skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This week I saw a YouTube video which left me impressed regarding Gaussian Splatting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kShNYOuDnlI&t=224s

I got it recommended because I watched the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVv_IQKlafQ&t=64s

Both are worth watching if one didn't know it exists.
It's not ludicrous, it was a very deliberate design decision.

First, you only get emails if the program produced output. The Unix Way states that programs should not produce any output at all when the command was successful and everything went fine. (Unless of course the intended job of that program is to display output.)

Also, you have to keep in mind that Unix was designed to be a multi-user operating system. Meaning one machine to hundreds or thousands of users. When you submit a job with `at` or `cron`, it _only_ makes sense that you want to see the output of that job somehow, and email was the easiest and best way at the time.

Imagine the headaches of trying to admin a Unix system with thousands of users, all of who can create a cron job to run every minute or hour and forget about it because they _never, ever saw the output_?

Cron emails you by default, and I think that is the correct choice. It _should_ be up to the user to figure _which_ output they do not want and tune their jobs (or programs) to match. It's not even hard, you just redirect stdout to /dev/null.
I got accustomed to pausing whenever the machine was speaking, to avoid the race condition I mentioned above. I went with a friend to a different store, in a new city, and she was very confused by the weird set of behaviors I had learned to keep the original machines happy.
EU, UK and USA risk of being the most oppressive regimes because those countries actually have a culture and history of being able to enforce laws and rules.

This will never stop with “protecting the children”. Very shortly they’ll start asking why we wouldn’t use the same technology against terrorism. don’t you want to be safe are you supporting terrorists that will say.

The problem with terrorism is that it’s very easy for everyone to be categorized as a terrorist(notice how much many terrorists there is than terror attacks), and this needs very very wide access and total control over the public.
Stephen King writes pulpy, accessible fiction. I don't have context for the quote, but it's probably in the context of horror writing. Even if not, he's not the beginning and end of all writerly advice. He's just one guy. Smart and successful, but singular.

There are as many styles and motivations as there are writers. All are inherently valid. Whether they serve specific goals is a separate consideration. If you want to write horror like Stephen King, listen to Stephen King until you develop your own voice.
When I was a kid (quite a while ago) it was reported that the US Army had completed a sophisticated Howitzer project just in time to decommission Howitzers from its standard deployment. Meaning, they didn't need them any more.

Years later more research on a defunct weapon? Or does this revitalize it somehow?
I find it interesting to speculate why those words are not in widespread use. Many of them seem to either have more commonly used near-synonyms (acedia - apathy, indifference or ennui), or be somewhat unwieldy to use (absquatulate would be an useful word, but is way too long and sounds way too pompous).

Some of them, however, combine being rare, accessible and not easily replaced by other words. For example, calumny, copious and crux. I wish to see those words having wider use, as they would be handy to express concepts that generally require longer sentences to get across.
Oh, I don't mean conflict with other Neanderthals. I meant conflict with Homo Sapiens, who by all accounts seem to be much more comfortable with larger group sizes, and aren't cold-adapted.

Yes, violent competition isn't conducive to low population densities (especially in an environment as unforgiving as the Neanderthals') but that doesn't mean another larger group couldn't invade. After all, changing "humanoid" group sizes (aka "Culture") would take much longer than the introduction of the Holocene.
I’d say it’s likely that it’ll go down in history as Twitter; traditionally really bad rebrands are reversed, and swiftly forgotten. For instance, did you know that the UK Royal Mail was called Consignia for about a year in the noughties?
Today I learned KDEConnect has a MacOS app. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be actively developed.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
Or you can bake it. That way you can save the tasty juices. It's especially effective for hamburger patties. When you are done cooking, you can dump the juices on the bread and then put your hamburger patty on it. Absolutely delicious.

After years of overcooked dry meat, setting off the smoke alarm, dealing with splatter all over the stove and a lingering smell in the apartment for the entire day, I discovered the magic of baking meat and will never go back to searing and frying meat.

