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Ghostty

I’m really interested in Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of Hashi Corp), terminal app he’s developing called Ghostty.

His latest blog post on it, also related to latency & benchmarks comparable to Alacritty.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-006

For those interested in the tech, he’s developing it with Zig, uses SIMD extensively, and it’s cross platform. Can’t wait for him to launch it.
Great project, it's nice to see so many people are building stuff with Gaussian Splatting.

Just the other day I went through the whole list of known viewers on MrNeRF's awesome 3DGS resources, to find one that runs on a MacBook. I'm working on compressing 3D scenes by sorting Gaussians into 2D grids [0], and I wanted a native viewer that I could for experiments on the go.. perhaps as an alternative backend to the CUDA one in my colleague's exploratory Python viewer [1].

VulkanSplatting was the only one I could get to compile and run on my Intel MacBook. Unfortunately the feeble Intel GPU isn't able to display even the Lego scene at an interactive framerate. Do you think there's performance headroom, and that it will become possible in the future, or should I give up trying to run this on an Intel MBP?

[0]: https://fraunhoferhhi.github.io/Self-Organizing-Gaussians/

[1]: https://github.com/Florian-Barthel/gaussian_viewer
You mean like Canvas®, Apple®, Windows® or Amazon®? Wanna try re-use these for your own business and see how it goes?

There's nothing preventing you to trademark common words, it just must not be descriptive of your business.
I'm in south Orange county, California, and... Yeah. Maybe this is car wash mecca? I can think of 6 within a 2 mile radius of my home without even trying. 3 of them are full-service places, too, and they've been there for longer than I've been here (2016, so not that long) and they're always serving cars.
Moderators. This needs to be unflagged. It is highly relevant to HN. This is a list of people within our industry who have now been martyred in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. There are dozens of names on this list, some of these martyrs may even leave behind accounts here on HN.
[1] has a couple of references to lists of common words used as inspiration.

[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/xkcd-passphrase-generator
Scott Chacon (github cofounder) mentioned in a recent talk that the Windows repo is 300GB https://youtu.be/aolI_Rz0ZqY?si=MOo2eS6dsKKAxmsP
I worked for a company that offered ESPP decades ago. The stock had an odd habit of dipping in the middle 3 months of the period with price peaks at either end. While continuing to steadily decline YoY. The company went bankrupt about three years after I finally left. There were very few employees who made any money off of the ESPP shares.
Of course personal responses are not 'required', like you say they receive a mountain of emails. What you're saying is that rather than respond with a completely acceptable boilerplate email explaining that they get too much correspondence to write a personalized response, or allow an assistant to explain that and respond in their stead, they should deceive their biggest fans--the people who care enough to actually reach out to them, pretending that they did read and personally respond, which is an outright lie.
Oh, to live again in 1995! The year of peak payphone and working red boxes. It was glorious, but sadly lives on only in our memories: https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/pay-phones-coming-back...

"The stark shift happened fast; in 1995, the number of pay phones in the U.S. peaked at 2.6 million, Slate reported in 2022. In less than three decades, that's dwindled to fewer than 100,000."
In retrospect, I now realize it was a poor choice of words.
For land assessment, many countries or municipalities assess it regularly. In my country (New Zealand), most city councils re-assess land value and improvements value every three years (and charge council rates based on them).
I browsed the website but was unable to find any information on how much credits are worth
Journeyart.ai: Harness Midjourney's Power for 6 Free AI Artworks Daily
Yeah, it's probably a regional thing. Here in Colorado, most cars don't really get that gross. I take a hose to mine like 3 times a year and dry it with a towel and it looks pretty nearly pristine. They'll only get very dusty if you take them on dirt roads a lot, or keep them in a garage all the time without ever cleaning them. Ones kept outside will keep mostly clean due to the rain, with maybe a little bit of grime under overhangs, and some sun damage on the paint.
Once "too scary" to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
Taxes were, up until the 80s, how the government controlled inflation. They run a deficit and print to spend (or more accurately, borrow from the fed who prints), and then they tax to remove some of that from circulation. Now they don't do the last part. But you've got to ask yourself, why do it this way? How is it better for everyone?

