skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking satisfying business needs not philosophical mumbo jumbo.

If you need a model to move, you give it to a rigger. If the mesh is bad, they will first need to remesh it or the rigging wont work right. This is the problem. They will solve this problem using a manual, labor intensive, process. It's not particularly difficult, any 3D artist considering themselves a professional ought to be able to do it. But it's not the sort of thing where you just press a button and turn some knobs and you're done either. It takes a lot of work, and in particularly bad cases it's easier to just start from scratch - remeshing a garbage mesh is indeed harder than modeling from scratch in many cases. Once either of these mechanisms have been applied, the problem will be solved and the rigger can move on to rigging.

So yes, algorithms exist that pretend to remesh, and every professional modeling systems has one built in (because your sales guys don't want to be the ones without one), but professionals do not use them in production environments (my original claim, if you recall) because their results are so bad. Indeed I'm told several meme accounts exist dedicated to how badly they screw things up when folks do try to take the shortcuts.

If this project was aiming to solve the problem (which is possible, as I have just explained), they would not have given up 5 years ago. Because it sure isn't solved now.
The modern world is so far removed from the circumstances our species evolved into and existed in up until just a few hundred generations ago, that it is hard to make any strong claim as to what "normal" social behavior in humans is.
Maintainable Device Scorecard
Figma disables its AI design feature
This title is beyond confusing, and the article doesn't even attempt to make it clearer. What does "own version of Google Docs" even mean? I took two reads of the article to understand that Proton's "flavor of Google Docs" actually has nothing to do with Google and is just a collaborative document product that intends to compete with Google Docs. The title makes it sound like Proton is offering a reskinned-Google-Docs-in-an-iframe which is incredibly odd.
Name and shame is a worthwhile practice. Driving potential business to The AI powered CMS known as Wisp, is not a good reason to avoid contributing to the common consensus about the company.

And the common consensus in this thread, which I agree with, is that Wisp is obnoxious, insidious, and is an active participant in the degradation of quality of both email, and the internet as a whole.
Netflix is kicking subscribers off its old cheap ad-free plan
That's not too complicated. I did this with random text years ago, telling those spiders which honor robots.txt not to visit the starting URL. The dynamic URL led to "twisty little passages all different" i.e. a tarpit.

And it's really easy to generate random images with ImageMagick, even with random text on top to feed their OCR needs.
Actually you can cross the entirety of Chile by car if you don't mind taking a ferry that starts in Puerto Montt and arrives in Puerto Natales. It is 4 day trip, but the scenery is gorgeous.
Regarding the rail system, Chile had a great rail system that went from Arica to Puerto Montt with lots of spurs going into inner towns. However it was slowly dismantled and now most of the rails are in disuse, or used for the transport of goods.
There is still a main rail for passenger transport, but most people prefers taking the bus or driving because of convenience.
I read somewhere (don't recall exactly where) that your sense of the passage of time is directly related to how much things change because that impacts how many memories you form. Essentially, when every day is the same, not many new memories are created, so you don't notice time passing (New Years was just a few weeks ago, how can it be July already!), but when things are constantly changing, time passes much more slowly. When you're a child and non-stop learning and exploring, 3 months seems like an eternity.

I wonder if technology development has a similar effect. When the world essentially remains unchanged for your entire life, things must seem much faster with days blending together.
Ask HN: What do you advise people who want to 'start a career in AI'?
French taxes payers do care about this.
Those 2500 AC units will add to the public bill, and the country can't afford it.
Transcendental numbers like e are a lot more "unnatural" than imaginary numbers.
Framer Template Library – Albacub
This silly reddit narrative, invented to push a political viewpoint, is utter hogwash. There have always been individuals living a solitary lifestyle- explorers and homesteaders, scouts, traders, hunters and fishermen.
Back in the day, Open Source projects thrived on the enthusiasm of creators who didn't view software development as a means to make money. Instead, they saw it as an opportunity to build a community and create superior products through collaboration.

However, the landscape has shifted. When an Open Source project becomes successful today, creators often transition the original product into a proprietary version with added features and support, available only through paid access. This practice undermines the original Open Source project, and usually end off killing the original project.
Another useful explainer -- obligatory 3b1b: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2MIpDrF7Es
To a large extent the politicians are doing what voters want
It was released on the Wii-U. The Wii-U arguably has a better GPU than the Switch due to different power constraints. However, the total CPU/GPU/RAM package is much better on the Switch. I also believe that BotW was developed for the Wii-U, which crashed so quickly that porting it to the Switch made sense.
My post is a secondary research regarding potential issues with weak isolation levels. It includes a link [0] to an in-depth description of what happened to Flexcoin. Additionally, the post references another similar BTC attack [1] that exploited a "lost update" due to weak isolation levels.

