skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often call out the cgi "enhancements" that I notice on Boston Dynamics videos. This one doesn't seem to have any that I can tell. On others, however, when I point them out, I get borderline religious vitriol pushback.

From what I've observed, (so preface the following with "It seems to me that:")
BD obviously has a well-honed "playback" tool. They have the ability to command the robot to operate in a new environment, record its own movements to sub-millimeter accuracy, and record the environment (it has a live 3d point map after all.). Then, they load in the recorded environment+motion data, and play it back as a 3D scene. Naturally, this would be needed to analyze the performance and make software and hardware iterations. However, this data is likely also used to re-create a digital scene for the purposes of cgi enhancement of a performance that's intended to be recorded and released to Youtube. Similar to how Favreau uses a giant screen to approximate the lighting on the chroma-keyed subjects[1] as they perform, this data -- a giant shiny rectangle goes here, a window and a flashing blue light bulb there, these steps over here -- combined with accurate camera motion data, is then used to create a digital model with the exact shadows that one would need to create a more realistic "fake video" in the first place. The trick is that Boston Dynamics then takes the original take (or iterations of takes of it running the exact same sequence), and iterate a cgi-enhanced version of their "cool dance video" that the marketing team then signs off on. "Ohh yeah, that's what our vision is. We don't want them to see shaky appendages, or micro-stutters. Add in some extra scuff marks, too! Perfect. Upload it."

[1] https://illumin.usc.edu/the-volume-how-the-mandalorian-revol....
Worked for a company whose automated options trading system was an.... excel spreadsheet. Every now and then I would need to RDP to a machine to RDP into another machine to restart it. Pain. So much pain.
The CIA has papers about it [1, 2]. Paper [2] even contains experiments that should be easy to replicate (and will obviously not work). It's probably complete BS.

There is a paper [3] that derives the Maxwell equations from quaternions and introduces a scalar quantity called "Temporal Field".

If you completely disregard gauge freedom like all those "theories" you can do all kinds of fun things. But those things don't describe what we see in nature.

1.: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia-RDP96-00792R0005002...

2.: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0019006...

3.: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/0307038
Was afraid the original broke HN guidelines
Was excited about this and then saw AGPL on it. Note the OP's software is MIT. My personal preference is GPL, but MIT is better than AGPL in my opinion.
From the replies :)

> In CS theory, regular languages are a strict subset of context-free languages, but regular expression implementations in mainstream programming languages are more powerful. As noulakaz.net/weblog/2007/03/18/… describes, so-called "regular expressions" can check for prime numbers in unary, which is certainly something that a regular expression from CS theory can't accomplish. – Adam Mihalcin
Commented Mar 19, 2012 at 23:50
> the End key

Surprised to hear that there is a user of this button. I don't think I've ever used them, and in the last decade or so I've bought keyboards that don't have them at all.
The old didn't get charged $850 for a stiff ankle boot that costs $45 online. Or $5,000 for a couple of hours in the ER.
It’s great seeing this design evolve in near real-time. Kudos HN.
> US sugar consumption declined from 2000-2020 to 1970s levels

I think this is added sugar only. It wouldn't surprise me if actual sugar consumption reduction were tempered compared to the linked graph. Hell, actual sugar consumption may have even increased. It's certainly far easier to get (fairly high-sugar) juice now than when I was a child.
Yeah, it is not perfect.

Nothing is.

I find explaining a few good computing practices coupled with a tour of the many fine OSS tools available literally for the asking, does real good for anyone willing to invest a bit of their time.

MS Office itself can corrupt its own documents. Ask many of us how we know, right? Now that is more rare than it is for the OSS tools, but it does happen.

You are not wrong. I am not sure what being right actually means in this context too. So yeah. I will just move on.

The most important aspects of all this boil down to people being able to do stuff other people would prefer they not do.

Further, should they be inclined to do said stuff, actually seeing it happen, and or, getting help to make it happen usually solidifies how important "Use Value" really is.

Unlike physical goods, software has the unique property of it increasing in value both as a sum of parts AND as more copies of it are made and used!

Think about that for a moment.

Done?

Great! Fact is that use value dynamic runs counter to our general and natural inclinations. I really enjoy it when people begin to think this way, embrace the tools, understand the culture and share it themselves.

From there, if they can learn to first build and then write software, they will have near fully bootstrapped themselves onto the best open computing and open data have to offer and we all see a fractional value change for the better.

Yeah, probably more of a response than expected. I sure did not start out with all this in mind myself!

It has been a while since I felt the need to express these things in the hope passers-by get something out of it they can use.
Double Delusion
Maybe it's precisely wordplay that is at stake here. Heidegger is no less stranger to it than Derrida. In fact a lot of his philosophical complexes are grounded explicitly into etymology and new ways to hear old words.

