skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it as a blocker... Especially if you alternate NeRF and SD iterations - ie. don't generate a whole image each time, instead just choose a random angle, do NeRF reconstruction, then run a single SD iteration on that NeRF, and do another training step of the NeRF.

That way, you know the exact pose for each image, because you chose it when rendering the NeRF.
Chilling. The best of reasons are likely present in the research proposal but it takes little imagination to see where this can (and likely will) go. It's only paranoia until it happens.
I always do web dev on Firefox. I worry that developing on Chrome could lead to accidentally breaking Firefox support. But I think the opposite is much less likely.
Yes.

Don't forget about non-GNU.
> Only those who wish to hide their wealth from the DEA, IRS, or creditors would” rent a box anonymously at U.S. Private Vaults, she wrote

It appears this opinion was wrong: many honest people did choose this store instead of a bank for their safety deposit needs. I wonder why? I understand this question has no bearing on the legality of the FBI actions, but I do want to understand the customers' rationale.
> We have Apple and Google Maps which conspire to take our time

If anything, Google Maps gives back time.
Let's start with this: there are infinitely many integers, and truths about each of them.
He's using Euler's Tonnetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz
> Anyway, if you can make more, under similar conditions, why not?

One could think this is unethical and individualist, OP reinforces the dollar monopoly and has to pay taxes to times right?
I'd imagine most of those homes already have air conditioners. Aren't the electrical requirements of a mini-split pretty close to a couple window units? I'm pretty sure our five-head 12K BTU Mitsubishi is on a 15 amp double pole breaker.
I had a System76, and the thing ate battery. Had to sell it and go back to a mac because it wasn't usable.
Hopefully grim
The police aren't there to sort out paperwork issues. They aren't qualified for it. They're qualified to bring you to jail to await a bail hearing while they write a report about the incident. The rightful owner of the vehicle reported it stolen, there's not much else to do then clear yourself criminally and then restore yourself civilly.

That's not to say that the arrest and bail processes don't need a lot of work, but I'm not sure there's a better structural alternative. Also, in the case of the individual with high bail, I can't find a reference to that particular case. Do you have one?
They should probably confirm the car is stolen when they mark it as stolen.
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Yea i miss those days. I have 1 id still left out of all the ones i had. You_can_suck_it_just_dont_bite
Microsoft does enough global hiring that they aren't really strictly considered an American company by European tech companies.

Amazon is considered both hostile to their local economies but also wholly American. Google is also considered like this, except G Suite is a powerful gateway drug that gives them strong selling leverage in those markets. Microsoft has the same with Windows & Office.
YMMV indeed, I've been using Linux full-time since 2012, with a brief exception in 2016-2017 when I was working for a company that was all-in on Apple.

I used an iMac running Yosemite that year and could reliably get the iMac to hard reboot by launching a Xubuntu VM in VirtualBox.

It kinda made me lose all hope for our industry as Apple is usually hailed as the epitome of quality and yet it still was garbage.
I rack up 90+ days of car rentals a year and have never had a problem with Enterprise and the additional insurance.

If you're looking to rent a car and want to optimize for peace of mind and customer service over bare minimum cost, then I highly recommend going that route.
Your laptops have Nvidia GPUs, I suppose? In my experience, that's the one brand to avoid when shopping for laptops to put Linux on. (Though you can usually get things to work, with some of effort.)
"Lions commentary on UNIX"

I suspect you are not talking about this lot: https://www.lionsrugby.com/ - The British and Irish Lions Rugby team. ... oh Mr Lions, sorry.

I kicked off on Linux with a book with a Yggdrasil CD on it around 1997 or 8 and the kernel was 1.something. egcs was all the rage then too.
Search for "5mm red led" to see what they're talking about
I think they can recover up to 60-70% of the heat in the drain water. Not bad for totally passive. The installs I have seen are on the main drain for the whole house and located right next to the hot water heater. For it to really work you need a hot water tank, but I have seen some small tanks combined with tankless.
I agree, one of my favorite ide functions is the inline button. Because all too often that supposedly clear name turns out to be not clear at all.

