skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny that the wiki article didn't put a picture of the camera itself and instead wasted an image on a generic logo. The duckbill look of it was definitely odd. The real-time preview was useful to directors that could not figure out, "what does the camera see" <facepalm> It SEES EVERYTHING!!!! Just stand there and look around. That's what VR cameras see. Why is that so hard?

The Google camera that used 16 GoPros with more interesting to me even though it only did a cylinder rather than a complete sphere, but it did generate stereo images. We appended additional GoPros to the top/bottom of the unit so we could fill in the zenith/nadir of the final image. 22 total cameras. 22 mircoSD cards. DIT was a nightmare.

We also played around with the prototype from FB that was closer to Ozo, but that was right at the end of my time with live action VR.

None of these cameras were "throwable" though. There was a consumer unit though that would snap a 360° image at the apex of the toss.
I'm a software developer myself and had a rude awakening into the life of someone who loves what they do but can't do it due to a physical limitation recently. I'm lucky that It is fixable and I'm in the process but it makes me dread a time when I have something that can't be fixed.

I developed Cubital tunnel syndrome in both elbows which leads to extreme numbness and pain in my pinky, ring finger wrist, elbow and top of the hand when doing any activity requiring using my hands or bending elbow for even small minutes of time. Luckily I can get surgery for it, but I've still had to wait this long going through months of other prevention measures that didn't work at all before I was finally allowed to consider it.

Even though its only been 6 months, its been an extremely depressing ride not being physically able to do basic daily things including my job and passion of developing/learning about development without pain.

Its made me scared for the day when I wont be able to do this and many other things anymore since even just this short 6 months has been a rude awakening into the life of someone dealing with extreme pain in just daily life, and sympathize for people who are going through the same things.

For many people "retiring" doing what they love just is not possible.
What is "more natural" is a matter of opinion, and opinion will differ.

But even if there's a lot of agreement that an existing convention could stand improvement, that doesn't by itself make it "a good reason any time" for throwing out the existing convention.

What is a "convention"? It's something followed by a large "installed base". So changing a convention means a large cost will be incurred in changing up.

Who should decide whether the benefits of changing outweigh the costs? Someone has to pay for it, and simple fairness suggests that the people who will bear the costs of changing up should have the largest say.

The point is that just because someone thinks something new is better doesn't mean that old should be thrown out. And if you ignore that installed base, the change just doesn't happen.

We tried in the U.S. to switch over to metric years ago. Many of us think it would have made sense, but many more people didn't agree and it didn't happen.

It would be easier computationally if there were 100 degrees in a circle rather than 360. But the 360-installed-base is too large and the costs of changing are judged to be too great, so we're stuck with 360.

You're absolutely right, though, that suggestions for change should always get a fair hearing, and people who believe in them should go ahead and see if enough other people will sign on.
Software specification documents will, as they say, rise in status. The kind of specification outlined in this article misses the mark–why would we use anything but actual natural language? That said, there will be real returns to structuring specifications so that they are actionable and easy to navigate to achieve context, both kinds.
> I think this representation space is what we refer to when we say consciousness is unified.

I don’t think this is what OP meant, and this is not what Buddhists are talking about RE: unified vs discrete conscious experience. It really is about temporality as I originally noted.

As in, are the actual qualia that you experience somehow a single continuous thing, even though they cross multiple sense modalities, and may interleave with complex/compount thoughts? Or are they a sequence of atoms arising that are not a single thing?

I do think embedding spaces are a great concept, but I don’t think they bear on qualia very much.
That's cool until your body starts to degrade.
Are Americans eligible?
You should try actually reading the paper.
Yes? If the energy could be used for something productive, but is instead used for something unproductive, then it is a waste

While that energy technically serves the purpose of letting a monetary system function, traditional monetary infrastructure requires vastly smaller amounts of energy, thus this is a wasteful use of it
Don't forget the stupid indoor drone security system that was brought out a few years ago. I can't believe anyone would use that
The sibling comments are all correct that you're special-pleading the criterion that a puzzle create something of value.

But, as it happens, this one does: it offers economic incentive to develop more efficient attacks on elliptic curves. The curve Bitcoin uses isn't widely used outside of it, but that doesn't mean that an efficient attack on Secp256k1 wouldn't apply elsewhere.

