skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still don't get why people are calling these "religious fears

That’s what the people making those claims are talking about. If you haven’t talked with paranoid religious extremists before, it’s eye-opening: they are literally saying that a mandatory government ID will serve the beast mentioned in Revelations.

That’s not the only concern or group raising it by any means but I mentioned it because governments have to consider edge cases - if you make SSN a required field you have to figure out how to avoid turning away children from those households. If you’re building a website to sell t-shirts, that’s fine but if its government services you might be breaking the law and especially might be harming people who need help (a 17 year old who ran away from that house might have trouble getting the ID they need to live independently).

> a central authority gives everyone a serial number then it will be used to track them by powerful institutions, which is a tool of oppression.

It’s only a tool of oppression if you have a government prone to abuse and without constraints. If that’s true, since the computer age the distinction increasingly useless. The Stasi paid clerks to move paper around and if you’re comparing IDs by hand having a single number is a huge timesaver. In 2024, however, all not having one means is that they use software to link them – the context for this story is the huge industry doing that for all kinds of data, and they don’t mind having to link a couple of different identifiers. Faced with an oppressive government, we should be calling for legal restrictions and accountability for leaders. Not having a unique identification number is like wearing a breastplate into battle after the invention of the machine gun.
Since that immoral group would include many if not most of the best painters, sculptors, and playwrights, can we assume you forgot the '/s'?
If Gmail isn't 5 dollars a month by 2030 I'll be shocked.
> I believe that we can solve continuous sign language translation convincingly

American Sign Language is not English, in fact, it's not even particularly close to English. Much of the language is conveyed with body movements outside of the hands and fingers, particularly with facial expressions and "named placeholders."

> All this is to say, that we need to build a 5000 hour scale dataset for Sign Language Translation and we are good to go. But where can we find this data? Luckily news broadcasters often include special news segments for the hearing-impaired.

You need _way_ more than just 5000 hours of video. People who are deaf of hard of hearing, in my experience, dislike the interpreters in news broadcasts. It's very difficult, as an interpreter, to provide _worthwhile_ translations of what is being spoken _as_ it is being spoken.

It's more of a bad and broken transliteration that if you struggle to think about you can parse out and understand.

The other issue is most interpreters are hearing and so use the language slightly differently from actual deaf persons, and training on this on news topics will make it very weak when it comes to understanding and interpreting anything outside of this context. ASL has "dialects" and "slang."

Hearing people always presume this will be simple. They should really just take an ASL class and worth with deaf and hearing impaired people first.
The diffusion process is conditioned on CLIP text, which works better (in theory) since the encoded text is aligned with images.
What a meme language.
unrelated, but why is your username a different color than the others in this thread?
Streaming is not piracy though?
The Dynamics of an Asteroid
It's not. They were attacking an argument made in the original comment. That argument had no reason to only apply to Kim dotcom. It applies to everyone. The poster attacked the logic behind that argument using a few different people as examples.
Programming books are definitely becoming more hit or miss, as the volume of books has increased dramatically in the last 10-15 years. There are still great books, but there are a lot more bad ones out there. There's a lot more software out there, and a lot more people learning about it.

I had a horrible experience with Packt. I had subscribed andwas in the middle of reading a book. The book suddenly became unavailable, so I created a ticket. They threw a few tokens at me, and asked if they could just close the ticket, even though there was no mention of whether the book was going to be available again.

Then weeks later they signed me up for six(!) separate mailing lists without asking me, one for each tag I had flagged as interested.
Here's a thought experiment for you: if you were raped, would you want the government to give up prosecuting your rapist just because 10 or 15 years passed before they could locate them?

I'm not saying that this crime is on the same level, but Megaupload was at one time responsible for 4% of the entire Internet's piracy activity. And it wasn't a non-profit peer-to-peer file sharing community like The Pirate Bay or anything like that, it was a for-profit corporation directly profiting from stolen IP. Kim built himself a gigantic mansion off of other people's work.

And he certainly had the means and ability to consult with lawyers who almost certainly told him that what he was doing was incredibly risky.
I am an entrepreneur, and my startup team is about to fail. In response to the questions raised by rwl4, I am very sorry. All the features on our website are completely free for everyone to use. If we can help some people, it will be a small consolation for the team before the failure. I apologize again.
So is this just on phones locked to Verizon or all of them?
Ahh, yep! Huh, I wonder how they managed to enchant all those investors with sucky hardware...
This was a poor article. Stoller reveals his ignorance of the industry. The GC is far from some middleman. They are the one that coordinate all aspects of the construction, from the digging of the foundation, the rough-in carpentry for the frame of the home, the electrical work, painting, roofing, and everything in between. No single craftsperson could be versed in so many trades, so of course they use subcontractors.
> The neat thing about capitalism is that stores will be built to serve the community if there's a market for it. We don't need to centrally plan the whole community up front.

