skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rate of progress in this field -- reverse rendering -- has just been phenomenal. It seems like groundbreaking research is published every couple of months.

Something I have mentioned in other similar forums is that up until recently, computers were catching up to mathematics. The algorithms we use are often centuries old, but didn't have widespread practical applicability until computers could realise them.

The movie Prometheus (2012) made me realise that we had crossed a threshold. In one particular scene[1], some scientists throw up some drones up in the air. The drones zip down curved corridors, mapping them in real time using spinning lasers (LIDAR). At the time, that was science fiction. It was "future tech" that appeared to rely on not-yet-invented computer power.

But the computer power was available! GPUs of the era were already able to put out multiple teraflops, and should have been able to process that amount of data.

What was missing was the mathematics. We had the substrate, but not the code to run on it.

I doubt anyone had noticed that the tables had turned. That things had flipped over to the other side.

Since then, high-end workstations are rapidly approaching a petaflop of computer power. Suddenly the maths is catching up. This paper is a wonderful example of that happening!

Or to put it another way, I like to challenge computer scientists with this thought experiment:

"Imagine being given a workstation with 1024 CPU cores, a terabyte of memory, and a GPU to match. Could you fully utilise this machine to solve everyday problems in your speciality? If not, why not? What are you missing?"

-- more often then not, the answer is now "the code".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-eduvo904
Bad relationships, including friendships, can cause one to adopt poor communication habits (e.g. guilting others or ghosting others), and also have a higher tolerance for negative behavior instead of communicating a boundary.

There is a bit more discussion on this in an old Hacker News thread from February 2020, where several people discuss the serious impact of unhealthy relationships in the quality of one's life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22214066
Interesting article (first one).

It seems like more and more companies (looking at AWS and Netflix directly) seem to deploy ~1k micro services.

I work in a team where we manage ~14 micro services (per environment - dev, staging and production - max ~42) and find it complicated to manage and monitor...
What do you mean? That one's a verb and the other isn't? I think it's fine here. The latter returns a modified version of the string, whereas the former is more like a property of the int, like it's "length", although Python also doesn't have .length so I guess that's a bad example. Think of it like datetime.year vs datetime.replace
Yup. They aren't going to be super jazzed when someone adds "Speed Limit 60 MPH" signs in retaliation.
It was a good computer, a friend had one and I had a Commodore 64. The 64 had better sound and sprites, but the Atari had better color and animation.
Perforated Design

You shouldn't split your new system into a zillion pieces. But you should design it so it comes apart really easily.
IIRC there is evidence that Gobekli Tepe was not fully occupied year round, so more of a festival site or wintering ground. Maybe in the later stages it did have a more permanent population, and if so they could have been some of the first people to invent actual farming. This is around the time and place we think Einkorn was first domesticated, and a bunch of people growing it near a festival site to brew booze to supply a bunch of nomads when they come around to party makes a good narrative on how we transitioned from hunters to farmers.
Yes, putting a plastic bowl into boiling water to melt chocolate is a common technique.
That would tie in nicely with the myth of Atlantis. :)
What if I want to drive my car at night?

But joking aside, we need a lot more than solar. It's a terrible energy source. I'd be more encouraged if they diversified their energy sources to include other renewables and nuclear. It's sad to see investment thrown at a bad technology, frankly.
You found a startup that paid better than big tech? Mind sharing who they were?
> Some areas, such as synthetic biology, could produce a discovery that suddenly democratizes mass destruction, e.g. by empowering individuals to kill hundreds of millions of people using readily available materials. In order for civilization to have a general capacity to deal with “black ball” inventions of this type, it would need a system of ubiquitous real-time worldwide surveillance. In some scenarios, such a system would need to be in place before the technology is invented.

> Another, subtler, type of black ball would be one that strengthens incentives for harmful use—e.g. a military technology that makes wars more destructive while giving a greater advantage to the side that strikes first. Like a squirrel who uses the times of plenty to store up nuts for the winter, we should use times of relative peace to build stronger mechanisms for resolving international disputes.
To paraphrase the author's point -- the doctor could have a policy to intervene only if the screening produces _flagrantly_ worrying results, and continue to not intervene in cases where the results are merely mildly worrying. Technically, this might lead to strictly better outcomes at the ensemble level.

But any patient likely 1. doesn't care about ensemble performance 2. will get stressed out at the mildest indication of concern 3. induce a concave payoff for a trigger-shy doctor (no credit for correctly not intervening, and massive discredit for incorrectly not intervening).
I took way too long to find this book. If you like Sci-fi and haven’t read it, it’s well worth a try.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
>What I think about every time I think of this movie is, "Okay, so he was 12,000 years old at the time of Christ". He lived then - now 6 times, and then then-now again.

