skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you stopped to ask why elevating the voices of victims is a worthy thing to champion? How do you evaluate who is a victim? Maybe the positive consequences are obvious, but what are the negative consequences of doing this?

Often the real disagreements are the assumptions that are driving the superficial behaviors.
Surely one can be actively aggressive without being violent.
My understanding is that Thread is basically Zigbee Next. Better in some ways, can run on most of the same hardware (assuming there's firmware available but not at the same time), and unfortunately not backwards compatible. We'll be stuck having to run both Zigbee and Thread (and wifi, zwave, bluetooth, etc.) from here until eternity.
I definitely have one on my screen, but I really have to look for it. Doesn't really bother me much.
I guarantee a large swath of the population will draw a connection to the conspiracy stuff. I am not claiming that there is a connection - but others will.

If you're building an entirely new product and can choose any name in the world - why would you choose one that had the remote potential to be misconstrued? Seems foolish, particularly in the current political climate where fervor is building over AI regulation and a huge chunk of our politicians are in the MAGA camp.
> This is counterproductive hyperbole.

Not really. The courts ruling on something doesn't just immediately make that "ok." A lot of dictatorships actually do use courts to make their rule seem more "in line with the law."

Anyway I'm fighting against the notion of, just because court says so it's ok.
it might be your preference, but what happens when you can't? e.g. when someone you can't confront directly says or does something that's really not to your liking?
The leak sensors I have simply have a pair of electrodes; if water closes the circuit they send an alert.
Not off the top of my head, but I remember the iPhone in its early years required specific carrier support because of that permanent APNS connection. Can't find a source for this now but I remember that being one of the reasons that iPhone 2G/3G/3GS wouldn't work (well) on other carriers even after SIM unlocking.

I assume nowadays it's more to do with GCNAT pruning connections to APNS/GCM less heavily than other "regular" connections (which is doable given that APNS has specific ports[1]), or cell carriers having different routing & handling for push notifications IPs, but that's just speculation.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102266
It's common sense. Hardened stainless steel and pedestrians don't mix. The car has to be proven to be safe, not the other way around. There hasn't been any tests yet.
The problem with this "takes" on AI is kind of a "static" view of AIs capabilities. What are GPT-5s capabilities?
The Continuum did know a lot!
I’m a fan of aggressive aggression. Don’t be a baby; get shit off your chest like a man and then get over it.
Reconciling inconsistent information across systems is the truly hard part. Sometimes I feel that a large part of our jobs are simply detective work.
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It has been a while since they've talked about that price, and I would not expect it to be anywhere near that price point today, given <gestures at everything>.
Suppressor Science: Pistons [video]
>>how to do it without just wrecking the planet in a new and creative way

YUP. That is kind of the issue. Among the geoengineering ideas, the only one that seems to be at least reasonably reversible and tunable would be solar shields orbiting or at L1. Even that, the feedback loops are long. Overshooting/undershooting could easily get into the wrecking-and-not-recovering zone.

Likely the only sure thing is C02/Methane capture, at massive scale, which currently would burn insane amounts of energy
All channels with reputation at some point were random (except the ones from universities maybe)
No, that's blaming and taking action on it. It's an aweful way of doing it, but it's a very different mechanism.
Just read the first pdf. This is an interesting quote.

"Every second spent trying to understand the language is one not spent understanding the problem"

Did a lot of work in LaTeX the last few years and they make C++ looks like something made in heaven
> Having a direct link to S3 + existing connectors built in feels like a strong competitive moat.

Not really; the hard part is processing the data from each of these sources, not downloading the data from the source. Sure, any company that wants to compete is going to need to raise at least $30m just to get to the same minimal baseline level of support, but that was already the case even without this announcement.

In terms of whether this product will win the market, I honestly doubt it. Figuring out how to best process the data from each source to yield good results is going to be highly subjective, and Amazon's culture makes it unlikely that it will succeed here.