The goal of the post is to highlight this problem, as cited research papers clearly demonstrate that such issues occur more frequently than commonly perceived.

Again, I'm sorry that the title might be misleading and you have expected a different content.

[0] https://hackingdistributed.com/2014/04/06/another-one-bites-...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wtbiu/how_i_stole...
> AI is a long term trend, next is more products on top of AI. Just like the internet.

This is legitimately just the same damn hype train the tech sector is constantly attempting to create. Now AI is the next internet. Before that it was the metaverse. Before that it was NFTs. Before that it was cryptocurrency. Before that it was quantum. Before that it was VR. Before that it was AR.

None of those were the revolutions postured by techno-fetishistic CEOs. Most stick around in some capacity, like VR and AR, and the argument can be made that those have a future. Blockchains certainly have a future as it's a highly useful technology, even if the financial vehicle made by it is utterly useless. The metaverse is Dead on Arrival because nobody ever wanted it in the first damn place, apart from the speculators betting money on it.
The get the money back via Azure Cloud OS (> 60% workloads on Linux), Microsoft 365 subscriptions and XBox.
While I agree that AI infra startups are hard to build, I strongly disagree with the idea that they are harder than foundational or application layer startups. I think it boils down to what you know and what resources you can muster.

For instance, foundational AI startups are also ridiculously hard to build. You need an insane amount of funding, spend it pretraining models to stay competitive only to find that gains in hardware and model architecture make them obsolete within months plus there's no real guarantee that scaling will keep working.

Application layer startups are hard in a very different way, there's an insane amount of competition and new capabilities are emerging every few weeks. I have worked with a few AI girlfriend startups and they are really struggling with keeping apace and warding off ridiculous amount of competition.

I think it's really just YMMV. Of course, the deeper you get into the stack, the more monopolizing pressure there is. Is it hard to build AI infra startups? Yes 100%. Will there be very few winners? Yes. Is it harder than foundational or application layer startups? Depends on the founders' strengths. Is it Is it a lost cause? I really don't think so.
I've gone back and forth between them, but it helps that I have a Physics PhD so I am not intimidated by the math.

I got my PhD in 1998, did a postdoc in Germany for a year, came back to the states, started doing remote work and consulting projects for web sites, worked on the arXiv preprint server for a few years, then worked on a pretty wide range of projects for pay and for side projects until I got interested in using automation to make large image collections on my own account circa 2008 or so.

I had a conversation with my supervisor that called into question whether I could ever be treated fairly where I was working and then two days later I got a call from a recruiter who was looking for a "relevance architect" which had me work for about a year and a half for a very disorganized startup. Then I got called by another recruiter who needed somebody to finish a neural network search engine for patents based on C++, Java and SIMD assembly.

After that I tried to put a business to develop a next-generation data integration tool and did consulting projects, learned Python because customers were asking for it. When I gave up on my own business I went to work full-time for a startup that was building something similar to the product I had in mind as a "machine learning engineer". That company was using CNNs for text, I had previously worked for one using RNNs, that summer BERT came out and we realized it was important but not quite so important.

After that I wound up getting a more ordinary webdev job where I can actually go to an office, I still do ML and NLP-based side projects though.

Funny enough I am working on text analysis projects now that I first conceived of 20 years ago, I think technologically some of them could have worked but they work so much better now with newer models.

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My take is that the average 'data scientist' is oriented towards making the July sales report, not making a script that will make the monthly sales report. If you want to get repeatable results with ML it really helps to apply the same kind of organizational thinking and discipline that we're used to in application development. Also I believe getting training data is the bottleneck for most projects: I mean, if you have 5000 labeled examples and a 20 year old classification model you might get a useful classifier, you can get a much better classifier with a two year old model with little more work, or you can try a model out of last week's arXiv paper and spend 10-100x the effort, risk complete failure, and probably add 0.03 points to your ROC.

If you don't have those 5000 examples on the other hand all you can do is download some model from huggingface and hope it is close enough to your problem to be useful.

My spurt of doing front-end heavy work built up my UI skills so I have done a lot of side project work towards building systems that let people label data.
Eh. Predecessors to toothpaste have been around for _7000 years_. At _least_.

> Since 5000 BC, the Egyptians made a tooth powder, which consisted of powdered ashes of ox hooves, myrrh, powdered and burnt eggshells, and pumice.

(Obviously, there have been improvements since.)

But seriously, preventative medicine, in _some_ form, has been around for a while. It mostly didn't work very well or at all, but the idea of doing stuff to avoid becoming sick/getting sicker isn't new.
I'm trying. I don't even know if rust or c++ have tai yet
Can't you get R744 (CO2) AC systems these days?
I haven't seen that but I have read some articles about it on propublica. I just kept the description as simple as possible to make it more memorable.
I-Beam rolls of the tongue
H-Beam doesnt, I guess thats the reason for adopting I term over H term
Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)
Scrum is not "Agile cosplay." It's just a different way of limiting WIP. First off, go to the Scrum Guide and show me where it's required to use Story Points in Scrum . . . it's not.

