skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIUI these algorithms currently bake all of the lighting into the surface colors statically, which mostly works if the entire scene is constructed as one giant blob where nothing moves but if you wanted to render an individual NeRF asset inside an otherwise standard triangle-based pipeline then it would need to be more adaptable than that. Even if the asset itself isn't animated it would need to adapt to the local lighting at the bare minimum, which I haven't seen anyone tackle yet, the focus has been on the rendering-one-giant-static-blob problem.

For hybrid pipelines to work the splatting algorithm would probably need to output the standard G-Buffer channels (unlit surface color, normal, roughness, etc) which can then go through the same lighting pass as the triangle-based assets, rather than the splatting algorithm trying to infer lighting by itself and inevitably getting a result that's inconsistent with how the triangle-based assets are lit.

Think of those old cartoons where you could always tell when part of the scenery was going to move because the animation cel would stick out like a sore thumb against the painted background, that's the kind of illusion break you would get if the lighting isn't consistent.
I may not have been clear -- I agree that RCE, unqualified, means unauthorized RCE. but then you said there was no such thing as an "authorized" RCE and that's where I beg to differ. Sure, the term isn't used much but it wasn't the clarifying point I wanted to make above, that there is a difference between authenticated and authorized.

The links you point to there are about "RCE attack" which also implies not authorized.
Yeah, in theory we could build a parallel service that's more Lambda-like and hosts apps in a more centralized way. It's certainly something we've thought about.

The challenge is, can we actually build that in a way that is significantly better than the existing competition? It's a crowded space. If we just build the same thing everyone else is doing, will it attract enough use to be worth the investment?

It sounds like you would be interested. What in your mind would potentially make our product more attractive than competitors here?
Location: San Francisco
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Like anything else they're fine - the problem is when you drink too many of them.
Friendly suggestion to the authors: success rates aren't meaningful to all but a handful of researchers. They should add a few examples of tests SWE-agent passed and did not pass to the README.
Likewise, I think you have a starry-eyed view on how much friction it creates which equals less contribution. People see a bit of code they want to improve, they improve it, and then instead of just opening a PR (and perhaps iterating on it), now they have to learn a weird ancient e-mail workflow and will probably get chewed out for messing it up.

No one is saying to take away mail-in patches but it is positively archaic.
Probably tons of 3D models
Mechanical Turk suffers from coordinated fraud by people who want to be paid for doing a task without actually doing it [1]. The company I work for had to spend more engineering effort on building an internal reviewing-the-reviewers system to make it useful than we spent on the original Mechanical Turk integration. I'm not surprised that Amazon would avoid Mechanical Turk for higher consequence applications.

[1] e.g. https://timryan.web.unc.edu/2020/12/22/fraudulent-responses-...
Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons
I guess base-10 is still "digital", in that it works with digits.
Hardware evolves with production in mind. If method saves 10x time/labour even using 50x more expensive compute/tools then industry will figure out way to optimize/amortize compute cost on that task over time and eventually deseminate into consumer hardware.
I wonder if GPT-4's performance has degraded in recent months because there are less human data contractors on standby to answer questions GPT flags as low-confidence. GPT might be "refusing to answer questions" because it's not able to escalate tough queries to a human.
> That's closing the barn door after the horses already left.

I don't think that's quite true - maybe a couple horses got out, but this was caught early and did not get to infect very many machines because someone completely unaffiliated could review it and find it.
This is a 3D reconstruction, rather than a game rendering.
the loop is complete, AI customers talking to AI support
Beirut Chess
Do you eventually have to move off pocketbase? Looks like it only supports SQLite, and therefor obviously can only run a single server instance. How do you plan to migrate off it in the case that you have higher availability or traffic needs?
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

