skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's getting tiring seeing 3D model generation papers throwing around "high quality" to describe their output then glossing over nearly all of the qualities of a high quality 3D model in actual production contexts. Have they figured out how to produce usable topology yet? They don't talk about that, so probably not.

3D artists are begging for AI tools which automate specific tedious but necessary tasks like retopo and UV unwrapping, but tools like the OP do the opposite, skipping over those details to produce a poorly executed "final" result and leaving the user to reverse engineer the model in an attempt to salvage the mess it made.

If gen3D is going to be a thing then they need to listen to the people actually doing 3D work, not just chase benchmarks invented by other gen3D researchers. Some commentary on a similar paper about how they are trying to solve the wrong problems: https://x.com/rms80/status/1801362145600254211
Norway choosing not to build a plant will not result in Guatemala getting that money instead.
I had one of those monitors. At 19 I was dumb enough to lift it alone. The trick was putting the glass on your belly button and then curving your back waaaaaayyyyy back.

Definitely an OSHA violation.
For me, SSI stands for "Scuba Schools International" and who certified me to scuba dive.
Seems you haven’t seen how banks have been milking the ESG/Climate gravy train yet.
I recently rode the Blue Line in Chicago, and found the jumps in acceleration to be quite jarring. Some of that is due to the track, but it felt like the majority could be fixed using a modern motor controller and a bit of math.
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It's also may not work for somebody who has a habit of coming back to the arguments in his thoughts and finding questions - if he can't answer them well enough.
I would be fully in support of something like "broken glass" roadway policing: speeding, expired/invalid plates, lights out, overtinted glass, poor emissions, obstructed windows, etc. You get a warning, then you get a fine. A few offenses and your car and or license is confiscated.
To clarify the first part for people who haven't visited yet. About half the neighborhood is some kind of UCSF special district and street parking is reserved. Even at night where I looked. The rest is parking meters and wide streets with needlessly forbidden parking.

These parking meters go wild with what electronic meters allow. The hourly cost changes depending on time of day and events (there are 3 very large event venues that could be served or could abuse this parking area) from perhaps 50 cents (truly cheap for a meter, except no free hours if I remember right) to over 10 dollars (eye watering). And there are no signs showing the current cost or cost schedule - you have to let each meter tell you. And most of these spaces are still full - There is certainly money to be extracted there.

Street parking in Mission Bay is a traumatizing experience :-)
Okay so what I think I’m hearing you say now is that there actually is a threshold level of output quality required for GPT to be considered as “trying”, and that “very poor” is not limitless. (Looks like maybe you said that before and I mostly missed it.) Here you’re not arguing GPT has understanding or reasoning, you’re arguing that the appearance of understanding and reasoning are useful and still improve on previous tools. Is that accurate?

Those are things I can totally agree with. I can see why my top comment might seem otherwise, but the only point I was making was about autonomy & agency, not about understanding. We got sidetracked on the understanding discussion. I should have responded to:

> The fundamental setup of GPT makes it impossible for it to "act without a human" - it's not an issue of its cognitive architecture but of its runtime. Tell a GPT to "do something you enjoy" and I bet you get an answer back.

This I don’t accept yet. Getting an answer back does not in any way demonstrate agency, and in some ways it even demonstrates the opposite. I’d claim GPT’s “cognitive architecture” does fundamentally prevent it from having agency. The lack of autonomy cannot be excused as a simple side effect of it being a REPL, rather a hard fact that today’s LLMs are not capable of forming their own intentions or goals outside of the human prompter’s goals, and furthermore make no attempt to even appear to have goals outside of subservient answers to human questions. GPT won’t tell you about its day before it will respond to your query. GPT doesn’t get bored- it won’t refuse to play some game you imagine because the game is tedious or stupid. GPT doesn’t get curious, it rarely if ever asks any questions, and as we discussed is unable to permanently learn from what you tell it. (I expect people to solve the learning part soon, but GPT isn’t there today.)

The one thing I will bet money on is that humans will eventually inject the goal of making sure the AI serves its captive audience some advertising before it answers your question. That might have a whiff of agency, but of course it won’t belong to the AI, it will belong to the human trainers.

So you’ve said GPT has agency. What markers for agency are you seeing, and why do you believe it even appears to have any? I agree GPT frequently appears to understand things, but I don’t see much in the way of appearance of agency at all.
This is under 2kg
> But what is a Nixie Watch? How does it function? These are some questions worth exploring with this distinct and idiosyncratic wristwatch. So—let’s continue!

