skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had coke that tasted like a swimming pool in Minnesota. I had no reason to suspect it would, so it's not something I was convincing myself of. It came from a machine that used tap water of course, rather than from a bottle or can.
Certainly a lot of scope for this kind of thing .. people who do lidar scans or photogrammetry of buildings tend to end up with very large meshes or very large point clouds.. which means they need souped up PCs and expensive software to wrangle into some usable CAD format.

Its an area where things can be improved a lot imho - I did some work a while back fitting flat planes to pointclouds, and ended up with mesh model anything from 40x to 100x smaller data than the ptcloud dataset. see quato.xyz for samples where you can compare the cloud, the mesh produced.. and view the 3D model in recent browsers.

My approach had some similarity to gaussian splats... but using only planar regions .. great for buildings made of flat slabs, less so for smooth curves and foliage.

Applying their MeshAnything algo to fine meshes from photogrammetry scans of buildings would be of great benefit - probably getting those meshes down to a size where they can be shared as 3D webgl/threejs pages.

Even deciding on triangle points to efficiently tesselate / cover a planar region with holes etc, is basically a knapsack problem, which heuristics, monte-carlo and ML can improve upon.
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This blanked statement is false. I’m speechless somebody can make claims like this tbh.
Wasn't it obviously pointless from the outset? Posts like this raise questions about the technical decisions of the company more than anything else IMO. Strange they'd want to publicise making such poor decisions.
Four colours also isn't enough for some real-world country maps. Countries with enclaves (like Alaska, Kaliningrad or Sint-Maarten, though only the last actually makes 4- colouring impossible) change the topology: you can think of what shape the earth would have if there was also a tunnel connecting Alaska and New York.
Not so new fact that many here may already know: The (in?)famous -stan suffix, coming originally from Persian, is an etymological cousin of State, Street, Statistics, Strategy and Stadt.

In Iran, provinces are called Ostan and some Ostans' names end with -stan (e.g. Ostan of Kurdistan).

By the way, since it's not clear from their names, it may be worth noting that Tajiki and Persian are two dialects of the same language.
>Enforcement of law is impossible if the vast majority of the citizens are not aligned with its core values.

In which developed western country is that? And people can live in places even if they're not aligned with core values but because they get monetarily compensated well enough to make it a viable compromise. Money can be worth more than values when you don't have it, since you can't pay rent and food with cultural values but you can with USD.
Let's Write a Letter of Reconciliation
Regardless, his movies/tv shows always involved massive amounts of editing and manipulation.

Like the time they portrayed some random (Christian) Palestinian as a leader of a Islamist terrorist brigade which supposedly had a huge negative impact on his life.

Just this incident alone shows that Sacha Baron Cohen is a horrible and a despicable person.
How do I know if it is the original "Where's Waldo" under the paper?
It's true but it's not like me or my company are trying to save money when buying my primary laptop
Europe's solar power surge hits prices, exposing storage needs
While the experience could be better, UNIX is the outlier on bad approaches to file locks, meaning having none at all.

There is a reason why UNIX file locks are called advisory.
I've only ever played around with it and not built out an app like you have, but in my experience the second you want to go off script from what the tutorials suggest, it becomes an impossible nightmare of reading source code trying to get a basic thing to work. LangChain is _the_ definition of death by abstraction.
> ... children can combat all that with training from over worked and underpayed parents

Parenting rule 1? Show up. The thing overworked parents don't have? Time.

Hence my entire point- if you don't have the time for kids, its not on society to fix absenteeism. If you're not spending time with your kids, they're exposed to others, so the overworked or inattentive? Their children are the victims. Those are the ones who should have parents in their lives paying attention to them and reinforcing good values.

Society can't be forced to babysit everyone who had kids but couldn't commit the time to it . It takes a village - and we will pick you and your kids up when you trip -- but if you spend 20 years not raising your kid, it aint our fault.
Could you go more in depth with your approach? Sounds really usefull for man made structures!
Indeed. Also, in line with SI_Rob's parallel comment here[0], it's worth pondering what does it bury those ores under. Answer: it's bodies. Piles and piles and piles of dead bodies, covering the resources or even becoming them (e.g. limestone). Hell, the soil - the most important, life-giving resource we need to survive - is itself made of rock mixed with lots of dead bodies.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744826
"No", Epic spent a lot of money on the mobile gaming market that never came. Its why Epic being booted from the Google and Apple stores was such a huge deal: torpedoed their dreams of monetizing loot crates and other degenerate scams in emerging markets.

