skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right. That's more plausible than blaming tech, which I did.

Judging by the increasingly anti-social driving habits I'm seeing during the day time, this possibility definitely stands out (the worst being a tendency for people to slow down traffic 10-15 MPH under the posted speed only to speed up to 10-15 MPH over when someone attempts to pass them).
That seems like a gimmick and I actually prefer SDR video that is not upscaled. There is something ugly about those AI treated videos. They look fake.
I guess the C version was flagged by defender eventually? Seems to happen at some point with unsigned programs that aren't super popular these days. Using VB6 seems to be a safe bet to end up in defender quarantine. I guess because it was still used for malware a decade ago.
I like Johnny Costa but always found Mr. Rogers himself creepy and never more so than when he was singing.
One figures that wanting to make money would be a sufficient motivation for companies to maintain their equipment. With anything even remotely resembling competent leadership, having the government pay for you to setup infrastructure that provides you with reoccurring revenue is a dream position to be in.

Yet somehow.... here we are.
Ultimately EVs are good, but they are too short sighted. If Cali wants to make real impact, they need to bring back light rail. It is completely wasteful to basically require everyone have a car, because there is no real alternative. This whole EV push is just FUD from car companies to give a partial solution that won't really work in the long run, but keeps making them lots of money.
Chris' post doesn't really give much background info, so here's what's going on here and why it's awesome.

Real-time 3D rendering has historically been based on rasterisation of polygons. This has brought us a long way and has a lot of advantages, but making photorealistic scenes takes a lot of work from the artist. You can scan real objects with photogrammetry and then convert to high poly meshes, but photogrammetry rigs are pro-level tools, and the assets won't render at real time speeds. Unreal 5 introduced Nanite which is a very advanced LoD algorithm and that helps a lot, but again, we seem to be hitting the limits of what can be done with polygon based rendering.

3D Gaussian Splats is a new AI based technique that lets you render in real-time photorealistic 3D scenes that were captured with only a few photos taken using normal cameras. It replaces polygon based rendering with radiance fields.

https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/

3DGS uses several advanced techniques:

1. A 3D point cloud is estimated by using "structure in motion" techniques.

2. The points are turned into "3D gaussians", which are sort of floating blobs of light where each one has a position, opacity and a covariance matrix defined using "spherical harmonics" (no me neither). They're ellipsoids so can be thought of as spheres that are stretched and rotated.

3. Rendering is done via a form of ray-tracing in which the 3D Gaussians are projected to the 2D screen (into "splats"), sorted so transparency works and then rasterized on the fly using custom shaders.

The neural network isn't actually used at rendering time, so GPUs can render the scene nice and fast.

In terms of what it can do the technique might be similar to Unreal's Nanite. Both are designed for static scenes. Whilst 3D Gaussians can be moved around on the fly, so the scene can be changed in principle, none of the existing animation, game engines or artwork packages know what to do without polygons. But this sort of thing could be used to rapidly create VR worlds based on only videos taken from different angles, which seems useful.
I'd say it should be more like, "Trust the science, while also being aware of what model and assumptions drive the conclusion, and which inference the science is supporting vs agnostic on." Doesn't fit as well on a t-shirt though.
Zed developers, if you read this, please get inspired by Cursors "Fix it" button that you can click on any error. It simply starts a new chat with the code context and error message, suggesting possible fixes.

I'm currently learning Rust and this is such a powerup that I honestly wouldn't know how to learn anything without.
Caltech Machine Learning Video Library
> ...possible to recover heat through partition walls and floors while maintaining a steady ventilation flow.

That's as technical as this article gets. I don't think the author understands the ventilation-system design.
You can use a Taipy visual element called table to sort your table, filter it, add styling, add an action when a row is selected, to edit it, to add a row or todelete a row
> But the smallest trucks were put in the car efficiency standards.

I don't think that's exactly true. It's just that fuel standards for light trucks are now defined in terms of the footprint of the vehicle -- the smaller the truck, the higher the fuel standard. Which is, of course, exactly what the automakers wanted: They make more money selling bigger trucks.

I found the light truck CAFE standards online. Notice how simple they were from 2001-2010, and how ridiculous they are since the 2008 change: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...

> Tax gas if you want people to burn less of it.

Change CAFE first, then tax. There's only so much people can do to day-to-day to change their fuel consumption. It really comes down to 1) Where they live 2) Where they work and 3) What they drive. If we're going to raise taxes, we have to start by turning the ship around as far as the available vehicles. Right now the streets are filled with brodozers.
You need to think like a desperate manager. Yes, I know, I know.