First, consider that in a democratic system, there will always be political will to spend, and there will always be political will to reduce taxes. It was inevitable that taxes would come down and inflation would then soar. So "run a deficit and then tax the rich/corporations/just a little more" doesn't work forever. Eventually people demand more for less.

It also has the added feature that the cantillion effect can be used to redistribute wealth. Sounds good, but then you're at the mercy of whatever is more politically expedient to the representative voting on the tax rates. If he is more beholden to his constituents, capital flows to them. If he's more beholden to his donors, guess who benefits from it. If his constituents are corn farmers, prepare for farming subsidies. Also think of this: rich people understand this wealth redistribution mechanism, most regular people or poor people do not. So while it sounds good, tax the rich more and redistribute wealth, it is more likely to be used in the opposite direction, and inevitably it will be. Better if the tool just doesn't exist at all.

To me, just getting rid of this complexity and budgeting based on tax revenue, the old way, and keeping money supply out of the hands of government, solve all these problems. Government can't print and spend, it taxes who can afford to pay based on what it needs, and it can't spend money on things that aren't in the interest of the people and businesses it is sovereign over. It doesn't find itself in a political conundrum that ensures that it spends more and taxes less, it spends only based on its ability to pay and it taxes people only based on their ability to pay. And you get rid of the cantillion effect, so no siphoning wealth to the top from the working stiff.
> On the parks/“natural land”: would you rather land exist as an empty razed dirt field for speculators to wait to sell, or given back to the city?

That seems to be jumping to an extreme end, that someone owns an empty plot of land that has been cleared and destroyed to bare, dead dirt. My concern is that the same incentive pushing one to sell a pile of dirt would exist for someone owning an undeveloped, natural plot of land. My earlier caveat still exists, maybe this isn't a concern in dense areas though it would add some blockers for anyone interested in turning developed land back into a park.

> Taxing the land value means there’s no incentive to own land that won’t be productive.

One concern I have is the expectation that all land should be optimized for productivity. That goes against my own view on land, I don't think we humans have some innate right yo extract all available value. I also don't like that this likely goes against concerns of environmental impact.

> The city or municipality can guarantee land it owns can have natural growth on it

I can't quite put my finger on a better way to describe this, but it just feels off to me that only the state would be able to allocate land as parks, natural space, sanctuary, etc. Obviously what you are proposing wouldn't block anyone from doing this, but it would create incentives that make it unlikely.

> As to how to value the land: the market decides.

The market only decides on my land's value when I sell it. Until then, is the land valued at what I paid for it? If so that is at least predictable I suppose, that would be helpful so I know what my future tax burden would be.

> The government can charge for services like upgraded electricity and keep the land value low, or they can bring the electricity to the land and count “lots of electricity available” as part of the value of the unimproved land.

I wasn't just asking about how enough power gets to the land - not sure why the government would be responsible for that unless government and industry merge. I was meaning to ask with regards to the environmental impact angle. Taxing to create incentives to build as high-value improvements as possible would inevitably lead to a drastic increase in a locality's energy requirements. Where does it come from, and how do mitigate the environmental impact?
To be honest, I think you have it exactly backwards, and a land value tax isn't about taxing "raw land" (that is, land with no improvements), it's about taxing the value of the land without regard to improvements.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Hey HN, this project started out when I was exploring rendering radiance fields in real-time for standalone VR and AR headsets. I was frustrated by the lack of performant, yet non-CUDA, implementations. Also, this would be a good excuse to learn about compute pipelines in Vulkan.