Perhaps it would not be quite as bad if there was a clear distinction between "this is a function for reuse" and "this is a function that's naturally just elaborate code folding", but that does not really exist. Just stick to single-assignment variables and keep their scopes short and enjoy the good parts of sequential code.
The other ones i had i was young at the time and dumb and let someone hold onto them and they got me never heard from him again good ones too
One depends on the other. There’s no area with tons of parking that’s walkable.
A responsible course of action, given Hertz history of false accusations, would be to ignore “stolen” cars that belong to Hertz. It’s a lesser evil - even if it actually got stolen nothing bad will happen, Hertz is a wealthy company.
You are out of luck then, there is no legal framework for employment cross-border anywhere. Maybe in Dubai with their remote work visa giving you 0% taxes but that would require a relocation there.
Wow, my bad. Thanks
Those meshes and textures are far from usable for realtime rendering in a 3D game.
"likely 65 these days"

I think with software jobs paying what they do, retiring at 50 would be pretty easy.
It's not really linear anywhere, except in the sense that it's got a smooth VI graph, so you can pick a point on the curve and draw a tangent line if you want. That's not really linear, unless you have small enough signals or bad enough oscilloscopes.

It's much closer to exponential, which is Shockley diode equation / "diode law" which is the simplest model you would use besides the "diode is a one-way switch with a voltage threshold" model.

The diode law is I = Is[ exp(VD/nVT) - 1 ].

There are more sophisticated models of the diode that use multiple exponentials. Remember that these are all just approximations of reality based on some simplifying assumptions, the only real question is "how much do you want to simplify", and linear models are very rarely useful for modeling diodes.
The Radiological Incident in Hueypoxtla (theft of a radiotherapy machine head) [pdf]
Please keep in mind that these were rules that you apply to a _toy_ project. You apply the rules once, blindly, even if they don't make sense to you at the moment. Then, when you work on a real thing, you may remember, for example, to create a dedicated PhoneNumber class with strict rules (e.g. E164) instead of a string that gets shuffled around with no one really knowing whats inside. Or you just forget the rules as a nonsense and move on.

You seem to be criticizing the 'rules' as if they are suggested for production code. You couldn't be seriously thinking someone suggest maximum-of-2-fields as some sort guideline for the real world.
The usual procedure is for the police dispatcher to check with the law enforcement agency that entered the license plate into the database.

In case of a rental car, a call to the local or corporate office of the rental company would also be appropriate, all the more so now that there’s wide publicity about the problem of false or out-of-date theft reports.
I don't remember what I've mentioned before; in any case, it's not the most important thing. The important thing is that we need you to follow the site guidelines from now on, and we ban accounts that won't do that.
How much is housing in Soho, Central London, and Tokyo again?

Must be cheap based on this metric. Remember that soho has one pretty crappy subway station, so it’s not particularly transit rich.
I am a small user, I tried ovh but their support is awful, and their product is simultaneously super buggy. You'll be able to get support from a human way faster with AWS and you'll have fewer problems anyway because their product isn't crap.

You can easily search and find how poorly rated they are
I see references to API keys, so I'm a little confused when you say that it's self hosted. If it makes calls to your servers then it's not really self hosted. Navigating to their site for pricing seems to indicate that this is definitely not something that you can run in a self-contained manner but I would love to be proven wrong.

I also really think that you should've at least put a disclaimer that you're affiliated with them.

EDIT: All the deployment options (post model training) seem to indicate that there is pricing involved.
I flexibly agree with the “does one thing” approach. But what a “thing” is can be up to you.

