skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a fractal approach working pretty well as of last week:

https://x.com/dgant/status/1851840125065453894
https://x.com/dgant/status/1851835968342446576?t=kCUSWCtJEc_...

How it works:

- World space dithering

- Apply 2D ditheringalong triplanar-mapped surfaces

- Choose coordinate scale based on depth such that the dither pattern ranges on [1px, 2px)

- Paint sufficiently distant surfaces using spherical coordinates

So there's some repainting at depth thresholds but it's not very loud in practice.
If it wasn't for him, it would be someone else. He is not the inventor of the internet. It is completely the parents' fault for allowing their children to use social media. Do we blame car manufacturers for young people driving and killing themselves or others? No.
The issue here is that the interactions over X billion years are not the same. Each event that happened on this rock would also need to happen else where to have the same evolutionary pressures applied.
> To put this discussion into perspective, when it occurred in 1992, [...] many companies that are household names today--Netscape, Yahoo, Excite--simply did not exist.

That sure has aged interestingly since 1999.
No one said "Too rich to be liable".

> But the judge found a lack of specifics about what Zuckerberg did wrong, and said “control of corporate activity alone is insufficient” to establish liability. Her decision does not affect related claims against Meta itself.
Why? Would the instructions be different from „do what the kidnappers say and get the money back from the insurance“?
> Are they 'alive' by themselves?

That's a discussion about word semantics that has no relation to biology. Biologists have been occupied with it for centuries, just like computer people have lost time on "what's intelligence?", but neither one is relevant for either field.

> Are they bacteria?

Once upon a time, their ancestors were. I do not know exactly where biologists trace the line, but this is also about word semantics. It's just a case of it that helps people communicate better, so there is a line, I just don't know what it is.
You can't parse DNA with regex¹.

¹ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
The slowness of the IPv6 was embarrassing even 20 years ago. I'm still shaking my head in disappointment that it's only 88% of mobile and 94% of fixed.

I mean, there's about twice as many active phones in the world as the full range of the IPv4 address space including the non-routable addresses…
Angular Resolution
> These "throw out the processes and methodologies" articles are always written by people at small companies.

That's great advice then! HN is mostly comprised of people looking for tips on how to go from 0 to 1, not to 0 to 100.
> For example, I recently looked into self hosting Zotero. It is so under documented and complex that there is almost no way one could self host that (even for just one user) without that being ones job. So one needs to make a distinction between something being open source and being feasible to use/maintain

Just for the benefit for anyone that want to go through this rabbit hole. You cannot selfhost Zotero. In theory but in practice it is no feasible. If you find their free storage limiting then store them on webdav (all clients support that).

zotero team explicity said that they don't see this as a priority [1] and with the release of zotero 7 and transition it is not realistic to think they will ever do.

[1] https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105#issuecomment...
Suffer No Jankiness (2012)
> I guess I'll try and reset my password to bluesky website, assuming it's this .app one, but then it's asking me to maybe select a provider ... of my password.

It's asking what the host of your data is. If you're not running your own server, then the default value of Bluesky itself is the correct one.
An Open Software Development Agent
Yeah - be a little careful there.

I've been playing with llama-3.2vision-11b and it can't count more than 4 dots.
Ask HN: Working for a Chinese company as a US citizen
Heyo, I am exploring an opportunity to work for a well known Chinese company as a US citizen, from outside of the US. I intend to remain outside of the US for the entire time I would work for this company. Potential downsides?

Thank you!
My money is on a memory leak in the 5G stack
I've only played Obra Dinn, but I similarly had a notebook filled with notes that I used through the game.
"If it wasn't for him, it would be someone else." wow, I will use this defence, it's perfect!
An atmospheric ASCII cRPG announced
> Optimism isn't rational.

Peak HN Comment.
A trade-off between investment in molecular defense and growth in plants
Oh, maybe I missed that we already completely understand how DNA works.
Yes, depends of course on distance, aerial layout and on the decoding technique. Anything over a few hundred miles needs amplification/attention to aerial resonance etc, simply mixing (multiplying) the received signal wth a sine wave close to the same frequency results in a quite audible signal (strength varies throughout the day though).

Used to be easy to pick up Loran signals in the same way (esp. with untuned aerials) but they're all turned off now.
This reminds me of the joke that says if you want to harm someone, do it under LLC and you will not go to jail.

