skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
6GB of VRAM! Luxury! I managed to reconstruct the lego scene using TensoRF[0] (not strictly NeRF, but a similar approach with similar results) last night on my nvidia-equipped T480 (2gb of VRAM)[1], so it's possible.

>But, there are really no viable models that run on consumer hardware like llama or stable diffusion.

This isn't a strictly accurate framing, there is no pre-trained "model" that you "run" inference on like with Llama or Stable Diffusion. You are training the model, from scratch, on each new scene. The viability of this on a given GPU depends on the combined size of the input + output, i.e. the resolution and number of input images and the resolution and compactness of the resulting data structure. There's nothing in principle preventing you from training tiny low-res nerfs from tiny low-res images, except that all the researchers in this space are working with standard datasets of a standard size on big beefy machines and their code is full of magic numbers. Also, many of the improvements on the original NeRF achieve their speedup through much hungrier data structures (voxels, multiresolution, etc). TensoRF appears to have a very compact scene representation (like the original NeRF) and very fast training (like instant-ngp) so it seems to be a sweet spot for low-end hardware - at any rate, it's the first thing I managed to get working on this laptop. The main downside seems to be that inference (generating new images) is quite slow, at about 14 seconds.

[0] https://github.com/apchenstu/TensoRF/ - it's apparently included in nerfstudio as well

[1] batch_size = 512 in configs/lego.txt (with your 6gb you'd get away with 2048) and compute_extra_metrics=False wherever it appears in train.py
Yeah, good luck with that.

My wife is a high school teacher, parents get livid if you confiscate their kids phone for even a single period citing "I need to be able to reach him/her!"
> worked at a well-known mid-size tech company

This is one of the most common confusion that folks does to related their own experience with some regional/national tech company in comparison with global tech products with millions of users plus multiple juriscitions and regional aspects that needs to be taken in consideration.

Good luck trying to deal with regional ad sales, content moderation, legal, account management without a local team.
Not just C, the language. On Linux, if you create a `FILE *` with `fopencookie`, your program suddenly terminates if you apply `fgetwc` to it. The Linux C standard library is unable to read Unicode in 2023.
You clearly have a hatred for clever people if you can see all the world's problems caused by that. Like whose cleverness made cancer exist? Or aging exist?
>Our developers use ActiveRecord to write these queries. Due to the dynamic nature of Ruby and ActiveRecord, it’s hard to determine which physical tables are affected by ActiveRecord queries with static code analysis alone.

Interesting, in other programming envs. Active Record is considered as "antipattern"
>You can't decentralize the decision to (e.g.) increase or decrease criminal sentence length by ten per cent
You absolutely can. It also exists right now in the form of federalism, where people can, to some limited extent, choose their own legislation and policies.
Do take note, Siberia will thaw and this will give great opportunity to Russians to farm and dominate in future. So at least from their perspective this is good for them. Of course the rest of the world will suffer with USA destine to be dustbowl as foretold in Interstellar.
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I think today it's fair to say that if people want to have EBCDIC as the execution character set then its their problem.
I signed up and want to try it out. The one thing on the account creation page that absolutely grinds my gears, though, are the password requirements. Some use pass phrases. Please please please consider changing these rules, and use 2FA as a security guarantee instead.

It makes me dread that I'm going to get a mandatory password reset demand in a month, at which point I have to revert to cycling between insecure password versions.
Cool that you have shared the salary range. What kind of practical challenge will you be doing?
> Did you live there? I did.

Yes.

- Never had electricity rationed.

- Meat was rationed on a food stamp basis here as well. What should've been the alternative? Only a handful of wealthier people could eat meat? Meat production has always been a problem in eastern Europe and only improved with market economy.

- Never seen hot water rationed

- I don't think racism is a peculiarity of socialist countries. Slavs have always been a culturally xenophobic culture, still are.

- Yes, I'm aware of black market economy.

- Your communications are still constantly taped and listened on unless you're naive to think the opposite.

- Never my family was afraid of who we talked to. Moreover, what was to be afraid of, unless you were plotting something?

- Corruption is still widespread everywhere in the world, not a peculiarity of socialism per se.

- Alcohol-related issues are worse today than they were in soviet times in most of the countries formerly in the warsaw pact.

> But yeah, life was "not bad".

People use to paint those countries as miserable or something, which is straight not true. Most people enjoyed on average the highest standards of living they or their parents ever seen. Cities, infrastructure were built everywhere, women enjoyed the most social progress they'd ever seen, politics, while limited to only communist parties still had seen the most democratization these countries ever experienced.
Remember: game devs don’t create intelligent game entities; instead they create the illusion of intelligence. Game dev is a big smoke an mirrors charade.

