skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past after I got Quest 2 and started to dive into the world photogrammetry. I went into the entire pipeline into building a 3D *model* from photos of an object taken from different angle. Pipeline involved using MeshRoom and few other software to clean up mesh and port it into Unity.

In the end (from my superficial) understanding, the problem with porting anything into VR (say in Unity in which you can walk around an object) is the important of creating a clean mesh. The 3D model that tools such as OP (I haven't dived deep into it yet) is these are point cloud in 3D space. They do not generate a 3D mesh.

Going from memory from tools I came across during my research, there is tools like this https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/getting-started-with-nvidi..., again, this does not generate a mesh. I think it is just a video and not something you can simply walk around in VR.

My low key motivation was to make a clone/model like what Matterport and sell it to real estate companies. Major gap in my understanding - the cause of me to loose steam is - I was not sure how are they able to automate the step to generate clean mesh from bunch of photos from a camera. To me, this is the most labor intensive part. Later, I heard there are ML model that is able to do this very step, I have no idea on this tho.
"Add this to the difficulty curve of learning a new language for new hires".

This argument is such a pointy-haired boss argument. Mature applications and systems will be more complicated and take longer to learn than the basics of pretty much any programming language. Grab some juniors and teach them if local seniors don't want to work in the language for a reasonable price.
I re-used the 'upper bound' for the insurance - there is no upper bound in liability for the insured. Tort law does not specify a limit in liability - though it can be a bit complicated as there can be other laws around this. A 'fully insured' person is taken to mean sufficiently insured to meet a law, or sufficiently insured to meet a reasonable level of liability. While highly unlikely it's possible that someone with $1,000,000 in insurance can incur $10,000,000 in liability.

To your final point, life is unfair yet it continues. I understand that you wish the world would always provide proper compensation for victims, my position is that even if that was theoretically possible, which I don't think it is, it may not even be optimal.
Yeah, I guess I read it more strictly. It sounds like it would be unlawful but not really illegal.

I think it's lack of availability is just the fact that it was first approved anywhere just last year.
The big costs are staff and rent. I was referring to the markup from the factory cost to the sticker price - that is very high in clothing. It can still be money losing business if you are not selling enough.
"It is hard to compare a passenger train with a freight train, entirely different beasts."

Hm, for me they are quite simimlar. Just one was build to be more silent mainly for passenger comfort (it is inded nicer in the modern silent ones) and the other for most weight. But you could optimize freight trains for silence as well. All the loud metal scratching noises for example are avoidable, even with more weight. The ones I am talking about were just not build with noise in mind.
Summary of John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) Interview on Dwarkesh Podcast
> locked as off-topic and limited conversation to collaborators

Companies that do this to their github projects want fans of their product to go away and stop bothering them. I wasn't aware that Mozilla was one of them, but it doesn't really surprise me.
https://archive.ph/u1pYH
On the other hand, I want the Thunderbird master password to be distinct from my login password. It probably should be a configurable option.
This is great. I live in a dense suburb and the weekend is just a cacophony of deafening noise from leafblowers, table saws, pressure washers, lawn mowers, etc. My neighbor had a team of people grinding and cutting stone slabs for their patio from 9-5 last weekend. Wish people would chill out.

As a side note, leafblowers aren't just disruptive to the sound environment: https://twitter.com/touchmoonflower/status/17242321111447757...
One thing i never understood: Why a blower instead of a vacuum type of device...?
Maybe in the short run but I think you underestimate surveillance tech firms' ability to extract revenue from governments.

If this technology proves even a little bit useful, I expect that ten years from now, cities will be spending double digit percentages of their police department budget on per-unit subscription fees for these drones.

The political and economic incentives for this type of technology are strong in a state without surveillance oversight.

Especially if there's additional revenue potential for the city ( think traffic enforcement and license plate readers)

Next we'll be seeing ai powered antisocial behavior monitoring as a service for live events. I simply cannot wait /s
The new website looks like every startup website I've seen since the start of the 2020s.
I really wish people would be more careful about choosing names for these things.

LoRa has been a popular wireless protocol for like 10 years.
Winamp has (/had) a creator side? I thought it was just a media player.
It seems a net positive overall to me: the system has gone from collecting and storing personal info for no reason, with all the risk that entails (e.g. a data breach that exposes that info) to no longer storing that info (and hopefully no longer collecting it in the first place either). It seems to me like you've built an important auditing tool for picking up areas where the system as a whole was being loose with personal data.

