skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. This issue is mixed up with whether keeping the health insurance industry alive is worth the cost.
Thanks for the upvote!
If you were making 2D drawings with the intent of turning them into a 3D model then you would draw them to be coherent in 3D in the first place. The whole novelty of the research in the OP is that they're trying to reconstruct drawings that were never intended to make realistic sense in 3D.

Even if AI has a place in the 2D to 3D part of a pipeline, surely you'd still want the 2D artwork be unambigously representative of what the 3D asset should look like, rather than providing self-contradictory input data and praying that the AI can magically make it make sense.
Or they could just fly like a few feet higher than the person...
It made it to L12 before losing in my run.
Yup :D.

There are countries which CAN make it work, but man, a central nervous system co-opted by oligarchs, tyrants or other worst case scenarios, would be the outcome for most of the world.
Do you understand the current differential between NYPD capability and action taken? You need to understand that NYPD and cops in general aren’t primarily challenged in their service by their means to execute on it (though you can also find measures suggesting so, and thus needing more funding and powers)

For ex they put a load of cops in the subway system, at huge cost, and the results were roughly the same level of crime given overall crime rates falling (and falling just slightly), with no evidence available of increased presence preventing crime, seemingly no impact, except for catching more fare evasion (recouping single digit percent of cost of the program). It was celebrated in gov and by the police as a success and they’re continuing their program. They use the program to divert a proliferation of these fare evasion cops stationed all over the city to other things like emergent protest suppression outside the subways.

To talk about “zero second” extreme case police response capabilities.
That's risky. Zoom wouldn't approve.
Tracking possessions and tracking people are easily distinguishable as tasks.

One is highly useful and moral, the other is highly immoral and potentially destructive.

But we don’t have an information infrastructure that lets tech understand the difference yet.

That was my point. I think I made it clearly.
“Help! I’m in distress!”

“Don’t worry, we’ve got great aerial footage of it!”
same way the NYPD helicopter pilots do now.
> Only then will we see YIMBY candidates start to accede to positions of power and start to reverse these landlord-favorable policies

Our governor here in Oregon, Tina Kotek, is quite YIMBY. As is the mayor of the city I live in.
In this day and age, why does Thunderbird still ask for my password to store locally instead of using a standard OAuth flow? Every time I consider using Thunderbird, I just can't bring myself to enter a password. It feels like such an antiquated violation and gaping security hole.
Literally 100% of published papers in psychology, sociology and related fields will have "editorializing" equal or greater to the line you quoted. This one likely only stood out to you because it went against your beliefs while others align to them, or because you don't regularly read such publications to be familiar with norms.
The only part of GDPR most people know about are the website pop-ups, which probably was a bad idea. They don't know about all the other stuff that is really positive.
No one said they would. Instead of using selection bias to explain all the things they can’t do, try imagining what they can do.
The thing that I haven't been able to really understand, is why aren't these areas able to grow other vitamin A rich crops? The climate and environment is usually fine for growing something - yams, mangos, cantaloupe, carrots, etc. I can see that sometimes it's a cost thing as those sell for higher prices or are more expensive to preserve than rice. But it seems that farmers stick with regular rice because that's what they know and are set up to do. Maybe switching to golden rice is easier since the fields are the same, but things like yield and such could be a barrier. Maybe it would be better to create a program train/pay for additonal farms or conversion of existing farms into other vitamin A rich crops. Increasing supply could reduce the price and make it more affordable. Or is it partially an education thing, where consumers don't know they're deficient? Maybe we need more education there. In any case, it's seems very complex, beyond just the rice.
If that's what you got from the article you clearly missed the most important point.
To which, the solution would be to tell companies not to use intrusive banners, not allow tracking like it was before.
Yes, in fact at least one of them got funding from YC: Matterport.

There are many others: Kuula, Cupix, iStaging, EyeSpy360... Real estate companies use them a lot, e.g. to create a virtual tour for prospective buyers.
An error condition. I decided to do away with it and take a small hit on the error by assuming the chances of the trimmed set being equal to the threshold are very small and that the error condition is effectively doing nothing.

