skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Evidence" in heavy scare quotes, considering, again, the tautological nature of the claims around the existence of dark matter. "Something must be here that we are missing" is, frankly, a bullshit hypothesis that need not be entertained unless researchers can actually prove there is some worthiness to the claim. Anything stronger than "maybe our theory is wrong" would suffice!
Nvidia presents Llama-Mesh: Generating 3D Mesh with Llama 3.1 8B
Gaetz is about to go through an FBI vetting process that will be broader and more thorough than the House effort. They will not neglect those accusations. Any advantage he might gain from his abrupt resignation and the hiding of this report will be short lived and unlikely to hide anything from the Senate. The DOJ has already investigated Gaetz for sex trafficking, and are painfully aware that he has been one of their greatest enemies over the last few years. It is safe to say they do not look forward to his leadership. We can trust them to perform this particular investigation with their full attention.
The 22 game machines (including monitors, cables, and peripherals) cost about $75,000 in total. The house overall was a 7-digit number. Sorry, I'm not comfortable being any more specific than that.
Their cortisol levels increase but yours decrease.

It's not merely

> You're now comparatively better because others are now worse.

You are really better in absolute terms at their expense.

These effects last decades!

Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying to you.
From Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1gsohas/nvidia_...

Links

Project Page: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/LLaMA-Mesh/

HuggingFace Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2411.09595

GitHub: https://github.com/nv-tlabs/LLaMA-Mesh
It seems understandable if you assume that getting the principle to admit she would defend herself involved (borderline) bullying her to the point she backed down on it.

She then removed the problem parent from the school's roster the only way available.
It's a poisson distribution.
sure, but it's not a useful comment. unlike this thread; i did find a project i didn't know about and will contribute to as i was going to make it myself in the new year ( for fun, not profit ).
It is all designed to move money.
I don't think the cursor is an issue
There was a bunch of referral params also provided in the url, which makes it seem more like that it was youtube who served me this ad? via adwords?

/bfcm-2024?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=bm2024&utm_term=&utm_content=videow1-sg&utm_term=&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=2067433364&hsa_cam=21879112956&hsa_grp=170299319259&hsa_ad=720407561252&hsa_src=ytv&hsa_tgt=&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAouG5BhDBARIsAOc08RTk6hCcmQuLkNfza9uDHQYKv0viLjpR-bT_8OU2ySqg_00Iaf4239gaAqyAEALw_wcB

And I'm really sorry, it's my first post on HN, I didn't want to make it look like an "undisclosed ad" of any sort, but I realise that this is EXACTLY how it looks currently...

But I cannot edit the post to remove the link or delete the post :(
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
Is (Git) master a dirty word?
The Microsoft HLSL compiler for dx12+ is based on LLVM and supports spir-v output https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler

Though my understanding is that it's a complete hackjob stuck on an old version of LLVM, and not in a remotely upstream-able state and breaks other parts of the LLVM toolchain completely. I think there was talk about trying to clean that up at the same time as bringing the baseline version forward, but I have no idea about it's progress.
who am I if not Zoe?
The point at issue is: What subset of things (what individuals, groups, ideas, cultures) "deserve" to continue?

I agree that your reductio ad absurdum argument shows that "nothing deserves to continue" is in untenable position. But surely the opposite extreme (namely, "everything deserves to continue") is just as absurd?

So the question remains: Where to draw the line?
Ah yes, I remember reading that when it came out and programming fractals because of it while reading.
> The second is that even if you get a heart attack or stroke due to their negligence they will never be liable because that calculator is considered the standard of care in malpractice law!

I think you misunderstand how the risk calculator is used.

Physicians are still expected to use their clinical judgement and information from patient conversation to determine the appropriate intervention.

