skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will never be a good reason besides you wanting it. That’s the best it’ll ever be.

A couple years back I promised I’d add Tektronix graphics to VTE (and, therefore, Gnome Terminal), and have, since, been looking for a VT230/240/330 to use as a reference implementation, but never found one. Not even a WYSE with graphics (their model numbering was a mess - I’m not sure I have have a list of the models I could use).

If I ever get a real DEC VT, I’ll even throw ReGIS in into the mix.

That’s not really a good reason. At best, it’s an excuse.
I understand this maybe isn’t obvious to people who haven’t worked in a high security environment before but that is so incredibly far from what would be considered acceptable or reasonable.

Having said that I think it’s also a great example of how even he had no meaningful understanding of what he was actually looking at or the context in which it existed.

Or at least that’s the most charitable interpretation of the useful idiot theory that I can think of. It’s also unfortunately a really good example of why credible people think it was an operation from the get go because those steps really only make sense to the general public.
It's slow to the point of being outpaced by an ARM SBC from 2016, and it's not even current with today's RISC-V spec. This is a curiosity, nothing more, but it will still be far and away the nicest (but not the only!) RISC-V laptop. Give me a Pi CM5 + 16GB RAM Framework motherboard carrier and I'll get out my credit card.

Benchmarks of the CPU in question: https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks...
Unfortunately there isn't a neat mechanism like short-selling.
No, I just stop and restart when I feel like I'm in a good spot. Nothing fancy.
Agree on the price, they won't be able to hit $1500. That's less than what foldable phones cost, and the BOM on AVP must be a lot higher.
The issue here is that Amazon had productivity quotas for its workers that were kept secret from the workers. It's the keeping a secret part that is illegal. On the one hand, this seems reasonable, but the fact that the law only applies to warehouse workers (the "Warehouse Quota Law") and was passed in 2022 makes me suspicious that this isn't a good faith worker protection law but rather specifically targeted at Amazon for political reasons. If this practice is so bad, why is it allowed for all other industries?
I read the bill this morning and it's unclear what I'm supposed to freak out about. The requiring ID to use online services is annoying, but it appears that they are establishing a committee to research the effects rather than implementing it. Is there something dire in there that I missed?
"Nobody likes ads" -> A lot of people pay a lot of money for them, because they have to or because they see results from revenue.

Also, like in the late stages of addiction, "we wondered why people even paid for them" -> the effect is muted and the drug is still around "for some reason".
It's called "The Trough of Disillusionment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
True, there are some troublesome aspects to that one.
There's a good long middle ground. Search results do seem desperate now, but they got into this position in the first place by failing to execute when they had the advantage. None of Google's customers have ever cared how well an AI can play Go. If there's one place the bragging could've translated to profits, it'd be Tensorflow dominance, which didn't happen.
A small rounding error.
Nvidia is now the most valuable public company in the world
martinvoz/jj: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj :

> Working-copy-as-a-commit: Changes to files are recorded automatically as normal commits, and amended on every subsequent change. This "snapshot" design simplifies the user-facing data model (commits are the only visible object), simplifies internal algorithms, and completely subsumes features like Git's stashes or the index/staging-area.
This is false. Any "open" event (or anything, really) can be closed for select individuals.

The reason for this exclusion just can't be a banned criteria such as race.

(I.e. kicking someone out after they've stirred up controversy)

I'm not saying that this happened to you, I'm just addressing the point you made, that anything "open" can't or shouldn't be exclusionary.
Unfortunately 'prestige' is bestowed by the author's peers - Police internal affairs detectives don't have much prestige within the Police department.
I work at an ISP that offers fixed wireless Internet.

For marketing purposes I generate viewsheds around each of our ~500 towers, so we can get an idea which suburbs to market to.

At the time of sale, my system will calculate the line of site from the access point on the tower to the customer rooftop to determine the height of the pole (is any) needed to get service.

Like the OP, we re-sampled (gdalwarp, raster2pgsql) some of the 15cm lidar data to ~1m to get it down to a manageable size (7TB) and run it on a single bare-metal PostgGIS instance (500GB ram, 64 cores)

Radio waves at 5GHz are quite 'fat' so we need to allow for that on LOS calculations as per [0].

The GIS magic mostly sits in PostGIS and we use a number of data sets to solve problems:
* Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - Digital Elevation Model and Digital Surface Model, 30m grid [1]
* Building footprints for all of Australia [2]
* National Roads [3]
* property boundaries (cadastre) [4]
* All Australian addresses [5]
* Australian suburbs [6]

For the front end we use a VueJS app (quasar.dev) using DeckGL on Google Maps to visualise the LOS path. Back end is Rust (axum/sqlx).

