skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Structure from motion does not produce good visual fidelity on plants. I’m designing a farming robot and I want remote farmers to be able to view a 3D image of the plants to check for issues, so fidelity is very important. I’ve done a lot of experiments with photogrammetry and NERF, while still presenting a lot of technical challenges, seems far superior for this.

I get the sense that they are mostly using the smoothed views as an example of good results on long scenes. Ultimately the point of nerf is novel/arbitrary view synthesis, which you’re not going to get with Hyperlapse.

And NERF of long tracks is exactly what we need to capture a long row of plants at the farm.
Walled garden is great, if you make a living from finding exploits and selling them on grey market. Bro, I bought a house for two iOS 0days.

Thank to you walled garden.
I think you nailed it with this comment - there is a long line of folks who are waiting for open mod positions.
Just reading this description makes it sound like a really generic dungeon crawler; somewhere during development they came up with things that made it click for a lot of people. Probably moving away from being turn-based, and / or the loot system.
how to tell me you have no idea what youre talking about without saying it directly
The time stamps on those emails would indicate the former company tolerated the behavior. Money is money.
Could you share a source for the 3% number? I only managed to find an AMA post about 3% of *mod actions" coming from third party apps: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
The reason for spez to be out is less the decisions and more the execution and communication. He clearly sucks at PR.

But it may the intent to have him make all the unpopular changes, have him resign with a big payout, and blame him for everything without reversing anything like they did with Ellen Pao.
The level scaling is a really bizarre design choice. Every game with this feels bad. There is no sense of progression as your character gets punished for levelling up.

Some game designers think it’s a great idea though - hence it’s in D4. I’d love to hear their take.
That is not what I said. I said I can find 100,000 people more qualified than spez to be CEO of Reddit. I would only pull from a pool if maybe a few hundred globally if I were looking for the position. ie spez wouldn't be remotely considered. That has nothing to do with rounding.
Fact: the link the OP provided was from a Hollywood movie, a know reliable source of historical accuracy. /s

That there was no dev environment on release demonstrates precisely nothing, certainly not the fact that programmable personal computers were so vehemently "despised by Steve Jobs."

Edit: Last time I checked, the Mac that shipped in 1984 didn't have a CD drive, and the original Mac OS that shipped with the system was a ROM, so no CD was shipped with it...
Generics in Golang
The SSL certificate issuer field is a lie
As an ADHD person, my experience of Ritalin was that all my thought processes slowed down and from my own inside perception it was significant, but it wasn’t bad because I stopped feeling like I was in a rush to do every possible thing all at once. I was, for once in my life, content to sit still and I was able to listen to others without interrupting them with thoughts I had which I felt compelled to share quickly before moving onto the next thought.
However, it significantly worsened my hyperfocused to my disadvantaged, and I would spend literal days just glued to my computer, gaming the whole time.
I don’t think it made me “smarter” but it slowed me down enough to actually take time to read things properly, and write coherently which at the time in mt life that I was taking Ritalin, saw a massive improvement in my grades, going from C’s to A’s within about a month of being on it.
Agreed. Seems to me that the whole thing is about getting good growth numbers on paper before the IPO.

He’s not interested in the long term success of the platform, but trying to get a successful exit.
I think it depends on where you are in life. If your life is good and you feel safe and happy, then looking back can be a nice way to remember your childhood, and possibly rediscover things about yourself you had forgotten. If your life is difficult and you’re not feeling great, looking back at better times can be a painful reminder of things not going the way you’d like. But our lives ebb and flow, and there may be a time where you feel like looking back.
I find "paying twice for things" a nice analogy. Over the years I have been unconciously paying more attention to the second price, and often ignore the first one (obviously I'm getting older and have less time to waste). "will this thing last long enough?", "will it break when I most need it?", and "is it worth my time?" are some questions I ask myself when purchasing or choosing something new. It has had a net positive outcome for me.
> It isn't, because it's relative. "Most recent" is according to the observer, and if you couldn't previously observe something that is "newer" (within the rules of memory consistency model), then it is not stale.

Why is most recent according to the observer, and not the core(s) that actually did the writes?

The value in Y caused the value in X. Surely that's worth something in terms of ordering?
I was a contributor to a sub with a specific interest group (think something like your favorite programming framework). I got some value out of the community and so when someone suggested 'it would be really nice if a sub existed for xyz' I just went ahead and made the subreddit and was like, well here you go. By default, when you make a subreddit you're the moderator.

Then once that subreddit grew a little bit two things happened: first moderators of similar subreddits asked if I would be willing to help them out on their subs. The second was that moderators from other subreddits who enjoyed the community would reach out and ask if I needed any help moderating the sub. I both cases I said sure and eventually I ended up just being added to a bunch of subreddits as a moderator.

