skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@gorpomon and @jjkeddo199 Great talking points! I thought about this a lot, but still don't have a good answer: how easy should it be to translate?

- If you make it too easy, like jjkeddo199 pointed out you don't learn.
e.g. it's much more useful to watch a movie and understand say 60-70% of it than to have your work cutout for you and understand everything with subtitles.

- But this also depends on the current level you're at… And getting the difficulty just right is what gets people to feel good, learn and be "in the zone" (FLOW)! Such a good feeling!

- It's more beneficial to use THE FEW WORDS ONE KNOWS than to spread oneself too thin, seeing too many words and reading too much translated text. Time spent 100% in the language is super valuable. Story time: when I first lived in Hungary I talked like a 2-year old, but became fluent (in the sense of fast, no need to think) on ultra-limited topics in two months. This created a solid basis I was later able to build on. It's a method that works.

- At times, only translations will make a meaning crystal clear.

But I may also be at a bit of a disconnect. I learn languages by just pushing through, but not everyone has the same learning style (my wife is much more organized and does just as well.)

Sorry if this turned into a ramble…

Anyway… Would love to know what people's experience and feelings are with the whole shebang of translation.
You are not looking far enough ahead.

In the future people will be in their pods, only connected within virtual reality and everything will feel as if it was real.

This allows for much more optimal space and resources management.
I (don't) want to see an agent learn to rowhammer the memory address storing its reward quantity.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/view-royal-mayor-ca...
Probably just some margin of safety. At least that's how it's done in non-sim racing.
No, I didn't see a way to access the full article. Appreciate the clarification.
Yup! This kind of reconstruction is known as multi-view reconstruction. Though the cameras don't need to have a movable mount, they're already on a car which moves! The car moves and gives them a new "perspective" at every frame. That's how some monocular systems already work. Here's an example of one such system: https://github.com/nianticlabs/manydepth

That said, I think what you're referring to is more extreme perspectives that shift in ways the car cannot drive and you are correct that this would aid in reconstruction. This is how NERF models do their 3D reconstruction (https://nerfies.github.io/).
Can KiCad import EAGLE files?
Author here. It might be worth reading part 1, also.

Aside from that, yes z-index was because there are multiple SVGs rendered. We also had non-SVG stuff for each element like inputs and stuff, plus it was just like that when I got here, and it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

Another thing was you said it’s a problem React solves rather than creates. This is very clearly not true.

If you add event listeners to every component which is big-standard React, you end up with 1000s or tens of 1000s of event handlers often doing almost nothing. And sure, JavaScript can do 10_000 lots of almost nothing very quickly, but it’s noticeable when you’ve got a strict frame budget.
I just found this stackexchange post[1], that claims 350g of wood would be enough to power 1Kwh, but a user points out that half the heat would be lost in exhaust.

Maybe that's what the article was referring to, a significant loss of energy to the efficiency of extracting meaningful work from burning wood, with stone age tools.

1: https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/a/4601
Why use noreferrer instead of banning the domain, out of curiosity?
This only happens a very small fraction of the day, typically within an hour either side of solar noon. And if the voltage goes up too far inverters will typically back off either incrementally or by shutting down entirely.
Not to mention ads incite to consume more, attempt to creep inside your daily thoughts and lie about the qualities of the product using all the tricks in the books.

Add on top of this it gives more power to the big players with more money and create terrible incentive for the medias and you have one of the easiest moral decision in the world.
> You can obviously process strings with two different encodings in the same program !!! Encodings are metadata, and metadata should be attached to data.

So, you can't, because Unicode processing can be (though I'm not sure how much is) locale dependent, and that that metadata is NOT attached to data. Unicode Consortium had been messing up non-Latin languages multiple times, causing hacks and new standards to build on top of UTF-8. Han Unification immediately comes to mind[1], but there are others as the Korean Mess[2], Cambodian Khmer problem[3], to name a few. I don't quite understand why it's always has to be like that.

1: Sets of characters from zh-Hans(zh-CN), zh-Hant(zh-TW), kr-KR, ja-JP that were deemed "same" were merqed lnto same code points, in an attempt to keep commonly used UTF-8 in nice 2 bytes

2: Korean Hangul characters were literally relocated between Unicode 1.1 to Unicode 2.0, causing affected characters written in 1.1 displayed in just unrelated characters

3: Reportedly the Consortium simply did not have a Cambodian linguist(???) (partly due to unrest and genocide that took place during 60s-80s)
My point is that unless they can make a case that some random email from your inbox is 99.9% likely to be malicious, then they should not be able to read it. Yes they have a button that lets them read it, but they should not press that button, and if they do they should get their ass sent to the clink.
I get the impression that the intelligence communities (IC) have a lot of people who have a constant sense of it being their job to help avert national existential threats. I imagine they attract lots of smart and noble people, and that the nature of immersion in the work is going to affect a person's perspective.

