skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 29 years for me. It's my first 3D rendering software.
I actually broke down and I'm paying the exorbitant Apple tax for the extra iCloud storage for photos etc to deal with syncing between phone/mac/ipad etc.
Using iCloud with macOS Virtual Machines
If you like Google using your personal photos for machine learning, that's your option. Now they have your every photo, geotagged and timestamped so they can see where you have been and at what times. Then they of course anonymise that information into an "advertiser id" they tag on to you and a sufficient quantity of other people so they can claim they're not directly targeting anyone.

I prefer Apple's privacy focused option myself.
Most people can't do everything you can do (depending on what you mean by everything). They are still intelligent. Many animals are considered intelligent, like crows and dogs.

I show, in the article, at least one case where an LLM performs a task that requires comprehension of the concepts in the task. It doesn't require self-awareness though, neither does intelligence.

> Artificial Stupidity

Could you elaborate on this point?

> if that makes you feel better.

There is no need for this snark.
> The B&H owners are Szatmars

This is getting very tangential, but I've never seen someone spell it in English Szatmar before as opposed to Satmar. (From what I understand, Szatmar is the Hungarian-derived spelling, whereas Satmar is the Yiddish-derived one.)
Computer systems are not humans and never will be.you should look unto neurology a bit and learn about our current understanding of how neurons work, let alone network.
The tech term is a total non sequitur compared to real neurons.

Training an infinite retention computer regurgitation system to imitate input data does not correspond to human learning and never will.

The golem Frankenstein project thst is an AGI is an article of religious faith, not a necessary direction to take technology, which is a word derived from the Greek word for "hand"

Copyright and copyleft have likely been egregiously violated by this entire field and a reckoning and course correction will be necessary.

Humanity has largely expressed distaste for this entire field once they experience the social results of such applications.

The amount of sycophantic adulation in this thread is sickening.

My comment will likely be grayed out soon by insider downclicks.

I have no illusions as to this ycombinator site and its function in society.

Good day
Wow! I never knew things like this existed! I always used wget (full below) but nowadays seemingly all sites are behind cloudflare so I need to pass a cookie too.

Glad to see easier methods!

wget \
--header "Cookie: <cf or other>"
--user-agent="<UA>"
--recursive \
--level 5 \
--no-clobber \
--page-requisites \
--adjust-extension \
--span-hosts \
--convert-links \
--domains <example.com> \
--no-parent \
<example.com\sub>
Study: Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated
It's been a long time since I have looked at POV ray and my knowledge of it is woefully out of date, but does POV ray currently make use of hardware acceleration or is it still CPU bound?
Is AMD's AI Software Ready for Next Data Center GPU?
Entropy. Takes too much effort to change, far less effort to stay, especially since most of the doom-and-gloom predictions proved to unrealized.

You have better chance of getting a car driver to adopt public transit.
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This comment seems misleading… The example used was “the one thing you must know about this topic is …”, and I would have agreed with this comment if they forgot the “is …” part.
> And I guarantee there are devices listening into, characterising and locating radio emitters in major cities at the very least.

Not convinced there is that level of sophistication at play
I find preventive insurances as business with fear for wealthy clients.

I never spent a cent for unnecessary insurances.
1979 was after the genocide and after Pol Pot was pushed out of power. Implying the US had something to do with the killing fields defies common sense. The khmer rouges were primarily China and North Vietnam backed.

Now the US did support some incompetent and corrupt militia in Cambodia to oppose the Khmer rouges, and those did their fair share of misdeeds, to the frustration of local US officers. But given the crimes the khmer rouges ended up committing, it is hard to argue that not opposing them was the morally superior position, even with hindsight.
Muzak aimed to be more than just background noise - it supposedly improved worker productivity, and manipulated your mood.
Or in a word: Extortion. "Pay us money to rent our asset, or else our policy of willful neglect will allow criminals to rent the asset and use it to harm you."

> It is like a billboard that no one is interesting in using, so the billboard company fills it with something like "Your competitor's ad goes here".

Here I disagree, that example is qualitatively different and would be totally legitimate if the competitor put a regular ad there.

Well, unless the billboard is on your company's building or something, then it might be misleading.
That's one annoying thing with modern articles. You have to wade through paragraphs and paragraphs of "John grew up a taxidermist's son and bla bla bla bla..." before you even get to what the article is supposed to be about.

Then you get a couple of on-topic sentences followed by another deluge of fluff.

