skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web demo for anyone interested takes about 2 minutes to run: https://huggingface.co/spaces/osanseviero/point-e

Seems super fast, some are saying 600x faster [0], than than the version made off of Google's paper. But it is a little less accurate. Point clouds are less useful but some on Reddit and the authors have tools to try to convert to meshes [1][2]. It does feel like stable diffusion level generation of good 3d assets is right around the corner. It will be interesting to see which tech wins out, whether it's some variant of depth estimation like sd2 and non ai tools can do, object spinning/multi angle view like Google's tool does, or whatever this tool does.

[0] https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1605175485897625602?t=H_...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/zqq1ha/ope...

[2] https://github.com/openai/point-e/blob/main/point_e/examples...
Kiwi! But yes, polite way of saying my hearing is fucked. Odd phrase... if I were to use that in the context of actual fucking, I'd consider it a vulgar way to put it!
There are other methods of detection and signatures that, assuming similar civilizations to our own also follow similar energy use growth patterns, should be detectable at very far distances in other ranges of wavelength.
how will this be abuse proof?

scenario: You share a link with me, earn $0.50, i notice people willing to pay for it.

I then go on to create my own link once I have access to the site. I now earn the money.

I can also share the original link once I paid.

This is also ripe for abuse because it intentionally hides the original url, so it could be taking you to a scam site after a paywall. Or worse, if you always conceal the original url, the perfect way to get people to pay and put in their google passwords into another site.

I cannot see this being anything positive.
I don't really know the company, how is it possible to lose so much money? It seems to me that 350 employees are too many for such low sales, maybe half, or a third or even less, could be sustainable.
They had channel-type reactors before the RBMK (essentially earlier generations of the design) that were smaller. Could be what these are.
https://rivian.com/fleet
That seems like it would be a fun side project to work on... Thanks for the idea!
The roadmap says it doesn't support notebooks or quick sheets though. Those are kind of the main feature of the remarkable.

EDIT: Roadmap updated, so we're on the same page :)
I understand that Li-ion production is limited, but I think USPS could be 100% Hybrid, PHEV, or Electric moving forward.

I understand that EVs are boutique items that use lots of limited Li-ion cells. But Hybrid technology is very good these days, and USPS stop-and-go style movement only makes regenerative braking more important. Hybrid is the "lightest weight" style regenerative braking car, so I'd like to see Hybrids across the fleet. At a minimum.
Many open source software license have an automatic revocation clause in the event of litigation too. Considering the viral nature of software libraries, that could make life very difficult for people too.
can someone explain a bit the reasonning behind banning opposing lawyers from the defendant's venue?

I feel like it's to reduce "on the ground" discoveries in civil cases, but I don't understand why, as far as I know those are neither forbidden nor unethical, there is a later opportunity to debate whether those discoveries gets introduced as evidence in the case.
Clojure. Some many Clojure libs, and state-of-the-art Java libraries available through interop.
I agree that they main point of ethics is providing a decision framework in the grey areas (if they were clear-cut, there would be no discussion).

But that seems off-place here. It leads to the question about "when is it okay to steal?" There's an obvious "defense of necessity", but that doesn't stop at stealing someone's means to a living. If it's legal to steal food in a disaster, it doesn't matter if that food comes from a neighbor's pantry or the bakers shelfs. The colloquialism described seems like one of those heuristics that feels true at first glance but quickly breaks down on further inspection (which is what a lot of ethical debate seeks to accomplish).
How long does it take to convert 2d to 3d?

I found out about Kaedim a few weeks ago and when I saw this repo, it came to my mind as well.
Clicking a link and getting to a page without mentioning what I'm paying for is highly suspicious.
Can you point me to some good examples? I use it for text replacement but their own site is fairly sparse for creative uses.
Here's how we know this isn't true: they evaluated how to do this at scale, chose facial recognition, and then implemented it successfully in a 6,000 person stadium.
When societies will intervene to stop suicide while simultaneously allowing for government sanctioned assisted suicide, it means that the morality or "rightness" of an act is only now defined by whether the proper paperwork was filled out.
I have come to form a strong opinion regarding software development people: In general we are more comfortable with operational complexity than conceptual complexity. (A somewhat wider sense of conceptual, to include architecture, structure, etc.)

Some of us, like me and possibly you, are more comfortable with conceptual complexity but abhor operational complexity. This [division] mirrors the society at large, imo, but was masked during the early days a couple+ of decades ago when software geeks were truly geeks. That subset of demographics never was upset by complexity per se, only un-necessary complexity was a cause for getting upset. The general demographics is bothered by complexity, period.

Companion theory partly based on this opinion is that as the community grew by orders of magnitude from say late '80s to '10, it began to more closely resemble the general population. So the degeneration of keep it simple, stupid (KISS) to mean keep it stupid and simple is an economic and social phenomena.