Its a joke of course but behind it a lot of criticism towards the current system.
Laundering liability is expensive but a great option for those who are rich and unscrupulous. So yes... it is that they are too rich to be liable.
I moved the map to this website https://findnewhotels.com/
> control of corporate activity alone is insufficient

That's very vague. It seems like the accusation brought forth was Zuckerberg knowingly concealed the addictive behavior, but it seems like the best the prosecution came up with was just, "He's CEO, therefore he is liable." Unless I'm completely misunderstanding this.
Yup, my neighbor uses strong vinegar to kill weeds and our yard smells strongly of vinegar for about 12 hours after. He does this 2x/week. I'm glad we're moving.
Think of the extra weight given as Affirmative Action. It isn't hard to get it. It is as socially progressive as any type of affirmative action. Plus, these tend to be remote underconnected areas: why should they be ruled by mobs from far away places who have nothing to do with their way of life? Why stay in an union if your way or life is overruled by others?
> Because democracy and critical individual rights do not rely on being able to get cake from a particular person or company?

Free speech doesn't work like this, money counts as free speech. Your idealism about democracy is irrelevant - courts have ruled MANY times that speech is more much than just words.

> Conservatives generally aren't racist, but that is the trope that the leftists have put forward about them

Incorrect, conservatives don't realize that even if they say reasonable things but then follow it up with a slur then they just undid what they said. It's hard to take conservatives seriously on anything because they seem unable to speak above the level of an average middle school boy.

People "censor" conservative opinions because conservatives don't know how to say their opinion in a pleasant way.

Talk like Trump at work. Go ahead and try. He talks about women like they're dogs, he treats minorities like scum. You WILL be fired. Not because you would be conservative.

> I wouldn't be opposed to some kind of filtering mode, like a "safe search" or "parental filter" that can easily be turned off

This would disproportionately censor conservatives, for the reasons above. Trump sure as hell isn't making it past "safe search".
Might be referring to this: https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis...
when i say economics, i'm not referring to money, i'm referring to human endeavor, human effort and human rewards (which, in terms of economics, are exactly what money represents) So, I meant that it's it economically beneficial that most people in the country don't need to care about elections because the system is taking their preferences into account already. There is little to be gained on margin from engaging many more people for only the slightest difference in outcome once in awhile. Since the forces of negative feedback actually move the centerlines wrt to the system we have, it's not clear that the long term results would even be different with a different system.
Ask HN: How to host an AI model that processes PDFs into structured data?
I'm hoping there is a guide or tutorial out there for someone like me.

I'm an experienced software engineer, mostly backend. I have a general understanding of how AI works, and have used all the various tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc).

Where I'm totally ignorant is in how to self host my own models. In particular, I am looking to self host a model that can read PDFs and parse out structured data.

Any good starting points?
A Two-Finger Gripper Actuated by Shape Memory Alloy
Tiny (1B/3B) LLMs in a local RAG system
From an article cited in the OP [0],

More than 95% of all proteins located in the mitochondrial compartments are encoded by the nuclear DNA, synthesized in cytoplasmic ribosomes and imported into mitochondria. These include factors that regulate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gene expression such as mtDNA and RNA polymerases, mitochondrial transcription factors, RNA processing and modifying enzymes, transcription termination factors, mitochondrial ribosomal proteins, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and translation factors (1, 2).

It's clear that a mitrochondrial element can't live for long without the presence of the host cells, so, like a virus, it doesn't meet all the requirements to be considered fully living.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC23071/
Good thing that's literally what happened here! https://chaos.social/@jiska/113447894119816217
If reality can emerge out of nowhere I don't see it unlikely for life to emerge in some other planet.
If cars could be driven without keys we would blame car manufacturers.

How do you prevent kids using social media without 100% surveillance or not allowing internet access at all?
>"Angular resolution describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an eye, to distinguish small details of an object, thereby making it a major determinant of image resolution. It is used in optics applied to light waves, in antenna theory applied to radio waves, and in acoustics applied to sound waves."

[...]

>"The Rayleigh criterion shows that the minimum angular spread that can be resolved by an image-forming system is limited by diffraction to the ratio of the wavelength of the waves to the aperture width."

(Probably wrong intuition: There may be something here related to Black Holes...)

Related:

The Rayleigh Criterion:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/Raylei.htm...

How is the Rayleigh criterion connected to the Abbe limit?:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/257769/how-is-th...

Smart quantum statistical imaging beyond the Abbe-Rayleigh criterion:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-022-00593-5
I am looking forward to your attempt!
I'll be surprised if reading ebooks doesn't prevent an "inactivity reboot."
Sure. The point is 1% is a huge fraction for a lot of things. Market share. And many reaction cross sections.
- They "trust me". Dumb f*cks - Mark Zuckerberg
Not to mention, guys live the other side of the coin: you can often go months, weeks or years without a genuine compliment.

Two particular instances I remember:

- a couple of streamers in a chat, and this was brought up. One of the girls in the chat didn't believe it and yelled at her brother, who promptly answered that the most recent compliment they received that was not from their mother was 3 years ago. Cue other guys in the stream relaying the same story.