All Scrum says is to pick a goal to accomplish in 1-4 weeks, build a backlog of stuff you need to do to accomplish the goal, go do it, show it to the stakeholders, and retrospect. You limit WIP by focusing on one goal and only pulling in what's necessary to get there in 1-4 weeks.

Kanban is a perfectly valid way of doing things as well, but half the Scrum-bashers out there are taking big whacks at a strawman, because 80 percent of the time, they're not actually attacking Scrum. They're attacking some ancillary practices someone tacked on like planning poker, story points, burndowns/burnups, etc. Or they're mad at some idiot manager or executive, often rightfully so, for misunderstanding what Scrum even is or misusing it to abuse people. Don't blame the tool when someone misuses the tool.

Some of the worst words ever written in software were when Jeff Sutherland talked about "twice the work in half the time."
That's possible, but really challenging to do because mass storage is block oriented, the host (desktop) is likely to do read and write caching, and there's no mechanism for a host to say I finished writing this file, and there's no mechanism for a device (phone) to say blocks changed from under you.

The paradigm for block oriented filesystem access is exclusive access, and filesystem code is built around that. There's some niche filesystems around multiple simultaneous access to block devices, but I don't know if there's any that are open source; mostly people don't setup scsi/sas/das disk arrays with two hosts anymore, and when they do, they're much more likely to have exclusive access with failover than simultaneous access.

If you had a team of really detail oriented developers capable of getting this done for Android and desktop platforms, wouldn't you rather they work on something else?

Another approach might be to build a virtual filesystem to export as a block device on usb connection that's essentially a snapshot of the current one, and then you sync any changes that were written on usb disconnect, but then you need to manage divergent changes and that's unfun too.

SMB over USB would be terrible in many ways, but probably handle this use case much better.
One of the intriguing things about The Secret World of Arrietty is that they animated to account for the difference in the Borrowers' size. Every liquid they handle, for example, during cooking -- even water -- appears much more viscous than it would be at human scale.
> They are trying to experience the world as humans throughout history have experienced the world.

There was a critical difference between these cases. Early humans grew up within nature so they had a lot of skill and knowledge. I loved Into the Wild and thought I identified with Christopher McCandless too. But the way he packed was not conducive with survival. He sadly didn’t know enough to know how much danger he put himself in.

There is a lot to mourn and a lot to learn. But there’s really nothing to celebrate - these were complicated people who behaved like they had a death wish. Early humans had a survival wish and while it didn’t always work out, the motivation was different.
> Sometimes things take time, and can't be delegated

This is something I keep saying to our team, but we have some members who want to keep breaking things into more and more tickets. Their argument is it allows more bits to be worked on in parallel but I point out that it means context must be rediscovered by multiple people. Sometimes it’s okay for one ticket to be a large-ish do-it ticket and we don’t need a design+breakdown for every aspect of a feature.
As I said, I'm pretty out of practice, but doesn't stuff like unique_ptr give you a lot of memory-safe features out of the box?
Windows: what if everything was an (command) object?

Linux: what if everything was a file?

Soon we might have...

Mong/Os: what if everything was JSON?

YiAM/OS: YiAM/OS is ANOTHER MARKUP OPERATING SYSTEM... would come out shortly thereafter...

I like JSON and getting in the terminal is a challenge - GOOD JOB!
"much of it is still half-baked"

Imo, it's not. It's more like 80% baked. More than good enough for daily use, but not on the level of polish or quality of any of the market leaders. Proton Drive is not as nice and convenient as Dropbox, Proton Mail is not as nice and convenient Gmail, Proton Pass is not as nice and convenient as 1Password, and so on.

But each of their offerings are good enough to get the job done, the price is fair, and you get the added privacy.
The below is not specific to lucid dreaming but more about experiments regarding consciousness and perceived passage of time:

- Researchers wanted to see how the "time slows down under extreme events" worked

- They created a watch that blinked a message at a time too fast for humans to see under normal circumstances

- They then had people bungee jump and try to read the watch during the jump

Turns out that people could not perceive the message even though they reported the "time slows down" effect during the jump.

This has led researchers to believe that humans are not actually processing events more quickly and/or time is perceived to slow down but rather this is a coping mechanism for dealing with extreme events.
Meta: is it common for "research foundations" in india to be organised as a PLC?

https://www.filesure.in/company/ethophilia-research-foundati...

