skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our aim is to fly at higher altitudes than Solar Impulse/SkyDweller, which keeps us above the turbulent winds and cloud cover of the troposphere, and makes long endurance flight more reliable/less weather dependent. Our platform is also a lot smaller than SkyDweller, which helps keep costs much lower and opens some interesting new opportunities - for example, deploying lots of aircraft in a mesh network.

The Solar Impulse/SkyDweller lineage is very inspiring - what an amazing way to demonstrate how much you can do with solar power!
The parent refers to the phenomenon described in detail here: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
You didn’t get the 0.75% adjustment last year? ;)
I work in real estate valuation and regularly consume bulk aerial photography. Please reach out to me at lars@valuebase.co!
I wish I worked with people that share your philosophy.
> They all but say that in the article.

This is a good point, they do not say that they submerged a part of the car anywhere in the article.
Four horses and a few dogs would've drown if we hadn't gotten them to higher ground. Worth trading a old truck for, and it was fine in the end.
and if it doesn't, that's well past the point where a current could rip the vehicle right off the road.
And reporting blatant garbage always results in 'we don't think there is a problem here' response from LI.
That's interesting - I usually don't like Spotify's recommendations.

Youtube was much better at that IMO, but I've tried to stop using it due to the Google connection.

I don't really know where Bandcamp stands - I've bought music there that I found on YouTube, but haven't used it to find new stuff.
I'm deeply concerned about when my dad is forced to update to Windows 11. He's 80 years old now, bought his first computer about 40 years ago, and used it to write programs to do engineering calculations. So, a fairly technical user from the jump, and has gotten accustomed to everything from 8-bit micros, through DOS and Unix to Windows. And dammit, the shit these companies are pulling is just going to invalidate his prior knowledge and leave him confused and pissed off, calling me for help (like I know jack about how the modern hodgepodge of Windows works). When Don Norman writes that the digital realm is no country for old men, I can see it in my father's increasing bafflement, I can feel it in myself.

I think that a big part of the reason why vi (later vim) and Emacs used to enjoy dual status as the canonical hackers' text editors is because their interfaces didn't change much, so skill with them would serve you a lifetime and could be passed to upcoming generations. I recently fired up Xenix in an emulator, and found that I was quite facile in using its copy of vi to manipulate text, because the skills I'd developed on Vim on modern Linux machines translated well all the way back to that ancient editor. Vim added a lot but the fundamentals are the same.

When the interface changes, just for the sake of changing, every two years or less, how can you feel like anything you learn will be relevant?
The question of “Why is there something rather than nothing” encompasses a curiosity about the existence of God. Your answer starts after the existence of God, so it doesn’t answer the original question.
> when Edinburgh’s roads get puddles

Based on what I've heard about Edinburgh's potholes a puddle is more akin to a massive lake rather than a small puddle. In fact I heard last week there was an where an eight stories tall crustacean from the protozoic era was residing in the Edinburgh potholes and asking for tree-fiddy.
> It only has one group of functions to allocate memory, and neither of them can be configured

Seriously, have you done any non-trivial C programming? Because those are blatant falsehoods. You must be talking about uni level introduction to C programming, using malloc/free and thinking that's how you "allocate".

> You are again confused... there weren't such codebases in C because C is bad for this. It's not because nobody wanted it. Highly concurrent codebases existed in Erlang since forever, for example.

Just one example I know, take the Linux kernel which had a good amount of SMP support way before C11. I believe they still haven't switched over to the C11 memory model.

> The point is not that they cannot run in parallel... The point is that C doesn't give you tools to program them to run in parallel.

How come then, that my computer is running so many things, many of them written in C, in parallel?
In Canada, so have had some games for awhile (I was like how is this news... We already got Netflix gaming, then realised US didn't have it).

The games are fairly simplistic, I dunno if it's limitation, initial scope, but Netflix version of "cloud gaming" so far is not trying to replace console/PC/handheld gaming at all.

Really it's just some minigames that don't require install for the most part.
See also determinative, which is what the BLS is trying to measure, i.e. what would be actually paid were the housing made available as a rental. No firm trying to calculate rents for a new rental would do what the BLS does, which is why their number are bullshit. If you can’t acknowledge this, it seems like you’re just being intentionally obtuse.
Or the other possibility is their car had some defect not affecting every Tesla. Maybe the guy building it forgot a seal on something that lead to the intrusion of water. It is too early and not enough information to come to a conclusion yet.
No, I did not mean that although it is both.

References:

(Direct quote)
How Gold Is Used In Aerospace: Gold Plating In Satellites
https://www.valencesurfacetech.com/the-news/gold-plating-in-...