I would spend about an hour a day doing it and I think I kept it up as long as I did for the social aspect of it - I didn't want to burden the other moderators by leaving.

Then there was a highly politically charged let's say discussion that cropped up on the subreddit around some specific language (think similar to the default git branch being called "master"). It was exhausting to moderate, and it all suddenly felt like it wasn't worth it.

I also said to myself, hey I've got a lot to lose here, I've got a high paying job at a top company, and what happens it someone upset about this issue decides to email my employer and cause trouble? That could have real consequences for me. I'm taking a risk here and it's no longer worth it.

So yeah, I deleted the account and just walked away.
Bots creating content. Bots moderating content to fit corporate agenda. Clueless users consuming streamlined content. That would be a perfect circle.
This does have to be managed, empty Django is ~3.5s ours is <5s.

Heavy/slow libraries aren't loaded in the web via settings file, but are loaded in background workers. We've found that image processing libraries and PDF handlers are slowest to load.

We use 3 minute crons to keep a set of concurrent workers alive (pre-warming as you describe). The number of requests that hit full cold start are <0.5%.

But yeah, not all frameworks can be cold-started in Lambda well. Rails can work. We built our Rails app before lambda could take containers and the coupling was too tight w/ slow libraries to move it into Lambda w/ any reasonable start time, like 20-30s. Just too expensive to decouple and get it into lambda, wasn't worth whatever CPU savings we would gain.
That requires that your tickets be atomic enough, meaning project management and planning is still required . Or you’ll end up on a single mega-ticket the entire time.
The German "Corona Warn App" (CWA) is pretty good from a privacy POV. It works along the same lines as the Google/Apple ones I think (trading tokens over Bluetooth, then publishing a list of "infected" tokens when you submit a positive test result, risk severity being based on how many tokens you match, i.e. how long you were in the same space). The difference is that it isn't tied to any American corporation.

Of course we also had another app called Luca, which tried to do a lot more direct contact tracing and turned out to be extremely insecure and leak user data, so there's that. And of course there were some plausible corruption allegations relating to its public funding.
It's not fully confirmed. But it's likely given that if they don't, they are almost certainly going to be forced to.
Now that really _is_ meta
Pythagorean triples must be three nonzero numbers, and the exponent must be 2.

If you are interested in other equations, don't call them the same way; and more importantly, while generalizing to other exponents and sums of more than two numbers is reasonable, allowing 0 makes the problem trivial because all powers of 0 are 0 and the sum of any number of zeros is 0.
Not really. It's usually twenty somethings that somehow think the world wouldn't devolve into chaos if there wasn't a structure to organise society and secure it.
> 1. Unless Apple is allowed to make side-loading at least as unfriendly as it is on Android, many apps I use today will stop being distributed through the App Store. Want the Gmail app? Download Play Store for iOS. Want Lightroom? Download Creative Cloud Store for iOS. And suddenly all of these apps are no longer subject to Apple's strict privacy/tracking policies. That sucks.

That’s a lot of speculation without any data behind it.

We have the biggest OS in history of the world and what you’re describing is absolutely not the case there.

One of the biggest game developers with arguably the most popular game at the time tried to push for it and eventually returned back with tail between its legs.
This sounds like what Ritalin does to hyperfocus. I personally think Ritalin makes hyperfocus much worse than when not on Ritalin - from my own experience of the drug for the treatment of ADHD
"the project now uses CUDA, so i changed to C++11 since thats what nvcc supports."

I feel like nvcc supports at least 17 maybe even 20 already.
>Let’s be clear, if 1 developer can make millions through Apollo and do a way better app than the Reddit team, what does that say about Reddit as a whole and their development?

Not taking sides on this.

I wouldn't say the Apollo app is better. I've used both and the search UX on Apollo is so bad.

Furthermore, Apollo does not need to worry about backend at all since Reddit does all the work and gave it to Apollo for free.
> Who do you think the existing mods are?

The people invested in the community (or their vision of the community) enough to do that job for free, and do it well enough the community accepts it. I.e. people either not from the group I mentioned, or the least bad cases from it.

Right now (or at least before the blackout), you were looking at subreddits in a steady state. Some had excellent moderation, others less so. Users moved around according to their tastes, and as things settled, every subreddit ended having its own kind of flavor and quality level.

