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adampk··on Chess is just poker now
Somewhere you can easily analize the results /s
adampk··on Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
I believe the subreddit chose the mod that would present on Fox news. So I do not think that it was Fox News that did the spotlighting.
adampk··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
The options you are considering seem to be putting over bypassing MFA is:

- hire more dealers ($$$$$$$$$) - staff an IT group that is open 24/7 ($$$$$$$$$) - bypassing MFA ($)

Not sure if you are being serious that the other options are comparable to the 3rd for a business

adampk··on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook
yes
adampk··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
10/10

the most amount of exformation possible

https://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-exf1.htm

adampk··on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
honestly sounds like you're having a great time lol
adampk··on SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
Wouldn’t a counter point be that the CEO’s behavior filtering out employees that care about Tweets deeply be positive?

Knowing that people like you with your reasons for not working there are not present and harassing people towards your view point could be a recruitment draw no?

adampk··on Google Interview Warmup
I guess I am missing the reference to machines in the comment and all I see being satirized is an interview process.
adampk··on Google Interview Warmup
I can't figure out the insight of this comment? Ostensibly it is meant to reveal how misanthropic this approach is, but what I see being defined is: an organization trying to find talent that agrees with their perspective and 2-sided at-will employment?

"Yes, be a good trained puppy! Make a reservation to be able to get into the restaurant. Read the menu, then order an entree. Then eat the food the chef made just for you. Chew it allllll up." I guess you can make any banal activity seem misanthropic with this tone?

adampk··on Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire
Everyone is hooked on the "get rich quick" highs that have been available for the past 7 years

- crypto - meme stocks - NFTs

There needs to be another innovation where hype can build around some narrative so people can get rich quick. Web3 has terrific product-market fit.

adampk··on For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit
Is this not captured by “voting with your feet” by choosing to work there/leave there?

(This of course does not apply to the very disadvantaged)

adampk··on For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit
Ah I think we got to the core thank you.

You believe that when you join an organization you automatically have a say in how it is run.

adampk··on For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit
In this hypothetical I thought we were talking about a founder-operator. It seems like your point does not work in this case?
adampk··on For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit
Again, I am not trying to to defend the counter but am I missing something or is there quit a large logical gap in your hypothetical?

I assume if I am doing the hiring, then I will also be responsible for the additional hiring/firing, selecting the right talent, choosing the right way to compete against existing product/services? Is that not continued activity as I grow my start-up into a category-defining enterprise? How to allocate that profit, into R&D, more people, sales, etc, aka growing a company?

Then after doing that for 10 years that company is now worth billions of dollars and I own it. I don't see where in this chain I have done the exploiting?

adampk··on For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit
If a founder starts a company, a company that builds a very helpful product and service, hires employees and pays them creating jobs and ways for them to work on interesting problems, I am not trying to defend the other side of your point, I just honestly don't see where the "exploitation" comes into play?
adampk··on Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
I have thought about why it is much harder to follow the general best practice of Unity Tests + Automated Tests we find in web development and I think it is because the amount of "state" a video game has.

In the web we have our cursor and it clicks on an element. In video game design the character can widely vary when it interacts with an element such as a "door".

The classic "why doors are hard" might explain why having a "regression suite for happy paths" might be near-impossible.

Though that the core reason for using the Entity, Component, Systems (ECS) in their coming Data Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) it does help create far more maintainable code.

https://www.vox.com/videos/22661048/video-game-development-d...

https://unity.com/dots

adampk··on Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
Does anyone know if this can finally be a treatment for tinnitus? I would love to hear silence again.
adampk··on As inflation soars, how is Arizona iced tea still 99 cents?
If you report the store Arizona will tell the store to sell at .99$ or they will stop supplying the store.
adampk··on Michelle Yeoh, martial arts and the multiverse: inside the year’s wildest movie
This might be the best movie made in my lifetime. Can not recommend it enough. Might have raised the bar for movies as as an art form.
adampk··on David Deutsch’s Constructor Theory
It seems like a good sign if these new theories by these big brains (Wolfram/Deutsch) seem to have the same foundational concept of "sequence"?

Weinstein's doesn't seem to have the same basis

adampk··on Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics
Not sure if you were actually kidding, but honestly is it something to start considering as an answer to Fermi’s Paradox?
adampk··on Startup failure stories: 20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost (2021)
It seems like the author was hit with a terrible case of bike shedding that lasted 2 years.

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding

Instead of tackling the hard problem (creating a "meeting screen" that actually delivers end user-value) the author tackled the easy problem (setting up infrastructure and documentation).

The illusion of progress is hard to to give up.

adampk··on Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game
This is great thank you much appreciated!
adampk··on Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game
If you don’t mind a digression for someone who needs help…

What is the architecture pattern of a trading platform?

I am looking to build a system that is able to: - receive 1000s incoming streams of data - save the data - make data available to live subscribers

The closest analogous system I can think of is bond/stock/commodity/etc price subscriptions for traders.

I feel like this many in - many out data stream architecture should be solved by now and I rather not start from scratch in architecture and technology choices.

I can’t find the right phrase to even google to get started.

adampk··on RealityScan Beta: Mobile Photogrammetry
What types of features are you using for the SfM pipeline?

Algorithmic (SIFT) or ML based?

adampk··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Preach!
adampk··on YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite
That is a big ask for someone that probably doesn't want all that noise in their life?
adampk··on YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite
It seems like health tech is the most "scammable" vertical, or is most "scam-prone"? (scam might be a strong word, bs maybe more accurate?)

Maybe it is because health-insurance billing is already so opaque and error-prone it provides cover for questionable services. Also, if the service is "free" to end-users (because it is covered by health insurance) then why not try anything in the name of self-health?

It seems the most sanctioned vertical to fake-it-till-you-make-it till you hit critical mass and then you are too big to fail because big SV names have already anointed you a winner.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-inside-story-of-...

adampk··on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
Not technical but the self-knowledge of how to put yourself in a productive state. Knowing how to sleep well, eat well, exercise well to allow yourself to perform at a sustained high-level.

Someone may be more technically competent at a problem-space (at the start), but if you are able to work diligently at the problem over a sustained period, you will have 10x better results than those who crash/burnout/lose interest/try to sprint to the finish.

adampk··on Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
I am surprised that the team didn't choose to add the "Fusion" append at the end.

This seems to fit into the genealogy of KinectFusion, ElasticFusion, BundleFusion, etc.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... https://www.imperial.ac.uk/dyson-robotics-lab/downloads/elas... https://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/bundlefusion/

Very impressive work. I have not seen any use cases for online 3D reconstruction unfortunately. 6D.ai made terrific progress in this tech but also could not find great use cases for online reconstruction and ended up having to sell to Niantic.

Seems like what people want, if they want 3D reconstruction, is extremely high-fidelity scans (a la Matterport) and are willing to wait for the model. Unfortunately TSDF approach create a "slimey" end look which isn't usually what people are after if they want an accurate 3D reconstruction.

It SEEMS like online 3D reconstruction would be helpful, but I have yet to see a use case for "online"...

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