skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gaslighting requires analog.

No, no it doesn't. Sometimes the most powerful gas-lighter is oneself. Silence can cause me to gaslight myself. Shit, my boss isn't responding.. is he mad at me? Or fuck, a Zoom meeting at 4 PM on Friday fuck fuck. It must have been that PR.. I thought I removed the creds.. Of course I didn't, I never remember that. Fuck. Again. Damnit. I can't stand to look at it..

Also human communication is more than words and sounds, but expressions, body movement, minor twitches etc. Someone can be terrible at lying or obfuscating the truth in person and write some convincing shit in an email.

People are the problem my friend, not where you work. Your isolation at home, and the ability to force isolation by closing an app, treats the same symptoms but you misidentified the disease.
Why do we need to use a 1 meg-ohm resistor for ESD grounding? (2021)
I miss Black Mirror. Some episodes were hit-n-miss, but many of them made me think. The best part was that each episode was mostly independent of the other.
Terrible POSIX, 50+ years later it's everywhere. Any project can only hope yo be as successful
The overall Element UX is pretty appalling too. It's a good idea in practice, though.
Can it parse a binary file/stream containing heterogeneous binary structures? Documentation seems not that clear regarding this.
Also the structure definition seems to needs compiling, what if there is change of structure at runtime? Can it handle it?

Is it possible to for an application to have editable structures and KaiTai to parse them without needing to recompile the whole application (I'm speaking here in a java context).
I can see this really taking off for football games. You'll be able to look at plays from all angles, zoom in/out, and get to _play_ with the game.
List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss
as someone who works in both AI and filmmaking, I remember losing my mind when this paper was first released a few weeks ago. It's absolute insanity what the folks at Nvidia have managed to accomplish in such a short time. The paper itself[0] is quite dense, but I recommend reading it -- they had to pull some fancy tricks to get performance to be as good as it is!

[0]https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/
Isn’t that the premise of the Amazon series upload
At a past startup we had many employees organize a grassroots effort to make pay transparent by crowdsourcing a big spreadsheet of engineering salaries. What was found emphasized the disparity between the extremes of the pay distribution.

I think it resulted in better pay for the under-performer (that was pushed up towards the middle of the pay distribution) and worse pay for the top-performer (that was forced down). There were benefits to knowing we were all playing on a level field, but I'm not sure I'm in favor of it now.

I felt like I could be a high performer, and I also had visibility into exactly what I'd be making for the next few years if I stayed there. With that info, I started fielding messages from recruiters who offered to pay 20 and 30k more.
There was actually a pre processor that used the characters ᐸ and ᐳ as part of faked generics.
If someone wanted to reimplement ninja and add support for the GNU Make job server, I'd be sold.

https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1139

At a certain scale (i.e. package management and not a mono build system), having a common job server is essential to scaling in a healthy way.
So there is a subtle difference. Take a commission for example. Sounds pretty similar to a bribe right? Difference is, bribe makes for a hostage / preferential treatment situation (give me something extra sweet or else no deal/guarantee), whereas a commission is a cut based upon a predetermined price that a salesmen can't really change (e.g. getting a 2% cut for every car you sell at some dealer). Salesmen can negotiate sell price to some extent, affecting their cut, but they can't make demands to the buyer to pay them an extra side deal first (otherwise, if he does, it's a bribe). The buyer, is free to give him an additional tip if he'd like, after the deal is done, but not if it was coerced prior by the seller.

As far as lobbying, there is still the same difference. If a politician said they would promise to personally do X for someone only if given Y dollars, it's a bribe. Instead, if a politician said they would do X if elected, and some random person heard this and liked their cause and so decided to donate them Y dollars, it's not a bribe, because the politician wasn't going to give preferential treatment due to the donation, and the donor wasn't coerced. And it works in reverse. If a donor said there will be extra X money if you do Y personally for me when elected, it's a bribe. See the difference now?
Five years ago, I've used common software to do this. I had to take hundreds of pictures of a scene, getting as many angles and details possible. Then when you pass it to the computer. Stitching it all together took well beyond 24 hours.

