skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this youtube channel[0] has some pretty good walkthroughs (quite literally) of using various iOS apps to scan architectural spaces. The short answer is that the LIDAR and iOS APIs are remarkably powerful, but not 100% accurate. There are techniques to improve accuracy (e.g. using a gimbal), but ultimately you'll need to do tape or laser measurements and modify the models that these tools can build, or just model it yourself with the scan as a reference.

MagicPlan[1] and PolyCam[2] seem to be the most focused on building a schematic level building model which could be imported into other tools if needed. They both now take advantage of the Roomplan API[3] which Apple introduced in iOS and iPadOS 16[4]. MagicPlan has been out for ages[4] and originally just worked off the camera and the accelerometer to help build a floor plan. Polycam also supports photogrammetry[5] where you just take a bunch of photos and it builds a 3D model by interpreting what shape the object could be (I don't know if this is also used in architecture scale things, but it could be interesting for ID projects). Both MagicPlan and PolyCam allow you to tweak dimensions of rooms, doors, windows, furniture, etc. in a somewhat parametric way. This is where you likely want a laser measuring device to quickly update the dimensions. These can be used through Bluetooth to enter the measurements directly into the floorplans in MagicPlan[6]. I didn't try this, but if I was doing this all the time, it seems like it would be essential.

Matterport is starting to get into mobile[7] (phone, tablet) capture, but they've built their business up on their branded hardware and cloud platform. They provide floorplans as a service[8] and everything adds up, but from what I see in the real estate market, they are ubiquitous.

And if you want to spend a bunch more for very pro level app for documenting things like crime scenes, shipbuilding, infrastructure, etc. there's Dot3D.[9]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@LiDAR3D

[1] https://www.magicplan.app

[2] https://poly.cam

[3] https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/roomplan/

[4] https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/15/ios-16-roomplan-api-3d-floor-...

[5] https://www.magicplan.app/about

[6] https://help.magicplan.app/laser-distance-meters#laser-tutor...

[7] https://matterport.com/3d-camera-app

[8] https://buy.matterport.com/

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZxCDKTizs
I don't want you to be left with the sense that I'm arguing for corruption. This thread is social commentary on how pathetic it is that elected reps can be bought for so little.

Sometimes, humor is hard on the internet.
I had an idea for a site that allows you to lobby the gov in a GoFundMe format after realizing how little money is actually moving.
I had a great GUI for nethack at one time. I forget what is was called, though. There are a number of options, you should try them out.

Personally, the text interface remains my favorite. The world I build in my head is far richer than any GUI can do.
Sure. They give you 8 paid holidays a year, their employee purchase program is basically a $100 gift card if you spend $1,000 on their website, but only on products they sell, their PTO benefit is very 1990s (accrued and limited), they subjectively apply their leadership principles (read arbitrarily beat you over the head with them), management is abusive, and their internal tools are jankey as hell.

EDIT: Their sign on bonus is generous, so you’ll make a lot during your first two years, but after that your annual salary will drop significantly. Supposedly, their RSUs are supposed to make up for that, but they don’t.
Sure :D

I've worked on products across the spectrum, Enterprise software that releases twice a year, smaller stuff that ships once a month, and now a SaaS that releases many times a day. I don't have the data to compare, but I genuinely don't believe the rate of bugs was materially different between any of them.

We make faster changes, but the changes are much smaller, and so the surface area to test is smaller. The more changes you make, the more time you need to validate. If you make a weeks worth of changes, you're going to need an appropriately longer validation cycle than if you make 1 change. It scales, and in my experience, many products with slower release cycles aren't appropriately scaling up the validation time to match.

That said, this doesn't necessarily mean we're writing code and 30 minutes later its in production...there's still an iterative dev cycle with lots of validation happening...but if something is ready to go, ship it!
I wouldn't count on 'put it in the cloud' being the answer, for a number of reasons.

Personally, I think that the only answer to the "preserve the family stuph for a 100 years" is to migrate it all to the most reliable media available every 5-10 years (it used to be every 3-5 years). Even if there was an archival media that was 100% reliable 100 years from now, will there be something that can read it?
Might be they estimated based how quickly bacteria eats pure metal, but it could be covered with something that protects it, dust, rust, another bacteria, some chemistry that is synthesized there over decades.
I tried to use Solvespace for a number of projects, but it seemed like it had essentially ~zero support for parametric repetition (e.g. putting one hole every 15mm), which made it basically useless for any semi-complex project. A home might be easier, as long as you don't have any design features like "put a light socket every 3 feet".
Persistent phosphors are magical.
Not only is it not getting simpler the tax code seems to keep growing as more exceptions and exemptions get added. I guess it's like so many legacy code bases that just keep growing with lots of patches for special cases.