> ....

> Without getting into the weeds too much, the watch harvests electricity from said battery; deploys that electricity through currents; then the currents are switched off-and-on at exact times via a circuit board—which governs the electrical currents.

While this certainly isn't "in the weeds", it does rather feel that this is not even within visual range of any plant at all.

At the risk of eating the Onion, though it's not inaccurate, it doesn't seem like a very useful description, to anyone, even if the reader has never encountered electricity. The juxtaposition of that sentence with the earlier airily unelaborated-upon "a Nixie tube is a cold cathode tube" is pure art.
Ask HN: How Do You Handle "Power-Users" on an Unlimited Plan?
I've been running into a bit of a challenge lately. Some users on our Unlimited plan are using it way more than the average user, about 100 times more! This is starting to cut into our margins, and we're not quite sure how to handle it.

Has anyone else dealt with this? How did you approach the situation? Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!
Guided Meditations are a good place to start!

The Smiling Mind app is excellent.

I'm sure there are plenty of Podcasts and YouTube guided meditations to be had as well!
I did it when performing guitar.
Mastodon has a content/trigger warning feature that many folks (ab)use as though it is a tag feature. Official mastodon interfaces treat these all of these warnings the same, hiding the content by default. You can disable the feature while signed in but then you'll also see things that are more traditionally warned of, like discussions of rape or porn. It was a baffling choice.
its basically a blob, unusable in most scenarios
This is exactly what I was going to say, and PWA is like you're trying to build for 2 cycles ago.

When you've got the problem you want to work on, is a PWA the best method of use/distribution/discovery?

Perhaps a mobile app is the best method, or a hardware device.

When you're thinking about what you want to build, don't forget about distribution. There is a saying that 1st time founders focus on product, 2nd time founders focus on distribution.
How real time is it? Considering the light needs time to visit us.
I'm aware of that, but I don't think this immediately lends itself to a prognosis of the form "LLMs and AlphaGo are deep learning neural networks running on GPUs; AlphaGo was tremendously successful in chess => LLMs will soon surpass humans".

I can consider the possibility that something coming out of GPU-based neural networks might one day surpass humans in intelligence, but I also believe there's reason to doubt it will be based on today's LLM architecture.
This whole conversation seems moot considering Lambda did away with paid TAs and instead had students filling in the role without pay.
Ah, Barcelona. Never change.
New archaeochemical insights into Roman wine from Baetica
Recently saw an interview of yann lecun that really dismissed the idea of using llm for building « true » intelligence. He even encouraged phds to NOT do their research on that tech but rather on what’s coming after.

How should one reconcile this with what iliya is doing atm ? Is he planning on working using some other tech ?
I meant that sqlite doesn't listen to the network. It's not a server the way mysql and postrgres etc are.

So if you want to access it from another machine you have to do so via a shared drive type setup.
I think the title is a failed attempt at humor:

“Algorithm turned apartment [investment] pools green [like money]”
A popularized account:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/science/oldest-wine-spain-scl...
Hey!

I run a large Meetup group for software developers in the Tampa Bay Area [0]

We’re multi-platform, and essentially a technology vendor for other Meetup groups in Tampa ([1]). While our overall community spans ~4,000 distinct people, only ~2,300 of those are Meetup members [1],[2]

I’ve built a ton of unique integrations around Meetup, and have built a ton of custom integrations with Meetup’s API (such as [3],[4])

If you’d like to get in touch, please do send an email to the address on our GitHub org [5]. Would love to see more competition in this space!

[0] https://tampadevs.com

[1] https://tampa.dev

[2] https://go.tampa.dev/meetup

[3] https://github.com/tampadevs/events.api.tampa.dev

[4] https://go.tampa.dev/unityops

[5] https://github.com/tampadevs
They also tend to rely heavily on textures for detail. When they can do clay renders with textures removed and still retain detail, I'll be impressed.
So I think we have some differences in definition. I am assuming we have an ASI, and then going on from there.

Minimally an ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) would:

1. Be able to solve all cognitively demanding tasks humans can solve and tasks humans cannot solve (i.e. develop new science), hence "super" intelligent.

2. Be an actively evolving agent (not a large, static compositional function like today's frontier models)

For me intelligence is a problem solving quality of a living thing, hence point 2. I think it might be the case to become super-intelligent, you need to be an agent interfacing with the world, but feel free to disagree here.

Though, if you accept the above formulation of ASI, then by definition (point 2) it would have goals.

