would be fine for about 2 hours under those lights. Eventually light leakage would get to me. But it made a drastic difference.
> Even a sport watch can be a security threat as demo by some exercise army personnel.

In the early days of the Afghan (or was it Iraq?) war, people used Strava to figure out the locations of American bases. They'd see a bunch of smart watches suddenly wake up in the morning and start exercising at the same time, a dead giveaway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_stakes
Fireproof safe's, aren't. A thief could steal it out of your house, you can't access it on the go, it'll get water damaged and mold and rot. The ink will fade. You won't have a drive to read the floppy disk/CD-rom/DVD/USB-A flash drive. You can't grep it and unless you meticulously organize it, it's a jumbled pile of unopened envelopes. Cloud and digital isn't the be all and end all, but there are plenty of problems with paper.
> Is it insane?

Yes.

> But it’s a fact: the government cannot demand anything material from you whatsoever without a warrant signed by a judge specifying what law you broke and why they suspect you broke it, with tangible reasons to suspect it.

False.

First: the fourth amendment applies to searches and seizures, not demands. Demands for the kinds of things for which searches and seizure would be protected by the Fourth Amendment are instead covered by the due process clauses of the 5th (for the federal government) and 14th (for state governments) Amendments.

Second: the fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, and limits the conditions in which warrants, where necessary, can be issued; it doesn’t explicitly require warrants at all, though the Supreme Court has read into it a presumptive warrant requirement for reasonableness, but has also found several situations where reasonableness doesn’t require a warrant.

Third: A requirement to specify “what law you broke and why they suspect you broke it” applies only to arrest warrants. The requirement for search warrants is for what evidence they expect to be found and on what basis they expect the evidence to be found there.

> Mandatory reporting requirements require you to divulge private information about yourself, your life, your property and possessions, under threat of civil or criminal penalty,

Mandatory reporting requirements are conditions of participation in some activity that is both within Congress’ constitutional regulatory authority and over which it has exercised that authority to impose the requirement. You can choose not to participate in the activity to avoid the requirement.

Civil and criminal penalties are the consequence for making the mandatory disclosure, but doing so incorrectly, or for participating in the regulated activity without making the required disclosure.
Another day, more transphobic spam posted by someone with too much time and a burner account targeting a tiny portion of the population (mtf trans) If only such energy was devoted to the empowerment of the cis women these users seem to care so much about.

Want to help women? How about not taxing them for tampons and pads?
> Within those 6,000 files are supposedly a bevy of documentation, including unknown “build log files,” a swath of Java resources, and HTML data.

It sounds like they compromised a backwater CI/CD system or something.
Interestingly, this link says

> [The definition "passkey is a resident key"] has become so invasive that even FIDO now use it as their definition.

but the linked FAQ for "their definition" doesn't contain the word "resident" (anymore?).
Do the points mean something?
Impressive. What engine? Custom? Cause that level editor gif looks sweet…
That's a very cool anecdote. What did she end up doing?

I guess you'll need something like an integrating sphere? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrating_sphere

Photography reviews often measure vignetting by putting a piece of tissue paper on the lens lol.
A similar vein, a few weeks ago: "Animated Knots"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346115

I will also recycle a comment from there:

> There's a certain kind of sci-fi premise of "what if every intelligent species has something they're particularly good at."

> Naturally, most stories revolve around something impressive (or damning) for humanity like "war" or "kindness", but in the past I've wondered what kind of story one could make if the answer was "knots".

> Perhaps that's a question for mathematicians, and whether some facility for topological knot-thinking might be very handy in some kind of physics or engineering.
They'll hold it (this is currently happening) or they'll eventually sell at market rates.
considering that formal languages are part of math, there's little reason to believe natural language isn't. ft. LLMs.