If the end goal is to improve privacy, not collecting and storing the data seems a much stronger protection than crossing your fingers hoping someone doesn't go rummaging around looking for personal data.
The reality is that eBay is full of great electronics and car parts, and sell shitloads of both. Also most things on amazon that are just drop shipped alibaba stuff can be found on eBay for cheaper and less marketing bullshit.
From the article:

"The plaintiff filed for a patent in 2021 for a device generated by AI, listing the inventor's name as "DABUS, an artificial intelligence that autonomously invented this invention." Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) is an AI system developed by Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist and president of Imagination Engines, an AI technology company.

"Japan's Patent Office rejected the application, saying inventors are limited to humans under domestic law."

So, this is less about the genesis of the invention and more about its attribution.
It’s the decline of unions
Are they not ad free with youtube premium? I pay for premium to not get ads in general, getting 3000 ad free movies is just a plus.
And the header links back to the blog, not the main website.
This nailed it..

That [picture of employee] wasn’t taken with a Polaroid with a flash.

Not worthwhile for a forger (unless from a Hollywood movie) to go extra mile for. There is some lesson there for a budding forensic investigator.
Yeah, Futurama used composited 3D elements from the very first episode in 1999. The vehicles are nearly always 3D.
You always have the choice not to use the internet. A far better solution would be to manage this on the client side.
Yea the cult of personality (crumbled now but was more a thing 5-10 years back) resulted in a lot of people falling for marking FUD which sucks.

I've been in software dev way too long to buy that nonsense. As far as my expectations have been it's actually ahead of schedule. That kind of pessimism keeps me constantly happy with the rate of improvement. Lovely psychological trick I've played on myself.
Tell me about it. I bought my Palm Pre shortly after launch and, to this day, I can't think of another smartphone experience on the software end that was as good as webOS, save for Sailfish OS perhaps. If only Palm had been able to get their device on Verizon earlier, and perhaps started off with what the Pre 2 hardware was like.
That seems like a scenario where it'd be very easy to collect evidence, though looking it up there are numerous confirmed sightings in Eastern states so they probably did set up a recorder.
The only truly smart thing in this thread.
Some providers actually need a password. Not everybody supports OAuth -- Thunderbird does, and can use it when it's available.
I'm just pointing out the logical fallacy in saying "crime rates did not decline faster than elsewhere, therefore the investment was unsuccessful".

That observation, alone, doesn't prove anything about the impact had by the program.
This attempts to disassociate fuel from acceleration. Your dissatisfaction is the fuel. You can't dump fuel and maintain the same potential energy. If you manage that it would be the motivational equivalent of a reactionless drive. As is, our propulsion is found in our discontent. Most of us can burn it a lot more efficiently though.
I blow the leaves off my gravel driveway that winds through woodland. I got 2 Ryobi electric leaf blowers free with different cordless tools and so I dual wield them as I walk down the driveway a few times every fall.

I don't care about leaves on the lawn.
The beauty of concrete
I use firefox and always get a warning when accessing an http only site.
https://archive.is/u1pYH
Latency definitely, but imagine pigeons carrying 8TB M.2 PCIe Gen-5 sticks strapped to their backs. That's some crazy throughput rivaling most domestic internet connections.
Again the “insane attention to details” while in 2024 attaching a picture or a file to a message in Apple Mail.app macOS is an absolute nightmare. One example amongst many many others. It’s cool, very cool, but I wouldn’t call Apple this way while there’s so much awkward choices to be fixed in their software.
Woah! Thanks for sharing, that video is amazing, I'd love to see an actual game using that effect.
"It is worth recalling today, as Russia and China confront the United States, that the proximate reason for America’s entry into World War II was its determination to save those two countries from extinction."

Nonsense! Great powers act in their own interests. The US entered the war because of Pearl Harbor. Hitler welcomed the opportunity to wage unrestricted submarine warfare on the US shipping supporting UK & USSR in the struggle against Hitler; hence his declaration of war on the US. Above all the US did not want Nazi/Japanese dominance over Europe, Asia and the Pacific.
A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart [pdf]
This is one job I am actually hopeful will be fully automated. I've heard before that the people doing this 'tween' frames make less than minimum wage on contract.

That being said, I'm sure this is going to take a while to fully replace the manual efforts. There will probably be awkward phase in between the outset and the perfect modelling efforts, and I'm sure lower budget shows (or ones looking to cut corners) will be the early adopters.
If anyone is interested, there are markets on Manifold trying to predict this: https://manifold.markets/ai

To be honest, even as a participant and enthusiast, I’m not sure how useful or accurate it is. I can push the prediction by 13 years with $1 worth of Manifold currency.
I've used Twitch's Twirp before and it does that. It is a great middleground between gRPC and plain-HTTP services. :)

https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
I’m not sure if I would have considered it a fake or not without the title drawing the conclusion for me. But it reminds me of talking to someone who adds too many details to a story to make it more believable. Liars are notorious for “remembering” very obscure details. And these pictures give me the same feeling. I agree with the author of the post that it tries too hard.
“Dr. Tabak,” asked Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, “did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through [Manhattan-based nonprofit] EcoHealth [Alliance]?”