In the movie he claimed to have been Christ, which that experience put him off trying to do anything really public to try to help people.

By the way it was written by Jerome Bixby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bixby who also wrote the Star Trek episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_Methuselah which had to some extent the same premise (although a much younger immortal)

on edit: oops, I see diggernet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31454792 already mentioned the Requiem for Methuselah.
As seen in THX 1138

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE
Watercooler talk and gossip should not be allowed at work. Talking about work is fine, talk politics on your own time.
Methods Included: Standardizing computational reuse and portability
Focus on what you can do for others, not what others can do for you. Activities will gradually lose their luster as you age, if you are focused on what you get from them. In Buddhist terms: cultivate mudita, sympathetic joy in the joys of others. It is nigh impossible to make yourself happy, yet seemingly trivial to make others happy, if you are keeping an eye out for the opportunity.
You're talking about machines that pass the turing test. General intelligence. We're not close yet.
Isn't there a big economic problem to vertical farming? You're using relatively high value real estate and fairly energy and tech intensive methods to produce something that's relatively low value. Seems like willfully ignoring competitive advantage and trade.

Is the hope that people are going to pay premium for vertically farmed produce because of the brand or is this actually cheaper?
I remember having similar thoughts of awe about how _old_ are things in this region of the earth, when I was listening to one of the famous Dan Carlin hardcore history series.

There he mentioned how when the romans were conquering Babylon, it had already had a 3000 year history. So its like similar time from us to the romans, as the relative starts of those two civilizations.
Babylon was _old_ and they knew it - who was this young upstart trying to recklessly mess with the natural order?

I can’t even process things like 12-14 _thousand_ years of human civilization…
There are always lots of opinions about how to build a piece of software. Unlike a hundred yard dash, where the best performance is obvious to all, the risks and benefits of different engineering approaches remain a mystery until years after some work is done.

I've been around for those years :)

When we need something difficult and fundamental thought through very deeply, because it has to be precisely correct, I've learned to trust our CTO. Others usually want to go faster, or fix-it-later, or we-don't-need-a-spec-just-be-agile. That creates tension. But when I think it needs to be done very carefully and correctly, some tension is worthwhile.

I wish we had been more careful with some of the foundations for Unity, for example, because they would then have served others better even if the project itself failed.
Disney should buy them as EA did some of the Star Wars games.
Perhaps the sarcasm here was not understood? Corporations should exist to serve people, broadly. Not the other way around. People over profit. We should all strive to be kinder as well where possible.
I'm doubtful about colonising - and even if we create colonies it's likely they will remain small and dependant on earth for at least some supplies.

However there is a Lot of rock in the solar system that could be mined, and its possible, perhaps even probable, that these resources would supply earth with metals for quite some time.
Are you sure your timeline is correct? Assyria as an empire is closer to -1400 to -700, with the dominant part coming after -1000.
Similarly, there was no "Mesopotamian empire" in -4000 that I'm aware of: before -2000 I think it was mostly city states all around the near east.

I'm no expert… please correct me if I'm wrong.
You could absorb neutron flux in a thousand tons of molten 6Li/7Li, and then try to separate grams of tritium from that thousand tons of molten, extremely inflammable metal, on a continuous basis. Good luck with that.

Renewables do not incur such operating expenses. Put renewables and a fusion reactor on the grid, and fusion would never, ever win a bid.

"Fusion .. will generate ... less ... than fission"? The whole damn ten-thousand-ton reactor becomes radioactive waste in short order. Fortunately, none will be built, so it is only a theoretical problem.
The actual real-world usage experience of M1 laptops far exceeds anything else on the market today.
Imposition and compromise need not derive from a transactional relationship model

One can just as well feel compelled to constantly compromise if one's acquaintances don't share one's needs and values, for instance
> 3.7 million lines of code in a single PR

Now that's crazy! They don't seem to be afraid to do major changes in one shot (yes, probably type checked because of typescript - but still, that's huge!)
How about we not do that and try to actually cultivate real life communities and families through more leadership, planned activities, persistent encouragement, etc.

I'm kind of tired of the commodification of anything and everything. Communities aren't just supposed to be these bureaucratically labelled abstract co-locations of people mediated by a billion different services, you're supposed to actually try to get to know your neighbors. Learning how to listen, trying to teach how to listen, and being brave enough to do both is incredibly enriching.

With the rise in remote work, that should be easier than ever. Why don't we try to sort ourselves into locations where we have optimal mixes in personalities/interests for solid communities of all ages and put in the work required to understand and relate to each other better.
Mito looks awesome.