Now that I had a 3d model of the scene, I had to spend countless hours cleaning it up to make sure it was useable. Maybe in the last 5 years, things have improved.

But this demo used 4 pictures. And apparently, it rendered the final image in seconds. That's what's new.
Could just be the lighting on the reconstruction. It's not meant to be photorealistic. It's freaking nuts how they can do this.
Similarly, a diagnosis of in situ prostate cancer means you'll have less risk of dying[1] over the next ten years compared to the rest of your age and race group. Totally not because men who catch these cancers early have good health insurance, regularly see their doctor, and keep up with screening procedures, plus all the other behaviors associated with those personality types.

[1] If you look at the U.S. national statistics, net cancer survival rates top out at 100%. That's because their algorithm doesn't allow any negative values for risk. I think that's enforcing a belief on the data, so I've always calculated it differently. People diagnosed with in situ prostate cancer, in situ testicle cancer, and (IIRC) in situ melanoma all have better survival chances than their peers. Unsurprisingly, all are screenable and easily treated if caught early.
Agreed, although I'd say it's a different type of ownership they had, a better type. Not only did they own the company legally, they also got to make the games they dreamed for. Today, one might be able to lure some technical person with stocks and options, but he or she wouldn't be that devote if he or she does not love the products (that much)
> even bankruptcies usually return some fraction of value to shareholders.

The three issues with that are 1) liquidation preferences, 2) the fact that normal people can only afford to hold an infinitesimal amount of Amazon stock, and 3) (basically) only common stock is available for purchase by normal people. This means while that's technically true, unless you're, eg Jeff Blackburn, you ain't getting shit if Amazon were to close shop and return the money to investors.

Let's say you're holding 100,000 shares of AMZN. At ~$3k per share, that's some $300mm in shares, but with 508.84M shares outstanding, that's a grand total of... 0.02% stake in the company. In an unlikely fire-sale of the company and returning value to shareholders, that could still be worth something, but it's a unreassuringly small number.
Can KaiTai parse a binary file/stream containing heterogeneous binary structures? Documentation seems not that clear regarding this.
Also the structure defenition seems to needs compiling, what if there is change of structure at runtime? Can it handle it?

Is it possible to for an application to have editable structures and KaiTai to parse them without needing to recompile the whole application (I'm speaking here in a java context).
Always curious to see how many people end up with these types of bonuses..... if n<1000, n<100, or n<10?
I know when doing typical 2D video based rotoscoping it is possible to use frames from before/after the current frame to see data that is being blocked in the current frame. It's also common in restoration when removing scrathes/hair in the gate/etc.

To that end, I wonder if exporting a similar bit of video from that same path exported as stills would be enough to generate the 3D version.
CVE-2022-27254 has a reference to this post, what is a strange recursion...
You can see that reflection in action through tools like grpcui:

https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui
If limiting money is limiting speech, why is Microsoft in trouble here, and why can't I bribe a cop to let me off the hook for speeding?

You know damn well that limiting speech is normal and accepted everywhere (eg. hate speech or crying "Fire!" in a theatre). But somehow, the rich have convinced Americans that their speech can't be limited. That their bribery ought to be legal.
> Without more detail on what exactly Microsoft was extracting out of these circumstances I find the whole thing vague.

I think the big problem here is that you've misunderstood why bribery is a criminal matter. The fact you're talking about Microsoft being "one of the victims in that case" is another sign you do not get it. Corruption itself is the problem, we're not trying to ensure Microsoft gets their $$$.

To root out corruption, the relatively less corrupt major industrialised nations agreed rules forbidding their business entities from having anything to do with such practices even via a third party. When Microsoft realises that their guy in Saudi is involved in something dodgy, their duty isn't "hide it so the big bosses don't know" or even "pay the guy off and find somebody else" but to report this corruption to the government.

