skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is commercial code, so I can’t share it. However, algorithm is really simple to implement in Houdini:

* Generate depth image from 3D meshes

* Send depth image to local HTTP server running Hugging Face diffusers library. Generate textured image.

* Cast textured image to a 2D plane surface that covers the camera extends.

* Traverse the UV surface of the 3D meshes and find closest point on the 2D stable diffusion image plane. Copy the RGB value to UV texture and you’re done.
the silver line is some of the worst urban planning of all time. some of the stations (loudon gateway) are literally only accessible by car
Not exactly "easier". These two time windows are the only times you can see satellites. The rest of the night there's no sunlight falling on satellites when they are in line of sight to you.
So does Chrome though. Can't speak to the overlap with flags. If a large part of it's just exposing all that then I suppose that's good... But wouldn't you just have it be the same key:value pair as on that page, behind a single flag?
Or it's a trick and the mere fact that you're seeking answers and asking for help is the wisest move of all.
This may sound like an insane number. But as a Chrome developer, the number of flags was never an issue for me. You don't need to test every permutation of flags because almost all of them are unsupported, best-effort kinds of things with a very small scope. You only need to test the default configuration. Compared to the other sources of complexity in Chrome (primarily portability, sandboxing, backwards compatibility, and the sheer scope of the provided APIs), flags are nothing.
Aka "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make": https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Again, what's the use of MSc+ level math in ML? A good BSc course teaches you in the 1st year linear algebra up to the eigenvalues theory, and diff equations up to fairly involved numerical methods. Just these two subjects are way more than necessary for applied ML.

I'd go even further and claim that ML has no theory on its own: it's a bunch of methods based on simple linear algebra. Unlike a proper math subject that begins with axioms, definitions and theorems, an ML course would have nothing like that. One shining example is convergence of an ML model: there is no theory that would predict convergence, so the only way is ad-hoc attemps to massage the data and hyperparameters.
Why do you need to regret spending money if you don't use what you spent it on?
1. Make sure you have all your toppings ready before you begin assembling your pizza.

2. When you grab your dough ball (before you stretch it), coat it with flour. This is critical.

3. Stretch the dough on a floured counter top. Only transfer to your lightly floured peel when it is ready to be dressed. This reduces the amount of time it is on the peel.

4. Work quickly once your dough is on the peel.

NOTE: If white flour isn't working as a barrier on the peel, consider rice flour or corn meal as they don't absorb water like white flour does.
It's like asking for peace in Europe in 1939. I'm afraid it's a bit late; no attempts to pacify would bring any sustained peace. They will only bring about a Russia more prepared to fight a bigger war :(

«I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.»

This is incredibly depressing, but the faster we pass the phases of denial, anger, bargaining, and depression, turn towards acceptance, and prepare for more and harder fighting, the higher are our chances to win.
And that portion of the DC area is textbook "50s/60s sprawl". What's your point?
Every new/subsequent round of funding will dilute your shares or options. If you have good management and investors, they will add "anti-dilution" shares when new funding is taken so early hires are re-incentivized. Stay on their minds via performance and make sure they know you know about "anti-dilution". If they think you are essential they will make sure you stay.

Remember that ALL early investors are diluted when new money comes in. For example the first Angel investor may opt to add more money to new investment rounds to buy anti-dilution shares. Think of your continued contributions as adding more value in return for anti-dilution shares.

That said, getting rich from options is a fool's bet. Take a good salary then save and invest it. You'll be better off and the risk is much lower. You are far too close to the situation right now to judge the likelihood of success for your startup and have no idea how many factors hidden to you will make or break that bet. FTX, Theranos, ...

The reason VCs can play this game is that they have certain advantages and they place 100 bets to one success. You can place only one in that same timeframe. Even they would not play that game.
Also, https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/flags
As far as I can tell, default subs haven't been a thing for many years now. The new reddit UI will ask you to pick topics you are interested in and show you subs related to those. And that UI shows an absolutely huge number number of subs so if you pick your country as an interest, it will show you quite small local related subs for example.
> Someone adversarial to me could bribe a number of people to get answers to 10 different password hints.

OP's hints are probably more generous than they need to be. (Indeed, knowing that password is name + flower + name + two-word-thing, plus the fact that there is no limit to the speed you could brute-force this, means that someone could probably make a custom dictionary and break this in a couple days.)

But you can easily have hints and make it harder. In Evernote I store a few passwords to things, and the hints are more opaque ("grey" refers to my old grey cat, for instance) but they're also all prepended with a 15-character master password that changes in subtle ways depending on the service they're used for. This isn't in the hint, it's just in my head.
This is a very interesting video. Is this a leaked private conversation?