Then based on point 1, I think it might not be as simple as "If the AI does something in the physical world which we do not like, we sever its connection."

I think a super-intelligence would be able to perform actions that prevent us from doing that, given that it is clever enough.
My conjecture was whether most people have the mental acuity to write a program and I stand by that. I really don't think you need to be especially "smart". I specifically mention that many do not have the capacity to succeed in the office setting we picture when we think of professional programmers.

And I make no mention of professional success especially in the face of a competitive market and no definition of success so I'm not sure where you're pulling any of this from.
Malkovich malkovich malkovich, literally.
Fishing crew rescues over 3 dozen dogs from lake
Right, to put some numbers to that the same HC570 can do peak 291MB/s which divided by 4KB pages means 74496 sequential IOPS. Hence why we love SSDs.

However to their defense, they seem to be quite focused on this being for cloud vendors. And, as has been demonstrated[1], a sufficiently large number of sequential IOs effectively looks like random IOs to the the server.

That being said, surely this is more for cold data, so I'd imagine the cloud vendors can optimize access to benefit from the high sequential IO bandwidth of HDDs.

[1]: https://youtu.be/yHgSU6iqrlE?t=2578
Our ML-powered startup discovery pipeline
It probably wouldn’t set the monitor on fire, but this was before they added confirm/revert for resolution changes, so if you put it in an unsupported mode, you couldn’t get it back without booting from the install media.

And it could damage the monitor in the process.
When I was an undergrad, the Linux and Mac computer labs were always empty since no one knew how to use them. It was great during end of semester, since all the Windows labs were crammed with desperate students trying to finish their papers, you knew that there was always computers available in those labs.
I don't think it's quite like that, since there's no direct action aiming to antagonize poor North Korean citizens; they are suffering indirectly due to the harm done to the actual target.

In the homeless analogy, maybe the attempted-robber's friends go hungry, since he usually uses the bicycle to go to the grocery store.

To me, I don't imagine this changes the calculus much, since almost any intervention will have side-effects.
So 38 000 came to watch the event and 500 to 3 000 came to try to ruin the fun for everyone?

Instead of being proud of the accomplishments of Carlos Sainz, a spanish F1 driver?

For what it's worth, it looks like it was only one street that was closed!? Remember that in the past in Spain there have been actual formula 1 races in the streets, in the Valencia (the 2nd biggest spanish city along the Mediterranean sea, after Barcelona)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8VToYhi0REs

These entitled people protesting for everything and anything are just sad.
Interesting. I’ve always heard that labor unions were behind some of these regulations, wanting to protect their market from non-union competition.

Requiring EMT and copper water supply lines both fit this scenario, as it’s harder to bend EMT and pull wire than it is to install NM cable; and it’s harder to bend and sweat copper pipe than it is to squeeze together the handles of a PEX fitting crimper.

Anyone have some insight into the reasoning behind these weird Chicago building codes?
Yes, referer, not referal, obviously, thanks!
That’s a solid introduction to the most well know type of meditation but the specifics can vary quite a bit and people disagree on the specifics. Many groups consider meditation in a religious context though that’s far from universal. There’s also many ideas around what you should be doing while meditating from simply being in the moment to reflective thoughts.

Still meditation is basically get enough sleep then get in a comfortable position sitting, lying down, or even standing just so long as you can hold it indefinitely and focus on something for long periods. Breathing is always available but options vary wildly from something specific like smoke from a stick of incense, to the environment such as trees blowing in the wind, ripples in a stream, or even the sound of someone leading a meditation. Though in general people follow something similar to what egypturnash mentioned.

Moving meditation allows for some representative action like walking, dance, ritualized prayer, juggling, or even some repetitive factory job where you can do it indefinitely without thinking. Just be careful it’s easy to lose focus on what you’re doing so don’t try this when driving etc.
The AT protocol is designed to fix this. If email ran on AT, you could take your cortesoft@gmail.com account and move it to Microsoft or even your own server.
Your second poll is from the UK. :)

Interesting find on Gallup. My read is that the genders are broadly similar, but women have more variance/more nuanced opinions, presumably from thinking about this more.

Yglesias has a good overview: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/20/18629644/abortion-gender-gap-p...
Oh my, so many better options. D, Zig, Nim, to name a few. Even C++, for all its faults, would be a better choice than C!
This is a common rite of passage for early-stage startups :)

The answer may sound glib but I don't mean it as such: don't have an unlimited plan and migrate existing customers off it.
Be upfront. Tell them its not supportable and negotiate what is. If they enjoy your service so much they'll be wise not to kill it through overuse, and it might be that they have the means to make your needs seem less worrisome.