Imho more like an anecdote than a sourced story, but a good one nonetheless.
For both JiaT75 and hansjans162 combined, the days of weeks they were active is the following (per a selection of timezones):

tz mon tue wed thu fri sat sun
AE_Asia/Dubai 166 232 266 275 273 107 7
AL_Europe/Tirane 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
AR_America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
AT_Europe/Vienna 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
AU_Australia/Perth 121 233 246 245 322 139 20
AU_Australia/Sydney 50 212 196 286 312 200 70
BA_Europe/Belgrade 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
CA_America/Toronto 167 238 261 275 273 106 6
CA_America/Vancouver 167 238 261 275 273 106 6
CH_Europe/Zurich 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
CL_America/Santiago 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
CN_Asia/Shanghai 121 233 246 245 322 139 20
DE_Europe/Berlin 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
DK_Europe/Berlin 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
EE_Europe/Tallinn 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
EG_Africa/Cairo 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
ES_Europe/Madrid 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
FI_Europe/Helsinki 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
FR_Europe/Paris 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
GB_Europe/London 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
GR_Europe/Athens 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
HR_Europe/Belgrade 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
HU_Europe/Budapest 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
ID_Asia/Jakarta 150 237 243 280 278 129 9
IE_Europe/Dublin 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
IL_Asia/Jerusalem 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
IN_Asia/Kolkata 165 232 263 276 269 114 7
IR_Asia/Tehran 166 236 263 274 273 107 7
IS_Africa/Abidjan 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
IT_Europe/Rome 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
JP_Asia/Tokyo 95 230 231 258 304 176 32
KH_Asia/Bangkok 150 237 243 280 278 129 9
KR_Asia/Seoul 95 230 231 258 304 176 32
LA_Asia/Bangkok 150 237 243 280 278 129 9
LT_Europe/Vilnius 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
LV_Europe/Riga 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
MY_Asia/Singapore 121 233 246 245 322 139 20
NL_Europe/Brussels 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
NO_Europe/Berlin 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
NZ_Pacific/Auckland 6 169 236 264 283 278 90
RS_Europe/Belgrade 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
RU_Asia/Vladivostok 67 227 217 260 309 203 43
RU_Europe/Moscow 166 239 260 274 275 105 7
SA_Asia/Riyadh 166 239 260 274 275 105 7
SE_Europe/Berlin 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
SG_Asia/Singapore 121 233 246 245 322 139 20
SI_Europe/Belgrade 167 238 261 275 273 105 7
TH_Asia/Bangkok 150 237 243 280 278 129 9
TR_Europe/Istanbul 166 239 260 274 275 105 7
TW_Asia/Taipei 121 233 246 245 322 139 20
US_Pacific/Guam 67 227 217 260 309 203 43
US_Pacific/Honolulu 167 238 261 275 276 103 6
US_US/Central 167 238 261 275 273 106 6
US_US/Eastern 167 238 261 275 273 106 6
US_US/Mountain 167 238 261 275 273 106 6
US_US/Pacific 167 238 261 275 273 106 6
VN_Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 150 237 243 280 278 129 9
ZA_Africa/Johannesburg 167 238 260 276 273 105 7
The cost-per-unit on RFID product tags (EPCs) has tended to limit them to products with a relatively high margin and a relatively high theft potential---clothing being the most obvious example and the most common application of EPCs, with retailers all the way down to WalMart using them for apparel.

You'll note that WalMart doesn't even use the EPCs at POS, which is telling: for most retailers, the main advantage of EPCs is far more actionable alarms at the exit. So they're limited to items where loss rates make the added cost worth it.

The problem is that the grocery industry has notoriously low margins, and the unit price of EPC tags can be the entire margin on a lot of products. On the one hand, Amazon may have been trying to work around the need for higher-cost tags to roll out this kind of automation. On the other hand, I have heard anecdotally that Amazon Fresh pricing was relatively high, so maybe EPCs would have been a wiser use of their extra revenue.
Landslide topology uncovers failure movements
This answers a lot for me, I always wanted why they planted this tree everywhere when it smells so awful.
In the US (mid-Atlantic states) the supermarkets have tried this for years with very little success. Giant (Ahold) in particular persists with this, perhaps because they have a unionized workforce and would like nothing more than to slash their employee count.
I think current generative AI is on the losing end on this one. One of the arguments to use any training data is to compare it to how artists also get inspired and copy other artists, however AI is not another sentient being (not yet, at least). Since AI is a tool, this means the people training the Ai are the ones misusing copyrighted material.

