skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is very simple here, but it has nothing to do with technology.

The automotive road code is actually a very complicated thing, developed over long period of time. For example, here in California, the Caltrans organization has very large manuals about how to build things, and it’s really shaped by a whole lot of lawsuits that have happened over a very long period of time.

These legal and regulatory frameworks and case examples have some nebulous risk when it comes to a product like FSD and need time to adapt to the self driving liability and legal landscape.

One of the major things that’s holding up full self driving from a licensing perspective is this risk, with second movers waiting for the risk of this regulatory environment to unwind so that they don’t end up prematurely selecting a technology that hits a dead end or hitching themselves to a wagon that limits their options if things don’t go well.

It’s a lot slower than people realize, with the friends that I have that do this as a specialty looking at 2040 as a target, for example in one case, or 2035 with another. These are PEs. The people that that I know that are involved in these cases, as professional engineers, really, don’t see the legal and regulatory framework catching up with the technology for some time. This is often the case. The paperwork don’t catch up right away. ;)

So you can imagine that the idea of locking yourself into one companies’ntechnology, and hitching your investors cash to the risk profile of Tesla in particular, which is fairly high, is not real attractive when you’re still waiting to see how things turn out with the larger regulatory framework.

And that’s why you’re not gonna see a lot of people jumping in until market pressures make it so difficult that they have to, because the incentives push for them to delay as long as possible before making a commitment to see how things are headed.
While this headshot tool demonstrates the nascent capabilities of generative AI, I have some concerns about its privacy/transparency approach. As an alternative, I've been experimenting with kahma.io, which I believe handles subject data and model provenance in a more ethical manner. Rather than closed models trained on unknown datasets, they employ self-supervised learning from generic images and prioritize non-identifiability over photorealism - a principled stance I appreciate, even if the results are less polished. It also seemed their methodology for human-centric output customization was more nuanced than just generating portraits. All that said, I welcome further discussion on balancing technical and ethical considerations as this field progresses.
Rebus: A Robust Evaluation Benchmark of Understanding Symbols
Start with GPG, comrade. Personal freedom begins with unmonitored and uninterdictable communications.
Have a look into Westfield / Scentre.

I think a large part of the disagreement here is the idea that all digital things should be free compared to how the physical world has been forever.

To sell to a hardware store, for example, you need to offer the retailer 40% as a minimum. Then you need to pay, often compulsorily, trading terms, ranging fees, advertising levies and other off invoice things.

They have high costs to cover, but they also force shelf prices down as much as they can.

In my opinion, Supermarkets and hardware stores mis-use their market power way more than Apple appears to be doing
I can imagine how all of it adds up but still, it's way less than doing it again in 3D in who know in how many years. But maybe you are all right, it's too much for start.
As others have said, title is plain wrong. Anybody can view designs for free, with access to measurements, colors, fonts, etc.
You keep posting about an F-Droid-like store for iOS is not only possible, but imminent now. I doubt that - how many devs will make something exclusively for the smaller EU market, how many will do so for free, and how many will be willing to register as a non-profit?

The centre of that Venn diagram is developers for apps on iOS's F-Droid-like, and I think that's a very small subset indeed - especially considering the paperwork required to become a non-profit.

Maybe the store itself will put in the work, but do you honestly believe every dev with an app on F-Droid will put up with the requirement to register as a non-profit?
I've lived in the OC for the majority of my life and honestly just never thought about it. ^.^
XR is short for the umbrella term "eXtended Reality", though I suspect (without proof) the latter started as a backronym, with the X perhaps originally meaning the traditional placeholder "whatever" for "Augmented", "Virtual", "Mixed" etc, which "Extended Reality" encompasses.

Eg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_reality
Dacia is part of the Renault Group which itself is part of the Renault/Nissan alliance.
But you can do the same unambiguously if you are going to involve angles.

