skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that wasn’t my intention. I’m just saying for me, my anxiety was a function of self acceptance and how I approached conversations. If that doesn’t resonate with you then fair enough, everyone’s anxiety is going to be different.
My understanding is that it's quite hard to make convex objects with radiance fields, right? For example the furniture in OP would be quite problematic.

We can create radiance fields with photogrammetry, but IMO we need much better algorithms for transforming these into high quality triangle meshes that are usable in lower triangle budget media like games.
Perhaps you misinterpreted my comments, $7/hour for calls where the money is used to provide better meals implies that without additional funding the meals would not be at an acceptable level.
So all that money can go to a billionaire or executives instead?

Those people, the ones running the dealerships and the ones with the union jobs. They're the ones buying the cars.

I think the key here were big management blunders like Dieselgate etc. Other car companies that use these same models are doing fine.
I was easily able to set up a PeerTube instance for mostly internal use among my friends with Docker. I don't remember how long it took, but I don't think I've encountered many issues. Adding login via our existing LDAP server was super easy, too.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134038 - July 2022 (139 comments)

An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217291 - Nov 2020 (211 comments)
> no issues raised in PRs by senior engineers

Wat? Like serious issues, or minor things that can be improved? Because it's very rare in my place of work that there are no comments on a 'PR'. Something can always be improved.
#LearningInPublic strikes again! I love you swyx!
I believe English is actually one of the only ones where cult has a negative connotation, and where sect does not. French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Russian - all of these use "cult" to mean any religious group, even in official language ("the Catholic cult"), and all use "sect" to mean "a fringe, possibly dangerous, religious or quasi-religious group" ("the members of that sect that poisoned themselves").
It's Mastercard in Japan

https://www.costco.co.jp/GlobalCard
It's Still Funny That 1k People Gave Tesla $250k for a Roadster Six Years Ago
Regarding documentation of physical objects... I am blind. For some time in my life, I was able to remember the layout of various devices in my household. I mean, which button does what, and which jack is for what... But after a while, and especially when I started to pick up a eurorack habit, I realized I need to document front/back panels of devices I don't use on a daily basis regularily. All the layout tools I looked at were totally useless to me, since they assume (understandably) that drawing graphics is the way to go. However, as a Braille user, I'd much rather prefer something that can output ASCII in such a way that the 2D relations between items is at least vaguely preserved. Also, it would be great if the data entered were somehow searchable. I never found anything remotely resembling what I need, so I went for hand-crafted .txt files for now. It works, but it is unsatisfactory. I'd much rather specify the position and function of panel items in some kind of DSL, and have the necessary 2d layout ASCII diagrams and legend generated automatically. Does anyone know of some tools I might have missed whiich could help with this? I was tempted to invent my own DSL, but that felt like reinventing some wheel that must be lying around somewhere...
Amex’s business proposition to sellers is “we charge high fees but a lot of rich people have Amex so you (the seller) should suck it up and accept us anyway”

Sure that works if you’re selling perfume or handbags, but if you’re a family restaurant then rich people and regular people eat the same quantity of food, your margins are low, why accept it?

Moreover Amex is pretty rare outside of certain markets. If only foreigners use Amex, and your business is not catered to foreigners, then you probably aren’t going to support it or in some cases even know what the hell it is.
> if the stack is already pretty diverse, needs a lot of separate teams, hiring is hard, coordinating deployments is hard, etc, then it makes sense.

So what you are saying is that microservices are not a solution to a technical problem but a solution to organizational problems?
Alt+Shift+Mouse in VS Code
> synthetic fuels

These exports would be competitive within only a short shipping radius. North Africa is closer to Europe; China has its interior; on the top-10 list I only see India, Pakistan and possibly Turkey [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_imp...
Look at your list of arguments.

AIPAC, the ADL and 1948 Britain (?) are not Israeli. We agree with some of what they do. The Israeli public is VERY conflicted about Netanyahu. It's like saying that since Trump got elected, America is a racist misogynistic country.

I am Israeli. I want to live without fear of being gunned down in my house or at a rave at 6 AM like the 1200 people who died on October 7th. I want to live without fear of a rocket fired from Gaza exploding on my house.