Is this modest as positive externalities go? Probably yes. Could someone with a better attack on the curve just empty wallets? Not necessarily, and probably not: the point of the puzzle is that the entropy has been deliberately reduced to make it crackable with brute force, so, say someone worked out a factor of four improvement: that isn't going to get you into the Genesis Wallet, but it substantially lowers the price of claiming some of the puzzles.

Also, being a cryptographer and being a thief are unrelated professions. Some people might be inclined to both, but I would guess that most are not.
There are a lot of people here who react viscerally to any advertising in any form. I'd point that Computer Shopper was a huge magazine with some pro-forma often low-rent writing that existed as basically a vehicle to deliver ads to people who couldn't really get that information any other way. PC Mag/Byte/etc. was higher quality editorial but still had a lot of advertising.
No matter how dumb it is, in general, it is always better to just respond with the answer and not comment on the comment itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."
Do you dislike sports or fitness as a broad category that includes sports?
This is the link you want if you want to read the actual meaty contents of this page. Took me a sec to find. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-com...
Linux 6.11 Released
Modelling the archetype of a message-passing bug with TLA+ (2022)
If this is true, why is this scenario so common for a lot of people:

Someone you care about introduces you to something, that relationship ends and now the something they introduced you to becomes repulsive. A slight twist on that is you experience something together with someone that could be done on your own but suddenly that activity becomes tainted even when you try to do it alone at a later time.

The above suggests there is a high coupling between 2 independent experiences at a conscious level which melds 2 distinct and logically separate events into 1 experience.

It's certainly not a healthy way to live knowing that someone can have that much control over your own internal thoughts and perceptions but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, even temporarily.
I presume they can use over-the-air updates to disable the feature when the device is activated?

My watch’s logs always have some OTA stuff.
This is claimable more than once.
Why should “we”? You can hear “we should/must” from all corners here but then remember it’s an US start-up’ers forum with people who plan morning meetings for email regexps.

Bitcoin may be an inefficiency, but is it the? Most everyday things modern first-world people do are equivalent to burning oil and shredding trees for little to no reason. You just can’t see it as clearly as in PoW crypto.
That might have been the right call in ‘78. The first word processor ever only went on sale two years prior.
Interesting that they removed SDCH in 2017 and now they're adding it back. Let's hope this version sticks.
BOOK TO READ: Wilful Blindness: How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper - an investigative Canadian journalist, to get a deep dive into how long this has been going on.

This current government in power [9 years now; the Trudeau Liberal-NDP majority voting power coalition] has done nothing but to allow rampant fraud including this to continue; Trudeau himself on video has stated he admires China's basic dictatorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FuHuUhNZ0
but these low odds include obese people who presumably make zero effort to try to lose weight?
When the camera settings do not change, the positions are locked, etc, you can quickly do a "stitch" with a template that doesn't really take a lot of compute at all. It's by no means a clean stitch. Even in the demo video, you can see the edges from each camera. However, this is a product embracing the "know your audience" mantra, and it serves the purpose as designed.
Fuzzers vs. Games
I have a bit of a theory on this.

I used to edit a newsstand leisure magazine here in the UK. It was founded in the 1970s. We sold about 18,000 copies a month in our peak, making us the market leader.

I'm not the editor any more (I went off to do something else) but the magazine is still going. It won't surprise you to learn that it sells much less than it used to.

But that's not because the magazine has got worse. It hasn't. The writing is still as good as ever, the news reporting still pretty sharp. It's not because the market has changed. It's not because you can get the same information online for free. Much to my amazement, in 20+ years, no one has really catered for this particular market online - there's a lot of chuntering on forums and Facebook groups, but no one really doing compelling content. We were turning over £1m+ a year. I don't think anyone is even turning over £50k writing about this subject online.

So what changed? I think it's ultimately about attention. When I edited the magazine (c. 2010), people still chose to spend part of their leisure time reading about one of their hobbies. We were a fun way to do that. Today, people don't need to spend £5 to happily while away a few hours: they can just scroll through their phones. The magazine habit has gone.

Crucially, it's not that the information has gone online. It really hasn't. I read all the various forums and groups, and still when the magazine plops onto my doormat every month, I read it and find a load of stuff I didn't know. It's just that the time that was once filled with reading magazines is now filled with something else.
Hedging our bets XD
Well, even building and commenting the regex is something that LLMs can do pretty well these days. I actually did exactly that, in a different domain: wrote a prompt template that included the current (python-wrapped) regex script and some autogenerated test case results, and a request for a new version of the script. Then passed that to sonnet 3.5 in an unattended loop until all the tests passed. It actually worked.

