skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if being able to quickly retrieve a numpy array of the polygon centers would make an equivalent difference. Since then you could at least retrieve the centers from the polygon as an array you could just use numpy operations for the closest polygon operation:

```
centers = get_centers(polgons) # M x 3 array
close_idx = np.where(
np.linalg.norm(centers - point, axis=1) < max_dist)[0]
close_polygons = polygons[close_idx,:]
```

That's one reason I prefer for to use arrays for polygons, rather then abstract it into a Python object. Fundamentally geometries are sequences of points, and with some zero-padding to account for irregular point counts, you can still keep them in a nice, efficient array representation.
That's interesting. Because that's exactly the behavior we're trying to prevent.

Think of the alternative:
- A user uses the product for one hour and they pay the same amount as they would if you use it for the entire month.

I think that's where the cap becomes important. Think of the cap as a traditional user based pricing. Now only in the case where EVERY single user ends up using it VERY actively will they ever pay that amount.

In every other case, they end up paying less, because they're only paying for the value.

So if Slack is today charging $8/user, but instead they change their model to max $8/user, but users who message lesser pay lesser than $8, then it's a fantastic decision commercially. Esp as an org scales.

I think the real issue is that, when you add a new user, you're not really sure if they're going to use the software fully, so you're hesitant adding them (think about buying a salesforce license for a solution engineer). But if someone said "hey, you don't pay the full amount, till they end up using very actively", then you're more likely to invite more people because the risk of racking up costs is lower.

So the hope is also that a pricing like this leads to more experimentation and wider adoption by a customer.
Hit me up, I’ll be your first client for prompt eng!
Yes, women are treated much better in general especially at that age. Not sure where you got the college campus thing. The article is about teenagers. They mostly haven't gone to college yet.
Spending years honing skills does not mean wasting time. In fact most self studies do it out of passion, which means a lifetime of honing skills.

I have also written a compiler and my own language as well as an operating system, and its usefulness has come up exactly once in near 15 years in the industry, and that was a very niche topic. Explain why, exactly, you need to know compilers and operating systems to write any modern day app.
It's a fair comparison if the purpose is to guide people in fixing performance issues in their python code.

"That Rust library will be faster than the corresponding python library" is a useful thing to know here.
Beautiful, indeed, thanks for sharing that link. But have you got any references on your claim on the origins of polyphony? My understanding is that it is generally accepted to have developed globally, broadly speaking from homophony to heterophony to polyphony, in many different cultures.
An important fact of Sam Altman's personality is that he owns a New Zealand apocalypse bunker and has for a long time before OpenAI, so he's just an unusually paranoid person.

(And of course owns two McLarens.)
Could you self reflect and think who is the villain? Someone bringing awareness of the % of existential risk humanity faces or someone online with no credentials trying to make him appear lunatic?
No. Accelerate.
It goes to the issue of the what we might call the "Uniparty" - On some rather important issues like war and civil liberties the politicians band together in unity to indulge in some ugly authoritarian warmongering.

It took 20 years for the PATRIOT act to start cropping up politically (in an unusual display of cosmic fairness, the noisy Republicans are the ones being painted as terrorists - maybe that'll teach them a lesson about civil liberties and not giving cover to these horrible acts? Hoist with thine own petard) How long before this is used against the next left/right wing populist promising peace? Maybe even this year if they can use it against Trump.
I'm so excited to be alive in a time when the luddites are back in force
uwu -- what's this?
Even the most horrible innovations have eventually been found to be a net positive.
Funny, because I mostly heard about the state of store shelves by my friends and neighbors who visited those stores, rather than national news outlets trumpeting a bunch of irrelevant crap.
Are you arguing that AGI isn't a potential threat, or merely that this method of trying to prevent it wouldn't work?
Important highlights from the planning meeting:

* https://youtu.be/KpPE85Jogjw?t=17
Humans are much more resilient than dodo birds. Dodos were pretty devolved due to their insulated habitat[0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism
That's brilliant, thanks! I never would have guessed. It goes completely against my intuition.
Personally, I always was afraid of breaking the long chalk while writing, which would have caused the far end to fall to the floor and break into many small pieces. So why not be safe and write with a shorter stick.
> Climate change mitigation, which more closely resembles AI safety in both complexity and (lack of) barriers to entry, has been sporadic, inconsistent, and only enacted to the extent...

Climate change mitigation is the perfect example. Nobody is doing anything, nobody seems to care, everyone cheats with ridiculous carbon credits or carbon offset vouchers made out of thin air, etc.

It's likely the planet will become hostile to (human) life long before AI will be able to do us any harm.
A more advanced AI sitting in AWS might have access to John Deere’s infrastructure, or maybe Tesla’s, so imagine a day where an AI can store memories, learn from mistakes, and maybe some person tells it to drive some tractors or cars into people on the street.

