skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "remixing source images" is a fair characterization of this research. Finding pixel-accurate synthetic images is actually super hard.

That said, yes, it's odd they're posing this as a way to extend game engines, when this entire line of research is interesting (to me) for its potential to be a generalized holographic codec. I'm not qualified to evaluate if this is generalizable, but I would hope these results also indicate a possible way forward for camera-derived footage, where there are not acceptable approaches. But to your point:

>As for the scenes in this demo, I'm pretty sure that structure from motion + mesh reduction + normal mapping can reconstruct the original images almost pixel-perfect, and at 200+ fps on modern GPUs.

I don't agree, we've seen attempts to do generalized photogrammetry as a holographic codec, and the results are poor. Microsoft's HoloCapture is probably the best commercial example, and, well... it ain't pretty. (https://holocap.com/) I think the target should be visual fidelity at parity with good 2D codecs. So there's a long ways to go.

The paucity of data sets may be underselling how hard this is and how advanced NeRF (and other approaches like MPI) are relative to advanced photogrammetry. In particular, approaches that extend to video and work well with the human face are very desirable, but there aren't a lot of datasets to test against. And yet these approaches _are_ significant improvements over photogrammetry; I'm not at liberty to share, but I've seen a demo comparing pure photogrammetry to a neural renderer, and the difference is night and day.

But let me agree with you: yes, we should throw these new representations at difficult subject matter, including reflections, translucency, refraction, subsurface scattering, etc, and see how they do. The original NeRF paper had some wild results for refraction, for example, which hadn't been demonstrated before. And when possible, I'd love to see them with video images of people.

I think we're only a few years away from a functional holographic codec, which is pretty exciting.
Pigeons are able to detect the earth's magnetic field and navigate by it. By occam's razor the disruption of that is a likely scenario.
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I’m curious why you think a Delft like approach wouldn’t work.

1) Mumbai is already suffering from massive space constraints and traffic issues. A trip in a car is usually slower than walking that distance (assuming the infrastructure exists and you can walk without falling into an open pothole).

Mumbai desperately needs more public transport, and needs to add safe biking, also because of #2

2) Mumbai has very few roads per person, and further, it doesn’t have space to build anymore. Besides the fact that this means cars are not sustainable at all in the city, it also means there’s not too much quiet asphalt that would be needed to replace the existing road material.

3) Mumbai already has an excellent public transport infrastructure, especially with buses. That system is currently unworkable because of all the cars clogging the road. If you were to have dedicated bus lanes, and increase service drastically, it would solve most of Mumbai’s transit issues.

4) Cars in Mumbai rarely travel over 30km/h anyways. Just moving usa. Welcome miracle for the most part.
It's very secure from attacks because nobody knows it exists.
Do you use dark background/dark mode? Dust shows a lot more on dark than on bright background while for Haidinger's brush it is the opposite.
React-super-cmd – an open-source Superhuman-like command line for React
Sounds like the Michael Thomas method
> This should be a default feature.

A decade ago. This should have been a default feature a decade ago. Feature phones had QR code readers in the first half of the 00s. QR codes had a worldwide resurgence in the early 10s and now again in the early 20s.

How this is not a default feature is absolutely crazy.
The "password isn't unsafe" isn't actually a problem. All the other conditions are.
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> since pensions work only if the Company or Union is growing and people are there to pay into it.

Only true if it's a "pay-as-you-go" systems:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-as-you-go_pension_plan

Canada's public pension (CPP) used to be this way (like US SS), but was changed in the 1990s and uses investment returns in addition to contributions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#1996_refor...

It is possible to have a practical fund without new contributions. It is after all how the "4% rule" works with private retirement accounts:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_spend-down

You stop contributing at (e.g.) 65 and you can coast on the holdings without putting new money into account.
Seems like an overly negative take. I see no reason not to take the article at face-value here, namely, that MIT & Harvard saw the growing gap between for-profit and not-for-profit online education--and decided to take steps ensure that the latter doesn't fall behind.

It's also pointed out in the article that MIT & Harvard will be investing money into a new non-profit to explore the "next generation" of online learning, which is literally the opposite of "[refocusing] on in-person education", as you hypothesize.
There were definitely some advanced dynamics that are now very hard to replicate. Some of the businesses that have been wiped out (the record store, the book store, the blockbuster joint...) often acted as cultural nexus in very distinctive ways that websites don't really replicate.
There was a time when there were whole books of said numbers and it wasn't a security risk. We've definitely gone wrong with our assumptions somewhere.
> I don't understand the original posters point either though, because providing addicts with clean drugs and access to treatment is the only real way to curb the current fentanyl epidemic.