(As someone with a company that offers an API to pre-process email for LLM ingestion, fwiw.)
Wow, ThreadX. To quote Obi-wan, "That's a name I've not heard in a long time". I last worked on a ThreadX based product about 20 years ago. It was annoying because our application device did not require Real Time scheduling, or a particularly fast boot, but the decision to go with ThreadX rather than, say, embedded Linux was made way over my Junior head. We even had a separate "higher end" product that ran embedded Linux, which was a joy to work with, so it's not like we didn't think Linux would work. Everything we ended up doing on that product took 2X to 3X as long to develop, debug, and test because a lot of the niceties that you come to rely on from a kernel simply didn't exist with ThreadX.

It's really something I would only use for an extremely simple safety-critical device, one that absolutely needed Real Time.
I've had really good luck with the Leviton Z-Wave switches & dimmers. Haven't had a single problem with them in about 3 years of use.
Awkward timing with that name and the whole Q* intrigue involving OpenAI.
thank you, that's pretty much my reasoning.

I one day hope that EV trucks will be useful to me to replace my ICE truck, but for me none of them hit the boxes.

some of them are logistical in relation to charging vs having an extra can of gas though, so it's hard to say.
American workers are 'unhappier at work' than they have been in years
Each clip in the video is about a second long. All current video generation models start showing their weirdnesses when there is too much movement. None of these can keep that impression of consistency for longer times. I can spot problems in almost all of the clips in this teaser (robot leg is the most obvious one).
The figure I recently read was that solar panels are recouping their manufacturing carbon impact in less than a year when compared to conventional fossil mix.
Without the ability to handle confrontation in a way that does not lead to violence our weapons are limited.

The most common methods are employed by infants and children like volume and tone until the attack evolves past the material of the confrontation (ideas, actions, response) to the extensions of the person starting with identity (individual), reputation (community), and eventually societal (race, gender, occupation, legal, citizenship).

I would say based upon my understanding and history that once you attack the societal element of a reasonable person they will respond with violence - or their aggression will become not-passive.

Today, for a variety of reasons, I believe that identity has shifted from self to societal which is why there are some people that if you disagree with their personal choices will respond with violence. These people cannot be reasoned with nor have productive discussions about the topic without personal, reputation, or societal attacks.
Why didn't they just get oil guys to drill it?
Sorry you don’t like dogs
I think that the popularity of the Ford Maverick and so on mean that the bed isn't for that kind of thing.

Also, for those upset with the inability to find a modern truck with a long bed and short cab, the answer someone suggested is a van. It's a pretty good substitute.
Any details on what model powers this? Is it Anthropic? Or an OSS model? Or something home-grown?
The Uphill Battle of Unpopular Ideas (2022)
Bye bye gpt wrappers
There's apparently a heavy media blitz right now to rally support for this passage:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/28/u-s-used-contentiou... ("US used its Section 702 spy tool to disrupt Iran’s weapons program")

- "In recent months, U.S. officials have increasingly been disclosing examples of how Section 702 has been used to protect national security, including thwarting the flow of fentanyl through the southern border and identifying the hacker behind a 2021 ransomware attack that crippled one of the country’s largest fuel pipelines."
Private

"The owners of PostNord Group are the state of Sweden (60 percent) and the state of Denmark (40 percent)."

It was a merger between the two countries postal services that were created over 300 years ago, it still has no private shareholders. It is still very closely tied to government rulings and laws around postal services.
They are an extreme minority. In the real world most people have no idea what QAnon is outside of maybe a weird thing they saw on the news and laughed at.
Care to present any facts with your opinion? I am neither for or against your statement.
Indeed. The Ford Maverick base model is $23k (edited: was $21k which was the base price in 2022). Despite being "not really a truck" in many ways, it actually demonstrates a lot more utility per dollar than most pavement princesses. Every white Ford Ranger or Toyota Tacoma fleet vehicle you see out there hauling parts from store to store, doing groundskeeping/facilities/security work, and doing small household hauling can be replaced with a Maverick. In a world where $50k gets you a base model "full size" truck, the Maverick is going to clean up (in my opinion).
How did everyone get to the mountains before they all bought SUVs? Pretty sure a sedan works.
This is obviously very subjective, but C++ is used in many interesting fields: robotics, graphics, signal/image processing, physics/game engine, ...