Biodegradable Gold Nanoclusters with Improved Excretion Due to pH-Triggered Hydrophobic-to-Hydrophilic Transition
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13813

Gold nanoparticles: Synthesis properties and applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101836472...
I would call causing chronic kidney disease to be toxic.

It sounds like they evaluated the chemical itself but didn't evaluate what could happen to the chemical once it was in the environment.
People think billions have a significant amount of money compared to countries all the time. I blame the media.

I've seriously gotten into debates about Medicare and Medicaid and how it costs $1.5 trillion per year and how it would at-least double in costs to cover the nation and people honestly think billions in the country could be taxed to fund it. The willful ignorance that even if we took every single dollar they own it would barely give us any runway with no one left to tax after.
That would be the worst move Songtradr could make here. The ability to distribute your music while maintaining the rights to it is one of the main reasons - hell, if not the main reason - artists and labels (and fans like myself) love Bandcamp. Making such a change would, to my mind, royally piss off the entire community and, in particular, the artists that make the platform as successful as it has been. I can only imagine the negative press that such a move would generate.
you presume this is something people even want

at a minimum, this would not be seen as acceptable in the "constitutional carry" states - half of the country
Pretty good answers here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14489/why-would-som...

Some like the license more, some feel the cohesion is better, documentation is valued, sometimes it's more secure for the purpose.
I really do love competition but there is still a lot of the experience of driving a Tesla that I prefer.

I rented an EV6 and there are so many "misses" in terms of usability that just really annoy me. Things like easily leaving the AC on when getting out of the car (we were in hot Arizona) or being able to unlatch the charging cable while actively charging (you need to shut all of the doors and press unlock on the keyfob which I found after googling).

That and Tesla has extremely competitive prices for the Model 3 and Model Y in the US right now.

If you're looking at fact sheets (and not preference of company or CEO, which is definitely a valid way to vote with your wallet) Tesla is still extremely competitive.
Because this is literally the direct equivalent of a company buying unassembled products from Ikea, assembling them, and then claiming to be a furniture manufacturer. There was no transformative element to what they created, they bought an off-the-shelf consumer kit and built it. Pull out your credit card, invest about 2000 hours of fairly basic manual labor, and you can do the same thing. Tens of thousands of other people have already done so.
Perhaps a factor which exacerbates things is the placement of the battery/electronics due to the Tesla skateboard design which means the battery is quite low off the ground - especially for the Model 3 and Model S.

In a traditional ICE car or an ICE/EV/PHEV platform I can imagine there are more options to put things higher up within in the front chassis.
Correction appreciated, cheers. I was in the mindset of a company that wasn't willing to share their changes
"to focus on its core metaverse, games, and tools efforts.”

https://pitchfork.com/news/epic-games-sells-bandcamp-amid-la...
Then sell it to the employees who have a vested interest in maintaining it.
I have no idea where it was implied in that comment that it was difficult. I said that it wasn't required to be considered a valid BIOS, as commercial/alternatives did the same.
Startup Maps Future of Surgery with AI, Digital Twins
I rarely speak—but I will answer direct questions and will admit more than once have gone off on a short rant when I hear finger pointing for effect.
Any capital intensive project can become a resistant monopoly for the first mover, who then manipulates pricing to prevent competition.
I don't know. Are they? That was partly my question - which has not been answered despite the claims confidently made above. Ad revenue being down doesn't strike me as making it a sinking ship. Is revenue not down off its peak for most companies?

The stock certainly has performed far worse before the acquisition - especially relative to others.
The only photo I saw of the car in TFA shows it shinning. Direct link to that photo, please?
The “viral” part of AGPL comes from the GPL itself.

If I write, say, a Java servlet that relies on an AGPL library, then by the same mechanics as effect GPL software, my servlet must now also be AGPL.

Now I host my service and the servlet runs, sending content to whoever made the request. Whoever made that request to the servlet over the network is now entitled to the source code of the servlet. This is what the AGPL does.

That whole effect stems from the original GPL, the AGPL just mucks with the new concept of network access being akin to the GPLs original use of distribution.

If the library was just a GPL library, now even though the servlet is, now too, GPLd, there’s no obligation for source code release because the servlet was not “distributed”. Simply used on site of the servlet developer.

Now if the original request is routed through a proxy, does the AGPL apply? Does the AGPL somehow “infect” the proxy? If not then a proxy is a simple AGPL firewall. If it does, let’s host some AGPL services and start make requests of AWS and Cloudflare for some of their source code.