I also changed the logic from == to >= to trigger unfailingly, and pass in the "window"/threshold to allow my code to work without internal awareness of the length of the iterable:

from random import random

def estimate_uniques(iterable, window_size=100):
p = 1
seen = set()

for i in iterable:
if i not in seen:
seen.add(i)
if random() > p:
seen.remove(i)
if len(seen) >= window_size:
seen = {s for s in seen if random() < 0.5}
p /= 2
return int(len(seen) / p)

I also didn't like the possible "set thrashing" when an item is removed and re-added for high values of p, so I inverted the logic. This should work fine for any iterable.
It's mostly malicious compliance.
I'm watching the hundreds black ash trees struggle against the emerald ash borer. They don't live more than 10? years at max though I wonder if that's true for the new ones. But under the pressure of the borer they seed immensely. For every one tree that dies 20 spawn around it. I'm letting the field of them do their thing, hoping at minimum they maintain themselves in their stunted form as a population until we can introduce a resistant tree.
What happens is the graphics and movement get glitchy and eventually unplayable - I wouldn’t call this “non-Euclidean Doom” - just “consequences of messing with the constants of the universe” - whereas I’d expect an actual non-Euclidean Doom to be like this: https://youtu.be/kEB11PQ9Eo8?si=0HNlpGFBii2AIK1n
Its worse when you realize that most stuff published is focused on results, not disproving an idea, but rather proving some idea or discovery.

Even worse is how limiting it is, when the cost of materials and equipment means the only people who can fact check your paper via trying to reproduce your results are basically other institutions, or in the extremely rare case it might be an industry partner.

I'm interested in semiconductors from design to fabrication. For design I can use openlane on Linux but AFAIK that dosnt support small feature sizes, and I will need to manually build my own lab. I can't afford any expensive equipment so my best bet is just get a high paying job in my field I'm a student in, which is cyber security, and hope I can save money over the years and manage to buy up used equipment. This also means I basically have to spend a large portion of my life working to afford a basic lab and equipment that's old and outdated.

And safety, well its obviously important but at a certain point i can't justify the fancy safety equipment if it costs so much. Especially if it has a limited life like the HF acid exposure kits that have the cream to help save your life. Or SCBA isn't cheap and has a maintenance cost.

Unless I am willing to dedicate my life to this niche, or can find a cybersecurity job that involves chip fans.....I'm SOL.

TLDR, certain research and discovery is limited to well funded universities which means you centralized the progress to a specific group: higher education labs and industry funded research partners
> GDPR forced a one-size-fits-all solution

Can you point me to the exact place in GDPR that talks about browsers and cookies

> to a "problem" that was already solved

If it was already solved, why did the industry come up with the dark patterns to trick people into blindly agreeing to tracking and blaming the law for that?
And how would you read the following?

int* i, j;

C declarations simply are not "first the type, then the variable"...
I think this is just a device used to demonstrate and advance the technology. I doubt this has a real application in this context given how little work is needed to 3D model these kinds of environments anyways.
My heart breaks for the bees and their keepers (which is weird because most tragic news doesn't phase me), but I don't think think this is a good case for insurance.

You can profitably insure against a flood because it is not more likely to rain when everybody has flood insurance--the risk is independent. But any measure designed to take the sting out of the risk is going to increase the density of colonies and thereby create more risk than there was in the first place. It has a positive feedback loop.
Code: https://github.com/OswaldHe/HMT-pytorch

This looks really interesting. I've added the paper to my reading list and look forward to playing with the code. I'm curious to see what kinds of improvements we can get by agumenting Transformers and other generative sequence models with this and other mechanisms implementing hierarchical memory.[a]

Shouldn't the authors cite the work by Jeff Hawkins et al at Numenta? Hawkins has been proposing AI models with hierarchical temporal memory for a long time.[b] I can't help but wonder if there is a way, somehow, to incorporate his work and ideas in Transformers and other generative sequence models.

We sure live in interesting times!

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[a] In the past, I've experimented with mechanisms that add memory to Transformers, but never with hierarchy.

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory
They are a very minor part of GDPR. It's kind of a shame that it is most people's only experience of it, because the other changes are all very positive for EU citizens.
> In machine learning, one of the popular ways to improve the accuracy of a model that is underperforming is to increase its complexity. And this technique worked with the Game of Life.

For those who didn't read the article, the content doesn't support the title.
It's on the Contribute->Participate page.
I'm also in my early twenties, and also (at least in certain ways) quite ambitious.

I liked this.
The whole story seems a tad off given https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389997 and that no one could be bothered to find someone to work for ~$5 million to put them through an autoclave.
I don’t have much of an opinion on the overall value of GDPR, but I’ve been asked multiple times now to create indexes of personal data to _comply_ with the law when said indexes were not wanted for business or technical reasons.

An example is in big data repositories where personal data may have been provided but not used for anything. Yes it’s there but nothing uses it. To enable the reporting and deletion requirements you build a system that keeps track of all that, now the data _is_ trivially correlated which seems like the opposite of the intent.

Even when I build systems that prunes the data on ingest it feels weird. To conform with a privacy law I’m building a sophisticated filter for finding personal data I don’t even want.
Why should small businesses be allowed to spy on their users without their consent?
I don't offer the majority to leave. Like it or not, currently in most European countries, the law and application of laws is done so as to either encourage or at least not discourage graffitis. A lot of cities even give space to graffiti artists to paint and try to entice them.