People I've met who might've been involved in IC don't talk about it, at least not with me (and I assume it's improper to ask), but I did once meet someone peripheral to that, who vocalized one kind of thinking about it.

Years prior to the meeting, around the time of the Snowden thing, in a private research forum, I said something like: one of the IC orgs did important work, etc., but seemed to need guidance on Constitutional balance. It was a random comment, and I forgot about it.

Years later, I was meeting with someone from that forum, about a (non-IC) job, and their attention was divided with laptop while they talked with me, like they were also reviewing my resume or something. Suddenly, they were agitated, and seemed to be referencing -- not our conversation, nor my resume -- but my forum comment from years earlier, as they angrily started saying how people at such-and-such org "know the Constitution better than anyone", etc. Then angry impromptu speech about (public) information about threats, and (public) information about a claim of why such-and-such org had done certain things.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to that, and I also realized that I needed to get the interview-gone-sideways back on track, so the discussion recovered after that. But at the end of the interview, there was obvious (renewed) irritation in their voice and manner. (And that's not my worst interview ever. :)

I realized that the person's work had probably led them interact with IC orgs before, the person had been impressed by the orgs, was very concerned about threats, and was offended on behalf of the org by armchair critics like me.

I imagine that person is not the only one with strong feelings like that, but that people actually at the org, and who had similar feelings, wouldn't speak with an outsider about it.
$1.30 per day food budget? Not accurate in the affluent world.

1400-1800 calories for an average height adult male is a reasonable floor (and that's a non-obesity scale). The $1.30 per day budget might get you around 1/3 of that calorie requirement, without solely existing on something like rice.

You can get by on closer to ~$90-$120 per month, per adult, and actually bring in enough calories to not starve over time. That's a surviving floor. You can temporarily go a bit lower to scrape by ($50-$90), however that's not livable longer term, you'll suffer increasingly.

If you modestly augment with various free food assistance options (not talking about SNAP), you could stretch the lower ~$50-$90 category up to something more like the $120 category consistently.
I am just a hobbyist but I can answer some of these.

> Whats the difference between a “binocular” camera and two “monocular” cameras?

For the camera itself, nothing. They are probably referring to the implementation. You can have two cameras side by side but unless you are using homography to estimate depth from the two images, then your setup is monocular.

> How does a “binocular” camera get better depth information?

A pixel in two images (with known separation) will have a geometric relationship that can be used to extract depth information. This is a lot faster than alternative methods with a single camera and multiple images.

> Is using multiple cameras to drive sensor fusion?

This is really just a question of semantics.

> Why is absolute depth a strict safety win?

Why is it better to have two eyes than one? You can be more certain about what you are seeing.

> If this is just a handwavey upper bound on safety, how do you know that such a system can’t be safe enough for its design goals?

If you had a system with infinite compute you could probably do enough math to calculate absolute depth with 100% certainty. I believe you can already extract absolute depth with something called bundle adjustment-- but it requires multiple images since you are relying on parallax effects. It is also computationally expensive.

> If humans with only one eye are able to drive, why wouldn’t mono surround vision be at least as good as that?

Computers are not humans.
Car dealers' comfort is proportional to governmental scrutiny and control of their finances and transactions, so I think this is still a big deal as we move further and further away from the ability to independently transact among ourselves without controlling middlemen (government, banks, etc.) centralizing and controlling this ability. Not to mention the big banks and governments moving to blockchain financial vehicles they sanction and ultimately control. Soon you will have to be fingerprinted for a SIM card here like in Saudi Arabia. I've lived in SE Asia where you can buy a SIM card from a convenience store. To get one in KSA, I would have had to have had a government ID or number, and they fingerprint you to get an account. You know, because only criminals, drug dealers, and others use "burner" phones; it's not about trying to track and control you ;)
Yea, and some mark up prices on specific days of the week so they can have regular sales when people are actually shopping.

So yes companies will come up with crazy workarounds for such regulations, but the point is such things cost shelf space and worker effort which helps maintain some sanity in the marketplace. Because eventually some company will figure they can save quite a bit of effort and have ‘everyday low prices’ while maintaining better margins.
How else would the ruling class rule? This is how capitalism works.
Where can I find more information about this?

I can find very little information about long term storage, not that 1-2 days is much.