Right now, the renderer runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and visionOS (as an iPad app). OpenXR support and an immersive visionOS app are coming soon. Training is also WIP. As we're seeing the industry adopt research in Gaussian Splatting at a fast pace, I hope this makes it easier for folks implementing Gaussian Splatting or variants in their products.

Would love to hear your feedback!

For more context, see previous HN discussions on Gaussian Splatting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39120016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576974
You can use runtime power limits to put yourself pretty much anywhere on the performance-efficiency curve you want, within thermal limits. Reducing the power limit will reduce heat/fan noise and can improve perf/watt.

On Linux, see: https://github.com/powercap/powercap
According to several sources, car washes seem highly likely to damage the car, and are also usually unnecessary (the car works fine even if dirty, unless visibility is seriously impaired, and eventually it rains and the rain automatically washes the car if you park it outside).

Probably a lot of people are conditioned that they need to have a clean car.
> It seems highly unlikely IDF would waste resources target individual civilians, follow them around Gaza and eliminate them to prevent their skills being used by Hamas

This has nothing to do with optimizing resources to defeat Hamas. If Tel Aviv regime really wanted that, they should just stop allowing Netanyahu to fund Hamas[1] in his effort to undermine Palestine Authority (the Palestinian group that actually gave up on armed resistance), as the later can't be presented as a proper boogeyman to keep the public scared dumb.

It's all about sabotaging the two-state solution, maintaining the apartheid and enforcing a media blackout, not allowing the Palestinians to document the genocide and ethnic cleansing being perpetrated against them. First IDF targeted and killed journalists in droves, as previously discussed here[2]. But the images from the daily massacres, filmed by victims, still circled the world. Targeting IT staff is a criminal decision to make more difficult for the war crimes to be properly documented and known.

[1]. https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-funded-hamas-claims-e...

[2]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603299
I just noticed today my local Walmart super center has signs limiting self-checkout to 15 items. They're not enforcing it -- I had that many yogurts, plus a dozen other things. But maybe, like when they eliminated providing any grocery bags at all in Washington, they'll give it a little time to sink in.
The mentioned Xerox copier incident was not an OCR failure, but the copier actively changed the numbers in the original image due to its image compression algorithm.
I have literally no idea why people care so much about typing latency. If you type that fast, I suggest that you seriously consider finding a more intellectually challenging task.
Bragging about it is a good PR and inspires confidence in your citizens -- even if you didn't actually capture anything. It's rather mystifying that they didn't try to present a strong face after this incident.
Here's free and open source alternative that works pretty well

https://www.upscayl.org/
I live in Florida, where these subscription-only car washes proliferate like kudzu; they’ve crowded out the good old gas station stalwarts that you might or might not get stuck in for several years now.

And the cause for their spread has been widely and publicly known for years: somebody found out that these things print cash. You own the land, you pay for one or two employees on-site max. Once PE woke up to the “strategy,” it was game on.

PE gets excited and overdoes it, wealth extraction hearkens enshittification, corner car washes are the new dollar store.

So I almost didn’t read past the subtitle, what’s actually new here? Oh:

“The omnipresence of the car wash in American life may be underappreciated: There are twice as many car wash outlets as McDonald’s and Starbucks locations combined.”

That’s almost unbelievable. Twice as many as McDonalds+Starbucks!

(Another concern: Who’s on the hook for all the PFAS cleanups when the scheme goes bust? Because you know it won’t be PE.)
Because people would come from outside and drink/bathe from it. Apartment car garages in California always have wanderers within or nearby
Lennox advertises that a heat pump lifespan is equivalent to an AC, which is 12 years vs 20 years for a furnace.
Vladimir Putin claims landslide Russian election victory
What prompt do you use to ask chargpt to not make things up?
It's hard to think of many businesses that require lower capital investment and maintenance than a car wash. The ones I see in my city that look like land banking are a big plot with asphalt covering it (don't even need to mow lawns), a few awnings with some plumbing for hoses and soap and other gear, and nothing else. Even a laundromat would cost more to set up.
It's exactly what happen to the Moskva as far as we can tell: use a Bayraktar TB2 at max range to draw attention of the crew and sneak an anti-ship missile in the mean time (that's what the Ukrainians said they did, at least, there's always fog of war…)
Disappointed to not see any Pern references. "Get off my lawn", I guess?
Its probably more of a rural issue, but assessing value can be difficult when there aren't enough recent comps since the last major economic shift.