I'm currently doing some backend work, and I really miss it. I don't think I've done anything interesting algorithm-wise since I switched. Alas, the pay is usually much better in SaaS land.
I think it's like:

Passive: Uh, your code looks great!
Aggressive: Your code is garbage!
Assertive: Your code is broken.
Passive-Aggressive: It's great that you think your garbage code is great!
James Bond, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, 4chan; all in unison: “Q PREDICTED THIS!”
This strikes me as:

A. Something there is no way to provably measure;
B. a claim the article provides no data to prove has increased;
C. and a potential "diagnostic" that says more about the person diagnosing the problem than anything else.

All of the articles broad claims are just … things being said.
This is what a truly revolutionary idea looks like. There are so many details in the paper. Also, we know that transformers can scale. Pretty sure this idea will be used by a lot of companies to train the general 3D asset creation pipeline. This is just too great.

"We first learn a vocabulary of latent quantized embeddings, using graph convolutions, which inform these embeddings of the local mesh geometry and topology. These embeddings are sequenced and decoded into triangles by a decoder, ensuring that they can effectively reconstruct the mesh."

This idea is simply beautiful and so obvious in hindsight.

"To define the tokens to generate, we consider a practical approach to represent a mesh M for autoregressive generation: a sequence of triangles."

More from paper. Just so cool!
To be clear it’s not “tracking” in the “tracking cookie” sense that is a problem. It’s the treading of PII with third parties. For example for use in ad-budding. I don’t mind meta knowing everything about me that I have told them or using that to show me ads from their own servers where no information reaches a third party.
Given amazon's reputation, as a geek I'm not going to build anything on this. Or bard. Even if it's free.

Open ai has the benefit of having a fresh track record.
We would love your feedback and contributions! We would also love to hear your thoughts on the future of AI Agent architectures and approaches like those we are building on top of with TreeVoyager! Also feel free to reach out to Marco/Matt if you have any Qs on using the playground to test your agents!
This is your imagination. I didn't say that. I didn't say anything about war. I said weapons save lives. We can see again and again and again that if you don't have weapons then the people who hate you will attempt to kill you.
Seconded. This was super fun. I've never really built anything like this and had a few missteps, but got it working!
From that link:

> "The owners of PostNord Group are the state of Sweden (60 percent) and the state of Denmark (40 percent)"

So no, it's a state-owned company. And most national postal services have some sort of equal-service guarantee in law, though I don't know about Sweden.
I'm not too fussy about efficiency, but one of the things about passive aggression that drives me crazy is the pretence. Passivity makes the communication as though it never happened, except everyone knows that it did. To many autistic people this seems literally insane.
Another year un-lived
At least on Windows I quite like vcpkg for dependencies.
These comments are Twitter-reply level bad. “Be a man”, said unironically.
"Free (price) and easy" are not the values peertube is pushing forth, so it's not really relevant. Peertube makes it so you own your infrastructure, your data, and can do whatever you decide to do. You are not subject to foreign laws like with YouTube, you are not dependent on ads that are a problem by design, you are not beholden to ecocidal capitalism to display videos, you do not have to give more power to a company that employs children and refugees to build their AI. You are building a saner world just by not using YouTube. That's kinda hard to beat.
“Jan Maas is not being rude, he’s just being Dutch.”
I concur. It's kind of like saying "good for you" which can be either congratulatory or completely sarcastic depending upon the context. I always try to throw in an adverb like "sincerely" or "truly" to avoid ambiguity when I say stuff like this to avoid sounding salty.
Stupid things? Sure, nazi things == you die.