Most seem to think 4 hours qualifies as storage.
It seems to be the playbook. Get huge, ask for regulation. Sam Bankmen-Fried was doing the same with ftx, asking for crypto to be regulated, once FTX got huge. Granted that didn't end the same, but still same concept
I don't think the flagrantly flagged stuff counts. Nor should it, otherwise I could intentionally tank any community I didn't like with 30 minutes of spare time. I think they are upset about things that weren't explicitly downvoted/flagged, like comments on the identity of Lina.
Yes, and more broadly $Company is at their best when they are struggling.
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This article is a combination of two things that I love to do. The first one is what I started doing when I was in Cuba. I used to scrape the world’s websites, mostly in Python. Using libraries like Beautiful Soup and Requests, I used to fetch a lot of data. I really love to do that, it’s been a while since I haven’t done it, so it is time to practice that again. On the other hand, recently I’m starting to learn more about blockchain. Now that I’m unemployed I have free time to do it, which is awesome. Specifically I’ve been focusing on the TON(Telegram Open Network) blockchain.
Why is basically almost all the countries in the world except the EU countries. GP comment about "bard is still not available in europe" still stands.

(Snapshot of the page at the time this comment was written: https://archive.is/hScBl )
"Valued" is carrying a lot of weight there. Crypto's stated PURPOSE is to get around traditional banks; that banks don't like it doesn't actually equal "not valued."
It's 2023 not 1963 and we are talking about US courts not the UK. Support your argument! Tell me how the US court system is a "kangaroo" court system.
Agreed. We've gotten very far with a PWA (and now iOS web push notifications!) but the only thing holding us back is the App Store risk. I'd love to use native UIs because I hate Javascript and iPhone apps can be beautiful (for example, Apollo).
Oh, I realize this comes out the Hydro Project that produced a previous HN submission I thought was cool:

Katara is a project to synthesize CRDTs from a C++ implementation of a regular plain-old data structure along with a few annotations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32977887

https://github.com/hydro-project/katara
> what are you going to do to solve Reddit's income problem?

Spend way less, in almost every category.

Not every business needs to do a billion dollars, or a billion users, or a billion x.
None, but downvoting because of a disagreement makes you an asshole, so that still tells you stuff about the community, or at least those active in certain threads.
Correction: anyone selling you "self driving" is lying to you.

We're at least a decade away from it... (and yes, I've seen the current batch of FSD videos).
I’m a bit confused then… what exactly do you propose the average American should put in their sandwiches—your suggestion—at a $40/mo budget? Eggs and lentils?
Nowhere I called him a hero.
Rubbing salt on the wound is Idaho Power announced a massive investment in a solar farm around the same time!
Google Zanzibar vs. OPA – Graph vs. Code Based Authorization
Hey, thanks! :)

Will add Japanese and Chinese momentarily.

Which variation of Arabic would you want to learn?

You make a good point. I might need to hire a salesperson or do a business deal for this.
There's a paragraph about 2/3rds down that rolls out all the usual BS, and links to an article, by the same author, suggesting we need to slow down renewable rollout as it is "destabilising the grid".
> I think that's Google's killer advantage here.

Also it can give you up to date information without giving you the "I'm sorry, but as an AI model, my knowledge is current only up until September 2021, and I don't have real-time access to events or decisions that were made after that date. As of my last update..." response.

For coding type questions, I use GPT4, for everything else, easily Bard.
I wish I could think of a good long form article about this. The best I can immediately think of is a pretty informative FAQ about Japanese encoding.

https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/encodings.html

What I will point out though, that you can easily verify with a simple search, is that Shift-JIS can be represented losslessly in Unicode, and that this has been true for as long as Unicode CJK has existed.

The continued popularity of Shift-JIS is worth noting, but it is also important to note that its continued use is not a stable thing, and has been declining for two decades. The most popular websites in Japan no longer use it, and among smaller websites, the percentage that use it gets smaller each year. Secondly, there is absolutely no benefit to the user in terms of that can be encoded and distinguished, because it will get converted into Unicode at some stage in the pipeline anyway. Any modern text renderer used in a GUI toolkit will use Unicode internally. “Weird byte sequences to indicate Unicode characters” is really all that legacy encodings are from the perspective of new software. They are essentially just incompatible ways of specifying a subset of Unicode characters.

As for why it has held on so long, there are a few reasons. The Japanese tech world can be quite conservative and skeptical about new things. That is one factor. But I think another is that Japan was really a computing pioneer in the 1980s, and local standards ruled supreme. Compatibility was not a big concern, and even the mighty IBM PC and its clones barely made an impact there for a long time, as it was completely eclipsed by Japanese alternatives. Now, everyone is forced by our increasingly interconnected world to work on international standards, and I can’t help but feel that there is some resentment at not being about to just “do their own thing” anymore. Every time a new encoding extension is proposed, they have to present it to an organization that includes China, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam, who will scrutinize it. A few years ago JIS (the Japanese standards organization) actually proposed that each East Asian country should just get their own blocks in Unicode and they should be able to encode whatever they want with no input from others. Of course, none of the other East Asian countries took their proposal seriously. I wish I could find the proposal, because I hate saying stuff like this without sources, but I can tell you that it is buried somewhere among all of the proposal documents that you can find on the website of the Ideographic Research Group, which is the organization that East Asian countries participate in which is responsible for CJK encoding in Unicode. You might find it here with enough scrolling. I have to get on the subway though, so I have to end this comment here.