Just want to say that I respect the fact that you built this library, are offering it open source, for free, and want the telemetry on. You are up front and open about it.

Sometimes I think people can get a little entitled with all the work someone else puts in to a project they want to use (not accusing GP of this, speaking generally). As you said, under the license anyone is more than welcome to fork, modify and open source. Yay open source indeed :)
i've been thinking of buying a Geiger-Müller counter here in india but amazon results are either too expensive or sketcky AF.

has anyone bought one ? there isnt a lot of info about this
The 1800s were brutal everywhere, but slavery is an inherently corrupt system. I can certainly imagine merciful white masters who genuinely cared for their slaves, but slavery is such a cut and dry obvious violation of human rights that it's not worth considering. A single person being considered, even in the most benign technical sense, property is an atrocity. We can and perhaps should commemorate those who worked very hard to salvage justice in an inherently just system, but we're still trying to wash the stains of racial injustice within our society today. Any time spent uplifting these persons must unfortunately be set aside to provide equity to those long ignored.

All of that being said, I can't say for certain that you're being intellectually honest, you're conflating quite a few things with crucial nuance. As an example, you claim black slave families were closer and more stable, because they were penned in and forced to breed together to provide additional laborers who would replace them. Have you ever considered that divorced families are better off than unhappy marriages? Have you considered that perhaps marriages aren't entirely necessary, and modern black culture isn't well suited to traditional marriage norms codified by white JudeoChristian people? If you're heart is in the right place, I'd imagine you could tell us a story of a true ally to black slaves in the south. One whom was raised in a toxic racist environment, but learned to work within a inherently broken system to provide some sense of equity.
Confelicity:
Pleasure in another's happiness.
Antonym: schadenfreude
EMT here. We still use clipboards in the field on 911 calls. I can fill out a paper patient report in real time while I talk to the patient. Transcribing it into the EMR on the computer later takes about 45 minutes.

Some of our peer services use tablets in the field. I hope we never switch over. Besides the nightmare of the horrible UI (because that's always the case with enterprise software), if the batteries die or you try to use them outdoors in bright sun, you're hosed.
Yes.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0133

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2028

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2089

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4315

Should I go on? None of the above errors is possible in a memory safe language like golang.
Like the stopped clock, even Elon is right once in a long while.
SSDI is basically a “disability pension.” The idea is that you are permanently disabled and will never work again.

It really sucks that there’s a huge gap between, short-term disability and permanent disability. One you are on your for, the other the state covers 100%.

We need a comprehensive social safety net.
There seems to be a huge disconnect in this community about Web3. Every day, billion dollar startups are reaching new milestones in Web3.

Tokenization and ownership are huge. Ecosystems like Stacks (https://www.stacks.co/explore/discover-apps) have hundreds of Web3 apps already running and providing value.

The value provided by Web3 is simple: now you can program property and ownership on the web.

This changes banking, finance, publishing, social media, etc. It's a huge change because users can take their data across platforms and avoid lock in. Imagine a single social profile that works across platforms (one single profile for Facebook, Twitter, Insta, etc). The possibilities are endless.

I suggest you keep digging in and make up your own mind. Don't let dismissive one liners dissuade you from learning.

Disclosure: I'm a founder of Web3 protocol called Bitfari.
Cost for energy storage is plummeting even faster than for solar or wind ever did.
You can absolutely still have children, but you're going to have to settle slightly on aesthetics to find a woman 30-35 who considers you in her league.

(also, just lose some weight, even if you don't get fit. it's an incredible level-up.)
I vote for the star shaped phone. And against. Really, both at the same time. This would be terrifyingly awesome.
Heh, who cares if Twitter was knowingly misleading investors for years!
You may be shocked to hear this, but Lincoln was a politician and was occasionally slightly disingenuous in order to achieve his political agenda. There wasn't public support for a war to end slavery. There was public support for a war to preserve the union.

Here's another quote from Lincoln:

"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

He could claim as much as he wanted, once the war started, that his goal was to restore the Union even at the expense of continuing to tolerate slavery, but there was no way the Confederates could possibly take him at his word when he said so.
I like that movie too. You might be interested in Heinlein’s novel Time Enough For Love. It’s set a couple thousand years in the future and centers on a guy who was born in the early 1900s and is still alive, due to rejuvenation technology and perhaps other reasons :). Other people in the story live long lives as well, but the main character is by far the oldest known in the world. It’s a bit sprawling and weird (even off putting) in some parts, but I found it to be excellently written and very easy to fly through the pages.
Let's not forget one German message, one time, was undecoded to this very day. A paranoid conspiracy theorist of course, how could anyone doubt the security of the Enigma? How could anybody be onto Blechley Park's shit? A troll, if you will, in the forties.