I live on around 80 acres (30 hectares?). Our land is a bit unique in the area, and in general there hasn't been a single piece of land sold near us since before the pandemic and all the economic change that came with it. I don't know how the county could possibly know what our land is worth until something similar sells on the open market again.
No, it is saying that the community was coming up with a lot of remarkably good ideas.
https://archive.is/Csqqk
Maybe they all watched Breaking Bad and think they can use it to launder money.
Have you seen anyone use a JBC soldering station before?
Because the US definitively do not have prior experience of being hit by surprise from the air on their own soil…
This is exactly what I experienced once when I passed out. So to me is not hard to imagine being conscious without the presence of ego or any form of relation to anything else.

What makes me a bit scared is the big unknown.
There’s business fraud and then there’s attacking military installations. The two carry very different penalties.
Cybertruck Engineer Begs Owners to Stop Shooting and Abusing Their Trucks
You can find the repo here: https://github.com/fuseraft/kiwi
Baseball, Without a Chauffeur
Thanks for trying it out! I haven't had the opportunity to benchmark this on an Intel Macbook. Were you able to see which kernel takes the most time? There should be a performance graph if you have the GUI enabled.

For my Apple Silicon benchmarks, the main bottleneck is the parallel radix sort that sorts the Gaussians by tile and depth. I used a some shaders from a sorting library, but it has some performance gaps with SOTA parallel sort algorithms. I think fixing this would give a 1.5x overall performance boost and maybe 3x on Macbooks. Also the wave size isn't tuned for different GPUs.

Another area of improvement is better management of the shared memory. Right now, we just let the driver manage it as the L1 cache. However, we could manage it manually and group Gaussian retrievals together for the same tile. This is what the official implementation does.

Although 3DGS is the first radiance field with SOTA quality that runs in real-time, I think it's still quite heavy. Due to the explicit representation of the scene, a lot of operations are memory bound. If you can't get an interactive frame rate right now, it's unlikely the improvements will make a material difference.

Hopefully that's where your work on compression comes in and solves the problem :)
Is China not a capitalist country? It does not appear to be a heavily planned economy, at least not in the past few decades.
The author links to a “blog post”, but hasn’t looked for much preceding work. For example, this article from 2018 in LWN was the first that opened my eyes to the wide differences in latency among terminal emulators:

https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
You can only imagine.

I've put it all on the line even when there was a great likelihood of losing it all.
For me it is hilarious because people were paid not to work and to stay at home just a couple of years ago. Plus, vast swathes of population were told that what they did was not “essential”.
Yes - I think any such system should at least be restricted to urban areas (I’m not sure I’ve seen it proposed otherwise) and you’d need some careful work to have credits for functional ecosystems without having people try to scam it by claiming that the koi pond & tree on their mini golf course makes it a wildlife habit after a duck is spotted there.
Sounds like they’re saying it’s the base rate.
This is notably looking at the Bolivian communities, not the Peruvian ones as in OP
Using not now they can continue annoying you endlessly until you say yes.

