skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've got a whole bunch of features in their viewer, making a feature matching viewer would take years. The basic technology is a tree of JSON files describing what models or other JSON files to load for regions of space. So the nodes are JSON files and the leaves are 3d models basically. There's a simple algorithm that you give your current perspective (i.e. where you are in space, and what direction you're looking in) that will walk the tree and decide what models will be in your field of view and which won't be, and at what distance (which decides the level of detail). Then the last step is simply downloading those models, while at the same time evicting irrelevant 3d models from your gpu.

They hand rolled an entire high performance 3D engine in Javascript, which is a big challenge in and of itself. We cheated by using WASM and a high performance programming language, making the 3D engine part trivial. Likewise, I'd be surprised if it took them more than a week or two to get their initial proof of concept working in Unreal Engine.

Oh and I believe their business model is/was to sell hosting and processing for the 3D models. We've been paying them a couple hundred per month just for this service.
Honey, I shrunk the Arduino core
For non-app websites, so in other words for "static websites", I have worked in the last 15 years with many technologies.

First j was in love with server side rendering. Mostly it was PHP in many flavors. For projects I had full control over I even built custo frameworks. Then I tried server side rendering in nodejs with frameworks such as react-server. I must say that the overheads were not worth in my experience.

I also tried client side rendering with js frameworks such as angular (v. >= 2) and react, but to be fully honest that was a not idea solution for "static websites".

Lately I've combined all these experiences and I've built my own static web site builder, YASSB (https://yassb-foss.github.io/). I've built it combining what felt tome like the best features of all the above. In short:

- websites are pre-rendered and served as static websites

- pages are composed with reusable components, these can be simple HTML components or can be rendered with js.
Yes. Monoclonal antibodies are single antibodies that are produced at scale. Regeneron has 2 mABs that they mix to create a cocktail. Your immune system generated a polyclonal antibody response, which is to say it creates a multitude of different antibodies against the virus. If most aren’t great, that’s fine as long as one is good enough. If a few work together to neutralize the virus, that’s also fine. If you can identify one of those antibodies as especially good, you can then clone it and make a bunch of it artificially, hence “monoclonal”.
If GAAP earnings were the same as taxable earnings at least a company would have to go convince Wall Street. As it stands a company can tell Wall Street its wildly profitable and the IRS it makes nothing.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. Call Them Tech Frenemies for Life
Study: Keep craft beer cool and drink in three months for best flavor (2019)
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Blaming porn is like blaming cheeseburger for obesity. While you're not wrong but it's hardly the root cause.
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That is just a very terrible idea.
If a war on drugs has taught us anything, a war on porn is going to lead to far worse porn being spread further than ever before while innocent lives are ruined, much like how teenagers are already being charged as adults for sexting while not adults. There are likely places the law can be improved but a blanket ban would be a large step backwards even if we ignore freedom of speech implications.
Same here with Docker Desktop for Windows.

Unless you have a Linux-based operating system, Docker behaves very poorly.

NB: The Hyper-V backend behave a bit less poorly than the WSL backend.

I've found that Docker Desktop uses a lot of Disk I/O whenever you use volumes, or pull an image, or anything else that touch the hard drive.
Interesting, I was using SingleFile myself, will have to look into the differences...
> They're doing their best to police a giant platform that everyone in the world wants to use and abuse.

[citation needed]
Especially with environments where anyone can upload anything without proof of consent. Essentially you have a system where producing and distributing this regardless of consideration is maximized. However, even if pornhub et al. required proof of consent for every video it would still likely lead to many situations where the actor was "willing" for bad reasons which will play out over time with an increasingly negative effect.

As I get older I'm expecting more and more to have a future generation look at our with quite a dark opinion.
Eurovision may be more for laughs today, but I believe it historically had a different position?

From watching it in the 90's as a child, I don't remember it being near as crazy as today, and they started in the 1950's
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How do you find interesting Open source projects?
What a shitty attitude. Once a victim, forever a victim? I propose to you a simple yet powerful idea: Shit happens, get over it. Life goes on. New experiences.
Hmm, I might be confusing with Opera ?
> They're doing their best to police a giant platform that everyone in the world wants to use and abuse.

It doesn’t really sound like they’re doing their best though, when they offer an aggressive content take-down service to their paying customers but not to victims of exploitation from whom they’ve (knowingly or unknowingly) profited.
Wavenumber
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Right now I'm really enjoying building this way:

1) React/Next.js front-end app
2) Lumen (PHP) for the API

Maybe not novel per se, but highly performant and effective.
> Since the bigger network contains the smaller network, it is perfectly capable of achieving the same performance, so the only reason why this does not happen is that SGD cannot find it.

