skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a paper about a new way of storing/merging 3D data.

The actual 3D reconstruction is so-so, I agree. And they kinda cheat by using ARKit (which uses LIDAR internally) to get good camera poses even if there is little texture.

So the novel part here is that they can immediately merge all the images into a coherent representation of the 3D space, as opposed to first doing bundle adjustment, then doing pairwise depth matching, then doing streak-based depth matching, and then merging the resulting point clouds.

Also, they can use learned 3D shape priors to improve their results. Basically that means "if there is no visible gap, assume the surface is flat". But AFAIK, that's not new.

EDIT: My main criticism of this paper after looking at the source code a bit would be that due to the TSDF, which is like a 3D voxel grid, they need insane amounts of GPU memory, or else the scenes either need to be very small or low resolution. That is most likely also the reason why they reconstruction looks so cartoon-like and is smooth on all corners: They lack the memory to store more high-frequency details.

EDIT2: Mainly, it looks like they managed to reduce the GPU memory consumption of Atlas [1] which is why they can reconstruct larger areas and/or higher resolution. But it's still far less detail than Colmap [2].

[1] https://github.com/magicleap/Atlas

[2] https://colmap.github.io/
My naive solution was going to be to assign the non-internet devices a smaller subnet with a bad gateway, and have all the "bridging" devices have IP addresses in that subnet, but with the real subnet and gateway. I'm sure VLANs are superior, but if you could tell me what's dumb about my idea I would appreciate it.

Meanwhile, do the VLANs allow the "enumerate devices" style multicast to come down from the regular LAN and be responded to?
I think the issue is more that the tools that designers/marketers/salespeople use are moving to cloud solutions that manage versioning internally (figma/google docs/etc). It's harder to do features like multiplayer interfaces in local file-based workflows.

If SVN was so great for these non-developer use-cases, they could all still be using SVN. Just because the devs moved on to git, doesn't mean that SVN was made unavailable to these people. TortiseSVN still makes releases.
Honestly, your first problem you need to solve is getting back home. Google has no way to distinguish between an overseas hacker trying to get into your account vs your current situation. You currently have no way to prove your ownership.

So what I would suggest is to focus on getting home. If you have to borrow money from family or friends or whatever, that's what you do.
It depends on which country you live in and what types of WANs you want. Mine has 2 LTE-A WANs as well as ethernet WANs. It cost $1200 NZD which means it could probably be around $600 USD in the USA.

You can find cheaper models if you only have 1 LTE WAN + 1 ethernet WAN.

I also have a Nighthawk M2 which is an LTE "router" with a battery that has an ethernet port. At one point I had that plugged into the ethernet WAN port so I had 3 LTE modems going at the same time. This is obviously beneficial when there are multiple carriers in the area with their own infrastructure.
The cynic in me suspects it's because insurance companies and employer-provided insurance hasn't completely mucked up the market the way it has with healthcare. Sometimes I wonder if America's "best" (least resistant) path to single-payer healthcare is to start smaller scale with universal coverage for vision & dentistry and then slowly expand coverage from there.
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You pretty much have to deal with big tech to have an app and no social media site can really be big without it. (I know side loading exists on android).

Parler hosting on Amazon was an incredibly dumb decision though.
Wake me when they finally fix the GPU acceleration bug breaking <canvas>
There is an excellent podcast series * that explains that we have in fact been in conflict with Russia for all these years. Grey Zone warfare is when you indirectly fight your opponent, of fight then in such a way that they don't even realise it. Everyone does this as hot wars between nuclear armed powers makes no sense.

* https://news.sky.com/story/into-the-grey-zone-podcast-episod...
In America. The rest of the world doesn't operate that way.
I made the mistake of posting an email address on HN. I get a lot of spam on it now. I know it's because of HN because the email address is hackernews@domain.

It's like a tsunami of spam and phishing emails.
Honestly, it's more so. Greedy loading means that on a slower connection images will load before you scroll to them. If you're lazy loading, the request doesn't kick in until later, so you'll be waiting for images to load.

It's good for mobile devices, since you can save on usage caps (which should be illegal, but that's a digression).
Somehow there's a Google service (I am guessing mobile) that allow you to register
firstl.ast@gmail or f.irstlast@gmail, and then they will both get each other's email. Fundamentally if you allow any account to be created with a dot and without a dot (two accounts), but filter out the dot in the email received, it will cause a problem. The dot is one to one with the account, but filtered out becomes one to many with the email. Nobody seems to notice this logical issue.
Incredibly ignorant statement. An activity can have thousands of data points across dozens of metrics. A record of your route to 1 meter or smaller precision for a 5 hour bike ride is alone thousands of data points. Along with hundreds or thousands of time series points for heart rate, elevation, cadence, power, respiration, etc etc... Millions of activities means tracking tens of billions of data points and perhaps an order of magnitude more than that.
It's going to cost significantly more energy than the aggregate energy output of all fossil fuel burning over the past 200 years to remove the carbon from the atmosphere that was added. Probably several multiples more because it's harder to undo chemical combustion than to do it.

