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Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize
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Always wanted to live in a police state.....
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Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
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I posted a 10 minute video overview for those who'd rather listen than read:http://ratemyapp.com/video/VIqZFaU1PhQ/Product-Preview-Amazo...
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How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
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Why do they need a deep learning model for this? They are obviously targeting signs, product names, menus and similar. Model will obviously fail in translating large texts.Was there any advantage of using a deep learning model instead of something more computationally simple?
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CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer
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When I was at uni we took CS Unplugged around primary schools to play some of the games from the materials and teach kids some of the basic concepts. It was heaps of fun and I highly recommend that other people do the same!In particular I love http://csunplugged.org/error-detection/ as it's a magic trick. I've used this at parties, and I find it funny that it's a computer science concept.Tim Bell's also super nice, and it's fantastic that he developed this!
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Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t sure why
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whatever you do, don't try to figure out why it works[0].[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schroedinbug
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10th Anniversary of JQuery
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Hmm, is there any reason to use jQuery if you handle your DOM with React?I might be missing something. I used to use it for animations and manipulating DOM, but there are decent lighter alternatives now.
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Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?
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Humans walk very efficient. If you want to burn fat or get your heart rate up, a 20 second sprint is equal to two hours of walking.If you want to increase the capacity of your cardiovascular system, to get a lower resting pulse, the best method is to engage in an activity that gives you around 70% of your max heart rate, for about 45 minutes or more. Examples of such activities (for normal people) is gym training, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, etc. At least twice a week.Max pulse is around 220 minus age. So if you are 35, you want to average (220-35)*0.7=130, witch will feel easy.
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Our 2016 Open Source Donations
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Now... this is certainly great, especially given the particular selection of projects receiving the donations. I've upvoted the article and hopefully more companies (aka open source consumers) will do the same.But then I wonder, what is that the community would benefit most from? Money or actual code contributions?I develop open source software and I get paid for doing it, which is a great luxury. Go DDG, raise the bar even further, employ people working on these projects if you don't have any already and even release more software!
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David Cameron announces resignation
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Outsmarted himself and fucked up royally. Time to go.
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How Convolutional Neural Networks Work
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This video is a great introduction to convolutions and pooling.The other best resource, IMHO, is http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/.
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Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
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very useful tool
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Is PostgreSQL good enough?
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Why is the font so small on this site?
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Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest
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"All started from and only by a controlled a website"That is really scary. And another reason to limit/disable JavaScript (if somebody still don't find enough). Has anyone found more detailed report? I'd love to see this in action.
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A plan for open source software maintainers
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It seems one small approach in the right direction would be for someone+ to provide a discovery/marketing service for helping spotlight, bring to the forefront those working on the infrastructure-type projects. Thinking more along the lines of a podcast, blog, etc. that would generate revenue from sponsors. Akin to Changelog or other podcasts, but specifically focused on the behind-the-scenes/infrastructure/maintaince type stuff - the "backstory" if you will. Folks could donate to this service and funds could be funneled to the highlighted projects/developers.The "marketing service" angle would be to provide free marketing to these types of projects. Inviting folks as guests, writing about projects, etc.It does solve the overall problem for everyone, but it would be going in the general right direction. There may be efforts like this already, but I am not aware of them.+ I do not have the time it would take to do this well.
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How to Report a Bug to Microsoft
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I didn't follow the part where you couldn't give them a Microsoft id for a commercial office 365 license. Presumably you were giving them your personal Microsoft id used with office 365 home at home for your own personal non commercial use? Why did you not just give them the id for the commercial office license your company must have to use office for commercial purposes?It's understandable that one of the differences with the greatly discounted non commercial use office home license is lesser support than the more expensive commercial license is entitled to. Support is expensive.
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As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
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From the little data I gathered, trains/mass transit seems to be much more efficient than cars regarding greenhouse emissions. YMMV depending on your stance on climate change, but I find it sad people dismissing rails so easily in this thread.
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Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace
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Not sure if anyone used Open Bazaar on Hacker News. I tried it and forget to close it. After 24-hours, this program leaked 4GB memory. How could the developer let this happen?