Threatening violence gets you jail time already.

Agreeing with Nazi views should be fine, calling yourself a nazi, organizing neo-nazi groups, displaying symbols and speech with intent to further murderous/genocidal propaganda, much like "screaming fire in a crowd" should not only be illegal and criminal but worthy of capital punishment imho.
> still very closely tied to government rulings and laws around postal services

Sure. But you can't sue Fannie Mae for denying you guarantees under the equal protection clause.
> You should almost always be using unique_ptr or shared_ptr

I really wish there was a thread unsafe version of shared pointers, without atomics overhead, in the standard. Maybe without weak pointers.
Giraffe makes a good point. Idiots believing nonsensical conspiracy theories became Nazi's after all. It's a slippery slope. It is completely fair to compare them. Crazy is crazy, regardless of which one is "worse".
The use of surge pricing encourages their definitely-not-employees to turn on their servers and relieve congestion, dontcha know.
I used to write research at Goldman. Our chief economist would often give this book as an end-of-year gift. I found it useful in my writing: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo256745...
This isn't unique to the US federal government.

The understanding that governments are the absolute worst at everything has been written about and understood since the time of Plato.

All that's happening is information is more readily accessible and the population is becoming less ignorant of their own government.

People love to draw comparisons between their government and some other government to make a point in favor of their favorite pet policy. Rarely do the same people have even the most rudimentary understanding of all of the ridiculous things that take place in other governments.
The hope with new technology is always that its better than existing tech, possibly in extreme ways (10x better). It would be great if electric vehicles just blew away ICE vehicles traditional metrics, I think that's one of the ways Tesla got its foothold in the first place with the Roadster acceleration numbers.

If the selling point is only environmental, and not price or anything else then the transition will be a harder sell to consumers.
> when someone you can't confront directly

Example please.
It’s downvoted because it’s the same tired think of the children argument. It’s a red herring. Age verification doesn’t protect children. Legislation protects incumbents.

Meta are experts at manipulating emotions. That’s exactly what the “think of the children” argument does.
Oh, shipping containers I absolutely agree. (The Box by Marc Levinson is well worth a read if you haven't already.) But, given that a non-trivial number of people in the world sleep on something other than a box spring mattress by choice, suggests it's not so transformative. I'm not sure how I see it opening up all these new possibilities. But I also admit to not being terribly fussy what I sleep on and have actually never owned that type of a mattress.
Death threats should be investigated and prosecuted. People are still allowed to criticize illiberal opinions.
What is the input? Is it converting a text query like "chair" to a mesh?

edit: Seems like mesh completion is the main input-output method, not just a neat feature.
Hardened stainless steel tell you almost nothing without knowing the thickness and the geometry.

At this point it’s slightly more than marketing puffery.
A widespread sense of entitlement is indeed a mark of high civilization. Of course as a lagging, not leading, indicator. I wonder if things like a sense of certainty in moral convictions also necessarily goes with it -- i.e. a triumphant civilization giving itself a pat on the back for its accomplishments with the recognition that it has after all achieved the capital-T truth.

The big question is how low the upcoming trough needs to be for us to get the next peak we expect.
We don't know what. The ruling hasn't been made yet.
F-150 Lightning:

>Body on frame?

Check

>Solid axles?

Not required for EVs.

>Lockers?

Not required for EVs.

Final score: It's a truck.
I did some digging because I was curious. From the Horn, you'd go north through Egypt and Israel. From there, to get to Turkey (and then Greece), the close route would go through Syria. Not a great choice given the civil war.

You can swing around Syria, but it takes you farther from Greece. If you still wanted to get to Greece, you'd have to cross through Turkey and get across the border to Greece, who has installed fences (and probably other impediments). Once in Greece, they do deport, so that's always a risk.

Stepping back, once you go around Syria, you're fairly close to Russia (much closer than Greece). It's also a longer and harder to secure border (the Turkey-Greece border is very, very narrow). Get into Russia, swing to the east to avoid the Ukrainian war, skip past Belarus, Estonia and Latvia because of existing refugee issues and Finland is the next stop.