GIS is a very interesting are to work in - if I had more fun they might start charging me admission to come to work!

[0] https://s.campbellsci.com/documents/au/technical-papers/line...
[1] https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/me...
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints
[3] https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/me...
[4] https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cadastral-data-queenslan...
[5] https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/geocoded-national-a...
[6] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-stati...
Agree, but I'm surprised Adobe rushed headlong into cutting off their "long tail" without an alternate solution.

It made Affinity happy, I imagine.
It would be so interesting if we came to a consensus that "cascading deletes" should apply to research papers. If a paper is retracted 20+ years later, and it has 4,500 references, those references should be retracted non-negotiably in cascading fashion. Perhaps such a practice could lead to better research by escalating the consequences of fraud.
It's important to disentangle this specific approach of generating a gaussian splatting model from 2d images, with gaussian splats as a general rendering technique.

There is nothing that prevents gaussian splatting from being used dynamically. There are a variety of approaches to extend gaussian splats into the time dimension to capture and represent a 3d scene over time. The challenges here about how to capture sufficient scene data (or use ai to fill in insufficient data) and how to compress it. There are also techniques that enable dynamic simulations, or real time animation of collections of splats.

Also, adding un-baked lighting to gaussian splats is not particularly hard, you can already throw slats into several game engines / 3d renderers and add new lights to them. The hard part of relighting is taking an existing capture of a scene with baked-in lighting and deriving the resulting material properties and lighting sources. This isn't directly related to gaussian splats themselves though, you would have a similar problem recovering the base materials and lights from a 3d mesh with baked-in lighting textures. This really falls under a separate category of techniques called "inverse rendering". If anything, gaussian splats give us a new tool to help with these sorts of problems.

Honestly the biggest remaining roadblocks to more elaborate and widespread uses of gaussians as a rendering method are probably storage and performance related. And I'm optimistic these will be convincingly solved, triangle rasterization has had many orders of magnitude more research, optimization, and custom hardware built around it.
An AI bot is (sort of) running for mayor in Wyoming
It also helps to overshadow other ballooning parts of the budget so that administrators face less scrutiny .
>'m pretty sure you told the GP how they should or should not interact with others by telling them not to use acronyms. I'm don't understand how that's any different.

Except I did nothing of the sort. I took the information given and attempted to interpolate (unsuccessfully, I might add) what OP was talking about.

While I did make the point that OP should have realized that others don't know what they're talking about if they don't tell us, I most certainly didn't say they shouldn't use acronyms.

Rather, I chastised them for not defining ambiguous terms, which wasted my time and energy trying to figure out what they were going on about.
Nobody uses decentralised messaging systems. Even email which was decentralized is predominantly 4-5 big companies. And moxie made some very good arguments on why email is still lacking any new features like E2E while Whatsapp can add it very quickly. Then there is matrix, and trying to use it is an exercise in frustration even for tech users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39368561), for non tech it is a non starter. Not to mention the features people expect from their messaging apps simply won't work in decentralized messaging systems (e.g delete for all, read receipts which are symmetric).
Well, strictly speaking modern LLMs are transformers (not counting state space models like Mamba, for the moment). Not sure what hidden Markov chains have to do with modern LLMs.
When's the last time this happened?
The solution in the fine article relies on diffing what are essentially zipped text files. Thus this solution might be adaptable to LibreOffice files as well.
I meant kibwen didn't say anything about performance, not the OP.
>if people can be punished for saying something

You are still failing to understand that nobody is prosecuted for what they say in the US. What is prosecuted is the damages incurred from what is said, such as damage to reputation in the case of defamation or physical/financial harm in the case of false marketing.

If you can't understand that, you need to go back and do your homework before you continuing discussing freedom of speech.
I meant kibwen, not the OP.
Are you sure Auntie Emasculation is not real? I feel like I’ve met at least a couple of them…
Putting that many nontrivial SoCs into a laptop-sized chassis isn't really possible - just look at how busy this single-SoC motherboard already is[0].

It would make far more sense to go the traditional Raspberry Pi cluster way, either as discrete nodes[1], daughterboards[2], or as blades[3].

[0]: https://deepcomputing.io/a-risc-v-world-first-independently-...

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/cluster-raspberry-pi-t...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecdm3oA-QdQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6zt8KeXFdA

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDGlpnP-vE
I meant to imply grid scale solutions not just pumped hydro only. The point was end customers based storage is not cost effective option for negative pricing, which will be be almost always marginally negative just shy of the cost of plants to scale down their generation.

