skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not trying to take away from it, but it's scope seems elementary. Maybe I missed it, but did not see any more advanced operations. Wider adoption might be in the cards if at least some of the following are present:

Mesh analysis (how many manifolds, how many holes, self-Intersection detection, flipped triangles, etc)

Mesh healing algorithms to fix above artifacts

Boolean operations

Laplacian Deformation / smoothing

Offset calculation

Sewing meshes together

Mesh tagging to guide certain operations

Mesh matching

Convex Hull computation
That sounds pretty depressing. It's also a great way to hate your past self. They were such a jerk!
Been thinking this for awhile, there are a couple projects in this space
This is true, but perhaps worth noting the nuclear transport function of polyA tails don't come into play for coronavirus. The payload of coronavirus is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA. Which means it does not need to enter the nucleus for preprocessing and can basically just start replicating shortly after entering a cell. See diagram...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Coronavi...

There might be a software analog to another polyA tail feature: the provision of a 'shelf-life'. Each replication cycle removes a few adenosines, and at a certain point the tail sequence is too short to recruit protection and the RNA is ushered into the degradation pathway.
Dark Energy primarily, dark matter to a lesser degree. The other reason is because NSF doesn’t really “run“ things.
My personal meta-cynical view is that politics is all about relationships: nobody gets anything done using their own power alone, and nobody has enough broad and direct influence to even try. Getting anything done requires aligning a lot of people, each holding either a direct ability to implement a part of the solution, or the connection and ability to influence someone that does. This includes not just outward-facing projects and decisions, but also politicians' own careers - whether you get in, and where you end up, is more to your colleagues than it is to you.

As a result, the whole system strongly selects for people best able to navigate that complex web of relationship. Which means it selects against people with goals they're not willing to compromise on.

This is why, I think, in modern (democratic) countries you can't really achieve anything specific by becoming a politician. If you come in with a concrete and inflexible goal (like, to reuse the example, making the government fund free food for children), you'll likely just wash out or get sidelined by your own colleagues: if you're not willing to help with whatever others need from you, even when it means compromising your principles or going against your initial goals, then nobody else will be willing to help you with your schemes. The rules of thumb thus are:

- If you see someone going into politics to achieve a specific goal, you can assume they'll fail and the goal will not be achieved;

- If you want the politicians to do something, you need to go about it indirectly, exploiting the incentives of the entire system - for example, as alleged upthread with the food for children, by setting things up so the government will lose face / influential politicians will lose public support if they don't implement the very thing you want them to.

- Everything that's actually being achieved is achieved in a roundabout way, because the limiting factor isn't any politician's ethics, understanding, or budget - the limiting factor is the ability to align enough politicians and administrative workers to make something happen.
So, about that. Do the math on how many faces a 768-simplex has.
I actually wonder why not burn holes in them by laser… maybe the US doesn’t want to show their capabilities, but that was the first thing that came to mind
I came across this paper elsewhere, but it looks like someone posted it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34756024

There was also a larger discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34730365
I was referring to the Go documentation linked above:

> One consequence of the semicolon insertion rules is that you cannot put the opening brace of a control structure (if, for, switch, or select) on the next line. If you do, a semicolon will be inserted before the brace, which could cause unwanted effects.

I was assuming that the “unwanted effects” are not simply a syntax error.
>I have a YouTube account because I have a Google account so they never nagged me to create one

hmm, not sure what you mean. I have a gmail account from early early days, and I've never created a youtube account. I would've accepted it if they forced it on me, but given the choice I've never seen a reason to create one. They nag me to create one if I forget and try to upvote, or comment, and they nag me for subscribing on the regular also.

perhaps if I created a gmail account later on it would come with youtube?
That creates a new problem that you have to remember to kill unwanted threads.
Yeah, +1 to Spelling Bee -- that game is great!

That said, this post needs a SPOILER tag.
I am been using vector.dev for a long time now. It is also easy to setup.
And it looks similar to your idea.
Thanks for this, I’ll give it a read.
False and null are the same thing. Undefined may be a property of a variable (what in Prolog-like languages would be called "variable" or "non-ground"). But, in this capacity it wouldn't be a value, it would be a property, similar to how in OO language you could say "it's a big class" (meaning it's a class that has more than five methods specializing on it), but you wouldn't start modeling your problem domain by creating BigClass class and then inheriting from it any time you want a class with more than five methods.
Can we think without language? - https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2019/05/02/ask-the-brain-can-we-thi...

> Imagine a woman – let’s call her Sue. One day Sue gets a stroke that destroys large areas of brain tissue within her left hemisphere. As a result, she develops a condition known as global aphasia, meaning she can no longer produce or understand phrases and sentences. The question is: to what extent are Sue’s thinking abilities preserved?

