skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gaussians are view-dependent,

indeed, but that's just adding view dependent points.
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't even realize tweets had replies... the new UI is so confusing I wish we could ban tweets as sources
Great question! I don't know. I assume that Tesla pays the owner a flat monthly fee for spots but who knows. Likely some spots are more valuable than others. In some places Superchargers might bring in more people to the local businesses, but in others it might cost the owner limited parking spaces and hurt foot traffic.
MGM has acknowledged it's an attack [1] and certain vegas gossip sites have stated that Caesars was hit last hit last week but was able to keep it better under wraps.

1. https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/mgm-re...
> Trying to find people more job opportunities is very different from trying to make people depressed.

Yeah, but having suffered with depression myself, having had a friend with depression commit suicide, and having seen my dad's life utterly ruined by it, I'll take LinkedIn fucking around with potential job opportunities every day of the week and twice on Sundays. And, to be absolutely clear: no, I am not joking. Facebook manipulating peoples' mood and thinking is a far worse and more pernicious problem. A person's career is serious business, but it's not the most serious business.
> And yet nothing catastrophic happened as a result.

Musk himself blames the DeSantis Spaces debacle on this poorly planned server move. If that's not catastrophic, I don't know what is.

There's almost certainly entire teams of on-call engineers pulling heroic shifts because of this. I'm sure Musk DGAF, but those poor souls losing their holidays, weekends and time with their friends and family probably care.
I agree with your sentiment that Yelp seems to have fallen out of favor with many, myself included but, I'm not sure I'd define the company as having failed.

YELP currently has a market cap >3B and trades at a p/e of 74.54 which is a definitely a "growth level" multiple.
There is a shit ton of people who use it - especially in the developing countries cuz the barrier is so small
i'm also constantly shazaming in weird places but i doubt everybody likes what i like (or vice versa)
You are correct, but it's an opinion that bridges the gap editorially between those knowledgable about ATC but not data, and those knowledgable about data but not ATC. This is a valuable service to provide, as both fields are rather complex.
Musk has never stated to run X/Twitter using absolute free speech.

Which makes total sense because you can't run a social network using this principle.
Hey! Thanks for the comment. I built this primarily for myself bc I'm a slow reader (dyslexic ). Anyone who gravitates towards audiobooks or podcasts can basically use this to power through online content they'd rather listen to than read.

Shortly after launching a second customer audience emerged though... people who have newsletters or blogs and want to "convert" these into companion Podcasts. So I've been shipping some improvements to make that possible and have found a slightly stronger signal (more $$ too) from this group.

Ultimately I want this to become a research tool as well, so you can just specify the topics you are interested in and PodStash will give you a daily/weekly episode keeping you informed on that topic.
That's C, though. You're writing C. DMR gave you that, in 1972. (Actually not, because you had to wait for structs, but you know what I mean).

But what you seem to be asking for is support in the language for strings that work like this. And that causes problems because of that special handle you've invented. Now strings aren't arrays anymore, they can't have pointers taken to them, they can't have substrings in a natural way, they can't live in ordinary POD memory as a unified thing.

All of which is totally solvable in the runtime of a language written in 2003 or whenenver. But not on a PDP-11.
In general, a Gaussian is no longer a true Gaussian after camera projection since the pinhole camera projection function is nonlinear (due to dividing by z). However, if the Gaussian is small relative to the size of the image, you can apporximate it by linearizing the projection function. Therefore the Gaussian splatting paper uses the Jacobian of the projection function as described in equation 5 of the paper [0]. In practice, this approximation is extremely good. This Jacobian is the matrix you mentioned in the third link and it is mathematically sound and not "manually counter balanced". For a derivation, see [1].

[0] https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/3d_...

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4716514/43771
How did you infer anything about an external reality except for using the tenuous human senses? It’s weird to say that the external objective reality is real when you’ve only ever inferred its presence through a pale reflection on the subject
Go/HTMX/Tailwind/SQLite

Nothing better than request latencies measured in microseconds on complex UIs built in an afternoon
The fact of its complexity is why we need to start treating it as a unit. Reductive thinking, research and treatment won't lead us to a proper understanding of it. Among the potential benefits of the development of AI is hopefully an improvemnt in our ability to reason about and understand complex entities like the immune system. I think it's more likely that a new specialism will develop from that, that doctors developing one from what exists today.
So what does your code do when you did not handle the this should never happen exception? Exit and print out a stacktrace to stdout?
First Polymer, now Lit. Lightweight library, makes building reusable web components a breeze.
I do wonder if there’s an alternate universe where MS did a better job of modernising VB (VB.NET hardly counts), and where Borland was less doggedly intent on murdering their golden Delphi goose, and where frontend development is now quite easy.
Plenty of others have already chimed in why it's likely you haven't experienced actual burnout if that's the case, but an analogy might make it clearer:

You've experienced headaches, but never experienced a migraine.

