skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conventional photogrammetry gives an 'up to scale' model, i.e. the scale is arbitrary and needs to set later to match reality. This is because a real cow far away and a toy cow close up look the same in pictures.

You can supplement images with lidar, stereo images, or IMU odometry to capture true scale information at the SfM stage to get (approximately) scale-correct models.

Alternatively you can learn what the real world tends to look like and estimate absolute depth from images alone, if you have enough data. This might be defeated by toy cows and doll houses, but work for some applications.
It is an incredibly straightforward reading of what he wrote. "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." He was 42 years old when he wrote that.

He is welcome to apologize or publicly state that he no longer believes this, and he has done that for other past controversial statements. Since he has not done so, we should conclude that he still holds this belief and acts accordingly.
Thanks for this!

Looking into it a bit more, the French is also from the latin source (aqua) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eau
Genuine question, are you saying this as a non Linux user looking at Linux, or as a wayland user looking at X.org?

Update: or as an X.org user looking at wayland? (Also I am not among the downvoters fwiw)

Update 2: thanks for clarifying
Anecdata: It directly lead us (Instacart) to try and then adopt Tailscale. Many of us had used it at home and were happy nerds. This gave it a huge initial leg up vs other "enterprisey" VPNs when we were in the evaluation stage.

Tailscale sold itself after that. The docs were excellent and it really is simple to use and run. I was able to do a full PoC in day and prove that I could join all of our environments and clouds into one VPN and have DNS resolving correctly everywhere.
You can plug an NVME thunderbolt caddy instead, it won’t reach a good NVME SSD top speeds but it will hover around 2800MB/s r+w.

Its internal SSD at 1TB or greater capacity is at least twice as fast.
"matchmaking"
bold move, trying this on sec professionals. Might actually be a good thing if it forces them to take their own advice.
These are called dweets too

https://www.dwitter.net
>You can't assume losing half of staff is a downside. RTO is a great solution for bloated companies which overhired during the pandemic.

The problem is that the less talented staff won't be the ones leaving; it'll be the ones with more options that leave, i.e. the more valuable staff.
Here’s a simple one: corporate policy doesn’t allow you to send company data to a cloud service. There are a ton of people with significant budgets in that situation.
I've seen errors being considered while fitting a model, but not in the source data or when using the fitted data in another calculation.

But yeah, I hope it's just a simplification for laymen like me. But the fact that apparently there weren't errors bars in a dataset so important such as population estimatives doesn't give me the right impression
Credit union in northern VA too https://www.applefcu.org/
> I think people will be surprised that consumers ultimately end up benefitting far more from LLMs than the providers.

LLMs make possible the great skill sharing, they are learning from some people through web and books, and then assist other people in their particular problems. This level of sharing and customisation is even greater and more accessible than open source.
It will completely spoil the episode, but if you want read about it, the episode is titled "Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes" (https://nerdist.com/article/andy-daly-talks-pancakes-divorce...)
I'm talking about the official protocols, to start with (as does the post).
Canada's tech industry experiencing shift away from remote work
> " with zero ability to think through long-term consequences"

The median tenure in tech is one to two years before moving on to another team or company [1]. You need to say that what you care about is long term, but that's now how we're compensated (read: incentivised). Plus you're not there to see it anyways so there are really very little incentives to think long term.

[1] some googling but couldn't find a great source for this. Though it matches what I've observed in the industry.
I have some colleagues who live in apartment buildings with large shared garbage dumpsters.

They were recently saying that they've started to see more and more of the other residents using the much thicker bags now sold at checkouts for bundling their garbage, rather than the thinner plastic bags they used to use instead.
It's not actually clear whether you're using Wayland and complaining about X11, or the other way around... (or on a different OS altogether...)
As noted in the article, that part is a quote from http://english.www.gov.cn/archive/white_paper/2014/08/23/con... published in 2014.
> due to them being "virus-laden" cesspools

I usually bring my backpack or a duffel bag to purchase groceries or whatever, and the cashiers are absolutely uniformly grossed out by these bags. They will hardly touch them. They poke at a hem as if it were radioactive or something. Of course, this started around the time of the pandemic, when everyone was extra paranoid about germs. But it has not abated. Nobody will bag groceries into my personal bags, they just kind of shove it to the end and make me do it all myself.
Rooting for small web does not mean one needs to be against other technology.

For example Kagi uses Google and even hosts on GCP - I think Google's technology and people are great, it is just the business model that is rotten and contributes to the deterioration of the web.

And interestingly enough, at least Discord (and to some extent Twitter) are trying to have a business model that does not put more ads down your throat (although admittedly I did cancel my Twitter subscription as unexplainably they still showed ads even when subscribing - you can't sit on two chairs).
I’m far enough in my career and life that LLM for commercial purposes seems very limiting. I can also see a non profit LLM service, sort of like “open ai,” but actually open, and hosted for non commercial purposes. Sort of like a Wikipedia model GPT4 scale AI.
Anything I (a human) can listen to or look at publicly for free is free game AFAIK.

