skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s because sampling artifacts never disappear with Box. The reason is the high frequency aliasing is introduced by the filtering. It’s because the Box itself has infinite frequency response that you cannot eliminate the artifacts, it’s not possible. This is why all other, better filters fade their weight smoothly to zero at the support boundary.

You can see this with a single sharp edge, it doesn’t need to involve multiple polygons, nor even vector rendering, it happens when downsampling images too.
> Um, why would you say that? Only if you stay at sub replacement for hundreds of years will you reach extinction.

Why would you think this? Is it because it's a comfortable thought? "Oh gee, but we'll be able to fix it later!" Sub-replacement fertility causes demographic collapse, which causes extreme economic collapse. If you're bitching and moaning that you can't afford kids now, how will that be any different for the few grandchildren you had 50 years from now when they have to each support three or four social security retirees and pay back the $35 trillion credit card bill you ran up? Sub-replacement fertility doesn't just cause a dip in population, it actively causes more sub-replacement fertility. It accelerates. And, I'll have you note that however many centuries you think this takes, the better part of that last century consists of childless people (the last generation) living out lonely, desolate lives as they wait for humanity to become extinct.

> If we get back to 1 billion people in 200 years we can go back to having replacement level kids again.

All people aren't equal when it comes to this problem. Only the (next to) most recent generation can even make kids. Roughly from age 15 to age 35. Do you think those 1 billion people would all consist of people age 15 to age 35? Most of them would be geriatric. That's one of the things people don't ever seem to get... they're counting the wrong fucking thing. You thought "hey, we have 1 billion people, that's more than enough". But what you really had is maybe 10 or 20 million people at that point who are still capable of having children. Virtually all of those people were only-children themselves. Do you think they're going to say "hey, I want 10 children, and I'll be a good parent too even though no one alive knows how to raise that many children in a single family!" ?

Maybe I'm being mean. Maybe this is counter-intuitive. But you're just flat out wrong, refuse to do the thinking necessary to get past your own biases and cognitive malfunctions, and you and other people will live to see at least the first stage of a rapid decline that you don't even have the mental tools to understand.
I find this mentality is always directed at rich people, but never applied consistently in anyone's life, so I have a hard time taking this opinion seriously. Hopefully, you can convince me otherwise, but I've never heard anyone suggest the best sports teams should stop competing when they've won enough, or that the best inventors should stop, or the best artists, and so on. Money isn't zero sum. We're constantly creating insanely large quantities of money. If the people at the top are accumulating that money from individual consumers making their own free choices, then would you suggest that the people at the end of the line be given things for free? Or maybe they should be disallowed from making the purchases? Or maybe you're suggesting the rich keep selling but they're forced to give the profits away? and who would they give it away too? The federal government controls more money than any entire private business, so obviously it controls orders of magnitude more than any individual. Should these wealthy individuals be forced to give their money to the largest money holders in the world? What value system would that make sense in?
I don’t know of any display technology in which pixels are little squares, if you really get out the magnifying glass.
No, but piracy didn't stop being the #1 way to obtain digital music until streaming offered a convenient alternative. Streaming was essentially forced into existence by the wild rampancy and ease of music piracy.

You really think if Spotify came along in 1998 that all the major record labels would agree to give them their entire catalog for $10 a month? Back then they were selling a single CD for around $20.
Coincidentally, I've just finished Thomas' Religion and the Decline of Magic. It's very long and massively overexampled, but still a good and eye-opening read.

When it came out in 1971 it cost an extortionate £7; one national newspaper had an editorial saying people might be forced to pay for it in instalments.
Presumably double the density you also double the size of the school and double the teachers.

If you don’t, the problem isn’t the density.
Is there some advantage to using COBOL or did they just have an old COBOL programmer who just kept using it?
Probably because SQLite is one of (if not THE most) widely used database implementations for IoT software in the world.

That’s like asking why someone made a package for javascript.
It's in (the BulletML-using) Enter the Gungeon as the "Raiden Coil"

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkr0mYdRZdU

More info: https://enterthegungeon.fandom.com/wiki/Raiden_Coil
Longest rock core from Earth's mantle opens window into the origins of life
You click the huge button that says express filing and simply put name address and type your comment that is it. I just filed a comment.
Spreading copyright among as many entities as possible to make relicensing more difficult is not a problem you should "solve". It's a feature of the license. A CLA ensures that contributors will be treated unfairly, and I hope it deters many potential contributors.
I can't say for certain why they can't use GPLv3 - just that no company I've ever worked for (n=4 since GPLv3 came out) - will allow it on premise. It's probably why Apple stopped updating all their GNU binaries, and you have to sideload stuff with brew to use anything released in the last 10 years.

