skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having used both Google's and OpenAI's models, the kind of issue they have are different. Google's models are superior or at least on par in knowledge. It's the instruction following and understanding where OpenAI is significantly better. I don't think pretraining data is the reason of this.
Thank you so much for open sourcing this!

I've started a project to initialize each pixel in an image into a mesh of GS. I used a depth map to unproject them into space.

I've been very curious what a few training iterations would do to optimize my scenes. The original 3DGS implementation is not accessible on my hardware at the moment! I really look forward to your training implementation!
Except as AMD is showing you can have both and not be at the mercy of hoping your OS's scheduler is able to consistently figure out what to do.
Veterinary care choices are simultaneously shrinking and skyrocketing in price.
https://stirfriedpixels.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/on-homemade...
So on a cloudy day, nothing would work right?
You can't.

Skyhook basically owns triangulation of rf. It's absurd.
Consider whether the alternative to a car wash being built is leaving the land idle or some higher-value business using it. Part of the problem is that failed businesses often leave a durable footprint - if your car wash fails, in many places it’s just going to sit idle while the land owner tries to find another car wash or someone with enough budget to demolish the old buildings and clean up any dumped chemicals. It probably will happen unless the local economy has completely cratered but it might take a decade and in the meantime it’s just sitting there dragging down the value of adjacent properties.
A look at terminal emulators, part 2 (2018)
One would also bet that some discarded “allies” from the Cold War operating from a cave in Afghanistan couldn’t pull off a surprise attack on American soil, killing thousands. And yet they did.

For the record, that attack did include an aircraft slamming into the pentagon itself.

Bloated intel agencies aren’t run by gods, they’re run by bureaucrats. They have, and will, fail.
subarus are popular in cold places for obvious reasons, EVs are not.
Somehow the idea of perpetually paying property taxes and land value taxes doesn't sound appealing to me, especially since businesses already pay taxes. I don't understand the argument of designing a system to hurt a specific business type such as low value businesses. If there's a loophole such as lack of sales tax for car washes, fix that, but let the playing field remain even. If desirable high value businesses aren't able to compete with car washes, isn't that the market doing it's thing? Introducing additional property and land value taxes might discourage low value businesses, but what are the 2nd and 3rd order effects of such a change?
Where does the money go? Why are we spending trillions on countless and unnecessary wars? Why does it cost $100B to build high speed rail between SF and LA? Why does it cost $1M to outfit a simple intersection with 4 traffic lights? Why are we spending $4.5T a year on non-functional “healthcare”? Why is it that our politicians get cushy “do nothing” sinecures after they leave “public service”? Etc, etc, etc. Until you start asking these questions yourself you won’t see the world for what it really is.
> From using drones with mounted guns to this, technology is being abused to carry out this vicious moment in history that tech has ignored LOUDLY.

The silence, when not outright complicity in the tech sector reminds me of this holocaust quote:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller (source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists )

As Aaron Bushnell said, many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?”
The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now. Anyone who shrugs to what is happening in Gaza ghetto now also would shrug witnessing what happened in Warsaw ghetto.
[Off topic] I'm unable to tell if this was written by a human or was generated by LLM (or a mix of both).

So many words.

If this was infact written by a human, I didn't mean any offense.
Higher input latency typically results in more mistakes while typing. The lower you can get it, the better.
Do I need my phone?
Fast feedback loops aid accuracy.
I don’t know what you’re trying to prove here.

This is totally different tech and a totally different video.

It’s pretty easy to create photorealistic work in blender when you have high resolution textures and photogrammetry of what you’re reproducing, I’d challenge you to find similar textures of planets or every building in New York City.

The video authors focus seems to be mostly on the shaders and volumetrics used for the large scale “simulations” not on making insanely high fidelity assets for the speaker or etc.

It’s also worth noting that the most jenky thing by far in this video is the animations/facial simulations which are not even consistently solved in billion dollar productions yet, let alone one guy
Original study: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04122716

I only skimmed the study, but at a glance, the study seems fine, if a bit unremarkable, but the article reporting the study seems a bit confused.

1. The study doesn't study Ozempic (Semaglutide), it studies Liraglutide. Why is the article titled "Life after Ozempic"?