This is maybe true in the limit of infinite data, but not true in any practical sense, and I don't think it has anything to do with SGD. E.g. polynomial basis functions also have this property, but you can't use an arbitrarily large polynomial order or you'll eventually overfit. You can get a closed-form solution for polynomial regression problems, so no SGD involved.
Several of us from the UniFi team went to competitors but we're focused more on enterprise.

We always thought MikroTik was one of the biggest competitors for low cost equipment. Our main advantage was the UBNT community and having famous supporters like Troy Hunt which MikroTik didn't have. The community fell apart after the redesign killed it and I don't think people like Troy Hunt will endorse Ubiquiti now so it should be interesting to watch what comes next
Google do have to comply with EUs right to be forgotten, but I don’t know how they deal with images.

Your right that we really can’t remove stuff fast enough. There will almost always be a copy somewhere.
There has been decline before 1990, but the drop in fertility between 1990 and 2000 is very pronounced.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

Economic crash in Poland, Czechia or Hungry was nowhere near to what was happening in Ukraine and Russia [0].

Also, after crash in 1990 Polish GDP was growing each year until 2020, but fertility rates keep on dropping until 2004. Then they stabilized below replacement rate.

GDP can not explain changes in fertility rate. There were cultural changes happening that had bigger impact.

[0] https://n-22-3.dcs.redcdn.pl/file/o2/tvn/web-content/m/orig/...
Most non-technical people I know opt for iPhones because they know they can use them for 5-6 years with 1-2 battery swaps (that costs 30 EUR where I live). And for display quality.

I keep hearing this adage of "iPhone as a status symbol" and I have legitimately never in my life seen it. Only ever saw people on the internet talking about it.

An anecdotal data point for you, if it's useful.
The article pretty clearly indicates that they're not "doing their best":

> Kevin responded again, insisting that Pornhub “can NOT” remove content from other sites. However, that doesn’t seem to be completely accurate. Pornhub offers something called its “exclusive model program,” which promises that it will send takedown notices to any website to “help protect your content from being uploaded to other websites.”

The logical step here would seem to be to extend that takedown program to victims as well as their models.
>All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go.

Its a promise about the future. Read the last paragraph:

>The future use of these features without supervision is dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving capabilities are introduced, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates."

Beside, from the video, I don't see the need to be "hyper-vigilant", yes you do need to pay attention, which is recommend by tesla, but far from being hyper-vigilant.
Such as flue gases from fertiliser, cement, steel and power plants ... which make up a sizeable chunk of our emissions.

We should be targeting CO2 capture at point-sources wherever possible. Why wait until it's diffused into the atmosphere before trying to capture it?
I'm very bullish on the entire sector. One incumbent vs startup story to watch in the AI accelerator space is NVidia vs Lightmatter, If they can realize the cost savings of photonic computing it looks like a 5-7x improvement. NVidia's Megatron trillion parameter language model requires astounding compute capabilities: 3000+ A100 GPUs, And while I don't see GPU dominance retreating through 2024 at least, as we get into universal translation and global parallel corpora by the end of the decade, the limits become apparent. And it probably won't be talent, design or money that becomes the bottleneck. But the relative difficulty of working with photonic crystals compared to the low hanging fruit of silicon that has provided such a bounteous harvest for the last 70 years.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM
Can you guess what the _global_ in the name means?

I mean it's not called federal global minimum corporate tax rate.
From the OP:

> Caring about who gets the credit more than successfully creating change is not a good look.

So yeah, the author is disingenuous at best.

Another point where they pretend not to see the benefits: Free Software and specifically copyleft has succeeded in getting so many manufacturers to publish their kernel source code, opening the door for bringing more freedom to a bunch of people using their technological devices today (eg. all the ROMs for phones and IoT devices).

And the attempt to highlight the "metonymy" (you know they are bullshitting as soon as they start using terms unfamiliar to the masses) in "free press" but argue against "free software" standing for "software that can be freely used" is very hypocritical too. Righto, who is this "the speech" in "free speech" (alluding to their use of "the software" group).

I've given up reading at that point because it's a post by someone bitter focusing on an unproven premise (how a political ideology has failed if there is no change in leadership for more than 10 years — maybe it's because centralised leadership is not necessary to achieve it ;-)).