The sum of all this becomes my "experience of life", and I can draw upon that knowledge to create new stuff.

The only difference between an AI and me is speed and capability to remember.

So ... does the act of reading HN become theft just because it is done by a non-human, with inhuman efficiency?

Personally I don't think so.

We could continue the conversation with a debate about whether or not the AI's outputs (creations) should be restricted (legally) in the same way as a human...
How many engineers does it take to lose chats, give bots unfettered access, not back up my messages, and spam me with low quality ads?

It’s worth pointing out that the fees they charge for the premium subscription are absolutely outrageous. $20-$40 PER MONTH.

I guess they just added a web client, which absolutely no one needs, that probably cost a pretty penny.

Scruff makes a drastically better product at similar scale with ~50-100 employees (hard to tell exactly) - Grindr appears to be suffering serious bloat.
Tolkien: Clojure library for accurate* token counting for OpenAI APIs
I don't really agree with the point about anti-nuke environmentalism. In the past many environmentalists were opposed to both nuclear energy (because of the risk of Chernobyl-style disasters or because of the implicit subsidy to nuclear weapons proliferation) and they were opposed to fossil fuel extraction and burning.

The people who were opposed to the environmentalist worldview were in favor of nuclear, but also in favor of fossil fuel generation and extraction (and CFCs, and leaded gasoline, and deforestation, and DDT, etc). They often very publicly argued that all these issues were bogus, that global warming could never happen, that we had nothing to worry about, that all these concerns were motivated by hatred of money or progress.

The environmentalists, on the other hand, tried hard to make a more abstract point - that we need to protect our environment and treat it as a precious good to be shared. This was obviously right.

Why should we cherry-pick one aspect of an environmentalist strategy from a very specific time and use it to blame them for "the continued and expanded use of coal, oil, and natural gas for power generation". Why aren't the numerous vocal cheerleaders of fossil fuels (who may have happened to be in favor of nuclear, but only because they generally argued that we should ignore all safety and resource depletion concerns) held to account here?
This is a pretty tried and true process historically as well, just… “ask your developer.”
I think your statement is quite a bit more correct if you just remove the "political correctness" option. Critic scores are based on marketing budgets - award shows in particular are funded by immense amounts of prestige lobbying.
What you ran into is possibly the "security" behavior of Wayland regarding the clipboard. Basically the clipboard is attached to your focus (or mouse?) and only the active window is allowed to read the clipboard.

…which completely breaks any workflow that relies on observing the clipboard from a second application while using another…
I've been spelunking in this area recently and have been surprised to find there's still a lot unknown in star formation

Most surprisingly, it seems there's a formal paradox in the thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems. As Piet Hut (of Barnes-Hut fame) at the IAS says:

"A thermodynamic treatment of self-gravitating systems is fraught with peril: from a formal point of view, it cannot even be defined, because there is no thermodynamic limit." - Hut, Gravitational Thermodynamics [1]

Also surprising, thanks to JWST, we can now see clearly into the center of the Milky Way, and there's CO ice![2] Probably more types, but JSWT doesn't have the instrument for this.

This is related because that means it's colder than expected, but also quite full of gas (that was obscuring our view until JWST and near microwave). But cold dense gas should collapse to form stars, and we're not seeing nearly what we should.

Both suggest we're missing something about the grav/thermo relationship, and what's called the Jeans Mass[3]. If you go digging, you'll find our Sun should have taken a planetary nebula about 20x larger than what we have. This in turns suggests that simple static models are maybe misleading, as there's usually dynamics almost everywhere we see large gas clouds. And then this in turn begs the question of why gravitational collapse is needed if there's already large kinetic flows involved, slamming mass together.

Anyways, I'm a total amateur and quite possibly have all this wrong. Just dropping in case anyone's interested!

[1] https://www.ias.edu/ids/~piet/act/phys/thermo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKG9PIrQnnM

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans_instability
Guess I will check back in another 5 years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dusty headline, then.
This is not an argument against modularity. The argument is that if you want modularity -- go all the way. Microservices is the argument that says "nah, let's divorce, but keep living in the same house".

Here, to make it more concrete: two Unix programs assume no knowledge of each other's existence (ideally), they rely on standard input / output / pipes / signals (i.e. some communication methods that aren't unique to any of the programs, but provided by the third program -- environment). This, in my example would be to go all the way: no need to know that the other program exists.