This works just as well for steak. Instead of buying individual cuts of steak, buy a rib roast. Roast it in the oven and cut it into individual steaks afterwards. Cooked steak keeps amazingly well so you can put it in the fridge or freeze it and eat it later. Pan searing or grilling will never get you the tasty crust that roasting can. Try it and never go back to a smoke filled apartment with a screaming smoke alarm.
Cheats will of course attempt to disguise such tampering
It's the only sane thing to do. I would hate to hire someone and only later learn how abhorrent their view of the world was.

This is not a simple political disagreement. This is supporting the worst form of terrorism.
Perhaps he bought the boots realizing he was about to attempt things where his toes were at risk.
> We can be pretty sure they are not hallucinations.

Everything from LLMs are hallucinations. They don’t store facts. They store language patterns.

Their output semantically matching reality is not something that can ever be counted on. LLMs don’t deal with semantics at all. All semantics are provided by the user.
Yes. It does equal that in this situation.
Batteries won't be cheap any time soon. It's totally possible to build a $5K car today. But it wouldn't meet safety or emissions requirements in most developed countries.
My contact in their data center, responsible for those kiosk's software, says otherwise about the kiosk cameras.

There are other cameras at portals; I know they can 'look' at those remotely. My sons used to finger their friend in Minneapolis as they entered then text him a location/timestamp so he could look it up and enjoy their greeting.
This broad case is much broader than the typical servers that Linux is often used for. A simple example is file access times on a (database) server. These are largely unnecessary. It's even rare for a desktop user to actually look at these.

In the past I've been a sr dev (but a jr sysadmin) and was tasked with improving the performance of an upgraded database server. The problem turned out to be with NUMA on the larger server which a combination of reading and semi-random config fiddling of both Linux and MySQL parameters (plus a bit of BIOS/CMOS tweaking) brought up to expected levels.

There's often no better way than learning on the job as there is so much to know that you can't simply learn them up front for when you will need it. What we can do is learn what there is to know and remember to look into those if it seems relevant. I mean everyone who's well experienced now probably started config twiddling somewhere to get there.
It can take a little effort to run a command under the same environment it’ll have when cron runs it—copy-paste isn’t a full description of what you have to do. And it’s pretty easy to get wrong, then not find out until your job fails.
It fits the data that the model has learned over.

Specifically, I want to emulate replies that follow a query that is polite.

So I engage in polite, supportive conversation with the bot to sample from positive exchanges in its training data.
If you rent a cloud vps as an ingress you can run an overlay network and your actual hosted services can literally be anywhere. See nebula, netbird, etc. You can also ssh forward, but that doesn't scale well past a handful of services and is a bit fragile.

For new small systems I suggest you start with a cloud VPS. If traffic is low, cost of downtime is low, and system requirements are high then a cheap mini PC ($150) at the home or office can keep your bill microscopic. If your app server and database are small then you can just throw them on the VPS too.

I run light traffic stuff at home in a closet so it doesn't occupy more costly cloud RAM. Production ready saas offerings I'm trying to sell right now are all in the cloud. Hosting all my stuff in the cloud would cost me hundreds per month. My home SLA is fine for the extras. I don't need colocation at this time, but I have spoken with data centers to understand my upgrade path.

You can run a live backup server at a second location and have pretty good redundancy should the primary lose power or connectivity.

When system requirements elevate (SLA, security, etc) you probably want to move into a data center for better physical security, reliable power and network. Bigger VPS is fine if it is big enough. Can also do a colocation if you don't want to rent, and you contract directly with a data center. I wouldn't look at colocation until your actual hosting needs exceed at least $100/mo and you're ready for a year long commitment.
For use inside containers, a nice Cron is Superchronic:

https://github.com/aptible/supercronic

Beware! It explicitly does not run jobs in an empty environment - it's not a great candidate for system level Cron. But for its intended usecase it is very nice.
People tend to perform risk-benefit analyses of their actions, even if unconsciously. They also engage in all sorts of risky behavior.