If I had to guess - The patent rights clause weirds out a lot of lawyers. Obviously anyone who works with hardware doesn't like the anti-tivoization clause. Another possibility is the AGPL (which IS lethal for obvious reasons) is often conflated with GPLv3.

All I know is GPLv2 is fine, GPLv3 is usually not, and AGPL is never possible in corporations that I've worked for.
Fascinating read! Thanks to the author. What a great and useful library. I use it in my scientific visualization library Datoviz, totally outside of the game industry but still vastly useful to scientists.
Barcalona is a terrible place to live due to mass tourism that the intenet has enabled.
Simply read the court docs, which I linked. Or go read proper legal sites where the case is laid out with evidence. Stop making assumption you want to be true, which has been this entire thread.

They settled because discovery pulled out docs showing they knew full well what they did, on purpose, and they settled for a half billion dollars because they stood to lose far more in court if a jury saw that evidence. There is no "we were trying to be nice" defense that would counter their internal documents and discussions demonstrating otherwise.

Apply doesn't hand out half billion payouts for touchy feely reasons.
Both are a formality based on whats in fashion. I like the Axiom of Choice and not taking Math or words as literal or biblical truth.
It's crazy to think that one of the oldest religious stories, the whole Adam and Eve don't eat from the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge, actually has a coincidence (...I mean, I believe it was a coincidence) in our past diet

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/27/521423216/wh...

I don't believe pre-human primates somehow passed that story down or anything but old stories always make me curious into their origins. Sometimes cool and interesting stuff comes up when you do
That's exactly the author's point:

Most programming books suck.

Yet he has some recommendations:

But I do have this call to arms: my top five programming books every working programmer should own – and read.

They are:

Code Complete 2 [1]

Don't Make Me Think [2]

Peopleware [3]

Pragmatic Programmer [4]

Facts and Fallacies [5]

1 - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619670/codihorr-...

2 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321965515/codihorr-2...

3 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633439/codihorr-2...

4 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020161622X/codihorr-2...

5 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321117425/codihorr-2...
There’s a good chance the war wouldn’t have happened if Russia were given assured perpetual access to Sevastopol base.

The moment Ukraine returned their nukes, they gave up any leverage they could have against Russian aggression. Also, as soon as Ukraine started warming up to joining NATO, Putin would need to choose between not following on with the threat that no former Soviet republic would be welcomed into NATO, or go to war before that former republic effectively joined.

This war happened, like most wars do, when diplomacy failed.
What I'm speculating is less that established apps will move elsewhere (after all, without rewriting your product with web tech there is nowhere to move to outside of the EU), and more whether new developers will simply choose not to bother or to go web-first at the start.
Chicxulub impact event an ~100M megaton blast
Interesting addition to his statement:

"Fernandez said the software was made “for Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer being used,” adding that Google has “seen no evidence of any active exploitation.”

How would they know?
Thank God I stuck with Postgres lol
> once it supports sneakernet as a transport, it will be perfect.

Sneakernet transport has a wide array of definitions, but my favorite part about NomadNet and Sideband is the fact you can print paper QR code messages and have a recipient or LXMF propagation node scan them and have your message delivered. I have a $13 thermal printer I was able to get messages printed with.
That would be progress, thanks.
GitHub isn't making me use Azure, Azure isn't making me use Office, Teams isn't making me use Bing.

See the point here? All of Google pieces are a giant machine to collude in the same direction: their ad engine.
Android should almost definitely be split off as a separate company.

I could see Android and Chrome as a combined company.
> I hope you can list all of the
groups of order < 8 without having to think too hard.

Welp, guess I'm out.
So you see a problem like this and your reaction generally falls into one of three buckets:

1. There is no problem. This is working as intended. Everything is fine;

2. There are a few bad apples on an otherwise good and functioning system; or

3. The entire system is fundamentally broken.

To blame the "homebuilder cartel" sounds very much like (2) to me. My view is that the entire system is broken and it goes back to enclosures and private property borne from capitalism and liberalism, respectively.

Liberalism is the deification of individualism, implicitly rejecting any sort of collectivism. A key pillar is the idea of private property, that is the ability to acquire and maintain a state-backed exclusive use of land well beyond your personal needs.

Capitalism is really the evolution of feudalism and the origins were in England with the Enclosure Acts [1]. These transformed land use for grazing by all to people having exclusive use thereof. You might hear as a counterargument things like "the tragedy of the commons". Interestingly, this term originated in 1968, some 350+ years later.

I bring this up because when I see people hoarding land and people voting out of narrow short-term self-interest to restrict supply and reduce housing in order to increase housing costs, I don't necessarily see that as a failure of government or the fault of a few bad actors. I see it as inevitable given our economic system.

So much of history can be viewed as simply a land grab.