When you get a headache you can just pop an over-the-counter pill to numb it out. Migraines are a fundamental neurological shift orders of magnitude more debilitating - that Advil would be like a drop in the bucket.

It sounds like you have a healthy relationship to work - keep doing whatever you are doing that is keeping you fundamentally mentally healthy!!
It's similar to Microsoft Access. Not for everyone, but still did some things few other tools do out of the box.

VB was a form of relatively low code, relatively speaking to other ways of building applications.

There was a swing from the desktop to the web, but it wouldn't be unrealistic to say building web apps that render the same html/js/css became at least a few orders of magnitude more complex during that time too.

There remain personalities, belief systems and practices that believe things should be difficult and not easy to become a beginner in for it to have value for a few instead of the many.
Django and FastAPI. Both great for different reasons. Bun has caught my attention lately, though I'm not super familiar with javascript let alone its frameworks and dependency nightmares. Bun seems to fix some of that though, at least at a cursory glance.
The shift away from a defined benefits program has effectively killed the idea of retirement. The theoretical possibility of better results under careful management of the individual is eclipsed by the fact that most transactions in the market are "high frequency", which effectively front-runs the market. It's the same effect as stealing from savers with 0% prime interest rates. It's all a transfer of wealth to the top 0.1%.

Why do we do this to young people? It's horrible. The only reason I'm not homeless now is that my spouse managed to be in very small fraction of the workforce that still offered a pension. 401ks go in the blink of an eye if you're disabled and out of the workforce too soon.
I'm being completely serious when I say (as a non-doctor), that unless they have a specific heart condition, I presume it would substantially lower if they did some brisk walking. To give you another idea of just how low intensity "brisk" is, one indicator I've seen used is "you can talk in a conversation with relative comfort, but you couldn't sing without getting a bit out of breath". That's how general the advice is, and that's sufficient to improve longevity. More is better, but you're already somewhat close to the bottom of the J curve just doing that (marathon level and beyond is where more is worse again, if I'm remembering correctly).

This isn't my original source, but what I found that seems to agree with my memory: 10.1016/j.pop.2013.08.002

There are recommendations for other exercise in there, but none of it is related to longevity, based on my skim.
Reminds me of iTunes for Windows. That was a trashy app if I've ever seen one... makes Spotify on desktop (which I think is an electron web app?) feel like a dream in comparison.
I wonder what the ROI on these podcasts are, JRE been out for awhile so they should have numbers.
If that's your experience with an EV it's most likely a warranty issue. Happens with ICE cars as well. So far, battery degradation for EV batteries (Tesla's to be exact) has been much less severe as has been feared: https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...

(also: I mistyped in my above comment. I meant to say 250.000km not 350.000 miles. Sorry about that)
Couldn't ARC be disabled, and autorelease be used instead?
Having used both early in my career, Delphi absolutely shat on VB. But I'd be really interested to see the code I wrote in the 90s and see how it stands up in terms of reliability, maintainability, testability etc.

The closest thing I've found in the modern age is https://anvil.works - basically works like Delphi/VB, but web based, and in Python. For both frontend and backend.
Maybe not all apps need the complexity but portability.
Probably 1/3 IC, 1/3 manager, 1/3 eng PM. Small team.
> Knowing your PII is not a crime...

Correct. We're talking civil law, not criminal.

If you use my PII without my consent, I'm suing you in court. Abuse the rights of many and you could be facing a class action lawsuit.

> We have all of these now without data privacy.

What are your thoughts on the other social pathogens? Behavioral ads, profiling, etc.

I'm curious: In your view, do people have the right to privacy?

Or are you more in the McNealy/Zuck/Schmidt camp? "There is no privacy. Get over it."
So the "engineering teams" couldn't tail /var/log/FPRSA-R.log and see the cause of the halt?

I've had servers and software that I had never, ever used before stop working, and it took a lot less than four hours to figure out what went wrong. I've even dealt with situations where bad data caused a primary and secondary to both stop working, and I've had to learn how to back out that data and restart things.