Which sounds pretty silly.
I used to have a similar worldview. I read about the consequences of technological advance in the past always with the present firmly in mind. Who cares if there were initially some unintended consequences and collateral damage? Things got better. Advances in technology have usually increased the size of the pie. It's easy to ignore the bumps in a trendline that's steadly headed skyward. However, when you look more closely, it's not just technological advances that keep things headed in the right direction. Social advances, critically those that help divide the pie more equally, are also responsible for the bounty we enjoy today.

e.g. The industrial revolution is typically credited with a great leap forward in quality of life for the average citizen, but it actually did the opposite at first. Workers crowded into dirty, unhealthy cities and started to live shorter, nastier, more brutish lives. Initially, many English workers were legally barred from seeking employment elsewhere. If you didn't like the wages you were getting at one job and tried to take another, you could be sent to jail. It's hard to ask for a raise or even safety equipment when the alternative is jail! It was the concentration of workers in cities that allowed labor movements to form and demand changes that granted more people a fairer share of the pie, such as the right to change jobs.

Technological advance is generally a good thing, but it's social advances that harness it for all. Be wary of philosophies that ignore part of the equation. If we want to avoid bumpy periods where life gets worse for the majority of us before getting better again, we can make conscious choices about how to use new technologies.
I suppose to start. How many have? This seems to be a fairly low effectiveness effort with lots of collateral damage to address a real issue of people getting guns and taking a trip to a school. Which doesn't require 3d printers.
Funny because I'm mainly Salesforce developer who just quit my current job at least 1/3rd because it was stuck with Atlassian. Oh and I have no idea how can anyone use Salesforce either.
I hope you dropped your /s somewhere.
Even given the different impacts injuries go up.
My BS detector goes off whenever someone that is trying to explain something that might be there fault uses "honestly".

> I honestly can’t remember any huge puddles or anything like that

Something tells me he remembers a fairly big puddle.
It was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624341
bandcamp was owned by Epic and lord only knows why they bought them or what their bigger plan was

this is incorrect. in addition to whatever lord you are speaking of, I also know. (unless you meant me, but even then, I think others share this knowledge.)

Epic bought Bandcamp to use it as a weapon in various lawsuits against Google and Apple over their pricing models. Bandcamp joined a suit against Google over its Play Store pricing in particular.

it didn't go anywhere, because Bandcamp already qualified for media app pricing, which rendered its role in the suit meaningless. but that was why Epic bought Bandcamp.
That's definitely an 8BitDo controller, although not of a make currently available. Analogue has previously used 8BitDo controllers, and it features the star and pixel-heart most of not all current 8BitDo controllers use. Hopefully 8BitDo will release a version that works with PC!
Interesting. According to the GitHub readme:

> Detecting extensions using web accessible resources is not possible on Firefox as Firefox extension ID's are unique for every browser instance. Therefore the URL of the extension resources cannot be known by third parties.
50cm, not 10cm, but enough.

TBH I thought they had 15cm, but for human-scale large object monitoring (fires, traffic, construction) 50cm is enough.
> protesting truckers

Keep in mind that trucking protest was funded by interests in the US [1]. I heavily suspect the recent anti- LGBTQ+ protests were too.

I don't believe they have much to do with Canada, or the interests of regular Canadians.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-american-right-wing-f...
Let us be clear here I'm down voting because that much of dripping sarcasm just gets people emotional and doesn't help anything. Feel free to make a cohesive argument one way or another:). Long sarcasm tirades assume other side is wrong and stupid and aren't helpful.

(I'm on your side, btw fwiw! But I still don't like dripping sarcasm insinuating other perspectives are clearly stupid!:)
I live on a road that floods regularly and I'm always amazed by how many drivers are willing to drive into water that is over two feet deep[1]. Car after car, they plunge in like amphibious operation is a standard feature on new vehicles, sending water over the hood and a wake across my front lawn. All that is to say, I would not be surprised if these people forged ahead into deep waters and are playing dumb when it didn't work out.

1. https://i.imgur.com/htJzqJY.jpg
> at least one other tweet Elon made where he doesn't disapprove

Of course, lack of disapproval doesn't mean approval, and visa-versa. The documents that were signed, not an silly two word tweet, is what determines liability.
I presume that some people didn't want marijuana to be schedule 1 federally, but here we are 60 years later, and gunpowder as a substance has killed far more people than marijuana in that time.
Very interesting. Looks like a vestigial feature that was carried over from the EGA but hadn't yet been removed.
For one thing for the last week I've seen several articles about "curl is vulnerable and will be exposed soon!!". For it to turn out this way is certainly a plot twist.
Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) released
If I had to rank those features, I'd put build quality way ahead of acceleration. I can't think of a situation where the difference between 0-60 in 3.5 seconds vs 4 seconds actually matters, but build quality impacts the car whenever you're in it.