Any system that could be queried needs to be built and maintained. Creating game entities that have models of feeling or have opinions about the groups of people they belong to has to be modeled and built. Unfortunately game dev is very informationally and financially sparse so creating these systems is a huge undertaking.

I heard a joke once about OOP: if you want to create a form that accepts payment information you must first create the universe. The joke speaks to a danger of overdoing your conceptual modeling. The real trick of a true craftsperson is to create a model that is excellent at solving the problem on hand.

What I’m saying is we’re a long way away from game entities behaving like west world hosts and embracing the ECS paradigm isn’t the answer. Just like how switching from OOP to functional doesn’t actually solve creating a profitable business.
population * a ^ n

Guess where it moves if `a` is less than 1.
That was a great read! Well argued and sensible points!

I've long felt that the panic around AI is not rational, but I would not in a hundred years be able to argue the point as well as OP!

I think it makes intuitive sense that any technology that increases productivity will ultimately be good for society, how could it possibly be otherwise?
Because it's my understanding that charging and keeping it all the way full shortens significantly its battery life compared to 80-85%. I would rather not have to dick around plugging and unplugging the phone to not have it be full all the time. Plus, that also counts as consumed cycles.

I've used my old phone for a good six years. I've swapped its battery some three years ago, and it would've needed a new one now, had I continued using it.

If that phone is any indication, my current one should be in service for at least as long. If I can avoid having to swap its battery, it's a win in my book.

It can also sometimes happen that I foresee being away from an outlet or otherwise need as much charge as possible. In those situations, I'd just deactivate the battery saver feature and let it charge to 100%. So if the remaining capacity is closer to its original one, again, it's a win.
Agree with everything you’re saying except the cameras in phones. Cameras in phones are advanced but most do not have kind of optical zoom. Try to take a picture of a plane flying overhead with your iPhone or a bird. It’s hard to get a clear photo of something so far away.
They don't like to mix different types of pollen together in the hive, either. If you inspect a frame with pollen in cells, it's usually this cool array of different yellow/orange/brown colors because of this.
I disagree strongly that "more phones is better".

Say 500 kids in the school have phones. 250 of them call 911. The vast majority of emergency call centers have zero chance to deal with that volume. So all the emergency responders are caught up on the lines sifting through children while the adults with the most useful information are stuck on hold.

Let's say the same number of kids call their parents, either before or after they try 911. 100 of those parents drive directly to the school in 100 different vehicles, coming from both directions on what is probably a two-lane road. Now the crime scene with police needing to get in, ambulances needing to get out, etc. is completely congested with terrible traffic that slows everyone down, and police officers who should be focused on dealing with the shooter and saving kids are instead focused on crowd control.

Meanwhile, within the school, teachers and other staff are trying to manage the situation. They need children to be paying absolute attention to them and following their instructions immediately. But instead, half their kids are on the phones obsessively tracking news and social media or sobbing to their parents.

A teacher in every classroom means you have a phone in every classroom, plus in the offices, plus on staff moving through the hallways. That's more than enough phones.
VR has been "just about to become mainstream" my entire career. I'm quite old now. Perhaps it'll break through before I retire.

That said, the same thing was true about video phones, to the point that everyone assumed humans do not need to see each other on a phone call. Then we had a pandemic and things changed.
As Sam Harris has discussed several times, if you run the thought experiment of what is definitely real and not to its conclusion, subjective experience is the only thing that cannot be faked as it does not make any claim beyond the experience itself. Even if there is no real world out there, you're just sitting on a hard drive in a super computer being simulated, your subjective experience was proven to be true the moment you experienced it.

There is a distance between your experience and the shared reality (a bunch of signals, perception and processing) that we use science to try to overcome
> so auth for employees, not end users.

and what is the difference in context of this discussion?
I'm thinking it might have an onboard battery that affords a few minutes after the current battery is depleted to allow hot swaps.

Not a great solution to using these in such situations, because bugs as you say, but it might be a feature that allows people to feel so daring. Oof.
> In 1953, the CIA created Project MKUltra to research how psychoactive drugs could be used against foreign enemies.

Nope, MKUltra was created to be used against domestic enemies. Foremost the Korean war pilots, who spread chemical and biological weapons, and were willing to testify on these war crimes.
It's partially because of dilution. There are so many things out there seeking our attention. There aren't enough people on this planet to support it all.
Founder of windmill.dev here, airplane is not backed by YC but the founder is an alumni.