- multiple people that transitioned from female-to-male, all of them mentioning they didn't realize how lonely you are as a man in the world, and how invisible you seem to be. Some almost got suicidal because of it.
>"control of corporate activity alone is insufficient"

Compare with Pavel Durov.

>"Her decision does not affect related claims against Meta itself."

Does not smell right in combination with the first statement
You're right, I think they would be fun.

Part of the appeal was definitely the retro look, but this is a very-specific retro look that the author worked hard to put into 3D space.

If people tried to make a "retro" to VR games, you'd mostly just get lots of blocky, cheap-looking graphics. But this could really be weird, in a good way.
> Why do you not simply state your position on it?

I keep doing it, but you don't understand it.

My position is that it is complex. It depends entirely on the situation. I don't care about putting a number in a law, I care about helping those kids. Sometimes it means allowing them to transition, sometimes not. Not based on the age, but based on the individual and their context. There is no easy way to decide, and mistakes will happen no matter what.

Saying "it should be forbidden before 18, but I could negotiate 16" is absolutely naive, not to say completely stupid. To me, on the one hand it shows that you are sensitive to this problem (which is a good thing). But on the other hand it shows that you completely fail to reason constructively about it.
Why are they searching people's phones though?

Imagine the future when neurolink is going to be fully developed and the court would be able to authorise drilling into your skull to forcefully connect you to a computer to read your thoughts. Well, that's not much different.
How many people noped out of the WordPress ecosystem forever, or started making plans for an exit?
> How do you prevent kids using social media without 100% surveillance or not allowing internet access at all?

Do the parental controls on mobile phones not work? I'm not a parent, so I don't know, but it seem unbelievable to me that there isn't an effective way to grant internet access to kids without social media.
configuration is code.
Well, this isn't probably a problem with the model, but the source frame having wrong eye gaze. Besides, perceptually lossless need not be defined in a side-by-side comparison context. If you were only viewing the right hand side video, how could you tell the eye gaze is off? The point was more on that the movement looks natural, unlike almost all neural avatars up to this year.
I already was someone else actually. Many times over and over again. He is not the inventor of social media. His site (or acquiring Instagram) was just another tool someone else already created in the past. His stuff was just more popular. China and Russia have their own versions too. If his stuff shuts down now, tomorrow someone else will create similar ones and fill the void in no time.
I don't know why you think Netherlands is known for ow pedestrian/cycling deaths. Here is some data:
https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021...

You can say more people cycle in Netherlands but then a lot of people cycle in Spain or Northern Italy as well and those are more populous countries/regions. It's just very hard to get data that include all factors but the data we do get is not so good for Netherlands.

I have cycled in many EU countries and in many areas of those as well. I am 500+ hours on the bike throughout the year and talk to a lot of people who do the same. This is experience worth more than some stereotypes about Netherlands being good for cyclists or whatever. What is good for cyclists are drivers who are careful, don't speed and respect your right to be on the road. This is why Spain doesn't have as many cycling deaths even though tons of people cycle there. It would be even more apparent if you split Spain into regions. Same with Italy (North is good, South not so much).

Poland gets quite a bit of cycling infrastructure now (because that's the only way to get EU funding for roads for cars - what the government really wants). The infrastucture is terrible and dangerous. People die and get hurt because of it every day. It would be much better to just change the law to: "cyclist can be on the road whenever they please and can take the lane when they think it's for their safety".

Now when you have both the data and words of someone who is actually experiencing it every day are you willing to reconsider?
You've made up your mind so I'm not going to convince you. I'm only trying to debunk that for the sake of other readers.

Starship is not a new piece of tech, perhaps it’s refined tech but we were building rockets before. So the continued insinuation that we can only improve weather and gps via Starship is absolute snake oil.

Starlink also isn’t new tech, it’s just Musk’s flavor.

Yes thinking deeper and asking questions then asking how the answers can possibly be true will really affect my life. As evidenced by this thread where Starship enthusiasts are getting irritated and talking down to me. How’s the advanced weather prediction up their on your high horse?
AI is both a marketing bubble and a somewhat useful set of products, just like the web itself was in the early days.

To me this feels like the dot-com bubble: lots of terrible business ideas as people feel-out the new opportunity space.

That said, what's different? I would say that his time there's also a lot of new businesses rapidly imploding because as soon as one person publishes an idea that gets tech-demo level of traction, almost anyone can ask an LLM to code up the same idea and publish their own equivalent in a few hours.
Next step to launder money after NFTs.
Using clustering and summarization algorithms for news aggregation
Perhaps voters in the past were just as stupid, but the world was more easily comprehensible

Try explaining MMT, interest rates, fractional reserve banking, etc. to even college educated people and you’ll just get a blank stare, but everyone can intuitively understand a gold standard
Color and black and white travel photography – Last Update 15/10/2004
Show HN: A MERN stack webmail application
A german philosopher once said, that is a stupid response to renounce responsibility, at this moment someone in Berlin rapes a woman, if I don’t do it …
> the generational effects there are still entirely unpredictable at this stage

Something I've always wondered about CRISPR. It seems the legal case for introducing it is the freedom to perform "body hacking" on yourself. But, at least in this case, isn't it more like "generational hacking?" Maybe I am fundamentally misunderstanding the technology, but it's strange to think about what sort of protections should be put in place to prevent someone being born with severe defects due to messing with the genome.
I agree with your core concept, but I don't think those analogies are fair.