Anyway, language is free for people to adapt to their needs, and no amount of elitist grammatical nitpicking will ever change that.
While I'm not a big fan of some decisions the team made when building the CDK (the whole class/context stuff feels very un-javascript-y), it was the first project where I appreciated TypeScript over JavaScript.
You will never know. There is simply no reason for anyone to disclose this kind of embarrassing information.
It's much more restricted than html, even less support for animations than pdf.
"Better" would be a fair summary [0].

The original quip was an application of Conway's law, in that if you have a rigid, hierarchical organization with lots of bureaucracy, you're probably not going to get great software out the other side.

At least for consumer devices. You might make exemplary software for other rigid, hierarchical enterprises.

It's nothing against Koreans. It's everything against how Korea has organized its corporate culture, even if it's making efforts to change that.

[0] https://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-One-UI-3.0-android-1...
Why not just tax any sale of a stock or a divident payout in the country of the company, - not the country of owner of said stock? These operations have to go through country of company anyway...
This statement becomes less true if you take into effect entitlement and assistance programs in the US atleast.
I work at a startup that uses Oracle just for that reason; banks care about that kind of stuff. Auditors will ask basic questions like, "is their data consistent". If the tech team gives the auditors a spaghetti diagram of how their data might be eventually consistent, they'll face an uphill battle being acquired.
At that time journalists couldnt just throw together three paragraphs and throw them in an eyeball pit in the hope they might trap someone with a clickbait title.
I cant speak to ASP and PHP. I've programmed .NET in Mono a little, back on the Aurora OpenSim client (emphasize a little). I can see that reaction to .NET, I had the same reaction to folks who liked DCOM.

Node and Ruby can be used to create pragmatic programs though, but those are typically created by programmers that came to those language from other, more typed, languages. Once you have three or more languages under your belt you start to look for and find each language's pitfalls and architecture astronautics - every language has them. Every language shapes the mind of someone who learns, none more so than the first language you learn. Some anti-idiom pitfalls are found in multiple languages: monkey patching, everything exposed as getters/setters rather than exposing the behavior, AbstractFactoryServiceClientFactory, etc.

However, I don't consider abstraction a dirty word. It has its place, if not overused. I try though to use what I call the 2-4 principle.

I have either 2 levels of abstraction (interface-implementation), or 3 (Abstract, Logical, Concrete) or 4 (Abstract, Logical, Concrete, Functional), and no more. I also try to use the lowest number of levels that makes sense. The You Ain't Going To Need It (YAGNI) principle goes hand in hand with this. I will go back and look at old code to see what I could have done better. Where I've gone wrong with abstraction is usually due to premature anticipation of future architecture.
> why couldn’t PH just remove the thumbnails so they couldn’t be indexed anymore?

> Kevin responded again, insisting that Pornhub “can NOT” remove content from other sites. However, that doesn’t seem to be completely accurate. Pornhub offers something called its “exclusive model program,” which promises that it will send takedown notices to any website to “help protect your content from being uploaded to other websites.”

I am not sure that PornHub actually hosts those thumbnails or necessarily controls them. Sending a takedown notice indicates to me that they don't control that content. They would just be requesting removal.
Even if they did remove it, how long would it take for google to remove their copy? That's why it's better to have an on-demand mechanism to remove content.
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I worked there and I didn't even understand why we had to force cloud logins on Dream Machine. In the early days we were all about letting people run their own controller hardware and not requiring cloud logins. No one could ever tell us why we had to force everyone to the cloud. It was a mandate from above
Who had a rapidly reusable first stage 30 years ago?

And how is it questionable? They've got the cheapest (for their class) launch prices in the world.
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Indeed but the view that survived from so long ago isn't coming from the "regular folks" but from a selection of people closer or fully a part of the elite. They're the people who could pass their ideas and experiences through the time. It's more or less like reading Bezos' journal two centuries from now and imagining that it's probably a representative way of life for the early 21st century.
What I don’t see clearly addressed here is whether the test data that these networks are validated against are part of the larger data set that was used for the initial training. I’m guessing the validation data is usually from the same data set, in which case it’s not really a surprise that a massively overfitted network would work pretty well against. Whereas some alternative data set produced by different people under even slightly different conditions will introduce many new unexpected variables that the network won’t be equipped to handle, and that’s when the “overfitting” to the original data set would be more obvious. But I’m going to guess that in practice, useful datasets vary so much that it’s impractical to do this sort of cross checking (and in reality it wouldn’t happen because you don’t want to publish a negative result).
No. My house predates the widespread use of expanded metal mesh style of lath. Just the old wood strip lath and thick, horsehair plaster.
Can anyone provide an update on the state of open-source transcription packages, with language models? I'd love to have the equivalent of spaCy, gensim, Stanford NLP, or NLTK, but for transcription. That is, packages that will just work at quality comparable to cloud transcription APIs if you generally know what you're doing but maybe don't keep up with the latest literature.
The original site seems to be offline now, but for reference, Amazon's anti-union propaganda website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210301090641/https://www.doitw...
There are countries where porn is blocked. VPN software is very popular in those countries.
The real gem of this article -- is its chart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commutative_diagram_of_ha...