If the actual majority wanted to get rid of this problem, then it would be stopped, I'm not the one making the laws or deciding whether to apply them.

As for grey walls, there are plenty of gray boring walls in any city in the world, usually those tend to be painted on, in my experience, not colorful walls nor brick walls nor older buildings.
Love this! Going to share with some fellow ADHD’ers that I work with
Yeah seems kind of like an unnecessary step.
I’m not a lawyer but does that mean scraping LinkedIn is indeed illegal? Or is it still yet to be determined?
Yes, I wonder if anyone uses Protobuf encoded payloads over plain old HTTP REST calls.
> Considering the rise in crime in some parts of major cities

What rise? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
This is all ridiculous.

Maybe I’m not that bright, but it seems like you don’t need that much.

1. A TXT record containing a public key and a unique identifier

2. Message Body and Headers hashed with SHA512, and then the hash is encrypted with the private key to the TXT record. This hash, and the address for the public key, is then added to the headers as the only permitted “untrusted” headers

3. Email receiver, if present, ignores all headers if the two are present. Looks up DNS public key, decrypts hash, removes the two headers, checks hash matches. If so, contents trusted if:

4. The domain the email was sent from, and claims to be sent from, is the same domain hosting the TXT record.

What did I miss?
Person with years of experience and access to AI can outperform a person with access to AI.
AZ woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies
Tangential rant:

My understanding is that Naughty Dog abandoned GOAL after the Jak games due to pressure from Sony. Sony wanted all of their studios to be able to share source code. [0]

I hate this. Any two organically grown codebases (like, for example, games from different studios) are going to be so different that significant, non-trivial code sharing between them is going to be impossible anyway. Anything sufficiently generic might as be distributed as a precompiled library, and then use the FFI in your language of choice to take advantage.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070720142546/http://lists.midn...
This seems like Attempted Murder.
Hello everyone, I've been working on something that I think you might find interesting: Pedro Thermo Similarity/Distance Algorithm. I created this algorithm a while ago to be a more accurate alternative for text similarity and distance, I even compared it with weight algorithms Levenshtein, Damerau, Jaro and Jaro-Winkler, for the tests I did it stood out. If you can give it a chance to test it, it might end up being useful for some people.
repo: https://github.com/pedrohcdo/PedroThermoDistance
In the abstract sense instead of pulling from queues round-robin you can assign "tokens" to each queue round robin. When the number of tokens a queue has is equal to the cost of the request reset the tokens and pull that request.

This can also be used to handle priority. Maybe paying customers or customers on the enterprise plan get 2 tokens per round or their requests only have half of the cost.
> It's their job to do GDPR, of course they consider it a positive.

No, actually it is annoying to do. But it is extremely positive. The two things do not conflict.

It's annoying for restaurants to maintain the high level of hygiene that the laws enforce. But I expect most people in the restaurant business see it as a positive (and I'm not going to the restaurants that don't...)
lumalabs dot ai is pretty neat. Takes videos as input but works very well.
A few years back Moxie (of Signal) put up a video[0] of a quiet leaf blower which was pretty sweet. His design appears to be quieter than this one. Either way this is great, as a person highly sensitive of sound I support all technologies that reduce excessive noise.

[0]: https://x.com/moxie/status/1582154037700399104
One thing about keeping sick people alive that financials don't cover - keeping up the social contract.

A society must take care of its weak and old, unless you want these people to reneg on the contract and start being destructive. Marginalizing and neglecting a social group is step 1 towards fostering terrorism.
How is this any different than video services encoding their videos with HEVC/AV1 to save on bandwidth? They're lossy algorithms and use less bitrate, so it's not so different than what you're describing.
Here [1] is the original paper. Though he does not state as such, I'm sure the idea of man vs woman was just an example. It could be anything, but I think it inherently must be something. Generalizing this down to being human or not greatly simplifies the test, because the identity aspect is basically just free information for the interrogator. With or without the identity, he could still ask the exact same questions. The only difference is the domain of viable answers is greatly limited with identities. And the more specific the identity, the more the real person will be able to reveal themselves, and the more difficulty the imposter will have impersonating them.

[1] - https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf
People are more likely to build in flood zones if they can purchase flood insurance. There's a small town here where every house is within a flood zone off the river and they were underwater for about a week a couple years ago. Built right back up and now there's 2 or 3 new housing developments going in.
How is this related to their comment? A drone that can start recording crucial evidence before police arrive could absolutely be a deciding factor in having enough evidence to charge or convict someone.
NY AG Gets $10M+ from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless for Deceptive Advertising
Give it another 5 years and come back to me
> While Pertsev added functionality to the web interface that allowed legitimate users to separate their funds from those arriving from known criminal addresses, they characterized the effort as “too little and too late.”