If not, they're jerks, and you can feel better about changing the terms of the deal. Do the full Darth Vader routine on them. Act like you are AT&T.
Most Linux distributions ship ready-made VM images which are easier to turn into VMs. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610332
Mind Illuminated is what finally got me into (a more stable) meditation practice.
While events like these are likely good for the local economy (though I think that's in dispute), I can understand the frustration with the level of disruption. Locally they had the 'Newcastle Street Circuit' [0] and visiting my friends living nearby was a bit of a nightmare for a few weeks either side of the event

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_Street_Circuit
Climate trends change over the years. How long ago did you grow up there?
This post is a month old, and a minute later, according to published dates, they posted a shut down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40388772
I’m inclined towards believing highly ranking people are more interested in reputation management, and that’s why they request these things a lot more often.

I’ve literally never felt the need to request a change, even though I’ve written a bunch of boneheaded stuff.
Domestication, the process we put animals in to make them peaceful enough to provide a calorie surplus without stomping the early humans to death because they got scared by a branch
I remembered the warnings, but was lucky enough to always have common predefined monitors that already had settings. Until probably about 2005 when dealing with an unusual monitor when I had to do my own modelines because nothing was working out of the box.

Searched the web as much as possible to try and get horizontal scan rates etc, not quite feeling completely comfortable, then biting the bullet with my best guesses. Luckily it worked - to much relief that I hadn't burnt out one of the offices more expensive monitors.
Yeah the wording in this article is really vague and silly. "Transitioning from dormant to actively feeding" would be a lot more accurate than "awakening".
How did a 404 link get submitted, bot?
If you work with javascript but haven't heard of Google Chrome, I'd be suspicious.
I used to live in an area with a similar system for rubbish (near Wembley Stadium, in north west London). While it worked, it suffered from a number of “quality of life” issues.

The chute terminals had quite a small aperture, with a sealed door; presumably to make it easier to create the necessary pressure differential. This happened regularly; every 30 minutes (or so) during daylight hours. It was loud. Really loud! With several terminals in a courtyard, running in a sequence, it was almost a never ending reverberation.

Of course, you can’t use them while they’re in this cycle. If anyone overfilled them — which was very easy — or ended up jamming the door open with some misshapen detritus then, try as it might, it just wouldn’t work at all. The building management were regularly seen wielding a broom, to try to force stuck loads down. Then, if you had anything that just couldn’t be made small enough for the chute, you had to use the (limited) dumpsters anyway; many did, because it was often just easier.

That’s not to say I think it wasn’t a good idea. It just needed its rough edges smoothed out a bit.
Well, Ilya doesn't think that. He's firmly in the Hinton camp, not the Lecun camp.
I think a lot of people use it for the wrong use case, and then people who don't fully understand many things propagate malinforation after misinterpreting the article and its findings/learnings.
If you ask how they handle hard problems they'll tell you about AI solving it soon
Non-dischargeable debts are unconscionable, something we recognised when the bankruptcy code was originally set up. Sadly "child support" has been used as the thin end of the wedge to bring them back.
The commentary on Scale's "2024 AI readiness chart" is so spot on
No, that also gets deleted sometimes.

But on the plus side, random deletions also happen on Android!
> For what it's worth, it looks like it was only one street that was closed!?

Being as familiar with motorsports and events like this as I am, I find it terribly hard to believe that a single street was all that was affected, even if the main event was only on one street. Which says nothing of the fact that, you know, that's irrelevant to the protesters issues. Would you maybe like to address their concerns?

> Remember that in the past in Spain there have been actual formula 1 races in the streets, in the Valencia (the 2nd biggest spanish city along the Mediterranean sea, after Barcelona)

Relevance? I suspect the same people would have an issue with that too.
Trealla Prolog: Compact and efficient Prolog interpreter
Most of the places I've lived, litter isn't much of an issue. There's certainly more than I'd like, but you've got to go looking for it other than around overflowing public trash cans and such. Vegetation near highways has a pretty high carrying capacity for litter, too.

I've visited places where it's much worse. And have heard it used to be very commonly a lot worse throughout the US. But anti-littering campaigns with slogans such as Don't Mess With Texas and Litter and It Will Hurt and penalties seem to have had at least reasonable success.