If they determine the benefit of eating something outweighs the risks, they might do it. Reducing the financial part of the equation reduces potential risk. It’s as simple as that.
Apparently I do as well, now that you mention it.
How to watch the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse this weekend
Duty cycle and dosage duration?

This kinda info should be "open source".
And Windows compatibility was a complete shit show before the OS vendor - Microsoft - worked with Intel and the other hardware vendors

Google just can’t manage a platform or more realistically doesn’t care to as long as they can serve ads on the device.
I am regularly told I have a “calming presence”, but few things get me angry faster than:

“Unexpected item in bagging area, please remove all unbagged items”

“Please place scanned item in bagging area”

“Unexpected item in bagging area, please remove all unbagged items”

“Please wait, system processing.”

“Please wait, help is on the way.”

[Screen locked, not a soul in sight]

I force myself to be cordial with the attendant since it is not their fault, but I am fully ready to Office Space that goddamn checkout kiosk.
All coups are undemocratic by definition. Anti-democratic might be a better description for 1953.
It means once again JavaScript is faster than rust.
UAW is getting good media coverage but if you watch Shawn Fain's live streams (available on YouTube) he mentions numerous unions currently striking all over the US. A lot of them with tens of thousands of workers.

I think it boils down to leaders being self-centered. Being the boss isolates you. Isolation leads to self-centerdness. Being self-centered is isolating. It's a vicious circle.

It's cruel to embue one person with sole decision making power because it's leads to psychosis.
How does LLM censorship help with "the dire state of the world"?
I was in the mood to prove your bad faith.
Here is a snapshot from wayback machine showing the commenter full comment, before you commented.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231013140239/https://news.ycom...

So yes, you have read only the first line and replied.
I think that line has been blurry (blurred?) for a long time. Is it ill-intentioned when Apple slows down charging with non-authenticated cables because "they might be shitty and high currents can cause a fire"? If companies can hide behind good intentions, they will. And I'm not even sure such intentions originate from human beings, anymore. Not from individuals, at any rate.
It's still based on Android though - so isn't it building on sand ?

Isn't it better to focus our efforts on projects unrelated to Android, especially since some viable ones have appeared recently : Librem 5 and especially PinePhone.
My most wanted Instant Pot modification is to replace the beeps it makes when it reaches pressure. It should play a chiptune version of Queen’s “Under Pressure”

Edit: mine might only beep when the timer expires, but that’s still a great opportunity to play that tune
I’m thinking more that they like everyone being in office so they have more control over when they want to interact with people.
You literally can't. Data collection at scale is one of the three pillars of the current "AI" hype. It's an issue and it was by design (thanks, three-letters!) and now it will never ever be revoked. Assume all data on the internet is logged in some form and is available to people who shouldn't be able to access it and that those people use it to model things at scale, or sometimes, just store it so they can reinterpret it later. Storing data is cheap. Transmitting data is cheap. MITMing the world's data flow? Priceless.
The idea a non-fiction text such as a scientific paper wants to express is (mainly) empirical.

The idea a fiction text such as Shakespeare's works wants to express is (mainly) emotional.

The exact meaning of words is more important in the former case than the latter, though not unimportant in the latter.

Shakespeare is one of the biggest outliers when it comes to reach as a function of complexity of language, and I don't think that generalizing from that specific anecdote is useful, especially as pertains to modern writers. I wouldn't advise any new writers to imitate Shakespeare if they want to be published today.
Visible from all across North America. Totality goes in a straight band from San Antonio, Texas through Newport, Oregon.
I just watched this interview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37729172 with Varufakis and I really don't see any of the behavior you're talking about.

Nearly everything he said seemed rational, fairly easy to find evidence for and I can validate it through my experience living in the world without my BS detector going off.

