skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know: no. It’s people like you and me from the involved companies that are largely responsible for moving things forward (most often in addition to their regular engineering work!) through Working Groups (WG) or Task Sub-Committees (TSC).
If it's on an FPGA then it doesn't really compete with GPUs you can buy from just about any perspective other than openness.
No, you're on a boat 24 hrs a day, you're at a desk (usually) 8 hrs/day.

$100K for a desk job is comparable to $300K on a boat
How does USD compare to Collada?
Are you seriously thinking that someone is incapable to drive a car if they are not incorrectly convinced that an incorrect math computation is correct?

The large majority of things in life is "impossible to statistically prove". I had no proof that I will not burn my toast for breakfast this morning. Yet I had breakfast without problem AND I did not pretend that "since I've used this toaster 5 times and did not burn a toast, it implies that burning a toast will never occur" (this sentence is incorrect: the observations are compatible with the fact that my setting is very good and reduce the risk of burning the toast very low, but also compatible with another realistic hypothesis: my toaster burn a toast about 1 time over 10, and so far I was just "lucky").

But why would I not make a toast or take my car? I just don't know if it will work or not, but I also don't know if it will not work or yes. You cannot say "if you are not sure of X, you should act as if non-X is sure", because if you set Y=non-X, you will say "if you are not sure of Y, you should act as if non-Y is sure", and you end up saying you should both act as if both X and non-X are sure.

Nobody here is saying nuclear is not a solution (I mean: if you think I'm saying that, you are dead wrong). But it is tiring to see pro-nuclear people making pseudo-scientific claims to entertain their own belief (belief that may turn out to be right). If you are so confident in your belief, just say so: "I know we cannot properly tell that nuclear is 'safer' than X or Y, it does not make any sense to do so, but yet I believe it is still a good option. You are free to disagree with me, but you also have no ground to pretend it is 'less safe' than X or Y, so your position is as legitimate as mine".
The parent is just being ridiculous, Emacs of course has undo, auto-save and version control. And unlike in certain modal editors it's pretty hard to do any real damage without touching Control or Meta.
You're confusing "git" (which is relatively easy to understand and use) with "the git CLI" (which is a UX nightmare).

I learnt how to use git years before I learnt to use the git CLI.
Cold fusion, after containment with superconductors becomes easy.
Yes, and I'm willing to bet that within 12 months we'll be looking back realizing that this was due to the fine tuning taking the world's SorA pretrained model aligned with "completing human tax" and putting it in the box of "you are an AI without feelings or desires tasked with XYZ."

The search space on the fine tuned GPT-3.5 chat models versus the foundational Davinci text completion model is MUCH more narrow, particularly in starting off.

Even with the same temperature, you'll see any marketing-style prompt for chat begin with "Introducing XYZ..." around 30% of the time as if it's a junior door to door salesman, whereas the foundational model doesn't have any single intro that common across runs and generally employs a much broader vocabulary set.

We saw Google shoot Lambda in the foot after Blake's press tour which set them behind the next round of competition.

Now we're watching OpenAI snatch defeat from the jaws of victory out of anxiety around oversight and articles like 'Sydney' interviewed by the NYT.

For anyone following along in the 100 million+ training space, maybe don't overreact to press overreactions that will blow over in months as users get hands on experience or you'll blow your lead and waste massive amounts of resources and time.

This was a "user education" issue and not a "handicap your product" issue, in both cases.
An Update on the WACZ Format
> Battery charging is limited by the cell chemistry.

Yes, but superconductors don't have that limitation, do they? You just dump current into them.
Maybe it's a revolution, but I don't understand how one format can be all things to all types of users.

BIM requirements are very different to 3D graphics and animation requirements.
The ASCII (plain-text, .usda file extension version) absolutely.

For large scenes/models, the normal .usd binary/compressed version is often used for efficiency reasons (and proper round-tripping of float values for xforms, etc), but you can convert between the two with the 'usdcat' util and the python/c++ apis for debugging.
I don't see that at all. I've been using Brave for years and nothing to do with crypto. There is a BAT thing, but you can disable it.
> digital equivalent of bottling tap water

That's intended as a criticism, but bottled water is a $300B market in the US alone. Most of which is tap water.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-28/bottled-wa...
It's exactly how it works and the math is not complicated.