It’s fascinating how servile and delicate the speakers are (George Hotz?) while challenging Elon. No wonder Musk has made so many bad decisions surrounded by yes men like these.
FWIW, symmetric encryption like AES-256 GCM is just astoundingly unlikely to be “broken” in the next ~20 years (or perhaps ever…)

There’s more of a case for public-key stuff changing, but this doesn’t rely on anything public key.
Wow. Talk about missing the point entirely.
Putting aside the need for an audience, I think the whole personal wiki or Zettelkasten thing helps with writing for yourself as the process becomes about building up your network of thoughts, then browsing it, writing back into it, … etc.
The Bazel documentation does tend to repeat them in multiple sections, though.

It also doesn't include many "undocumented"/experimental flags, which are hidden in release notes or only mentioned in the source code.
In my late teens I might have done 10 or 20K per year. My late teens were a long time ago, and now something in my left should really doesn't like pushups.

More power to you.
Sure, "white elites". It's comparable to the USSR imo. Universities are heavily politicized because the university has a privileged role in society and is therefore useful for executing an agenda. Diversity does not mean what you think it means. You might as well complain about the left more broadly because they have an agenda which is not "we want equality and to help all people regardless of race". It's not that at all.
Multiple pictures is doable, but adds some complexity to the generated code so decided to do without. Also, there's a trivial workaround (zip file with multiple pictures).
There is a crossover point on VoIP providers where the unlimited plan is worth it if your phone is making more than X minutes a month. I'm sure they'll switch it if they reach this point.
At their whim
Modern movies are crap. All too often the producers get lazy and draw in the suckers with second-rate prequels, sequels and remakes. I get really pissed off when remakes completely change the story-lines and use the same titles. Disney is notorious for doing this. Look at all the movies they've made using well-known classic stories and just count the number of times the movies deviate completely from the books.

How about a bit of new imaginative writing instead of the same boring old formulas of films that worked in the past?

Put all the Marvel movies together and you'd be hard-pressed to see any worthwhile differences between them.
The Back Page: Graduate Students Should Be Paid Living Wages
because there are no branches in google3 (the monorepo which stores virtually all internal code) flags are used to guard code paths rather than branches.

E.g I know in just one client-facing app there is well over a thousand flags, all individually owned and monitored by various individuals and teams wishing to either experiment or launch features.
A friend used to call this kind of setup flag-oriented programming.

I've suffered it when working for engineering companies where the PMs understood the logic but didn't understand why it's a bad idea to just create branches for everything.

Not sure why programmers would inflict this "methodology" on themselves. And no, sorry, I'm not going to read the article. Too soon.
What prevents a more general solution like using @flagfiles instead of literally specifying them as arguments?
From man cdrecord:

Bugs

Cdrecord has even more options than ls.

Chrome puts cdrecord to shame.
While it's true that we don't know how intelligence/creativity/reasoning "works" there's an even more basic problem: It's not a well formed notion.

"The result is that there is no hard problem… You can’t look for the answer to a problem unless you say here are the things I want to answer. If the things you want to answer have no formulation there is no problem.” (Chomsky, about the question of consciousness)."

“There is a great deal of often heated debate about these matters in the literature of the cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind, but it is hard to see that any serious question has been posed. The question of whether a computer is playing chess, or doing long division, or translating Chinese, is like the question of whether robots can murder or airplanes can fly — or people; after all, the “flight” of the Olympic long jump champion is only an order of magnitude short of that of the chicken champion (so I’m told). These are questions of decision, not fact; decision as to whether to adopt a certain metaphoric extension of common usage.

"There is no answer to the question whether airplanes really fly (though perhaps not space shuttles). Fooling people into mistaking a submarine for a whale doesn’t show that submarines really swim; nor does it fail to establish the fact. There is no fact, no meaningful question to be answered, as all agree, in this case. The same is true of computer programs, as Turing took pains to make clear in the 1950 paper that is regularly invoked in these discussions. Here he pointed out that the question whether machines think “may be too meaningless to deserve discussion,” being a question of decision, not fact, though he speculated that in 50 years, usage may have “altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted” — as in the case of airplanes flying (in English, at least), but not submarines swimming. Such alteration of usage amounts to the replacement of one lexical item by another one with somewhat different properties. There is no empirical question as to whether this is the right or wrong decision. -- Chomsky"
1400 seems high until you see all the internal experiment flags. The configuration is literally several megabytes of configuration code that generates tens of megabytes of configuration protobuf message.
Laws are very open to interpretation by a judge. Basically any adjective, unless defined elsewhere in the law text, is open to be interpreted. Judges use thick books of example cases from the past. I think it will take a long time before their skills of interpretation of the law and considering past example cases can be replaced.
Copyright law today isn’t about physical goods, it’s now about giving the author of a work the right to control who can copy it. We as a society have decided to give all authors of all works a temporary monopoly, and the reasons for it are well documented.