With the existing moderators leaving in protest and with Reddit shaking things up, everything is in flux again. It will take time for the worst, power/status-seeking mods to eventually get bored and drop out (thankfully Reddit isn't actually paying the mods, thus giving the bad ones little reason to stay), possibly destroying whatever subreddits they took over in the process.
McDonalds is friendly, their workers all smile at you and wish you a happy day, may even give you three sauce packets for free. Their adverts are cheerful and positive, full of platitudes about how great everything is and how they contribute to your community... But can you honestly say McDonalds appeals to everybody?

Some people would rather eat at an expensive restaurant where the host with a fake french accent turns away underdressed plebs.
What makes you so confident it's not the algorithm?

I'm pretty sure it's been well established that a high comment-to-upvote ratio causes the HN ranking algorithm to penalize a story.
There are a LOT more MAGA "verified" troll bots on there on anything to do with politics. Why are MAGA people trolling on the Bernie Sanders feed for example? Anyway, it's okay if you only follow mostly "fact-based" accounts and don't bother with any political or news sources.
There were no books in ancient times. Knowledge was passed down from memory.
There were papyri but obviously few of those survived.

We know building mind palaces/the loci method was part of the curriculum in Greece and Rome.
And thus conceivably likely of most peoples of that time that had a complex culture lasting hundreds or thousands of years.

That's why knowledge about hallucinogen use in those times is scarce. You may find chemical evidence. We know of hallucinogen use everywhere in ancient times mainly because of this. See e.g. [1].
But inscriptions of details of rituals in e.g. stone are pretty non-existent.
Most likely hallucinogen use was simply too 'everyday' to warrant such treatment.

"And after the pharaoh crushed his enemies he munged on a magic mushroom." was probably just as mundane as "And after the allies won WW2, all the commanders sat down together and had a beer."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140821182342/http://www.hallof...
I think some things that are generational are being confused for things that are infantile. Anime and Video games mostly got introduced in the form of children's entertainment first, and as those kids grew up they were still interested in the medium and more mature takes emerged.
As far as I've heard, r/startrek already started their own instance at https://startrek.website and indicated they will close their sub for good. This may be the first major sub to be handed over. Paramount may then even sue startrek.website for IP infringement, etc.

I'm re-stocking my strategic popcorn reserves.
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I was praising HTMX the other day when someone pointed me to Unpoly. Indeed, after I converted one of my apps to it, Unpoly is really a better version of HTMX and I think it deserves more exposure.

https://unpoly.com
And yet we don't see that happening on Android at all, where companies have literally all incentive to convince people to sideload their apps instead of getting them from the Play store. And yet....it just doesn't happen. There is literally zero reason to believe that this would happen on iOS either. Epic might want to try it with Fortnite because of its popularity, but anything else? No, far too much hassle and you know 99% of users wouldn't bother.
Because it costs too much just to cancel it.
Neither of you seem to get it. You're talking about 'power centralization' in a completely different and orthogonal way from how the federation works, which makes me think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of centralization or federation.

If you're banned from a popular instance you're not banned from the platform as a whole. Because there is no single authority dictating where you can and cannot post, unlike Reddit. It's similar to being specifically banned from a subreddit.

Reddit is a kingdom whose king delegates power to various fiefdoms, but ultimately still controls the land. You are at their whims, as evident by the fact that they're removing mods that disagree with their API policy. Federated instances are multiple kingdoms that share borders which they keep open for the sake of trade. But those borders can close depending on how their neighbors interact.

It's like I said, a return to forums or IRC style governing except the authority is the forum or channel itself, and they can link to other forums/channels as they want in a seamless fashion. In order for systems like these to work communities need a way to defederate and control who they connect to, because inevitably bad instances will rise whose sole purpose is spam, harassment etc.
That's a good example of a qualitative statement that would be a lot more credible with a lot of empirical evidence backing that up. "Experience shows" is not enough here. Raises more questions than that it solves anything here really.

Basically uncertainty is the key concept here. And cost, complexity, and time estimates are ways to get a grip on such uncertainty. Unlike software engineers, economists and sociologists are used to reasoning about and modeling uncertain situations. Going all hand wavy and winging it is typically not what they advertise.
Modern finance in a nutshell.
Every decision has personal costs and benefits, as well as a range of costs and benefits to other people (specific and abstract).
If it's about lifetime economic contribution — isn't A$600k roughly equal to the $1.6m of people born in Australia, considering that these immigrants tend to be old when they arrive?
Show HN: AI Turns Video to Lesson to interactive Social Game in seconds!
Content is "King". That's no longer true. Content is commodity. It is so difficult for teachers to integrate videos into their classes without substantial effort. It takes 1.5 hours to turn a 15 minute video into a game.

That's why I created BuildaLesson. It turns videos into interactive lessons using AI. A video demo is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76gvFjSQUUs.