"Move one straight and then move one diagonal into a 135° turned direction."
Nice. But I thought Apple Vision Pro was not an XR device but instead "spatial computing". /s
Again, that’s a choice you’ve made.

I’d argue that a number way less than 1 million installs would signify enough success to start charging for
How are you finding MSFS to be on Proton?

I found it mostly worked, and then broke controller input about 3-4 months ago, and then partially fixed it last month.

What controller or stick/throttle are you using?
Go ahead, leave "Hypercard" on your resume. Wear it as a badge of honor.
Craig Wright offers settlement to Bitcoin developers
Georgia's stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video
Does the license say that Tesla will be liable for issues and accidents caused if deemed to be faulty?
Tony Evers using this to make annual per-pupil funding increases permanent: https://archive.is/0hu0T
Huh, that's a neat idea. I haven't personally seen any papers that explore converting traditional 3D art into splats, but it should be possible. At a very basic level: you could render a 3D item on a black background, capture it from a few different angles, and then generate splats using the conventional approach. I'm sure there would be even more optimal ways to do it, too.

Having said that, you can absolutely blend standard opaque geometry with the splat environment. I just mentioned this in another comment, but I tested it, and it worked quite well with opaque geometry: https://youtu.be/8uB4qC2UtCY
I might be wrong, but I thought Thunderbolt 3|4 cables are not the same as USB cables at all, and the terms can't be used interchangeably. TB3/4 use the USB-C connector, but that's it.
This was pretty cool and I got the hang of it by the 3rd guess. It helps having that ? to read the rules again.

Colors are tricky but still a fun game
I've always wondered how that worked. Like, if I tattooed Bowser playing a double necked guitar while riding a surfboard on a guy, am I not infringing copyright? Especially since I'm accepting payment for use of Nintendo's copyrighted material? How have tattoo artists gotten away with this for so long?
I’ve noticed this as well and it’s a little disappointing from Apple.

Steve was really forward thinking when he let the iPhone kill the iPod.

Im not sure that modern Apple would allow this to happen.
> what happens if I have shares in there from a previous company?

You never had shares “there.” You have shares. They recorded that fact.

Contrast this with buying Apple stock through Fidelity. Legally, Fidelity owns the stock [1]. (Well, technically probably not [2].) You properly own your stock “through” Fidelity.

Private cap tables are different. The cap table is what the investors and company say it is. To avoid mistakes and have an independent record for disputes, many companies opt to use a third party for administration. But the shares they track aren’t “there.” The cap table manager can go under with zero implication for the value or propriety of your shares. (Not necessarily true for Fidelity.)

As a practical matter, keep an eye out for an update from your company. As long as they have a proper notice address for you, you shouldn’t be subject to anything explosive.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_name_securities

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cede_and_Company
That's not the most accurate answer, though perhaps it has some usage in that sense; it's not what it means in the context here.
It's a common law perspective really (writing from the UK) - laws are interpreted by judges and that forms a body of past cases which 'fill in the gaps' so to speak, and become the rule for the future. In contrast to civil law in much of Europe which attempts to codify everything, leaving nothing to interpretation. (I'm no expert - I don't know what happens when they come across a gap, the proceedings are suspended until legislators full it in I suppose?)

A US-centric perspective, stereotypically, would be like 'my Starbucks coffee is too cold, I am suing'. You can have common law without sue-happy individuals.
You can pretty much assume that if your simple fan+filter has a screen, Bluetooth, wifi, an app, and proprietary filter media that it's going to have some means of vendor locking the user. Let's face it, that's the goal behind all of this stuff. To give you a pathway to purchase more products and generate brand awareness and engagement.

It's the same people who buy $350 Bluetooth Air purifiers
with fancy screens and then try in earnest to disable the fancy screen who also make asides about how backwards ICE cars are. Then act surprised when their drive by wire steering refuses to work, or their seat warmers don't work because of an "account problem" (their credit card was declined).
> And? You realize that 1938 is before 1941?