We're probably talking trillions of dollars, not billions.

Much more likely is that we'd invest a few billion in pumping global coolants into the atmosphere, which could be simpler.
Did you set it to install the bootloader on the external drive? I'm not so sure it's a bug as preference to put the bootloader on sda or whatever the first drive is. You can definitely change it.

I've had MacOS kill a day trying to get gdb working but I could never get it properly working with codesign despite following multiple tutorials to do exactly that. I've also had Windows decide to do things like sliently update my tablet rotation driver to one that actually doesn't work with the hardware. They can all be unnecessary time sucks.
bring it on, it'll give me the opportunity to tweak my notmuch filtering
I would think that startups would want to bias for people that can make good decisions quickly, within a short decision time. Perhaps hardware startups want more conservative employees?

Also in my experience, a fabulous candidate is sometimes only available for a very short time window (they either have become available due to unforeseen circumstances, or they are snapped up by a faster mover).

Is six weeks fast in your opinion?
Today is just a large prisoner's dilemma/tragedy of commons.
A neutral web browser is not one that only lets me access politically neutral websites (all five of them), but one that doesn't care what I look at.

In fact, the few times that I've used Yandex were because it is not politically neutral. I was curious whether the results for some queries look different when they're not being filtered through the lens of the American empire. That use case should make Yandex more relevant these days, not less.

(Although, to be honest, the search results were quite boring and normal.)
I always found ORB-SLAM2 pretty impressive, which can map 3D neighborhoods in realtime while you drive around in a car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufvPS5wJAx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrXWH6zRHg
There is a lot wrong with this, seemingly short comment.

Let's begin with the fact that telling people not to vote for who they want to vote is clearly a violation of their right for representation. The USA is a two party system, so you either vote Democrat or you vote Republican. Telling people yo "just stop voting republican" is endorsing a one party system, like China.

Second, people dont actually vote Republican all the time, america has had many Democrat presidents and congressmen, but what is happening? Why aren't changes coming our way? What is the point of not voting republican, hence voting democrats, if nothing actually seems to change!

Here I think it makes sense to introduce the concept of systemic corruption, the modern political system in the USA is completely corrupt and I'm not talking about big sugar paying senators... Though that is corruption, the kind of corruption I'm discussing is much less visible. Its about politicians sustaining a system that empowers their own class (the wealthy). Legalizing lobby, legalizing gerrymandering, etc. Politicians benefit their own, and most people are not their own.

I think it was Einstein himself that once pointed out the pointlessness of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Personally, I think what we need is the introduction of new political forces to the system, and by I mean a much more direct form of democracy, sadly... I dont think this is going to happen in america any time soon.
You need to enable it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204434 > ‘Use your keyboard like a mouse’.
Really? That's it? Bad choices are made by default?

How did caveman society ever survive without a strong police force?
I wonder what is the amortized cost of this robot and how it compares with the wages of the human cooks
One of the big problems is that certain sections of the press will just be hoping for you to fail, and will go over every word with a fine comb to look for something to moan and bitch about in the most bad-faith negative interpretation possible. Furthermore you need to be a renowned expert on any issue, cannot be seen to be thinking about something for more than a nanosecond, cannot hesitate in their answers, etc.

We are asking for too much of our politicians, so they will find ways to cope out of necessity, by limiting the exposure. We all like to think that we'd do better, but after being shafted by twats who call themselves journalists a few times we'd all be doing the same.
I guess we should keep a close watch on the Maldives.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/maldives.html
True, and the US didn’t even properly defeat the Nazis (see, for instance: Adolf Heusinger, Operation Paperclip, and the many Nazis who happened to find themselves in positions of power in West Germany).
Saying no to 2FA SMS is a little harsh. It’s strictly better than 1FA password. What you probably mean is don’t use SMS for account recovery.
Can you imagine any circumstance whatsoever, under which you might develop a habit of stealing things?

Would you like to be committed to a mental institution forever, in that circumstance?
I thought they meant duplicate activities on the Apple Health side. If they can't read what the other services are writing to Apple Health then they have no way of avoiding duplicates.
Auto repair shop adapts captured Russian weapons for local forces
Here's one of them: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-couple-doesnt-kn...
Yeah, I also consider that odd to use LIDAR-based poses and then call it "monocular".
ScrabWordle is basically Wordle but with the added element of having the target word's scrabble score given as a clue. This is a big help as you narrow down which letters can and can't be used.