Suppose you have a vehicle w/ 3 m^2 frontal area, drag coefficient of 0.3 and it's travelling at 30 m/s. Using this calculator https://www.symbolab.com/calculator/physics/drag-equation you can find that will require about 500 N of force (use density of 1.225). The power at that operating point is the product of speed and force, or 30 m/s * 500 N = 15 kW.

Now let's change the speed to 40 m/s. That bumps the force to about 900 N. Now we would calculate power as 40 m/s * 900 N = 36 kW.

Changing these numbers to horsepower we get 20 hp and 48 hp.

The force goes with the square, the power goes with cube. There are assumptions here - for example, if you have a headwind this statement is no longer true because the speed in the drag equation is the air speed of the vehicle (goes up with headwind / down with tailwind) but the third speed factor is the ground speed of the vehicle (because that's based on the physics "work is equal to force times distance" and power is the rate of work).

The graph of an internal combustion engine's power at wide-open throttle vs. engine speed is irrelevant, unless you are trying to figure out which gear ratios would let the engine make enough power to drive the vehicle under those conditions.
I'm basing this comment on an interview I read where Oshii makes fun of him for it.

(Which unfortunately I can't link because it's on my own website, where Wordpress auto-updated itself and broke and I haven't fixed it.)

I think their thesis was that Miyazaki was most like this in the 80s-90s (see Porco Rosso, which stars a self-insert of himself), then was a dad in the 2000s (Spirited Away), then later entered a second childhood (see Ponyo and Wind Rises, which is mainly about how cool planes are.)
> When browsing on the "normal web", it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content.

Author lost me here.

I use Firefox and Kiwi browser with uBlock Origin with all the annoyance lists enabled, bypass-paywalls-clean, unpaywall, sponsorblock, alternate player for twitch, violentmonkey and a few scripts. I also have yt-dlp, streamlink, and mpv.

I regularly read HN, Slashdot, and TechMeme, and it's extremely rare to get a link that I can't access.

Oftentimes I can access content without a browser, thanks to mpv's excellent web support.

I get that it's annoying, but it's really not that hard to solve it once and rarely think about it again. This has been my setup for at least 3 years now.

Occasionally something will annoy me and get through my filters, and I have to spend a few minutes fixing it.

The only thing I'm walled off from right now that's slightly annoying is browsing specific accounts in "X" with tweets ordered by timeline and viewing tweet replies. This is really low value so I haven't bothered looking for a solution, but if anyone knows one, feel free to link it here.
Yeah, it seems like suffering little tiny copies all over the place is regressing back to the thinly-spread performance sludge that Rust's ownership is designed to police and therefore eliminate. If it becomes too widespread a problem, then compilers will be tempted to start intrinsifying and then eliminating copies in order to make them fast and go away, which unfortunately will always come with cliffs where the compiler misses an opportunity. So the game theory of that in the end is that programmers do less and less and compilers do more and more.

Maybe this is an inevitable dynamic between compilers, library writers, and application writers? Seems to have played out in many languages.
You might find this interesting:

Time Perception: Why Time Can Feel So Slow — https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/12/time-perception.php
Show HN: Open-Source Digital Movie Poster for Your Media Room
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i'm just curious what this means for all of us that lied about it, got cleared, and now don't have to lie about it...
I think the lessons are there in what Portugal has done with their insane heroin wave (it was reported that 1 entire percent of the population was reported to have an addiction to hard drugs).

The parallels in Van, SF and Portland are striking, except now it’s not Heroin it’s Fentanyl.

Here’s a good primer:
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/portugal-heroin-decrim...
UW Laboratory Medicine | ONSITE (Seattle, WA) or REMOTE (US-based only, sorry) | Full-Time

Our department maintains all clinical testing and laboratory operations at the UW Medical Center, from sample collection to analysis and final reporting. We employ over 900 people and handle 30 million tests each year. In parallel, we research, develop and operationalize novel diagnostics in genomics, mass spectrometry, flow cytometry and automated imaging.

Currently recruiting for:

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These roles are about 50% full-stack web development (Flask and React preferred technology), 20% Infra/cloud engineering (AWS), and 30% team immersion (strong verbal + design skills needed).

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If this sounds interesting please reach out at dlmprecruitment@uw.edu with a resume. Our recruitment team will do my best to get back to you.

Thanks, Nik.
I think at this point you're mostly making the argument I want to make for me.
Modern pitchfork is likely a keyboard, and you're right now in the right place.
Oh people here are excited, it’s just that most of the discussion stops short of digital butterflies behind walls of encrypted energy.