Oldschool newspapers were great because space was at such a premium that this kind of garbage wouldn't happen.
I played with this a lot during my degree back in 97-99. A friend used it to render her final year project.

Amazing to see it's still going!
It does feel that way. They are an ex-division executive. If anything, I feel like this could be a case of them getting nicely managed out while building out that CEO experience before they go off and retire successfully into the sunset after making a shit tonne through an IPO, ignoring the gutting of the company they've done to make sure the short term balance sheet looks good; while the long term viability of it is in shambles.
People not so much but services yes
About 11 years ago, after having written a tiny ray tracer from scratch using Java, I taught myself some ray tracing with POV-Ray. My goal was to learn a few POV-Ray features each day over 25 days and render some interesting scenes that exercise those features.

I began with simple spheres and cubes and gradually progressed to more intricate shapes and textures. Here are the results:

https://github.com/susam/pov25

The source code is in the "src/" directory. The rendered images are included in the README (scroll down to see them). I hope you like them!
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That said, if you really are 100% motivated by abstract technical challenges, then maybe academia is more for you than industry is.

Of course. Such people very typically attempt to get a foothold in academia. The central reason why they nevertheless leave academia is because of the precarious job situation.
Maybe this can finally make record labels get their shit together and provide reasonable licensing for music.

Ever wonder why restaurants and other commercial venues keep playing bland bossa-nova cover versions of good songs?

Licensing.
The difference (in my experience) is if it works with Apple, it "just works". If it doesn't work, it will never work.

It's a binary and you generally know the answer straight away.

Some people dislike it because they enjoy looking for answers and the freedom to change how things work. Others like it because they don't want to spend their time searching and mucking about with configurations.
Apologies yes, I mean 4 days in the office and 1 work from home - not a 4 day work week.
They can request to pay more if you want a mac to run virtual machines and login to icloud.
I read one neurosurgeon (developing a theory of quantum biology) tell that mitochondria can develop voltage potentials comparable to a lightning bolt. Then searched a bit in PubMed and found something like still up to a couple of hundreds or a hundred milliVolts.

But I was curious, what do you think about the ways by which ligands find their receptors inside or outside cells in a dense bioelectrical and biochemical environment (as described here [0]). When I asked on stackexchange, they gave me a link about gradients and concentrations, but my question was about the very beginning of ligand's effect when it needs to find and activate at least one receptor. And no receptors seem to be able to "sense" a piece of space with a ligand's concentration, as they need direct binding of a ligand, but before this how does a ligand find a way to the receptor?

This may differ whether its a small or large molecule ligand, but my ligands of interest are ions (Ca/Mg, Na, K ,Cl; Li), peptides, anticancer drugs with metallocomplexes, ion channel drugs and similar drugs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854316
I can’t even find the appropriate documentation.
Sorry less, I mean 4 days in the office, 1 from home.
In France it's 33700 to report SMS spam to the authorities

https://www.33700.fr/informations-pratiques/signaler-un-mess...
Not in this instance no. ZBB is a pretty common budgeting method I think. All the corporations I've worked at have used in in some regard.
What Apple has done is the reverse of the search deal
Often there's a long click menu in your SMS app to do it.

But all that really does is copy the body into a new SMS. There's no metadata to indicate it's forwarded, as you suspect.

This means texting 7726 is a two step process. First you send the body. You immediately get a response asking for the phone number of the spam sender, so then you sent that.
They hid the workaround for this - it’s going to be available in US english first, and then other locations over the coming year.

This can be never. LLMs fail fast as you move away from high resourced languages.
The article says it’s lora a bunch of times. That’s clear.

My comment above is about dev experience, memory swapping, tuning base models to each HW release, and app size.
This is so oddly relatable to scaling an internet business. At least it leaves some space for niche players.
Chess dot com needs to release the data.
> What makes you think that internal access control at Apple is any better

There are multiple verified stories on the lengths Apple goes internally to keep things secret.

I saw a talk years ago about (I think) booting up some bits of the iCloud infrastructure, which needed two different USB keys with different keys to boot up. Then both keys were destroyed so that nobody knows the encryption keys and can't decrypt the contents.
iPhone mirroring is going to be terrible for schools, especially those with a “keep it in your bag” policy. Good luck getting any research or typing work done.
Spotify (like other streaming services) pays about 70% of its revenue to the rights holders of the music it plays.

