skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a woman, but do have over a decade of experience looking at pictures of breasts.

To be honest with you, I don't think it would be possible to properly parameterise a boob based on nothing but still images. They all have different centres of mass, different elasticities, different shapes and different textures. Not to mention that different women engage in different activities that require different levels of support.

You might be able to get a fit using 3D scanners plus some sort of standardised jiggle generator, but by that stage you might as well just have a skilled consultant hand you a few different pairs to try on.
Years ago, I changed my bookmark for Facebook to the Events page [0]. Just that helped a lot, because the page has the notifications / messages jewels, but no feed; so getting to the feed requires waiting for FB to load, being dissatisfied by the jewel state, clicking on the feed, and then waiting for the feed to load.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/events/
> Some stuff they've done in my store doesn't make sense to me - for instance, separating fiction into hardback and paperback.

Eh, that makes sense to me: I really don't like hardback and will never voluntarily buy one, because manipulating the covers separate from the pages distracts from reading and makes me feel like I need 3-4 hands to manage it.
> This implies that things that aren't virtual currencies can still be a "representation of value".

Of course, for example: stocks/bonds.

> How are they not? Certainly under the plain face meanings of those words they are. There's a reason we call them "currencies".

They only have value in the video game world of Fortnite, not the real world. Nobody accepts V-Bucks for payment of goods/services.
It's not, like, a practical way to solve problems, but it's interesting in its own right.
Do you know that social media was the actual cause of their unhappiness?

Plenty of people are in long term relationships they can't stand for way too long, or careers, etc. I'm sure social media often plays a role but some relationships / jobs are just bad regardless of whether or not the grass is Instagram Green or not.
BBN, that is an acronym I haven't heard in years that brings back memories!

They've been around for a long time, but I didn't hear of them until the mid 1990's when I was running a system that ping'd all the major DNS servers (Internet Weather Report).

https://icannwiki.org/BBN
> Plaid, Simple, Clear, Square are all strong brands and trademarks, for example.

Sure, those are brands. I agree.

“Screen-scrape”, “I don’t know what simple is so it can’t be that great of a brand”,“Concierge” and “POS” would be bad brands that would likely fail trademark (in the same way peloton is a bad brand with limited trademark ability)
Well, no. Those two things go hand-in-hand.
Even tho "unemployment" is a percentage, increasing the denominator doesn't mean that you're holding the numerator steady. If anything, you are probably holding the total number of workers steady.
at least on the latest public beta, Apple Maps will suggest a “less turns” route in most cases. At least it did for me earlier
Does it matter? Not if the prompt received represents the same embedding inside the AI. The exact wording won't matter.

The missing stuff may ultimately just be ignored by the AI.
I mean if we're going to base the rights of humans off of what their respective countries say their citizens have, then with equal strength a country can declare that it has the right to keep its citizens in its own territory.
Oh for sure. This is America though. Economically it's as right wing as things get.
Yes, It’s Time to Ditch LastPass
See my other comment here [1]. The IRS removed that part to avoid freaking people out and because they don't actually care about the trivial amount of money being made on game currencies, not because it was an incorrect interpretation of the law. If you make $100K arbitraging V-Bucks you have always needed to pay tax on that, same as any other capital gain.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34169522
You can give it specs for a program. I just added some examples to my OpenAI-powered "natural language programming" site: https://aidev.codes
Oh my goodness, I typed "My Butt", and then couldn't catch my breath laughing.

A+, that was a journey I wasn't prepared for =P
What’s impressive about the Macintosh is that the team delivered a GUI—including significant design refinements from PARC and the Lisa—on top of a $2.5K machine with 128K of RAM.
US copyrights at the time these Holmes stories were published were good for 2 28-year terms, with a required renewal to get the second one. The Copyright Act of 1976 changed the term to "life of the author plus 50 years," but only for works created in 1978 or later. For works from before 1978 still in copyright under the old system, it extended the renewal term's length by 19 years for a new total of 75 years.

The US thereafter had no works enter the public domain until 1998, with the oldest works that were still covered at the '76 Act's date of effectiveness (those from 1922) having finally expired 20 years later (copyrights always run through the end of the calendar year they expire in).

Later that year, Congress tacked another 20 years onto all future and still-active existing copyrights with the Copyright Term Extension Act, so the public domain "paused" again until 2019, when works from 1923 entered the public domain. There have been no more extensions, so the following years have continued moving forward with successive years' works losing copyright protection. In 2023 the relevant year will be 1927.

The final Holmes stories at issue here are from 1927, and so will be public-domain on January 1. It will be quite some time before anything under the "life of the author" regime in the US will fall into the public domain: authors who published works and then also died in 1978 would have the soonest expiration, in 2049.
I thought the same thing at around 1:17 in the video; if they stopped the pitch axis movement 90 degrees earlier (so that the poles were aligned), it wouldn't be able to do the roll axis movement because it'd be in a gimbal lock position, right?