Microservices are as if you had an OS similar to Unix, but any pair of programs could decide on their own kind of pipes / signals / the way loader resolves symbols / function calling convention etc. Now, the argument the proponents make is that it's hard to make a universal "medium" used by all programs run in such an environment, and that if you want to "move fast", then you can skip working on this universal "medium" and just hack it together for any pair of components you have in the fastest way you can.

Despite how ridiculous it sounds... this argument isn't without merit. I've seen a lot of systems that tried to develop "universal medium" and failed. The latest largest such example is Kubernetes itself, if you think about various entities in Kubernetes as being components that need to communicate to each other. Kubernetes developers are slow to acknowledge the failure and are trying to fight it point-wise (eg. not so long ago they axed PSP), but the system keeps getting more complex and unpredictable with every new edition.

So, in frustration, one may decry the idea of universal medium, suggesting reducing the scope of the problem... and that's what microservice apologists seem to be suggesting. But, to me, it sounds like giving up on an essential desirable quality of a program. Kind of like if you wanted an automobile, but you couldn't get the engine to work quite right, and, in the end, abandoned the effort and just rode a horse.
Agreed. I'm confused why tech geeks would expect normies to understand this stuff. It's like, "I dropped a Ferrari engine into my Toyoto Corolla, and when I brought it to the Toyota dealer, the mechanic was confused--It's so wierd."
My point isn't that it errors. It's completely reasonable to expect even a beginner to do basic troubleshooting. My point is that the error specifically mentions monads. So will the documentation for `do` and `<-`. Anybody looking to use `IO` beyond a copy-and-paste level will be thrust headfirst into monad-land. This doesn't mean `IO` cannot be used at all without understanding monads, just that it's extremely explicit that something unique and interesting is happening when you do. In fact, I expect most people build their intuitions around monads by playing around with `do` notation.

This isn't the case in Python where input and output are standard functions. The syntax for function declaration and variable assignment just work.

If our requirements changed to now read and sum an arbitrary number of inputs together, I'd expect a beginner could change the Python program to do so. I'm skeptical they could make the required changes to the Haskell version (without understanding monads).
The only thing that makes me go back to Xorg is Wayland not supporting custom notification for apps.

I use Telegram Desktop a lot and I want their custom notifications, not the ugly thing that pops up on Wayland which doesn't even take me to Telegram when I click it.
Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate S3 [pdf]
> CEO says firm is smaller than ideal but positive for margins

Well, that explains everything.
This! To add: 900,000 "students" with the option to stay. 500,000 immigrants. 600,000 skilled worker visas. 90,000 refugees. That's over 2 million in a year. And they want to do this EVERY year until the population gets to 100 million.

This is controlled by the Federal government.

Housing is controlled by Provincial governments and municipal governments.

What immigrant is going to move to Cranbrook, BC when there's no jobs there and no community that speaks their language or government support services that help such people integrate into Canadian life. Those immigrants know better and hence go to the bigger cities.
I really enjoy that this feature got released. Adding more visibility to the indie/small web is a great thing. I've complained in the past on HN that any useful personal blog is buried under spammy content in search engines.

It would be nice to also be able to just search within the small web, maybe using a lens in the future?

Regarding the topic of self promotion, I would disagree with the current rules and I would ask you to allow people to self promote. As long they have an old enough blog, maybe even cut that down to a year, would be helpful. Most users on the small/indie web lack visibility and this would do them service. My blog is already within the index because I think it might have been picked up during the "HN share your blog" post that happened a while ago, but others might not have been that lucky.
We'll just have to agree to disagree about autotools :) But I feel like I did try to bother to learn how it works, but nonetheless failed, and I think you're right that it is almost infinitely flexible, but I think that is not a good thing.

Agreed that cargo has bugs and I hope it improves over time (granted: it is not at all new). But say what you want about cargo, at least it's an ethos!
Most people who research UFOs know that it probably isn't "alien" technology.
if like me you want to see the typewriter, here's [0] a short blub with it in use. seems like it'd be quite difficult to use. fewer parts to break down than a standard typewriter though, surprisingly.

0: https://www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/articles/the-double-pig...
Causality and shared pathophysiology between depression and type 2 diabetes [pdf]
> The objective cost doesn't matter

How could anybody run a business if they don't know what it costs to make something? How is stating something so incredibly obvious and simple so difficult for you to understand?

Bank: What's your business plan?

Loan applicant: I don't need one! Costs are subjective lol!!1
You seem appropriately skeptical for my purposes. Free answer time my man. What's your take on a major national lab investing big money into technology based on physics that is 100% wrong, according to what is publicly known? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.06133.pdf (please note equation 15).
And as a counterexample, I've been using KDE (currently 23.08.0) + Plasma and JACKd for ages with xorg (currently 21.1.8) and have had zero troubles.

Having said that, I'm super-duper glad you found a workaround for trouble you were having.
Sam Altman thinks Silicon Valley has lost its culture of innovation
A shallow and weirdly slanted analysis.