Am I allowed that right? If I am, pray tell, how do we get from October 7th to there?
One of the things I struggled with in Rust’s portable_simd is that I think fadd_fast and simd intrinsics don’t mix well. This makes writing dot products only ok, rather than really easy. Here’s (one) reference: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/suggestion-ffastmath-intri...
You can probably build an 80% Uber or Twitter simply. It’s the 20% that’s the rub. Did you know the Uber mobile app has thousands of native screens, for example? [1] it’s common to believe that a small simple version is the same as the scaled version but that’s rarely the case.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
Real vs. Fake Trends
...a handful of trillionaire oligarchs fused together into one cyberdemon, who will enforce their new post-human status

The rest of the plot is good.
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> I mean people in a free and fair healthy society cannot be radicalized by information. It can only happen when bad government and other organic social forces (which government could regulate with better policy) cause a material decline in people’s living circumstances.

That's just not true, and there are radical minds in every country on the planet. The young, uneducated, mentally ill, disabled, or other vulnerably impressionable minds are absolutely capable of being radicalized by falsehoods that target their insecurities or vulnerabilities.

> Censorship only accelerates the decline by further reducing the legitimacy of the government.

The government doesn't have to do the censoring. In the age of centralized media, media outlets "self-censored" (e.g. editing and fact checking), and were significantly more trusted by the public than any media outlets are today. The lost of trust in today's world is squarely to blame on social media platforms, who republish literal falsehoods and throw their hands up and say "section 230!" as they cash their ad checks. 100 years from now, this will be seen as the defining moral hazard of this century.
But why buy a house if younger going to tear everything down or change it? Why not buy something that you already like? Why not accept that tearing down and rebuilding is expensive, for you and for the planet? Why not just accept “good enough”?
This has been my approach to most media. I don't watch movie trailers. I just trust recommendations and go in blind.

With books I'll only get the roughest idea of what they're about and start reading. This has worked really well for fiction, but not so well with non-fiction. There is a lot of really tedious non-fiction out there.

I'm currently enjoying The Overstory. In the non-fiction category I'll recommend anything by Bill Bryson.
Marriage insurance! Pays out in case of breakup. No perverse incentives!

It would be an awesome market though. I wonder if you could reasonably price the risk with a large enough pool.

Tangentially, I pine for the sci-fi world where I could have signed a five year marriage instead of an indeterminate-term one. At 18 I was barely smart enough to avoid the college debt trap. At 23...
Is there any published research of controlled trials?

> mostly rididulously healthy and relative rich and well informed humans older than 40

That reads like promotion. Also, how is wealth implicated here?
I think people would do far more interesting things than that.
There's also shifting global factors that look to be permanent. The US' ability to export its inflation, as well as guaranteed dollar supremacy have played a major role in the general stability of our economy. Now you have a multipolar world imperiling dollar supremacy, and China becoming the world's largest consumer economy imperiling the ability to export our inflation.

It's so weird. Life went from so boring and predictable to 'may you live in interesting times' [1] in like 10 years. 2013 feels like a century ago, not a decade. In some ways it makes one have some degree of empathy for what those living around the turn of the 20th century might have felt. There's no way they could have known the ride they were about to step onto, especially as they started off living through the advent of the automobile, dramatic improvements in labor conditions, etc..

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...
Sorry, could you translate into Italian, the website is under construction and the URL will be org
Um... You think conservatives don't want an effective government? That's bizarre. They most certainly do. Their definition differs from yours, but is just as valid.

Anyway: the fundamental issue here us the huge mass of enforceable regulations that (a) have never been seen by a legislator, and (b) will be enforced by the same agency that created them.

How can you expect citizens to follow regulations, when these are so extensive that no one can possibly ever read them all? That is the real issue underlying these regulatory enforcement actions.
OPVs typically divert the water back into the water tank of the machine. That's at least how it worked in my machine. The only machine that immediately comes to mind that wastes water like that is the GS3 MP from LA Marzocco for $7,500. The GS3 uses a valve at the group head, after the boiler, rather than an OPV which is normally before the boiler.
> If you are in the business of making feather hats, and suddenly feather hats go out of style because of shifts in market demand, how can you fire the business leader?

Were you a c-suite at Kodak or something? "There was nothing we could do after people didn't want to shoot photos on film anymore" meanwhile Fujifilm pivoting hard into chemical materials, makeup, medical etc etc (although ironically due to the meteoric rise of Instax, their highest income is once again consumer photo film...)