I think the EU must have that border locked down, because the wikipedia page for the Belarus-EU border crisis shows refugees from Istanbul getting to Belarus via Russia.

The TLDR is that getting into the EU via Russia appears to be a significant route. I'm guessing due to border lockdowns in southern EU countries.
> trying to notice it from interplanetary/interstellar distances

That's the difficult part. "Visually" means different things when dealing with those distances. Often what we get from a whole star system is the equivalent of a few pixels worth of light. That's literally all we have to work with. If we are lucky we might be able to detect a planet orbiting the star if it happens to partially cover the star while we are looking at it. Still, it is surprising the amount of information that astrophysics can get from such a meager amount of data.
This sounds like a perfect use case for a chatbot to summarize the law and identify weird stuff in it, other than the length
> courts ruling on something doesn't just immediately make that "ok."

No. But deciding a court is illegitimate because it rules in a way you don't like or, more likely, don't understand, is immature.

Courts rule on the law. Sometimes the law is bad. Many systems don't have judicial review. (I don't think district courts in Sweden do.) Normalising this view of legitimacy ironically undermines both the rule of law and the democratic principle of protecting minority rights.
Yeah, because he reacted poorly to being cancelled lol. Wasted 48bn to get back at internet trolls.
Sure I should have said "I don't consider it a truck". But that's very clear from my followup "nor do I consider the lightning a truck" that it's my personal opinion about the functionality that is missing, which I go into detail of what's missing in the same post.

It's being very pedantic.
> This is why, in the US, it takes around 28,069-68,160 miles before an EV is actually less polluting than an ICE vehicle.

It's one year for an EV to become equal to an ICE vehicle in total carbon impact.

https://www.google.com/search?q=time+for+an+EV+to+be+carbon+...

Maybe try linking to reputable research and not something produced by an undergraduate student who says stupid shit like "....and families typically sell their cars before then!" ...yeah and where do you think the car goes? Car Heaven? Of course not. The average age of a passenger car in the US is twelve years old.

"Well AKSHUALLLLLLY" comments like yours trying to "gotcha" efforts to improve carbon impact and efficiency are not helping things. Stop being part of the problem, start being part of the solution.
You mentioned CLI. When is that coming and what will it do?
That works in some cases. In others, you escalate a situation that could have been easily defused.
A sincere "sorry you feel that way" is only passive agressive in a culture that prefers emotional gestures like shame and contrition to practical gestures like reciprocity and restitution.

In a culture that inverts those preferences, it's an acknowledgment of a new debt of reciprocity. "I recognize that you're negatively impacted and ask you let me make you whole again"

We're in a bit of a weird and untenable cultural moment right now, where we allow anyone to call themselves a victim and insist that some other admit to an internal feeling of contrition. When that contrition isn't sincerely felt, which is natural in many cases, that's when we end up with both the vacuous and passive agressive "sorry you feel that way" and the equally vacuous and performative public apology.

In a world where we focus more on exrtrinsic actions and reciprocity rather than making demands of each others internal state, both forms of vacuousness go away: people do step on each others feet now and then, as happens, but the stepper helps the stepped find their footing again and both move on with their lives.
Both of my LG Blu-ray drives rip 4K discs as easily as standard 1080p discs.

My workflow is a script that calls MakeMKV's CLI with the settings I use every time. Then I run that through Handbrake to make a reasonable sized file. Just a handful of clicks.

Having a recent-ish (RTX 2070 Super) really helps as the NVenc H264/H265 engine is blazing fast (100+ fps), and is the first hardware encoder I've used that always beats Handbrake/x264 for quality and filesize.
So let's stop using the letter Q for systems related to "Q&A" services because some idiots might associate the Q with another group of idiots who have managed to accomplish nothing of value and most people know are idiots? That's idiotic.