Honestly, your opinion of him seems a little more skewed by perhaps his version of the current state of the world clashing with your own narratives?
Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
It's mostly a fashion thing, and the industry knows that well-to-do consumers are willing to pay a large price premium for $Latest_Trendy_Food.
Massively better? Like 2% better?
Setup a Tailscale VPN and travel the world
A little blog article for beginners who may have a remote job, but never considered traveling because they might be tracked by their employer. Self-hosting a VPN is a way if you’re careful.
Related... Tatsuo Horiuchi draws using Microsoft Excel. No, really.

https://pasokonga.com/
> "attending board meetings"

I struggled with this very question, but there is politics to consider before becoming involved. My community library is, arguably, overstaffed. I don't know when this started. The branch has gone above the county hiring standards, and created well paid positions. The remainder of the library staff is part-time minimum wage. If I become involved, or even show interest in management, I could find myself in conflict. Not a decision to make lightly.

Board meetings are largely public. I've volunteered with various non-profit organizations, and had very rewarding experiences. The first thing I noticed is they appreciate your participation, but then when you're not needed you also feel it.
Thousands of programmable DNA-cutters found in algae, snails and other organisms
That's always been my thought as well. Why can't I just have some rechargeable component that significantly boosts my gas mileage for the typical 30-40 mile daily drive. The occasional 200-300 mile long distance trip I'm fine with using gas purely.
No it isn't, as unlike the others, grapheneOS is actually usable and dailyable.
Money needs to be motivated enough to investigate these kind of things
WOW. This brings back a FLOOD of memories as one of the first and most favorite games to play as a kid. This an a pirate game the name of which I cannot recall.

Thanks so much for this post.
Which topic was unacceptable for you?
This is caused from eating too much, not a decline in “metabolism”
> Not sure if I understand - a Cron "unit" is just a command that runs in a clean environment - you can test that without Cron.

It's not that easy to do. I've wasted hours in an old life figuring out that cron ran my scripts with a different $PATH than `env -i` did. systemd timers/units on the other hand are executed through the exact same code path, so if `systemctl start` works, you can be sure it works when started by a timer too.
what are the advantages, besides binary size, of using no std on the esp32?
Sorry, but you’ve been fooled by the web and functional programmers propaganda against performance.

Also, what the author seems to mean is that this is faster than specific python, js and go clients.

Anyway. At the IO boundary, there’s a lot of syscalls (polls, reads, mallocs especially), and how you manage syscalls can be a major performance sticking point. Additionally, serialization and deserialization can have performance pitfalls as well (do you raw dog offsets or vtable next next next). How you choose to move memory around when dealing with the messages impacts performance greatly (ie, creating and destroying lots of objects in hot loops rather than reusing objects).

The slow bit can definitely be the client.
A lot more similar reports can be found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_prote...
It's not even remotely the same argument as the CSAM one. It's not a human right to play a certain video game.
Antarctica: Ice shelves shrinking 'with no sign of recovery
A new study has found that almost half of Antarctica's ice shelves are shrinking. This could increase ice loss from glaciers and affect the ocean's ability to absorb carbon
> I wonder how good our dev tooling would be if we were willing to pay thousands a year

Would we pay that directly or our employers? Also, how many would pay if the benefits are greater productivity for their employer instead of greater income from increased velocity?
London, Zurich, Amsterdam.
Hydro dams are struggling to handle the intensifying weather
I agree, it seems artificial to me. My daughter is bilingual but that's because her mother is German and we live in Germany. When we're all together we speak English, when my daughter and I are alone we speak English, and when I'm not around they speak German. When we're around Germans we speak German. That's how things just naturally unfolded. If our daughter replies in German during an English conversation we don't force her to speak English.
Yes! And if you're willing to spend tens of thousands of more dollars in court, not to mention the months litigation may take, you may even get that minimum baseline (at the expense of other features or bug fixes that don't fall under the written contract) after another 18 months of development time.
'A.I. Obama' and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
It was never really a mail order catalog in the sense that there was no single place to order the stuff (the Whole Earth store did open later, but it just a slice of what appeared in the WEC and CoEvolution Quarterly). It was, as others have noted, reviews of "good stuff" and info on how (maybe) to get it.
The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)
https://archive.ph/nR3Pc
Matt Pharr’s series of blogs on ISPC are worth reading:
https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all
> Only one job runs at a time