There's a chicken-and-egg problem here, though. Would you buy a new home and move in with no groceries or other stores in the area yet? If there's an existing community, then yes, stores will be built eventually, but that can't just happen overnight, so how do homeowners survive in the meantime?

That's why most new housing is built in the suburbs around existing cities. All of the amenities needed by homeowners are already nearby, or at least within reasonable driving distance. Starting a new community in the middle of nowhere would be extremely difficult, and would certainly cost a lot more money to the home builders, reducing profit.
Are they shuttered yet, or still shambling along?

https://resources.magicleap.com/en-us/careers

Supposedly they have open roles, but it's probably just for show (since displaying 0 openings would be perceived as a negative signal). Archive.org corroborates not much is changing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://resource...
I realized with all the rhel systems I’m using, we are never using default toolchains on them. Just use those old systems to run stuff, even newer toolchains.
This is great to see. Evals on voice are hard - we only have evals on text based prompting, but it doesn't fully capture everything. Excited to give this a try.
> Looking Glass' new lineup includes

Dangit, I got excited for System Shock 3 or a new Thief and now I feel let-down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_Studios
its that color for people who recently signed up
It's standard trolling technique, or maybe rhetorical art to win an argument, your call.

Now you have a pointless thread five deep.
Gmail is super important source of ads targeting data. They won't kill it.
That might be true for the GNU foundation. But they don't actually control/host the vast majority of software licensed under the many GPL variants. None of the GPL licenses actually cover any form of copyright transfers. Including the AGPL. That's done via separate contributor agreements typically. The GNU foundation doesn't control the licenses either. That's a job done by the free software foundation. Which doesn't host any projects as far as I know.

At this point the GNU foundation mostly just runs relatively small, older projects and that definitely does not include the linux kernel. That one has its own foundation called the Linux foundation. The Linux foundation runs many hundreds of projects and they operate mostly without contributor licenses as far as I know. And in so far they do those agreements are not about transferring ownership of the copyright but asserting ownership to ensure that the contributions people make are actually legal.

Big corporations moving code bases under their control seems to be a regular thing and that includes some pretty high profile projects recently. And of course there are many more projects on Github that use one of the GPL licenses. The vast majority of which don't have any contributor license.

So, I don't think I'm that wrong here at all that this is not that common. The previous poster seems to confuse the license with the GNU foundation which is a tiny subset of the overall GPL licensed software ecosystem.
> In the movie The Avengers

I think this author has a problem writing hooks (but doesn't know it?)

To the point of the rest of the piece, they do a good job outlining the relationship but don't want to go the extra mile and provide real examples. It's like they're egging on your imagination to provide all sorts of modern case studies, but even among America's most liberal candidates I'm not sure if I see it.

On the contrary, I think liberal leaders are extremely self-conscious of authoritarian image. The biggest socialist disasters a-la Pol Pot happened because of authoritarian policy that superseded logic. The political science crowd has researched this for decades and is well aware of it's looming specter in the background. The left, by-and-large, is more aware of these optics in America than the right is. Whether or not they intend to attempt the same tone-deaf leadership varies on a case-by-case basis, but that goes for all candidates. The nature of liberal change responding to populist opinion isn't authoritarian but expressly democratic. The only authoritarian policy is to obstruct change and attempt to divert or prevent the due process of democracy.

Here, I'll call it like it is. This is pretty clearly a right-wing fluff-piece covering up for the conservative frontman claiming, and I quote, “Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” verbatim at a rally. I give the author a 4/5 stars on political theory and a 2/5 on execution.

> We’ve tacitly raised a generation of liberals who think that it’s normal for Disney to fire actress Gina Carano for having a political opinion that some people don’t like, and yet also think they aren’t authoritarian for doing so.

Is that apathy towards government, or apathy towards business? It's unclear who the "they" is that's being authoritarian, and I think that kinda says everything you need to know about this article. Is "The Left" in the room with you, right now?
This is a weird argument.

Information can be any collection of bits. You can copy these easily and almost for free.

But almost nobody cares about information in the abstract. I'm talking about specific, artful arrangements of bits. Lots of effort goes into making sequences of bits. (we can give our sequence of bits names like "The Lion King" or "Windows 98"). You only want a copy of these bits because of the effort that went into it.

Of course nobody can control how you flip the bits on your hard drive in practice, but that's missing the point. It's a particular arrangement of bits that you find entertaining or informative or useful, somebody put a lot of work into making it that way, and it's this creative effort that you end up enjoying and paying for, not the actual bits.

And of course you are depriving the artists of something - a royalty payment. The art was likely created with a view to that royalty payment. Which is why you want to pirate it in the first place. You want to enjoy the creative work without having to shell out for it.

You can come up with elaborate arguments about information theory, but in the end this is what it comes down to - pirates want other people to create value for them, for free, and will howl about "corporations" and "information wants to be free" to try and justify it.
Sounds exactly like a file sharing service. My Google documents are also downloaded much more than uploaded, very often by people who don't upload anything at all.
> And it's not like anyone actually needs to fly to South-east Asia for vacation every year.

I didn't jump anywhere. You brought it up.
Academic Experiments on Social Media
Property values are a small-to-none factor.

I don't want more noise.

I don't want more traffic.

I don't want more students at my kid's schools, which are already at a 35/1 kid to teacher ratio.

That's it for me. I think that's it for a lot of people, whether they live in cities or suburbs or far out in the country. Very few people want more crowding. The people who like living in dense cities already live there.

Blaming greed and property values is just a distraction.
Actually, if you’re not buying movies and TV, the money comes out of producers pockets, not the tradespeople. They never get residuals. The case you point to is about box office flops, which, again, come far after tradespeople have cashed their last check from a production. People made stinkers every year even before pirating and past performance does not guarantee future success.

Also, I would consider pirating a perfectly valid protest of what producers have done over the last two years, dragging their feet to break the backs of unions in advance of negotiations. Hollywood, Atlanta, New Orleans, NY, all filming far less over the last two years due to producer’s greed and hope that they can enjoy these pesky trades entirely by automation and AI. This has done more damage to tradespeople than pirating ever did.

Fortunately, it’s pretty clear that it will not be feasible to make a coherent movie or TV show via AI in the near term. Hopefully consumers vote with their wallets too and don’t buy or stream any content that is made without trades.
Oh nice, that looks really cool! How did you get the fretboard to sync up with those songs? Ai or some manual encoding work somehow?

Well done!
Web search is certainly something that should be a public institution.
Still here

https://www.magicleap.com/

and on v2 of the product. If you really want optical AR hardware that's affordable and stylish your best bet is

https://www.xreal.com/

I think they have a great story for "watch TV in AR" but I don't think their story for AR applications is that good.
> Wonder if I just got a bad batch or something...

Perhaps, but people do have diverse senses of smell, so it's entirely possible you can smell an odour that I can't. Or that you'll find it bad and I won't.

(Weird fact about me: to me, wet dog smell is pleasant and indistinguishable from scrambled eggs).
> so far from other countries that it's fairly sheltered from potential conflict

I suspect the small size of the economy, the small number of people in it, and lack of strategic importance in military matters are what keep it protected from potential conflict more than it's self sufficiency and distance. In fact, if anything was to create conflict would be someone trying to capture that self-sufficiency to support their own population.
The analytic approach to occlusion definitely does seem like a "humbling parallelism" type of problem on the GPU. My curiosity is leading me to explore it, and it may be reasonable if I find alternatives to large GPU sorts (although I understand you've done some work on that recently). I think the Vello approach is very likely the superior option for the best general quality/performance tradeoff.
It's useful to compare Russia with other countries.

Russia pop 145 million. GDP 2.24 Trillion.

Brazil, pop 205 million, GDP 1.92 Trillion.

Brazil isn't anyone's idea of a super power. Difference is Russia has or had a lot of Soviet cold war era weapons and weapons manufacturing. With the emphasis on the increasingly had.

So yes you are right. And I agree about the wife beater logic.
I have a bunch of stereo 180 degree images I've captured. Too bad there's really no existing work flow for going from those images to something that would be suitable for this.

Of course, any such method would need to come up with data from the thin air, but it seems there are pretty decent algorithms for doing exactly that nowdays.
You order your operations by depth.
Design Patterns is your suggestion of a book that isn't shit? Even the list of "a-ha" books has random landmines tossed in.
Even with remote work, it may still be beneficial to live in or near a large metro area. From an American point of view, large metro areas generally offer many amenities such as a variety of cultural events (concerts, exhibits, festivals), a variety of shops and restaurants, international airports, a populace that is diverse and is more accepting of people from diverse backgrounds, expanded opportunities for education, and much more. Even if one chooses not to live in the Bay Area or New York City due to housing costs, there are still other desirable metro areas in the United States that offer these amenities and have lower (though definitely not low) housing costs. To add, if one could afford the housing costs of the Bay Area and New York City, there are many reasons to live in those places.
there are new items in this category every day, but https://blog.cr.yp.to/20240803-clang.html is noteworthy
A modern take I've always enjoyed is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1tcj6bUv98
That's not quite what the parent meant. There is a choice between very few phone manufacturers, and even less mobile operating systems.

Don't want to sign up to one multinational behemoth? Well, your choice is to sign up to one other multinational behemoth.
This on the same day that the SF Bay Area pulled its $20 billion housing bond from the November ballot [0], after objectors claimed the published costings were inaccurate. (SJMercuryNews: "The total cost, including principal and interest on the bond, is estimated at $48.3 billion and would take more than 50 years to pay off.")

Another relevant project is the Solano County ("California Forever") proposal [1], which is being dropped from the 2024 ballot but is still active (presumably for March 2026 ballot, when there will be gubernatorial primary and high turnout).

Also, after 2024 CA Proposition 5 ("Lower Supermajority from 66.67% to 55% for local bond measures to fund housing projects and public infrastructure")[2] has been voted on. (It's also being challenged by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.)

We will be able to compare timelines/costs/delays between the two development proposals and get answers on whether costs/delays in CA homebuilding are primarily due to the homebuilder, the city/county, CA state, the development process in general, or nearby residents' objections. The Solano County proposal is more greenfield and seems to have more supporters and fewer existing homeowners to object, so this outcome should be interesting and informative. (Of course, it's a distinct possibility that both proposals get killed politically, which would also give us the answer that it's not really about costs or timelines, and that a vocal minority of existing homeowners/landowners can game the process to pretty much kill any proposal, regardless how antisocial that might be.)

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[0]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/13/20b-bay-area-housing-...

[1]: KQED Forum "What’s Next for California Forever’s Proposal to Build a New City in Solano County" https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906729/whats-next-for-cali...

[2]: Ballotpedia: CA Prop 5 https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_5,_Lower_Supe...
If we're mentioning songs then I'd pick T..... & Beer by Frank Zappa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPO1QGhYDjM
Heterogeneous Context Sharding Among Attention Heads
What in the world would AI bring to printers? The video talks about good instructions for clearing paper jams, but you don't need anything like AI for that kind of thing.
Interesting - I wasn't aware of prior art here. Do you remember the project's name?

One issue with the power company receipt PoB proposal is that the dollar value isn't actually destroyed; the power company still becomes $1 richer, and could repeatedly recycle that dollar to burn more energy and mint more currency. In order to prevent runaway inflation, you'd want to decouple the amount of energy burnt from the amount of issued currency. What if you used the PoB receipts as lottery tickets, and every 10 minutes a winner is picked and receives a fixed amount (say, 50 units) of currency? :)
The more I think about your example the more it is a viable business model as you have the incentive to make people bid for the data, rather than defaulting it to Google, which is the point of the monopoly issue.
Lifeprint.org has plenty of free asl courses taught by a deaf person. Highly recommended for everyone but as with any language it takes a lot of study to be useful.
> I agree, and I think even the folks who are against that would actually end up enjoying it more

That's a pretty remarkable belief. Many of us happy suburbanites have lived in large dense cities in our younger days. We are not ignorant of the joys of city living, we've just changed priorities.
Please just have audits.
There is a Gnu Foundation, but it has nothing to do with computing: http://www.gnufoundation.org/who-we-are

You mean the GNU Project.
i was puzzled about that too and got even more puzzled when i looked at the languages i could find that he's implemented
uncencored

should be spelled

uncensored

in the title of your post.
N1 had a bunch of problems, the engines could not be fired several times, so they tested them by producing them in batches, then test firing one from the batch and assuming all engines in the batch were the same as that one. This obviously isn't how things work, so engines could just be defective from the start.

The second was, as mentioned, that the control systems of the time were not that great, so they had issues properly compensating for engine failures, causing them to cascade until too many engines were lost to get to orbit.
Which kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

I expect different treatment for Pablo Escobar / Chapo level drug dealers vs a guy who gave some of his weed to a buddy of his for some cash and later bought a pizza with it.

They are both technically drug dealers, just one a bit more successful than the other.
Just some quick, possibly uninformed, usability comments based on a quick glance...

Puts the number used as identity (address) up front in a way that the user can understand what it means. So better than most. Combining that identity with trust in a dialog seems to be relatively understandable. Having a category other than trusted and untrusted (unknown) is a good idea but is not immediately understandable. The user of course would have to be instructed to know exactly what "trust" means in this context.

The user doesn't need to know that they are using Curve25519. Just that some sort of encryption has been achieved.

Hex for the identity number is the worst possible choice of base. Either decimal which is quite familiar for identifying things or base32 for shorter numbers. The identity number should be consistently displayed in some helpful grouping (4 groups of 5?).
I really don't see how is it too late, the incentives are so huge that competition will bid for the ads.