skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is nothing comparable in C as performant as all of the streaming tooling built up around Kafka for example.

This is an ill-chosen example.

librdkafka is as or more performant than the Java stuff.

As a server, Redpanda blows Kafka out of the water (but this is rarely any bottleneck with brokers).
Figuring this out is one of the central questions of phenomenology... how is it that after seeing a couple of trees, we can recognize almost any kind of tree from any angle? What is intrinsic about a tree that makes this possible? What (or is) there a pure form of a tree?
Respectfully, the person paying you is your customer by definition. That's sort of my point: the people paying teachers do not want to buy teaching because they don't actually care about the next generation. At best they want babysitting. The same people DEMAND ez credit and cheap plastic shit in Walmart. So they pay the bankers who are key to producing those things handsomely.

The person paying is the customer. The person receiving the service is a "cost centre" in basically all underpaid, "socially useful" roles.
https://app.ahrefs.com/user/forgot-password is the link that was used in the "Tell HN" they posted last time.

Works for me on Linux in Firefox and Chromium.
I don't think it's going to be in any way easy to convince people that it's okay not to be useful. No matter how times we care to repeat it, people will still feel dejected and hollow. "What is the meaning of my life?" is a difficult enough question to answer when you're a philosopher who has studied the problem academically and you're surrounded by other people going about their productive lives and overcoming various challenges in order to survive.

Now we're supposed to have millions of people face the question and at the same time tell them "no, there's nothing useful for you to do, robots can already do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you will ever manage." So, what? Do we tell everyone "just go smoke weed and play video games"? Or "go kayaking and hiking and rockclimbing and find yourself in nature"? The latter will not scale. Many natural places are already overcrowded and we don't even have a post-work economic system in place.
Cloudflare is in the wrong here. They want to "protect" people from their own ISPs, from nefarious web and DNS servers that'll "sacrifice the privacy of users" by - you guessed it - doing exactly the same thing themselves. They've given very little reason to trust them, while giving plenty of reasons to think they might be evil (like protecting known spammers / scammers / phishers).

If another company did what Cloudflare does and homogenized tons of requests behind them, you can bet Cloudflare's CAPTCHA systems would block them in a second.

I have zero respect for Cloudflare's inability to answer criticisms about what they do, about their constant deflections from simple, straightforward questions, and the fact that they do to others what they would never accept anyone else doing to them. It's hypocrisy in the service of trying to become a monopoly by re-centralizing the Internet.

Don't believe me? Go ahead and look for examples of Matthew Prince addressing concerns that much of the non-western world can't access Cloudflare fronted sites because of Cloudflare's "reasons". When you don't find any that have more than just vague platitudes and handwaving, imagine how you'd feel if you were one of those multiple billion people.
I only search Reddit these days and assume the rest of the internet is garbage, which it is 99% of the time
A lot of people would probably be willing to give up a minor drug or alcohol habit to have/keep a high-paying intelligence job.

I would certainly accept being "always sober" as a condition of employment if the job was one I really wanted.

I can't find the study, but I seem to remember that alcohol consumption follows the 80/20 rule. A small amount of alcohol consumers consume basically all the alcohol, with non-alcholics consuming very little. If you consume very little, it's probably not a big deal just to go without completely.
It's really hard for me to see this as anything more than, Oh, Franzen's a hater.

Come to think of it, I've never read anything about DFW that comes remotely close to what he did on the page? Like it seems like every writer who has more than a few paragraphs on DFW is someone obviously inferior?

Relatedly, a wild thing, Chuck Palahniuk has written very little about him, but this included the fact that HE AND DFW SHARE A BIRTHDAY.

That kinda blew my mind.
By my reading of the paper, they didn't see an effect when they compared siblings...
I have maybe a hail-mary counterpoint:

The day-to-day job on an individual scale can definitely be pointless. In aggregate though, the point of the job ends up being to keep people employed and pay taxes. That's it!

No one will like that explanation without a perspective change, and for good reason. I'd wager most people do try to put some effort into having skills and holding down a job. It obviously sucks for that effort to go to waste.

This study is, perhaps, a sign that we should view these jobs as a form of basic income in disguise. No one's going to like that ruse because it means your skills are being wasted, sure, but the alternative is ripping the band-aid off (and it's a big one) by eliminating those jobs and moving those people to socially useful ones. This action would cause chaos, which is likely why nothing has eliminated the bullshit jobs yet.

The problem is, there likely isn't enough socially useful jobs as well paying as these pointless jobs. Even if there were, you'd need training infrastructure to transition people to new jobs.