At least on Debian, this is not true. If your hourly cronjobs take longer than an hour, it'll happily start a second instance of them in parallel.
What paranormal/new age stuff do you consider Point Foundation/WEC/CoEvolution/WER to have been suckered by?
And that's at atmospheric pressure! 100ft would be 4x the pressure at the output, requiring 4x the flow rate to do the same work. (Assuming you don't have some sort of magic low-pressure high-volume chainsaw "rebreather" apparatus.)
Ws_FTP servers targeted in ransomware attacks
A grocery chain in Chicago (Jewel/Osco) tried that about 20 years ago. My local store was a test site. You got a wireless Cisco barcode reader that undocked when you entered the store and scanned your shopper card. Then you scanned the card again at the self-checkout and the entire order rang up. A random % of people were spot-checked as they were leaving.

The project was abandoned about a year later. Manager said the shrinkage (theft) rate got way too high. And this was in a pretty affluent town.
Skype message threads hijacked to spread DarkGate malware
One reason this implementation is exciting is that the code that accompanies the Gaussian Splatting paper requires companies wanting to use the tech commercially to pay for a commercial license. There are existing viewer implementations, but this seems like the first alternative that would let me do everything without depending on the Inria code. The code being nice and clean is a bonus too :)
I had to reinstall X-server (I couldn't find another way to make X use the new Intel drivers for some reason). Except that, all is fine. Upgrade to kernel 6.2+, update Intel drivers, reinstall X, swap cards. I also had to modify my grub and my Xconfig a lot to make my old Nvidia card work, and cleaning it up took an hour.

Overall, better experience than with Nvidia. If your computer/install is recent maybe you won't need to reinstall X at all. I kept my Linux across 2 mobo and 4 CPU over 10 years, I usually prefer patching/fixing the issues rather than reinstalling but I think I ought to clean it up.
iPad Pro’s are ridiculously overpowered now and I’d recommend them for a long term solution. I’ve been using a 2018 iPad Pro with the A12X Bionic (from the iPhone XS and XR release) and it’s been running without a hitch on latest iPadOS @ 120hz. I imagine an M1 iPad Pro will still be more than enough to run whatever iPadOS releases 5+ years later.

It seems like hardware has greatly outpaced software requirements these days. I imagine phones with 2023 hardware will be more than viable in 2029, whereas a phone purchased in 2010 would definitely be a piece of junk compared to a phone in 2016.
I am 100% confident that none of these are simulated. Variations may exist in white space, due to differences in how I got ChatGPT to extract them, but they are all accurate.
Banks in many countries require an Android phone for online banking. Even if they offer an online-banking website that you can access with any browser, you may still need the Android app for 2FA. This is one of a number of reasons why the PinePhone or Librem is unfortunately not a daily driver. Also, things like paying for parking or interacting with public services are moving to Android apps in some places.
> razor-sharp is over-rated except for skinning, wood planes and chisels

Razor-sharp is quite useful for razors. It's much safer to shave with a razor-sharp razor than a dull one.
Interesting to call out employees specifically in the all staff letter. It made it a lot more powerful. It is hard to imagine a company doing that in the US
If you tell it the situation is life or death it starts doing a much worse job.
If your threat model for your phone includes the NSA as an adversary, maybe you shouldn't be using a phone at all.

For the rest of us, who just want to be violated less, we have to choose our poison. The corporate options are shameless violators, and the alternatives are gambles.
Your Indonesian is pretty good, sir. Have an upvote.