A strategy is to eliminate/identify many of the 1 point leters and then from there it's easier to figure out which of the higher point value letters to use.
If you have better sources than the NOAA estimates then by all means provide them, all I see is an unsourced claim and an anecdote
> when the US government/military was killing Iraqi and Afghani civilians and destroying non-military targets

The US should not have invaded Iraq for any reason. I would have supported sanctions against the US for those crimes if any country could afford them.

That said, Saddam Hussein's government is not Zelenskyy's government. They're apples and oranges. Ukraine was a functioning democracy that never antagonized Russia.

The war in Afghanistan is a lot more complicated because it was arguably provoked by 9/11 and they didn't (and don't) really have a functioning central state.

> The entire planet should also be isolating Saudi Arabia for its genocidal war in Yemen?

Yes, absolutely.

> Economic warfare kills people just as much as bullets and bombs.

Speaking only about Russia and Ukraine for the last few weeks: bullshit. Russians aren't having pieces of their loved ones sprayed on them by bombs, watching their cities be destroyed, or leaving their lives behind.

Every death, whether in Russia or out, is the fault of its dictator, Vladimir Putin. He is very popular and probably genuinely won his last few elections. It is perfectly fair to blame the Russian people, even though many are brainwashed.

But even if they were all innocent Putin-haters, this lopsided war (economic on one side, violent on the other) is preferable to an all-out war that would kill far more people.
It's not like they would manipulate the data or anything. Why didn't we hear about this two years ago? How convenient. There is currently more data supporting vaccines causing strokes, see VAERS, then not. Pro football players collapsing on the field, celebrities, fainting on live tv, uptick in miscarriages. It's not like we are being unreasonable in asking why. The burden of proof is assuring us that they are safe, which for many of us has not yet been reached.
No worries, perfectly understandable. Emotions are high now. Have a nice day!
I'm waiting to see what Debian does.
A robot
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https://github.com/caffeine-ng/caffeine-ng

Edit: fyi this wasn’t part of your initial complaint. I don’t use caffeine because I want my screen to predictably lock
Here in China they aggressively egress filter since ~15 years ago (source: had an E1 on fiber way back then). You can set caller ID to any number you are assigned and nothing else.
Generally fair advice, but the premise isn't always true.

I've had the funny situation for the last few years of my manager, being the CEO, doesn't like me personally. Most of my managers have, and the issue kind of come down to a culture clash where he's a salesperson and I'm an engineer, and I wouldn't put up with a habit of his of not paying his invoices on time which he's thankfully grown out of.

However he's seen that I deliver at the highest level, and he so he pragmatically keeps sending me projects so he can take his clip (it's a consultancy). This has continued for well over two years and even reached a steady state where I'm pretty sure it could be ongoing if I wanted, however the cost is he's pretty mercenary about it all and has consistently given me rescue projects others have left half finished.

So I basically agree with what you're saying, I think it's true generally. However reality is very complex with lots of individual situations that are out of ordinary.
Engineers don't get to randomly allocate their time like that.
> Apps on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS can now control allowing or preventing web content from using the Fullscreen API.

Too bad Safari still does not offer this as a toggle on iPadOS. I really hate the fullscreen video players on my iPad. They are mostly unusable with touch. Maybe it can be controlled using an Extension?
Yeah. Its exactly like the sort of propaganda in Russia.

Impressive though, how "the West" does all that project management and is capable of coordinating all their lies in so many different languages across so many different cultures and so many different ideologies and religions.

The trap, like always, is in the premise. This isn't Russia vs the West. Like its two superpowers battling.

This is an authoritarian hierarchical regime vs Ukraine. That same regime vs Poland. That same regime vs Finland. The same regime vs "empty sign holders".

The West is not some kind of homogenous blob. The few times all media across all these countries say the same thing, is when the other side is lying pants-on-fire.

They are literally suggesting Greece, Turkey, Germany and Poland are conspiring and coordinating to harm a hasbeen superpower with an economy the size of a potato of which half is energy exports. And the little bit of money they do make is then spend on the military, but due to the corruption, all ends up in apartments in London and yachts in Italy.
Here's a workaround to add an arbitrary non-blessed search engine as the default (i.e. what the omnibar points to):

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-en...

Be aware that in Firefox, the "Search Bar" is a distinct widget from the "Address Bar" (omnibar/"awesomebar"). If it's missing or you can't find it, here's the docs for that UX flow:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...

If you do this, you can (of course) revert your change in about:preferences#search; the new search engine will persist there as an alternate choice.