Pumped hydro has been the cheapest by far and proven at scale far beyond any other solution including grid scale batteries, but only works in specific geographies and up to a fixed scale.

Grid scale batteries, pumped hydro, molten salts or other grid scale storage are all viable options provided TCO is cheaper than arbitrage that comes from price fluctuations.

This is no different than arbitrage in say commodity markets by taking delivery of the goods like say how U.S. government is using its strategic oil reserves these days.
ban all electronics. but I wish it were this simple. Like most of our issues, it's a cultural / ethical issue not a tools issue.

The phones are sold as leashes for insecure parents to constantly snoop on their kids.

Until that culture is corrected, not much will change.
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The default LLM is Claude 3 Sonnet hosted by Anthropic. However you can run local models via Ollama: https://sourcegraph.com/docs/cody/clients/install-vscode#sup...
thanks for the feedback. let me check and get back to you
Ask HN: What are some data I can't get from API payloads?
Data are stored in databases, but those data came from the product, most of the time from APIs. Why can't we use API payload data for analytics?
Sorry, we're leaving HS physics with this one...

Objects in motion have kinetic energy, and Einstein says mass and energy are equivalent. This means in a very real sense objects in motion have additional "relativistic mass". When you annihilate that photon it's energy is transferred to whatever absorbed it.

Confused? You're not alone! Physicists are trying to move away from the terms "rest mass" and "relativistic mass" for reasons including one you've already identified: what does it even mean for a photon to be "at rest"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity
McAfee/Norton/etc. could license signed "scarecrow" versions of their products for use with something like this so that it's impossible for the malware to distinguish a scarecrow version of MacAfee from the real thing (and they would get a cut/kickback).

I would pay a small amount for a scarecrow version of AV software if a) it had zero footprint on my system resources, and b) it really did scare away malware that checks for such things.

Either way, though, it makes malware more onerous to develop since it has to bundle in public keys in order to verify running processes are correctly signed.
Fair enough - that's true, for sure!
I never said anything about corruption one way or another, I said we don't have groups with an agreed upon definition of "common good" - look at basically any healthy decision-making group (government, party planning committee, whatever) and you'll find two sides with differing definitions.

I think we'd maybe both agree that Google and Facebook ushering in "absolute surveillance" probably came about from a single-minded view of "common good" within those companies - aka an example of a group of people aligned on a common good leading to things going poorly.

But it's silly to think that some other group with a different (but also single-minded) definition of common good is going to somehow fix all the problems and not cause new, potentially worse, problems. That's what I was attempting to get at with my initial comment.

Given that we weren't even really talking about the same thing from the start, and that I don't care enough to continue, I'm gonna opt out from this convo. Have a nice day though.
I suspect this would have some unintended consequences, not all good.
Sure, it's possible, Tox did it already. People don't want decentralised systems because they're not convenient enough. Your average user does not know what a peer or private key is. How many Signal users even verify their contacts' fingerprints? And when operating within the confines of mobile walled gardens, you need centralisation somewhere. Somebody needs to publish an app, and the publisher will be beholden to the same laws as anyone.
Awesome! Next step is mash it up with Pong and Guitar Hero so you have to use a paddle to hit the balls in the right direction to play a song.
Give her an allowance budget. She can spend what she wants on whatever.

She manages the house. I try and make the allowance bigger year after year.
> California investigated two Amazon facilities near Los Angeles and in May found that the company failed to “provide written notice of quotas to which each employee is subject,” according to a copy of the citation shared with The Washington Post by the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, a nonprofit that advocates for improving working conditions at warehouses.

Very few workplaces have written quotas for employees. Be angry about Amazon or whatever, but let's just be real that if Amazon is guilty of heinous crimes for not giving workers a strict written quota, so are 98% of other employers, large and small.
An electric motor is very different from an internal combustion engine. I'm not sure where you were going with the analogy but an electric motor does eliminate the need to lubricate that an internal combustion engine has (no valves, crankshaft, pistons, transmission etc.). Analogous somewhat to maybe a bad software architecture needing constant care vs. a better one that just works and eliminates a lot of that extra care.

I've learned about this term from the economics side rather than the military side. It's all the hidden factors that make things more expensive. Transaction costs. I do think this is a good analogy for "drag" in software development, something along the lines of "technical debt".
Are secret quotas common in other settings? I don't think I've ever been told about one, and I had a whole lot of other jobs before starting this career.
The JH7110 is a multi-year-old SBC that is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 is. It does not have many extensions for things people today take for granted (no hardware crypto for instance is in practice a massive loss.) So, if you're OK with that, then it will be fine. But most people probably aren't interested in making their expensive laptop perform worse than a 15-year-old device in every way.
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” - Terry Pratchett
Mysterious monolith' spotted for first time since 2020 in Nevada desert
I quite believe in it with the fact that it is feasible in the coming decades a way to redistirbute peak energy through daily storage. The problems in my opinion is assuming too much that everything will go as planned according to current trends (cheaper renewable, cheaper battery, enough production, 100+% penetration, etc). Because we're talking about several independent variables, and there's a chance (in my opinion quite large) that not everything will go as predicted.