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Learn Ethereum smart contract programming
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Pretty much sums up the state of Ethereum/Solidity development right now;Step 1, install wallet.
Step 2, deploy contract.
Step 3, learn about Solidity.
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Testing? Nah.
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Curl’s backdoor threat
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From the article:"Additionally, I’m a Swede living in Sweden. The American organizations cannot legally force me to backdoor anything, and the Swedish versions of those secret organizations don’t have the legal rights to do so either (caveat: I’m not a lawyer). So, the real threat is not by legal means."Considering how well Assange's things turned out with Sweden, that makes me wonder. Of course he is Australian, so there is a big difference.
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Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language
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Someone ought to put together performance charts by Zodiac signs
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Rust in 2017: what we achieved
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I've had a great time writing Rust this past year, and I'm looking forward to the next year. Thanks, Rust team!
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
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when I saw the title I thought this would be a decentralized exchange since it seems to be a hot topic nowdays. I am still trying to find more information.
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Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors
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I'm sure the Chinese and Russian Governments could provide a list of willing companies that would be happy to offer those services to american companies and our government.
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3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online
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I applaud their very, very confident reductionism.
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Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware to Steal Pirates’ Passwords
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Anyone else wondering why they had to use a cheap "test.exe" that is flagged by malware websites instead of embedding the code (possibly write it from scratch) into their binary?
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Cleaning sprays have an impact on lung health comparable to cigarettes
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I find it very hard to remove soap scum from bathtub if I don't use cleaning sprays. Can someone please suggest a better way.
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Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records
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Cases like this are why I think the general public vastly overestimate the capabilities of government surveillance. These same people work at NSA, CIA, etc.Not to insult the intelligence of these fine agency folk; my point is security is only as strong as its weakest link. And whether public or private, people can make some very weak choices.
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Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes
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If birds can figure out how to have blockchain based browsers embedded in their eyes to help with navigation, why can't we just copy that tech for our own uses?Can we do an Initial Cryptochrome Offering?
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Stripe Atlas for LLCs
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Liability can not be limited. Someone is either liable or not.
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Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement
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I read this many years back at joelonsoftware. Joel is such an amazing thinker. His ideas are so original. I don't know how one thinks such original thoughts. I can follow orders but thinking for myself is very hard.
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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
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Verizon routers not known to be vulnerable? That's a bit surprising, although not so much if a particular country is being targeted.
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Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
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Agree to wenc.
If you try a hierarchical organization (you could use the same classification as in official libraries for example) then you won't find what you want easily.
The best solution is NOT to sort too much, and use a (free) global tool to find what you search.
If you're under windows, then "everything" of voidtools.com should help. (This program is realtime, it's amazing.)if you're using any Unix flavor, activate "locate" and use it.
Both do an index of the filenames. So naming correctly your files is important. The 8.3 schema is over now ;)On a WinPC I also use TotalCommander (of ghisler.com) to make an advanced search (filename and/or content).
Of course, find&grep under Unixes do that well!I got more than 40Gb of ebooks, pdfs, videos, podcasts, etc. in 4 languages (French, English, German, Spanish) and the sole way to find out quickly is global searching.And constant reorganizing. (With no tool to update, it's a breeze ;))If you prefer a hierarchical way, then using aliases (symbolic links, on unixes, but since Win7 you can also create links under windoze) can be an alternative to have multiple entries of the same files in your "database" of filenames, making possible to have "NoSQL for dummies" in "RDBMS" as well as "BigData" and "books for beginners" categories.P.S. I work on documentation systems since 1984.
Full text indexing is probably the best solution.Madmarsu
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How true hackers write JavaScript
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ITT: People losing their shit over 149 lines of basic JavaScript code.
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Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
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That site is horrible. It autoplays some loud video that talks about Sam Neil. Nearly made me jump out of my seat.
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Not Lisp again (2009)
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I wish so much that I had known about lisp in college. I only knew Java, C++, Javascript, and Python.
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Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
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Facebook's Achilles's Heel is it doesn't know the strength of your connections. There's lots of data points, but they currently do a poor job of parsing them. Unfortunately given their recent privacy struggles it may be difficult for them to leverage their dataset to answer that question without driving off users.