(also, note that this is below even the usual standards of phys.org, in that there is no article, these are self-reported "preliminary results of this ongoing project")
I really don’t understand why they do such airdrops. I got $300 from Starknet for doing nothing and immediately sold it. From what I understand, their community is pretty pissed that some randos got more money than they did despite actually engaging in the community and I tend to agree. Also, the fact they can just print money like this confuses me.
Posted in another comment : https://proton.me/blog/docs-proton-drive
I'm going to hijack the mention of ML to share xbyaku, a c++ library presenting a DSL for assembling machine code at runtime (useful for JIT).

It's used by some of the pytorch back ends.

https://github.com/herumi/xbyak

Example use: https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneDNN/blob/main/src/cpu/aarch...

I learned about these through a blog post about speeding up pytorch on ARM: https://pytorch.org/blog/optimized-pytorch-w-graviton/
> I like the syntax to send typed values from the terminal:

Incidentally, this syntax shows a notation that is clearly superior to json (at least for non-nested stuff). If all you need is this, you'd be better off by avoiding json altogether.

[Rant: if json is so unergonomic that people keep inventing alternatives like this syntax and stuff like "gron" to de-jsonise their lives, maybe using json was always a bad idea, after all... I guess in a decade everybody will look at json with the same disdain as we do XML today.]
> It’s weirdly difficult to study something for years - no matter how abstract — and successfully avoid any practical applications!

This reeks of survivor bias and I'm interested to hear arguments why you're so confidence this is the case without resorting to the obviously very well-known survivors (as opposed to the thousands of research projects that ended apparently nowhere and long forgotten...)
That's why we call it big test, not production.
A lot of dating research suffers from issues with status signals interfering with stated preference. Men overstate their number of sexual partners and women understate theirs because doing so affords them status. Reporting that you have very high standards for your mate is a higher status behaviour than reporting that you have low standards, so people who desire status will tend to overstate their requirements for sexual partners.

Social media probably exaggerates this effect somewhat, but it's hard to say how much it transfers.

This will probably get a lot of upvotes though because it appears to confirm common HN user priors.
Not really. Your equation has no unknowns, but if you consider the "e" in your equation as the unknown, and solve it (here I use "a" instead as the unknown, and use "e" in its usual meaning):

We want a^(i pi) + 1 = 0. Now,

a^(i pi) = e^(ln(a) i pi) = e^(i ln(a) pi) = cos( ln(a) pi) + i sin( ln(a) pi),

so we want cos( ln(a) pi) = -1, sin( ln(a) pi) = 0,

so ln(a) = 1, 3, 5, so a = e, e^3, e^5, ...

Thus indeed e^(i pi) + 1 = 0.

But also ln(a) = -1, -3, -5 work, so for example for

a = 1/e = 0.3678794412... > 0, we have

a^(i pi) + 1 = 0;

and of course for a = e^-99 = 1.0112214926104485... × 10^-43 etc.
No country can afford the Olympics, it's always a bad investment
You keep either missing or intentionally misinterpreting what I'm saying, and then arguing against your own interpretation. So let's end it.

> murra

It's mora down here.
Yes, but a free account will work.
These people's "world" would have been a relatively small area.
Peter Sagan started career winning on Tesco bike that he took from his sister.

But I think most accessible sport is running. You just need some shoes. Open the door and you are good to go (run). For games like football you also need the ball, playground and other people.
https://www.playok.com/

its english version of polish kurnik.pl (henhouse)

Its as old as polish internet, very rudimentary but always active for all kind of games
Nothing but Cthulhu's dreams under you :')
The whole premise of our present civilization is that every one before us was a nose picking drooler, and that we have more to say to the past then the past has to tell us about ourselves.

We lack the collective self consciousness to see ourselves through the eyes of the people of other times, thinking through what it means to be understood through artifact, and the distortions it produces.

The closest we come is prophesying that future generations will blame us for the destruction of the natural world and climate of earth. That is a thin mask for our age's narcissistic fixation with producing myths of its own apocalyptic world-ending power.

The people of the future probably won't think of us as bad, evil doers, that destroyed the natural world for future generations with no care but for ourselves and our consumption, if they are anything like us, they will more likely think of us as having one hand digging for gold where the sun don't shine while the other stuffs hot, fresh cheeseburgers into mouth, unibrow freshly dripping with sweat.
AI Lab Kyutai's groundbreaking model Moshi: conversations with <200ms latency
Random noise/errors can make elections more representative (using dithering)
What about mobile devices? There is no bridge and you have to rely on official apps, which is the biggest drawback for me.
We do not really care about "democracies". We just want friendly governments that are on our side. We are fine with Saudi Arabia which is the exact opposite of a democracy because they are our loyal ally.

We prefer "democracies" because we can covertly influence their elections.

Our democracy is not good either. We still hold elections on Tuesdays, an inconvenience to many. Why not on a Sunday like everyone else? We have just two political parties, no third-party candidate is ever going to get elected.