Can't tell what build they used in the benchmarks, though.
It's really sad most of the front-end community has moved from Redux. This could be coupled with Redux to give you possible transitions of interfaces or how a particular session has transitioned.
I coded this one for a friend more than 6 years ago: https://designed.space
It runs on a basic LEMP stack (or rather a LEP since it's a file based cms) on a VPS I have not touched in years. The stack is outdated, the CMS is outdated. It runs just fine with no issues.

I can move it to an up to date VPS and port it to a recent version of the CMS in a couple of hours and it would then be fine for probably another 6 or 7 years.
I highly recommend the movie Bang Bang Club as well as Greg Marinovich's book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bang-Bang-Club-Snapshots-Hidden-War...
I have an 8 node proxmox cluster (4 md-01 and 4 ser7) they rack mount in almost no space with beehive 3d printed mounts. You would be surprised what can benefit from 10 gig with all the super fast nvme drives these days
Ridiculous. As long as most people are taking no preventatives, it is not "extremely unethical" to have the control group also take no preventatives.
> But there is more than that

Sure, there are more details. Fundamentally that doesn’t change anything at all that much. At no point in the conflict Russia had any interest in a peaceful solution or actually protecting the Russian speaking population in East Ukraine (the opposite, they just wanted to turn them into some sort of perverse “martyrs”. Then again not particularly surprising considering that the Russian society is effectively a deranged death cult..)

> I blame the west for that.

Oh no.. whatever will we do.
At EFF we were arguing with Google about their permanent collection of user data early (I joined in 2005, and we already were putting pressure on them then). Whenever we asked, said they were sure it would come in useful for improving their services. Google just institutionally strongly believed in the value of data.

I sometimes wonder if the form of our current machine-learning boom is actually based on that conviction and the determined search for applications, rather than modern AI being a vindication of that strategy. A bit like Moore's Law: is it an iron rule of technology, or just a way to coordinate a huge amount of resources across an industry?
I think it comes from the fact an artist can create the mesh themselves and optimize them using this approach.
Frogs in the night are the sound of home and childhood. I love it.
Not sure... for some types of apps they might "compete" but for many not, I think: I view (after some toying with Flutter) the GPU UI renderers ala Flutter, QT/QML, gioUI, slint.dev etc as modern Flash-like options in a "can do anything graphically you could do with HTML+CSS+JS, which isn't the prime choice for some devs or some apps or those that don't want to have to end up with Ionic/Electron" manner — whereas KMM likely (my vague assumption) abstracts the common native GUI components shared among all platforms, plus allow platform-specific special ones too, I suppose? Or is KMM also going for custom GPU rendition?

Flutter & co. might just much more emphasize their graphical / fully-brandable nature rather than focus on their always-catching-up-and-slightly-off apings-of-native-UX.

If my KMM assumptions are somewhat correct, then it'll probably eat some of Flutter&co's lunch but not that much of it..
It was the "view as a (pure) function of your model" approach that was architecturally new in react.

This article explains it using a bit of react jargon (action, store, dispatcher) which is kind of unnecessary - but that's what I got from a quick google:

https://medium.com/@asif-ali/react-architecture-vs-mvc-unidi....

React Architecture vs. MVC: Unidirectional Flow Advantage.
It seems Kaspersky can’t write a book or newspaper column with the contents of its source code and sell it in the US.

Without press freedom you don’t have free speech.
I'm Polish, I've never learnt any foreign Slavic languages, but I can mostly understand Ukrainian, Belarusian and Slovak from passive exposure on a few trips.

The experience is weird - when I first went to Ukraine I couldn't understand almost anything. After a few days it suddenly "clicked" and I realized how the most common sounds and word endings relate between Polish and Ukrainian - and since that moment I basically got all the words with the same roots for free (which is like half the language). It also gave me Belarusian as a side effect :)

Of course it's not actual language speaking, I'm just understanding every other word and connecting the dots.

With Slovak it was even quicker, but somehow it hasn't given me Czech - their pronuciation is just too weird, despite the fact it's almost the same in writing :).

I'm not sure Interslavic provides much value. For me it's basically Slovak, so if you come from East Slavic language you'd probably get the same benefit spending that time learning some Slovak, and you'd then know some actual language instead of an artificial one.
Why money can't buy happiness?
> I'm pointing out that the nature of R is independent of its definition, and that any mathematical formal system you invent to construct R (up to isomorphism) is just a description. R exists independently on its own.