At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48#t=5m20s they show its behavior around the poles, but the motion it's doing right then is pitch, not roll.
Do you think GPT4 or GPT5, being multimodal, will do something similar?
What’s really grounded me is using a habit tracker and forcing myself to keep a string of positive habits alive - working out, meditation, writing, etc. Good habits keep me grounded when I’m feeling lost.

Something I do to block Reddit addiction is delete the app, log in through a private window (so I have to retype my password). Sometimes I also use a time limit.
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Why is the two step approach more of a concern than the one step approach where the government directly regulates the thing in question?
It can do simple demos. I have a site for that. https://aidev.codes
I would take normalizing name calling every 5 minutes over allowing society to have people worth $100B. This isn't hard at all. Elon and other multi-billionaires do not help the world. Name calling does not help the world. Name calling isn't an incredibly absurd abuse of society. We have homeless people. People going bankrupt from medical expenses. Then we have Elon worth $130B. Screw Elon. Elmo. Whatever. I'd much rather my children and the next generation know that being okay with billionaires is far worse than name calling. Civility makes sense, but not when society is even more screwed up because of people like Elon.

There's other far more important things for people to care about than name calling a billionaire. I'd fail my kids if they ever think the union busting and anti-labor and anti-people behavior Elon exhibits is remotely close to name calling. It would be cool if society could grow up and realize civility is bullshit when society has so many problems.
One chronos is the main one. I’m not sure what their current state of play is.
Have you tried renting? I love the folks at GoCamp [1] (no affiliation, I've just rented from them) and they've been great even after getting acquired by Storyteller.

[1] https://gocampcampervans.com/
Cool. Here's a list of more resources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170705193028/http://graphics.c...

v-- Vector, matrix, point, color, material, and lighting classes for C++9x, easy to port to C++11 onwards --v

https://web.archive.org/web/20150305000047/http://graphics.i...
My old iPad air2 for some reason makes sound through its own speakers, but won’t airplay it.

(And by “makes sound”, I mean it sort of stutters and jerks it’s way through with just enough going on that I can recognise the melody…)
I once designed a mirror array to track the sun and reflect the image on a solar panel to get more concentrated power (solars cells = expensive, mirrors = cheap). Obviously there are all kinds of limits to that but the interesting part in the current context was the drive: it started off with two motors per mirror and in successive iterations that went to one motor per row of mirrors and one motor per column to one for all the rows and one for all the columns and finally a single motor for all of the mirrors. It was mostly my lack of understanding about the way the sun and the earth interact over time at the beginning of the project that caused me to choose the most naive solution, but as understanding increased I saw more and more ways to optimize the whole thing ending up with a set of gears that resemble the relationship between the two bodies pretty much in the same way that a planetarium would do, with the angles of the mirrors as the function of the time of day and the position of the earth in its orbit around the sun as well as the axis of tilt.

That whole process took about a year and it looks to me as though this project is on a similar path of optimization, though it likely won't go much further than 3 motors, 4 gears assuming they can find a way to put the twist motor inside the spherical gear, which would come with its own challenges (supplying power, feedback).
Idk where you’re getting your info, but they’re globestar satellites and Apple invested half a billion dollars into that company.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-sat...
Hmm - I'm not sure if it supports or opposes your point, but Walker was also supported and interviewed by Andrew Huberman.

https://hubermanlab.com/dr-matthew-walker-the-science-and-pr...

Huberman has always been kind of interesting to me; his list of topics immediately makes him look like a bro-science peddler, but the guy kicks off all of his podcasts by talking about how he's a Stanford Neuroscience professor, and he reads all the journals himself - not exactly daring someone to oppose him, but you have to admit he's willing to risk some really high credentials by putting himself out there like that.

Of course, like nearly everyone else, I don't go read the studies myself and go hunting for math mistakes and misrepresentation, so it's still all a big appeal to authority.
$50k in equipment? At what scale are we talking. I got a Mitsubishi heat pump with three heads installed for less than $15k and it works well into the negatives.
They didn’t directly mention it in the article, but I wonder about increases in sedentary lifestyles over that same time period. Base metabolic rate would go down as an average as sedentary lifestyles increase.
I understand that's the interpretation, but I don't observe the dead cat, so I don't feel compelled to accept MWI. I'm not saying it's wrong (who knows), only that it's not scientific (lacking empirical evidence for the dead cat) and one of the other interpretations could be correct (again who knows if any of them are representative of the true state of affairs).
Needs (2015).

I loved the talks from Gil Tene.