According to the Public Law 117-154(06/23/2022), the U.S. Tax Code is 6,871 pages. When you include the federal tax regulations and the official tax guidance, the number of pages raises to approximately 75,000. This zip file (pdf) is 181MB [0].

[0] https://uscode.house.gov/download/download.shtml
I mean, if you make 10k a year your fixed costs leave less money for taxes than if you make 100k or 1m a year, so doing it on a simple percentage of gross income (rather than gross revenue) is likely to accelerate poverty, which is very much picking winners and losers.

Anyway the reason why we have deductions and tax breaks as such a big component is in large part because it is one of the things you don't need 60 senators to pass.
I find it mystifying that one of the reasons you can supposedly pass over Rust, and avoid performance concerns, is to "take the free money." Literally.

That is, the free money, in credits, that allows you to not worry about performance for a while.

The obvious problem being... "What happens when the free money runs out?"

It's not addressed, but the implied answer seems to be "Well, by then it'll be six months later, and..."

And? And what? It's still a problem! It didn't go away.

The money deflected the perf concerns for some time, maybe a year - but then it's back, bigger and badder than ever.

Rust solves that by not requiring that outlay ever, by being more efficient.

Seems like a very poor reason to not choose Rust, to me.
It's not about proving they don't work. No one cares if you can't do that.

But it's getting a bit embarrassing that every time we try to prove the positive, all the benefits disappear in the closer analysis.

It's also not about the individual experience — again, no one cares. It was all about the benefit to the community. That's why your technical objection doesn't matter either — if the community includes a bunch of old codgers that can refuse to participate, then, regrettably, that's just how it is.
There are several products out there that can create 2d, 3d renderings of a living space using the iphone lidar scanner. Not sure it they keep dimensions.
I think Tesla shorts was just him having a laugh at the investors shorting Tesla and showing confidence in the company. It increased media coverage of, and popular discussion about, the number of Tesla shares sold short. It wasn't about hiding or suppressing it, it was about showing that he wasn't concerned and was in some sense, "standing up to" the people predicting Tesla's demise.
It is the same thing as centralization/decentralization. Centralization is more efficient (economies of scale and other things) but more fragile.
Andy wants it, upper management may want it, and Amazon thinks it has more leverage in the hiring marketplace than it did 3 years ago.

That's the whole story here. It is very realpolitik. Amazon is a very data driven company, if the company finds out that recruiting or retention is becoming a serious issue due to this policy change then they will course correct.

That is all.
Related (somewhat):

First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408104 - Feb 2022 (77 comments)
It is trivially testable. I've tested it myself a few times, against a few different companies, just for fun. I've never seen it happen.

If you imagine ordering all the domains in order of desirability, where the most desirable are long gone, and nobody wants "nsejrx8oesrjasrjb.com" (and even if they want an obfuscated domain, they don't want that obfuscated domain), there is a middle ground where it's not worth pre-registering but if you see an indication of interest it may push you over, especially if you have a cheap back door for registration as registrars do. In that case, the only ones sensible to front-run are the ones in that middle ground. It is possible that I never chose a domain that triggered such an algorithm. That said, as I was aware of this possibility at the time, I did deliberately try to come up with a combination of tasty & tempting words in a new format that looked like maybe someone would really want it, and I never could get the hypothetical algorithms to bite.

Take a crack at it if you're interested; it really isn't that hard or a big investment in time.
And its even more likely that people just click "standard deduction" to make it even simpler.
Or some critical service is running under someone's personal credentials.
The problem isn't that the US government is incapable of making a better system than TurboTax. The problem is that TurboTax only exists because they lobby to prevent the government from doing so.

From that perspective, TurboTax isn't worth buying for anywhere close to what someone may evaluate it on the private markets.

The US government should buy it for $3.5MM, since that's what Intuit values it at through lobbying.
It seems that the wires prevent the drones to go further inside the ship, so I wonder if they can be made wireless? If radio is not working in such conditions maybe sonic or light signal can get through?
I strongly believe that if I would code anything significant my Rust could would be more correct.

The reasons are types and rusts multi threading guarantees, which become even more helpful when doing refactorings
You suggested the comment was both insightful and on-topic, while at the same time requiring context to interpret. That's enough of this pedantic nonsense for me boss. It's obvious you are digging into meaningless topics for the purposes of trolling.
I have been playing with RTAB-Map and a Kinect, and exporting to various formats and it works reasonably well, but is still far from user-friendly. They also have a iOS version if you want to play around with it.
What's a viable alternative to TurboTax for those who are unable to self-file? I know Intuit is an evil company, but whenever it's tax season and I'm confronted with either (a) learning how to file my own taxes or (b) kicking the can down the road and paying Intuit $100, I choose (b). I had an accountant for a couple years because my taxes were complicated due to changing states. My accountant charged me $1000, which I did not mind paying because my taxes were complicated. When my taxes became substantially less complicated last year, he still charged me $1000, which I _did_ mind paying. So no more accountant! The unfortunate reality is that Intuit's software works well and they've priced it at a point where most people just accept the fee and move on. As we get nearer to Tax Day 2023, I feel that I'm just going to accept their fee and move on with my life, even knowing how problematic they are.