2. Okay, so some patients stopped taking a weight loss drug and stopped exercising, and gained weight. That's pretty much exactly what you'd expect, yet the article seems to be presenting this as if it's a problem with Liraglutide. "Medicine doesn't work when you don't take it" is a bizarre criticism.
Interestingly coincidental timing with Jonathan Hoefler posting about a trick to compress glyph size by omitting a block and let the eye complete it ... OK, it's taller but I think it looks quite pretty: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4n2BfFrKwH/?img_index=1
Isn't fiscal and monetary policy guided by recommendations from economists?
You can probably screw with a lot of places by strapping a solar powered 2.4ghz radio transmitter to a bunch of birds and letting them roam around. Actually it doesn't even need to be solar powered if it could be low-power enough, just enough battery for a couple of weeks of intermittent signal.
What if you don't truncate? I fell like it might still be OK.
Land value tax is turning out to be this year’s universal basic income.
They do do retail: https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/

Shipped a SYS-531A-IL workstation in less than a week including a weekend as my latest workstation configured with my chosen, albeit from a limited selection of memory, good CPUs and NVME and SATA drives (enterprise options for all of those), all properly kept cool per lm-sensors and smartmontools. I used their live chat to quickly get a couple of answers, it was packed well, and in theory for a reasonable up front cost they'll cross ship a replacement for the next 5 years.

When Mr. Rsync.net was composing his message today I was adjusting my scripts to do their nightly backup to his service that uses their servers.

For a couple of decades have bought a bunch of their motherboards through resellers for myself and family, and built some rack mount systems for a friend bought I forget from where with excellent results. The current swapping of hardware due to the above purchase took down a system that had been in service for a dozen years.
Do you work for a lead mining company or something? We have better materials for nearly every use of lead which don’t cause any sort of poisoning. Why even take the risk?
Not sure, but I see this ...

I simplified the SQL a little bit - I don't think it's necessary to have two timestamps and cluster on one of them. The other timestamp is not correlated, so the access through that index will be random anyway. And I used 10M rows only.

create unlogged table foo (
id int primary key generated by default as identity,
organization_id int,
created_at timestamptz
);

insert into foo (id, organization_id, created_at)
select
i, floor(random()*10),
timestamp '2010-01-01' + random()*(timestamp '2020-01-01' - timestamp '2010-01-01')
from generate_series(1, 1e7) s(i);

insert into foo (id, organization_id, created_at)
select
1e7 + i, 10,
timestamp '2020-01-01' + random()*(timestamp '2021-01-01' - timestamp '2020-01-01')
from generate_series(1, 100000) s(i);

-- see the timestamp range for each org
select organization_id, min(created_at), max(created_at) from foo group by 1 order by 1;

create index on foo (created_at);

vacuum analyze;
checkpoint;

set max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 0;

explain analyze select * from foo where organization_id = 1 order by created_at limit 10;
explain analyze select * from foo where organization_id = 10 order by created_at limit 10;

For me, this produces:

QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=0.43..5.62 rows=10 width=16) (actual time=0.072..0.378 rows=10 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using foo_created_at_idx on foo (cost=0.43..505826.61 rows=975331 width=16) (actual time=0.071..0.375 rows=10 loops=1)
Filter: (organization_id = 1)
Rows Removed by Filter: 76
Planning Time: 0.040 ms
Execution Time: 0.390 ms
(6 rows)

QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=0.43..43.61 rows=10 width=16) (actual time=30316.079..30316.117 rows=10 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using foo_created_at_idx on foo (cost=0.43..505826.61 rows=117161 width=16) (actual time=30316.078..30316.114 rows=10 loops=1)
Filter: (organization_id = 10)
Rows Removed by Filter: 10000000
Planning Time: 0.041 ms
Execution Time: 30316.136 ms
(6 rows)

So perhaps there's something "wrong" with your data, because there's no "Filter" or "Rows Removed by Filter" in your query plans.
I think this is a positive step. Most of the time when online discussion about self-checkout theft would come up, there would be an uncomfortably larg number of people justifying their theft as "payment for doing a cashier's job". Basically "if you don't want me to steal, then hire someone to watch me".

Also it was inconvenient when I had about 30 items and a kid in the cart to do self-checkout.
This is like old.reddit.com/r/onlyfans

I love it when I click something thats completely unexpected.
Hawking Radiation Calculator (2016)
Ours turned into a subscription service.
"Whinge" is just a plain old misspelling of "Whine," nothing more or less. We don't need "Whinge" to become a word; we already have "Whine."
Reasons:

- The zero interest economy ended due to dollar losing its uncontested foreign exchange currency position.

- Now neither Fed nor private banks can print dollars and lend them with low or zero interest to constantly infuse the economy with money.

- Fed raised interest rates to stem inflation and also (in their words) to bring down wages.

- This caused the cash-awash economy that rode on the stock market and the inflated values of stocks and startups valued over 'growth' and 'potential future revenue' to end.

- Capital started avoiding the earlier paradigm of dunking endless money on startups and stock market and started going for bonds with high interest rates.