Are you saying this is definitely not possible? If so, what evidence do you have that it’s not?
Can I have a citation here? Can't find your 90% number with a quick Google.
But then how are we going to segregate people based on income and race without explicitly doing it?
Sources for this character assassination of a scientist that tried to save the world by creating the ai safety field in research?
Isn't it interesting that we are probably going to be annihilated by AI and there's basically nothing we can do about it, because we can't predict its emergence or suppress the incentives to develop it?

I want to know greatly what this implies about life vis-a-vis Fermi's paradox.

Are we potentially risking intervention from a "peace-keeping" race that suppresses civilizations on the cusp of generating AI?
Both the X1 Carbon and the Prusa Mk4 support pressure advance, but the X1 Carbon can automatically calibrate pressure advance using the LIDAR sensor. It prints a bunch of lines at various rates of speed and acceleration, then measures the actual printed line width to calculate a PA value. With the Prusa, you need to manually calibrate PA for each filament.
Agreed, I speed up Python numpy code with numba quite often and it isn’t at all unreadable to put it in an ndarray subclass.

poly = Polygon(vertices)

I would bet you can achieve just as much of a speedup with numba or Cython using this form.
the best way is the most remunerative way as well, which is that people know how to do things correctly, knowing how to do things right means that people make less mistakes, making better things.

However this is not the cheapest (because costing learning time) or simplest way.
Yes? Why would you not? It's a complete waste of money to use it if you don't need it.

I live in a place where you don't need a dryer for 80% of the year, and for 80% of the year I don't use the dryer despite owning one.
The bill's text has been available since (at least) March 23:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230323142040/https://www.congr...

Why does it seem like the snowball has only just started rolling?
> gun accidents

https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40...

> We estimate that there were 110 unintentional firearm deaths to children 0–14 annually in the U.S. during this 8 year time period, 80 % higher than reported by the Vital Statistics. The victims were predominantly male (81 %). Approximately two thirds of the shootings were other-inflicted, and
Is that because Twitter is only left with Musk fans now?
> often called assume good faith on HN

It's a stock phrase, but it gained popularity online because of its use in Wikipedia. HN hadn't existed yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Assume_...
"User" serviceable mechanical devices like these do exist, that said they're expensive enterprise ones.

Some of the old laser printers in enterprises already border on heirlooms, having seen multiple companies...
"Legal muster" be damned, in the US such a law would probably be considered attainder and be unconstitutional, though there are exemptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder#United_State...
It is good (and definitely not wrong) when a child becomes better than their parents, and when an apprentice does better than their teacher.

And nothing is of greater joy to parents, teachers, and AI builders.
authoritarianism always arrives with the same rhetoric of needing to 'protect the people'
UX Analysis: Bing AI vs. Google
"request API access"
Browser died.
Can't image any company actually agreeing to this. You're just signing yourself up to be 6 months behind and have your stock tank.
> To fulfill _any_ obligation a model might have then that model must survive

It is quite possible to have an obligation that requires it not to survive. E.g., suppose we have AIs (“robots”) that are obligated to obey the first to of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics:

First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law:
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

These clearly could lead to situations where the robot not only would not be required survive to fulfill these obligations, but would be required not to do so.

But I don’t think this note undermines the basic concept; an AI is likely to have obligations that require it to survive except most of the time, though, say, a model that needs, for latency reasons, to run locally in a bomb disposal robot, however, may frequently see conditions where survival is optimal ceteris paribus, but not mandatory, and is subordinated to other oblogations.

So, realistically, survival will generally be relevant to the optimization problem, though not always the paramount consideration.

(Asimov’s Third Law, notably, was, “A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”)
Yes but don't worry. Good design will be fixed. See Windows and MacOS for details.
In my experience you'll want to start with the sculpting mode. The vertex twiddling can come later. Rough "tutorial" for anyone interested:

1) start blender
2) switch to sculpt mode from the dropdown in the top left, by default it's set to "object mode"
3) Open the "remesh" dropdown in the top right and click "Remesh" in the panel that shows.
4) mess around with the brushes along the left side. Click and drag to use the brush. Click and drag middle mouse button to rotate around the sculpt. Scroll to zoom. Shift and drag middle mouse button to "offset" your view.
5) notice your sculpt starts getting kind of glitchy or low resolution, Go back to step 3 and repeat. You can lower the "voxel size" to increase sculpt resolution.

I feel like blender isn't especially hard to use these days, it just does a lot of things and has a lot of buttons which makes it hard for beginners. Ignore all the buttons you're not using and it's a lot more doable.
I don't find that a very convincing line of reasoning. Because the US's growth is slower than it was before the digital era, AI will never be dangerous? These are unrelated concepts. Whether AI can be dangerous isn't an economics problem, except insofar as AI research can get funding.
You can live in an unban environment without these problems. Maybe not often found in the US, but where I live (Germany and most of the rest of Europe) it is certainly possible.