Sanctions were imposed in response to Japan invading China among other things. Japan was clearly the aggressor in Asia before 1938. Sanctions weren't the reason for Japan attacking, it was already on the path to do so before 1938.

> The US ( and much of europe ) invaded china in the 1800s and by 1937 had committed hundreds of massacres. What's your point?

The bad behavior of other countries didn't give Japan the license to invade China and engage in the same behaviors.

>Why was Nanking so important? Oh that's right, it was the center of american and european colonization of china.

No, Nanking is probably the most widely publicized and documented of Japan's atrocities against Chinese civilian populations.

> BTW, the only nationality explicitly banned from the US was the chinese with the Chinese Exclusion Act. The idea that the US cared about chinese lives is laughable.

Although the Chinese were initially targeted in the Chinese exclusion act, the bans there were expanded to include southern europeans and all of asia (e.g. United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind in 1923).
That’s fine, just repeating what’s in the description.
Yeah but the bolts that were supposed to hold it in weren't installed in Malaysia. Well I guess they weren't installed in Seattle either, but thats where they were supposed to be installed. (Taking at face value the anonymous poster at [1].)

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...
Good question, didn't even think about Orange County, Florida!
I doubt there is advertising for generic drugs.
As a fellow mediocre player, my sense is that the best way to prevent blunders is to slow down and enumerate the possibilities. Sure, tools will help, just like having the computer suggest the three best lines will help, but it kind of defeats the purpose of trying to be good at the game. If you're frustrated by missing something that you feel you should have seen, slow down and see it next time.
Yes, I get the point that you couldn't muster an actual argument so resorted to an overly broad question that intentionally ignored context.

And I'm not advocating for anything, I just hate the insincerity that comes from people asking questions like that. Its also a little whiffy that you're trotting out the 'some kids will make good choices' bit with regards to this age range and the ability to ask a doctor for a vaccination - we normally reserve that line of reasoning where making a bad decision is attractive and an adult might also not behave responsibly.

Also point of order - what are you talking about, 'government control'? The topic at hand was literally whether 12 was an appropriate age to start respecting a persons wishes when it came to seeking a vaccination. It is troubling that you see that as government control, and troubling that you see this as 'losing your right as a parent'
What you’re saying may be true but let’s say hypothetically Tesla’s FSD was extremely good and the bee’s knees — car makers would work hard to overcome any obstacle just to get it.

But if the technology is kind of mid, their attempts will be lukewarm at best.
Wait, is this Eurospeak for never? (We schedule Moon landings the same way across the pond.)

Less flippantly, is LISA funded?
>Not to mention that the housing shortage forces more people to share a house with strangers.

Or, you could just build more housing... And stop insisting on so much living space while you're at it. Here in Tokyo, no one lives with strangers, even if they get minimum wage. They can still afford an apartment by themselves, though it'll be a very small apartment that's certainly illegal to build in America.
GitHub Actions can do anything jenkins can do, you just need to do 300 commits to test it.
I tend to disagree, though I admit I may be biased, as a photographer. And for the fact that Kat Von D's own legal team has been quite aggressive in pursuing other artists reproducing, sorry, "transforming" her work.

But I don't see anything overly original in this. It'd be like people selling their colored pencil facsimiles of the Mona Lisa. There's talent in the technique, but there's next to no creativity in the artistic expression.

Also, as an aside, the photographer isn't exactly hurting for money either, so I don't think it's simple greed.
According to the ESA "As the orientation and direction of motion of the spacecraft triangle changes along the orbit, it will be possible to determine the direction of incoming gravitational wave sources." - From https://sci.esa.int/web/lisa/-/lisa-technology-interferometr...

Here's a pretty great infographic on how they plan to collaborate with the Athena x-ray observatory to detect black hole mergers ahead of time - https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/05/How_can_LI...