Concerning Heidegger I stand in the opposite corner of the room: I liked his later writings more and despite having read him profusely, I'm not able to articulate his thoughts like you did by contrasting present-at-hand with ready-at-hand which however pinpoints very well the divide between analytical and continental thought.

You're right to say that he "collapses into a kind of solipsistic logorrhea", and it is pertinent to what we are discussing since in heideggerian terms this should be expressed as "language bringing language to language through language".

An example: the linguistic proximity between explicate vs implicate that is another instance of the ready-to-hand vs present-at-hand dichotomy.
Researchers create first map of the spliceosome, an Achilles heel of cancer
Deluge has a years-long bug where it ignores proxy settings:
https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43
Yep. I agree! Sorry, it just popped out.

Your primary point is solid. Seconded.
> The fact is the US government just lumps all forms of sugar together and labels it all genetically as sugar…ignores there are different forms of sugar, each processed by our bodies differently and having different metabolic impacts and harms.

At the same time, these differences can be overstated. E.g. look at how "added sugar" is distinct from other carbohydrates but no "total sugar" metric on nutritional boxes on food products.
I couldn't believe it when I learned that \makeatletter does not “make (something) at a letter (character)” but rather “treats the '@' character as a letter when parsing”.
So this is what I'm hung up on:

> The problem is not the sugar per se, but the fact that different people respond to the same consumed items completely

You stated as a fact that sugar itself is not the problem, and you point to other causes (earlier, differing metabolic responses among people; now, a different substance being a confounding factor) as the explanation. But these just seem to be hand-waving conjectures about how something else could be the problem, not anything factually indicating that sugar itself isn't.

Furthermore, the fact that some people respond differently to sugar would not itself imply that sugar itself is not the problem, which is what's been throwing me off about your discussions. There are plenty of illnesses that some people are resistant or even immune to. There are also plenty of cases where some people initially tolerate a substance but then eventually -- even after many years -- suddenly start showing severe reactions to it, simply as a result of excess consumption. The fact that people don't have the same uniform responses to the same substances doesn't necessarily mean the substances aren't the problem.

This is why I'm saying I can't follow your logic. Your conclusion that sugar itself isn't the problem might still be correct; I don't know. I'm just saying I don't see how your explanations imply that conclusion.
Brain needs glucose.
Canada is not a part of the United States, though. Neither is Nigeria. Surprising this needs to be stated.
It looks like it's intended to be copied and pasted into your codebase, not be an external dependency.
Yup, it's a real shame that batteries can't be swapped.
And we need good product people to keep doing this ;)
These are true, but it's not the reason it's so successful.

It's the original agile, functional programming environment. Code iteration and basic testing is done in microseconds.

I remember laughing very hard when someone excitedly told me about REPL in python, like it was a new idea.
People really like that machine.

Mine is sticky. As in when others get hold of it, next thing I hear is usually, "oooh" and then it takes some time for it to come back!

I got mine for a song. Sweet deal, but it is the 8GB 256GB configuration. Not too big of a deal, but more internal storage would be nice. Maybe I will send it out somewhere to get a boost.

Would have already, but I worry a little about those services.
Meta Denied Regulator's Request to Test Rights Manager's Effectiveness
You means apps written by Google as "native apps"?

Any use cases outside that?

If not, it is probably fair to say nobody uses this.
If they didn’t bother writing it down, is it really even historic?
The contexts of security by obscurity is usually in regards to data that would attract people who would specifically target you for being a mark that will make them a lot of money rather than opportunistically target you because you are an easy mark that will make them a quick & easy profit of unknown value.

If someone wants to rob you - a door lock isn't going to stop them. Likewise if someone wants to pwn you - a little obfuscation isn't going to stop them.

Security by obscurity only works in the case that you aren't known to be worth the effort to target specifically and so nobody bothers. Much like very few people bother to beat my CTF. I'm sure if I offered a $1,000 reward for beating it the number would increase tenfold because it is suddenly worth the effort to spend a bit of time attacking. But as it stands with no monetary incentive the vast majority (>99%) give up after a few days.
No disagreement here, but equally you can't be surprised when people can grapple with the narrative easier than statistics. If you want the statistical understanding to propagate you need a narrative.
The problem I'm trying to avoid is having to dive down a hierarchy, and that not everyone needs or wants to know there is such a hierarchy. Like graphics design for foo-team only needs to have access to some subset of graphics. Arguably they could be given a symlink into the checkout,
but the problem with that is of having a singular checkout.