AI music means near-zero cost of goods sold so the full 70% can turn into profit. The incentive is so strong that it's a certainty waiting to happen.
My First Production Bug
I recently learned that Spotify has a service for this as well https://www.soundtrackyourbrand.com/
The issue with those kind of messages is sender authentication, not content confidentiality.
Pretty sure (from the chapter titles) this is the same project as https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ — which has last commit 9hrs ago, rather than 2007 =)
In that, they might have a point.-

FO(C)MO(BIT), Fear of (Culturally) Missing Out (through Bias in Training) setting in ...
It’s Blackmagic so it’s going to be reasonably priced
How does it help me (with maxed out M3 Max) that Apple might have some chip in the future right now? I do DL on A6000 and 4090, not waiting until Apple produces a chip someday that is faster than 1650 in ML...
You can put functions on the stack.
It ran on Atari ST and I remember I had to let it run all night to get fancy reflective spheres in all their 320x200 glory.
Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads
A lot of people on reddit are reporting strange behavior when using Firefox and uBlock origin on Youtube like infinite back to back ads and failure to play videos.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1atwzem/comment/l82adtm/
"Lucifer Our Lord"
The team at CPSdrone (3D printed submersibles) made a very similar project to hunt for and identify a sunken plane: https://youtu.be/QnBfJzApJMg?si=vFGqMrqZOgFXMAoV

They also used an ArduRover powered catamaran and the same brand Sonar, but made a smaller deployable ROV.
All the "anti-imperialist left" support is someone else's empire.
The best protection against "secret orders" is to use mathematics.

Build your system so that it can't be decrypted, don't log anything etc. Mullvad has been doing this with VPNs and law enforcement has tested it - there's nothing for them to get.

Same has been proven with Apple not allowing FBI to open an iPhone, because it'd set a precedent. Future iPhone versions were made so that it's literally impossible for even Apple to open a locked iPhone.

There's no reason why they wouldn't go to same lengths on their private cloud compute. It's the one thing they can do that Google can't.
China’s competitive advantage is cheap labour brought about by poor workers rights and a low quality of life. Innovation has nothing to do with it. It is hilarious that you think European economies want to compete with that. The tariffs eliminate the exploitation that China can leverage that European manufacturers cannot. They are actually levelling the playing field in this market - you know - making it more competitive through innovation (the thing you apparently like) vs maximising exploitation of the workforce.
I did the online interview and then the in-person one and those worked out ok. But, I think Triplebyte was only viable because the huge engineering shortage at the time made that high-touch and expensive process worth pursuing. Its purpose was to find talented people who otherwise would fall through the cracks. Now there are unemployed engineers with impressive resumes everywhere, so there is less demand for a deep-digging recruiting operation like Triplebyte.
The lock-in is the point.

I mean, why else would Apple invest in something like this. They became the richest company in the world by increasing lock-in in every step.
> When this developer thinks about a hostile OS, Windows 11 is rhe first thing that comes to mind.

Why bring up whataboutism? I honestly don't care that Windows is also hostile. It also has the worst implementation of virtual desktops. What has that got to do with MacOS also being generally terrible.

The rest of your comment adds nothing, as it just repeats what I said.
He is still annoyed communism failed so epically. In his mind the Soviet satellites were to blame for wanting independence. It can been seen again with Ukraine, it's not that the Ukrainians are standing up for their independence, it is somehow NATOs fault.

He has made some good points about western politics from time to time. Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
While I can't know what the parent-parent post meant, POV Ray is around for over 30 years and was popular in the early 2000's on the internet as well, and is fun to play around with, I remember people posting renderings on forums like gamedev.net etc...
https://infosec.exchange/ has a ton of infosec people, big names.

https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green - And he's there BTW :)
Chess historian Tim Krabbé ran an analysis with a different notation, using an extended algebrical system (start and end square + kind of captured piece, if any). Here his results: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/diary_6.htm (entry 105).

His site is a trove of information for people liking chess trivia.
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When enrolling physical security keys to my accounts, only Google's process requested extra, identifiable fields in my key, generating a warning in Firefox, which can anonymize these fields.

Google wants to track even my physical security key across sites to track me.

How can I trust their AI systems with my data?
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Yup, CS satisfaction just shot up with gen AI. I don't think any headcount is reduced from CS either. AI just does the triaging. CS handles larger areas, more interesting questions, do account manager level stuff.

For example, one problem I had recently was my printer didn't work after buying it. We went through 12 fucking hours of "unplug and reconnect your printer". At times the guy asked me to inform when it's working and I told him you told me to unplug it without reconnecting it. Of course it doesn't work! Eventually he sent me a driver. I ran it, it worked.

