skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry no references for NeRF papers. But the idea is not new. My experience was originally with PointClouds and 3d keypoint-feature slam.

In these, you represent the world as a sparse latent representation, collection of 3D coordinates, and their corresponding SIFT feature descriptor. You rotate and translate these keypoints to obtain a novel view of the features in 2D image. (The descriptor can be taken as an interpolate of the descriptors weighted by the difference in orientation between views as features only match for small viewing angle difference (like 20°) ). And then you could invert features to retrieve a pixel-space image (for example https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/Dosov... ) (although it's never needed in practice.

Coming back to NERF, it's the same principle. When your NERF has converged, if you don't have transparent object, along the ray the density will be 0 except when you intersect the geometry where only a single voxel will be hit in which case you fetch the latent stored in the voxel latent (spherical harmonics) from the direction given by the ray during the training with a latent image.

The rendering equation is still the same but instead of rendering a single ray, it would be analog to rendering a group of close rays in order to render a patch of image, of which the latent is a compressed representation. You have to be careful not to make the patch too big, because like with a lens in the real world, spherical transform flip the patch-image upon translation, but neural network should transparently handle this.

The converged representation is an approximation based on linear approximation and interpolation along positions and ray direction, provided that you have enough resolution, you can construct it manually from the solution and see how it behaves in the rendering.

Will the convergence process work ? It will depend on how well latent mix, along a ray. The light transport equation is usually linear, and latent usually mix well linearly (even more so when weighted by a density), But in the case it doesn't mix well you can learn a mixing of latent rule that help it converge.

Also once you have a latent Nerf, it won't allow you directly to obtain a STL/obj directly but you should have 3d consistent views from which you could render a classical NERF, but you can/should also instead optimize for the classical voxel grid, that fit the latent voxel grid (aka that give the same image patches).
It's weird that Sri Lanka is better connected to Jakarta than to Mumbai or Chennai
Here in Switzerland, you are likely to pay through the nose for a mediocre product / service. Caveat emptor, particularly since consumer laws are weak.
Whenever I need a quick script I use bash. If that script goes beyond 20 lines or has anything but the simplest `if` or `&&`, I've learned time and time again that I should rewrite it (python for example)
> Practically, it is not experiment.

The U.S. NIH says otherwise, e.g. here is one of the ongoing clinical studies, which continues through March 2023, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04848584

Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 BNT162b2 Vaccine Effectiveness Study - Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Actual Study Start Date: May 15, 2021
Estimated Primary Completion Date: March 31, 2023
Estimated Study Completion Date: March 31, 2023

> covid-19 vaccines

WHO lists 11 vaccines and 4 types, each with different mechanisms of action, effectiveness and safety, https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/agency/who/

Protein subunit
RNA
Non Replicating Viral Vector
Inactivated Virus
I would disagree with this so much.

If this would be the case every wedding photographer would just use an iPhone.

Yes, phone does HDR (not always perfectly) but there is so much more to photography than trying to make shadows not black and sky as blue as possible.
Moving emulators and virtual machines to the Web can be handy for software preservation. The Internet Archive has a massive collection of games and applications that you can run right now, on any device with a browser, thanks to this kind of tech.
I think being the richest company in the world makes it pretty cleat that there’s no need to increase prices to support no ads. It’s pure greed and you can’t reason with it.
"How could we have known that sending in the army would result in the country becoming a war zone?"

The fine minds in Congress have to grapple with this sort of inscrutable mystery every day. Which is why their competence is a question of the debate.

Armies and random occupations do not build thriving countries. There was never any reason to believe it would. The only time that has worked is when the US invades global superpowers like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan - more due to the locals rebuilding than the invaders. And they'd still have been better off without being invaded - armies don't build valuable things.
Managers want employees back in the office so they can monitor them
Not an American here, but given the current state of US democracy I would argue that the less fascist party would be utterly stupid to pass on a chance at populism just to be fair towards an opposing party who openly calls for the shooting of your members and has prooved it will itself stretch every rule (even the ones they self spouted before) to e.g. put in their supreme court picks.

You cannot play it "fair" with fascists and expect your nation to stay a democracy — at least not on such a minor level. And I am not a fan of the Democrats myself, but as an Austrian living in Germany I learned enough about the Nazi rise to power to know where this is heading.

If you didn't have the Dollar, you'd be neck deep in fascism already.
but in this case, it's extremely easy to prove that the algorithm that they propose is correct, or am i missing something?
From a legal point of view, when is marijuana possession a federal offence and when is it a state offence?