I’m not sure I understand why wishing Nintendo to continue doing business supports the idea that you should be able to remix their work, which implicitly means you want people to be able to profit from their designs without necessarily adding value. There’s nothing at all stopping people from making new games, why do they want to mod Nintendo’s games without licensing them? Why should that be legal? And if it is legal, how do you continue to protect Nintendo when some of the “mods” will be people making straight copies, changing something trivial like the background color on the box, and selling it for full price while giving Nintendo none of the money? If you respond with, well put a standard for how much it must be changed in place, then consider why your standard should be any different than Fair Use.
Getting rid of 60% of the code, generally speaking is a productivity boost.
It's a bit more significant than a "few characters".

I'm pretty sure that developing with scripting languages is significantly faster than regular programming languages :p

Are you actually trying to argue against that?

Not sure why you think I was worshipping them?
Several hundred developers being knocked out by 20 developers is an impressive feat.
Buying two bikes to have a spare for a friend doesn't really work, unless all your friends are close to your height. If you're tall, you can't ride really short-frame bikes, and your short friends can't ride yours. Bikes aren't one-size-fits all. And depending on the bike, there's only so much adjustability.
Looks like these Journalists are effectively shadow banned.
>> But the Cannondale R300's mid 90's aluminum was even harsher and wrist-numbing. It'll rattle you to your core

My core still loves a polished weld! Made in the USA!
Hybrid cars' energy regeneration make sense because we must stop/slow down for many reason like crossroad. GP says it's not the case for airplanes. Possibly is military use exception?
Seems to have an issue with false positives:

https://wandering.shop/@janellecshane/109464780848248093
Really exciting to see. I remember when y'all started posting on reddit when they launched the profile page feature. Seems like you're always willing to try out new things. I'm hoping Mastodon catches on and replaces Twitter.
Given PixiJS is a 2D renderer by default I wouldn’t expect performance as high as Three.js. Pixi3D seems to be a way to add the occasional 3D object to your 2D drawn application.
It doesn't work on M1 last I checked. And anyway even if they updated Virtualbox for ARM, Oracle is predatory and sends nasty emails about paying up if they detect anyone in your company uses it.
Is syntax really that big of an obstacle to learning a first programming language? The semantics of a C-like language like Nim could hardly be more different to Python's, they're pretty much at opposite ends in the stack.
At that point, why not just use them as a library and call them as an API from bespoke command line tools?
Wow that picture is so cool. It has a ‘portal’ look to it, I feel like I’m in a sci fi future looking through a floating portal to the past.

Or maybe the video output from a terminator robot being sent back to the future (pun intended) me in my evil lair.

It has this unreal retro future feel that I’m struggling to put my finger on.

This whole thread was fascinating as well.
Yeah, definitely not 99%. I'd guess 50%.
Ha — was just outside of this place. Sure enough, someone was actually on a call on this thing!
guix pull; guix package --upgrade; guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
Some comments on the math subreddit by some folks going through the proof in case anyone with a more formal background is interested:

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/zruc58/221209835_a_no...
Well, one day during Kung Fu training a guy walked into the hall and started digging through one of the bags of the students. Nobody said anything, or even seemed to acknowledge what was going on, but I thought it strange and went over to ask him if he needed help (I'm one of the seniors, so I feel responsible).

One of my juniors then came over and clarified that the guy was his brother, so that was fine, but I rather prefer having that awkward experience than the unpleasant alternative.
I am pleased to see a language that focuses on good multithreaded support.

I tend to use Java and C for multithreaded problems but having the availability of Nim which looks similar to Python is really promising.
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When I was getting RSU's, yes, I sold them off immediately under Rule 10b5-1 (allows selling of stock on a predetermined schedule so as to avoid no-trade windows and insider trading issues). My rationale was that I'm exposed to stock performance already through staggered vest periods (as long as I have employment anyways), and it would be best to diversify the liquid cash, same as I do with salary.
I'm not a construction engineer by any means but there are a few things I can't warp my head around. Why are they using robots at all? It seems like a pretty big hassle to construct those robots that deposit large amounts of material with high pressure through a hole that needs to be drilled in their own tunnel.
Why not excavate the volume between the small boring holes with the same technique they used to create them in the first place? Bore those smaller holes with equal spacing, fill them with concrete, and then repeat for the volume in between.
What about steel? Not needed for in tunnels?
you may want to look here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810442/#:~:tex....

From the stores perspective, I can imagine that there are a few reasons why it can make sense for them to move out of impoverished areas even while demand exists there.