You are right about that. When I was referring to fentanyl laced heroine, I was talking about black markets. If it's legalized and the production is regulated, then that problem won't occur.
Many people professing to be materialists are actually physicalists. The claim is not that everything that matters is matter. Rather it's that everything that matters is physical state.
Just another way to degrade service for the consumer while saving money on not needing as many wait staff.

Its infurating, they have no way to modify an order or to have your waiter actually know what the fuck you're ordering.
I see status seeking as a constant activity of people around me. The article got me thinking how this is similar in a way to power dynamics in a band of primates, a pecking or dominance order.

I gave my car to my granddaughter a few years ago and decided to not replace it (I live in a small town and like to walk, I can borrow my wife’s car or ask friends to drive places). I often joke to people that I am poor and can’t afford a car. Recently an old friend got upset at this - she started lecturing me on how important maintaining status is.

The reason social media like Facebook is so harmful is that it enables people to paint pictures of their wonderful lives to impress other people rather than simply quietly living wonderful lives. One of the most freeing things in life is realizing that personally that we are not special, that we rely on other people. We don’t have to be great at what we do, just being kind to ourselves and other people is all we need for a happy life.
Cell/internet service.

It’s true you can use a phone as a tablet without internet but it’s also true that very few do.
That’s extremely sexist. I for one am an excellent cook, I’m not a women, and I haven’t been employed for my cooking abilities. I learned to cook because I wasn’t able to experience restaurants. I was tired of the bland boring food my parents made. I started cooking our meals and I would copy from tv shows, magazines. I wanted better food, but couldn’t afford to have it prepared for me so I learned a skill. Any restaurant food is considered a luxury to me. I aggressively budgeted so that I could start going to restaurants as an adult. My cooking abilities only got better when I was able to taste the food that I’d been mimicking for so long. For me a normal family meal cost $20, a single value meal at McDonald’s is $10. So for my family a meal at McDonald’s would be $40 minimum. That increases as the greatly as you transition into sit down meals; where a meal is $15 per person and that’s before tip so $80. How are these not luxury expenses? 1 meal at a restaurant cost as much as 4 at home and those home meals will also produce leftovers for lunches. Before COVID I would eat out 1 times a week with my family and 1-2 times a week for lunch. At that frequency it’s still a lot of money and I have always treated it as a luxury expense that is part food and part entertainment.
Because “extreme left” views don’t involve genocide, xenophobia, sexism, etc.
J0ono0/pinout: generate hardware pinout diagrams
I didn't mean it that way at all. They were intended more like title-quotes than belittling-quotes. Everything I have read / watched on the topic tells me that food science is a really deep and interesting topic that demands expertise in many different areas of chemistry, physics, and engineering all at once! It's why I was so interested to take a course in the first place!
Several of the large chains already have pay at table kiosk's I have always wondered why they just do not have order at table as well...

I am waiting for the first restaurant that only has Cooks and Food Runners with no traditional waitstaff...

This will likely coincide with the removal of tipping as a custom in the US. We will move to kiosk ordering, press a button to get drink refills, pay at the table, and leave.
You were right; I was wrong.

I was thinking of local utilities - which are often run as non-profits (or at a loss). Not a fair comparison.

And even in regard to utilities, I’d need to look into it more.
Why don’t we focus on the problems we can solve today? Cars, power generation, and improve industrial process that emit green house gasses.

We could solve these issues “today” in a sense. Creating new carbon neutral building materials that last as long as current stuff seems like a huge risk.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
I never said it's the cause. Just making an observation.
Mars Rover video and audio has been shared by China
> ouputFormat
Is there a height limit with this method of construction?
It is insane that recruiters send stuff like "WFH 2 days a week!!!". I had one a couple years ago that offered a "perk" of casual Fridays. They have no sense of the real world and what it takes to hires developers.
Ages ago, I dimly recall debug tracing the classloader to see what is actually used. Something about troubleshooting Spring or some such.

Same strategy could be used for "tree shaking"?

I'll ponder how unused functions might be identified (during runtime).
This has the problem where you must trust Newpipe. I'd rather Trust only Fdroid rather than a bunch of individual apps.

I want deterministic builds SOOOOOO bad.
Hey thanks! I'll have to look into this more but would you recommend ext4 or btrfs? I just want something that will last, not necessarily the latest and greatest.
When I used the free trial, the main activity was centered around pasting text from other sources/sites, then marking the words you recognize. To me that's not worth $8/mo, much less $40 at the Premium Plus level. I realize there are a few other features to LingQ but the cost-benefit of the lowest tier didn't make sense to me.