Sometimes my one thing is “turns a Json file into an in memory dictionary” which might be three operations on one line.
I don’t know about that but I appreciate some things about Linux, specially the fact that the OS is not creepily trying to sell you something. I have an Asus G513 that I bought specially for Linux. It a Ryzen laptop with a discrete Radeon card. Nice performing machine, although its easy to thermal throttle it so tunning thermal profiles is often necessary. Its not perfect but it works.

Out of curiosity I’ve decided to use Windows for a while. Well, anyone here probably knows how Windows became Bonzi Buddy OS but that’s not the worse of it. On Linux I had asusctl to control fans and keyboard lights. For this functionality on Windows I had to install something called Armory Crate from Asus. I shit you not this app sends product offers as system notifications. Things in Windows land also tend to ambush the user at every opportunity to create an account or associate their social media profiles.

When I compare the professional presentation of Fedora or Pop OS default desktops with the hysterical ad show of Windows and its third party tools having to live with one or two things not working correctly is a tradeoff I gladly take.
I have Linux installed on my laptop. It's always ready to go no matter what. I only update it when I want to. Usually every few months now, but I've left it alone for over a year and there were absolutely zero problems.
> And it has to be a “wah-wah”, not “wah”.

this is just not true. guitarists regularly call it either. i hear it called a “wah” more often these days than “wah-wah”.

anyone will clearly understand and not look at funny if you say “wah pedal”
For this purpose, they do not need to.

if( car_theft->reporting_party == Hertz )
car_theft->credibility = Probable_Clerical_Error;
not sure why this is being downvoted. China recently surpassed the US in life expectancy. But suppose you do not trust Chinese statistics; Mexico passed US life expectancy. Life expectancy a good measure for right track / wrong track.
I'm with you on all of that. I believe the carnivore diet thing could lead to some interesting insights once falsifiable tests can be created.
> Did you perhaps skip the on-boarding process?

I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in Japan, when you buy a phone in a mobile carrier shop, they set it up for you, which means any on-boarding that exists on the phone OS is skipped entirely.
>if an engineer fucks something up, s/he can be personally responsible for the fuckup

Except software engineers :)
Sure, mentioning communism is flamebait, especially if you mention it in a provocative way in a throwaway one liner. There are many such things that people have strong feelings about and are reactive to. Perhaps it's sad but it's the way things are.

I believe you that you weren't trying to be sarcastic but that sort of intent doesn't communicate itself—you have to encode it in your comment somehow, so the rest of us can know that. Past explanations about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Also, generic ideological battle is extremely repetitive and therefore tedious and therefore off topic here. Past explanations about that: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
I pretty much agree with you, but wouldn't apply the same to Google.

Their product is not as good, their documentation is often out of date and they believe in "move fast and break things" rather than offer a stable product to their customers.

Even paying for a support contract, I would say that their support is hit or miss, but at least I can raise alarms to my TAM and they can get me an engineer to deal with a problem if we truly need it.
Okay, does hibernation work? How about palm rejection on the track pad? Hi-Dpi fractional scaling? Do I need to read hostile *nix forums to find the right incantation to make Wi-fi work?
Awful customer service seems to be industry standard now. Companies have worked out that they can just entirely ignore any problems that aren't fixed by automated/scripted responses without cutting into their profits more than having proper customer support would.

Hopefully some startups will realize they can attract customers by paying for customer support staff with basic reading comprehension skills (and not incentivising them to close tickets as fast as possible without actually confirming issues are fixed), but I'm not holding my breath.
I’m not so sure about that… look at the demographic issues and the current banking collapse. China looks like it’s starting a pretty precipitous decline.

I hope things stabilize and people there DO keep improving, I have no desire to see anywhere stagnate or start declining. But I’m also extremely aware of how much of the Chinese state apparatus is dedicated to lying and distorting public perception, and what I hear about what’s been going on behind the scenes sounds really bad right now.
As far as I know it doesn't use nix under the hood, it's a reimplementation of nix in guile scheme.
> The cloud stores your data but the provider does not own your pictures or your PhD paper just because you uploaded them there.