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I'm going to work full-time on free software
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I saw your website last year and thought your projects were intriguing. Congrats on being able to do it full time!
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Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2
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> Fully dynamic global illumination using path tracing, with raytraced shadows, glossy reflections and one bounce of indirect lighting.I wonder how different two, three and four bounces of indirect lighting would make it look.Would be super interesting to see a side-by-side comparison.
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How Diablo Was Reverse-Engineered Without Source Code [video]
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Ah, the good old mpq files... I remember extracting sound/music from Warcraft 3 and using them as ringtones.
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I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is
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anecdotal evidence ahead ...I wanted to be a data scientist at a top tech company, so I did as Hanif did, and went to the data on LinkedIn. my search was more specific - only data scientists at top tech firms, and is also a very tiny sample.But first, my situation at the time:
Masters in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. strong database, AWS, spark, and python skills. worked in a social media research lab that looked social media impacts on health, mostly did NLP involving twitter and health outcome data. Coauthored a paper that ended up in JAMA (journal of american medical association). Eventually I got what I wanted, but it wasn't easy.TLDNR:- message recruiters directly- find a way of showing them you are a good candidate beyond your resume - I found kaggle was really helpful, I recommend it.- be careful of getting pigeonholed out of DS positions by recruiters. your LinkedIn should speak 'I am a data scientist at heart'- be prepared to fail interviews and learn from mistakes- study stats (youtube,books), coding (leet code), and SQL (leet code?)Findings:
Degree - Need masters or PHD.
Major - Statistics or some version of it was most common and MBA's at top MBA programs 2nd, Computer Science very rare. why MBAs? probably because those programs had wonderful stats programs.
School - Top schools are very important.
previous job - Intern at a top tech company. Intern as a data scientist hugely beneficial. Next most important feature was whether the previous positions was data scientist. Not data backed, but I would argue that becoming a data engineer to get adjacent skills is a bad strategy. DE are highly needed, a recruiter will put you on DE loops, not DS ones. I feel like data analysts also struggle to become DS.I thought my situation was at least somewhat ideal, but I was not getting interviews. 0. Its hard emotionally to not be able to get to where you want without been giving a chance, just got to keep trying. Findings helped me realize (previous job) that I was going to need to go about getting interviews in a more efficient manner.I needed a way of getting attention. the reply rate of websites seems to be 1/50, which is problematic if you want to work for a specific set of companies. I think the best thing to do is to go on LinkedIn, search + recruiter. Message the recruiters directly, they have all the power in setting up phone screens, and they send batches of candidates to open positions hoping some of them will get a role. Now you got their attention, so you also need a way of getting into those batches.An important metric for success was already being what I wanted, so I had to find a way of saying 'I can do this'. I starting spending most of my free time on kaggle, the zillow home price prediction. I finished top 100, which I STRONGLY feel this helped me get interviews. I recommend it. Its a free, zero risk way to get experience and display your passion/skills.Next, I got some phone screens but failed a few and failed an on site. Technical phone screens are either stats, coding, or SQL - never been asked ML questions. Sometimes I failed coding questions, sometimes I failed stat questions. I addressed this by studying lots of stats (YouTube was very helpful) and coding (leet code). I already had years of SQL experience, so those questions were always easy for me but be prepared to answer the histogram question. I had some recruiters tell me in initial phone screen 'even though you applied to a data science position, we think you would be a better match for this data engineering position instead'. ouch, I realized my LinkedIn and resume looked very DE like because of my years as a database administrator and I added lots of spark/HIVE to my resume because I saw that on most DS postings. Its important, but don't over highlight the wrong things. I politely declined and kept trying.Eventually I got exactly what I wanted, and I am very happy for it. It took me 2 years after graduation to get there, and I had failures at all parts of the process. I know it sounds cliche, but keep trying is my best advice.
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Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
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Only a matter of time before they go after Cheeseburgers and Cola.And the consequences... It's isn't safer product. It's price hikes, less choice and higher taxes -- and a few extra parasites making bank.
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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
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The write-up is so amazing. The animated diagrams are so amazing too. I wonder how many weeks it would have taken to create such a write-up.