> Many writers and philosophers have drawn a strong connection between language and thought. Oscar Wilde called language “the parent, and not the child, of thought.” Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” And Bertrand Russell stated that the role of language is “to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.” Given this view, Sue should have irreparable damage to her cognitive abilities when she loses access to language. Do neuroscientists agree? Not quite.

The Language of Thought Hypothesis - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ (which has a long history going back to Augustine)

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If 23 year old me were here now and considering future life paths, I'd be sorely tempted to be looking at declaring/finishing a dual CS/philos major and going to grad school.
Having some ADD tendencies, I love TDD for helping me focus and get started—without it I just daydream about software rather than write the software. Once I get going then I’m okay (though I still use TDD) but TDD and pair programming are both great for me, to get me started.

I also have two young kids and can absolutely relate to the author.
This is a phenomenon known as "elite capture" (and the book of that title is insightful).
I wondered if, being a Sunday evening on the British train system, she'd find herself on a rail replacement bus service for some of the return journey. But luckily not - just some diversions because of engineering work adding 60 minutes to the usual journey times...
Maybe in the near future you won't be able to attach a full tube of toothpaste to a weather balloon and send it high up into the air, just a 3 oz size.
Thanks! I love it so much. The one thing that annoys me is that it rejects anything that it considers to be domain knowledge or some such criteria. For example, today you'd think you could use 'potto', which is a cool animal in the loris family. But nope, Spelling Bee seemingly rejects it because it considers it to be specialized zoological knowledge or something. BS.

EDIT: Removed spoiler.
DEW line still exists, it's just been upgraded:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System
Are you making a slippery slope argument, like if we keep shooting down things that aren’t commercial flights that’s a slippery slope to shooting down things that are commercial flights?
>An open source dev can still charge for his code

I see this said a lot, and it seems to be somewhat accepted, but I've always wondered, since point five of the OSI definition is:

>No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

Would this not technically count as economic discrimination?
Thanks, yes definitely meant as an already customer. In other words a single contact for db things.
Lol, wealthy!=smart. In fact from the ones I know personally the inverse seems true.
Psst, there are actually five.
everything old is new again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
There's an entire category for this thing,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...
> Quotas were a red carpet for the international

This reminded me of something back when I was in high school in my Latin American country. There used to be this locally known international university-application-consultant and one of the things he mentioned for the "satisfaction guaranteed" of his services was being familiar on which Universities needed to increase their Latin American demographics and how to use that in the applicant's favor to increase the chances of a successful college and scholarship application. This was mostly targeted to students at bilingual or international schools whose families were already wealthier than average.

> shared the same life experiences regardless of their race

Where I grew up bilingual/international school students live in an isolated bubble separate from the rest of students. So they grow up with the study plans, standardized tests, music, tv shows and pop culture from their international school's country.

So probably that's why their life experience might have been more similar to those in the U.S. This is only a small fraction of the students though.

For example a high school student from American School of my country might know about the SAT test prep, Ivy applications, college application essay writing, and be familiar with US issues. All of those which would be mostly unknown by students outside that circle. Making others less likely to successfully apply.
I don't quite understand how that's any different from what I'm saying. If i had to naively design this system I'd probably prompt the AI to somehow tell me if it wanted more information. Then I'd go to my regular search engine, input whatever the AI wanted to know something about, and feed whatever my search engine came up with back into the AI through the context for another synthesis step.

It seems to me like that would be covered under "query indices created by Bing's web crawling agents as they trawled live, reachable web pages around the Internet" because that's also what the regular Bing search engine does. I suppose one could argue that it's not really searching the web, but rather the Bing index which is then derived from the web. That really seems like a pointless distinction since you're just using the web index to leverage the preexisting engineering work to extract meaningful content.
I was under the impression that there is no data showing that the covid mrna vaccines reduce transmission. If you are aware of a source that says otherwise I would love to check it out.
You might want -ffreestanding in those cases.
...and the next step is no longer extinguish, but enslave.
“Rerwriting Git from Scratch” is any interesting way to describe laboriously coaching ChatGPT into generating alternate names for common git commands.
Or it's politically defensive. A lot of Republicans objected (properly? for political advantage? to encourage contributions?) objected to the way the previous balloon was handled. So this could be a more aggressive stance to avoid that again.
Don’t force child care workers to get college degrees
New, yes, but that doesn't answer my question.