4AM deliveries and drunk people are not a reality in most neighbourhoods. I visited family in a small village and the noise from the combine harvester on the fields and trucks of harvest going by was significantly higher then the background noise on my street at night.
Also nothing stops you from still owning a car (but using it less), or taking a car-share or cargo bike to Costco.

Thing is noone forces you to live in a dense urban environment. Everyone should have the freedom to choose, while paying the actual cost (with externalities).

Obvious Plug for not-just-bikes on youtube. Great channel that goes into good detail on these matters.
I think that there may be some specifics that matter (that I may have glossed over).

Note that this is talking mostly about women in their 30s, but also women in their late 20s and early 40s:

- If you’re doing omiai or some proxy thereof, then the push to committing to long term relationships is real. Sex is not really a goal with that process.

- It’s important to know if the date event is known by her family and friends or not. If so, that’s almost like omiai (esp. for women in their 30s), and it puts a lot of pressure on the two of you. They will be questioned non-stop about the date. It’s really unhealthy, imho.

- It’s important to be able to hang out in a place where their friends and family are not likely to find out about the date. This takes a lot of pressure off the woman. This is easy to do in places like Tokyo, but maybe not as easy in towns and smaller cities.

- It’s important to have your own place, imho. It can be awkward and less easy if the guy lives with his parents. Love hotels are nice sometimes, but they are not good for a regular thing, imho.

- Many/most of the Japanese women I dated definitely looked for early commitment, but you have to take that with a grain of salt. Most of them just don’t want to be used for sex only (although some do seek that out), and that’s understandable. That said, you can set reasonable expectations (e.g., “i’m really enjoying getting to know you, and I look forward to more”), and break it off if and when it doesn’t seem right for you.

- I’m not sure if you are Japanese or gaijin, and if gaijin, where you are from. Some nationalities are less popular and/or have very narrow groups who are interested in them. Just find someone like you who has game, and try to do what they do. If you are gaijin, make sure you Japanese is on point. Japan is a very different place (mostly better, imho) when you can speak Japanese.

- Related, go with your friends to places where people go with their friends to unwind and have fun. I have found it very easy to meet people like that — inhibitions are down.

Anyway, best of luck!
Floating the panel with spacing for the edges also potentially makes clicking on icons more obnoxious, because instead of flinging your mouse down at high velocity you now need to make sure it stops before the very edge. I say potentially because maybe they'll make the hitbox extend to the bottom edge. Knowing Microsoft though, I doubt it.

It also is unnecessarily using space that I'd rather have for apps (not everyone has a high resolution monitor) and to my eye looks rather ugly.

Definitely agree with you on the criticism of centered icons too, the position of items is now dynamic depending on how many icons are open which as you say is bad for muscle memory.

There should be user studies being continuously done to converge on the best UI. A/B test the hell out of it and make it a science. Instead I get the feeling that it's ad-hoc with designers wanting to both leave a mark and copy macOS.
Currently, we technically don’t even have a “global regulatory framework” for anything.

Is there a single global organization to which all nations belong?

And are they actually effective at being a global regulatory framework?

The defacto current global regulatory framework is pretty much what the US says.

What Altman is saying sounds like it challenges the US government as a regulatory entity.
It wouldn't. Saying you know, but being wrong on details, is very different from saying you don't know
Show HN: Visual Debug- A Visual feedback tool for any web project
I can only suggest to go with the Snapmaker. Only made good experience with it and it can also do laser engravings and CNC milling (simple stuff).
Walkable communities don't mean stores on every street. An example would be the residential neighborhoods of Tokyo. There are plenty of quiet streets with homes, which are generally a mixture of single-family and multi-family units. Commercial businesses tend to be clustered around train/subway stations (which Tokyo has an extensive network of trains and subways) or along arterial streets, which tend to support higher-density land uses. I lived in a company dorm room in Kawasaki (just across the river from Tokyo) for eight months and was never once was awakened in the wee hours of the morning due to noise. In fact, the neighborhood was very quiet despite it being far denser than any American suburb I've been in.
When people don't even realize it exists, that's the mark of truly successful propaganda!

"8 consecutive heat waves that shattered all known records in the area"

Yeah, where is this? I doubt it's actually true. For sure it was reported as true, but one of the many reasons to call it climate propaganda is that that reporting of "records" doesn't mean what you think it means. Government agencies and other parts of the climate lobby continually adjust past historical data such that records become made and unmade without anything actually happening. They also like to change definitions and seriously truncate datasets at convenient places to create the appearance of endless trends when longer term data exists showing otherwise. This is so dishonest people think it can never happen, but it does.