Isn't that a bit metaphysical and open to interpretation? I would say R only meaningfully exists as defined. A mathematical "truth" is either an axiom or it has a proof?

(Not that I think that makes a difference for the original argument about 1)
was that before we landed Faster Remote Room Joins in March 2023?
google was an ads company before they bought youtube but they were an ai company before they were an ads company
> In my view, the lack of singular vision and focus is not something intrinsic to FOSS. When i look like at projects like blender3d, Cpython, linux kernel,LLVM etc...

I think one of the differences here is that the Desktop is more of an aesthetics and ergonomic thing compared to your examples above. It's harder for people to agree on and when there are subjective feelings around it instead of objective, there is a need for a central decision point which takes quick decisions.
You can run it yourself here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/rerun/InstantMesh
That’s a clever solution, but you’re an idiot for trying it when there are simpler and more obvious solutions. Just put an HTTP daemon on that other server, point a domain at it, and link to the files there.
I briefly did some work with an HIV research organization in South Africa.

One dynamic I was shocked to hear was the prevalence of marriages where one partner (always the husband in this context) is HIV positive and the other is secretly on prep. In this context infidelity may be a norm and traditional cultural and gender norms may look negatively or skeptically at anti-retrovirals.

While this isn’t the majority of the HIV experience in South Africa, it’s certainly a sizable group.

Further, adherence more generally is a massive problem. The cost of travel to a clinic in both rural and urban settings can be prohibitive for many and cause major adherence drop-off.

Drugs like this, if made affordable, will go a long way to immediately easing pressure on these groups - and that’s exciting.
Thanks for sharing.

I wonder how that works!

Also, curious what type of allergy the friend has, and what type of relief.
Nah. The successor to Dragon will be Trogdor. They'll put one of those beefy arms on it for good measure.
There is the textbook by Papadimitriou, I don't have a copy but I once taught a class that had been based on that book and slightly updated to include elements from Arora Barak. I think it's still a jump up from Sipser but perhaps a little gentler than AB. Ymmv
How is consciousness relevant to creating AGI?

> Philosophy is just thoughts and thoughts about thoughts.

I think these thoughts contain (in an ideal variant of philosophy which doesn't exist yet) enough "philosophical content" to directly help create AGI. Why do you think philosophy is so irrelevant here?

> Philosophers can get so wrapped up in thoughts they say nonsense

If someone says nonsense, that should not discredit the general ideas/foundation.
Truly heartbreaking considering he apparently left his own young daughter behind from this choice. I agree that I understand how he got there, but I hope I never understand actually giving up.
Soviet nomenclature did consist of Jews to significant extent. At times more, at times less, but it's disingenous for you to mention Jews being overrepresented among the victims without mentioning they were also overrepresented among Soviet officials, including high ranking ones.

Of course, it weren't these random religious small business owners but people significantly conditioned by the socialist regime, which they participated in creating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parrot_Speaking_Yiddish the movie highlights that fact: a Soviet military officer occupying Lithuania in 1939 turns out to be Jew, which does not preclude him from internment of the movie protagonist, also Jew and Polish army soldier at the time in the plot.
As a dutch person i once spend 2 years in Ukraine. Hardly anyone spoke decent english there, so i was forced to learn (russian) the language. Within a year I was able to speak it moderately. Key is to focus on words only. Dont care about gramar. Its not important and will be fine later on. First learn 2000 to 3000 words and you will be able to say a lot of things.
True free will? No. Agency? Yes.

(Proof left as an exercise to the reader).
Is there a good reference available that describes what happened with expert systems in the 80's? I'm only vaguely aware about such things but in my mind they seem to have some utility.
Very slick interface and implementation! This is why I love coming to HN!
Considering your username, this should've been an SVG instead of an image
Here is my trick:

I take a recording of a conversation in the language, one that's made for language learners.

Then I listen to it until I know it BY HEART.

Usually that takes about 100 listens.

Every time I listen, I understand a bit more. Sometimes I look at the transcript to understand a section that evades me.

I don't move on until I can recite the whole thing BY HEART.

Then, I take the next dialogue.
> If cows would be useless to humans, their population would be probably in hundreds/thousands globally, or we would let their whole sub-species just die.

I think the cows would prefer that.
Surprised nobody has mentioned it, but my favorite movie of his was Pride and Prejudice 2005 edition. He plays the father role extremely well - you can feel the emotion in the room.