If we find out in a few decades that the price of solar, batteries or renewables is no longer going down (and the reasons could be many, like a war, or a plateau in penetration), it could be enough to ruin those expectations. And discover that putting all our hopes in a single event could be our downfall.

Besides, even if daily storage is feasible, with current trends, we're still a long way from seasonal storage...

That's my opinion, which is why I think it's necessary to invest and believe in all technologies, without looking for the one we like the most or looks the most promising, since it leads to big bias and overestimation.
Cool. Do you allow some kind of certification too?
You should really watch that video I posted when you have an opportunity. I think it would give you some helpful context here but I can’t accept some of your premises here unfortunately.

I don’t have any reason to think you have any experience whatsoever with that world or even a basic understanding of US intel history but they are major missing holes in your theory.
The point cloud is a by-product of of aligning the input images. You essentially get it for free.
If you're both making good money not much.
Autonomous vehicles are great at driving straight
Like what? Currently, there are no consequences when a paper is retracted. If we retracted more papers, what would the difference be?
What if git was just applied to the unzipped files? Might that side step some of the issues while also making say your GitHub more usable?

This could be supported with a short bash script that did unzip and git commit (I’d call it unzit as the name makes me laugh).

And then do builds as the last step, either storing the original zip file or having a way to zip things back up.
It might be a bit esoteric ... but the Photos that shipped after macOS Sierra introduced a clever new editing view built upon, I think, CoreImage so that it could do all the processing of levels, temperature, etc. extraordinarily fast — leveraging the hardware — for real-time changes as you dragged the sliders.

Unfortunately the retouch tool in Photos for cloning, fixing scratches, etc. took a huge step backward in performance. Like it became unusable.

So simply for dealing with old scanned family photos that have lots of scratches, tears, etc., I have stuck with Sierra Photos on my one machine.
I did 7 years in a small shop (websites), then 7 at a mid-sized digital/ad agency (websites, mobile apps) that got acquired by IBM. For many reasons, I had no interest in IBM, and despite completing the 2 year vesting period to receive the acquihire retention bonus, I refused to sign the paperwork before the official transition into IBM iX, left the bonus on the table, and resigned.. walked out with nothing but a thrilling sense of possibilities for the future.

That was 2017, been 100% freelance since then literally flying by the seat of my pants (no insurance, no benefits, no PTO, no guaranteed income, nothing) and never been happier. Some years I've made more money, some years way less, and that's 100% on me. It's very freeing to take responsibility for your perceived success or failure, rather than be a cog inside of a machine that you truly can't control.

FWIW, I'm in my early 40's with a wife and kid, single-income household, eating what I kill. It's the only lifestyle that makes sense for me, and I would NOT even begin to recommend it to anyone else; I have a suspicion that people who are cut out for the risk are living like this already.

Anyways, I don't tell this story to brag or posture, or to invite dark karmic retribution upon myself -- I just think it's worth articulating that there are so many different paths in life, some you choose, some you're forced into, and it might help paint a fuller picture of options for somebody who is curious about how other people are getting by in the world. Not everybody can/should "be bold", but I do advocate for people to try to find what brings them joy and contentment and inspiration and motivation, and be brave enough to pursue that if it's even a remote possibility.
That would certainly lead to people checking their references better. But a lot of references are just in passing, and don't materially affect the paper citing it.

One would hope that if some work really did materially depend on a bogus paper, then they would discover the error sooner rather than later.
> But wouldn't the logic you employ apply to any strategy?

You ask a good question.

Consider a game like rock-paper-scissors. The goal is to predict your opponent's move. Among all possible strategies, the random strategy is unique because it can't be predicted. Any other strategy can be anticipated by a smarter opponent. Being random means you can't lose to a smarter opponent.

In trading, buying low and selling high requires prediction. Any strategy that relies on prediction becomes predictable to smarter opponents. Buy-and-hold index investing is the only strategy immune to this exploitation because you're effectively betting on everything. With passive index investing, your investments grow at the rate of business growth, making this strategy special.
> or potentially more users switch to an x86-excluded (and, more importantly, third-party excluded) platform (Mac).

Or much more likely, Windows ARM.
They make that every 5 minutes