We are workers in a field with an arts and craft mentality on the production side and global industrial demand on the consumer side. The factory worker plugin iPhones together is not asked to think conceptually. The factory worker making software widgets in some IT department however has to come up with an ad-hoc 'assembly-line' with his or her teammates. Of course they are going to poo poo conceptual complexity. What does it bring to the table for them or the production line?

In contrast, learning (or copy/pasting) n chants for m different infra-beasts to get your widget online seems far more reasonable and far more bangs for mental bucks.
> political terf wars

Misspelling turf wars as "terf" while writing about wokism is just too funny a coincidence to not mention.
We should be thankful for people like Mr. Gates, he sets an example we should follow. Role models are powerful, and he is among the top.
Fair enough, I interpreted it a bit differently.

Of course on any project I might be able to deliver the same in less time, but then at the expense of something else. That might be acceptable if the boss thinks he can manage the other clients which work gets delayed.
I would agree with that.

For example some people want to redefine rape to include sex you regret, and violence to include saying naughty things.
Again, what monopoly are you talking about?

The market of high end computers? Apple definitely does not have a monopoly there. Bringing in US medicine is not really a relevant arguement.
> The Amazon forest was man-made

Was it?
No crypto company is worth that much. Coinbase market cap is under $10B. Binance can’t really be trusted and isn’t transparent. We don’t know how much true crypto activity there is. Most daily activity could be wash trading and other activities that don’t help a legit platform. We don’t know if crypto can be a strong part of a huge right wing platform. There’s no reason to believe it can be in the foreseeable future.

Fox owned MySpace and failed spectacularly with it. They technically tried niching down when they sold the site to Justin Timberlake. Fox itself is doing well enough, but only has a market cap of $16B including their non-right wing assets too.

Truth and Gab have to use non right wing code for their platforms. Code that the coders don’t want either platform to use. Truth wasn’t even giving them credit before.
No. Only the supreme court can that. /s
Why I am just learning of this... the box is priceless.

"it has the WiFi's!!"
It is hilariously backwards.

The most common cases of accessibility refer to accommodations made for deaf and blind people within day-2-day interfaces. Guess which 2 have no need for accessible parking ? -> Deaf and blind people.

We should start harvesting George Carlin's grave. It could power the entire world with how fast he's turning in it.
My first thought was that this was made for crypto locker payments.

The locker displays the qr code and polls for payment status
I'm on a $12k Dell workstation. Modeling and simulation work.
I was agreeing right up to the last sentence:

> Reason companies like google are exposing their internal LLMs are they are not production ready to handle 50 billion queries a day

If anyone can do that, Google can. Even at that scale, I'd bet Amazon and Microsoft can also do that right now, possibly also Apple and Twitter, and the only reason I'm not listing Tesla is that (to my surprise) SOTA image AI uses way less RAM than SOTA text AI, and Tesla's probably all about image data.

Nah, all of them have got a lot of potential reasons why they might not make them public, but I don't see that being one of them, and especially not Google given how often they jump in with half-baked launches that they try to make work later.
FR = ?
> It's not inherently corrupt for a representative to vote in a way that's not a perfect representation of their constituents' opinion polling.

That's not what we're discussing. Up-thread, I responded to:

"...paid-off politicians who act on behalf of a few oligarchs to block popular policy changes".

That behavior, if it is happening, is what I'm claiming is corruption, even that kind of behaviour is the norm nowadays, and voters don't vote this kind of corruption out, or even call it out as corruption.

> There's no allegation that the Governor has been bribed...

Correct. The allegation is as I quoted above. It is not my allegation; I'm merely discussing appropriate voting behaviour if it were true.
Like another poster said, this seems like more overpolicing to not get caught up by sesta/fosta. The site gives off a bunch of pornography red flags between its phrasing in the copy, and the fact that all of its teachers appear to be models and not just physically fit humans. If this government was willing to go after my business for supporting pornography, and I had to decide if this site would fall under the government's definition(I know it when I see it[1]), this would be a zero hesitation decision to bin as porn.

edit: adding on to their porn flags, their main splash page updates the image everytime you navigate to it. It appears to be entirely comprised of images of the top half of their female models showing neither their male models or any full yoga poses. This is the kind of tongue in cheek "were totally not engaging in that behavior you said wasn't allowed" setup that isn't going to convince the government you're regular non porn content

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
This is absolutely nothing new. Adfly (adf.ly) was the popular version of this 10 years ago. Often modders would put their mediafire links behind adfly to get a little revenue.
readinglength.com can give you an estimate based on page count, which, if you wanted to build your own tool, is freely available for most books via Open Library's API.
Banning someone because they're part of a protected class is typically the only exception, and not applicable here.
Any other occupation isn't allowed to use their occupation to retaliate

Sure they do. It happens all the time. Politicians do it. Food service workers. Tradesmen.