- Hundreds of overvalued startups and companies with over-bloated stock valuations started doing layoffs to shore up the falling stock prices.

- Copycat layoffs cascaded - MBAs pushed the boards to do what everyone else was doing - monkey see, monkey do.

- ~450,000 highly qualified, educated, experienced individuals were laid off to make majority shareholders happy, at the risk of US tech sector losing its steam - shareholder comes first, everyone including the society can go to hell

Disastrous trend for both US tech industry, the US society and its prospects in general. But hey - the majority investors and investment funds will be bloating their unusable hoards of numeric wealth even more...
Wifi was somewhat later but yes, also lots of fun things to explore!
> Even the military budget is mostly payroll or operations (only 18% is procurement going to defense contractors)

Not in a privatized defense environment where things are marked up 4000%. Yeah, you read that right.
Have they actually increased though or just replacing the “laser wash” that almost every gas station uses to have and everyone thought was crappy. I see those mostly boarded up as out of service now. I definitely don’t see as many full service options as I used to but undocumented workers in Texas are commanding the most pay they’ve ever been able to the last decade or so.
> Is there a clear way to guard this system from building higher and higher economic centers

Sorry, is this a bad thing?

On the social side: In the current system, poor people are forced to live in ghettos and spend 2 hours a day on a round-trip commute. It's too expensive to live near their work. If we had a land tax, the rich enclaves near the city are now financially incentivized to open up their public schools and areas to poor(er) people by building vertically. The current incentives point in the opposite direction.

On the environment side: We will have less sprawl, and by extension less environmental damage. It requires less concrete, less energy, less roads, less driving, less shops, less train lines, etc, to serve a dense area, on a per-capita basis. You are however correct that natural reserves are a public good, technically speaking, and an efficient land tax system will need to account for public goods in its implementation. This is an important implementation detail that I'd defer to economists.

> Related to that, what's the solution for infrastructure and resource requirements?

Use the revenue from the tax to build infrastructure. Obviously it can't be an overnight thing, but we can do it over a decade-like time horizon.
As a home consumer though why would I care about power consumption. What is that like a few extra dollars in power per month?
I thought it was odd to see so many pop up in my small town. They're really "bling" and damage the small town peaceful look. It's really an eye-sore and wasted space.

My car washing consists of occasional use of the gas station scrubber.
https://sfist.com/2023/12/22/sure-enough-shoplifting-was-not...

Edit: this one from further down the thread too: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/briefing/shoplifting-data...

For the first point, I usually assume the checkouts are run by third party vendors and charge a fee for the automated systems. I was saying that perhaps those third parties have started to raise prices for the operation of the checkout machines because it’s harder to find cheap labor, so now that corpos have gone all in on automated jobs they’re in a hard place. Maybe not, but I wasn’t saying the checked out item prices were being changed, that’d be stupid.
> Literally everyone (except apparently you) is stealing from these retailers

I guess that's why I can't have nice things. What really bothers me is people who scam insurance and then boast to me about it as if I'm gonna tap them on the back for "sticking it to the man" when they're stealing money away from me by causing my insurance primes to increase but are too stupid to realize it.
An elegant weapon for a more civilized age without the C language legacy.
You're absolutely right. I don't know what I was thinking.
> The real business of car washes is real estate.

Is there any evidence of this? Companies like Mister Carwash lease nearly all their properties and when they purchase plots seem to alway try to do a sale and lease. Their latest results claim they run 436 sites and lease 427:

https://ir.mistercarwash.com/news-events/press-releases/deta...
> Well, the gravity alone definitely affects us, so also our personality.

You're talking absolute micro-units of G force difference. Within a margin of error of most sensors. Orders of magnitude lower than we can detect as humans physically.

And even if we were not, how is there an obvious correlation between these two?

This is the exact sort of pseudo-scientific nonsense that's being spewed everywhere these days.
Questions to ask your VPN Service provider
https://web.archive.org/web/20240318003335/https://theinterc...
In my experience, for products that aren't medical devices, fighter jets, etc. The rule of thumb is 30-40%. 30-40% of the final cost to the customer is what you should be shooting to have your COGS leaving your factory.
If it was too expensive the time to say something isn't after a lifetime of cashing insurance premium checks.
We have those, but we call them GPUs.

E cores are meant to make a much milder tradeoff of performance and features than would be required to jam that many computing units into that area.
>it could also be that China is attempting to further agitate political divides

One thing that always seems to be a given, and never challenged (in this narrative) is that China is "boosting" pro-palestine content. However, it seems to me that TikTok is working neutrally, "as designed", and that pro-palestine content is actually popular among TikTok's demographic. China isn't boosting pro-palestine content anymore than they do Love is Blind.