These are leaches, they have to be starved, and that won't be effective so long as, like in this story, there are nods and winks and everybody pretends it's fine so long as they got paid.
Are there any Keybase team members on here? When Zoom acquired the team they said they would notify us if Keybase was going to be negatively impacted; the outcome based on commit graphs, the project blog updates, etc has made overwhelmingly clear that the project is not receiving updates. Can someone either acknowledge that so I can move on to a new system or give us an update as to what's in the works?

Also, perspective for leadership at Zoom: if you buy an open ecosystem and it subsequently dies then it sends a really terrible message. Please right this somehow.

This is the last blog update: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom
He's been leading SpaceX from success to success for 20 years now, or a quarter of the average American lifespan, a bit absurd to suggest that's "short term".
I feel like there's a deep deep tragedy in the loss not just of individual languages, but of entire language families.

While it's sad that a language like Auvergnat will likely die in a generation or two, it almost feels like less of a loss because other Langue d'Oc languages will likely survive (e.g., Gascon probably).

But the northern (a)nishn[aabe|abe|ini]m(o)w[e|i]n languages (Ojibwe, Oji-Cree, Odawa, Chippewa, etc.) are so much more endangered, have so little learning material, and are fragmented, making a concerted effort to save any one of them almost doomed to failure, let alone all of them.

I'm not saying linguistic ethnicide is acceptable, just that linguistic genocide is so so much more heartbreaking. An entire line of peoples will lose their connection to their ancestors in just a generation or two.

My step-father was Odawa. He never spoke it. But I try to study it some, to honor his memory. The Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar and Odawa Language and Legends book are... helpful but hardly sufficient.
>> Tight labor markets empower workers more than any union.

Citation needed.
I’m gonna do the same particularly dog pics. I’d love to bring my old dogs back to virtual life. Have old spanky (died a decade ago) running with lilybean (current version) in iMovie.
Yeah I don't like this kind of thinking, where people just change one variable and act like it has no effect on anything else. If humans had wings, we could get to work more quickly! (Never mind the fact that you wouldn't be able to work a computer keyboard or mouse).
I for one welcome our alien overlords and want to let them know that I am available if they require any information on humanities weaknesses.
>You are mistaken if you believe that Russian society isn't already enthusiastic.

It's a society where showing up for what the authorities do is common.

>Which law is that?

A long codicil of war conventions (Geneva, Hague) and anti-terrorism conventions. What I wrote is a common exegesis.

>Many of the sanctions... The sanctions will not go away.

As I wrote, there's a difference between 'we won't trade with you' and actively harming someone. Also, if Russia withdraws completely and lets Ukraine join NATO, I'm pretty sure the West will drop sanctions. There'll be no point in maintaining them - if you want to change Russia, you'll need a finer instrument.
There’s another interesting spleen fact that I remember reading: people who survive flight ejections and hitting water at high speed tend to have had their spleens removed.

Probably because otherwise the impact causes a rupture and you bleed out too quickly to survive.
False positives lead to poor use of resources
The Brooklyn Public Library is one such option: https://disc.bklynlibrary.org/card/
Early in college I got the sense from some professors (likely English professors) that I, a student, couldn't be trusted to just state something in a paper. Instead, I was supposed to find an instance of someone else writing that same idea somewhere and quote and cite them.

I was pretty relieved when I got to Philosophy, where no one gave a damn about anything but the argument.
“I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much.”

please tell me more!
Google has done some expirements from people taking very similarly framed images from different times to create timelapse videos, so that would hint to me they definitely have the content to try.