Most of that lag was just from customer support being in an entirely different timezone, with focus split up over tons of different people on WhatsApp, and by the time I read their message I'm just afk. AI is just great at that sort of thing. I just want the driver file. Find me the damn driver file. Your website doesn't work or at least the search isn't turning up the right one.

I wish companies like AWS would do this so I wouldn't have to pay ChatGPT $20 to point out where buttons are. I wish Firebase's one worked.

Downside: Every now and then AI is just overloaded and your first level of support breaks.
Fun fact: Bison created deep, wide grooves in the plains and prairies that were subsequently used by the settlers moving west in their wagons.
Agreed. Just watch out for younger siblings :).
Sorry but this isn't true in my experience, I've worked on 3 different native macOS apps at different companies in the last few years and all were signed, notarized and then distributed with Sparkle. At least one of those has pretty sizable DAU/MAU figures so you can definitely get users.
That's going to be something similar to IPAdapter FaceID: https://ipadapterfaceid.com
Basically you use a facial structure representation that you'd use for face recognition (which of course Apple already compute on all your photos) together with some additional feature representations to guide the image generation.
No need for additional fine-tuning. A similar approach could likely be used for handwriting generation.
This is exactly what I was thinking during the entire keynote. It was blatantly the WWSC (worldwide shareholder conference) and hackernews commenters are eating it up.

Don't get me wrong, I've always appreciated apples on device ml/AI features, those have always been powerful, interesting and private but these announcements feel very rushed, it's literally a few weeks after Microsoft's announcements.

They've basically done almost exactly what Microsoft announced with a better UX and a pinky promise about privacy. How are they going to pay for all of that compute? Is this going to be adjusted into the price of the iPhones and MacBook? and then a subscription layer is going to be added to continue paying for it? I don't feel comfortable with the fact that my phone is basically extending it's hardware to the cloud. No matter how "private" it is it's just discomforting to know that apple will be doing inference on things seemingly randomly to "extend" compute capabilities.

Also what on earth is apple high on, integrating a third party API into the OS, how does that even make sense. Google was always a separate app, or a setting in safari, you didn't have Google integrated at an OS level heck you don't have that on Android. It feels very discomforting to know that today my phone could phone home to somewhere other than iCloud.
Their focus is more on complex financial crimes, so they're a bit better educated than your typical cop.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34336386 (1532 points | Jan 11, 2023 | 320 comments)
By their FAQ: CPU, FPU, Bus speed, and Memory bound - in decreasing order of relevance.

Will POV-Ray render faster if I buy the latest and fastest 3D videocard?

3D-cards are not designed for raytracing. They read polygon meshes and then scanline-render them. Scanline rendering has very little, if anything, to do with raytracing. 3D-cards can't calculate typical features of raytracing as reflections etc. The algorithms used in 3D-cards have nothing to do with raytracing.

Does POV-Ray support 3DNow for faster rendering?

No, and most likely never will.

https://wiki.povray.org/content/Knowledgebase:Miscellaneous

POV-Ray 3.7.0 (released 6 November 2013) is the current official version for all platforms.

There are significant internal changes in this version due to the introduction of SMP support.

https://www.povray.org/download/
They are not strange it's very easy to understand: He says that throwing around the word genocide for every atrocity cheapens the word and diminishes how bad the holocaust was.

As for the parent the "fat man" he is referring to is the man in the back, not the man in the front. And the picture is pure propaganda: as he points out (and I believe was confirmed by the actual photographer) what is depicted and understood to show a prison isn't even fenced in. I would love to know what the "false claims about what the sources he cited said". I only know of one case were he mis-cited someone and it didn't change the meaning.
Pretty ironic considering it’s the City of London Police website.

If malicious clients want to try their luck, I’d say let them.
He was entirely right about that too.

NATO is an aggressive alliance that has exclusively invaded three countries in the last 20 years, zero of whom were threat to it.

The worst one was probably Libya, because NATO pretended to engage in a humanitarian mission to gain approval from the security council and then left the country utterly destroyed state afterwards. The country was shredded.

It's a tool of western imperialism that dangles the false promise of protection. In this respect it operates with the same logic as a gang recruiting teenagers before using them as cannon fodder.

Of course you can't say these things in polite company just as I couldn't say that WMDs were a complete load of bullshit in 2003 without being verbally attacked.

In 20 years time it will be seen as obvious, however.
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