On the other hand, if artists want to charge the same or more for having their work in a training dataset, AI companies could still have a workaround and choose not to pay artists. There could even be a new niche economy for copycat human artists that create new art in whatever style just for training AI. What I'm trying to say is that while artists complaints are in the right, they are useless, as this new wave of technology is just like the digitalization of music that happened 20 years ago. Those who were against downloading music and refused to be part of platforms like Spotify have become irrelevant.
Yes! There are a few different approaches to making that work - one would be to have an intermediate shader representation generated from Wasm compile to native platform shaders on the host graphics API. Longer-term, will likely expose WebGPU WGSL shaders to Wasm directly.
I got an expensive cooker and can tell the difference. Cheap 3 cup cooker to 10 cup bottom burner to Zojiriushi induction. The same amount of rice cooked would not fit in my rice saver container for stir frying without being smushed down because it was more fluffy.

It takes 3 times longer to cook however yet has not burned my rice when sitting on warm yet. I get happy when I smell the fresh cooked rice several times per week so I'm definitely in the worth it category.
Their first story: https://hntrbrk.com/uwm/
They retained the queen, it was just the human played without one against the computer for some reason. Probably to give MANIAC a fighting chance.
1. Helped SteelOnClick launch their QR-based system and dedicated portal for affiliate marketers, primarily retail shops. This initiative enabled shops to earn extra income ranging from 2.5k to 7k INR. Additionally, it facilitated construction supervisors in efficiently connecting with local retail shops, acting as both a visiting card and an affiliate system.

2. Worked with DPMPay in customizing school fees according to each school's requirements without the need for developer intervention. Previously, developers were required to make such changes.

3. Rewrote HireACamp's backend from scratch using Express JS. This overhaul facilitated quick bookings during peak seasons such as Christmas, New Year celebrations, and summer vacations. Furthermore, it introduced a load balancer architecture through AWS. Previously, their core PHP backend would become unresponsive when tested by more than 5000 users. The new backend and load balancer architecture efficiently enabled horizontal scaling.
I agree, these are all really valid reasons. FWIW, I myself have worked with "anonymous" maintainers and contributors that I've never met.
The problem with that is the same problem with self-checkout and Amazon Dash. It's solving a problem the retailer has -- the cost of employees -- by turning shoppers into store employees. But it doesn't really solve any problems that the shopper has because scanning all of your own stuff and laying it out on the scale is so inconvenient that it ruins everything else. The only place where I've seen self-checkout be as good or better than having a checker is Lowes or Home Depot, because they don't require you to weigh each item in turn to unlock the scanner so you can move as fast as a checker can. But I think grocery shopping will be the last place self-checkout moves in in a big way because the grocers insist on weighing everything you buy before unlocking the scanner.
TBH I would love an extended WASI standard with 'media apis' (window, 3D, audio, input) to run sokol code compiled to WASM in without having to compile/distribute per-platform native apps.

Deno seems to work on that idea [0], but having a WASI like standard would be better of course.

[0] https://github.com/deno-windowing

PS: How much work was it to "port" the Rive renderer? Would be great to see a blog post or similar about how you approached that and about any difficulties on the way :)
> How can I get in touch with chat4u?
> We are ready to help with any issues that may arise, if you need to reach out send us an email at support@chat4u.io

If the email isn't using ChatGPT to summarize responses and/or respond, I would be a little suprised.
i did not understand what a cascading merge is after reading this twice. if you have a git threeway merge and a merge tool that can parse and merge all three filestates what exactly would your solution solve that the git one cannot?
Weird that you're downvoted, I was just nodding along in agreement, although there is some nuance like not being able to find someone on-site in Abbotsford.