When you add a "don't mix my stuff with the known criminal accounts" toggle in the UI, it's hard to argue ignorance.
Off the top of my head I can remember BinREc [1]. I believe I have seen more papers along the same lines, but I can't recall the details.

[1] https://bibbase.org/network/publication/kroes-altinay-nash-n...
Why rake at all? Mulch them instead. Raking them into a bag to have removed from your property to add to a landfill just seems like a very strange decision to me.
Creating 3D spaces from inconsistent source images! Super fun idea.

I tried a crude and terrible version of something like this a few years ago, but not just inconsistent spaces without a clear ground truth - purely abstract non-space images which aren't supposed to represent a 3D space at all. Transform an abstract art painting (Kandinsky or Pollock for example) into a explorable virtual reality space. Obviously there is no 'ground truth' for whatever 'walking around inside a Pollock painting' means - the goal was just to see what happens if you try to do it anyway. The workflow was:

1. Start From Single Abstract Art Source Image

2. SinGan to Create Alternative 'viewpoints' of the 'scene'

3. 3d-photo-inpainting (or Ken Burns, similar project) on original and SinGan'd images (monocular depth mapping, outputs a zoom/rotate/pan video)

4. Throw 3d-photo-inpainting frames into photogrammetry app (Nerf didn't exist yet) and dial up all the knobs to allow for the maximum amount of errors and inconsistency

5. Pray the photogrammetry process doesn't explode (9 times out of 10 it crashed after 24 hours, brutal)

I must have posted an example on Twitter but I can't find the right search term to find it. But for example, even 2019 tier depth mapping produced pretty fun videos from abstract art: https://x.com/jonathanfly/status/1174033265524690949 The closest thing I can find is photogrammetry of an NVIDIA GauGAN video (not consistent frame to frame) https://x.com/jonathanfly/status/1258127899401609217

I'm curious if this project can do a better job at the same idea. Maybe I can try this weekend.
A VR/AR reproduction of old cartoons where you can explore a coherent 3D space would be cool.

It doesn't seem like the OP comes even close to this though.
I have a friend who works on the Czech grid (so a neighboring country), and Austria never came up in the conversation as an important factor, it's always Germany causing problems.
This is pretty funny, though I hope nobody actually tried this.
The people that spend almost a grand in buying "historical stuff" off Ebay are the type of people with more money than sense.
For the nostalgic readers of this thread, here's the website in 2000:

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/deviantar...

And 2012, which I consider peak DeviantArt:

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/deviantart-in-2012
There's no such thing as "more" or "less" political writing. May as well say you're interested in "less chemical food." Food is made of chemicals, and the pen is mightier than the sword.
I've used it for marshalling data and it's worked quite well for us. I did not use grpc, though.

Perhaps my use case was far more simple.
It’s a case study of what (nypd) police are capable of and achieve when they have zero second response time and surveillance capabilities

And what the public understands the cost to go toward and why versus what the resulting day to day and bigger picture actions are as a result of the greater numbers and powers gained over the public
Could you explain more. I'm using protobuf (without grpc) in a project right now. Yes, getting your toolchain set up to compile and update everything when you make edits to your .proto files takes a little bit of work and you need to do some planning ahead when it comes to your data model since you're not quite as flexible as JSON, but on the whole it has been not much trouble at all.

And on the performance side, parsing our data takes ~1 second in JSON vs ~0.03 seconds with protobuf (in python).
Note that it's not 100x faster than C, but than bend running on one CPU thread.

Running the equivalent C code takes ~2.3 seconds on my machine. Same order of magnitude as bend on the beefy GPU.
Minority Report, when?
'Skeuomorphism' got lot of flak during its time and maybe most of them justified.

But this is (my) first example, where it is with a purpose - affordance.
Dupe from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377201 (400+ comments)
100%.

BIMI is the carrot for the marketing department to get on board with the DMARC project while giving the same people who sold you EV-SSL something else to sell you.

But this is a solid explanation of a DKIM issue that should be simple enough to avoid. Good write up.
vaccine availability can be affected by things like, no one sells the vaccine here, or an application for a vaccines approval being stuck in a pile of papers.
Yes, the prompt is copyrighted, just like your post here is copyrighted. But I don't think there's any point in versioning the prompts. The responses are just too nondeterministic. If you feed it the exact same prompt again, you can get something quite different back. On the other hand, if giving the same prompt got you the same response (like a reproducible build), then absolutely yes, version those prompts.
it's like the advice on how to become a millionaire. start with a billion dollars, and start investing.