Sure, hindsight is easy, but when you have two different systems halt while processing the same data, the list of possible causes shrinks tremendously.

The lack of competence in the "engineering teams" tells us lots about how horribly these supposedly critical systems are managed.
It’s actually the opposite of Microsoft quickly eoling on the server side. Server 2012 was EVERYWHERE as late as 2018-2019. They were still issuing service packs in 2018.
screens were generally 80 characters wide 256 was good enough, if you needed to go bigger null terminated could still be done in pascal, you just had to roll your own.

The editors I wrote back in the eighties were just linked lists of pascal strings so a line was limited to 256 characters but these were very fast in VMS and DOS

Also we only had a few character sets and you could live your whole life in ASCII
> your belief that List would be a good language for any projects for most companies

That's a straw man. I have never made that claim. I think Lisp could be effective in a lot more areas than those in which it is currently deployed, but I have never said that it would be good for "any" project or "most" companies.

What I said was that 1) in the past I have advocated for my "profound belief" that Lisp would be effective for particular projects on which I happened to be working, 2) in those circumstances in which I was able to persuade the decision-makers to actually use it, it worked spectacularly well and 3) despite 1 and 2, the net result was a net negative impact on my career.

This is not sour grapes, just a cautionary tale. Holding and advocating for profound beliefs is not always a good idea.
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I was working in C++ on OS/2 at the time when a resource editor was hard to find and that chasm from the command line to the GUI was what made the jump to commercial software development feel like the Khumbu Icefall.

I worked in a small software development sub at a big bank and they needed a rolodex. I agreed to do it in my spare time if they'd buy me a legal copy of VB 1.0. I did the prototype in what feels like a glacial week today, but they followed through with lunch and a shrink wrap copy.

If there's a death of GUI or IDE development tools it's the same for all of them with the possible exception of the outer edge of Jet Brains and VSCode. Put simply, they don't scale like command line tools since you're dragging a 200 ton freight train of GUI bloat behind you where it doesn't deliver the impact gravity
that the train does.

HCI or GUI should scale like APIs do, but they don't, particularly now that resource editors are everywhere, and we're about to replace highly paid drag and drop mouse typists with nearly autonomous agents.

Humans benefit from visual affordances like VB because VB lowers the bar, or the barrier to entry. GUI development would still be stuck in the late 80's if Cooper hadn't made it possible for the inmates to overtake the asylum with their drag and drop tools.
It looks to me much like the way to sell marijuana by selling an old newspaper for $50 with a packet of weed as a free gift with it.

I suppose that $1865 is a reasonably small price to send $500k to someone concealed as a service charge.
Oh yeah that sounds like a nice idea. Good luck trying to find them among 5000 delegates based on an outdated linkedin photo if they don't respond to your connect request though.
What evidence are you basing that on?
The ip stack.
I use static Svelte(Kit) + TypeScript + Tailwind on the front end, Go and Postgraphile in the middle, and PostgreSQL functions on the backend.

I did write my own PostgreSQL migration tool though, to make it easier to write SQL functions in my IDE: https://github.com/pgpkg/pgpkg
Note that the negative framing does not necessarily limit other laws to have an affirmative framing, for example see the Pruneyard case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

> This holding was possible because California's constitution contains an affirmative right of free speech which has been liberally construed by the Supreme Court of California, while the federal constitution's First Amendment contains only a negative command to Congress to not abridge the freedom of speech. This distinction was significant because the U.S. Supreme Court had already held that under the federal First Amendment, there was no implied right of free speech within a private shopping center.[4] The Pruneyard case, therefore, raised the question of whether an implied right of free speech could arise under a state constitution without conflicting with the federal Constitution. In answering yes to that question, the Court rejected the shopping center's argument that California's broader free speech right amounted to a "taking" of the shopping center under federal constitutional law.

I generally believe that companies that enter spaces that previously afforded "users" first amendment protection should have similar laws to protect the free speech of users in said privately owned "spaces".

But that would require new laws.
No regular user is going to care that there is yet another Webkit derivative browser if it's not backed by a big name like Apple.
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Depends, radiance field approaches (like gaussian splatting) are basically 3D photos. They do only capture color at geometry (position and direction), but have no concept of surfaces, materials and light transport in general (emission, absorption, transmission, reflection, scattering, etc.). In other words, they can only do static scenes (no animations) with pre-baked lighting.

The industry seems to be trying to move away from this with things like PBR (physical based rendering) and ray / path tracing which enables far better dynamic lighting.