“It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research,” Tabak answered. “If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did.”
I'm sure some marketer has an email chain open with a developer asking if they can use it to help advertise bigger houses to TikTok users who film at home, or something like that. Or maybe advertise luxury products to people who are in large homes.
You pay for everything in life and it's getting more expensive. You got shares in google or something?
Please elaborate on this idea of time moving so fast in your 60s. It is terrifying to me. I'm in my early 40s and I already feel like it is slipping away from me so quickly. I want to achieve my ambitions and I also want to enjoy life, and despite being at the peak of my competency, it just feels like there's never enough time for both.
That's a good observation. Making a quieter leaf blower by greatly reducing its output is pretty easy. But the professional landscaping crews getting paid by the hour won't choose a tool that makes their job take 5x as long.
Agreed, most or all shots of the Planet Express building and Planet Express ship are 3D renderings, even in the original first few seasons. Beyond that, even some shots of Bender in Space are 3D renderings, especially in cases where a complex and continuous shift in perspective is required.

Non-photo-realistic (NPR) 3D art goes back a surprisingly long way in animations. I rewatched the 1988 Disney cartoon "Oliver and Company" recently, and I was surprised to see that the cars and buildings were "cel-shaded" 3D models. I assumed that the movie had been remastered, but when I looked it up, I found out that it was the first Disney movie ever to make heavy use of CGI[0] and that what I was seeing was in the original. The page I found says:

"This was the first Disney movie to make heavy use of computer animation. CGI effects were used for making the skyscrapers, the cars, trains, Fagin's scooter-cart and the climactic Subway chase. It was also the first Disney film to have a department created specifically for computer animation."

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0: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Oliver_%26_Company
You're right, and that's one of my internal conflicts. I think there still is a way to have "internal peace" while still believing the world isn't good enough.

You're at peace because you're doing the best you can to fix or improve things. Part of that peace comes from focussing on the journey and not the outcome.
> It also surprises me that there is no good emoji for hugging.

… U+1FAC2 "People Hugging"?

> Especially when western culture far more normalizes platonic hugging

… I see U+1FAC2 used this way quite often in a forum I frequent…
First sentence:

> The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly impacted human society, driving significant advancements in multiple sectors.

OK this is not serious science.
* 2017

Cool!
I wonder if the einstein really said that quote about bees, and if biologists would agree with it
Raku also has a distinctive (and a bit bizarre) string type for including graphemes. It builds a lookup table of grapheme clusters, and represents them in memory as negative i32s.

My Hot Take on this is that finding grapheme clusters is important (Julia has this built in, last I checked it was a crate in Rust), but O(1) access to each grapheme is less important.

Except for emoji-heavy applications, such as tend to be written for phones. So, good choice for Swift.
Correct, but this is why we need living wills, and for those without them, we need sane and humane defaults. There is a point where being alive is its own form of suffering.
Those suckers doing honest work (whatever that means) should have used Tornado Cash to protect their earning from the tax man.
>I know that this is an uncommon view.

I don't think this is correct - this is an extremely common view, in several senses of the word. It's especially popular among people who have never tried to use an unmoderated forum with more than a few members, and the sort of people who make moderation a necessity in the first place.

>because it's a convenient lesser evil

This is the true in the sense that pretty much all of society is a convenient lesser evil than "everybody agrees generally what the right thing is and does that all the time without exception".
I just read about this on [0].

This method is a little bit more complicated than you describe it. I’m also not sure how easy it is to scale.

You still need to destroy parts of the beehive, let all the bees hunger for a few days and disinfectant the parts of the beehive you want to reuse. I don’t know if all of this is possible with that many beehives mentioned in the post.

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstschwarmverfahren
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> I have no idea how the seller thought the German Red Cross would emboss their paper with a circle of stars

Perhaps because of European Union flag?

https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor...
> And it serves no ecological purpose.

At least from my experience, it's not done for ecological purposes. It's primarialy done to clear pathways for safety, maintenance, and aesthetics.

Some people do blow a whole lawn, but that never struck me as useful. Cleaning up the path is nice though, and depending on your paths, makes plenty of noise already.
Speed, mostly. There are blowers that also act as vacuums. It works okay, but still pretty slow, if you blow it all into a pile first. You could do better with a wide device that worked like a lawn mower, but that would only be useful for a fraction of the areas you are trying to clean up.
I’ve used it in the US for powder coating spec a few times.
Vision test: GPT-4o vs. GPT-4-turbo. Can it be used to automate Web UI testing? [video]
they exist, I have a one that works both ways, it can blow leaves and it can suck in and mulch the leaves into a bag. Some reasons you don't see it as much include

1. mine jams extremely easily when sticks or wet leaves get into it
2. their ability to actually move leaves is significantly less when in suck mode vs blow mode, this is not specific to moving leaves, try sucking sugar throw a straw vs blowing it, blowing moves stuff MUCH more.
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Hear hear. Rakes can be more efficient[0], provide an upper-body workout, minimise impact to the environment, make next to no sound, cost almost nothing, and provide a relaxing experience if you know how to embrace it.