The secret sauce was knowing what sort of program architecture is suited to that process, and knowing what else should go in the code that would help the LLM get it right.

Which is all to say, use the LLM directly to parse the html, or use an LLM to write the regex to parse the html: both work, but the latter is more efficient.
Interestingly, I’m not sure why more people don’t use archinstall, which is provided with the official live ISO: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall

I have no issue doing Arch installations by hand, but sometimes it’s nice to save time when you don’t have any special configurations. That being said, knowing how to do installations manually has been pivotal in me knowing how to recover borked Linux systems.
As a french, am I eligible?
> I don't think I've ever seen a graphical system of any kind that didn't have 0,0 at the top-left corner of the monitor or viewport either, with positive x going right and positive y going down.

Is that because the electron beam in cathode ray tubes scanned from top left to bottom right?
"Any philosophy that doesn't account for the essential labor of civilization has an unrecoverable problem" -> True, and here's where I hope increased automation will provide a sustainable and equitable solution. When managing a sewer or drain means programming a robot equipped with sensors and cleaning tools, then cleaning a sewer is no longer something that requires a system that subjugates a set of people to do this unenviable task for low wages.

Yet, social structures persist in many countries and the technology has not achieved sufficient penetration. Ultimately any debate about work or retirement will devolve into politics and why certain sections of people remain poor and unable to get to a position of financial comfort. But talking about UBI, early retirement etc is doubly important because these problems are always dismissed as aristocratic, but the fact is most people suffer from the consequences.
Unless the people solving the puzzles learn something valuable on the way.

Anyway, I don't agree that puzzles by definition have known answers, unless you want to nitpick and I just change my "puzzle" into "challenge".
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Can the laser in OP’s laser burn things? No? Point of my comment is to console OP’s concern with long term damage to his eyes. Some Windows Hello’s IR emitter is powerful enough I can see bright red blinking.
Optimization and efficiency are sometimes underappreciated puzzles. We know that the air contains nitrogen for example but without the wild efficiency of the Haber process, most of us would likely be dead right now.

Custom silicon and all kinds of related optimizations were likely used to successfully brute-force this number.
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> I think you might be looking at this situation through rose-colored glasses. When I was a kid in the 2000s, I loved reading PopSci and I distinctly remember at least 30-40% of it being ads throughout most of the magazine. And then, the last 20+ pages were all ads.

I was a nerdy kid in the early 80s, and when I wasn't hanging out in computer shops and electronics junk shops, I was often in WH Smith [1] browsing the sci/tech magazines. My recollection is that they were pretty good in terms of articles, and even many of the adverts were interesting. I suspect this was because (before the net) it was hard to find out about stuff that wasn't mainstream: so ads for telescopes or chem kits or single-board computers seemed kind of exotic. Electronics mags with pages of ads listing components were information. And you could actually buy the RS Catalogue there - which, while not a magazine, had so much interesting stuff in it.

And a bit later, Computer Shopper with endless pages of densely-packed ads listing ram chips and cpus and cmos logic chips, and the ink that came off on your fingers...

So the ads were often an important learning resource back then. At least for kids with limited resources like I was.

[1] National chain of newsagents here in the UK.
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However the policy works in practice, giving people choices is very humane.

If someone has really good reason to stay, they don't take the offer.
The way I’ve explained this before is “would you rather small issues that we can fix one by one until anyone really notices or would you rather we hit all those issues in one big go?” Your mileage may vary.
I strongly believe that using these systems as a programming interface is a very bad pattern. They are the ultimate leaky abstraction.
If you want to prove that somebody has the ability to pick locks in order to protect your valuables, you leave the prize sitting on the kitchen table (at 66 bits of entropy) behind your relatively easy front door lock, not in a secure vault with triple redundant mechanisms. Somebody with the solution is going to be able to claim the money in far, far less computing time than they could claim a larger prize by breaking industry standard prequantum key sizes.

The $400,000 is an inducement for any participant in that engineering effort to break the conspiracy and take the bag. It's effective during the period between the time that a quantum Shor's solver has been achieved for a given algorithm in theory for 256 bits (and in practice for 66 bits), and the time that a practical solution at 256 bits has been implemented.
I cannot imagine vegan fast food being a winner
> some even saying that verbal thoughts are the only thing that are important enough to be called "thoughts"!