Aside from the obvious open-source aspect, here is one notable difference.
We explicitly do not provide an integrated DB but offer simply a K/V store api, and recommend to use some dedicated services for persistence storage like supabase/neon.tech/aurora/s3: https://docs.windmill.dev/docs/core_concepts/persistent_stor.... We do not believe we can build both the fastest workflow engine at scale and the best DB so we leave the last bit to others.

From what I can see, the assumption of the userbase look a bit difference. Although we have a hub (hub.windmill.dev) where users can share premade actions, we focus on script/code in typescript/python/go/bash as the unit for workflows. From there, we focus on building workflows with most of the same primitive as temporal (suspend/resume also called reactivity, error handlers, retry, etc, and some others like caching of step results) and running arbitrary code on your own infra and being able to use your full nodes without overhead. The code for the steps can also be developed locally and deployed from your github repo.

Last we have a retool-like + react app capability which seems to be out-of-scope. So to summarize, although you can use windmill to do backend prototyping or as your product backend given that we generate per script/workflow webhooks, we focus on workflows with code and internal tools with enterprise scale requirements such as complex permission per-user/groups.
Infinite surprise – the iridescent personality of Kullback-Leibler divergence
> Nothing a tweak to the parameters (retirement age, pension value net of taxes on pensions) can't fix. Pension "rights" are not immutable physical constants.

So what exactly happens to people who reach that age and have no other kind of income and can no longer work?
My friend once wrote a biography. It started with "I was born at a very early age".
Love the arrow pointing to "Generate idea" which when clicked turn into a Sign up form. /s
From the landing page, this looks great! Can I still connect to the underlying postgres database directly?
Hey there, thanks for asking!

Windmill and Airplane have done some cool stuff and while we do share some common elements with both, there are a few key distinctions. Here’s how we think we’re carving out our own niche in the space:

1. Visual Flow Builder - We've gone all-in on making the interface really interactive and visual. Drag-and-drop actions to build rest APIs and workflows - it's super intuitive and handy for rapid prototyping.

2. Integrated Database - Fastgen has an integrated Postgres database, providing a unified environment for managing your data.

3. Debug Mode - We've got a 'Debug Mode' that throws light on how flows are churning away under the hood, step-by-step. It makes troubleshooting issues and optimizing workflow performance much easier.

4. Flexibility - We understand the need for a tool to be both accessible to less technical users and powerful enough to not restrict more advanced ones. With fastgen we try to strike that balance without compromising very technical users.

In short, we believe Fastgen adds a unique flavour to the broader low-code space with a blend of its features and focus on user experience.
The Journal Of Open Source Software addresses this problem. Reviewers test the code, submit Reviews as GH issues and PRs are corrections. Code review and coding in the open is what the academic review process should be. - https://joss.theoj.org/
Has anyone tried to turn this into a "product or experience" of sorts, and care to share their experience in doing so?
To be entirely fair, that’s a different problem: just because you launched something with a KOI8-R locale inside your terminal emulator doesn’t mean the emulator itself stopped expecting UTF-8. (I mean, it didn’t change its UI language to Russian either, did it?) If you use

luit -encoding koi8-r env LC_ALL=ru_RU.KOI8-R python3.11

instead, for example, things do work out on my Linux machine, so apparently I was wrong as far as Unix versions of Python go.
Ah yes, people blocking canvas fingerprinting will also love your blank pages, but as they're a minority of users it's not a concern
https://archive.ph/ps6fp
Cool story: the whois server for ga zone is not pointed in whole internet (iana empty records: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ga.html). Old working web-whois: https://whois.freenom.com/cgi-bin/whois?domainname=nic.ga&lo...
Old canonical from whois utility: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/commit/57a51c9fdb4d310e8deb...

So I just guessed it: whois.nic.ga (web&whois protocol)
If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me. (/s of course)
Not denying that secondary infections is a big killer, 2 groups of 50 patients is not a big number.

Also, maybe the patients initially were different that allowed them to recover from a secondary infection or not. It doesn't say much whether a different approach treating these infections would have helped. It might but still remains to be demonstrated. A proper RCT is needed.

Besides, it seems that covid has changed, now almost everyone has been vaccinated or infected, so people have some seroprotection, a different strain is less damaging. The results may not be applicable to potential future outbreaks of covid or other respiratory infections.
Apple is not part of Khronos now and there is a bit of a weird relationship between the two these days. Some details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539633
>, yet I think schools (generally) do a good job of keeping them away from kids during the day.