One place I worked pissed of a local plumber's union, and guess what — a week later the city condemned the sewer pipe leaving the building. Once we made up with the union, the city magically changed its mind.
I don't think being fired could every be construed as a pure win, but it has accelerated my plans of looking elsewhere.
Even if it's not your main account, it could be bad if your account details were leaked.
That mental calcification, if it's so universal, seems like it's probably partly physiological in nature. It's the sort of thing that could be changed, in time, if people wanted to make themselves more or less neuroplastic.
The talent exodus from Apple and its subsequent effects on their ability to keep delivering have been suggested for a while now:

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/apple-cpu-gains-grind-to-a-ha...

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/apple-m2-die-shot-and-archite...
I was curious about the parent commenter's approach with the sorts of questions they ask as they are more open-ended, but also somewhat knowledge-gated. I was interested in any potentially unique techniques they employ. However, I was not looking to specifically fix anything with how I conduct my interviews.

My first question is a very specific coding question and it's a weed-out question. So if someone doesn't figure it out, they've been weeded out, simple as that. I ensure that candidates don't waste time figuring out nit-picky edge-cases and give appropriate hints when they're utterly stuck, but the question does its job very well.
> So now companies don't put that as the termination reason, & fire them anyway for 'culture fit'. Or leave the term reason blank, b/c 'At-Will'.

No, for large companies (those at risk of being sued) it works the other way round: they collect very detailed data to objectively justify any firing, otherwise they are at high risk of losing a discrimination lawsuit.

Hence "improvement plans", "needs improvement" ratings, etc, etc.

It is likely true that small and medium companies can get away with abuse though.
Remarkable article, with notable works entering public domain in 2023, but also giving plenty of context why we are better off to resist abusive copyright trolls.
Looking around at insane and drugged up street people (for instance) intuitively I say "Yes definitely, and it should be more widely practiced!".

Then I remember how the definition of mental illness has changed over the years and think how it might change in the future, and now I'm not so sure.
I'm not 100% certain about quick sheets just yet, I'm going to do a more thorough test soon, but notebooks _are_ supported as of last week, the Roadmap hadn't been updated yet.

Good catch though! Thanks

Edit: The roadmap has been updated: https://scrybble.ink/roadmap
I find that part of the reason a book can feel so great is because of the time investment. If you could somehow read Count of Monte Cristo in 5 minutes and absorb all the information I don't think it would have the same impact. So basically you need the "dull" or at least more mundane parts of the story so that the climax can exist and actually feel climactic.

Semi related, but I feel like this is one of the reasons that a lot of Japanese RPG games are 80-100 hours long. It feels much more like a long adventure and despite a large percentage of it being mundane it really adds to the emotional investment in what you are doing.
But he isn't, though?

If I do not want X at my establishment, then what does it matter whether X is picked out of a single file line by a bouncer or picked out of a crowd by a security camera? I don't want them there. In what manner they showed up is irrelevant to me.

And you're comparing apples and oranges. This is a specific person who is a lawyer for a firm which is actively working against MSG, not some nebulous class of individual.
Good comment. I would add that our Sun is alone, while up to 85% of solar systems are at least binary. It's possible multi-star systems make life more difficult. Similarly, Earth's magnetosphere may be uncommon, since we don't see a similar one on Mars or Venus. And maybe Earth's rotation is uncommon and many planets are tidally locked.

I wonder, though, how this stacks against the sheer size of our galaxy. There are 100 - 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, including about 4 billion Sun-like stars. Plus we keep revising estimates upward when it comes to exoplanets. Recent observations seem to indicate that 33% - 90% of Sun-like stars have rocky planets at a distance where liquid water is possible.

Are features like an unusually large Moon or a protective gas giant so rare that our planet and solar system are truly unique?
One school district I worked for a long time ago used to label backup tapes with color codes. This is a bad idea in general, but the real issue was the official complaints:

Lemon — suggests that the system is of poor quality, or substandard.

Black — racist.

Brown — also racist.

Pink — too girlie for straight male staff.

And so on.

Eventually they had to change the system because this went all the way up to the minister of education.

”They’re just colors of the rainbow Karen! No, not the gay one!”
If everyone moved their money to credit unions, they'd become just as bad as banks.
Wonder platform – publish Unreal Engine games to the browser using WebAssembly
No.

The only way Hooters could in principle discriminate on the basis of race is if they come up with some first amendment pretext for it; e.g. the waitress job is actually an artistic performance and for some reason the art demands the performer be a certain race. That works for movie productions, but for a bar hiring waitresses? In practice it wouldn't work because the courts and the public would both write you off as an obvious racist.
Even with market reforms, I think they would have fallen victim to the addiction to energy revenues that's poisoned so many energy exporting economies. Breeds corruption, croneyism, and discourages investment in other industries.