I have free dictionary apps that remember every word that is looked up. I'd rather input those lists into a spaced repetition app and receive essentially the same benefit without paying.
Fun to see these ARM assembly snippets and articles. I remember how I loved the ARM (Archimedes) assembly compared to the 6502 (c64) and 68000 (Amiga) since it was much easier and also had fewer restrictions. Everything was 32 bit and one could add conditional statements to every instruction.

On the other hand the 6502 was actually pretty fun due to its limitations in both memory and 8 bit registers.
Does having an Edx certificate carry any weight on a resume?
It’s not an arbitrary limit, it’s for money laundering risk-monitoring and reporting purposes.
> I tip extra for working hard to keep my meal hot on delivery, water topped up, checking in at appropriate times.

Those are things happen with good management, they have little to do with how hard an individual employee is working at a given time.

Besides the claim wasn't waitstaff gets "extra" tips for working hard, the claim was that waitstaff is tipped because they work hard. Don't move the goalposts.

>I honestly don't understand how you can say tips are not proportional to level of service and how level of service is entirely detached from working hard.

I tip the same if my service is shitty, I am not going to put an individual employee in a position of taking a pay cut when I can't know the exact reason something went wrong. I don't know enough about their operations to be punishing individual employees. Even if I could tell if it were an individual employee's fault, most places pool tips, so I'd be punishing the other employees working at the same time. So everyone gets the same tip from me.

I also simply just don't enjoy LARPing as a lord of my personal fiefdom.

Again, you get good service with good management, simple as that.
Renting is absurdly expensive for any vacation distances. Around a hundred dollars a day, plus mileage (enterprise is, for example, 100 miles per day, and 10¢ for each mile after).

Might as well buy a used car for those prices.
> If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course

Relatively mindless tasks to occupy my hands frees up my brain to focus. If I'm not doing dishes, I'm doodling or playing with a coin or, or...
I'd leave as soon as I could not use the system without connecting to their WiFi, and especially if it required any personal information at all to do so. I have a VPN, but that's just too much.
There is a lot of much deadlier chemicals in the factory near your city, only there is no Greenpeace et. al. crowd chanting how all those chemicals with long, complicated names are dangerous, since they spent all their efforts fighting nuclear energy (for good 50 years).

Thanks to that we are where we are.
If the portable reactors are thorium based - yey!

If they are uranium based - nay!

Thorium based reactors can't cause a meltdown and if something happens they simply shut off, the reaction is self moderated, and if power goes off or it gets too hot the reaction slows down, unlike unranium based where they need control rods to NOT explode.
I’m so old I thought this was going to be about VoIP instead of voice-enabled assistants.
You shouldn't need internet connectivity or a smart phone to view the menu.
Gosh, Justice Thomas. Thank you for telling us that founding fathers and marijuana growers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have changed their original minds. We appreciate you for shepherding us through that long period where a ban was necessary because -- why, exactly?
Microsoft have never exactly had a reputation of security-conscious developments. However you do have a point: building secure software is close to impossible, and that's why we should build software that collects the smallest amount possible of personal information.
> To ensure they're not used as socket puppets.

sock puppets :)

Done much network programming lately?
That’s a worse user experience.
You had to scroll up too. Diabolical.
That is all fine, but then they should find a better way to secure their WiFi Network to allow easy access to the Menu

I.e Not have a captive portal if your only going to the menu, have the captive portal if you want full access to the internet

Clearly they cheaped out on hiring a network company that setup their wifi wrong

If I have jump through a bunch of hurtles to view your menu I am out
> banks are CLOSED 77% of the time! Need to send a wire? 3/4 times bank will be closed

Wait, what ? I have never, ever been unable to pay (aka: send money) regardless of the day/time. Wanna order that sweet RTX 3080 on amazon at 3 AM on a sunday ? Got you covered ! My business is also able to charge (aka: receive money) 24/7/365. It's a 100% uptime from my POV). Just need the app on my phone.

And usually the confirmation takes less than 15 seconds. The few payments I made with bitcoin took around 24 hour to be confirmed (granted I just said, "** it, I'll check tomorrow" after waiting for a few minutes).

In my whole life, I have seen one (1) single Bitcoin brick and mortar "store" (basically, an ATM behind a glass, and some bitcoin swag). Funny enough, it was closed when I was there because I was visiting on a sunday. Compare apple to apple and oranges to oranges.
It's funny you should say this - I just recently was on an airplane with a bunch of folks returning from a big Vegas concrete convention. Eavesdropping a bit here and there, it seemed the topic of "greener" concrete was big. The person in the seat next to me was describing how they recently started using a concrete and steel fiber mix so they could pour less and achieve the same strength and durability - the main "customer pitch" she told me was that it would was a lot greener. No idea if any of that is true, but it was interesting to see how focused on it they all were.
I live the hybrid life, connected media, with the essential data backed up to disconnected USB drives.