There was an article here some time back that showed streets in NYC that used this kind of idea of using older photographs to put one in street view of older NYC. So, yeah, I'm guessing it could be done. Might be weird with the different quality of images (modern digital, polaroids, kodachrome, etc).
I would assume that the male pill is targeted more toward people in relationships. Condoms prevent more than just the one side effect of intercourse, where a pill does nothing for STDs. After our first kid, my wife told me to go get clipped. I didn't hesitate for a second and now I'm happily unable to procreate again. On the other hand, my wife has regretted that decision for years. Selfishly, I love the fact that I don't have to argue about it but had she not been so quick to react to the unpleasantness of pregnancy, I probably would have caved and we'd have two kids. Had a pill been available, she almost certainly would have opted for that. (Birth control pills and devices have caused her serious medical problems in the past, so it's not a viable option.)
> Creating a 3D scene with traditional methods takes hours or longer, depending on the complexity and resolution of the visualization.

This just isn't true. I can create a 3D scene from 360-degree photos (even 4) in a minute or so using traditional methods, even open-source toolkits.

It doesn't look as good as this because it doesn't have a neural net smoothing the gaps, but it's not true that it takes hours to build 3D information from 2D images.
IIRC Microsoft had something like this years ago, but the results weren't nearly as smooth or natural looking. I can't remember what it was called, though.
I vividly remember backpacking through Painted Desert [1] in Arizona, by far the quietest place I've ever been (and you can viscerally feel it's because of a lack of life), and repeatedly remembering the visitor center exhibits talking about how it all used to be a lush forest.

[1] Scroll down towards the end for some photos => https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/road-trip-2019/
https://osxdaily.com/2021/05/12/enable-eye-contact-facetime-...
Sorry if I sounded dismissive in using the word "escapism". I did not
mean it in a bad way. We all need an escape, and will get it one day.
Years of suffering dogma as a secular humanist returned me to some
kind of faith. Against the grain I take my kid to church. She likes
the songs. I haven't given up on religion. There's no "just" in being
good, We all need help with that.
It's kind of funny and sad how as a result we've come full circle to governments occasionally attempting to effectively legislate in the ability to have 'wiretaps' on internet communications.
Hah! I made this suggestion here about a couple years ago. It's been my dream-pet-project-I'll-never-create for a while now, but it seems like more talented and predisposed individuals have also considered it / may be working on it already...

Some interesting replies there

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24073994
If that technology existed a lot of people would live in misery knowing that they could be seeing their dog and their parents and speak to them one last time, but only when their time to goes come. Either that or people would be able to use it whenever they wanted or could pay for it and it would become a new highly addictive and harmfully dissociative tech product that I venture to guess would be like 10x more harmful to society than Facebook ever was.

I don't even know if it would have some kind of therapeutic use of whatever. Yeah ir would be a wonderful experience and I... ehh... let's say "dreamed" about similar experiences a few times and it was a powerful "dream". But being able to do it on demand would I think change how grieving works in the modern world so much! And we rely on the things that went to not actually be there for us on demand to be able to move on.

It's a beautiful idea but it's as beautiful as the fear of nuclear MAD keeping the first world safe from war in their own land, not as beautiful as a poem or a flower or a good memory.
If you tried to repro these results (including time & space constraints) using traditional photogrammetry, you would be sorely disappointed.

Photogrammetry is great if you have a very solid object that is not shiny or translucent at all. You get a lot of surface color micro-detail and a bit of bumpy meso-detail.

But, if something is fuzzy, hairy, or lacey or smokey you are straight-up out of luck. Don't even try.

If it is shiny, it can be difficult to capture at all --let alone capture the shine. Material capture techniques that are not "chalk sculpture" are rare, very limited and usually experimental.

NeRFs however are pretty much a photograph that you can walk around in. They have about as much structure as a photograph ;) But, that lets them not care about the mathematical definition of your scuffed-up, lacquered, iridescent, carbon fiber mirror frame and just show it as it looks from whatever angle.
I did. The sw developer is implementing surface features from Google photos including "your timeline" and "memories" because of requests for feature parity, disregarding basics like EXIF date handling/correcting, and album structure/nesting.