The job of a manager is to make good choices and decisions. In the absence of an obvious best choice, they have work backward from both success and failure scenarios, including the political and social impacts.

In the absence of external studies and data, if they make an investment in this area and it turns out not to help, they will be left telling their boss things like "everyone says this is right, not sure why my project didn't work."

But a flimsy fig leaf that comes from outside and smells objective is a perfect CYA tool that allows the manager to take a risk while anticipating the need to manage and contain failure.

Does that describe a healthy dynamic and a smart organization? No, but it's reality at many places.
No system will handle an Euler well. It’s best to recognize them and move them out of the system.
It is astonishing how much money has been doled out to executives at these charging companies, while the company fundamentals have been extremely weak. It is hard to justify compensation packages like that.
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j DROP
sudo ip6tables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP
sudo ip6tables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j DROP

That should do.
Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!
I don't disagree that some cars are worse than necessary, and this probably comes from styling/fashion trends. But across all makes and models, there is a trend driven by changing safety requirements.

The Hondas (and Toyotas) of the 80s had much thinner A-pillars than they do now. Barely enough to hold the weather gasket for the windshield and act as a frame for the front door.

I was in an early 80s Toyota Hi-Lux during a relatively gentle rollover and watched the roof and windshield cave in towards me. I think I was saved by the fiberglass camper shell on the bed, so it only collapsed until the weight of the car was transferred to the hood and the shell. The cab roof got smashed into a linear interpolation of those high points...
Years ago I used a very simple bash script font-end for Duplicity called Duply. It worked very well for the half-dozen years or so I used it.
I don't want to ban you! I just want to hopefully persuade you not to break HN's rules.

Not because it's any sort of moral issue but because the default tendency on the internet is for discussion to degrade, and we're hoping to stave that off (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). The HN guidelines are designed to discourage the sorts of comment that accelerate that decay, and to encourage the sorts of comment that impede it.
That's why we have process like warrants and judicial review. For the law to set appropriate limits and procedure to demonstrate necessity. In practice even this is usually not enough, and too many warrants are court orders are approved.
> So I think there's a lot of work here that needs to be done to make your argument stronger.

> You are giving a very poor retread of 200+ year old German idealism.

You kept putting me down because my ideas don't jibe with your readings. Now you're comparing philosophy with physics.

I am trying stay away from such pedantic bibliographic review. You keep appealing to authority to minimize my contributions. This is why I didn't want to go down this road. Thanks for dragging me.

> your viewpoint is well over 200 years old

Hate to break this to you but the ideas I'm talking about are well over 3000 years old. Kant et al are a cul de sac in this tradition.
It's a kind of factoring-out from police, who are often systemically racist and corrupt. factoring-out responses to mental health crises, reducing the amount of armed response, etc. reduces the danger from police violence. Factoring out evidence handling to a separate agency that is just as motivated to prove innocence as guilt would improve the use of forensics, and reduce bad plea deals and prosecutions.
You could self-host an email on your domain and use that everywhere instead... but then the same could happen with the domain registrar. Or when you plainly forget to renew :(
The benefit as a viewer is you can drive navigation on your own without asking the presenter to go to a certain spot. So the presenter can be discussing a problem or a function, and you can investigate/gather context without interrupting them, among other things.

I personally can't live without it, and am almost annoyed when folks aren't using VSCode/have no way of doing a live share. Screen share sucks.
So excited about this. Been watching it for a while. Thanks for posting it!
Wouldn't help you. Source code without the tools, and environment to build it is useless.

Plus, source code from some random thing from 25 years ago is usually lost. Certainly I don't have source code for a bunch of things I wrote 25 years ago. And for the things I do have, good luck finding a machine that'll read my floppy disks.
Ever seen developers that are frustrated by technical debt and whose business leaders don't seem to care? This study is aimed to help with that.
Depends on who is the current owner of the unsold, rented out units. If it's the developer, the bids were probably far lower than expected but they expect the prices to rebound. In general, developers are really not in the business of rentals. They don't have the financing for it or the capacity for it and they needed to sell to free up financing for the next project. They're not set up to be holding on to assets like rental properties, and so if it's happening either suggests some sort of integration with a property manager or that something has gone wrong.
> I get annoyed by people who say the difference in taste must be in your imagination.

I have a friend who is a supertaster, and I'm probably whatever is the opposite of that, due to lifelong allergies. We amaze each other sometimes when we eat together.
With Neovims headless capabilities, I am hoping for the day every major IDE and editor has first party support as a front-end for Neovim, and then any Neovim plugin just becomes universal across all IDEs and editors. Which... you can make Neovim plugins in almost any language, I've seen bindings for "lesser popular" languages.