The problem I had with Google3 is that the tools weren't great at branching and didn't fit my workflow, which tends to involve multiple checkouts (or worktrees using git). being forced to checkout the root of the repo, and then having to manage a symlink on top of that is no good for users that don't need/want to manage the complexity of having a single machine-global checkout.
iPhone 16 Pro review: Control before Intelligence
FWIW, I am building another alternative. We are very, very, very far away from Excel.
But TBH I think that's true for anything else that is not Excel or Google sheets.
Zoho deserves a special mention and lots of other good folks have created fantastic things like rows ir grid.is
Just for context, total sugar is the only thing shown on European food labels. Makes it somewhat annoying the other way around, it's hard to figure out if it's just the sugars the ingredients contained or if it's stuffed with extra. I prefer this worry over the other option though. In a perfect world we would have both.
https://github.com/mwarning/KadNode ?
Those are definitely up next in the flashy-new-thing pipeline and I'm not that up to speed on them yet.

Another group within my company is evaluating them right now and the early results seems to be "not very accurate, but directionally correct and very fast" so there may be some value in non-FEM experts using them to quickly tell if A or B is a better design; but will still need a more proper analysis in more accurate tools.

It's still early though and we're just starting to see the first non-research solvers hitting the market.
Its really disappointing that VBA stopped improving since 20 years ago. Imagine if you could embed C# or even better F# in workbooks, and also have a way to better way to package libraries. We wouldn't see Python notebooks.
>Which they are doing, and clobbering Detroit on price.

Let's be real, their prices are lower because Chinese labor is cheaper. US companies have to pay US rates and import as much as they can rather than having it all made in the US.
A good solution to this is to have multiple roles and use threshold signatures: https://theupdateframework.io/
https://archive.ph/R13Dx
Yes sort of enough to be useful to use, and I do use it, but not complete enough to be perfect. A bit like Google tasks!

It does the main things though - it can check other calendars, people can book into your calendar, it deals with time zones and schedules.

It fits into the valley of "use if you are already using Google stuff alot, but not worth it as a solo feature if you don't".

Cal.com is way better. But then that is no suprise, it's their only job.
Sure, I don't doubt that. But it also seems to me that those symptoms are exacerbated by the kind of sensory overload that is enabled with modern technology. So I also think it's more common and more severe in terms of impact.
this robot has arms and legs and apparently some measure of autonomy now as well. It can change it's own batteries!

Which, humans do at least once a day, among tending to other biological needs as well. So the question is what's a useful run time if there's a bank of swappable batteries it can run back to refill from? Even if it had to go and swap batteries every two hours, for a factory robot that wouldn't be insurmountable.
For me I studied vipassana and Buddhism, and did the daily meditations with Gil Fronsdal[0] on his amazing audio dharma[1] which has a lot of resources (and his teachings dating back 25+ years recorded and freely available there). If you’re in the area you can visit the insight meditation center[2] in Redwood City.

I think these things helped me a lot in my recovery but I also don’t think it’s necessary or sufficient. I think my advice above is the real key, but vipassana and Buddhism give a pretty structured approach to achieve the appropriate detachment from what’s not truly real and the appreciation for what is. IMO that’s the basis for recovering from burnout durably. But the other thing is there’s no magic, it takes time.

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Fronsdal
1 https://www.audiodharma.org/speakers/1
2 https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/
Also my Toyota Auris Hybrid has a weird kind of joystick for changing gear and putting it into neutral position requires holding that position for some time. Gave me an unpleasant (but luckily harmless) event in a car wash where you're required to have power on but use neutral position with automatic gearing.
I’m old too and have been doing this just as long.

What’s the most impactful task for the business right now? What’s the feedback from the sales team? What tickets are coming into customer support? What are our competitors doing? What do the marketing team need? You’re across all this? What about the other 250 developers in the business?

At some point it doesn’t scale. So maybe you need someone further up the pipeline identifying opportunities and looking at risks, talking to customers and aggregating the data so that we can be focused on the most important thing.

Maybe you’ve only worked in very small companies over those 20 years but it’s a naive take on things.
It would only seem funny to you if you ignore the most fundamentally important fact of humanity: Humans have much more variance than normality. Even if half the population can get by with what you're saying, there is a full other half filling out a wide variance.
Actually, the DoJ has a FAQ:

What is an “agent of a foreign principal”?

An “agent of a foreign principal” is any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or otherwise acts at the order, request, or under the direction or control of a “foreign principal” and does any of the following:

Engages within the United States in political activities, such as intending to influence any U.S. Government official or the American public regarding U.S. domestic or foreign policy or the political or public interests of a foreign government or foreign political party.