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Rejected from YC (Again)
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Meh, YC is so 2010.
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Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
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Here's a really great introduction to CT for the non-mathematically inclined:Lawvere and Schanuel. "Conceptual mathematics: a first introduction to categories." Cambridge University Press, 2009.The authors are two of the "founders" of the subject, so don't be fooled by the elementary appearance of this book.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
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Ampolon Ventures | Senior UX/UI Designer | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | Full Time | https://apply.workable.com/ampolon/j/E40776A17AEsenio is an early stage E-Health startup out of Berlin. We connect families and health care service providers around elderly in need of permanent care. Families and nurses are constantly at the edge of their capabilities. Esenio is a management and service platform to simplify, enhance and automate many of the organisational processes in care-giving.As the design lead you will be involved in all activities around product ideation, customer interviews, testing and development. You will take part in defining and refining our missions, identify the best course of action, and have the autonomy to execute your vision on how to reach our ambitious goals.
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I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS
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What about RDP would that be a possibility?
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How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy
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This is a very interesting article.I particularly liked the insight that currency stability may be desirable for the most successful economies but undesirable for the least successful.Being in the cryptocurrency space, I can see how this also plays out on a much smaller scale as well. When your community is made up of nobodies, one of the few advantages that you have is that your cryptocurrency has more upside potential than established players. This can offset the significant downside of not having a reputation.
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Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
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I still use Usenet (although I would like to find more newsgroups that I may be interested in), and actually only started using it in late 2019 (and read another article posted to Usenet by someone who also did). Usenet is still in use (although maybe not so much compared to before). (Note: I don't use binary newsgroups, and the service I use doesn't include them anyways. That is OK, because it is the text newsgroups that I am interested in.)The flaws they list I think are often not as bad as the alternatives. Additionally, there are mitigations for them, such as kill files, alternative interfaces, etc.I also think that you should continue to use NNTP, both Usenet and otherwise (when making your own newsgroups which are not part of Usenet, I suggest Unusenet to avoid namespace collision; it uses reverse domain names as name spaces, like Java and some other stuff does; and like Usenet it can be federated, but usually isn't). This is a better alternative to mailing lists and web forums, although it is possible to have multiple interfaces to the same messages (you could have web forum, mailing list, and NNTP, all interoperable with each other).I would like to find more Usenet (and/or Unusenet and/or others; I think there is also something called "Rock solid network", apparently?) newsgroups for some stuff I am interested to have, and would like to promote use of NNTP.(I also think that those who make available Usenet archives should implement proper From-munging. The only one I downloaded so far, does not do this.)
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The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2
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don't forget that the title includes the following:"...may be at least partially..."
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Google Is Not God of the Web
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Of cause Google is not God: Money is.
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Firefox 78
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FYI, the 78 update has been pulled off (0) due to a bug (1).[0] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3062694[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649393
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Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
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This is a relatively recent talk that goes over the current ecosystem of Python on the client side:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMT1aImS9Q
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Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work
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Its a government program. Why are people surprised at this point. It literally always happens. Literally every single time.
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Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
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I’d easily pay $100+ for a native macOS client for GMail that is not a poor IMAP substitute like Mail, Thunderbird, or Outlook. But I’ll wait for v1 before I download anything outside of the app store ;)
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Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII
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Maybe this will strenghten Open Source Software
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Assange Trial Day 18
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I think Assange is a journalist, and should not be deported, and agree this trial is bullying with the aim of putting a chilling effect on journalists.But my takeaway is that WikiLeaks was too centralized and anyone who supports it needs to support more decentralized publishing platforms.Although that won’t “solve the problem” of course... decentralized journalists means a set of them can be bought and made into State agents. And decentralized actors can just as easily be made an example of as Assange.But it’s only the fact that the State feels they can control the flow of information that they feel emboldened to commit crimes.I don’t know though. Decentralized systems also facilitate crimes. I have to admit over time my instinct to try to redistribute power down to independent entities feels more and more a leap of faith.Would we be better off governing ourselves in smaller groups? It seems more like an experiment than a belief for me at this point.
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Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
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LPT: In the Netherlands we have cheese slicers. They also work really well on hard, cold butter.