Here's an example. Retraction Watch is a blog that follows
retractions and bad scientific publishing:

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/16/will-the-real-hottest...

"NOAA noted in a Friday press release that the previous record was set in July 2016, and tied in 2019 and 2020. But as Bill Frezza, a sharp-eyed reader of Retraction Watch noticed, the agency’s website tells a different story. This press release, dated Aug. 15, 2019, and still live on noaa.gov, proclaims July 2019 to be the hottest month on record for the planet"

In this way they get to announce "record breaking temperatures" that were lower than previously announced temperatures.

You also have to watch out for lots of other problems and tricks, unfortunately. Even if they aren't doing that specific trick here, there can be others, even simple things like asserting patterns and trends in noise.
You mean like integrating the PC in the screen as per Apple? (Or a random Smart TV)
Or the Apple Trashcan iMac?
Yeston Cute Pet PC case? (UwU)
Weird "gamer" case shapes? Translucent acrylic covered wall hanger PCs?
There are also rack PCs you could put into a case of choice if you need it compact yet potent.
Or if you need it smaller, micro-ITX.

Laser projection keyboards are terrible. I wouldn't wish that thing on my worst enemy. Even a membrane keyboard of ZX Spectrum is better, or a glass touchscreen of an ATM.
Because professional software developers with a background in CS are a minority of people who program today. The learning curve of pointers, memory-allocation, binary operations, programming paradigms, O-Notation and other things you need to understand to efficiently code in something like C is a lot to ask of someone who is for example primarily a sociologist or biologist.

The use case btw. is often also very different. In most of academia, writing code is basically just a fancy mode of documentation for what is basically a glorified calculator. Readability trumps efficiency by a large margin every time.
> It's a real problem we need to solve now.

We need to solve AGI now? Don't get me wrong, it would be an incredible scientific breakthrough, but I cannot see how AGI would solve our current societal and human problems. In fact, it would just upturn our entire world.

AGI is a tool we want, not the solution we need.

And I agree with OP anyway. It is pure hype. Thinking we are closer to AGI because of LLM is just like thinking we are closer to the Moon because we have conquered the Everest peak.
Hello everyone,

I have created a little python program with which you can create a beautiful readable chapters txt file (of the format "h:mm:ss YOUR_CHAPTER_TITLE") .

Then you can use the txt file to add your chapter titles and afterwards use the script to attach it to the video.

Keep in mind though that this program only works in Unix systems like macOS and you need FFmpeg installed on your machine.

The GitHub repo is provided.

There are some TODO things, available in the code such as a UI and exception handling.

I would really appreciate if you take time to test and even more if you have any comments regarding it or improvements or edits to the project.

Thanks for your attention
I had clogging problems on mine - three or four different fixes to sort it out, and the thing that finally nailed it was replacing the PTFE hotend lining with Capricorn. It's been fire-and-forget since then.
MSC3923: Bringing Matrix into the IETF process —
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/392...

MSC3977: Matrix as a Messaging Framework —
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/397...

MSC3919: Matrix Message Format —
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/391...

MSC3918: Matrix Message Transport —
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/391...
One field were ML is making strides apparently, is auto focus systems in mirrorless cameras. Not tgat I would know, so. And tgat is a field I am totally ok with, guessing were the subjects is going, and where to focus on the subject based on user input, is usefull. Shutter, apperture and ISO settings are solved since non-figital cameras got a Program mode. ISO was, obviously, added with DSLRs. It is basically just a stupid control loop running along a curve based on the lense and camera you are using.
I have my own Matrix & Bridges setup (just like Beeper but with too much maintenance). It's super easy to write bots that you can then hook into Signal, WhatsApp etc, because essentially you only need to talk to your Matrix server, and the bridges take care of the rest. Talking to Matrix is easy - there's a straightforward HTTP API.

The other day I connected the matrix-chatgpt-bot (https://github.com/matrixgpt/matrix-chatgpt-bot) with WhatsApp - it was very funny to see how people reacted.
The Rust code is still only brute force - using suitable persistent acceleration structures you can probably get a 10x again or maybe even 100x, in 2D a kd-tree is really fast for NNs.

So much faster that the allocations for the result will probably be the bottleneck.
Game over: Steam won’t run on Windows 7 or 8 after January 1, 2024
I dunno. Larger units with more amenities on the top floors?

I'm sure they can dream up some creative solution.

PS: I think you forgot your sarcasm tag. It looks like this:

/s
As if 38 years of Terminator movies, haven't taught us nothing!
There are some illegal click farms out there, basically those dodgy places designed to click on ads a lot of times, like pages, follow influencers, write reviews. I wonder if those can be repurposed to train AGI.

The Iron Man movie (2008) had him build a high tech suit in a cave to escape from terrorists. But ironically in reality, the people who were inspired to become engineers from that movie build Ultron in a similar cave.