Presumably if you're caught with weed in DC then it's federal. But under what circumstances could you be found in possession with marijuana anywhere else and have it be a matter for the federal government, not the state one?
I think the intent was not only to not do harm, but to undo the burn-in caused when the screen is on by cycling each pixel on and off. (Early CRT monitors used to have a “memory” of what was on there before, similar to the artifacts left behind after e-ink screens are cleared)
Imagine a system which welcomes 99 out of 100 people and brutally kills one. I think if I were to read online about people's experiences, it would be dominated by the 99 telling me that no brutal killings occur.
They are saying i13pro == i13promax

I would have expected the max to be better, but it seems it's not
During the real estate bubble of the 70s and 80s in Japan, there was a type of Real Estate property that involved selling small parcels of land in forests that had no roads coming to them. This was called 原野商法, and in an era with a serious real estate bubble and before Google Maps existed, there were many people who were conned by these ads - and not for small amounts of money.

Now, many years later, many people are still hanging onto the properties and are unable to unload them as they cannot conceive that their holdings are worthless. The shady RE companies sold their information (or passed it along within their 'organization') and the land purchasers are now preyed upon again; this time, by scammers who claim they can sell the property (but require a ~$3000 payment in advance).

This PDF is the crypto equivalent of that forest land buyers list, and everyone on it can look forward to being preyed upon for the rest of their life.

(Here is a great video about the whole sordid thing, Japanese only though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzTDRmtozc)
To start off, I'm trying to be unbiased here, but I am generally anti-"crypto", nonetheless here goes:

I obviously can't speak to OP's view, but in general the privacy coins are all small bit players. Because of that they are vulnerable to 51% attacks, this _can_ happen as the first google hit I did just now so that I could appear smart and knowledgeable :D : https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/11/08/privacy-coin-gri...

How practical such an attack would be on the bigger networks I don't know, there were a couple of February ones saying monero was at risk, but I have no idea how plausible that would actually be.

I would also consider smaller coins more likely to run into transaction correlation simply due to volume - I really don't know how secure the coins are if there are few participants, but if it's a small network looking for 10btc/eth transfer with a corresponding transaction in the small network, and then a later transaction back, doesn't seem implausible. My thinking here is purely along the lines of "imagine a mixer that only has 1 participant", that's obviously going to achieve nothing, but how many participants are needed before it stops being useless?
In modern european homes, plumbing and wiring is done via "octopuses".

Most of the time, every connection coming from the exterior are coming through the floor in a little room that we can use for storage and from there, everything is dispatched through inner walls which are basically empty (except around bedrooms if you want acoustic isolation). This allows to maintain everything from the inside.

I wouldn't call it a mess but I'll acknowledge I'm talking about modern constructions.
> That pattern matcher has no idea what DO means, in much same way that the reader doesn't know what DO means.

'means' is in the domain of semantics. We talk about syntax: structure.

But what we know at this stage: DO is the CL:DO macro. So we know the actual operator, not just the symbol. We also know that it is a macro. We also know that the macro has a macro lambda list (CLHS 3.4.4 describes the syntax of those). We can now check the macro form against the actual CL:DO macro lambda list structure. And so on...

Thus we are now talking about the Lisp language, its operators and its structure requirements.

That's the purpose of a language parser: it has to know which symbols/identifiers are actual elements of the language, which operators these actually are and retrieves the syntactic constraints/rules for those.

In a language like Common Lisp (or similar dialects) this is 'difficult', since there are lexical bindings, compile-time side-effects and even lexical bindings to establish new syntax (macrolet).

> The syntax notation like: ... is relying on read syntax; it has parentheses in it!

It describes constraints on the structure (!) of valid Lisp forms. -> syntax!

(do () () "foo") -> Ill-formed DO end test list

(do () (t) "foo") -> no legal go tag

(do ((a b c d)) (t)) -> illegal form for a DO varlist

See that the warnings talk about the actual Lisp operators and their requirements? We've left the domain of s-expression syntax here and talk about Lisp syntax requirements.

None of these things are caught by the READER. All of these are actual warnings from SBCL.

> The init-form can be anything: a struct literal, vector, string, character. Yet, I don't see the rules for that in this grammar; they given elsewhere, and just assumed here.

The rules are in the language standard. The non-terminal INIT-FORM is specified to be a FORM. Which then is defined elsewhere.

> The init-form can be anything

Actually it can't. It must be a form (see the CLHS syntax description for DO). Thus ((foo)) for example is not valid, since it is not a valid Common Lisp form.

> From the perspective of any one S-expression, though, the bulk of the specification of its syntax is in the domain of the reader.

This is tautologic.