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Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
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Would love to find a search engine that does not give any results from intermediaries like grubhub and yelp. Let me find the restaurants and judge them for myself based on their service
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Show HN: Zfs.rent
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I wish I had the upstream to consider a similar service.
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Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
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No. It would be an ongoing effort, there are plenty of platforms for Linux already and we have more flavors than needed as well
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My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
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> This happened one day while I was transferring a VM image in the hundreds of gigabytes from one server to another using netcat like so:
> ...
> my SSH connections had died yet again. And sshd had taken netcat down with it, killing the transfer midway.As somebody who has experienced the described behaviour, I can empathise because it is super annoying. But this isn't a particular good point with which to illustrate it. If you're doing any sort of work on one or more remote servers that shouldn't be accidentally terminated like a large data transfer, you should be backgrounding it with screen or similar. Even for users without the idel connection dropping as described, the Internet can still fail.
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Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
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This is insane. I don't use either Parler or Gab, but may sign up just to show support for free speech.Enough of the authoritarianism.
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Uber drivers are workers not self employed, Supreme Court rules
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This actually raises questions regarding validity of whole delivery economy. In this article they say about bad working conditions, no insurance, no work hours or vacations. Should the delivery companies be regulated? https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/amp-stori...
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Setting up Starlink
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Amazing that satellite internet can be faster than internet here in (West) London (W9)
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NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report
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Everything boils down whether European aristocracies would like to continue being the vassals of their lords in the United States.I think they still prefer that option and won't change their stance in the near future.
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Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
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This wouldn't be a problem if Apple wasn't the only company allowed to sign iPhone apps.
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Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study
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I wrote a piece here about avoiding bad trips. Maybe it can be useful to someone.
https://www.eleusiniaretreat.com/how-to-avoid-a-bad-trip/
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Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
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please pair it with https://plainoldrecipe.com/ ^^
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Lessons from my PhD
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I do not have a PhD, but this is how I believe professional work should (and probably used to) operate. I’m extremely bored and annoyed by management practices that do nothing but track and assign work. When I started my career, it seemed a like a lot like a PhD described here. It was in space systems, and everybody was responsible for finding a problem to solve independently within the mission requirements. In that scenario, a PhD felt like a waste of time compared to professional work. Today it feels like I sorely need it (or an MBA) to climb the micromanagement hierarchy.Is there such a place today as a professional?
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DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games
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I’m a bit disappointed that the website only focuses on the health aspect, and nothing more gaming related and in-depth, such as:- cheap enemy shots that are almost unavoidable based on reflexes alone, you need to know about them in advance and position yourself properly (Metal Slug games do this sometimes)- overly long boss fights where they have predictable and repeatable attacks, but huge HP pools and intend to wear the player down- intentionally sluggish controls, beyond what could be explained by poor programming; perhaps intended as a way of artificially increasing the difficultyShouldn’t these be considered “dark pattens” too?
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Why won’t anyone teach me math?
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I think math departments are for some reason especially miserable. One of the calc profs at my college wasted a whole class period on "RTFTB" - "read the fucking textbook" after somebody asked a relatively obvious question because of confusion. Have experienced intentionally discouraging practices in other departments of course, and there is something to be said for not telling the hopelessly ill-prepared "you can do it" while failing, but that's not the right way, and seemed particularly egregious in math courses.
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U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline
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Well yes. Because more energy is consumed (EROEI) with corn - all the diesel, pesticides, fertilizer, etc. inputs - than with simply using the gasoline/petroleum.The exact same analysis is true for electricity generated from a nat gas fired generator vs. simply using the nat gas directly, especially for heating. This is why "banning nat gas for new construction" is so ignorant and stupid!
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Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
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If men and women have equal pay, does that mean all fathers should get same amount of paternity leave as women get with maternity leave?
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YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database
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How much of a stretch it is to say that YDB is a competitor to NDB Cluster?
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Compound pejoratives on Reddit
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This fuckshit analysis surprises me, I expected to see fuckshit but I guess folks are not out there using fuckshit as often as me lol.