I'm not even a vim guy, but if JetBrains finally adds front-end support for Neovim, I might just become a de-facto VIM guy. Instead of emulating vim like they do, they could just literally support Neovim as a back-end. I'm still surprised nobody at JetBrains has put in effort into this.
Well, you're not reassuring me since Starliner cannot get off the ground.
Totally.

They don't need to be expensive though. A Seiko 5 or a swatch mechanical automatic are 100 bucks and capture all this wonder also.
I guess it's not a problem unique to California?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23833337/ev-charging-unre...

The survey also identified the worst place to charge: Miami-Port Saint Lucie-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area, with a 35 percent chargeless visit rate. That compares to a not-as-bad 29 percent rate in the Seattle-Tacoma, Denver-Aurora, and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas.

The least-abhorrent place to charge is the Cleveland-Akron-Canton metro area, with just a 12-percent failure rate amongst those who attempted to charge their EVs.
What would be exactly the threat scenario here? MITM to send a malicious update? Breaking into Tesla servers to upload a malicious update? That could happen, yes, and it can be a valid point, but I honestly think it wouldn't go undetected for a long time. I mean, yes, an attacker can gain access to Tesla network, do some lateral movement, exploit some possible excessive trust on internal software buildchain and plant some sort of rootkit in the car firmware that will contact an external C&C when on wifi to do the next action. And then all cars will go at the highest possible speed against a wall or over a crowded place.

But this starts looking like the famous XKCD comic [1], why not just throw some bombs to achieve the same goal?

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
Same here, for me it is a gimmick without much value over a screen sharing session.
How would you know if it isn't tested? It only matters because it was birth related. You could be a chimera your whole life and not know it.
> The default view of government by businesses and people should be as an adversary.

This is ridiculous. The default view in a parliamentary democracy should be that government is your employee and that its job is to watch out for you. Where your interests collide with those of your fellow citizens, government or judiciary should be mediating and managing, seeking consensus or compromise, ideally with your involvement.

Yes, this is naive. But it's the core function we should be able to rely on; it should be the measure we use to assess the efficacy of our governments. Anything else and you're replicating feudalism or dictatorship.

If you default to government being your adversary, your system is broken and you should be working to fix it rather than giving up and calling it the enemy. Frankly, this labelling of government as the enemy is exactly what allows opportunists to sieze power.
From what I've seen, a lot of people are indeed living a lie, but they are still lonely. The lie just helps to pretend like everything is a-okay.

I will leave you with Sting, Englishman in New York:
"Be yourself, no matter what they say."
Debug symbols increase the binary size and don't really have anything to do with the abstraction level of the language. My understanding is that you also don't really "pay for" the debug symbols at runtime (until you generate a stack trace and need them). There could be some nuance that I'm missing there.
> the Microsoft of now obviously knows of the existence of these shell enhancements, but clearly doesn’t test patches against them at all

Microsoft taking into account this method of modding explorer in its testing would be like asking Apple's design team to take into account the one in a million iPhone user who sticks their phone up their butt. [0] I don't know what it says about Windows or its users that there must be more than one in a million people running this stuff, but still.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbpFKDIaZ0
inside .git
Thank god an innocent person didn't get caught up in this. Imagine getting swabbed with bad technique and then the contamination coming back on you. In fact, that was exactly how they found out-- some man got swabbed and it came back with this woman's DNA.
i've heared about Zed for a long time and it seems promising but as long as it's not on windows/linux it's not for developers.
Ukraine Is Losing the Drone War
If you have to stop 'em once and score twice, you might as well try to win too? Kicking the extra points can only lead to a tie, but going for two affords at least a chance at a win in regulation.
Are there any plans to figure out objective ways to measure productivity and what distinguishes “good devex” from “bad devex”?

I’ve worked at a lot of big tech companies that do surveys about internal tooling and every year it’s rated as a weak spot, across years and companies this seemed like a consistent trend.

And yet everyone had teams dedicated to improving various aspects of devex so it’s unclear if these teams are just improving the wrong things or if productivity really is improving and it’s something else (eg the amount of code debt grows faster than devex improvements or people are asked to go faster than the devex improvements can keep up or the devex is being improved but the size of the survey means not enough people feel it because you optimize smaller subsets of engineering orgs).

That’s another thing to be mindful about large scale and small scale surveys - the latter might be sampling specific teams adopting the tool whereas the former might find there’s no way to make everyone happy and it all turns into a wash.
Yes this is the weird part. Since this activity was always voluntary, I wonder about the real reason for this policy change.
what other agency staffed by whom?
Taking Security at Face Value: Analysis of the Hugging Face Repository
Two years ago, we noticed a trend among SaaS pricing pages.