I divine he rolled dice.
Yeah my 2020 work MacBook is always blasting its fans because corporate IT installed some monitoring software that is scanning everything all the time. The laptop is a nuclear hazard site cuz it’s so hot all the time. I need headphones on to drown out the fan noise.
The problem with memoization too easy is that you generally want a sane cache policy for the problem, and that's generally problem dependent. Otherwise you blow up program memory usage.
I imagine it's a bit of both, premium and that it has been getting cheaper to pull off.

On a more societal level, I think it is a skill we are going to need as time goes on, as things get denser, more populated, less arible and more insecure. So it's a worthwhile investment in technology, and I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't some government grants and research grants funding a portion of the endeavor.
Remember that in California there is always a nominal crosswalk at EVERY uncontrolled intersection, whether it's painted in or not, they're really just drawing attention to an existing crosswalk, not creating a new one
Which in turn sounds a bit like the Star Trek:TNG episode "The Chase" where a symbol seen all over the universe brings four alien species together to find a message from an ancient race they all descended from.
Awwwww, chicklet keyboard PLUS the utterly insufferable arrow keys? Damn, so close.
Most of my machines have either Pop Shell or i3/sway, and I have to say that Pop Shell is _fantastic_ for an ootb tiling setup.
yeah everyone imagines theyre going to be on some boring tropical island just because the water is shallow and turqoise around the edges instead of scrolling on the same 3 sites and maybe coding something on the side
Tons of OnlyFans creators have funnel accounts like this on Twitter. Having such an account on Instagram is playing with fire.
D-3He. But 3He comes only from decaying tritium, so same problem.

At least D-3He might possibly be made to produce economically competitive power, if there were any 3He to burn in one. But it might be useful in space probes.
With CSS's new 3D transforms, I'm pretty sure I could wrap text onto a Klein bottle…
Thanks a ton! I appreciate the encouragement! Great point on treating it as creativity rather than engineering. I totally agree-- makes it more fun and interesting for me.
How the Anchor protocol helped sink Terra
I mean there is an obvious conflict here between pedestrians and drivers. And one of these groups feels alienated. Taking direct action is only natural if you’ve been trying to make your case but consistently ignored by your local rulers, which favor drivers again and again.

You could just as well ask: why do car makers get to design giant SUVs which kill people on impact? Why do drivers get this much space to allow them to drive so fast that it kills people? etc.

Of course you could chicken out of an answer by citing policy made by elected officials. But elected officials make bad policy all the times, and you might be justified in questioning their logic. And at some point you’ve had enough and resort to direct action. And that is happening here, not an ego trip at all.
Nice!

And here I am in Belgium, stuck with the SNCB/NMBS, a small country where doing a few miles by train takes an hour, the trains are always late, there's no place to sit, and it's expensive.

I love Belgium, but not its trains.
Are we sure it’s just one SKU?
Well count could be a verb here. And one has an underscore while the other smashes two words together.
2 years of running a minimal blogging platform
Life after high school is also full of trauma and difficulty. I think one of our problems in society today is that advertising and social media pump out a false narrative of beauty and success which makes people feel like failures just because they are suffering and struggling, when both of those things are the act of living as far as I can see.

How do you deal with adversity? How do you deal with peer pressure? How do you motivate yourself to work on things that feel irrelevant? How do you choose your hobbies and the people you associate with? Those are important things to assess in a potential colleague. And this is just one potential angle on how one might assess them.

As for "making stuff up that sounds good", you are correct, some people are better at that than others. Fortunately we have clear and objective measures of that to work with so forewarned is forearmed.
Thanks a ton! Good to hear-- that's something I sometimes worry about. But then I also think "Well, technology is more important than it used to be, so based on that, the future seems bright, career-wise." But great to hear, just to turn off any worrying voice in my head.
There’s a definite economic niche for high value low shelf life produce. It’s just a question of local economics. Fresh strawberries in a large market like this might be able to pay for themselves even with the costs of real estate and energy usage by way of being able to sell at a higher price due to selling extremely fresh produce to customers prepared to pay that higher cost for the quality difference.

This does all assume the end result is a higher quality product of course.
I think the problem is that the first separates words by underscore and the second doesn’t
yes but this is California, by law there is a crosswalk at EVERY uncontrolled intersection (ie those with no traffic lights) pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way
Never. Why is that so hard to believe? In college I was shy. At work, every job I've had has been a geek job, next to no women at work. Friends are similar so no one around to bring women to activities.

> Even the loneliest people I know have mustered up some kind of tension with someone, even if they were never able to act on it.

Guess you don't know many people then