That said, the Job Bank has always been this ridiculous, absolute embarrassment. I've seen other posts on there that are straight up fraud in the sense that someone has submitted a fake posting for another company, leaving an obviously fake email as the contact point. (To which I notified the company)

If you're hiring a frontend or generalist/Swift/Python person, I've been out of work for nearly a year now in Vancouver and am spending all day today applying to random general labor work since the software pursuit has stopped paying off; I don't know ML but am curious. Can find my info in my most recent "Who wants to be hired post". Willing to be on-site or meet up for coffee.
One of struggles we had at Microsoft is versioning power bi pbix files. Someone publishes a change and the old version is gone unless they saved it somewhere else.
This is why I refuse to play Overcooked or Overcooked 2 ever again. Every time I've played, it ends with me being yelled at because I'm not very good at it, and getting blamed for getting a one star.

At one point when a friend suggested it, I passed and said "look dude, I can get paid for someone yelling at me, and have just as much fun." It's a stupid video game, zero stakes, but those games in particular seem to just turn people into assholes.
Music album was made by AI (and you can make your own)
The album is titled "Couleurs".

I asked Claude AI to describe colors as sounds, and then I fed the description to suno.ai

The result blew my mind... And it's only the first try.

Go and make your own!
Unity executives see a bright future for WebGPU in game development
It's crazy to me how competitive some people get, and how they justify their behavior to themselves. There is a parent of a kid in a group with my kids, and they started shouting obscenities at a judge who they disagreed with. I can't imagine behaving that way at all, let alone in front of my children. I don't know how they can expect their
> cost cutting

When the savings are not passed on to the customer (and they usually are not, as in this case) it's more accurate and descriptive to call it "profit maximizing."
FTA...

"Check out the app previews and screenshots on the app store to get a visual: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flying-toasters/id6479964879 "

I highly recommend watching the video on that link to the app store. The dev did a nice job.
Tall order, but a large budget for the role would improve your odds; what's the rough salary range?
> So it's interesting that this "employer" -- whose only address in Canada seems to be the lawyers that did the provincial corporation filing -- claims that there is so little talent in Canada that they have submitted an LMIA submission to the government. An LMIA is a claim that there are no talents for a given need so they need to bring in someone that the employer selected to Canada.

Sorry, how do you know that the company has submitted an LMIA? Just by the presence of that job on jobbank.gc.ca?
A lot of the world works by way of one person's staff communicating with another's. This brings that capability to more of us.

Hell, we moved from haggling to fixed pricing in grocery stores due to human limits. Imagine filling your cart and having your AI negotiate with the store's around the relative expiration dates of various foodstuffs, the quality given time of year and how long it spent in a truck, or backdating a frequent purchase as a subscription. (Or better yet, you arrive home to an always-stocked fridge.)
The needs of internal apps & dashboards are so spiritually different than the needs of consumer-facing software, and Next has been all about the consumer-facing side for the last few years. I think betting on Next is correctly simply because they're massive, but in some ways it's a bet despite everything that Next has been about for the last few years.
How many execs got promoted over this nonsense?
I can't wait for my AI lawyer to be jailbroken by an AI prosecutor using a sob story about how his grandma really wanted me to be guilty.
The Mathematicians Who Ended the Kidnapping of an NYU Computer (2015)
Related. Others?