You fire the business leader because he didn't see the writing on the wall and expand into down comforters, other styles of hats, etc etc.
Therapy, meditation, journaling, and (not verifiable but think it played a part) microdosing.
"My mistake that seemed to potentially cost up to $500M, but then it turned out fine" would be more accurate. While a more appropriate title would be something akin to "learning from mistakes" or "a Mars rover testing scare".
I think there are a great many prophets and messengers throughout history that preached polytheism of one kind or another. There is even one prophet who preached that no gods exist, or at least that they are unimprotsnt to the struggle for a good life - Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.
Firing somebody for a simple mistake with grave consequences doesn't make your organization stronger. There will be plenty of better examples to make.
Sure. That’s called “paying a living wage”, it was always an option.

Just advertise the prices with the fees included.

That’s the rub, restaurant owners want to advertise one price and then actually charge a bunch more once they know people are committed. And that’s something that the US is really bad about in general - sales tax is handled similarly poorly.
You certainly seem convinced but we’ll never actually know since the Fed did its job of keeping Congress from doing anything at all.
mastercard in canada too
Alt+Mouse1 in VS Code
It’s almost like a weird echo of Augustine’s City of God
> The dam—which currently is held in place by the standards of news organizations and by law-enforcement organizations who, for understandable reasons, have tightly guarded these crime-scene photos—will inevitably break.

Read between the lines: “We used to control the types of dead children we wanted you to see. But the darned social media is ruining it for us. Now you might see some dead children you weren’t supposed to”
Rights aren’t simply the absence of enforcement. The fact that threats against the president aren’t prosecuted doesn’t make those threats protected 1A speech.
It's not advice, it's a map. A lot can change in tech. in three years.
> CIFAR-10 and STL-10

> resized to 224x224

> susceptible to DCT compression

cifar-10 and stl-10 images are 32x32 and 96x96.. isn’t this actually a demonstration of locating where the textual encoding decision boundary is most fragile when the test image distribution is much lower resolution? or am i misunderstanding what the integrated gradients method uncovers? there’s a lot less ‘global’ semantic information to uncover and do inference upon when there’s a lot less ‘globe’ (visual information) to begin with, right?
You seem to imply that you know better than the CEO if Rails is a good fit both from product and cost perspective. Unless you are the CFO or have inside information I will be skeptical of the idea that I - an outsider of Shopify - would know better than them what would works best for them in terms of tech stack and costs savings.

Even if I would be a consultant for them I will first try to understand the current situation and then imply a native image will have half the total cost is a good solution. What if reducing the hosting costs will actually damage their speed of pivoting and adapting to changes?
Not just google scale needs, but google-specific needs, regardless of scale. Having your entire company in a monorepo is something that Google went all in on and makes work, but it’s arguably not really necessary, even at Google scale.
It's not voluntary.

Its societal pressures. Our society has changed fundamentally, look at any graph, income inequality, household earning power, household debt, etc.

You can't blame animals who go extinct due to deforestation and habitat loss and say "it's sad they chose to not reproduce"
CenturyLink is doing its best to get out of all calling business, as far as I can tell. They want to be doing higher value networking.
> that's why I linked to Wikipedia as well

Which completely contradicts what you claimed.
Firing people for incidental mistakes instead of overall bad performance is pretty shitty management.
> I never totally did

It is my understanding that this probably won't be reached for many anyway. After having gone to therapy for 2 years we considered me free from social anxiety. But there are still situations I try to evade or when I blush. But my quality of life skyrocketed and I'm 95% free of symptoms. Your core beliefs won't just go away, you're child hood trauma as well. It's engrained and I think we have to learn to live with it.
If you think having kids is the best thing that ever happened to you, that's fine, but it is your opinion. Nothing else.

What is sad to me is people like you who think they got it all figured it out because you decided to procreate. Condescending much?
Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger
https://archive.ph/ZbXcv
how about exercise?
That's exactly what my wife said too, the limoo shirin is only sweet just after peeling/juicing and turns bitter fast. I looked it up and looks very similar to the "standard" yellow lemons we get in Europe, mostly grown in Spain and Italy. However she's adamant that they don't taste the same
If only coders who held CEOs to that kind of standard held themselves to the same standard when bugs are found in their code. Are you just "milking the business" when you don't compensate it for the cost of remedying the bugs you wrote? And the answer is, of course, yes, you and the CEO are and any reasonable excuse you could make applies to the CEO as well.
Pst; all of tech is floated by government. It wants to keep a pipeline of engineers around.

IBM refused to risk its old tube business on transistors so Uncle Sam paid for it, gifted tech to IBM.

Internet was a government defense project.