Once you turn a video into a lesson, you can turn it into an interactive social game - a watch party that combines quizzes. We call these "Study Parties". See: https://youtu.be/0XX8w3Txvhc.

Love your feedback!
350 pages of ramblings that nobody who was voting for this act hasn't actually read?
I'm just on Vyvanse these days, more like a nice pot of tea vs methylphenidate pop. Less piano, more ~~stretch your face~~ work/focus excitement stuff
> Okay. How about AI as the new mod then?

Sure, when we solve AI alignment (and I mean x-risk / Eliezer-style AI alignment, not the outrage-minimizing political correctness that's being called "alignment" by OpenAI and the others).
> I think I was unclear when I said "the cache line". I meant the one containing a releasing store.

Not sure what you mean by that.

> Let me try wording it a different way. A store_release requires all previous writes to be ordered before it. This obviously includes other memory addresses, but its own memory address isn't an exception. So even without cache consistency as a general rule, the nature of a release gives you all the ordering you need in this situation.

We're talking about cache coherency, not memory consistency. Coherency is not about ordering, it's about ensuring agents don't see stale data.

> So I meant acquire but I think there's also a clear solution based on exactly what I said.

The same goes for acquire though.

> The lines that could possibly be affected by the FIFO are all in the "Shared but maybe stale" state. Consume turns those into Invalid. So any read that's from after the Consume, reordered before it, should see those lines as Invalid.

Implementation of CPU memory pipelines and cache coherency aren't really something you can just get a bit of a feel for and then handwave about.
Capitalism endgame is monopoly, any sufficiently old market ends in a n-opoly. Competition doesn't work, we've been trying that for centuries already and this is where we are. Companies' goal isn't to better people's lives, it's to widen their profit margins. What do you think will change if we add more competition that hasn't worked until today ?
> Class, component, package, activity and state machine diagrams are all useful ways to model the structure and behavior of a system visually

They're not bad, but the C4 model is a much better approach to high level modelling (while you can still use class diagrams on the lowest level). https://c4model.com/
If the house is big enough you just do a room (or two) at a time.
Unless the revenge is for a different offence (than starting a new firm and taking 100 staff with you then slagging off the old firm) then this is not served ice cold, it is straight off the grill. Its playground spat levels, and when you see how dumb they are its no suprise that this is the highest level that they could come up with.

As the article and others point out, this kind of revenge - while deeply entertaining, paints both sides in a bad light. Truly "serving up ice cold" would have been to stick the knife in at a moment of triumph.

TV lawyers are so much better than the real thing.
You are correct, you have the right to complain.

But the companies involved show no signs of changing, and you keep handing them money and your complaints are toothless. And you won’t support a project that is more aligned with your goals.
When Wizz Air wrecked the immigration stats
Was this blog post written by chat gpt?
Speaking of not caring:

"We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all." -Rasmus Lerdorf

"I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code." -Rasmus Lerdorf

"I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers." -Rasmus Lerdorf

"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests." -Rasmus Lerdorf

"I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." -Rasmus Lerdorf

"For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)" -Rasmus Lerdorf

"PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers." -Rasmus Lerdorf

Ian Baker's PHP Hammer:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

PHP: a fractal of bad design:

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

>I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because— okay. Imagine you have uh, a toolbox. A set of tools. Looks okay, standard stuff in there.

>You pull out a screwdriver, and you see it’s one of those weird tri-headed things. Okay, well, that’s not very useful to you, but you guess it comes in handy sometimes.

>You pull out the hammer, but to your dismay, it has the claw part on both sides. Still serviceable though, I mean, you can hit nails with the middle of the head holding it sideways.

>You pull out the pliers, but they don’t have those serrated surfaces; it’s flat and smooth. That’s less useful, but it still turns bolts well enough, so whatever.

>And on you go. Everything in the box is kind of weird and quirky, but maybe not enough to make it completely worthless. And there’s no clear problem with the set as a whole; it still has all the tools.

>Now imagine you meet millions of carpenters using this toolbox who tell you “well hey what’s the problem with these tools? They’re all I’ve ever used and they work fine!” And the carpenters show you the houses they’ve built, where every room is a pentagon and the roof is upside-down. And you knock on the front door and it just collapses inwards and they all yell at you for breaking their door.

>That’s what’s wrong with PHP.
It's still an useful metric, why not measure and report it? Especially for models that are being deployed on mobile phones or desktop apps. And looking ahead, the future where IoT devices will have a mini-neural-net is not inconceivable.

One of the lessons from the crypto fiasco is that, if unchecked, the energy requirements can baloon to stratospheric heights.
This isn't exactly a "tech heavy" user community.
Imagine equating piano playing and a session of minesweeper

#NGMI