Acts within the United States as a public relations counsel, publicity agent, information service employee, or political consultant.

Solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value within the United States.

Represents within the United States the interests of a foreign principal before U.S. Government officials or agencies.

See 22 U.S.C. § 611(c); 28 C.F.R. § 5.100.
A compiler doesn’t need to run the instructions it generates. Why should cross-compilation be slower than native compilation?
Excel spreadsheets are auditable?

If that's the case, why do studies show that so many Excel spreadsheets have major errors in them?

https://theconversation.com/spreadsheet-errors-can-have-disa...

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-business-spreadsheets-critical...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=study+excel+spreadsheets+contain+e...
Looking at those permissions, I think whatever fear he decompiled this out of was justified.

I guess that's one way to implement industrial espionage.

Build telemetry and malware, or code that can become malware with a little tweaking or remote checks, into a component that's likely to be used by technologists in whatever sector you're interested in.

Make it a bit better and a lot cheaper than all the alternatives. Get on their phone with lots of permissions, and use the telemetry. Once you know who they are you can decide on more targeted actions to turn them into a vector against their employer or whoever, or just watch what you can to collect information.
VHDL

There is a record constructor syntax in VHDL using attribute invocation syntax: RECORD_TYPE'(field1expr, ..., fieldNexpr). This means that if your record has a first field a subtype of a character type, you can get record construction expression like this one: REC'('0',1,"10101").

Good luck distinguishing between '(' as a character literal and "'", "(" and "'0'" at lexical level.

Haskell.

Haskell has context-free syntax for bracketed ("{-" ... "-}") comments. Lexer has to keep bracketed comment syntax balanced (for every "{-" there should be accompanying "-}" somewhere).
To be fair, FEM is not the right tool for mechanical linkage design (if anything, you'd use rigid body dynamics).

FEM is the tool you'd use to tell when and where the mechanical linkage assembly will break.
> the poster couldn't even assess what they were posting

Uhm disagree, I know what I was posting (doesn't seem it was against the rules either), I was trying to understand better the answer that OP had submitted as a reply to my first question.

It definitely helped me put it into a better perspective (i.e. no clue what an average salary at a large company looks like). That being said the answer to my question from the author still lacks enough details to make "total sense" in my mind - even after passing it through GPT.
This is a strange and awful take. Physical objects decay to the fundamental forces of nature, but that is a flaw, not something we should emulate.

Software is a tool. Software is infrastructure. Degradation is desirable in neither.

Data has metadata - creation time, access time, etc. - that can power workflows to identify and deal with old data if that is desirable, but in most cases they are not desirable. I haven't looked at the directory full of my wedding pictures in a decade, but I don't want my photo editing software to decide they're irrelevant and delete or hide them.

Having access to old documents and data is often important and beneficial. It's why people look at inscriptions in old books, why they keep photo albums, why finding a forgotten item when moving furniture can be delightful. It's why we're able to identify trends.

Most crucially, it is incredibly difficult to predict in advance which data will be useful in the future. Proactively discarding things when storage is incredibly cheap is a net negative.
I am 40 and it's very common for people my age to be having babies. I would wild-ass guess that 10% of American 40-somethings have babies these days. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/motherhood-deferred-us-median-a...
> to “knows SQL”

There are still ways to go. I've seen it means "spends the days filling excel spreadsheets".
It's been catching up over time, a couple more revisions and it'll be 99% of the way there, minus 3rd party plugins.
You definitely can do that in TypeScript. The kinds of things you can do with generic inference and string literals are crazy
To add to openrisk's comment, classical statistics doesn't formally define or attempt to tackle causality. Regressions and the like only describe associations between variables. For a statement regarding causality to hold, you need stronger evidence than just associativity.

Pearl has published a number of primers/papers/books with instructive examples that outline the limitations of classical statistics and applications of casual diagrams/graphs.
Despicable. A pox on your house.
Most shell scripts that correctly handle newlines do so by accident.
i created a link: https://lynx.boo/tos/edit ....
That's the Win32 application. Rather this one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/orphan-t... (last doable on Windows server 2003):

Performs an installation of or upgrade to a product in the Windows Server 2003 family.
If you have hardware that is compatible with a product in the Windows Server 2003 family,
you can run winnt at a Windows 3.X or MS-DOS command prompt.
And it's not just a matter of functionality: there's an enormous difference in performance. I've had to push the limits of Excel to do data analysis and visualization on huge spreadsheets with complex lookup formulas. It worked great. Then I tried to import into Google Sheets to share with colleagues and it completely choked. Like I let it churn for hours and it never finished recalculating. Google Sheets is "good enough" for basic, simple stuff but for anything more it's a real productivity killer.