I suppose these days people take techno-efficiency over all else to the point of ruining the environment, other people's peace, their own air quality, their own wallet, and so on, all so that they can blow the leaves off of their lawn in a supposedly shorter time or for slightly less effort.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-XqbXi7tNo
Personally I'll never go back to REST because you lose important typing information. The complexity doesn't go away. In the RPC/codegen paradigm the complexity is in the tooling and is handled by machines. In REST, it's in the minds of your programmers and gets sprinkled throughout the code.

> You need to compile the protobufs and update all services that use them.

You need to update all the services when you change your REST API too right? At least protobufs generates your code automatically for you, and it can do it as part of your build process as soon as you change your proto. Changes are backwards compatible so you don't even need to change your services until they need to change.
very well put together article!
Wells Fargo employees who knowingly processed money for drug cartels went to prison too. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/wells-fargo-personal-ba...
Pretty sure iOS Mail supports this
The article talks about an alternative: vaccination.

Also people in other countries, like the another poster in here talking about how they do heat treatment in Germany and don’t need to burn hives.
The article briefly touches on the links between the "tradwife" movement and the alt-right, but doesn't really press on, even though it also contains these poignant examples:

... Estee Williams, a quasi-Marilyn Monroe with white-blond waves and a cinched waist, advocate marital subservience. Others, like the Australian Jasmine Dinis, sell Biblical womanhood affirmations. One, the Canadian Gwen Swinarton, has pivoted from making porn videos for OnlyFans and A.S.M.R. content for YouTube to the trad-wife space. (In a recent TikTok testimony, she credited the transition to God.) Then there are more openly political, like Abby Roth, who splices mothering tips with anti-abortion content.

Pettitt, the O.G., is a rare Brit and a purist [...] set out her Christian beliefs and principles of womanhood long before the new generation of trad wives began filming themselves saucily kneading sourdough.

and there is more in the linked article from The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/27/tradwives-ne...)

In my opinion anyone should be free to decide how they define their roles in their relationship/marriage. If both are happy in a "traditional" marriage with a breadwinner and a housewife, who am I to judge, but there is something very eerie about how radical some people can get about these things.

To me tradwifes almost seem like the feminine counterparts to incels. May they be very happy together.
In a previous reality, Pi did equal 3. It was crazy! March 0 Pi day, what!
That feels a bit like saying you disagree with farm automation so you fired your oxen and pull the plow yourself now.

There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'm empathetic to the people that feel like they can't focus in commercial operating systems, but their only option is to adapt or fall off. Making MacOS or Windows into a usable and non-distracting environment is basically the only way I have been able to make money in the tech industry. If I told my boss I was switching to a typewriter for efficiency purposes, I'd be gone before the end of the day.
My grandfather supported his wife and 2 kids with a 9-5 factory job. He definitely sacrificed his hands (nothing gory, just lots of joint issues late in life) but in return he got a stable pension, benefits, and a solid middle class existence.

What do you have to sacrifice to do it now?
I think its a reference to the
http://www.penguinscience.com/reprints/10%20Russell.pdf

If you want to be in black and white..
> Math seems like low hanging fruit in that regard.

First-order logic is undecidable, so no dice.
I think this is an unsolved tooling question right now.

You could get some sense of the parallelism by using `/usr/bin/time` and dividing the wall time with the user time.

You could look at the Task Manager / Activity Monitor / htop and see if it's using 800% CPU or whatever.

You could use psrecord (https://pypi.org/project/psrecord/) to get a relatively finegrained CPU+mem usage graph across the duration of the program.

But it would probably still be best to record some sort of stats in the Bend/HVM itself, enabled via a CLI flag. Reductions per ms, sampled across the program duration, or something like that.

I'd be interested in anybody's ideas of what a good metric would be here!

EDIT: CLI flag, not CPU flag
Ah good question, it depends.
So getting a GDPR compliance requires you to not only put that popup, but also disclose what personal information you are storing, to both the auditor and the user. The anomalies arrive when the users are not careful to read those disclosures and the companies take advantage.
In our case, we gather only the user emails from Oauth2 media, which we use to analyse user behaviour and improve the product.

And adding to that, any platform in this domain, if it asks for more personal information, is subject to suspicion as to what they use it for.