More teams began to offer a new deployment option for enterprise customers.

Back then, everyone had a different name for this deployment option.

We heard...
Private SaaS
Cloud-prem
Dedicated
Managed Self-hosted
and BYOC to name a few..

Mid last year, we decided to double down on the BYOC terminology into our marketing and many startups are doing the same.

For GTM and Product teams looking to sell #BYOC as a deployment option...

It's become quite clear that customers are resonating with "Bring Your Own Cloud" as the preferred marketing copy to this offering.

Happy Selling!
Dre
You said

> that's probably a false dichotomy, though. a lot of us think that the complex system also delivers the worse outcomes. the great depression didn't happen until after the fed existed, after all.

I pointed out that a bunch of financial crises happened before the Fed existed. I took your point to be that the Fed made things worse.

> so our next question should be, have the business cycles been cured? no, they certainly haven't.

I'm not sure how that could happen at all, without incredible amounts of totalitarianism. Is that what you expect a central bank to do?
Apple accidentally broke my Spotify client
Zed developer here, You can come try it out with us right now if you like: https://zed.dev/channel/zed-283

Though you'll have to sign the CLA first :)
The answer is both. Public transit to reduce the number of car miles needed, and EVs to replace the car miles that remain since the basic structure, zoning, and layout of a lot of homes and businesses in the US is not conducive to public transit replacing all or even most car miles driven.

EVs are also great for all sorts of vehicles. Delivery vans, buses, garbage trucks, and local/regional trucking aren't easily replaceable with rail but will benefit from EVs.

Even if we put huge emphasis on building out public transit, EVs can still be deployed faster. Converting a substantial amount of commuter miles to public transit is a great project but will take many decades.
Exactly, but not everyone is Tiffany's, so an enough motivated attacker can probably pry open your window in a few minutes. Why aren't we all putting Tiffany's like windows and doors?
This is pretty mind boggling. Imagine if 1 out of 8 gas stations had all the pumps broken. There'd be riots! And that's the best case city for EV charging?
What happens when the 10 guilty kill again? Worth it? That's not justice that's a shithole with no cops.
By default, we should offer a choice for levels of security. At least a password, with SMS or 2FA. And if the company makes a few bucks, even more options.
Only supporting grouped taskbar icons is a big inconvenience when actually trying to do work. Instead of clicking directly on the taskbar item which corresponds to the window you want to access it requires that you hover over the icon, then try to pick out the window you want from a very small thumbnail of it. This just adds extra time and unnecessary thought into this process. It's also quite bizarre given that wide monitors are more normal these days with plenty of space to have a long taskbar with many items on it, but instead you only get some short icons in the centre.

This may have been fixed in recent versions where they finally added the ability to change the taskbar grouping in the settings, but I haven't felt the need to test it.

Also the new start menu is a pain in the ass as the quick launch area is just an alphabetic list of applications and/or documents with no ability to group them in any other way. In Windows 10 you can group related applications together and have quick access to "secondary" applications that you might want to use. (I pin "primary" applications to the taskbar and pretty much always have them running anyway). To get to all applications there's another click where as in Windows 10 you just start scrolling as they're just there (maybe that's an option I enabled but it works well).

Those are the two general gripes I have with the new taskbar and start menu in Windows 11. Maybe I'm used to my setup in Windows 10 but I didn't see anything wrong with the way things were from a design perspective. So the change seems kind of arbitrary just to make it look more like OSX rather than from any functional perspective.

One point that I think more technical folks should consider is if we are actively harming our desires to have a functional UI design by disabling telemetry. As that tells the people at Microsoft what features people actually use, and if they only get telemetry from non-power users then they're going to prioritise for them and remove "unused" features that us technical folks use all the time.
I only joined Zed, the company, a week ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but:

I've never really used real-time sharing (tried VS Code's Live mode and other apps) for longer than just 1-2 attempts, but at Zed things are different somehow. Everybody is constantly available in a channel and people just hop in or out. In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others, using Zed's live mode. No video, only audio and sharing code in Zed (no video was weird at first, but now I think I'm starting to get used to it?)

IMHO it's a combination of culture and technology, but when the mix of that is right it really feels game-changing.
I agree, that's also why:

- I don't have a partner or kids, chances are they would kill me for inheritance

- I don't have a job, so that people don't want to kill me to get it

- I don't own any physical object, and live in the woods, don't want to be killed for robbery

Small chance, but why deliberately manifest against yourself?
Ok I made room for changing British food by dropping the hippy guru bits. Is it better now?

(Re your first paragraph - I didn't understand, sorry. If it still matters, maybe explain a bit further and I'll take another look.)