Capitalism is just people. The euphemism is getting too deep. We need waders.
Why we're going with EV's over hybrids is beyond me. Build up the battery and charging stations on hybrids to the point they are really just EV's with a backup. It's more than sticker for me. I'd be afraid of going to my in-laws and running out of juice half way there, only to be stranded.

ICE's make me feel safe, that's what it boils down to. Knowing that the grid can't support wide-spread EV adoption isn't a small thing. Rolling brown-outs don't make me think electric wins the day.
See: casino capitalism, the takeover of speculative activities as dominant in the dynamics of money and wealth. Hard work and dedication is replaced by luck potentiated by diversification of investment portfolios. The analogy isn't perfect, since the system as a whole literally creates money so that you're actually playing on the house's side. But it gets at how the social, economic, and political forces drove us to where we are now.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1986-1...
They're talking about "distributed" as in a system of services communicating, rather than just copies of the same monolith across multiple instances. The former adds communications and synchronisation over heads and complexities of failover for every extra service introduced
Sachin Dev Duggal's Builder.ai Soars Up Valuation by 1.8X as QIA Invests $250M
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I hate them for that.
It's winter time now, so I have my car heater blower on all the time. Whenever I start smelling diesel in my car, a TDI engine is in front of me.
Yes I would expect that from a 3d engine that I pay a license fee towards, but I also expect the developer to performance test and fix some of these things before release
Basically it is being used as any other language out there. Nothing more glamorous than what existing languages are used for.
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
A friend once had to remotely do an OS update of a banking system. Being cautious, he thought he'd back up some central files, just in case and went "mv libc.so old_libc.so". Had to call some guy in that town to throw in the Solaris CD on prem at 2:30 in the morning...
Is that really tantamount to cutting off someone's source of income and livelihood?
From a European perspective this is such an insane take. As if you could compare the neo-fascist MAGA GOP with the mostly centrist democrats.

Do you believe the GOP agenda of roling back civil liberties will stop at Roe vs. Wade?
Mark Cuban working on $3.5B sale of Dallas Mavericks to Sands casino family
This is the tragic irony of the whole thing: that to have any influence you must play the game, but playing the game mostly limits your choices to those which encourage and strengthen the conditions in which the game remains stable.

It's really quite robust as a self-organizing system. It's hard to see a way out of this local minimum without some major, sudden, and total change in the social and cultural attitudes of the people involved.
I'm so incredibly conflicted about whether to keep investing time and energy and hope around Matrix. I normally have good tech intuition and matrix is in this weird spot. I think the vision and direction and attitudes are amazing but they keep fking up badly.

I'm embarrassed at the thought that I would "soon" soft nudge my friends and family to matrix, years ago. With the state of synapse, matrix.org, and the project in general, I wouldn't consider trying that for another 12-18 months. Or more.

This current news just gives me more pause about leadership and vision. This is a huge "oopsie" to put it nicely. It feels like a massive loss for matrix (bad first impressions, negative impact on network effects, etc) and will undoubtedly be something that matrix detractors will point to for years.

I normally keep quiet about this and just huff more copium because I WANT matrix to succeed, but I wish using Element and matrix as it exists didn't make me feel so ... Idk. Normally by now a tech project with this transcripts hits a steady state but man, the protocol is lacking, element web is just passable at the most generous. Element on Android, I won't even speak about, refer to where I want element to succeed.

To balance this out - Element x has been pleasantly satisfying lately. I'm curious if the team is deliberately taking a different strategy. New Element is working on basically the intersection of what I think are going to be foundational future "stuff" but seem almost to eager. Meanwhile element x is missing for feature but is, still after months of using it, "blazingly fast".
Will a PS1 handheld FPGA possible in the near future?
"Lower triangle budget media" is what I wonder if its still a valid problem. Modern game engines coupled with modern hardware can already render insane number of triangles. It feels like the problem is rather in engines not handling LOD correctly (see city skylines 2), although stuff like UE5 nanite seems to have taken the right path here.

I suppose though there is a case for AI models for example doing what nanite does entirely algorithmically and research like this paper may come in handy there.
They used to make affordable cars like their nameplate implied (People's Cars) but these days you have to go Japanese, Korean, Chinese of heaven forbid French if you want anything affordable.

There is no city cars in their lineup - the Polo is now looks like and priced like a Golf from a few years back and the Up got canned.
A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued
https://archive.ph/L5XSB
Doom guy the rich I guess?