When I was in high school 99-03 you couldn't go into the bathroom without seeing someone smoking a cigarette or a joint, I even had a teacher that would let you have a restroom pass under the condition he reserved the right to smell you (at a reasonable distance) when you returned to make sure you didn't smoke. Now kids try to sneak vapes in class (my wife is a high school teacher) and at a school she taught at before we got married they had a student OD on fentanyl that someone had laced his vape cartridge with.

When I was in high school you'd have kids on MDMA in class too with some regularity.

A friend that is also a teacher, about 7-8 years ago, had (presumably) a student dose her Starbucks sitting on her desk with a roofie which required her being in the hospital for 2 days. Schools aren't doing a good job of anything in that regard. Even prisons can't keep drugs out and they have strip and cavity searches.
Neither do I. I have officially rented houses/flats/rooms on four separate occasions in major metropolitan areas in two different countries, and I have no landlord horror stories.

That's not to say I deny there is a problem though. I just think I have been somewhat lucky to enjoy landlords who were decent people who didn't need the currently lacking regulations and incentives to do a good job.
> Is this specific to Excel?

No. And yet they still have situations where excel itself will differ from ieee 754. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...
Sources of Noise?!

Doesn't that mean that the gravitational field is an information storage and transmission medium; a signal channel?

Is it lossy?

Is there a routable signal path to block harassing calls?

Is it slower or cheaper than nonlocal entanglement; like quantum radar?

What is the minimum energy necessary to cause a propagating thresholdable-as-binary pertubation of a gravitational field?
Create accessible spatial experiences for visionOS
This may be a naive question. But is there a way to embed a chat bot like this that only queries the data we feed it, and not the universe of other stuff in gpt? Like I don’t want people using the chatbot in our product to query a good strawberry shortcake recipe. We just want them to query about data we allow it to query which is native to our business.

Is this feasible? Thx.
integrated gpus do perform "stream computing" tho
Did you check whois via something like domaintools?
I've got same error.
Oh come on...

"On 8 January 2005 at 02:43 GMT, San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 364 nautical miles (675 km) southeast of Guam while operating at flank (maximum) speed at a depth of 525 feet (160 m)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)
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Novelty or Surprise?
Not really, interaction nets and linear logic don't have the compact closed categorical semantics we use here. Ros Duncan's PhD is about the differences. (and that was long before the extra structures of ZX had started)
Inertial navigation is a form of dead reckoning. It needs periodic updates (GPS fixes) to stay accurate.

If this however works like some other commenters have theorized (by finding reliable matches to the known contour of the bottom of the ocean), it's not a form of dead reckoning and can instead be used as a fix for dead reckoning.
It's almost like there's no silver bullet, and neither management nor engineering are capable of sticking to one set of trade-offs. Instead, the product thrashes back and forth while trying to accommodate whatever the current feature demands happen to be, with no one applying enough higher order thinking to see that there is no end-state that satisfies everything. Just endless busy work, a few more paychecks, and actual value down the drain.
If my wife and I had children, we would 100% keep their phones at home every morning. They would not go to school with them, period. They're an unnecessary distraction during the school day (and my wife is a high school teacher).
Can you follow your own getting started guide?
> one of the best industrial design teams in the world forgot about a primary success factor,

Is this the same team who came up with a phone that bends in the pocket?
That's our plan. A simple device that allows for emergency use. Call mom, dad, trusted friend, 911. But our kid is young and limits are hard. As they age up, this will evolve.
I do it sometimes to weaken the word.
> UTF8 situation with regards to systems level programming is scary and annoying at same time

These days one of the systems level programming languages (Rust) is natively UTF-8.

This would have been a huge source of drama in say, 1993 (when UTF-8 is basically brand new) and maybe even in 2003 (by which point it's clear Unicode is a success, but still conceivable that UTF-16 "wins" in some sense) but in 2023 people just shrug - obviously it's UTF-8, why not?
When the market demand is saturated at the newly improve efficiency's level and Jevon's Paradox ceases to apply.
Reality is surprisingly complicated.
I think it's weird because the example they used of the birthday is trying too hard to be family-friendly and social.

The HoloLens had some great examples of highlighting where to hit a mechanism to make it work. I have no idea if it was any good in reality.

That doesn't work for Apple, at least not for advertising.

I think it would have been neat to have shown a sports person/dancer/musician looking through the eyes of their instructor to correct their posture, etc. Or at least show them reviewing the recording together.
Fantastic. Thanks for the pointer.

There appears to be one for Chrome too here (not tested it yet):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graze-for-mastodon...
People get older and might want to play sometimes a game.

Having it as an option when I travel business would be great.

And I don't play every week anymore but I will play certain games.

It solves the itch without needing a ps5 or a PC.