User Manual for the Zuse Z4 Discovered (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124291 - Jan 2024 (4 comments)

Plankalkül - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35053402 - March 2023 (47 comments)

Reconstruction of mechanical logic gates and memory element of the Zuse Z1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32169178 - July 2022 (2 comments)

The “Plankalkül” of Konrad Zuse: The first high level programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26593656 - March 2021 (1 comment)

Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712727 - Jan 2021 (10 comments)

The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605150 - Sept 2020 (61 comments)

Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24573125 - Sept 2020 (14 comments)

Plankalkül: The First High-Level Programming Language and Its Implementation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23364898 - May 2020 (1 comment)

Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975279 - Jan 2019 (2 comments)

Calculating Space by Konrad Zuse (1969) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325689 - Oct 2018 (1 comment)

Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724173 - Aug 2018 (3 comments)

Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682343 - May 2016 (53 comments)

Plankalkül - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10909784 - Jan 2016 (14 comments)

Konrad Zuse Internet Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10377271 - Oct 2015 (1 comment)

The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Konrad Zuse's First Computer (2014) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107955 - Aug 2015 (5 comments)

Konrad Zuse: Nearly the German Turing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9199500 - March 2015 (33 comments)

Computers During World War Two: Konrad Zuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282085 - Nov 2011 (7 comments)

100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1451542 - June 2010 (21 comments)
There has to be a better way, this is in no way beneficial to normal people. This just makes it even worse from a UX standpoint.
There's some awesome youtube videos that teardown guided missiles to identify what goes into them, one i watched was packed with fpga chips, ah, a Javelin: https://youtu.be/11_5TB0-lNw

I wasn't even looking for it I think it got recommended because I like videos about Apollo and Soyez, same thing essentially :D
>> Anything can be realtime if you set the bar low enough.

I was doing "realtime ray tracing" on Pentium class computers in the 1990s. I took my toy ray tracer and made an OLE control and put it inside a small Visual Basic app which handled keypress-navigation. It could run in a tiny little window (size of a large icon) at reasonable frame rates. Might even say it was using Visual Basic! So yeah "realtime" needs some qualifiers ;-)
I was curious how this would compare to QR codes:

TFA suggests that consumer scanners and printers can successfully work at a minimum of 200DPI. A QR code can store almost 3kB in a 177x177 matrix, which allowing for some padding nicely fits in a square-inch @200DPI.

This would allow approximately 285485 bytes per page before compression. For better error-correction, you could up the ECC in qr codes, or you could apply reed-solomon to the data before encoding. The latter has the advantage of correcting errors that take out most of a single QR code.
This is super cool! Congrats on the PoC ...
Scientists discover speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans
All these tools built on Postgres CDC have tutorials that are based on a single table. But in real life, your data models are likely to be normalized across multiple tables with joins. Or you might have an aggregate object that contains multiple child objects from another table.

The hard part of using streaming data as the data source is that you don't have a mechanism to go back and get the data that you missed. Either for some join across normalised tables or to fetch some child objects you've not seen yet.

I don't see how any reasonably complicated data model would work here.
I am good in core php, codeigniter, node and express js, scraping web, frontend (html/css/bootstrap|svelte|vue), db: mongodb, mysql
> I think grocery shopping will be the last place self-checkout moves in in a big way

Self-checkout is the norm in my area.
Because it's not news journalism but something else.
I saw this on GitHub the other day and have been playing around with it for PDFs & the results are pretty good. I'm not sure how it compares to the paid services. I did try langchain's though and it sucked.
Really miss Grantland, that was some of my favorite content on the internet at the time. Shame it got shut down the way it did.

Haven't found something that replaces the exact itch it scratched for me at the time. Some good Substacks are the closest.
Saved. This is the sort of project that would be an amazing canvas for a nice widget kit and interaction model to make cross-platform GUIs with. The C/C++ backend and WASM target means people could build FFIs in almost any language. I'm sure I'm saying nothing new, but this is promising.
I would counter that people adopted iPods en masse a lot faster than they will ever adopt a VR headset. VR is only ever going to be a niche use case. I think those use cases in entertainment realm are the only use cases that could get wide adoption and even then its someone wearing it for 1-2 hours.

I think this might suffer from a product class that needs widespread adoption to fund development in order to get smaller form factors and it will never get the widespread adoption.