I don't expect our economic system to change anytime soon but the governmentr can do a lot to alleviate this. At a minimum:

1. Ban single-family house zoning in urban areas. Multi-family units should be legal anywhere within city limits;

2. Stop subsidizing suburban expansion to the degree we do by building roads to a ridiculous degree;

3. Build public transit infrastructure. For the successfully-propagandized Americans who will fight this because "it'll raise our taxes", people on trains will make it faster and more convenient for you to drive. Literally everyone benefits.

4. Punitive taxes on non-prrimary residences (ie investment properties, second/vacation homes); and

5. Get rid of tax breaks for home buying.

I have zero confidence any of this will happen.

[1]: https://www.thecollector.com/what-were-the-enclosure-acts/
They got lucky, they clearly didn't consult enough stakeholders
Yes the inability for society to tax the land is the problem
In the US, per state employment regulations can hamper this as well.
Yes, the point, as I have always thought, is not that playing with the devil is playing with a deceitful sharper, but playing against one's own inability to handle one's desires, one's own imperfections and basically facing the corruption of the original sin in oneself. The devil just sets things up in such a way that the human who yielded to the temptation arrives to the state of ruin faster, and initially enjoying the ride, all while not being formally lied to at any moment.

The idea is that there logically may be ways to outwit the devil, but he will never offer you a deal where you would be able to outwit him by the power of your (weak and corrupted) mind, so the faith is the only salvation, and rejecting any deals is the only non-losing strategy. Remember, Dr Faustus was not written by an atheist.
I don't think this is good logic without more information about the actual calculation of risk. It should come down to who can accurately measure the risk and whether that risk is acceptable. People can roll the dice on low probability events, sometimes for an entire career without bad consequence but that shouldn't be conflated with good decision making.

Flying safely with a 10% failure risk when your acceptable risk is only 2% just means you got lucky, not that you're good.
An understanding of language is important for conveying and achieving intent.

Imagine working with an artist in a multi-step refinement process to produce some desired artwork. Regardless of the artists skill, you'll probably get better results if you're able to communicate well.

That's kinda how the diffusion process works. It starts with noise, generates a rough output, then iteratively refines it. The classifier is part of the refinement process so it knows what to change.

"Hey, you've added a tree-looking-thing on your beach-looking-thing, you should add some palm fronds so it better fits the setting."
Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model
I've created an online WYSIWYG editor for building static documentation sites for products - TileDocs (https://tiledocs.com).

Its capabilities are currently limited, but it's suitable for creating attractive documentation websites.

Key features include:

* Create workspaces with tree-style navigation

* Organize content into groups and folders

* Basic text editing components (paragraphs, headings, lists, quotes, etc.)

* Code blocks with syntax highlighting

* Image insertion

* Markdown import and shortcut support

* Built-in search functionality

GitBook inspired this tool. I loved how easily you could create beautiful, user-friendly docs with GitBook. But not being able to deploy those doc pages on my own website was a deal-breaker.

My editor allows exporting to a static website that can be used anywhere. And it is completely free.
Please do not use the AGPL as a marketing point when you have a CLA.
I don't think either of the comments you replied to has stated the opposite. They both spoke of GNU, not the overall GPL licensed software ecosystem.
All Androids out there are essentially major forks, all huge mobile vendors have their Android flavor.

There are giant incentives to keep the ecosystem as it is.
First Look Inside Blue Origin's New Glenn Factory with Jeff Bezos [video]
First Look Inside Blue Origin's New Glenn Factory w/ Jeff Bezos
Two Giant oarfish have washed up on Southern California beach
That's likely not the real rationale. If people browse with Chrome, then google is the default. That is immensely valuable to google, as google's payments to apple, mozilla and android manufacturer's show.

In theory Chrome could exist as an independent business if it were allowed to take bids for search default from google. But if the US govt broke up google they would likely also ban the sort of deal that would let Chrome be a viable business on its own.
I think you misunderstand how this works...
Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system
I'm hoping it makes a comeback in the lead up to Y2038, heh
Sucks to see all the V1s on eBay that will essentially be a brick at the end of the year, though.
I could never understand why some people don't understand that people buy into a community because they like the community in the state when they bought into it. And that making large changes to the community would alter the community and what people liked about it will be diminished. Not to mention the practical aspects like utilities, road capacity, schools, etc. as you've pointed out.

For some reason, some people outside a community believe they should have a voice on what the actual community wants. As if a community should be expected to want to ruin what makes their space attractive so interlopers can infest it?