For anyone who thinks this, what happens if you start thinking a thought in words, and then stop partway through the sentence? When I do this, I understand the meaning of the full sentence even if I stop after a single word. Because, how could I say something without first knowing what I was going to say?

For me, that meaning is the real thought. The words are just a representation of it.
Thankfully it's been a couple years since I had to touch a WordPress code base, but I remember being confused because I needed to define a route and couldn't figure out how to do so either in the code base or in documentation scattered about online. Eventually I realized that this was because WORDPRESS DOESN'T HAVE A ROUTER and you're supposed to just create .php files which are called and executed directly from the web server. True caveman smash-together-rocks shit.
If they have to go home it isn't enough.
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Icebreaker International: Distant Early Warning
I don’t think many people would have thrown the OZO up to take cute panoramas though, as it went for something like $60,000.. At the time (~2017), the OZO was the benchmark quality-wise, and it hit the community pretty hard, when Nokia cancelled the project over night and disbanded/fired the team behind it.

At the time I was working for a startup called VideoStitch, later Orah, which had launched the Orah 4i, a much smaller, 4-lens, 360 degree 4K live streaming camera. Expectations were huge, that 360 degree video streaming would go through the roof, with a camera at every wedding. Didn’t really work out that way, I wonder whether stereo 180 degree “Spatial Videos” in the Apple ecosystem will go the same way.
But to be honest as I move from my lonely writer's garret to Starbucks for character ideas, being able to wrangle the free Wi-fi is important. It is kind of cool that you can be self sufficient inside the editor, so I'll give partial points for minimalist.

But I agree, not really the thing you expect to see in the top 10 list of "features". Now if I could read my mail from inside the editor .... /s
> then any kind of rational thought is impossible

Yes. Rationality is an illusion. Rational deduction depends on "implication" which is not actually a thing in physical reality.

> there is no single, unchanging person having them

This is the essential breakthrough that Buddha had: all things are impermanent and if you go looking for yourself you eventually find that there is no "self" there.

> there cannot be correct or incorrect thinking

Yes, thoughts are totally irrelevant to living. They are just a sort of fun window dressing. It's possible to "switch off" all thinking and still function. The body carries out all it's activities including talking to other people but "you" are not "doing" anything. It's pleasant. (I typically do it while washing the dishes.)

> But if this is the case, then any argument in favour of the position just outlined -- or any other, contrary position -- is neither right nor wrong. So everything becomes absurd.

No. The above is a description of the situation, not an argument that can be invalidated.
Security Flaw in AWS Transit Gateway Peering Attachments (Patched)
Economics 101:

- Successful Behavior Is Repeated
- People Respond To Economic Incentives
nope, earth is the biggest open air prison ;) and only guard it needs is the gravity.
Puzzles are training and intellectual entertainment, something you cannot have a web server without, cause sad nerds are unproductive.
No you are not. The Swedes will love to have you there.
Would this attract more migrants? (e.g. I could work for a year for 10k, or I could go to Sweden and get 34k)

They've probably thought through all the ways to exploit this, just curious.
I remember the times when I had three or more different browsers installed, just because each had their own unique and useful features. Had some workflows for each too. Now, I ended up using the least worst browser, and that must tell something about current situation in "browser market".
contributing to open source isn't fun. it sucks. it might be good for your career but it is developing software in the most hostile environment for the most entitled users

I have a side project. wanna see the code? you can't! screw you it's mine!

also MS is a wildly different disease than Alzheimer's. many women especially develop MS in their twenties and it is not always progressive and it is certainly not life ending like Alzheimer's

spreading this kind of misinformation about MS makes it difficult for sufferers to find work if their disability is visible because their level of disability can be assumed to be greater than it really is. MS is extremely variable from one person to the next.
Yeah, I don't love it either and I can think of workarounds (short fake nails?), but it's silly to say you (the previous poster, rather) "cannot fathom what goes on in their head" when they've spelled it out.
Sinclair C5 vs modern e-scooters and other lightweight e-mobility is another good example.

Same fundamental design approach, but needed another 25 years of improvement in battery and motor tech.

IIRC the first electric car was proposed in the 1920s or thereabouts.
Man, that font really bothers me..