TV and movies are part of pop culture and depending on your circle can be critical to have knowledge on for social reasons. If something is unavailable to you due to means outside of your control (licensing, internet speed, accessibility of UI, etc) then there's more justification to that than not paying your Uber driver based on politics.
No, Netflix/Max/Etc literally limit the options available to you. They want to try to dissuade people from purchasing those services at a discount in lower CoL regions, and don't want to deal with multi-region licensing for dubs/specific media/etc.

The only regions that give you carte blanche (in general) language options are the anglophone countries and some EU regions.

But they're also geocoded (presumably, for travelers), so if you can get a VPN/tunnel that works, you can use another regions' primary languages. Max, last I checked, is the only one that outright limits usage outside of your region.
Then go ahead. Make those videos. Sell that vision. There's no one stopping you except you.
It’s chicken
Zuck takes the wealth, Meta and society take the fall.

If I could undo anything in this world it would be social media.
This issue is symptomatic of an underlying problem for me: we do not regularly re-evaluate laws to see if they are having the intended effect.

American politics might have bigger problems at the moment, but under normal circumstances, I consider this pretty important. I'm not sure what the solution is, but an expiration date on nearly all laws comes to mind as a start to an interesting discussion on the matter.
Everson on the @GeekDetour YouTube channel explores how a patent filed in 2020 could be preventing our slicers from generating stronger 3d prints using "Brick Layers". He shows, what appears to me at least, to be pretty clear evidence of prior art that _should_ invalidate the patent.

I'm not a lawyer but would love to see this added to all slicers.

Watch his 8 minute video and/or read his open patreon blog post (https://www.patreon.com/posts/115566868) and help spread the conversation.
Guns don't need keys, do they. Sure they're trying but the cases against the gun companies didn't go anywhere.

And I am certain car companies won't be held liable for allowing starting without keys. Keys are only there because of theft.
Lets be clear, Mark Zuckerberg could make changes to avoid this harm to children, As the controller of these companies he would sure be fully aware of the problem - its all over the media and has been for years. These social media companies place profit over the harm of children.
Same as if you want to kill someone do it with a car.
I think for a lot of us it's not a practical issue of determining which team is which, it's that sports are wrapped up in a lot of nostalgia. One grows up watching their team(s) as a kid and can continue to do so through the seasons of life even as everything else is changing. So it's sad when tradition is thrown away and it no longer feels like you're watching the same thing anymore.

In my case, I was obsessed with baseball as a kid but I stopped playing and stopped following the professionals when I went to college, met my wife, started my career, had kids, etc. Now I'm coming back around to follow baseball again and I'm often like, "What is this? This isn't what I remember." The uniform changes are part of that.
> What you're essentially saying is that the electoral college favors areas with more open minds willing to vote either direction

How did you draw that conclusion rather than concluding that it favors areas with the people most easily swayed by massive advertising campaigns?
From systemd.exec(5):

—

ProcSubset=

Takes one of "all" (the default) and "pid". If "pid", all files and directories not directly associated with process management and introspection are made invisible in the /proc/ file system configured for the unit's processes. This controls the "subset=" mount option of the "procfs" instance for the unit. For further details see The /proc Filesystem². Note that Linux exposes various kernel APIs via /proc/, which are made unavailable with this setting. Since these APIs are used frequently this option is useful only in a few, specific cases, and is not suitable for most non-trivial programs.

2. The /proc Filesystem: <https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/proc.html#mount-options>
Then someone else is liable too.

You could say the same about drug dealers, if one stops another one replaced him
Without meaning to get too personal, what is the technique for using those? When I took a work trip to India the office had what I think you’re talking about. In the US, it’s like a sprayer on a kitchen sink. I didn’t dare try it out, as I couldn’t think of a scenario where I tried it for the first time and didn’t soak my clothes. I didn’t want that to be my reputation at the office.
all happy little accidents!
>How do you

The same way as with everything else: Do your job as a parent.
What I said is self-evident to anyone above the age of 8, but thank you for providing a supporting graphic.

Oh and yeah it’s true 100% of the time, everywhere in the US. Let me state it again if you’re confused; rich people pay a higher income tax percentage than poor people.