Convenience and resilience at the same time.

Also, you need at least two different USB drives, that you back up to in A/B fashion. I prefer to own two separate brands.
I'm sorry, I should have thought of this :(
The city council of Paris has been controlling pigeons population for a while now: https://observers.france24.com/en/20100805-pigeons-paris-pub...
Email has a spam issue. Lots of junk. Lots of false positives for spam.
I would dispute that -- except for iPhones -- almost all the smart phones I've seen sold in Asia are dual SIM.
It's called "Lens" mode in the camera app, and isn't obvious to find, but it's there.
at the moment its engineered to 4 storeys, we know we can go higher but would need to physically test it and we have no requirement right now.
> To whom? This is why you sound entitled.

> you’re complaining

> All of this makes me upset because it sounds extremely insensitive.

> The world is mourning millions of dead

> a bit more empathy.

You're attacking a person for their honest opinion while knowing almost nothing about them, their life etc. In fact you sound angry and insensitive, please keep your emotions under control
The commented out function - if a verbatim copy of deployed code was in fact presented - seems to not include function name and opening brace, but does comment out the function proper and closing brace, which, and it's been a while since I did anything with PHP, would mean a syntax error on run, right?
VirTra is building police simulation training tools to support officers
You could end up paying a fine if the regulatory authority investigates and finds that personal data was exposed (or deleted) due to lack of "appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk"[1].

Relatedly, you can be fined for not telling the regulatory authority about breaches yourself: "In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority competent in accordance with Article 55, unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons."[2]

British Airways[3] for example was fined for inadequate security measures. I also remember a case where some company (cannot quite remember which) itself told the regulator about some security snafu as they should, a snafu that most likely was not exploited. They were still issued a fine but a reduced one because they were very cooperative and most likely no actual damage happened.

There is an enforcement tracker website[4] where you can filter for e.g. "security" in the type column.

But nobody will go to prison for being the victim of a hack, that's just fearmongering by that attacker.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/

[3] https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...

[4] https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
Considering how unique each how is in details that matter to this type of thing I think smart houses will need to evolve to hiring someone to set it up. Sure your device can connect automatically - that is easy - then you need to tell it what room it is in, and what events to respond to. Only some of that can be automated.
Tipping isn’t going away, an entire industry of wage suppression and exploitation is based on it
> or fractional reserve banking

Which is why deposit insurance exists, regulated and mandated by governments. Bank regulators also impose audited capital requirements, reducing the risk that an illiquidity problem (a bank run) becomes an insolvency problem.

Tether has no such guarantees. Since it holds cash and cash-equivalents at far less than a 1:1 ratio compared to its liabilities (issued Tether), participating in the Tether ecosystem is placing an implicit bet that Tether's collateral will remain sound. If it doesn't -- for example if its commercial paper loses value -- then a run on Tether can indeed cause insolvency.
I'm learning Electric Guitar from JustinGuitar website. Justin is a cool teacher. He teach not just about Guitar lessons, but life lessons too.
> The crypto business may adjust and make itself even more accessible to a larger "fool pool".

I’ve been seeing more and more ads recently from various companies advertising how easy it is to open an account to trade crypto and I think this is the reason.
One of the key functions of the mind is which aspects of input to pay attention to and which not to. So I wonder what sensory overload is. You can get sensory overload if there's environmental overload. But otherwise it's like the mind can't discriminate well enough.
don't put any real info on those things beyond like your name ... really.
I expect there will be a lot of comments defending nuclear power, and I agree, it has its place in moving humanity forward to a greener future.

However! I believe that the main benefit of central nuclear plants, is there ability to keep poisonous materials in a single location, so that it doesn't get lost.

For example, the radioactive sources used in radiotherapy units, have been known to go missing due to negligent owners, with truly awful effects to those that discover them without realizing that they are. This short video sums it up pretty well:

- The Samut Prakan Radiation Accident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxktLtVEH7U
- The Goiania Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhL0xQzPSy8

Once the radioactive material is released from a safe container, the cleanup effort to discover and contain it is immense.

And herein lies the problem, it only takes one or two events like this to cause an extreme amount of damage. And its not a problem with the technology, its a problem with human beings. We're forgetful, lazy, and make mistakes. So widespread deployment of many radioactive sources really increases the complexity and cost of keeping track of them.
I am sorry you live in an area that does not respect freedom.

Around here in door dining was only closed for a couple of weeks maybe a month or so. Then it was 50% capacity for a few months, then 75%, and we have been fully open for in door dinning for several months now
> More than that, the idea that communicating via metaphor is necessarily dangerous and misleading seems wrong.

Thank you for this point. I think this is one of the gaps in science communication.