And the following terms it defines:

o Linear Wavenumber

o Angular Wavenumber

o Linear Frequency

o Angular Frequency

o Linear Wavelength

o Angular Wavelength

o Linear Period

o Angular Period

Also...

The next time someone uses the word "Frequency", "Wavenumber", "Period" or "Wavelength" on you -- your immediate follow-up question should be:

Linear or Angular?

?
>In the mobile space the underdog is Google

Doesn't Android have 70% market share? I don't follow how they're the underdog, surely they're more like Microsoft in this comparison.
The government takes tax from the same amount of money twice. How is that not well described by the term "double taxation"?
With beer it's a bit special, because beers you didn't pay for have some freedom: they can decide to leave your stomach even against your will back the way they came :D

But if you paid for it, they ain't allowed to, of course.
I don't see why non-consensual gore isn't treated the same as child porn.

Both are done without consent.

Both require someone to be hurt to be created.

Both either have a victim who is dead or who is harmed by the continue spread of the video for entertainment purposes.

Both cross the threshold for obscenity.

Political and historical exceptions would still apply, just like the photo taken of Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack is legal since it serves significant political and historic significance, despite it being a literal picture of a naked child being harmed.
You're right, fast food is probably not the primary offender, and there are many causes (HFCS, seed oils, not cooking, abundance in general), and future is overdetermined... but fast food definitely carries some responsibility for the obesity epidemic.

Same with porn and Pornhub. But it is the mental tobacco of our time.
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Have to pad those word counts when you're paid for length. If you don't have eyeballs on your website for X amount of time per visit, how are advertisers to know they got their money's worth?
You can say the same of Google in this instance
I probably owe my career to this library. It’s been the enabler for geospatial analysis for a lot of people.
Yes, we now have what everyone fought for in the 00s - browser support for web standards - as well as full ES6 support yet here we are with front-end devs falling like flies from burnout. It's like CPU speed bumps - all we do is just invent more complexity to whittle away the gains we've made. Makes me just want to revert to procedural PHP and jQuery/vanailla JS.
I had an S4 then a G4 and then a S8 and never looked back. I'm now on the S20+. The jump from the S4/G4 to the S8 was such a massive one it felt like it was a whole new experience. The only thing that would convince me to switch from Samsung is if Google got its act together and built a real flagship complete with all the bells and whistles.

Samsung, for me, just works. It's a bit obnoxious to have doubles of apps, but otherwise I don't have a lot of problems. It's funny you mention Bixby key because none of those phones you listed have one - I supposed you could argue the S20 does, but the first thing I did was remap (using Samsung's built in controls) it back to the power button and I was on my way. I'm only reminded that Bixby is a thing when people complain about it.
Consumption is the underlying driver but emissions is definitely the biggest 'base' threat.

Acidification (from CO2) and temperature (from CO2) rise would continue to lead to collapses of fish stocks even if we stopped trawling the oceans.
I'm doing Fullstack with Angular + Spring Boot Kotlin.

I love writing the backend but the frontend part really seems overly complex.

In the end I'm just mirroring my data from the backend on the frontend, having to maintain two models, mapping the json to an object and then inputing that data into another component where it gets displayed. For example I tried to create a generic edit component but without reflexion it was a huge pain in the butt: https://github.com/tschuehly/DataRecovery/blob/f4003ddebbba7...

I would love to just have an html structure and then just having a template for a component filling it in the backend and sending it to the frontend.
That's helpful, thank you!
> That fact is a serious problem for a theory that claims this cannot happen under such a system.

You are arguing with weakest possible form of argument, no surprise that you can show that it is low quality
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Netflix contribution is really minor compared to real life interactions between Europeans.

When I was a kid in the 90's, people might have some minor connections with someone from a neighboring country, but it was very limited.

Nowadays, businesses are more international, people move move within the EU, people marry internationally, etc. This has WAY more impact than any foreign show that you can see on TV.
No mention of it in the article but can’t charges be brought on the (ex) husband for this? Pornhub definitely owns some of the responsibility but the dude that did this is the bad guy here.
Raptor may have begun development for 8 years but Starship has only been in full development for about 3 years.