I would assume that a bank does not regularly go rifling through the contents of everyone's safety deposit boxes and reporting items they believe are incriminating the way a cloud provider does.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
> [0] This is also why civil torts are almost always strict-liability. If everything required intent, corporations would be above the law.

because of the lack of investigatory powers (e.g. can't seize their documents, wiretap their communications, search their facilities, etc.) civil cases could generally never work against anyone if they had to show intent. If you get a judgement against you for a civil matter that requires intent you have really screwed up.
Ludicrous. On some, it does, on others, otherwise there's minor issues, major issues, sometimes regressions. Linux is very clearly a second class citizen on the PC, with hardware only coming with support for the current gen Windows. Some doesn't even work with Windows well, and that's the supposedly supported platform.

I _do_ use Linux on everything, mind you. But I also keep a file where I collect my fixes for the different systems, so that I won't forget them when I reinstall. And I accept that sometimes things don't work, like a fingerprint reader, and I live with that.

One such random thing from the notes is that the touchpad wouldn't come alive after a sleep. The fix is the "i8042.nomux=1" kernel parameter. Hours of duckduckgoing went into that. I like to tinker, but it's not working "so damn well that it's boring".
I'm currently working on an old cad sort of program, its a mess, 20 years of kludges. Working on it is hard - you have to keep all this stuff in your head and I keep saying why the f did he do that, as expected really. Recently I had to add a new bit and use some computational geometry algorithms, it was like a step into a clear dark pool, everything was ordered and nice, which is probably the world of the phd.

I don't know how you test for the ability to do real world stuff - I always think of doctors, they have a system of proctoring they've developed over the years, where you're judged by your peers and rated accordingly and even then its not 100%. I think this is the only way to do it in real life, but I don't know if programming will ever get to that point, it probably will be necessary sometime - when everything is driven by computers.
> Now, if you are American foreign banks won't even bother dealing with you.

I'm living in the EU and any bank-related form I had to fill out ask whether I have ties to the USA. There's one for "are you citizen of a different country?", but the USA (and only the USA) is always asked for explicitly.
Sick af. I'm hoping this leads to a Cambrian explosion of new games based on the retro devices.
My bad, was trying to type it up on the crummy Android I was testing this in...
Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King”
So I’ve heard. If someone passed the K8s cert, you expect them to be somewhat competent. If someone honestly studied for AWS certifications without experience, you expect them to be conversant. I have nine of them now (out of 10). But just so I can be conversant. It’s definitely not prove competence in areas where I don’t have real world experience.
I want Silicon Valley to produce quality products and innovation. I don't care what culture it has as long as it respects the Constitution and the laws of the land and everyone gets a fair chance on the basis of the work they actually produce. NY Times has declined big time in recent years.
If you’re looking to get hired as an individual contributor somewhere else, maybe you should. But judging from this and other posts of yours, you’re not, so you’re probably not doing it wrong.

It’s just that when interviewing, it can few easier to evaluate some algorithm puzzle than to figure out what it means and whether it’s true that “the app is gonna be great.”
Researchers Uncover How to 3D-Print One of the Strongest Stainless Steels – NIST
Thanks! This will take a minute to figure out, but I'll definitely work on it eventually.
I can see your point about the goal to protect privacy, but it's another of those business decisions for the sake of the consumer that sacrifices choice of the consumer - which affects the likes of the HN crowd in a much higher percentage than the unwashed masses.

If there was a way for technical users to unlock the more risky settings, it would placate the conspiracy theorists. That doesn't appear to be the case, so the argument that Google is doing this to restrict and minimise ad blocking remain entirely valid.
Here's the lesson I want people to take away from this: the idea that there is a literal interpretation of the Constitution is a myth.

This egregious seizure is just further proof that the Fourth Amendment is pretty much dead. Any kind of forfeiture without probable cause should be a Fourth Amendment violation but yet civil asset forfeiture (the most egregious form of Fourth Amendment violation) remains legal.