(Tested and confirmed this works with e.g. Yandex in release version 98.0.1. This patch only removed, essentially, Firefox' promoted or sponsored search engines -- not core functionality. (It also erased and reset user preferences, but that's a separate problem)).
The article's evidence suggests the humans in question were hunting small bushy horses to extinction.
It is difficult to answer your question without much information about all the numbers.

At a high level, you need decide whether you have figured out a product market fit, calculate CAC (customer acquisition cost), Churn rate for monthly vs annual.

If you are still testing your product and are not sure whether you have a fit then I would recommend continue with monthly plan and don't worry about annual plan. You will learn plenty about your product (based on Churn) from monthly subscribers.

If you are past the product market fit stage, annual plan provides you the best option.
a) Average CAC is lower
b) Churn is lower
c) Most importantly, you generate cashflow by getting more money upfront.

There is also the hybrid option you can try, which is annual contract with monthly payments.
There is no link.
>just there to make the food feel freshly made

There's a significant quality difference, even with mass-produced burger patties, cheese and sauce.

Bread and meat don't respond well to the same treatments, and as anyone who's had a service-station pre-prepared sandwich knows - bread absorbs moisture and goes soggy/damp if prepared more than an hour or two before use. With fillings that need to be re-heated it gets worse. There are various ways that they try to fix this, generally by putting more fats/oils on.

IMO I would rather have them prepared separately and combined at purchase time, even if it is the same ingredients that would be on a pre-prepared burger.
> What the actual fuck is going on here?

Medicine is a large topic. It requires many years of memorization, experience, etc., and then it requires continuing education and constant practice. This makes the costs of medicine very high.

There is an opportunity for technology to help lower costs. The opportunity was identified decades ago, when the first work was done on expert systems for medicine.

The problem is that this means that if we succeed at applying technology to lowering the cost of medicine, it will look a lot like patients self-diagnosing. In rich countries we really don't like that. In poor countries self-diagnostics is common.
Click stable. Safari is nowhere close.
US, Germany works. Thank you for the tip with Austria!
eradication hasn’t been realistically possible since early 2020.
Can you share some links about this - I'm looking to establish a land trust in the next couple of years and would love to apply the best engineering and breeding practices
Thanks for sharing this. We are going through a similar organizational shift at $JOB where a large team has been split into several sub-teams that own services. It was valuable to see how you adapted the on-call rotation to this new structure.

On using a public channel for coordinating incident response, we have struggled in the past with stakeholders joining the meeting and offering well intended but ultimately distracting input during the incident. We’ve found it best to have one responder play the role of “incident commander” and manage external communication / rope in more stakeholders as needed. This helps avoid conditions that make the incident even more stressful, like say a member of upper management demanding frequent updates or spreading FUD.
> This is Biden too. Literally can unilaterally start a nuclear war.

So what? What does that have to do with anything?

Biden has never threatened nuclear war and has nothing to gain from it. Putin has threatened it repeatedly in the last few weeks.

Biden is more powerful than Putin, Stalin, or Hitler, but he is not as dangerous.
Well said. We here in the west have to stop pretending we are at the absolute center of truth and justice, and stop silencing all the sensible voices that try to bring attention to our own hypocrisy.
Think of it like crossing an ocean. When the winds are good let out the sails to be propelled along, when the storms come take it the sales and ride out the weather. If you want to do it all under your own steam without a bit of help, well it's a long paddle across an ocean so you will be confined to travelling a short distance in your life.
I'm seeing some people miss the point here, so just to clarify: the part of this that's supposed to be ridiculous isn't the fact that they're deeming postal mail to be secure, but the fact that they're storing passwords in plaintext in their database (and also the fact that they completely miss the nature of this very issue in their reply about postal mail).

I think the title should also be edited to make this clear.
Geology is a funny thing. Those fossils lived 100 million years ago, when Antarctica wasn't even located at the South pole. So, that's a pretty, um, cold comfort.

Found a really neat site for that:

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#105

Also, geological time scales are a bit of a curiosity. Humans are barely a blip. Folks sounding the alarm about climate change are speaking to humans. The Earth will keep turning, and even generalized life on Earth will probably be "fine" as long as we don't tip too far towards a Venus-level greenhouse. Humans might have a rougher go of it.
> will it lower demand for work?

Commoditization of Compliments.

If it's cheaper to make food using automation, then some complimentary component of food service is going to capture some of the dollars saved. For example, we could see food trucks that make your food while en route and the truck pulls up and delivers it fresh.

Or, more simply, we could see commissaries/"ghost kitchens" capable of serving a larger variety of food with fewer people pop up in suburban strip malls. Maybe they could have a rotating menu. A small restaurant like that could pull down a few million in revenue each year even in less populated states, which is more than enough to pay good wages if the number of operators can be kept to <4 people.

Most of them now have several operators making a limited selection of food.
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