It ends up being about 0.4 square degrees in the sky that they're able to narrow in on before the event. That narrowing takes roughly a month.
Fireproof uses a 2-layer CRDT (the inner CRDT is encrypted). We also use prolly-trees for indexing. You can read more about the storage engine here: https://fireproof.storage/posts/remote-access-crdt-wrapped-m...

Edit to add: we extracted the outer blockstore so anyone doing immutable data or ipfs can take advantage of our sync connectors. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fireproof/encrypted-blockstor...
They won't be able to do that. LISA will be able to pick up signals with frequencies that can't be detected using LIGO/VIRGO/etc. LISA will be the only detector. However with three arms, it might be possible to localize the signal somewhat.
>It's big vindication for the bouncing ball approach

Not really, it's only been used for a few Mars missions, and not recently. For lunar missions you don't have the benefit of aerobraking, so you have to use so much fuel to slow down already, the math doesn't work out to use airbags at the last step.
Or a publicity stunt by the photographer. Or the photographer and the tatoo artist in cahoots.
Cold call simulation with an AI buyer
Pretty cool simulator. See if you can get these bots to book. I had no luck.
I think you're wrong: people who buy a shitty second-hand car to go to work and have little money to spare on it: indeed, really 0 interest in the car as long as it runs long enough to generate profit to break even.

But if you are going to spend 10k$+ on a car, then you start caring, A LOT. I've seen the change from when I was a student willing to take any crap on wheel, vs when I had some money to burn on a car and I spent weeks looking at everything to end up buying a 10k$ 20yo Porsche 911 :D See, I didn't even look at the fuel cost: only the engine perf per dollars. And it cost me an arm and a leg to run, in Hong Kong where the fuel cost is the highest in the world !

People don't work as rational machines balancing perfectly cost and profit in a constant manner over time. It's more a constraint compromise game with a repressed desire for luxury that seem to drive us: you'll buy what you can afford and within those boundaries you will choose comfort and design over economic optimization. Like when people buy an iphone, evidently they didn't look at all about cost for performance and choose something economically suboptimal but luxurious.

Accept it and you'll start liking them more I think.
https://RTEdge.net network map has just been updated to reflect the changes in https://docs.deno.com/deploy/manual/regions.

RTEdge.net DB

https://rtedge.net/#flat=&cf=-&aws=-&zoom=1.4
vs
https://rtedge.net/old#flat=&cf=-&aws=-&zoom=1.4

RTCode.io Deploy

https://rtedge.net/#flat=&aws=-&db=-&zoom=1.4
vs
https://rtedge.net/old#flat=&aws=-&db=-&zoom=1.4
You can definitely bypass iOS security if you can install your own apps on there with any entitlements the developer wants. It's not that secure.
> I’m still not sure exactly what I would do

Use statistical modeling to determine the likely need for various generic drugs over time, and hire generic producers to make enough to accommodate that need, leveraging feedback loops to adjust the quantities and types of what’s ordered?

Why is it that people think a large corporation is perfectly capable of “enterprise resource planning” but when it comes to a government agency suddenly it’s “central planning” and therefore impossible?
LEV-1 and LEV-2 rovers are released 1.8m(6ft) above ground. Lunar gravity is 1/6th of Earth so landers can take it.

After ejected they both circle around and look for the mothership autonomously, and in this instance the wheeled LEV-2 rover found what it believes to be the ship and the hopper LEV-1 rover relayed the thumbnail back to Earth via direct downlink.
Poor little buddy broke a wing. Little thing was perhaps the coolest space project ever to my inner 12 year old. My whole family just lived the drama of this whole project. So cool.

I don’t know about the rest of you but we’re going to pour one out for the little guy.

And high compliments to the team that pulled this off. This was an astounding project.
You can't pry SVN from gaming artists. Good luck. Binary files in git suck.
I spent a few weeks last year doing the opposite, HTML to LaTex in order to print and nicely typeset top HN articles, so I'd have a nicely printed booklet each morning. I think creating hard copies of web content for offline reading holds a lot of promise, but the internet is a beast.
Wow, so much negativity in the early comments. I've been in the space decades and there's at least 2-3 years of education to be gained here. Great piece, thank you!
The 2017 proposal is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20171017043638/https://www.elisa... This information-dense PDF got lost in the shuffle and its contents smeared across a hundred slides on the LISA website, because I guess PR people think only cell phone users exist.