I don't see this as anymore aggressive than yearly war games, and significantly less aggressive than claiming islands and ocean territories that are contested and building military installations on them...
I love the zero-install feature for sure! I noticed that SLIDES.md could also be read directly so I’m curious if we could just rename it to README.md and then, probably as an option, tell Slidesdown to load that file instead.
Leader orders shoot-down. Order goes to NORAD, which tasks jets to intercept. USAF jets get there first, conduct shoot-down.
An interesting set of variables here:

- The balloons have been known about for years

- They are spying, by all credible accounts, on a variety of countries

- The US has a lot to lose in such conditions, but has done virtually nothing public about it, until the public raised a cry

This makes me wonder how much intel or other leverage the US may have, directly, from the internals of the PLA program itself.
I read the article, pressed play on the song and thought "wow, the author did a great job at sounding like the decemberists", then scrolled back up and saw the author... doh!
Sounds like a zeppelin
Mandatory retirement savings that would change as inflation moves up and down. Also, decrease government spending. These days a big chunk of what the governments spends is borrowed. That borrowed money adds to the money supply which ultimately adds to inflation. These ideas have 0 chance so interest rate is the only way to deal with inflation.
You realize that Cold Lake is over 1000km from the closest part of the Yukon? If the UFO was near the alaska border it would be nearly 2000km from cold lake. Eielson afb is less than 500km from the Yukon border.

Also the F-22 can super cruise whereas the F-18 cannot.
!! thanks now furiously searching :D
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> The sentence was obviously crafted to show power

Your partial quote is highly misleading. The first two words in "Canadian and U.S. Aircraft were scrambled" changes the meaning quite dramatically. NORAD is bilateral.

> Knowing Trudeau's giant ego adds a ton of context

Oh, I didn't realize you were just here for the personal attacks.
This is all so new the law hasn't caught up yet. No one knows who (if anyone) will end up with copyright on AI generated art.

Perhaps "royalty-free" are the terms they're offering if the law does eventually allow an AI (or its creators) to own a copyright.
Philosophically? Not at all. Morally? Depends on the circumstances. Practically? Yes.

I like art, and wish to keep seeing it produced at a high level of quality, and that requires community. So until the world agrees on an economy not premised on extraction of value from the individual, I oppose pirating. Pay people for their work.

That being said, I know I don't speak only for myself when I say I would prefer to be paid for my work, but if the price will prevent someone from seeing it, I'd prefer the work be seen.

Be careful not to confuse artists, who create things, with distributors, who do not. They are the ones you're really angry at.
Yeah the latest remaster is a genuinely modern experience. Must nicer than RealMyst by a decent margin. If you are used to playing modern games, RealMyst would be a worse experience than just playing the OG FMV Myst.
2500km away from the Yukon.
Just stop using Windows. Here, fixed this for you.
The second object has not been called a balloon by US Air Command. Most interesting are some reports of pilots saying the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes. [1]

Interfering with F-22 sensors? If they sent an airborne jamming platform over US space it's serious.

On a more positive note, now that private observers report the skies over the Artic, Northern Canada and Alaska border, have a constant presence of AWACS and other multiple airplane sorties, the Aliens everybody was talking about here days ago, seem to have vanished...

[1] - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-obj...
Do we know it wasn't just random lightweight trash that has been blown out of proportion?
Inflatable Moon Habitat
Software has always been boom/bust. This is why people should not get into it unless they are really passionate about it.
I think, for it to be considered an "identified" flying object, they'd have to know more than just what country sent it — i.e. they'd have to know a class or designation for it and have an associated doctrine for dealing with it.
When training over multiple GPUs, it's hard not to think about Ray (https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/train/train.html). Ray, as an open-source project, has exploded over the last few years and helps with the memory bottleneck by segregating memory and computing.

FYI, I am not affiliated with Ray. However, I did write the following paper on scaling data-parallel training for large ML models ;)
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rygFWAEFwS

Also, another one of my papers talks about distributed training while reducing the communication bottleneck for distributed training:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3447548.3467080
> Good point about OA. I couldn’t find what the control was in the pteropod study. What are they comparing them against?

No clue. I was just using it as an example.

> Also looks like OA isn’t uniformly bad. Some species seem to thrive

Sure, that's why the harm is measured in terms of entire ecologies, not individual species.
No offense, but I'm asking the OP rather than being unable to make guesses.
There are observations that point towards dark matter which don't have anything to do with rotation curves. In particular, gravitational lensing, and the effects of mass on the cosmic microwave background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster The Bullet Cluster is very hard to explain with any kind of MOND theory.
has anyone here managed to get all the words after the genius level? What happens then? I just missed 3 yesterday
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This is unlikely to have been an Apple pay specific issue. There's a lot of transaction pattern matching on card payments in the UK. You may get your transactions blocked if the card provider thinks they're suspicious. You can contact your provider and get it unblocked again.