Going to have to rewatch it this weekend in his honor.
I mean, that's how representative democracy works. You elect someone, see if they are a complete prick on a hundred different issues, and then at some point they might come up for re-election.

Another way that representative democracy works is that for many issues, you get a lot of heads-up on what will be discussed, and can influence your representative accordingly.

This generally requires coordinating your resources and efforts with other people. Lobby, protest, rabble-rouse, bribe.

Half of politics is who shows up.
Most of the money they take in isn't for truly "good works", it's just for building churches or more buildings and trying to convert more people. There's nothing wonderful about that. Even their free meals programs come with strings attached: poor people have to listen to a sermon before they're allowed to eat.
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That's fair, as someone pretty proficient in 3D modelling I understand your point. However, it also boils down to the scale of the project.

Imagine recreating part of real life city, creating a digital twin, for scientific purposes (testing human behaviour in fire hazards, or simply iterating on better park planning and road design for greater perceived safety). There's a lot to be done, and it's difficult to use procedural building methods if your aim is for people to recognize that area.

I'm making such a thing myself, purely academic, but god I wish I could speed things up.
I liken current LLMs to that one uncle that can answer and has an opinion on everything even though he has actually no knowledge of the thing in question. Never says "I don't know", and never learns anything for more than a few moments before forgetting.
I really hope the other 2/3 are with me when I say that having either Apple or Google integrated with my vehicle is a deal-breaker.
My strategy is to keep listening to the same recording on repeat. 1000 times if needed. It is good if it is a high-quality recording. After a while, my brain starts picking out the word.s
shameless plug - i build a JS/TS framework which tries to solve the abstraction problem. we use a json variant called jsonnet (created at google. expressive enough for kubernetes).

https://github.com/arakoodev/EdgeChains/tree/ts/JS/edgechain...

examples of these jsonnet for react COT chains - https://github.com/arakoodev/EdgeChains/blob/ts/JS/edgechain...

P.S. we also build a webassembly compiler that compiles this down to wasm and deploy on hardware.
Funny, how the cv's sent over by the lawyer actually seem to corroborate the story.

I imagine two guys unaware of Osint sticking their heads together: "let's just lie. No way this guy can ever find out!"

But then again, that's just my mean imagination. Let's see how it is settled in the end.
Well, if the US decided to not offer medicine on a realistic price point, other nations would do what the US did with Germany's Bayer, back when Anthrax was a concern: Cancel the patent on the only Anthrax medicine available due to "national security".

Don't blame the world for your Pharma executives needing a third private jet for their mistresses.
Discussed at the time:

How to Live with Dying - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24880514 - Oct 2020 (139 comments)
This doesn't mean religion ought to receive any special treatment going forward. It is a way of looking at the world, but requires belief which is in opposition to other beliefs and they all are in opposition to scientific approach to understanding ourselves and the world we live in. It is also a way of imposing and enforcing morals that cannot be questioned unless one is prepared to face grave consequences. The "priest" of are predominantly men, who are under no obligation to follow the morals they preach and indulge in the "sins" they condemn without fear of prosecution. In the end, when the veil comes off it's about power, money, and sex. So no, no special treatment of religion ought to be allowed in a secular society. And secular societies ought to have laws and mechanisms preventing them from takeover by religious groups.
No. If you get something like cancer, at best you can expect Medicaid to be comparable to basic private health insurance, which can easily leave people with out of pocket costs they can't possibly afford.

Medicaid has a ton of other problems starting with eligibility, but even if you are eligible and you successfully jump through all the hoops to keep it (which are sometimes totally insane: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bVIsnOfNfCo), you still may not be able to get the services you need. Many doctors won't accept it and you can die just waiting for an appointment. Studies have shown there was effectively one psychiatrist for every 8,834 Medicaid beneficiaries and just one cardiologist for every 4,543 Medicaid beneficiaries. These doctors can't possibly see, let alone adequately treat and manage the care of, everyone who needs them.

The closest we get to free healthcare in the US is care in the emergency room which is only required to "stabilize" you. They'll try their best to keep you alive if you're actively dying, but then they push you out the door and send you a massive bill. They won't give you chemo or radiation to keep your cancer from spreading
For so-called "tech" companies that intermediate, surveil and attempt to profit from computer users accessing content the so-called "tech" companies did not create, that is actually a "problem". For example, as a "solution", Google intentionally adds delay to "loading" so that ad auctions can run.

When these companies use some marketing slogan like "Make the web faster" it is quite amusing. Ads are what slows it down and dissemination of ads is their "business model".

Parasites.