Yes, solar. Laser power is only 5 watts. Total spacecraft power is 760 watts. They're downlinking a mere 334 megabytes a day, sampling at 3.3Hz.

>how can the test masses remain in free fall, while each satellite is undergoing course corrections?

That's the hard part. The test mass floats in the middle of the spacecraft, which maneuvers around it, occasionally firing ultra low-impulse cold gas thrusters to counteract drag. They put up a spacecraft back in 2015 to test that concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder
There's a lot of talk about Apple trying to circumvent this, but there actually are some good things from this. For instance, Firefox on Mobile can now use the Gecko engine instead of WebKit! (I think it's still Gecko?)
Careful, the cup runneth over! :)
OpenAI offers an API for checking strings to see if they are likely to contain violent, hate, or sexual content. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation

It's free, but you're only allowed to use it for checking ChatGPT inputs and outputs. It would be very useful on internet forums, social media, and the like.
"QA" isn't as precise as wear a helmet while riding your bicycle or floss your teeth every night before going to sleep. It refers to vague practices that vary greatly from organization to organization and team to team.

There are several anti-patterns that sometimes fit under this vagueness:

- Throw garbage over the fence. I.e. low quality products thrown over the fence to a QA team.

- Over-reliance on manual testing.

- Quality is somebody else's problem (sort of related to the first anti-pattern but not exactly the same).

Even the term "Quality" is usually too vague to make sense of. What is quality exactly? How do you tell if your product is higher or lower quality than the competing product? Organizations tend to declare they're the best, regardless of practices and with no real benchmark.
That's really interesting background, thank you. I thought Focus was still a thing since it's still on the site* and just got an iOS update as I type this, but 2023's updates are all "Bug fixes and technical improvements" maintenance mode stuff. RIP Firefox Focus.

* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/
Ahh, I'm unlikely to publish any articles, sorry! But Aras has a great Unity renderer for non-VR platforms, if you want to play around with an existing implementation: https://github.com/aras-p/UnityGaussianSplatting

His implementation runs incredibly well on both my Mac and PC.
What's a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?
Could you link to like, a single one? Cause I can't say I've ever seen a single one in recent memory.
Weather, elevation, rain frequency and bacterial content in the soil makes such a big difference. That's why coffee from Colombia tastes so dam good.
How do you suggest taking 24 FPS and turning it to 29.976 NTSC? A lot of times, they would just convert it 1:1, so the 24 frames would go by in a 24/~30th of a second, so it looked faster. Further, a lot of old, old film was actually meant to be played at slower FPSes than 24, I think 8mm was like 18 FPS.

Today, we do key-framing and other tricks to make transfers from different FPSes easy and imperceptible (plus with digital stuff we can playback at any FPS), but back in the 80's and 90's the tech was a lot less advanced to turn a film image into an analog or digital format, and in previous decades you didn't even have analog or digital, you just had to use 1:1 frame transfers to get onto a larger or smaller film format.
Here's a whole page of chess variants, many of which include such invented pieces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants
> most apple users are overpaying for a status symbol and/or an identity

I have never understood this viewpoint. The world isn't rich enough, or Apple devices exclusive enough, for identity to weight so heavily in Apple's favor.

I think convenience silently overshadows cost for many daily use products. People with modest incomes pay enormous annual sums for convenient daily coffee.

For many, relative reliability and lack of cruft make Apple products more convenient. For others, the inconvenience of Apple's "garden walls" drive them away.
Are they going to explain why this is only coming to the very latest version of iOS? They still operate the same appstore on devices that can't run that iOS version. Devices which still even get security updates occasionally.