So why then should people change their perspectives? Well, the fault of having a pointless job is not really on the person, but the economy, which has grown very quickly and added jobs without regard to how socially useful they are on a long timeline. Nothing really keeps this job growth in check except market forces, which may not be rational.

If you can mentally deal with the fact that your skills are going to waste and not being used for something socially important, and frankly stop caring as much at your job, you can use the time on the pointless job for more fulfilling things.
I don't know -- Tao Lin claims he cured his autism by eating raw eggs and honey.
For what it’s worth, the EKF isn’t much more complicated than the regular KF. You are basically just linearizing your dynamics / sensor model then doing the KF updates with that linear model.

However, for quadrotors specifically, there is a huge pain point: the rotations. A nuance of the linear models of the Kalman filter is that everything lives in Euclidean space. However, rotations place you on a manifold — for quaternions specifically this manifold is the set of unit quaternions. If you naively apply an EKF to estimate your quaternion, you will no longer have a unit quaternion and then your estimates will be garbage. There are well-known ways to handle this manifold constraint but they result in some of the ugliest equations I have ever turned into code.

As a simple example of the difficulty, consider a state (x, y) that, due to physics or whatever, we know will always be on the unit circle, I.e., if f(x, y) is your dynamics, it outputs a new point on the circle. However, if you linearize f(x, y), these approximate dynamics are not guaranteed to keep you on the unit sphere and you end up with a non-physical state (or state estimate for the extended Kalman filter).
Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
Yeah, I've always derided the having of options as well. I find it best when you cannot toggle between various options to find the best set of tradeoffs for your use case.
I understand that there's a lot not to like in Musk, but I'm a confirmed compartmentalist and in the compartment of "Created an electric car industry where nothing previously existed, and given a 10 year head start, did it openly, and still managed to get a 20 year lead on the competition" I'll give him a good grade.

To put it as analogies: Picasso was an asshole in his private life, but we can still admire his work. Tesla (the man) was never able to make much money off his amazing work, but we still admire that work and the man who created it. Strange these were the first two I thought of.
Oh is that why archive.is links on HN will fail for me sometimes?
But archive.org provides the same service as them, and it doesn't need to do that.
This is so exciting! The Asahi team has done some really impressive work. I can't wait for it to start to make its way into mainstream distributions.
JFYI, there is not really a "native batch script that all Windows comes with", there is a command interpreter that can be command.com (windows 9x/Me) or cmd.exe (NT 4.00 and above), each OS may have (or may have not) different behaviours/different syntax for the scripts, and - to be picky - the .bat extension is the "historical" one associated to command.com, cmd.exe is associated with both .bat and with the (suggested) .cmd extensions.

Your compiler[1] clearly needs cmd.exe.

[1] maybe translator would be more appropriate, as nothing is compiled
Personally most of us at Sentry who made these decisions don’t like the invasive open source licenses. It was between this and allowing others to sell our software (which is very demoralizing), but we didn’t want to limit adoption and some companies won’t run GPL software due to the risks.
It's also much harder to make money by creating value (i.e. nursing a sick person back to health) vs stealing value at scale (i.e. charging $25 overdraft fees to poor people's bank accounts.)
I've had a delinquency on my credit report for years from Verizon Fios for ~$200. It was a clear error on their part, but I still wasn't able to get it removed. I wouldn't be so sure ignoring a $5k medical bill won't have any consequences.
Fair point. But once you start comparing regions that differ in one way (say food between Western European countries), they most likely differ in so many other ways that the analysis becomes very very hard.
It seems like the phenomenon requires enablement. Someone is supplying food, shelter, and electronics to these people which allows them to avoid leaving their comfort zones
Coqui-TTS with vtck/vits is very good right now. Not as good as eleven labs or coqui studio, but for fast open TTS it's pretty good, in case you're not familiar with it.

It will be great when there's eventually something open that competes with the closed models out there.
> You have no basis for saying it will be relatively insignificant.

People can already make a few bucks by letting strangers use their car on services like Turo, and it is relatively insignificant. That self driving capabilities will change that is a baseless assumption.
Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently
Hard drugs don't need to be made available to non-addicts just because the sale is legalized and formalized.
This thread is about pointless jobs, which is what my comment references. Sorry for the confusion.
Same side. The frog can be modelled as a torus for purposes of this beetle's navigation.
> Kenyans received 25 worldcoins — amounting to around 7,100 Kenyan shillings (about $50)

> Worldcoin says over 2 million people have already signed up

> Rest of World also notes that “relatively few people were familiar with the goals of the project” and were instead looking to get the $50 reward.

Some key notes.