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Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform
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I'm approaching one thousand hours of play time on lichess. I love lichess. Much respect for it's benevolent dictator, ornicar. Looking forward to another thousand.
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Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
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It would be nice if companies offered free trials without requiring a credit card number. There's really no reason to grab this other than to hope someone forgets to cancel the trial after 3 days and you catch a quick autopay b/c of it.
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American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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Just in time for the newest wave of de-globalization. I’m betting against this , even if it’s sound on other fronts.
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Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
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If you’re the digital equivalent of the Fire Department and shouldn’t refuse service, why are you treating hosting differently?Is it because they can get hosting elsewhere? Well they can get web security elsewhere too, what’s the difference?By the way comparing Cloudflare with the Fire Department is silly, as neither is Cloudflare the only game in town, nor is not having a website life threatening.And if Cloudflare is the last line of defense for free speech, why do they refuse to host the same site?It leaves a bad taste in my mouth for Cloudflare to somehow paint themselves as the good guys in this scenario, at most they’re the Swiss Bank, willing to do business with the despicables.
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Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else
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Here's an odd idea. Imagine being able to limit the overall momentum of a vehicle based on its expected mass. That is, a governor would cause the top speed to max out sooner for heavier vehicles, so owners would have to tolerate being just a bit slower than their more nimble road-mates.Sure, people could fudge with them, just like some do with scooters, but could be tied to penalties in the event of a collision or other traffic enforcement that detects the excess speed. Defaults matter, so the net effect would still be improved safety.
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Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]
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I don’t understand why people get so up in arms about Tether. They are obviously doing illegal/scammy things (fractional reserve, etc), so why don’t people just stop buying Tether because it’s obviously a terrible investment.They’re not exactly killing puppies here, they are just lying about funny internet money. There are plenty of other more reputable stablecoins out there if you insist on holding onto stablecoins for whatever reason instead of US dollars themselves.Usually when you ignore liars they eventually stop talking. Why can’t we just ignore Tether until it goes away?
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This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black
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It’s interesting that they mangle the file. I can see how pantone might be able to control licensing the interpreting and display of the colors, but surely they can’t legally prevent the storage of a simple numeric code.
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Universal Paperclips
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Okay this stole my day as well, but honestly I'm impressed by the creativity and also the performance of the thing
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US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
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Time to purchasing power halving: 9.4 Years
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France bans Office 365 and Google Docs from schools and public administration
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I like the genera idea of not using the big companies and forcing them into compliance but if the France government is anything like the USA gov I can't imagine them running a self-hosted solution like NextCloud at the same level of security, compliance, and reliability that are imposed on MS and Google.
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Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
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google has some of the most inane 'security' measures. one thing it completely doesn't understand is VPNs (despite offering a vpn service itself), failing your login every time you try to enter from a different "location". (despite the device/browser matching, or whatever else there might be.) and "verification option" that is offered is a phone number code, which is offered anyway, even when there's no phone number saved on the account. how is that supposed to work and 'verify' anything (what, can someone having credentials just enter any random phone number to 'verify' and get in?), is unbeknownst to me. it also uses 'additional email address' as a 'verification method' (you could send a code there, or just enter that address), but then again, i don't see how really 'protective' that is, particularly when somebody could just enter anything there. truly, what is the point in that charade, over a regular password. the other thing is how it will not let you add 2fa without setting a phone prompt or phone number first. that is just idiotic. it will refuse to give you this way of security (while it may not be all that great, at least it's definitely something), and pester you for extra emails and numbers. the way that google will seemingly refuse to trust passwords for what they are is just wild and annoying to me.and it seems like it has 'ramped up' its paranoia recently, cause just in the last week, I got forced to change a password on one account over 'suspicious login' (me logging in through the same browser over vpn, and this is while the account has 2fa on), and got a "critical security alert" over a log in from a new browser. "Suspicious attempt to sign in with your password". Yeah, that's just me, google.
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GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
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Here is a dedicated website from the plaintiffs team.
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/Interestingly, Matthew Butterick (of Practical Typography fame) is co-counsel on this. Programmer, lawyer and typesetting expert, damn.
https://matthewbutterick.com/
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Epochalypse
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Can't wait to see what the future holds for unix epoch time. Will we see a new, more advanced system take its place?