I always reach for his fork of wrk whenever I need to test throughput:

https://github.com/giltene/wrk2
I know, I read it, and two possibilities suggest themselves:

1. There are many many more errors in the book, and the Guzey, not being very well organized, chose to highlight the fact that the author was wrong about cancer and lifespan (who isn't), and a couple facts not really related to the main point.

2. Despite claims to the contrary, Guzey is cherry-picking the few inaccuracies.
There are tradeoffs to cowardice, yeah.
To be honest though, if you are just starting out and don't have experience on things like homogeneous coordinates, shaders, and the basics of real-time rendering, just learn damn OpenGL. learnopengl.com is the titular "bible" site and you will learn most of the basic concepts there.

I really do not recommend DX11 / DX12 / Vulkan / WebGPU, just because of the fact that they don't have that much good learning resources compared to OpenGL. Even DX (though more widely used in the gaming industry) doesn't have that much material compared to OpenGL. People often point at RasterTek's tutorials (https://www.rastertek.com/tutindex.html) for DX stuff, but the explanations are much more sparse compared to LearnOpenGL and they often just dump lines of code at you without any high-level explanation. And I especially do not recommend Vulkan (or DX12), because it's a hell of an unfriendly API that exposes too much of the underlying GPU hardware for the programmer to manage (especially with synchronization). Writing Vulkan in a naive way will probably give you less performance than what you will achieve with naive OpenGL / DX11. And using Vulkan in an optimal way isn't something that's explained in any Vulkan book or tutorial you can find online/offline: they generally teach how to do simple stuff (like drawing a triangle, which is essentially what learnvulkan.com does), but do not really teach you with the more important architectural decisions when writing a performant renderer (this I am currently struggling, and searching through blogs/papers/videos as much as possible).
Enclosed small courtyards / vertical shafts would incrrase the window area as well.

What a prison-like structure, as is. Eew
Benefit is that SBF keeps quite about the not-so-legal "donations"?

However he can only play that game so much until he ends up like Epstein.
Without knowing a single bit about Twitter's finances pre Elon, I can say that's not a convincing argument. He entered into a deal for a specific price and waived his right to back out of it after due diligence. He only bought it because he was about to be forced to purchase it by a court.
As the article says, Wunderlich reached a conclusion of 37C in the 1800s, and that’s what we’ve used since then.

The real problem appears to be that converting to Fahrenheit and reporting this as “98.6F” suggests an order of magnitude more precision than “37C”. 36.5C would still round to 37 but corresponds to 97.7F.
I've often used ignore on various forums/etc to mostly adjust signal-to-noise. I'll still unhide such posts periodically though, since I generally don't have anything personally against such users and sometimes need context.

One site that handles this use case terribly though is Discord, where anyone ignored by design can discover they've been ignored by not being able to add emote reactions to posts of yours and more recently they've added an absurd viewport shake when doing so to make it even more obvious. When I became aware of this I un-ignored most users since I didn't want anyone getting the wrong impression but it'd be nice to have more control over content seen without such social side effects.
Rheumatoid or osteoarthritis?
What was it from the article that caused you to worry that your freedoms won't be protected?
Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low
Side note, for some reason my brain is disproportionately fascinated reading ag tech discussions or generally hearing farmers talk shop vs many other subjects that I'm much more invested in.
Not sure if it's all the countries, but I have always heard the normal body temperature in Celsius stated as 36.5, which is 97.7 F.

Is 98.6 an american-only thing?
Try temperature 0. And make sure you include all of the conversational context and instructions with examples in each API call.

It's definitely not the same model but similar in a lot of ways as far as I can tell. You could also try code-davinci-002 if that's what you are doing.
What can it do with ctime?

Maybe it could provide a virtual read only filesystem, mounting the backup at a specific date, using the original atime, mtime and ctime
This is what I was hinting at with:

> One could perhaps set something up to forward a connection to a local daemon […] [but complexity]
You’re probably going to have to fake enthusiasm for the AI-enabled TikTok outfit generator you will be working on. No, it’s not going to make the world a better place. Yes, it might even make the world a worse place.

Let's be honest, whatever you (any of us) as a SWE were working on previously was probably making the world a worse place also, regardless of what you thought when you first started working on it.

In my opinion the last decade (or two) of tech can be summed up as "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Is the Linux box setup similar to your work prod environment? Can you run a GUI code editor like VS Code on Linux and access it via MacBook Air?
iPhone's Find My Feature Helps Rescuers Locate Car Crash Victim
Stealing when it’s extremely likely you’ll be caught in short order is irrational and unintelligent. And happens all the time.
The Halifax central library really is a sight to behold. That is the sort of investment i would hope the public could rally behind because it is visible and immensely useful. Even if you don't visit the actual building, the online services provided by Canadian libraries is among the best in the world.

Many Canadian cities are upgrading their libraries and i for one am overjoyed to see that!
Then you have Peloton... passion project of John Foley (who was president of e-commerce at Barnes and Nobles) that was practically driven into the ground by the same exact mentality.