Some development where it makes sense - sure. But no, we aren't converting our homes and properties into multi-family dwellings.
What problems do we need to solve to build an AI Scientist?
I run FutureHouse, a non-profit AI-for-Science research lab in San Francisco focused on automating research in biology and other complex sciences. Several people asked me to respond to Sakana's AI Scientist release earlier in the week, but based on comments here and elsewhere I think people mostly get it: it's chatGPT or Claude writing code, making some plots, and then writing papers. It's a nice demo, but not a major technical breakthrough. So, instead, I took the opportunity to write up some thoughts on the big problems we need to solve to build a real AI scientist. Enjoy...
>It does, inasmuch as your sentenced described the NZ jurisdiction as a mockery on the basis that it "sells out" its citizens.

No. What I said was that this is a mockery of jurisdiction. I seem to recall that DotCom lived in South Korea when what he's being accused of happened. Whether he's a citizen of NZ or not, this is a joke. The US has no legal right to demand his extradition just because the servers were in the US. It's just using political power to get its way. Like I said in a different sub-thread, what, it now has jurisdiction over the entire planet and can require anyone anywhere to follow its laws?
Oh, got it!

I thought you meant on the website...

Still unprofessional.
Converting to Lithp any day now...
This is a fantastic comment, thanks.
Maybe try a Google search? ;)

http://wikibin.org/articles/mountain-view-chocolate-factory....

https://www.theregister.com/2008/11/24/dziuba_on_yang/
It's not that much different in the EU. Through due to higher sales/revenue tax etc. a bit less employees. Also the additional cost above neto salary for epmploying someone is higher, but AFIK (especially as a startup) you can get away with a paying a bit less. Through in general it's less viable to scam your employees by doing stuff like goading them with non voting shares and then diluting them massively before selling. Like it's still possible but with much more limits. So this is comparison is limited to ethical company operation.
I have no numbers to back it up, but I would expect these days that a big chunk of revenue from non-ad-supported mobile apps is subscriptions. In which case, assuming you could get the same number of customers (a big if, especially considering Apple's unwillingess to treat PWAs as first-class citizens), you would make more money because you wouldn't lose 15-30% to Apple.

For what it's worth, I much prefer a high-quality native app to a PWA, but Apple's treatment of developers as basically bottom feeders leaves a very sour taste in my mouth.
He has US victims though. Fraudsters aren't absolved of responsibility in the USA just because they operate outside the border, and the same can be true of other crimes.
Fruit is great, as described. Knowing fruit is great is of course adaptive and this receives selective presure. Most life forms naturally seek out the things that they need to survive. Intelligent beings will use their intelligence to seek out such things, and will understand their value.
> I am pointing out that this is not a given, magic that will just happen. Capitalism is not always efficient nor reliable, based on the evidence.

I said 'if there's a market for it'.

The simple fact is that these rural communities are just not as economically viable as they used to be. Most rural communities exist around 'base input' types of industries that made money by exporting stuff extracted from the land. Farming, mining, logging, etc. The community existed because extracting those resources required a lot of labor, and that labor wanted to buy services after work. When you had 100 people who worked in the fields all day, they'd come back to town and patronize local bars, stores etc. However, farming, like mining, has continued to become less and less labor intensive because of better automation. There isn't 100 people coming back from the fields in most cases now. There's 1 dude who was driving a combine harvester all day. Or a planter, etc. And more recently, its one guy who was monitoring a dozen combine harvesters that were self-driving based on GPS.

Editing in a reply to below comments bc depth limit.

> This is why I'm very pro remote work for the broader economy.
> It's much easier for remote workers who want to live in rural areas to patronize these local bars, stores, etc, when they're not already commuting to places with a much larger collection of services.

I'm also pro-remote work, but even if every job that is do-able remote becomes remote, that won't revitalize every rural community. No one is moving to North Dakota just because they got a remote job. The US is just too big and the number of remote-able jobs is too small. Sure, some rural communities, with particularly nice outdoors, etc will be winners. But you need actual 'large' numbers of people to sustain those local bars/stores. A few software developers moving to a dying mining town is just not going to be enough patrons to sustain a bar, stores, schools, etc. Even if they all keep their 500k Google paychecks, they can still only drink so much beer at once.

> In which case, that reminds me:

> The neat thing about central planning is that it can invest in things-- like rural electrification-- which are cost prohibitive for a market-based solution, if/when that need arises.

> So would you agree they are both neat in their own way?

Yes, they are both neat in their own way. I like that the post office has to deliver mail to everyone.

Central planning can react faster than the market, if the central planners have good foresight. But they can't see into the future either. If you have some rural mining community that could sustain a population of 5,000 in 1970, it made a lot of sense to electrify it. But then 40 years later, the mine is more productive than ever before, but only needs 20% of the labor because of advances in automation. It kinda sucks that you built an electric system sized for a population of 10,000, right? Cuz now you have a town of 5,000 where unemployment is extremely high.

Though I'd argue that rural electrification at this point (or in the next few years) is probably best by a home-solar-battery combo.