Maybe Norway is the only exception.
It's losing incredible amounts of money... how is it possible to still have 650M market cap when you lose almost as much money as you have revenue... and next year doesn't look that much better...
Human beings survived through the last glaciation which saw temperatures much lower than current as well as through the Holocene climatic optimum which saw higher temperatures than what is expected now. We're also quite adaptable which makes us one of the few species to be found everywhere on the planet. Whatever the climate will throw at us will be solved using the same technology which is currently used (and has been used for more than 400 years) by e.g. the Dutch to keep the sea out, by those living in warmer regions to keep the temperature down, by the Israelis to create fertile land from what was a desert and more. We'll lose a few percent in GDP growth which means we'll only be 300% richer instead of 320%. With 'we' I do not mean we here in Sweden or the west but we as a species.

On your tax theory I'd suggest to have a look at reality instead of Laffer curves. Reality shows that new taxes tend to stick around, even when they are first presented as being temporary measures. The Dutch will remember "het kwartje van Kok" - prime minister Kok's quarter - which was a "temporary" 25 cents extra tax on fuel. Kok is long gone but the tax is still there. Income tax in the USA was a temporary measure put in place by Lincoln in 1862 and was supposed to terminate in 1866. As fas as I know USofAmericans still pay this tax more than 150 years after it was supposed to be abolished. If that isn't long enough what about the UK income tax? Introduced by William Pitt the Younger as a temporary measure to meet the cost of the Napoleonic Wars it was abolished for a year in 1802 and then for longer in 1816, a year after the Battle of Waterloo after which it was reintroduced, temporarily, in 1842 by Sir Robert Peel. It still has to be renewed by parliament every year. 220 years after it was supposed to be abolished this tax is still being paid.

Also, leaving "alternative" energy sources relatively untaxed only works when those sources are available. It surely does not help to know sun and wind power are relatively untaxed when the wind and sun don't cooperate. Have a look at energy prices in Europe to get an idea of what I mean. My mother just sent me her energy (natural gas and electricity) bill, it eats up almost ⅔ of her state pension - just for natural gas and electricity. This is not just "Putin's fault", it is a direct consequence of years of utopian policies enacted by "green" politicos who insisted on closing down nuclear power in Germany without thinking of the consequences. Germany now burns Lignite ("brown coal", one of the dirtiest types of coal) again due to the lack of natural gas and the closure of their nuclear power plants.

So my answer stands, please drop the silly hyperbole around 'extinction', it does not make any sense whatsoever. The same goes for those taxes, they need to be targeted and the proceeds need to be directly used for related purposed or they'll end up like so many others, just a way to extract some money from the populace.
GNU Common Lisp 2.6.13 Is Released
My dad told me not to steal.
Reminds me of the Homer Simpson's control room, #5 especially so
Gab is nearing age 6. Stormfront and chans with alt-right focus have been around longer than 2 years. Qanon began on 4chan over 5 years ago. Rumble is 9 years old at a $2B market cap with no profits in sight. Parler is over 4 years old and tried to sell itself by tricking Kanye West.

Rumble and Gab should be profitable now if you brought up FB becoming profitable at 5. This is all before FB found it’s mobile ads focus and became the behemoth it is now.
It's possible but requires more hardware hacking. The only accessible port on an unmodified Game Boy is the cartridge slot, which doesn't carry the video signal. The point of this article is to use an unmodified console, which means you can only access what can be seen from the cartridge slot, which is activity on the memory/IO bus, and so this project recreates the video from that.

To do what you propose, you'd have to open it up and add hardware hooked in to the connection that goes to the LCD. Someone's probably done that somewhere; it's a different scope than the project here.
We should form a support group. Even though I'm pushing Mypy as hard as possible, there's some notable areas it can't help, like unittest.mock call assertions.
Abiogenesis happened Way too early in earths development for there not to be life elsewhere imho
> "When you apply for a mortgage you are informed in advance that it might be sold. In fact, when I got mine I was told it would be sold. This information is given to every applicant as a legal requirement and people who don't like it don't need to go through with the application."

Ah yes, the good ol' American practice of victim blaming: "Well, we specifically told you we'd screw you over; look, it's in paragraph 151, subsection 15, article G of the document you signed as we hovered over you impatiently that time you came in when we didn't tell you we were closing 10 mins after that appointment we setup the day before the deadline to sign... so it's really YOUR fault!"
In this case, I think the manager cares less about the success of the project and more about their own success.

Cynically, he made me the scapegoat for his unreasonable project plan and execution.

Less cynically, he knows he could find another engineer to pick it up next quarter. I'm not that critical.