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New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
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Everyone thinks that this is a shield but what if I tell you, it could be a sword.Imagine those who want nothing to do with ChatGPT, now has to subscribe to a service to tell whether something is AI generated (for e.g. social media paying to combat spam bot, etc.)But I doubt it's ever going to reliable? Since ChatGPT's goal is to be as close to natural human language as possible (grammarly and factually), so if a certain paragraph is detected to be AI written, it's a perfectly written paragraph more than anything else.Unless they invent some subset of English language that only AI knows.Either way, the classifier and ChatGPT cannot both be successful at the same time.
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The E-Ink Badge
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I absolutely love this. I love the aesthetic and functionality. I might build a couple of these for my daughters to put whatever they want on them.
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We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
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Can podman be used instead of docker on Windows for minkube? Would it work faster than docker in such case?
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Booting Modern Intel CPUs
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This might seem far fetched but a RISC-V take over in a decade or two is imminent even more so looking at the geopolitical vectors and trajectories.
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Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page
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A stupid post
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Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
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The solution to this problem is:
- ban centralized exchanges
- enforce stable coins to have their own coin-to-fiat exchange
- allow only decentralized exchanges that can operate only if they implement some interoperability standards like dex-to-dex bridges
- allow coins on decentralized exchanges only if they implement interoperability standards like blockchain-to-blockchain bridgesNow everybody can safely swap and transfer coins on whatever dex. If they want to cash out, swap again for usdt, then go to usdt official exchange and get your $.
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Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes
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The author's don't seem to recognize that is only very recently that we likely are cataloging most to all magnitude 5 earthquakes. They don't seem to recognize that the completeness of the catalog will be different in different places, the magnitudes may not even be calculated in the same way. For example, the increase in seismicity in the first plot is due to better detections, did they detrend this before doing their analysis? They really don't seem to know anything about how earthquake catalogs are created.Then they create 5 day bins to correlate with the cosmic radiation. If an increase in cosmic radiation would cause an increase in seismicity "to not then 5 sigma" shouldn't it be most obvious in the cumulative count of radiation versus the cumulative count of earthquakes? Why would this only trigger larger magnitude events?Also, since cosmic rays are the cause and the observations of them are global, wouldn't you see a global increase in seismicity? In fact, wouldn't this change in seismicity be long noted by seismologists even without knowing anything about cosmic rays?They also seem to attribute mechanical stress of the crust to electromagnetic forces. Wouldn't you think someone would have noticed that their compass stopped working when an earthquake happens? Or aurora?With such high correlations you would think it would be easier to just shift the cosmic data by 15 days and show how well it all goes together.
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Simple Unix Chat
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UNIX shell is good like that, that you can combine thing in shell scripts and command-line you can make such a combined program, if you are using programs that are designed to support that (unfortunately, too many modern programs don't, although some do).However, is there a race condition with writing to the files? Since it is append mode, I would expect that would prevent other processes overwriting the file, although would it prevent other processes writing in the middle of a line if it gets interrupted? Actually, I don't know.I had made a simple two user chat system with logging using ts, tee, and nc; using a shell script with only a single line of code. This produces two log files, one for sending and one for receiving; however, I can then use cat and sort to interleave the logs into a single log file.
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The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you
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It is unfair for TV broadcasters to use the public spectrum by shutting out the public through encryption. It must be stopped.
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The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
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Hi all, we created this work and are happy to answer any questions!
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Toyota Research claims breakthrough in teaching robots new behaviors
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If this is using gen-AI, I wonder how it "hallucinates" - would that result in jerk movements that could break something or hurt someone?
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4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
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I think there has been some serious misinterpretation of what 'real time' means in the context of this paper; and, possibly, that the researchers have avoided overt clickbait claims because they knew the term 'real time' would do the work for them.This is not some neural codec that can convert any novel or unseen object live, like a kind of 3D YOLO - the paper mentions that it requires up to 24 hours of training on a per case basis.Nothing can be edited, no textures or movements - all you can do is remove people or speed them up or slow them down, and that's been possible in NeRF for a few years now.
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