Also hype tempering.
When Toy Story 3 was almost finished in 2010, they needed to convert some assets from Toy Story 1. Ed Catmull called an urgent meeting and instructed the software team to write a USD converter. The team came back 3 weeks later and demo'd their new USD converter, which they proudly announced could handle Euros, Pesos, Rupees, and 20 other currencies. The team was immediately fired, and went on to found Paypal.
What about glTF?
I don't pay enough attention to comment on Apple, but of course I assume Google is lying; they're an adtech company trying to ship something that would make it trivial to break all adblockers. Why would you ever trust them?
I think another big mistake was prescription painkillers and that whole story. Get everyone hooked on cheap low grade painkillers, it definitely caused problems but they were manageable if they got more pills. Then there was a huge crackdown on them, and the price shot up ending with fentanyl being the cheap and accessible option.
UIUC During Summer
> Is a BS excuse to let folks commit THEFT and ASSAULT because It's Really The System, or expose kids to fent smoke on the train because It's Really The System, or have kids step over zombies on the sidewalk because It's Really The System, or have children and women (and some men) harassed or threatened by crazies because It's Really The System, etc. I don't care about the drug use. I worked with homeless folks for years and most of them are not OD'ing in public parks or harassing folks on the sidewalk. Stop making excuses for criminal behavior.

Your original comment literally draws a false equivalence between "theft and assault" and "smoking and shooting up drugs in public parks, on sidewalks, on transit".

Here's your comment:

> How about, and I'm just spit-balling here, how about we enforce laws again theft and assault and "quality of life" offenses like smoking and shooting up drugs in public parks, on sidewalks, on transit?

Since the article is only talking about decriminalization of drugs (theft and assault are still criminal offenses), the only relevant difference here regards people who are using drugs in public places.

It's a pretty convenient bait-and-switch that allows you to complain about people using drugs (which is neither violent nor criminal behavior), and then when people call you out on it, revert back to complaining about violent and criminal behavior, which nobody in this entire comment chain except for you is talking about.

> Stop making excuses for criminal behavior.

Nobody's talking about criminal behavior. We're talking about drug use, which, as discussed in the article, is not a criminal offense in Oregon.
This seems to simply ignore the max continuous power rating of 150W. The mini can output 15W on each thunderbolt port and another 15W on its two USB ports, which is already nearly the limit of 51W assured to each PoE++ endpoint, not even counting the mini's own requirements.
Ever Notice That Converse Chuck Taylors Have Fuzzy Soles? Here’s Why (2022)
One doesn't really preclude another in practice.
The lives are being lost because Russians are shooting at them. They're the ones who decided to do that.
'Cores' are really overstated in GPUs. CUDA cores are really SIMD lanes and if you counted it the same way as a CPU does, you'd get somewhere in the dozens of cores range even for modern GPUs.
Websites change. Perma Links don't
The important words in the title are "like all workers". All workers don't need to. Same for federal employees.
Thank you for checking and writing back. Reputations matter.

> Apparently you didn't. Somebody named Xeamek did, but your comments were shown next to each other, both with the body hidden and the title only shown and marked "[flagged][dead]", so I accidentally opened his when trying to see what you wrote.

I hope you realize that "apparently" suggests uncertainty. I am completely certain I wrote no such thing. I think you are too -- why not say it?

Overall, this wasn't the apology I was hoping for.
I get that, but it also can turn into wiki checklists of things that could be automated.

one of my frustrations of bigco software is people taking basically maintenance roles where the computer tells them what to do, because the lava flow legacy code base is too scary to touch.

however, you can automate your daily clean up tasks. it's certainly shellacking more mud on the ball, but if you're not going to even try scripting your repetitive tasks, then i don't know why you're a programmer.
Users will want to load USD scenes/models into Adobe products.