I say this because Meta has been accused by the Human Rights Watch[1] of censoring palestine content, and banning TikTok here has subtle big brother vibes here. ByteDance may not "get with the program" and that spells trouble for American soft-power. It's interesting to frame American censorship this way; it's not that America is "censoring" anything, it's that $COUNTRY is "boosting" $CONTENT.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
I've wondered if the Atari 2600 was named such in reference to that, and online searches seem to confirm that it was.
Without nearly 30 millions Russian dead in WW2 they would never won
Despite all those who criticize it; Crypto. Its literally made for this purpose. You put it on the blockchain and it cannot be taken away without compromising the integrity of the chain. And even if it is done, it has to be done by forking, which would mean that the original fork would still have your content. It can be accessed anytime by using the correct client and having a copy of the chain.
This reads very similar to the Your post advocates a () approach from the early 2000s.

https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

In action:

https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=121712&cid=10244451
That really is inspirational.

I would say whether you are religious or not, it takes a great deal of faith to push yourself in that direction, even if most never get close to their goal.
What's even hilarious is that those who push this ban are the same people who sanctioned everyone and their dog with the Ukraine war and caused the dollar to lose its foreign exchange currency status. Now they think that by banning TikTok, the content they dont like will go away. Because other networks or proxies dont exist...
The data does not back up this claim, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/briefing/shoplifting-data...
Awesome.

Interesting, I just did a search for 8125GS-TNMR2 on that link, and nothing came up.
What’s the evidence other than from corpo press releases? They haven’t shown numbers or evidence that’s the real reason, and you can’t trust a corpo to tell the whole truth.
PRISM is just NSA's management systems for sending lawful (kinda) information requests for specific accounts under FISA act to the companies. If data is not leaving your device (e.g not synced into iCloud) then they can't get it.

Also if you opt-in for apple's advanced data encryption[0] they can't even get that because your data is fully e2e encrypted and the key is only stored on your phone. Which is probably why FBI had to sue Apple to get data on Bernardino terries and then worked around by hacking into their devices. Show me another big tech company that does this.

[0] - https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
Honestly, none of those look like meaningful competitors at the moment.
Why didn’t they just buy off the shelf rockhip? Those are affordable, have way better Linux support, similar cpu perf and an actual pcie lane so you can have a real nvme :/
It would have been better for a business that provides more societal value to have been built.
Hey, speak for yourself!
Remote SSH is really the killer feature. It's like adding a GUI on top of the remotest machines. I've tried something like IntelliJ remote but it's much more unstable especially with lower internet bandwidth or RAM.
How hard would it be for an open source group to fine tune this into a chatbot?
When the cache is filled up then they're pretty much tied.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0oALfgsyOg4

Excluding the massive power difference...
I'm 100% convinced they also coat the car with something that is dust attracting.
Garbage. Trump's second term will "fix" this.

Because they're not really selling "news" in the first place . . .
How does your website generate revenue? I'm assuming it more of a online service platform for new immigrants rather than a immigration blog or guide?
This undermines my understanding of gravity, gravity is really fickle then as even this article says Mars is too small for the results

I think the article exaggerates the correlation as causation

until we can absolutely model this repeatedly, Martian presence is not the only answer as the article suggests
With nix, you just have to be careful not to do anything non deterministic to get a deterministic build. With docker build, you have to specifically design a deterministic build yourself. It’s easier to just not use inputs that change than to design a new build that’s perfectly deterministic.
> There are dozens of names on this list, some of these martyrs may even leave behind accounts here on HN.

Early in the current Gaza siege, a few months ago, IIRC, there was a Palestinian programmer taking part on the discussions here on HN. I don't see her posting here anymore. Hope she is still alive.
The US army really doesn’t use enough cheap, small drones. All the drones we use are large and expensive.
Also on this, it looks like Brave's "copy clean link"[0] doesn't work on this particular URL. I wonder why.

[0] https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/9982188779405-Wh...
Not the GP, but for archiving, you want to know that you'll be able to decode the files well into the future. If you adopt a format that's not well accepted and the code base gets dropped and not maintained so that in the future it is no longer able to be run on modern gear, your archive is worthless.

As a counter, J2K has been well established by the professional market even if your mom doesn't know anything about what it is. It has been standardized by the ISO, so it's not something that will be forgotten about. It's a good tool for the right job. It's also true that not all jobs will be the right ones for that tool
Why is the 7800X3D so much faster in that benchmark than 7950X3D? The 7950X3D seems to boost on paper to even higher frequency. Is the cache different per core?
XAI released Grok-1 and forked Qdrant