I was claiming that Lisp has structural constraints/rules on top (!) of s-expressions (and especially s-expressions as data) and gave the example of the Common Lisp standard, which describes these in an eBNF syntax.
Student debt forgiveness is also something that only the legislature can do - Nancy Pelosi admitted this as recently as a year ago. Biden doesn't have the power to forgive student debt by himself, but he's doing it anyway, it's blatantly illegal and no-one cares.
I think you misunderstood my tale. I'm running a SaaS business and one of our customers users had this issue when they were interacting with the site because that end user's proxy server was arbitrary altering AJAX requests made by their browsers.

This is a end user making a request to an online shop and the POST request to "add product 123456 to the basket" gets changes to "add the product 12***6 to the basket" by a security* proxy between the end user and the web site.

This isn't specific to the site we run. This would have happened on any site they were posting to.
If they tried that, Google would appeal. This case is clearly spurious, akin to confusing Apple maps location settings with Bing search's location settings, but the cost isn't worth fighting over.
Acrobat on the phone? Brave :D
They're saying that the two 13s performed identically when they were tested.
Whether a person/group is defined with the label "predator" is uninteresting. Because that is about definitions of words and categories, which has no consequence on policy.

The right question is what policies help people, and what policies hurt people. Morally charged judgements cloud our thinking.

I can easily argue that alcohol sales are predatory. They are often selling to alcoholics who are damaging their bodies. They contribute to drunk driving deaths and domestic violence. But there is no policy corollary or implication to me doing that.
Have you bot seen what Kia and Hyundai are doing?
Wouldn’t bother rebuilding civilisation, I’d probably want eXoDOS though.
> World War II started... when Hitler invaded Poland.

The Chinese might disagree.
Look to the Fuji GFX 100S for the future of digital cameras. Large optics + a medium format surface area sensor at 100MP is not something phones can rival anytime soon (or perhaps even ever, given the physics at play and the form factor phones require).

Right now you need to drop ~$6k to get started with digital medium format, but hopefully that’ll be sub $1k a few years down the line.
Would you say it's similar to the problems that modern c++ has with older (pre c++-11 even) code? I quite like modern c++ and use it along with rust, but haven't done a lot with older code bases (my definition being before the c++11 standard became commonplace) . We enforce it at work, although we have a few c libraries in the mix, that we plan on "rewriting" when "we" get the chance (I don't see that happening :) ) . Just curious. I have done nothing in php other than a couple of silly examples and setting up a couple servers to use wordpress.
Oatly is a Swedish company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatly
What would one use as a media for long-long-term storage, taking only into account the resisiliance of the ability to read the data from it?

For example if you wanted to store data in a time capsule for like 100 or 200 and you where ganrateed the people on the other side had a reader capable of reading whatever media, and whatever format you chose.
Article 2

> This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:
in the course of an activity which falls outside the scope of Union law;

Article 3

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:
(a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or
(b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

Article 4

> ‘controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;

It is about data controllers, not companies - independent of the location of the controller. Celsius might be in the clear due to Article 2 (IANAL), but GDPR definitely applies to data controllers who have no EU subsidiaries irrespective of whether they are a company.
When I was younger I started doing a lot of personal mixtapes as a hobby.
A few years later, I moved to "mix cds".

These are all made from my personal music collection (which is not backed up in optical media).

Just saying, because CDs to me became just a transient media to, say, transport music to my car's stereo[1].

Because of this I never really bothered about longevity, they are just digital cassettes.

[1] - Yes, I could replace my car CD player with something else, but now it's a nostalgia thing :)
Nomacs is about as cross-platform as it gets.

Aero snap (or whatever Win+arrows is called now) is not a replacement for a tiling wm, and you being happy to finally have a _terminal_, of all things, is just sad.
Yes, it is another example of software eating the world. Sony, for example, makes most of the sensors that find their way into smartphones the world over, but their own phones with the same sensors are not at the top-level at all.

Google really kicked off the computational photography space, Huawei made some leaps and bounds improvements to it, and now Apple is following up. Unfortunately thanks to US policies we don't have real competition to Apple since Huawei was kneecapped. Other Chinese companies learned their place.

I would love a versatile camera in a phone like what I have in my Chinese phone that cost under $500 - a 108mp camera with a large sensor, 3x and 5x telephoto zoom, and an ultrawide.
This is all true, but having a camera that’s even vaguely comparable which is in your pocket most the time, with functional software and near seamless upload/offload/sharing makes it vastly more desirable.
What's the missing secret sauce that the anonymous apple employee alludes to? Any guesses?
Now we know for sure that big tech peddles despair, we must protect ourselves
In the "Swedish 7-bit ASCII", the C code "a || b" would look like "a öö b". The same character mappings were used in Finland, and that's why IRC count the characters {|}[\] as letters (that would typically have been displayed as "äöåÄÖÅ").