Im actually fine with this as long as they're a startup with robust security processes/audits AND acknowledge the impact giving away free money has on the efficacy of their early user numbers.
I think the idea of what it means to "get ahead" would change. For example, with UBI I'd still work part time at a coffeeshop to save up money to turn my long-time hobby into a small business. That's a way to "get ahead" in a way that personally fulfills me. I don't need to become the next 30 under 30, or show up on some list for my success. Just the personal satisfaction of being able to say "I did this, and I'm proud of it. I hope you can enjoy it too".

Of course, those who do want to show up on that 30 under 30 list can make different choices to get ahead in the way they interpret that meaning.

UBI brings more options for people to dedicate to new ideas, new inventions, new ways of thinking. It doesn't restrict the choices of any citizen, it opens up more choices. Getting ahead still exists, and those who want it can go for it, that option wouldn't be taken away from them.
Credit cards payments are exactly just like SMS 2FA, both are insecure by design and served the purpose before the internet, trying to shove old tech into new one and expecting it to work well is just naive. Instead of spending time and resources by big corporations to create such “web environment integrity”, how about creating a better more secure, fraudulent proof system instead?
> how does one 'get ahead?'

By learning things? By knowing and liking many things? By knowing and liking many people? By being very good at a unique permutation of skills, and using them to improve your life and that of your friends, having great adventures and whatnot?

> The robot owners aren't going to just hand out money, so would have to be taxed at some insane rate, I think.

Which would not be a problem, since all other super rich people would be taxed at the same "insane" rate, leaving the "getting ahead" relative to your peers completely untouched -- if that was really the issue, if people really couldn't think of ways to stand out amongst others other than the amount of money they "make" (it's just shifted around after all).

The problem is exploitation I'd say, and even that is not an end in and of itself, it's just a necessary nuisance that is optimized away wherever possible, leaving pure ownership of pure [0] means of production in very, very few hands. The rest gets nothing, and since humans cannot persist on that, cease to exist shortly after.

Compared the trajectory we're on -- the scenario we're in -- the technicalities of how to make the world somewhat human and livable instead of just an insane runaway train seem rather minor to me.

[0] As in, basically no workers, no more than you can personally oversee or even be yourself. I know that will never be "fully achieved" but I think that's splitting hairs. It's the trend, we keep accelerating and making previously thought impossible tools of dystopia real, who cares if there will ever be just one dude in a toga living forever commanding a blob of energy that can do and create anything, except make him sane.
Summary: MTE as Implemented
> Odd. My schooling never taught me not to bring kids to work.

I think they are basically just saying "school used to teach people things they needed to do a job, but now employers have to teach people things that should be common sense (like don't bring your children to work)"

Of course some workplaces are child friendly, but many workplaces would be pretty inappropriate to bring a child, not to mention disruptive to the goal of getting work done which is what you are paid to do...
> As language models get better, this might become obsolete.

This will never become obsolete as long as natural language is being used to form queries. It's not a matter of how good the LLMs are, it's a consequence of the fact that human language is incredibly imprecise.
If semantic HTML is important for accessibility and for software to be better able to parse information out of it, and AI solves the latter, semantic HTML is now less important because some of the use cases that needed it previously no longer need it. If you take "less important" as a moral/value statement instead of in terms of total utility provided, and assume that AI will have zero accessibility benefits, it will merely be as important as today, which is still at odds with the assertion of the original article that it would become more important. N.B. this seems doubtful, given how e.g. you can now past a bunch of code into an LLM and ask it questions quite naturally -- something I can easily see adapted to e.g. better navigating apps using only voice and screenreaders.
I think it certainly helps. But if that were the only factor, nurses would earn the same as doctors as they're side by side all day. And the guy making coffee in the financial district would get a fantastic bonus. :)
My understanding is that this is an evolution of the Autodeks Standard Surface (https://autodesk.github.io/standard-surface/), which itself is a superset of the glTF 2.0 material with its PBR extensions (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/main/extensions/RE... ). This OpenPBR is designed to handle Hollywood VFX type effects as well as real-time, thus it is more complex than glTF's PBR materials which are real-time focused.

Together this means there is a lot of alignment between these models. I wouldn't be surprised to see a glTF 3.0 that adopts the OpenPBR as its main material definition, skipping the current extension complexity.