https://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/
...because it breaks vi.
Not to mention the fruits and vegetables required for a balanced diet. Prices for produce in my area have gone through the roof. What about the family of four, the single parent, one of the many recently let go? The cost of basic goods and services has inflated as well, meaning less money for food. Sure, maybe there are people spending way too much eating out, but food scarcity is a real problem for many. And just saying you should be able to afford it and throwing around made up $ figures doesn't solve a thing.
In the future I'm sure there will be ways to manipulate/drug your nerves, emotions, to want to live in that World and enjoy it.
HN reinvents the “text book.”
Hm. Not totally sure why someone would pay for this - there are lots of readily-available open-source tools that can do this easily. GDAL/OGR[0] and Tippecanoe [1] come to mind. Maybe I'm missing a less-technical audience?

0: https://gdal.org/
1: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
Vuln4Cast: Forecasting Future CVEs
> And that's just for the slogan

My point is that I don't understand what using an LLM changes here. You'll still have to generate multiple candidate slogans, you'll still have to bring 10 of them to the account manager, you'll still have to discuss the possibilities with the customer and tailor the results to their needs. You'll still have to iterate. All an LLM can do is write the candidate slogans, and -- as of now -- it doesn't do a spectacularly great job at it. Very little actual labor is being saved here.
First install in a new computer. I'm shocked everytime I must use a browser that doesn't use an ad blocker. Internet experience for standard users suck.
You can use native memory tracking to better inspect offheap usages. I had a similar problem where the default MaxMetaspaceSize was excessive and adjusted it to a reasonable setting.

-XX:NativeMemoryTracking=summary

jcmd <pid> VM.native_memory summary
IMHO banning links to such sites, as you've done for other example(s?) for a long time, was the way better policy.
why do the examples they provide always seem like they're written by someone that has no absolutely no understanding of $LANGUAGE whatsoever?

to reverse x in python you use x[::-1], not a 5 line function

boilerplate generator
It might be a good science fiction movie to depict a future where privileged people walk around with AR glasses and the remainder don't.
I have at times tried to explain realistic visions of what it takes for renewables to become, say, 75% of the grid and people have taken it as crapping on solar, because I describe how it will require trillion dollar scale storage solutions.

But fossil fuels also require trillion dollar scale extraction solutions, so I don't see it as crapping on solar, it won't be easy but we will do it, I hope!
Legal immigrants and illegal migrants have to live somewhere too. Even if they don't have $$$, they still put pressure on the system from the bottom. And it bubbles up throughout the real estate pyramid.
I can honestly say I've never, ever, heard anyone call anyone else these terms on Hacker News. I don't think I've ever even heard those terms before. It sounds like you might be very online, in a way that seems to be making you unhappy.

Some of my most upvoted comments on here have been from a 'queer' perspective. It helps to assume good intentions and engage with others constructively and in good faith.

I must admit, I feel saddened by your dismissiveness of certain 'queer people'. You have no idea who I am, what my identity is, and yet you so casually dismiss members of the marginalised group you purport to be defending. How callous of you.

Perhaps the reason I can so easily dismiss your hysterical claim that HN is unsafe is that - in my day - 'unsafe for queer people' meant 'reasonable likelihood of getting a brick to the face', and not 'seeing words online you don't agree with'.
Those were basically 100% effective. It literally took a popular revolt to break the taxi cartel's stranglehold. The majority of customers decided they would rather participate in an illegal business model -- one that involved getting into strangers' cars, no less -- than put up with taxis any longer.

Is that likely to happen here, when the moat is so much wider? As long as training a model takes exaflop (zettaflop?)-level computing resources, the moat is very real.
Well, maybe your anecdata may be in conflict with reported revenue numbers? Google Office is not taking the world by storm.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3637079/as-google-move...

No it’s also not the year of the Linux desktop either
My favorite is when fox news puts out pieces about how not-so-bad it is to be poor because some large percentage of poor people have refrigerators or some other home appliance.
Can someone report back on whether it returns a .postcode archive :)
While they did confirm Continuity would work across visionOS they also showed direct footage of your Mac monitor being displayed as an app while using your Mac.
> here are ways to leave Russia without boarding a commercial flight. He isn't Assange stuck in an embassy in which all entrances and exits could be easily monitored. There are ways he could have gotten himself smuggled out of Russia if that is what he truly wanted.

They forcibly grounded the Ecuadorian presidents plane, causing a major diplomatic incident, just because they thought he might be on there (He wasn't). [0] But yeah, it'd be so easy for him to leave.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident