skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 3DS had a parallax barrier. Personally I got the 3DS around the time that my presbyopia got bad but I thought the images looked really great with my reading glasses.

I was disappointed that they didn't use stereo for Pokémon Sun and Moon but then they would had to have decided if Lusamine's hair formed a sheet or a cone wheras the animation is strangely ambiguous about the issue as it is.

Most 3D TVs use a high frame rate panel and shutter glasses, somewhat like Lenny Lipton's (Cornell physics grad who wrote the lyrics for Puff the Magic Dragon)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealD_3D

which uses a double-pumped projector and a device which electrically rotates polarized light on alternate frames so that circular polarized lenses on the glasses work like the shutter glasses. (I'm a little sad that I never got to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_3D)

You don't lose quality in principle from this scheme but you do lose brightness and the real answer is "it's complicated" when you change the frame rate.

Most 3D TV however is in a side-by-side format where half of the horizontal frame is used for one eye and the other half is used for the other eye so you really do lose some horizontal resolution.

My best 3D viewer right now is a Meta Quest 3 on which I've watched Space Station 3D and The Rise of Skywalker though sometimes I think about picking up a used 3D TV. If a monitor or TV supports high frame rates you could get 3D for free if it wasn't for the shutter glasses being rather expensive.
I've been wondering about this for awhile. Do we really need multiple users for desktop unix? I get that you want some division between system and user, to protect the user against themselves. And read-only files are similarly useful, if only because some devices are read-only. But do we really need user/group/other permissions for desktop unix? and all the complexity of groups, and euid, etc.

Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Is it that offensive to question orthodoxy?
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I don't know how you find agreement on what our taxes have to pay for, given how polarized it all is now. I'd much rather a system where my browser anonymously pays a nickel or something to read what I want.
Huh. Good point, I did miss that. That, however, seems to primarily be an issue of trademark, not copyright. And once we enter the domain of trademark [law], genericization becomes a salient point, especially with the "anyone can use it however they want" reality of FSF.
I don't think they have unmetered bandwidth?
Mistrial-Nemo should be able to do this.
Of course they are derivative.

The question is whether they are transformative.

Right or wrong, the bar for transformative use is probably lower than you think.

Artists are the beneficiaries of this, as they can riff on popular works for inspiration, recognizability, social commentary.

Given the existing case law, I don't see a ruling against AI companies as likely.
Congratulations for the launch! We had a big QC need for https://kea.ai/ where we needed to stress test our CX agents in real time too. This would be a big life saver. kudos on the product and the brilliant demo!
"Engineering" reflects the popular way of thinking. So when magic is explained for the popular mind it looks like engineering.
Not on DO. ~$100 a month droplet gets you about 5TB of transfer out. They pulled 15TB in 7 hours. That's ~1,440,000 (16330) on overage or about $15k extra.
It's ridiculous how much they want to charge for an article. Some won't even sell single articles and want a monthly or annual subscription to see everything they produce. I don't want to see everything. I'm not your sheeple. I can't afford to buy 5 or 20 annual subscriptions. I want to read articles from a variety of news sources.

I want to pay $20 for 10 articles and be debited for the ones I view. If that takes me 3 days or 3 years to view 10 articles, that's what I want. They will make more money selling articles at a reasonable price than they will selling annual subscriptions full of crap people don't want.
I agree that interested parties are trying to steer the ship there. I just don't see the legal arguments that will get them there.

Given the fact that images are transmitted to a person in a manner that doesn't violate copyright (and even if they are, the transmitter, not receiver is guilty of infringement), training an AI is not something that copyright law limits.

The AI weights that result are about the farthest thing from a derivative work, as the weights as a separate object, don't seem to contain the slightest remnant of the original work.
Did this guy just write a blog post about how he completely rewrote a functional feature to save $800?

In all seriousness, the devil is in the details around this kind of stuff, but I do worry that doing something not even clever, but just nonstandard, introduces a larger maintenance effort than necessary.

Interesting problem, and an interesting solution, but I'd probably rather just throw money at it until it gets to a scale that merits further bot prevention measures.
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The issue here is that the AI model itself is a derivative work.

Further, they will very much recreate things the’ve seen many examples of. Recreating “Mona Lisa” isn’t a problem, but recreating “Iron Man” is. Individual artists may not know how to prompt the system to recreate their work, but looking at the training sets is going to help quite a bit.
Oh, I'm old enough to remember the days when we were all subscribing to the local newspaper. I'm still thinking about subscribing to our local paper, but last time I checked it was just too expensive, taking into account that all the news I need will get to me by social media, TV, email, or text message.
Let you do what? What barriers do you see?
Elon Musk comes to mind...
10k req/s would potentially crash the ruby proxy server halting the image serving.

Cloudflare is the way to go. I generally serve heavy files, e.g. videos, from a Cloudflare bucket to avoid expensive bills from primary host.
> turning all news into something akin to NPR

Why do you see NPR as such a positive example of journalism? It seems to me that it's been skating on its previous good reputation for quite some time now.
Without marketing bs, what's something that can be done only with Cockroach and not postgres or other truly-OSS alternatives? I'm curios because I've been reading news about it forever but never had the chance to work with it
Here is but one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWdKK06-7EE or: https://apnews.com/article/germany-ukraine-russia-gas-pipeli...

But if you want to look around, you will see plenty, vast amounts of pundits and officials pointing fingers at Russia, if not directly accusing it.

I'm sure, if we put a collage together of all the CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Fox, etc., et., we'd see lots of guests putting forth the idea it was Russia, with very few objections, despite the obvious outrageousness of the idea. It's in the same class of stupidity that the US brought down the twin towers type conspiracy theory nonsense.

Now, was it a couple of drunk guys; no, that's not likely but it's at least pointing in the actual direction, while adding a less than believable disclaimer.
> You're conflating a few things here.

It's likely: I purposefully stayed loose about the "infinite processes" to avoid going awry. I do however remembered him justifying his views as such though: he's not going into details, but he's making that point here[0] (c. 0:40). I assumed — perhaps wrongfully — that he got those historical "facts" correct.

https://youtu.be/I0JozyxM1M0?si=IFdWcEWNeNKDid7t&t=39
A model without power loss protection I presume?
The KISS principle applies.

Could 6 sole actors + 1 support staff, run a clandestine operation that was so wildly successful ?

Seems like the answer is yes. A stupidly simple plan provided you have depth in professional, loyal staff, and some legacy resources for covert travel as a state actor.

It follows that such a hodgepodge ops would not have needed much in terms of TPS reporting, documented approvals, and just overall bureaucracy. Therefore, not much detail other than what they say is expected. Unless you have access to the 7 or so individuals identified.

Could they be patsies? Sure. But the story seems to fit the mold.

What's crazy is that if they had dropped their phones, they would have likely never been found out.
Rather than allowing any object on a bucket to be downloaded by its raw URL (i.e: http://mycdn.io/abcdefg.jpeg), the backend service needs to generate a "signed" url, which is a short lived URL that grants the user a single request against that resources (GET, POST, PUT, etc.) (i.e: http://mycdn.io/abcdefg.jpeg?signed={securerandomstring}) So you can only use the URL to download it once, and you need to go through the backend API to generate the presigned URL. This could result in your backend getting hammered but you can also use DDOS protection to prevent 10k requests a second from going through your backend

Theyre also a good way to allow users to upload images to your CDN without having to actually upload that data to your web API backend; you just give the user a presigned PUT request URL and they get a one-time ticket to upload to your bucket
$1375/day is $170 per hour or about $300k annually (five days a week, 8 weeks off). Pretty reasonable rate for a senior software developer contract in the US.
I can't describe the surprise when I saw RoR being mentioned, that was unexpected but made the article way more exciting to read.

Wouldn't this be solved by using Cloudflare R2 though?
DO _is_ cloud. Using their droplets compared to someone more sophisticated on GCP is an engineering choice, but both are cloud and both have upsides and downsides, and one needs to understand their needs to make the correct decision both among the different providers and within a provider on the right setup.
Do you have plans to make the data sources pluggable instead of being Kafka specific?
Nice find, I think it would.
It was in reference to: The land needs access to water and electricity, not to mention roads, or it's a nonstarter, especially if you want to build a bunch of homes on the land.

(The comment may indeed be true--sort of by definition to at least some degree--for new construction, although getting that access can be pretty straightforward, to the degree anything involving construction is straightforward. It's more that housing prices are an issue in popular places where a lot of people want to live. And, yes, vibrant college towns fall into that category although not to the same degree as elite cities.)
You cannot just put Cloudflare in front of your Google hosted bucket, that's against CF's terms of service. In order to do that you would have to also host the content itself on Cloudflare R2/Images etc. There used to be also html only restriction but that's no longer the case.

> Next, we got rid of the antiquated HTML vs. non-HTML construct, which was far too broad. Finally, we made it clear that customers can serve video and other large files using the CDN so long as that content is hosted by a Cloudflare service like Stream, Images, or R2.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/
Not sure I agree. NPR, a nonprofit, has followed Fox News, NYT, MSNBC, etc down the biased, slanted drain hole. I listened to NPR from my childhood until a few years ago before I, sadly, had to call it quits.
They should have some say, but they should not be able to act as a cartel and prevent permitting altogether. And I say that as a new homeowner.

General zoning policy should be decided at a state level (or federal) - like in Japan. Otherwise, no individual community wants more development (of course), but it's a bitter pill that they have to swallow together if we want to solve the housing problem.
And I've remembered one other additional insight I'd meant to include above: I'd far prefer if more news entities operated like Wikipedia.

I'd first noticed this during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which was a huge, complex, long-evolving story covering a huge area. Trying to get useful information from news media was ... maddening. Even good sources were at best useful for 1) initial reports and 2) a long dribble of additional developments, but after the first day or so reading, listening, or watching news items gave very little clear overview of the story.

There've been many, many, many such cases since. The Oroville Dam crisis (a notable press exception was Brad Plumer, then at Vox, whose single-author reportage largely equaled Wikipedia). Covid-19. Various major court cases.

Most recently, after hitting several outlets (BBC, CBC, NPR, NY Times, Guardian) over the outbreak of riots in the UK, and trying to relate the news and answer questions to an older relative, I remembered my Wikipedia trick and turned to their coverage. The first paragraph of the Wikipedia article gave all the relevant context far more clearly than any of five or so mainstream media sources I'd turned to.

Moreover, the Wikipedia article had on the order of 175 footnotes and references, linked in the article but separated from the text, as footnotes are, meaning that one could read the text as a narrative and NOT be constantly interrupted by attributions as one so often is in current reporting. Yes, it's useful to have sources cited, but doing so as part of the narrative is itself, in my experience, mind-numbing in its own way.

And if you're not happy with the Wikipedia coverage, there's the article's "Talk" page, which discusses issues and conflicts amongst editors, at length. At the time I'd checked, the article ran about 18 screens (on my A4 e-ink tablet), only half of which were the actual article, the remainder being references and other Wikipedia "furniture". The Talk page ran 38 screens, which is to say, twice the length of the article and four times the length of the actual text, such that virtually all major conflicts and concerns were voiced there. And of course there's edit history so the reader can see what's changed, when, and by whom.

I'd really like to see media organisations adopt a Wikipedia-like format for long, complex, and evolving stories such that it's easy to turn to such a page and get the best, concise, current state of understanding, again with sources and discussion if wanted.

Most media organisations, even those which are now fully digital, seem still to embrace the notion of a static printed product, and haven't fully embraced the capabilities of digital production, dissemination, change-control, and disclosure. It's ... disappointing.

But we do have Wikipedia, and I'd strongly suggest using it.

(A more permissive edit capability on HN, and for that matter, Diaspora*, would also be nifty. Perhaps an earned privilege, probably with strong penalties for abuse, as in "you lose privs". But SRSLY...)
Isn't 63% => 54% regression on MMLU-Pro a huge issue? They said that it excels at advanced reasoning but that seems like a big drawback there.
Thanks so much, I feel like you're the only one who grasps the crux of my question!

> This is a somewhat surprising result, because up to now, no matter in which order we asked the questions: Can we repeat? Can we undo? How to enable undo by extension? We always ended up with the same mathematical object.

I think this is the bit I'm confused on - we have an operation that is a mixture of two operations, where previously we only looked at pure compositions of operations (let's call this "impure"). Why is it surprising that the inversion of an "impure" operation produces an "impure" value?

It's like saying, if I add x to itself a bunch, I always get a multiple of x. If I do the same thing with y, then I get a multiple of y. But if I add x and y to each other, I might get a prime number! Is that surprising? Mixing is a fundamentally new kind of operation; why would you expect its inversion to be familiar?
Until the author fixes the post, this is what they're talking about: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/signed-.... Essentially, it ensures that a URL is invalid unless the server signs it with a secret key controlled by the server, which means that clients can't access your assets just by guessing the URL. In addition to signing the URL, the signature can contain metadata such as permissions and expiration time.
Mice are in the same clade as primates, and share around 95-99% of the same genome as primates.

We're all part of the Euarchontoglires clade
> I'm curious to hear how others have solved this same problem

I think this is interesting to ask, because I often have problems where I'm almost certain it's been solved before, just people don't bother to write about it. Where can people congregate to discuss questions like this?
This mechanism sounds like it could have a strong nootropic effect for everyone not having totally ideal sleep. Whenever I sleep badly, or not long enough for some days in a row, my cognitive performance deteriorates rather quickly. Supposedly, the glymphatic system‘s work has a major role to play in this.

Melatonin also has been found to have a stimulating effect on the glymphatic system, though we need better trials on that.
> It quickly becomes clear that people will live wherever they are allowed to.

Doesn't seem to be true. You can buy land in e.g. Nevada for less than $1000 per acre, but it sits empty because approximately nobody wants to live in the middle of the desert.
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism and say 'mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols,'... Finally we are left in peace to go back to our mathematics and do it as we have always done, with the feeling each mathematician has that he is working with something real. The sensation is probably an illusion, but it is very convenient.
That example is exactly why many people will not want to sign a CLA.

Someone who is has a strong preference for copyleft licences may not want to contribute to a project with a permissive license.

The intent may not be for the project owners to use the code in proprietary software, but it would be to allow someone to do so.
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The BBC has a sorta-kinda-taxpayer-funded model and manages to attract criticism from all sides, which is generally taken as a compliment to its neutrality.
“Society”.

Tax all land so after 6 months it is not profitable to hold. I guess after 6 months all land everywhere will be built.
Who would benefit from all those law enforcement officers being deployed without bodycams? Anyone planning shenanigans.
The alternative is to ground it in philosophy and theoretical mathematics which would be even more abstruse...
There is also very obvious evidence that regardless of size you are overwhelmingly likely to die when hit by a vehicle and that in fact due to the application of force via the hood even in non-fatal crashes smaller vehicles have a higher chance to cripple you for life. I really shouldn’t be surprised that saying ‘getting hit by a car, regardless of size, is deadly’ on HN.
And:
- would implementing "news" change the level of informedness?

I don't think we can assume it would.
Remember kids, CDNs are your friend.

You can roll/host your own anything. Except CDN, if you care about uptime.
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I liked the news better in America before the Fairness Doctrine was revoked by an extreme right wing administration.

I also spent a huge chunk of my adulthood in Canada, and I never really minded the CBC, until the last ~10 or so years when (like most institutions and companies) they have lacked any sort of reasonable, competent or rational leadership and now they're combining staff layoffs and massive executive bonuses, which is the ridiculous reality of the world we live in.
Quite the clickbait. You can only access it from the pay site, or unless you can get a school library to access it, which I will do. Only the first page is available free.
Show HN: Locality-Sensitive Hashing in Python for Faster Nearest Neighbor Search
Those multiple users could be used to implement sandboxing.

And of course if one has a family then one might want accounts for Mom, Dad, Alice and Bob.
Hi, thanks for trying out our demo! You're right - watermarking a video doesn't need AI, but we use AI to help enable nontechnical users to build that watermarking workflow, as well as any other workflow that they want to automate without having to interact directly with Python scripts.
They are proposing that police use vendors who do not use Quectel and other Chinese modems within their bodycams.

The DIU is also beginning to push companies to start using cleared vendors for subcomponents from the US and allied countries [0] due to similar concerns.

Commodity modems have publicly been a vector of attack on the radar of NATO+ for at least a decade now [1] (but unofficially since the mid-2000s after Bloomberg's initial expose [2]), and sparked the initial impetus around "Supply Chain Security" and "Secure Enclaves".

[0] - https://www.diu.mil/blue-uas

[1] - https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2018/10/Art-16-Attacking-the-Base...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-01/dangerous...
And not just fruit - getting ability to metabolize alcohol, ie. to efficiently consume those ripe fruits lying around under the tree seems to be that jump start in the brain development, walking up-right, etc. And the alcohol produces that artificial feeling of empowerment and freedom (which are basically top temptations by the devil). Btw, in Russia alcohol has evil image of the "green serpent" (after the biblical Serpent, and the Soviet propaganda used all that religious imagery - a 1962 cartoon where moonshine distillator is ran by a Witch and a Daemon and it morphs into the Serpent, and there is also a Faust's Mefistofele signing the famous solo of the opera

https://youtu.be/xa7VHwpCgDk?t=352 and https://youtu.be/xa7VHwpCgDk?t=482 )
It’s a publicity traded company they don’t need to be sold to be broken up. Each division retains its own value and shareholders get proportionate shares for the new stocks.
Sure, none of the people involved in that had healthcare.
This is absolutely nuts to me and would immediately rule out ever hosting anything on google storage for me
The IRS has loads of legacy IT – but it's not equipped to replace it
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I don't know... Would you call the Kodak "moment" a breakup? Or a failure to move quickly into digital photography...
Android is a Google product.
So SFH should get taxed like a high rise.

In CA there was/is a ban on SFH zoning. So at least in that case every homeowner should get taxed like at least a fourplex. Considering your wage didn’t increase that means less money for mortgage, etc., so buyers have less to spend on a house and your property goes down in value.
> I use CloudFlare R2 to serve your files - its free.

I mean technically it's not free. It's just that they have a very generous "Forever Free" number of read operations (10M/month, $0.36 per million after).
rot13 is way faster though.
Say not the straightforward deeply, but the deep straightforwardly.

(NP-hard so.) Two words, answering directly yet explaining nothing. Shibboleths and CAPTCHAs are illusionary protection (and really exclusionary).
Had an LG Optimus phone with a 3d screen, was a nice gimmick but not really usefull. This will probably end up the same.