On the Compis II computer (a CP/M machine built on the 80186 CPU), there were places for {|}[\] in the character set, but they were in the top half of the 8-bit characters and not generally useful for programming.
For dummies like me who didn't know what a chiplet is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiplet

This seems to be about the third reason listed:

> Known good die (KGD): chiplets can be tested before assembly, improving the yield of the final device

Problem:

> In general, a killer defect is defined as a defect that is 20% the size of the fabrication node. For
> example, a defect that is less than 9nm may be acceptable for the 45nm fabrication node, but a defect
> larger than 2.8nm would be defined as a “killer” defect for the 14nm fabrication node. For the 5nm
> fabrication node, a defect measuring only 1nm could be a killer.
>
> This is one of the primary reasons that it has become increasingly difficult to yield large monolithic
> ICs (as measured in die area) when using leading edge fabrication process technology

Solution: I understood it from the visual explanation in the first chip image (AMDArt2 png) and its description in this article:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/06/09/amd-on-why-chiplets-...
Scsh: Open-source Unix shell embedded within Scheme
replying to a group conversation (reddit thread, hackernews comments, twitter chain, etc) is closer to a mob than an individual activity.
Agreed about the concrete. Fortunately there are efforts to replace concrete (in general) with other materials - some organic (fungi).

> Plus, an unreinforced concrete dome

This is not a dome. It could conceivable be more population dense if/when they figure out how to magically get rebar into it :P. But that's not going to happen; and the real future benefits are likely going to be along the "working with nature" approach (where you use natural growing/expanding processes and direct them to suit your needs).

In terms of future human survival, I'm surprised there's so little shown or seen regarding underground living. While obviously more complex due to the excavation and reinforcement processes, the survival and energy benefits are much higher. And with modern light gathering/direction tech, it doesn't have to be devoid of daylight.
Fun fact: in some countries it's illegal for citizens to take illegal drugs even if they're abroad in a place where it's legal. E.g. if a Korean smokes weed during a visit to Amsterdam, they can be prosecuted for it upon return to Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_South_Korea#Kor...
Any references about the BluRay claim? Genuinely curious
Anyone with kids also takes vastly more photos with the camera that’s readily accessible and has good sharing capabilities. Would the nice camera with big lenses take even 1/100th as many images as the phone?
I was a fan of the matte white top printable taiyo udens.

Back in my sharing early days, I probably had like 1000+ dvds of anime, movies, hk film, games etc easily.

I had so much media that I didn't have time to watch it all, let alone watch it again in the future (there are some gems that I actually went out and purchased retail copies).

Plus alot of the shit would get released at higher quality making my archive obsolete (not always)

One day I just chucked it all out.... Years of archiving, downloading, burning ripping.

Was a waste of time and money in hindsight
Even if the Moore's law is not dead, single-thread performance and clock frequency have plateaued 10 years ago. This is the key factor. Because of heating even if you squeeze more transistors onto a chip you need to reduce the clock, so even if you may get higher computational throughput the latency will go down. And this is another argument for chiplets or any other alternative computational architectures.
Satellite Formations for Space Advertising: Feasible and Economically Viable
There's a rather huge prefab industry here in Estonia. Starting from small pre-fab components (such as a single small wall section) to some houses that are essentially 90% completed in the factory.

If you have the foundation already done, then the assembly of the rest of the house takes around 3-5 days

Random promo video of one company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqAxoBAE2pc.
Archive link?
>A good food for this is flaxseed which is 1:3.5 which is less than fish which can be 1:30 or higher but does not come with the problems of consuming fish

May I ask what problems there are with eating fish?
Some docs that I think are good:

- https://www.sketch.com/docs/

- https://www.notion.so/help

- https://www.pixelmator.com/support/guide/pixelmator-pro/
Paper?

We have family photos from the 1800s. Every bit of computer data I have from the 90 is gone.. except what I printed out.
Also android app https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fmsys.snapdrop/
A team lead does not need to be:

a) the most experienced amongst the team in any particular language

b) the most experienced amongst the team in any particular domain

c) the go-to person for any particular problem

The whole point of a team is to cover several different sets of knowledge and experience because no one person can know it all or do it all. A leader does their best to enable this collective to produce the best it can.

Leaders know this.
let doesn't return the numeric value of the expression as an exit code:

> If the last ARG evaluates to 0, let returns 1; let returns 0 otherwise.

Which allows you to do things like:

while let --i; do some command; done

or

if let x > 4; then some command; fi
Why You Should Build a Portfolio of Small Bets [video]
I’m in awe. Spectacular.
Re: 2)

The amendment says: “the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.”

Not zero out, but rather reduce.

Regardless, the conservative SCOTUS would never enforce this anyways.