Yes we are all going down and there is little we can do about it. So find meaning where you can and be kind to your neighbor.
Many TUI programs, e.g. Midnight Commander, can use mouse, but are perfectly operable with just a keyboard. Same with Emacs or Vim in terminal mode.

This is more about blending in among GUI tools, which is also important.
It's likely.

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-wor...

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-issues-d...

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/national-labor...
What are they?

Edit: as the saying goes, people don't want a drill, they want a hole. So if Grindr isn't a software company but a matchmaker that happens to write software (or CaaS/PaaS), then I don't know who truly is a software company. Microsoft is a productivity company, Amazon is a retailer & B2B services company, Google is an advertiser, and so on.
What other possible outcome can there be?

VC funding demands VC results. It's the only path forward.
> If you ask developers "why can't I do XYZ", you'll likely get an answer along the lines of "why do you need to do that" or "justify your usecase".

This is the difference between application programming and infrastructure programming. When doing app development, it's best to limit scope as much as possible in order to reduce risk. If you don't need it, toss it.

On the other hand, infrastructure only exists to reduce overall risk across all apps. It does this by accepting risk and dealing with the gnarly bits so apps don't have to. Put too much opinion into infrastructure, and that pushes that risk onto all of the apps. Often, the apps don't have the leverage to deal with that, so people stop using the infrastructure.
Yes, CPU inference. For llama.cpp with Apple M1/M2 the GPU inference (via metal) is about 5x faster than CPU for text generation and about the same speed for prompt processing. Not insignificant but not giant either.

You generally can't hook up large storage drives to nvme. Those are all tiny flash storage. I'm not sure why you brought it up.
Show HN: PW – Secure Sharing of Secrets
> I end up regularly going over the "Pro" tier of searches a month (partially because I accidentally search all the time, but also I'm heavy search-engine user) is a bit of a letdown.

I hadn't considered this aspect of Kagi yet. I'm not a subscriber at this point, but I am strongly considering it. But I use search instead of typing domain names directly to avoid the typo phishing style attacks. I wonder how much "artificial" search that would generate based on my typical usage.
Chinese fighter jet engines are supposedly already better than the best Russian jet engines they've been given, though. General perception is that the WS-10 is generally better than the AL-31FN, hence why they started replacing AL-31s with WS-10s, both in domestic and export aircraft. The WS-15, if it does get even close to it's design goals, would be significantly better than any Russian engine.

They seem to be struggling a lot with airliner engines, yes, but they've only recently even considered making them. Even then, the WS-20 has entered service, and if it matches claimed specifications, it's as good as anything Russia has either.
I built an x4 3090 rig a little while ago. There are a few hurdles:

1) Need 2 power supplies to run at peak power and most US outlets can't handle it

2) If you're running on 1 power supply need to limit power consumption and clock speed of the cards to prevent the PSU fuse from popping

3) To get all 4 cards running at once there is an adjustment needed for most MB bios

4) Finding an MB that can handle enough PCI-e lanes can be a challenge

Ultimately I think I get 95% or higher performance on one PSU with appropriate power limiting and 48 lanes (vs a full 64)
They forgot to mention that all of their customers just left also. One of those employees has all the data. Guaranteed.
Goes into a big outside bin that get emptied from the trash company.
Ah nice thank you
In a town near Sacramento, there was a flyer-in-the-mail plan to collect the organics every other day, to reduce stink. So, a huge truck, with single digit mpg, stopping at every house, to reduce green house gas emissions from a few cups of vegetables.

Luckily, it was delayed, hopefully because someone saw the stupidity of it all.
2023 and Linux is still struggling to achieve the same level of basic functionality that windows and mac have had for decades now.
This first post is about my attempts to build a 25 Gbps fibre network at home.
Many of the Arduino libraries have been modified to work with most of the cheap boards (already listed by another user).

If the Arduino IDE becomes a pain point I'm sure an open IDE (or VS Code plugin?) will step in. (There may already be such a thing?)

Edit: another comment suggests PlatformIO + VS Code allows you to avoid the Arduino IDE.
Which implies that staffing is less than 30% which means .... where is the other 40% going?!?!?

Edit: unless advertising spend on the platforms is being counted ...
It’s a revenue guarantee: they can’t put in a streatery or bus/bike lane without paying the company what they would have made if it remained normal street parking. It’s so fabulously corrupt that they should have a team working full time trying to find grounds to invalidate the contract.
> RTO is a great solution for bloated companies which overhired during the pandemic

Not really. A bloated company that overhired during the pandemic would presumably like to choose who they let go.
> reflects the political correctness

Lost me here.
I like saying the following: the difference between writing software and maintaining it, is the difference between raising your hands in the air and keeping them raised indefinitely.
Press release: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/depression-risk-fa...