Probably the worst thing about this case is that the government has been caught in a lie and isn't backing down and they want to keep the contents. Any "evidence" gleaned from these contents should be absolutely inadmissible without prior and specific probable cause. There should be no allowance for "there's no reason why legitimate customers would use USPV instead of a bank".

Lots of people distrust banks. Not using a bank is not evidence of a crime let alone probable cause.

I really hope the FBI and the US attorney get their rear ends handed to them over this but I have doubts they ever will.
Cool! Will check it out.
Which is why I've been paid good money to both maintain and bring up to speed old RoR applications that were so out of date you had to manually patch the C libraries just to get it working.

This attitude is common, that these frameworks are not, themselves, dependencies to be managed and protected from.
Thanks for this. This is the first reference I've seen to the soviet pi=3 thing. What's the origin of that?
There are open tickets for a self-hosted option (there's already a Dockerfile, etc.), and requests for multiple platforms. And yes, the demos on the public site (https://play.webrcade.com) seem to be ports and indie games. Pretty amazing altogether.
It's way cheaper. Like, it's not even close.

(Note that this IS galvanic isolation--I assume you are talking about transformers, which is the other common way to galvanically isolating circuits.)
‘Building sandcastles in the clouds’ is a nice Fred Brooks aphorism that conveys this. Pure thought-stuff.
Continuing to work on Bosworth, my embodied AI research project. More specifically, I'm working on taking the code I wrote earlier - which reads data from the 9-DOF accelerometer board and the GPS board and sends it to both a storage server using MQTT and to the "percept queue" using ActiveMQ - and "operationalizing" it. So basically, writing scripts to build, package, and deploy this stuff, writing SystemD unit files, and all of the other miscellaneous trappings needed to make it easy to deploy and manage.

Once I tie up the loose ends on getting the GPS and orientation data, I'll start on one of the other data types I plan to work with. Not sure which one will come next, but some of the things queued up to do include:

- integrating one or more webcams for visual processing

- integrating one or more microphones for auditory processing

- integrating a thermocouple interface board to allow it to sense the ambient temperature. Will probably actually do two of these and use one thermocouple to measure the temperature inside the "body" of the system.

- considering also adding a light sensor to sense ambient light levels, a proximity sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, and possibly some other miscellaneous stuff. But the big ones I wanted to start with were the position/orientation stuff, and vision and audio.

I also need to replace the amplifier I use to drive the speakers used for audio output. In the current configuration I get some unwanted hum when then box is running on wall current, and the amp isn't really powerful enough anyway.

Outside of all that, I am trying to get back to cycling 40 miles a week, and right now I'm sitting at 25 miles of MTB'ing for the week, so I need to go out for a road ride tonight, or tomorrow and try to pick up the final 15 miles I need.

And, of course, I'll watch the Dolphins / Bills game tomorrow. #PHINSUP
As annoying as they can sometimes be, the little tips that pop up every now with "Hey did you know you can do this?" are a neat little solution to this. Really like the unobtrusive ones like the GitHub "ProTip!" at the bottom of the pull requests page

It does get a bit ridiculous though. There's entire sites and content creators focused solely on VS Code tips. At what point are we gonna end up with engineers working on adding a feature to VS Code that they didn't know already existed?
It happens not just in judiciary or criminal cases, but also in DMV, state permits, immigration etc.

Even a typographical error or minor delays by the government official has asymmetric consequences for the human but no consequence to the officer. You can be perfect and do everything correctly but still fall off a cliff because some government officer made a typographical error.
The rotor systems typically used by small drones don't scale up well for use on larger manned airships. The weight and drag penalty would be huge, and the higher inertia doesn't allow for rapid dynamic adjustments to compensate well for turbulence.
Most SaaSes have much more lower stakes. Biomedical/automotive/aerospace are already covered by existing regulations.
Red was the only color they could make at the time