With no they can’t do that.
Anyone know how to buy an Itel P32 in the USA? :/
the basic principle hinges on your "usually" though. Influencers need to pay the bills, so if the product is crap, they might still endorse it, but they might also not. So it depends on how cynical you personally are. Because if it's a crap product, then the influencer's influence will go down after people buy the product and realize it's crap. then they won't trust that influencer anymore. so it's in the influencer's best interests to not peddle crap. sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
Would the land go untaxed until there are improvements? If not, the raw land value itself is being taxed.
But with all the background OS activity, will this chip ever sustain turbo to 6.2 for noticeable periods? Pure benchmarking win imo.
It is a shame that this is not about when Armour Meats perfected their hot dog formulation
You'd figure this envelope had been pushed to its limit in the late 80's/early 90's

Nice work! The uppercase is surprisingly readable -- some glyphs don't look like you'd first think they should, but that makes them stand out from the ones they'd otherwise be easily confused with.
An Impossible Program
They advocate anything as they dont have to actually deliver anything. All kinds of things were promised but when the time came they said "Not now" and spoke about "bipartisanship". After losing the houses, they suddenly turned to loudly advocating all the things they didnt do when they could push them. These sound like empty policy advocacy like the ones before.
These phones aren't just in the Developing World, though. This is a USA problem too.

I work with parolees and they get the free "Lifeline" phones the federal govt pays for. You can get one for free on any street corner in the poor 'hoods of the USA. They are the cheapest lowest spec Android phones with 15GB data/month. That data is burned up by day 3 due to huge Web payloads and then the user can't fill out forms he needs for jobs/welfare and can't navigate anywhere as he can't load Maps.
No. According to analytical idealism, what we perceive as physical, is just an image of some mental process observed across dissociative boundary.
Model weights on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/xai-org/grok-1
That makes the codec not safe for archiving, only for distribution.

Could you explain what you mean by "not safe for archiving"? The standard is published and there are multiple implementations, some of which are open-source. There is no danger of it being a proprietary format with no publicly available specification.
Dell also can’t do what supermicro does because it would eat their margins. The dirty secret is that supermicro is making headway because they’re a lot cheaper than dell or hp. If dell/hp start to compete on price they don’t really gain any additional marginal business to speak of, but they do lose margin on all their current contracts (who presumably want to get the discount too).

The “companies become too stagnant to disrupt their own revenue streams” isn’t just a trope about leadership vision, it’s a very real financial phenomenon. Customers don’t like open price discrimination and often it’s better to keep your best customers than to chase after new ones and push all your margins downwards.

See also: the gpu market.
The 7800X3D is in a completely different universe for Factorio from the 14900KS, it's like 60% faster which is just absurd. Factorio absolutely loves that extra L3 cache.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ryzen-7-7800x3d-smashes-co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/12ckmc3/hardwares... (this doesn't have the 14900K(S) but given that it's the same thing as the 13900K you can guess where it'll end up, and it ain't close to the X3D's)
Anyone know if you can repurpose the Mycroft Mark II to use this home assistant bundle? Mine is just a brick right now.
Too busy with life to think about death.
Drone warfare isn't invented though. Warfare tactics are ever evolving, the same as an MMA fighter can do whatever it takes to win. So it's not like there's an inventor of drone warfare, who wrote the rules and derived the consequences, and could predict the outcomes. Especially when warfare economics starts to go back to individuals/small entities having asymmetrical advantages over state actors. And when development in this space is incredibly rapid, accelerating and available to anyone with a laptop, a DIY CNC cutter and some off the shelf chemicals.

Defending against these types of threats isn't something the traditional military orgs are equipped for. They are slow to move, react, plan. They have established doctrine to counteract a simulated opponent's doctrine.
Would we expect the oscillation to get smaller over time, like a pendulum, or is that stretching the analogy too far?
The answer is private equity "roll-up" strategies of "boring businesses". You're going to see this accelerate in tons of other things that PE thinks can be easily consolidated, the gold rush has already started for dental practices, primary care providers, coin laundry, HVAC companies, landscaping, etc.

American small businesses are disappearing because that's what consumers want (what they vote for with their dollars, as opposed to what they say in polls).
>like everyone on HN

The amount of people on this site who say AI has Yx’d their productivity is far too high for this to be an accurate generalization.