Is there a viable alternative (cheap tax software)?

Is there a simple source of information where a person can learn everything they need to know about filing their taxes in an hour or two? Taxes seem to be kept intentionally arcane because so many make a living from understanding it without allowing me to understand it.
> 40 bits in superposition can represent 2^40 possibilities.

In classical QC yes, is this the case any longer in the Rydberg blockade configuration? From what I understood from the article, it's what GP said: the atom configuration implements the independent set problem using entanglement. So the number of qubits is the order of the graph, which is the size of the problem.
I'm not sure where the quadratic bound is derived from, and I didn't understand where the solution to the maximum independent set comes from so maybe I didn't understand the article...

There are so many other gray areas in the article that reading it feels a bit like riding on the hype train.
I'm a big believer that humans share a social sub-conconcsious. The ideas I'm sure come from a long Train of utopian modernist designers ideals.

Funny enough I think I finally cracked something critical last week here.

https://boards.core77.com/t/how-does-one-measure-the-aesthet...

I have been practicing sharing ideas on HN and Core77 in effort to start an honest effort.
Has anyone evaluated warmer oceans and proliferation of zooplankton in capturing carbon?

High CO2 => global warming => warming of the ocean => proliferation of zooplankton => zooplankton captures carbon and cools down planet

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-marine-010...
And it's not just the "government shouldn't do it" crowd, there are also those that believe that profit motive makes it more efficient and costs less overall.
Starship is kind of a Space Spruce Goose
At the time, the technology was not nearly trustworthy enough to run the millions-of-dollars ROV untethered.

Nowadays, we could probably build it smaller, untethered, and semi-autonomous (but that hunch is not intended to undercut the tons of work it would take to do it).
I can see that your library has a bunch of dependencies on other libraries you've published like "editor", but these don't seem to be accessible on NPM.

Honestly wondering if this will even compile locally without your .npmrc file and npm creds...
Silicon Motion SM2268XT DRAM-Less NVMe Controller: PCIe 4.0 Speeds on a Budget
I can't think of a single person who wants taxes to become more complicated. How on earth does this happen? This overwhelmingly defies the democratic consensus, thus absent some special constitutional protections shouldn't be possible in a democracy.
How so? Do you mean because a hardware mod would be physically detectable, maybe?
or why we tend not to worry about a bunch of f'n balloons.
The main binary also contains Tailscale’s GUI (onboarding, auth, menu, notifications, etc) so it does a little more than that.
Thanks for responding, and for the cool article! Agree this is pretty tangential to the rest of the article.

So (again, I am very much not an expert so please correct me if I'm wrong) I guess my analogy would be if instead of predicting one word at a time, it predicted one letter at a time. At some point, would only be one word that could fit. So if prompted with "SENTE", and it returned "N", that doesn't mean that it's thinking ahead to the "CE" / knows that it is spelling "SENTENCE" already.

Is that a correct way to think of it?
I don't think the process will ever be fine until lobbyists have nothing to offer legislators besides the merits of their arguments. As long as corporations can make financial contributions to legislators' campaigns, the system is cursed.
Most people have a fundamental misunderstanding of how lobbying works. Lobbying money is used to pay the actual lobbyists to gather evidence, prepare presentations, and draft legislation proposals. Only a small percentage of lobbying money goes to the politicians. Usually, it's $1000 or so that the politician will agree to hear out the lobbyist. What actually gets traded at these lobbyist meetings is political capital, not money. "If you agree to these tax incentives, you can brag about creating 10,000 jobs".

This is why Bill Gates can't just spend $1 billion to lobby for a carbon tax, despite advocating for one. This would cause a lot of short term pain as the economy needs to readjust with no short term positive benefit, which would be politically disastrous.