OpenPBR for material exchange combined with MaterialX for shader graph exchange combined (https://materialx.org) with OpenUSD for geometry and scene graph exchange, means together we are headed into a world where high quality 3D assets are exchangeable between content creation tools.
> Again, as an urbanist, I ADORE Japan; the public transportation, the convenience, the dense urban fabric, but you cannot deny how ugly it all is haha

You obviously only lived in Tokyo. I live in the inaka, and it is horrible urban sprawl: a million little houses scattered everywhere, and the random big supermarket or shop here and there. There is no public transportation, and you need the car for everything. I absolutely hate it.
There is a good reason companies generally don't want engineers dealing with customers until a project is underway at least. And even then they will always try to limit and control meeting time.
The 1981 movie LOOKER predicted this day, it also did the scans first:

"Trivia
The first ever film to create 3D shading with a computer that produced the first ever CGI human character was the model Cindy (Susan Dey). This movie achieved this feat before Disney's more famous Tron (1982) hit the screens. The Web site Filmsite said of Cindy: "Her digitization was visualized by a computer-generated simulation of her body being scanned--notably the first use of shaded 3D CGI in a feature film. Polygonal models obtained by digitizing a human body were used to render the effects.""

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/?ref_=kw_li_i
That's very interesting!
I remember a while ago I read about a room temperature superconductor... but it required enormous pressures.
I wonder what he would think of entertainment industries employing psychological research in order to make their products as addictive as possible.
When you're going through hell, keep going
That’s interesting. I’ve only been on one or two cruises, but my recollection of the article is that it all seemed directionally accurate, or at least plausible.

It sounds like you certainly know better that I would, though, so I’m just curious - what are some examples of the inaccuracies?

I do not mean to be confrontational in the slightest, so I hope my question isn’t coming off that way.
I like how everyone here likes to sh*t on sales and marketing.

Especially when so many people here have tried to create something tech based that solves a problem, but their endeavor fails because...they don't know how to sell it.
It is truly unfortunate that most languages lack a built-in swap instruction. Anyway, as written, your example looks like an infinite loop (Remainder Section would need to force an exit). What is the status of "lock" on entering the top of the loop? If it is "true" then this won't work (infinite loop in the while statement).
Yes, for example, it's much better when the language completely takes away your ability to specify memory layouts or allocation patterns because it will never pick stupid ones.
Stores more data, but the same information, and if there is any interpolation then some of the data is modified, meaning that you lose a little data. In fact even without interpolation I think you change the data.

If you imagine a hard edge that aligns with a pixel [] boundary then you imagine upscaling in various ways, I think it's QED. You change data about the sharpness of the edge.

[] I use an Android phone, with Google's keyboard it genuinely rendered "pixel" with a capital letter. I've never written about Google's device of that name. Silly Google.
I expect it’s path-dependent legacy practices more than anything else. Credit cards were invented in the US, so the tech is old and upgrades take a long time.

For manual payments, UPI in India sounds pretty great. Apparently the customer approves each payment on their phone before it goes through?
>My point is that if we can get rid of that $30K, I am sure the doctors and hospitals bill will be less than than and this is just for 1 year.

Your assumption is incorrect. You are not paying for your doctors and hospital bills, and you are not paying for just the 1 year. You are paying for the NICU baby that costs $1M, or the anemic person that needs medicine that costs $100k per month, etc. And the chance that you might be one of those people.

>Now I know you will say "Oh get a better insurance through your employer". If You don't see the problem with that, I have nothing to add. I should not be dependent on an Employer to provide a good neogitated Health Insurance Rate. The job of an employer is not to provide Health Insurance. It adds overhead for them and employees as well.

No, I will not say that. Employers are involved in health insurance because it gives big employers an advantage over small employer by being able to compensate employees with pre tax dollars, and it helps prevent people from being able to compare compensation from different jobs so it incentivizes employees to stay put.

A further benefit is that employers with relatively healthy and young employees such as higher paid desk job firms can sequester their health risks into a healthier pool of lives so that they are not subsidizing healthcare for older/less healthy people.

>This is purely on the cost side. NOw let's talk about the inefficiences that are added due to Insurance middle man mafia. I had a Doctor's office bill incorrectly and it took me days to fight with them and the insurance company just to correct a bill. I know I am not alone in this.

Absolutely, there is inefficiency. But doctors are among the smartest, most well paid people in the US, and have been for a long time. There is a reason that most agree to the terms of insurance companies, and that is because they know their customers cannot afford to pay them as much as they get via insurance companies.

See also this comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972991
But there's emojis on the readme!
EDNS is OPTIONAL. archive.is is objectively in the wrong here.
The fact that Meta is able to lie and call their restrictive licensing open source is nearly as misleading as "OpenAI."

We need to do better than to repeat these claims uncritically. The weight licenses are not "open source" by any useful definition, and we should not give Meta kudos for their misleading PR (especially considering that they almost surely ignored any copyright when training these things - rules for thee, but not for me).

"Not as closed as OpenAI" is accurate, but also damning with faint praise.
You are the one violating the HN guidelines by dredging up old off-topic comments and derailing the conversation.

If you feel like an account deserves a ban for some reason, an email to dang is the correct response. Off-topic comments at not.