Also, they are extremely space inefficient at the moment. A scene that would take a good traditional rendering engine a few dozen GB would take TB instead. Though, that might improve in the future with more optimization.

One exception to the above, where gaussian splatting might be interesting to see is procedural / generated content (possibly even animated). Especially for volumetric effects which currently use particle systems, like smoke, fire, clouds, flowing water, etc.
VB is not VBA, VBA was a relatively small subset.

I might be mistaken but wasn't VBA brought into Excel as a familiar element from the VB world?

It is true though that some of the more purer or more initial concepts of VB likely live on in the VBA subsets of Excel.

And Access.
In addition to what others have said about the fact this planet doesn't have 8g at its surface, at 8g you could still have many lifeforms that exists on earth, but only the small ones. Gravity grows roughly as the cube of your size (because your volume does), but bones resistance only get n² (because it's the surface that counts), so the bone resistance / weight ratio is inversely proportional to your size.
No. This is exactly the same. Think about life of a data gram or stream bytes on the syscall edge for each.
It's funny how I keep coming around to Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" theory when I see these posts. It's not perfect, but it seems to describe 90% of the reasons why people get burnt out. Part of your pyramid crumbles, the value of your self-actualization starts slipping.

Whatever works for you, I guess.
> There needs to be a concerted effort that does not allow people to have anonymity. This includes all social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X, formerly known as Twitter. Everyone needs to be verified and authenticated.
This is a good demonstration of how much more work it is to refute bogus statements than it is to make them.
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What three words would be a better solution than a guid, as transmittable over radio.
You have to be very careful with the word suspect here. No crime has been committed, not even alleged. The allegations are that the arrested may in the future cause disruptions - it’s currently even unclear whether these acts are crimes, misdemeanors or even public demonstrations and as such protected by law and the constitution. Legal opinions and court decisions are all over the place.

The jail time is even more problematic given that the acts that the imprisoned may commit in the future are not punishable by prison time in practically all cases.

(As a side note: I would also be extraordinarily careful citing an article in the Stern, which cites allegations that the Welt published, without having at least a second source that confirms it)
I had a computer graphics class that used QBASIC around 1994. It was probably already outdated, but switching graphics modes and making sprites animate was actually easier then than what you find now. I'm certain it's because there is so much more you can do now, but that feeling was exciting! I actually had my first computer graphics class on an Apple IIe in 1993, and that was definitely outdated at that time. I built a fish bowl with waving seaweed and a fish that would swim to the right and reappear on the left.
Yes, but this is just the splatting/rendering part and not the optimization part that generates the reconstruction in the first place.
Data you create by your usage of computers is generally yours.

Where that data is content and the interactions themselves, it's also different.
Can LLMs do this?
10 AI trip planner tools that simplify your travel and save you money along the way.
Yes! This might seem silly, but if you're working with a lot of data, it can be a pain and time drain...
Yes, and some carriers do.

Some will have a list of "supported devices", and if you try to use anything not on the list it'll be blocked.

This isn't legal in some countries though. The UK telecoms regulator (Ofcom) prohibits any form of restriction on putting SIMs into devices, for example. Previously carriers would do things like saying that a SIM on a plan for phones couldn't be used in a tablet.

A physical SIM or eSIM doesn't make a lot of difference with this, although a carrier obviously can't do anything to stop you moving a physical SIM between device.

Changing an eSIM often requires contact with the carrier, so that's an opportunity for them to say no/make it difficult/charge a fee.
> Aside from cost. I don't care about anyones cost-cutting incentives in mission-critical systems. Sorry capitalism...

Capitalism is happy to have redundancy in mission critical systems all the time. Why would it care here?
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Makes sense. I heard that some of Wiener’s anti-war sentiment (specifically anti-military-work-during-peacetime) may have contributed… cybernetics really collapsed hard as a discipline, even though I find it very helpful from a systems design perspective. AI has always bothered me as a term because, from a design perspective, the goal should be creating intelligent systems—not necessarily entirely artificial ones.

>There is no major algorithm or idea in undergrad machine learning textbooks named after these people.

Maybe the pandemonium idea from Selfridge?
Can you try and report back (I don't want to try to reproduce your exact experiment).
It would still be valuable to replace components piece-by-piece, starting with rigorously defining internal data structures and publically providing schemas for existing data structures so that companies can incorporate them.

I would like to point out that the article (and the incident) does not relate to airline systems; it is to do with Eurocontrol and NATS and their respective commercial suppliers of software.