TBH i find it a little concerning that anyone can buy a 4.5 ton car like the Hummer EV that can accelerate to 60mph in 3 seconds and change
It has always been that way to me. Also over-run with recruiters.
An audiobook is hardly an appropriate format for this kind of content. It is even worse for this book in particular since it contains a lot of figures and tables. YMMV.
Just what do you think you are doing sfink?
Just glossed over the paper but it seems, in principle, simple enough (though rather brilliant IMHO).

Essentially they're doing what you do when you train a neural network, only that instead of adjusting weights connecting "neurons", you adjust the shape and position of gaussians, and the coefficients of spherical harmonics for the colors.

This requires the rendering step to be differentiable, so that you can back-propagate the error between the rendering and the ground-truth image.

The next key step is to every N iterations adjust the number of gaussians. Either fill in details by cloning a gaussian in an area which is undercovered, or split a gaussian in an area which is overcovered.

They use the gradient of the view-space position to determine if more detail is needed, ie those gaussians which the optimizer wants to move significantly over the screen seems to be in a region with not enough detail.

They then use the covariance of the gaussians to determine to split or to clone. Gaussians with large variance get split, the others cloned.

They also remove gaussians which are almost entirely transparent, no point in keeping those around.

That's my understanding at least, after a first time gloss-through.
How many KW are they producing from the geothermal source?

Is this a pool where anyone can join and mine? Do they audit miners to ensure they use green sources? Or it's just a miner with a confusing name?
It really doesn't sound easy to me to tell this from the outside. What if the R&D investments are all garbage? It is hard to scale an engineering org effectively, it can take off and start building some microservice fortress that never yields any business value if it has the wrong leadership.
it's a specialist catalog, but very popular within its niche
> I usually don't like Spotify's recommendations

It requires that you like songs, and listen, of course. I have around 1600 liked songs. It knows me well enough at this point.
Similar to other posts, LI is probably the website that changed my life the most. It's made finding a new job so easy it's almost embarrassing to discuss with non-tech people. I just set my profile to "Open to work" and recruiters just stream in and eventually I get a job that is awesome and pays well. No other website has had a larger impact on my life.
I drove an early model 3 through about 3” of standing water on the BQE in Brooklyn and immediately heard a dragging sound from the undercarriage. Turned out the water spray had torn (or finished tearing) the acoustic dampening material on the underside of the chassis and flaps of it were now dragging on the ground. I took it to Tesla and they said the repair would be hundreds (can’t remember the amount) but that it wouldn’t happen again because the part they were replacing it with had been redesigned. I said something along the lines of ‘you’re telling me ~2 years into the life of this model and you’ve redesigned the part, but that you want me to pay for the one that doesn’t fail when driving through a puddle?’ They comped the repair. This is one of many disappointing Tesla service stories I wish I didn’t have. The incentives of the manufacturer being the exclusive service provider for warranty issues are not aligned, IMO.
Oh nice, didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing it out!
3D Gaussian Splatting in Unreal Engine 5
Andreessen always argues for "growth" and declares "time to build," but as soon as someone tries to build an apartment in his town of Atherton, he's going to fight it: https://fortune.com/2023/02/23/atherton-steph-curry-marc-and...

Atherton is prime silicon valley real estate that could allow engineers and startup founders to live there at a reasonable price and fuel growth in the tech economy. But if it's going to inconvenience Marc or compromise his nice views, growth is no longer important to him.
Or you could use your interpreting skills to detect it yourself.
You are correct.

This is why reddit and twitter both locked down their APIs, due to the data being very high quality and immensely valuable for training.

Too bad they all did it too late, no one saw ChatGPT coming. And since all the data was already scraped from Stackoverflow, it no longer has any value for OpenAI. Stackoverflow is rapidly declining in volume, so future data from it is irrelevant.
Having seen those videos before, a lot of people cause ICE failures. Having said that, their approach and speed are often a big part of it.

The Teslas should be fine, but submersion is really not recommended and this is getting really close. The breather valves can leak if subjected to enough force.

Leaking leads to corrosion which leads to really expensive repairs.
Of course a post critical of the technoreligion of HN gets flagged. The zealots always have zero tolerance for the apostates.
> O'Reilly Membership ...

I've had mine for 2 years and have noticed in the past 6 mos or so, the rate of added books is really slowing down to a trickle. I used to check every day to see whats news, now I'm checking once a week. I'm waiting on stuff that was published months ago to show up in their catalog. I'm wondering if the other publishers (Manning, etc) are focusing on their own platforms. But its the only place to get the O'Reilly books.

Not sure whats going on here.