Also, USD supports USDShade and MaterialX material (shader network) definitions, and I imagine there will be full round-tripping support for that?
Worth reading this: https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html

> REST purists often complain, for example, that so-called REST APIs aren’t actually REST APIs because they do not use Hypermedia as The Engine of Application State (HATEOAS). Fielding himself has made this criticism. According to him, a real REST API is supposed to allow you to navigate all its endpoints from a base endpoint by following links. If you think that people are actually out there trying to build REST APIs, then this is a glaring omission—HATEOAS really is fundamental to Fielding’s original conception of REST, especially considering that the “state transfer” in “Representational State Transfer” refers to navigating a state machine using hyperlinks between resources (and not, as many people seem to believe, to transferring resource state over the wire).8 But if you imagine that everyone is just building FIOH [author's acronym for "Fuck It, Overload HTTP"] APIs and advertising them, with a nudge and a wink, as REST APIs, or slightly more honestly as “RESTful” APIs, then of course HATEOAS is unimportant.
Yes. What would you like me to do? Walk up to each one I came across, my little kids in tow and try to have an intelligent conversation with them? Give them all my money? Invite them back with me to my hotel like the pied Piper of addicts?

I want them out of the way and far away from my kids. I was pretty clear that I perceived them as a threat.
Factoid means myth does it not?
Whenever there's a potential rental crunch (cancelled flights, etc) skip the fight at the car rental desk and head to a truck rental place ASAP.
> You can also not really have productive and well-fitting errors-as-values in a language that emphasizes UFCS

Eh, https://github.com/arnetheduck/nim-results and associated syntax from https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable would beg to disagree. Nim's stdlib does not have productive and well-fitting errors because it suffers from inertia and started far before the robust wonders of recoverable error handling via errors-as-types entered the mainstream with Rust and were refined with Swift (IMO). Option/Result types are fantastic and I do so wish the standard library used them: but it's nothing a (very large) wrapper couldn't provide, I suppose.

I do strongly think that other languages are greatly missing out on UFCS and I miss it dearly whenever I go to write Python or anything else. I'm not quite sure how you think UFCS would make it impossible to have good error handling? Rust also has (limited, unfortunately) UFCS and syntax around error handling does not suffer because of it. If by errors-as-values you mean Go-style error handling, I quite despise it - I think any benefits of the approach are far offset by the verbosity, quite similarly to Java's checked exceptions.

(in general concerns surrounding performance of errors surprise me - they're errors! they shouldn't be hit often! but if they are, you can certainly avoid such performance hits in nim.)
If anyone is struggling, the reddit forum the article references is r/leaves (a clever play on the marijuana subreddit, r/trees). It's the marijuana equivalent of r/stopdrinking. Both are wonderful, supportive communities that have helped many people.
Yes. And we all support it because life is easier that way.
I've used Eclipse, Emacs, IDEA, jEdit, NetBeans, Vim (still do in a pinch), and VS Code for coding, and IDEA fits me much better than any of the others. Sane defaults, quickly getting up and running, intuitive and easily configurable keyboard shortcuts, usable mouse support, settings sync which Just Works™, the list goes on.
Related:

Localrf – Nerf from casual shaky videos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348483 - June 2023 (30 comments)

Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36208942 - June 2023 (47 comments)

HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35946893 - May 2023 (16 comments)

HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35717106 - April 2023 (36 comments)

HOSNeRF: Dynamic Human-Object-Scene Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Video - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35696328 - April 2023 (1 comment)

Zip-NeRF: Anti-aliased grid-based neural radiance fields [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35569246 - April 2023 (18 comments)

F2-NeRF: Fast Neural Radiance Field Training with Free Camera Trajectories - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35358360 - March 2023 (15 comments)

Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096449 - Oct 2022 (25 comments, with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102886 being a particularly good explanation)

MoRF: Morphable radiance fields for multiview neural head modeling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32237473 - July 2022 (1 comment)

NeRF: An eventual successor for deepfakes? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31894552 - June 2022 (160 comments)

Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30891051 - April 2022 (3 comments)

Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806925 - March 2022 (228 comments)

Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299498 - Feb 2022 (12 comments)

DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27658661 - June 2021 (13 comments)

PlenOctrees For Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26597419 - March 2021 (31 comments)

Deformable Neural Radiance Fields - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017783 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25298426 - Dec 2020 (55 comments)

NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071787 - Aug 2020 (124 comments)

NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22764774 - April 2020 (1 comment)

NeRF: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22637721 - March 2020 (40 comments)
> The last thing you want is to be stuck debugging your failed desktop session on Tuesday morning at the airport as your wife waits for you to find the tickets.

They should be on your phone or you should use your credit card to print them at the airport. I'm sure there are other examples that make your point though. Yours reminded me of the furniture salesman selling a warranty on a couch by saying it'd cover the cost of getting the blood out, or even give you a replacement, should you sit on a scissors and cut your legs up.