Edit: Here's another more tangible example. Facebook spent millions to lobby for the government to establish standards for social media. If they can convince the Democrats to formalize guidelines of what constitutes as hate speech, they can offload some of the burden of their moderation decisions. If they can convince Republicans to require social media to become public square, that's even better because then they don't have to hire as many moderators. Unfortunately for Facebook, such a bill has no benefit from either side because now the politicians have to take responsibility for an unpopular act of censorship or viral misinformation campaign. That's why Facebook tried to establish an independent "supreme court" instead.
idk, I've trained with many competitive and pro athletes in BJJ and everyone's cutting. If winning matters, you take every advantage.
Actually, Reaper's license expires after 2 major version steps, that is, if you purchase a license when the major version is x (currently it is 6.75) then you're licensed to use it until x+1.99 (now it would be 7.99).
Not to detract anything from Reaper's value: its license is one of the best everywhere, the cost is very affordable and the unlicensed product isn't crippled like others around. I have been licensed a while ago, and plan to purchase a new one as soon as I get back to making music. I would love a crowdfunding initiative to buy it from the creators with the purpose of open sourcing it, but the product quality is so high that even if possible it would likely cost a fortune.
As someone who has a binary search in their interview question, I will claim that far more people run into the problem of trying to do midpoint/2 and midpoint*2, long before overflows.
I feel like this is probably on the money, at least when it comes to building a startup. I often use Rust where before I would use Go/NodeJS/Python, but mostly because I like the type system and velocity on side-projects isn't as important.
Jodie Allen (his sister and only heir) is just following his instructions, from what I understand. She isn't financially benefiting from shutting down the computer museum, she is just executing his will:

> According to multiple reports Paul Allen’s will states that the Paul G. Allen Trust, which contains billions in assets, including the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, will be liquidated upon his death and the assets used to fund his passion projects. Paul Allen died in October 2018 and the Trail Blazers have been rumored to be on the sales block for the past few years, but all’s quiet on the Seahawks front. Is Jody Allen trying to hold onto the Seahawks against her brother’s wishes?

https://theshadowleague.com/the-instructions-are-clear-the-s...

The problem is, a lot of projects didn't make it into his list of passion projects. More:

> Sealed lips aside, here’s what we know: In 2010, Allen pledged to bequeath the majority of his wealth to philanthropy. (During his lifetime, Allen gave away more than $2 billion, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.) Tasked with this mammoth undertaking is his sister Jody Allen, trustee and executor of his estate, who is bound by her brother’s wishes as set out in the trust.

https://crosscut.com/culture/2022/11/16b-sale-paul-allens-ar...

One can accuse his sister of not following his instructions, I guess, but unless we know what those instructions are, it isn't a very easy accusation to back up.
this is a bummer. I was hoping these would be used to sidestep the FAA BS they have been dealing with.
While this group appears to want to use the seaweed as a commodity, often the point of seaweed CO2 capture is to let it sink to the bottom of the ocean, where for a number of reasons (pressure, temperature, lack of sunlight) degradation takes a very long time.

Don't remember the article(s), but a problem was guaranteeing that it actually reached the bottom, which it didn't always do (thus making it difficult to calculate exact numbers to compare with costs).
Actually a constant horizontal velocity will make a straight vertical line of droplets under the jug. This is because the drops will have the same horizontal velocity as the jug.

You can see that here: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TrajectoryOfABomb/

At any time, the first bomb is always directly under the plane. This means all subsequent bombs will also be under the plane.
dep caches are great until they aren't. We had to turn them off because we had some weird thing going on with 2 artifactory instances due to M&A issues and we were getting weird behaviors from it.

Being able to pull deltas sure is fast, but it also violates some of the principles of CI. Artifactory or similar tools can split the difference. As long as nobody is doing something dumb that is.
It is pretty cold at that depth. I suspect may slow bacteria metabolism.
Many Republicans have signed Grover Norquist's pledge, and he explicitly opposes making it easier to file taxes on the belief that doing so would make it easier to raise taxes in the future.
My gut tells me the biggest source of error is they probably estimated it in a clean-room environment for the bacteria.

Bacteria in the wild are perpetually in a war for survival with other bacteria (and larger organisms) that see them as an incredibly convenient source of aggregated biomass and carbohydrates. I'd expect the rate at which they chew through metal in the wild is attenuated by predators on them increasing predation as their numbers grow.
No, it’s a very clear answer: the elite-people distinction is mostly false, therefore populism operates on a false premise.
ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody, they sent me an email, but
AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa Under-the-Lid – ServeTheHome
Well, that obviously would have been something that evolved too, from simple beginnings. The progression must have from proto-cells that formed and replicated due to general environmental factors (prevailing chemicals/polymers, wave/thermal agitation, etc), to ones that eventually did so progressively more due to their individual chemistry, to varying degrees of success.

Any aspect of the chemistry of a particular "colony" of proto-cells that played a role in helping create/preserve the chemical contents and structure of these proto-cells could be regarded as the earliest precursors of RNA/DNA. For example, if the localized chemistry generated self-serving catalysts, or transformed environmental chemicals into others that helped stabilize or produce the proto-cell bubble/container, then these become the beginnings of a colony that is self-defining and beginning to differentiate itself - starting to encode it's own structure.

For sure there's a long ways from these types of humble beginning to full blown RNA/DNA, but plenty of scope for the types of incremental improvement that would have driven evolution (better ability to utilize environmental chemicals and energy sources, better ability to survive environmental changes, better ability to replicate and disperse, etc, etc.).
Yes but not super well.