In this case it's pretty clearly uncharacteristic behaviour by any measure, including the geographical movement between transactions.
Your description couldn't help but remind me of this fantastic movie Margin Call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn2Xf9hAFcE&ab_channel=Weyla...
funnily, I encountered an inspection in a tram where they did check for masks, and masks only. They wrote up personal details of the ones who did not have masks on them.

But this was the only time since the whole thing began and it was this year (when it was arguably already over).

So yeah.
Yes it suggests our military has the right to defend our sovereign airspace and that of our allies as well as the ability and will to do so until these outrageous and arrogant acts of escalation stop.

Be careful how many times you prod the beast.
I know this is Hollywood magic thinking, but in the the spirit of no dumb questions, for an object like this, are there no capture devices besides just letting it crash?
Interesting. How would you think finviz maps can be improved? https://finviz.com/map.ashx
> You're putting words in my mouth.

No, I'm just wishing that you never wrote your words. Your reply had the feel of pure pedantry. Yes, you can take my short statement totally out of context—which was a discussion of an American problem—and superficially nitpick it if you like, comparing to China or whatever, but what's the point? What have we gained thereby? You get to win some internet brownie points by saying, "Well actually..."

In America, alcohol prohibition failed. I am aware that in some other countries around the world, the government does some nasty things to you if you drink, and thus there's a lot less drinking there. But we wouldn't stand for that here. Alcohol isn't against our religion, it is our religion.
They didn’t say they weren’t balloons, just that they were calling them “objects” and not balloons. Sure, that could be because they definitely want to emphasize the “we don’t know who owned them” aspect and calling it a balloon would immediately evoke China associations, or maybe they already know they’re not balloons. Either way, they also didn’t say “it wasn’t a balloon”
> for every 1% of unemployment there were 40,000 suicides

I guess then it’s a good thing that USA is seeing some of the lowest unemployment rates in decades. Unemployment hasn’t been this low since 1969[1].

Even the tech sector where we’re seeing layoffs is doing pretty well. Tech unemployment rate is estimated at 1.8% for January 2023 [2]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/02/07/tech...
I worked for a company heavily into government contracts and got into a tight squeeze. They had two rounds of layoffs in two years. Both on a Friday. The first one was crazy, no one knew anything, and suddenly you saw people crying in the hallways. By mid-day, the news spread that the company is doing layoffs. The team I was in went to lunch, and we all toasted a glass of whiskey, expecting to lose some folks. Luckily we didn't. The following year, the same thing happened; suddenly, people getting laid off. We called it Black Friday. We went for whiskey again. No one got laid off. We were lucky to be working on a strategic project. Still, the affected people in the hallways were definitely something I'll remember.

The company is doing very bad now. What was once our manager is now scraping by, doing database administration and fixing some bugs, as he's the only one left from our former team, and there's a government obligation to keep the system running. He stayed because he has stocks in the company that have plummeted, but he's still hopeful. He sometimes asks for our help, even after a decade, and sometimes we hop on and help him with something for the sake of old times.
I wonder if they "shoot" it down with bullets or a missile. Seems to me that bullets would be a lot cheaper. Poking holes in a balloon with bullets will cause it to gradually lose lifting gas, and inevitably come down. It may come down gently, so it can be salvaged and examined.

In WW1, balloon busting was a big deal. Pilots found that riddling them with bullets didn't work that well, as the balloon could be reeled down, patched, refilled and sent back up again. But the lifting gas was hydrogen, so the pilots were then armed with tracer bullets, which set the balloons afire and they came down immediately, completely destroyed.
122 pages, huh? tl;dr

by 2000, my colleague Dimitris Nakos had cleaned it up, probably. I don't know who 'aholser' might be.
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I was also surprised the first time I heard you can safely burn explosives: I was reading some comments on the Vietnam war from veterans talking about how they used to heat their meals by burning pieces of C4.
> If someone died

It still happens from time to time in Germany. To my knowledge the last fatality was an operator of an excavator in 2014.[1] It is disturbing that one can still become a victim of WW2 in a certain sense.

[1] https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/unfall-baggerfahrer-bei-bombe... (in German)
When you get them all, it's "Queen Bee." I've only ever gotten it once -- for whatever reason, the puzzle just clicked that day -- but it was extremely satisfying.
The conversation has changed since I first read it (with the original conversation still there underneath it). Getting more interesting...

I find it charming actually that they are so kind and supportive of each other. Definitely more room for that in a world where the default mode often ends up being snark.