Foley was passionate to the moon and back about the product, but didn't have the business chops to follow.

Had Peloton been driven by MBAs when they went public, they never in a million years would they have taken on the types of inane liabilities that Foley and co did because they were more product driven than business driven.

Things like their massive factory build outs/buy outs and slow burn perfectionist approaches to product development would likely have been thrown out the door in exchange for slapping their label on existing hardware and shoving as many experiences down as many channels as possible.

And sure that'd leave them being called sell-outs by their original fans, but ironically that's where they're now being forced to exist since those fans were a great Kickstarter target market, but a completely inadequate target market at that scale.
Sounds like those men didn't do their Due Diligence
I am waiting for the ML-driven browser extension that can block a person's entire existence. Images, references to, articles of, screenshots of tweets, videos of. Like they never even existed. That'd be the dream. And it's actually something I would pay for.
>America really needs to reevaluate the amount of jobs that is just inefficient red tape and paperwork

Companies already mostly did that after the 2008 recession when they started cutting jobs and requiring the remaining workers to pick up the slack. Automation is our only way out of a situation where there's not enough hands to do all the work we want to get done.
Of course. Why (and what) are you trying to compare between Bitcoin mining (PoW) and Solana validating (PoS)? Five or so years ago I did about 25 kW constant load of PoW mining so yes, I'm pretty familiar.

In additional to the Solana validator from my original comment I've also run Ethereum and Cardano validators (or rough equivalents). They use a fraction of the compute required by a Solana validator while providing similar rewards and network function.

Again, in terms of PoS chain validators the hardware requirements of Solana are significantly higher than any other PoS chain I'm aware of - it's not even close.
I found this article hard to read; it felt like bulleted noted after watching a presentation and many of the statements lacked the context to back them up.

The bottom line is that measuring performance is hard, and that you have to be aware that your measurement code and your metrics system have a high likelihood of misleading you if you don’t deeply understand how they work.

As a side note, the author didn’t mention my favorite metrics pet peeve, that is the right hand cliff. Often systems will graph a 0 while waiting for a metrics bucket to fill, as when you are aggregating counts over time intervals. This can result in your metric appearing to drop off a cliff in the very recent past.
sometimes, not even the intentions are good
> The B&N stores typically have so much space they could stock some model kits, some DND manuals and a more robust coffee

This is exactly what my local B&N does. Not yours?
That only adds a layer of indirection to the same problem. You can refer to your laptop by hostname, but something have to update the hostname's record when the laptop moves about. That could be a daemon on the laptop [yada yada] but now you've added a ton of complexity. (And there's still the problem of NAT: your laptop might not be on the Internet.)
One additional thing that I am now aware of because of a recent personal experience, is counterfeits. I recently received an O'Reilly book from Amazon that I am nearly certain is a fake (and sending back). If I didn't have another O'Reilly book to compare it to, it wouldn't have been so obvious.

Apparently, Amazon is doing a terrible job at counterfeit technical books across the board.
eg: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1550932671022239745?s=20

I will now try to buy any books direct from the publisher or from a store like Barnes & Noble rather than Amazon.
I heard that video game Prey from 2017 is related.
> When it was being proposed I thought "why are we spending millions and millions on a library in the digital age?".

> The new library building is beautiful, super inviting and some of my favorite architecture anywhere. I love going there to work or read.

Im confused. Why did you initially oppose it? Seems like you like it because its nice but surely that wasn't your original concern.
Anecdotally, 3 of the 4 homeschooled people I know were horribly abused in the course of their “education.” As children they had no trusted outlet or frame of reference to report it outside the home. Maybe not exactly what the comment was referencing, but it comes to mind for me immediately.
A little semantic HTML trick for React components
Building Betafish
Optimizing Symmetric Quadratic Form
Half of passengers on China flight to Italy have Covid
The X in Y format is really one of its strengths. I asked for “A truth table for three valued logic in Markdown” and got something totally usable which I could then tweak.

https://github.com/travisjungroth/trinary#truth-table
Wireguard is the same problem, just with a layer of indirection. (I've tried WG exactly to try to simplify the networking!) Now instead of SSH connecting, it's Wireguard.

You can make some headway with this, but it's a bit painful. You need some fixed presence on the Internet, somewhere, like a server. That can be done, but now you're setting up routing, etc. Or paying Tailscale. It rubs me a bit of the wrong way, since the ISPs job was to provide end-to-end connectivity, and ISPs as a whole are falling down on that … I shouldn't need to build a shadow network in the IPv6 private space …

(And again, we breach the "it isn't worth it" complexity barrier for a cross machine clipboard transfer…)
> Those of us who survived the bubble did so on hard work and a network.

What did non-survival look like? I assume you’re speaking metaphorically.