Another suite I like isn't doing that, but suffers from low funding and hobby time burden.
What's the current state of research on true volumetric displays? That's what I'm excited for, although that takes less AI and more hardware, so quite a bit more difficult.
I've been party to at least two abortions. They're shitty and they come with major side effects. I would have taken the male pill as religiously as I take my allergy pills, to avoid that.
When I was in school, this type of wire was all the rage to make bracelets out of because it was "rare". Lot's of phone extension cables were sacrificed once I explained where people could get it. The rarity wore off quick.
> Unfortunately I have to deal with a lot of people who really only want to win, or who will change their basis of argument in order to win, even if it means espousing the view they initially opposed, as if it was their core line of reasoning!

This is orthogonal to the author's point. E.g., people who only want to win can make use of epistemic legibility to make their wins clear to themselves and/or others. People who change their core line of reasoning can opportunistically switch between two epistemic legible points.

If in either case the speaker doesn't use what the author calls epistemic legibility, then it is difficult to tell what the speaker means.
I'm a 73-year-old Canadian programmer with no formal education in computing.

After completing a PhD in pure Mathematics, I started working the next day writing scheduling algorithms in Fortran on an IBM 4341 (my supervisor played poker with the company President, so that helped).

Although I picked up Fortran quickly, I had to study scheduling algorithms because my specialty was mathematical logic.

Then I became a university Statistical consultant, but I knew nothing about that either (my boss wanted to learn logic).

Five years later, when Prolog became a popular AI language, I quit my job and began writing expert systems as an independent.

Prolog (PROgramming in LOGic) is based on the first-order predicate calculus, so my formal training was exactly what I needed to understand logic programming.

After that I branched into databases, which I'm still doing as an independent.

So, I didn't need to know anything about computing to become a programmer.

But my domain knowledge (math) gave me a powerful tool to solve some computing problems.
You can experience this in a very un-subtle way with a guitar (especially if you lower the tuning). Plucking a string hard makes it go very sharp at first, before it settles to "the" pitch. Basically the only way to get an unchanging frequency from a stringed instrument is with a bow or some kind of external oscillator like feedback. Putting a guitar in tune has a lot to do with hard you plan to strike the strings after tuning is done.
Please note that OTRv3 has laughably insecure encryption these days (1024-bit keys etc). There is OTRv4 in progress but it isn't ready for use yet.

https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4

The interface for Pidgin is exactly the same as it was back then (it still uses GTK2), modern users have much different interface tastes in 2022, so you might find it difficult to convince people to use Pidgin.
That's awesome. So given it sounds like a traffic game, how are people finding apewisdom? Just organic search???
Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't be looking for (or expecting, or putting the time and effort in to learning how to take) great shots, just nice holiday snaps etc. to look back on.

I'm against going full DSLR just because it's too far the other way, not at all compact, ideally I'd like something that can squeeze into a pocket; definitely a small bag pocket.

I actually already have a Canon SX40 which I suppose is technically a 'compact point-and-shoot', but even that's too big, I never use it, I'm not even sure I'd bother with it on a 'big' trip.

> mid-high end phone likely will be much better (especially with its computational chops) than a cheap point and shoot, especially if you already have a fancy $$$ phone.

I don't, I suppose that's partly why I don't want camera requirements to drive my phone choice.
Not in Texas or the other states following suit. Not sure if you're American or not but women are having the right to choose stripped a lot lately. None of us will have any power soon.
"Because I don't like unions I will argue against them on the specious basis a theoretical market equality exists for all people presupposing mobility and symmetric power"

Have some empathy for people trapped by other life circumstances in specific roles and locations. "Just get educated" or "move" is like "invent time machine"
I hope someone can take this, all the images of street view, recent images of places etc. and create a 3d environment covering as much of earth as possible to be used for an advanced Second Life or other purposes.