Wealthy customers who can easily travel to stores in impoverished areas are turned off by poor conditions and higher crime rates and will shop elsewhere. They may also feel less comfortable shopping in areas where the majority of the other customers are of a different race or culture. The stores and staff may themselves experience increases in theft, vandalism, and violence in low income areas. Stores can't sell as many overpriced items in low income areas where the majority of their clientele are struggling to afford necessities.

It really doesn't matter that a store can make a healthy profit by serving customers who live in a low income area. If that same store feels that they could make even greater profits by being in an area with wealthier customers, then that is exactly what we must expect they will do.
Rc and Arc require a general heap in Rust (pending support for local allocators, or Storages or whatever they end up with).
I feel like WebAssembly fits that description, in both the good and bad ways.
The name is confusing, but Nim's Arc is not the same as Rust's: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc.... Rust (and apparently Swift) uses Arc to refer to atomic reference counting, whereas Nim's means automatic. There's still overhead, but it would be more comparable to Rust's Rc, I believe.
Brain stimulation boosts hearing in rats with ear implants
OpenBSD is somewhat controversial in that a variety of its security claims don't make sense or work out in practice. As a whole, however, they do meaningful work so it's still worth donating.
This is a consistent pattern in the US. Without freedom of association people would rather just not socialize at all.
The problem described is not that you have to statically link your HIP kernels. (I think they even have https://gpuopen.com/orochi/ which explicitly allows compiling a single binary for both ROCm and CUDA).

The problem is that using machine code makes it machine-specific. So if I compile a HIP program for my gfx803 (RX 580) card, I won't be able to run the same binary on someone else's 6800 XT (gfx103x) system. (I think technically you can put both in a single binary, but that's still a terrible solution).

CUDA instead ships NVPTX, which is an IR that can be compiled by the driver to machine code as long as the GPU has the right compute capability, similar to how it works in the graphics world (you submit your GLSL/HLSL source code or SPIR bytecode) to the driver which compiles it for the right GPU.

Intel's oneAPI/Level Zero API ships SPIR-V, afaik (or maybe regular SPIR?). oneAPI can also work on top of OpenCL instead of L0. SPIR-V is neat because it's an open standard, so in theory you can get L0 working on non-Intel GPUs (and iirc Intel also uses it for e.g. FPGA's). But both SPIR-V and NVPTX solve the "machine-specific" problem AMD has.
no, the article itself at the end actually agrees that the proposed solution of many small, generalist instances is a pipedream:

"I personally don't think this will ever be possible, it can only serve as some nice little fantasy to keep me dreaming for better online spaces."

This can never work because generic instances have absolutely nothing that prevents them from growing. After all if a space has no strong, unique characteristics, there's nothing that stops anyone from coming in. This is the ultimate fate of every unopinionated internet community, it "Eternal September"'s itself.

The physical decentralization of Mastodon instances and the resulting tendency towards having unique instances with strict rules is the only thing stopping those instances from growing into a giant blob.
No I was simply using strong language to suggest that I feel strongly about it. I'm not sure where to draw the line but as a concrete example, I'd consider voting for a law which created a large tax to fund biodiversity protection. Say 10% of income for high earners, or perhaps a corporate tax, etc etc. At the end of the day its almost an aesthetic decision, I'd like to live in a world with high biodiversity and where humans are well integrated with nature, where there's animal crossings over roads and all kinds of ridiculous things like that, and I'd be willing to pay for it with some non-trivial amount. Anyway, I'm commenting on hacker news, don't take me too seriously.
When I hit that point I've found that books, textbooks, and YouTube videos can be a good resource.
To be fair, he pushes back pretty hard on Elon upsetting the employee lunch program...
The pocket guide to debugging
The standard they once met (which might have been 70 years ago) is not that good a measure of people’s driving skill today.
> Some secrets don’t belong in your password manager. Things like backup private keys, 2FS recovery keys, wallet keys, safe combinations, treasure maps, etc.

Why don't wallet keys, safe combinations and treasure maps belong in a password manager?
> let alone the physics underlying transistor design.

You think 50% of SWEs understand the physics of transistor design???
Didn’t Google have to patch their kernel to increase the maximum length of command line arguments, because the number of flags they actually use is so high?
Please do not willy-nilly dispose of beautiful pieces of interior design which likely won't ever be produced again with similar aesthetics. [1]

People constantly throwing away cultural heritage without any second thoughts is the reason why we barely have any left from only even more than 100 or 200 years ago - thousands of years of furniture, decoration, etc. are gone.

If you don't want them to be dangerous, make them safe.

If thats too complex for you, remove the cable and clearly label the backside with "DANGER! [...]" to explain that this shouldn't be used as is, and ideally put a letter inside which explains the technical details.

[1] Yes, I know there are things which are newly produced to "look" old. But they only do to people who aren't into that taste. If you are, all of the modern reproductions look like cheap, insufferable garbage.