If a 30 year old patient comes in with high blood pressure, but no existing cardiovascular disease (so the calculator could be used except for the age), it would clearly be malpractice for the doctor to say "sorry! you're too young to use the calculator so I'm going to give you a stamp of approval for health!"
We sure can
Depending on your content, switching from `-preset veryfast` to `veryslow` could let you drop the bitrate by as much as 20-30% at the same visual quality. Your users will thank you for it,
Not gonna lie, this is really dope! Can I be your friend and drive from Houston for a LAN Party?
This coming from a professor don't surprise me at all. Your profession is the first one to ignore or treat like it's not a big deal. "dehumanizing bullies", that's a new one
> minus the fact that despite raising over $1B the Harris campaign still ended up $20M in debt

Why do you think this is worth bringing up? Because it has numbers in it? I don't know what happens to the debt of a campaign after it's over, but I do know it's neither of our problems. It sounds like they've already covered it through late donations though.

Her campaign was swing state-focused and it does seem like it worked in those states (based on relative swings), but it had an unusually short length of time to run. It likely would've just worked if it was a normal length campaign, or if she'd gone on Rogan.

> Republicans are majority in every section of elected government with plans to reinforce that

More like plans to lose it. Enough cabinet members have been pulled from R House members that they're going to have a 2-3 person majority for months.

Starting a presidential year with a trifecta isn't rare, but even more common is that they lose it in the midterms. US voters have no consistent opinions, but their most consistent opinion is "thermostatic swing" - in a midterm year they always vote against whoever is president. Basically they're just haters.

> millions of Americans are becoming disillusioned with Democratic ideology

Eh. I think any theory which assumes voters are actually paying attention or have coherent ideologies is wrong. They have better things to do than that.

In particular, Trump and Obama are very similar here - they're both popular with all kinds of people, because everyone just kind of imagines he agrees with them. (Also, neither of them have successors, which the rest of their party should be worried about.)
> reconstruct what happened so long ago just based on careful observations.

Me too! My book is filled with them. Like how minerals in lava, affected by Earth's magnetic field, lock into place while cooling, which provides us with yet another cross-check for radiometric dating. See page 23:

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf
> they want to be associated with "Faang" and yet their product is not really technology based.

You lost me. Netflix built a massive CDN, a recommendation engine, did dynamic transcoding of video, and a bunch of other things, at scale, quite some years before everyone else. They may have enshittified in the last five years, but I dont see any reason why they dont have a genuinely legitimate claim to being a founder member of the FAANG club.

I have a much harder time believing that companies with AI in their name or domain are doing any kind of AI, by contrast.
Paying for bounties is paying for exploits. That is to say, choosing not to pay for exploits is tantamount to selling your customers off for a price, the price of the bounty.
Chrome Extension that can control browser
> it's clear that the only thing his reconstruction proves is that the rotation ("It's rotating!") and outline is a result of the optics platform.

In addition, I've found his demonstrations of airplane bodies appearing as wingless tic-tacs in atmosphere due to light scattering, a very similar effect in which jet exhausts infrared blows out the contrast making it difficult to see any detail at distance, demonstrations of bokeh lens flare in several videos, and his speed reconstructions in simulation to be really useful. Particularly several which seemed after analysis to be mylar balloons.

The process he demonstrates for looking up aircraft flight paths, loading them into Google Earth and interpolating through them is also really useful.

I really appreciate the data-driven occams razor approach he takes to analyzing all the available evidence.
Good point! though my comment about the native code compiler being broken still applies to the brew-installed version
I meant your thing works great so good for you !

But to me it sounds harder to maintain than just wake on lan + pxe to reimage the machines before every lan party.

I think it's specifically the fact that they access their disk remotely live that's bothering me.

Why not just image it to the ssd and call it a day ?
Here's an idea, use a (portable) ultrasound emitter device that sends a pulse every set second and use an earpiece receiver that produces equivalent acoustics in audible range. The setup may reduce "tongue-fatigue' and the ultrasound will travel farther and can reflect off smaller objects. Would be an interesting experiment if nothing else.
I have not investigated this as much as I should have but if I remember correctly there were cases where the NN approach was yielding smaller solutions. Would be a great follow up to the thesis.

The way this was turned into an optimization problem was to assume a NN to input an identity matrix and then have a custom layer in there to generate S(2) unitaries (exponential form) for which the phase parameters are then the learned parameters in the NN. Similarly for global XX gates. Then from this the final unitary can be computed and compared against the desired unitary and a loss function can be derived. I remember it was a little fiddly to implement these custom layers in tensorflow since many of the functions didn’t work for imaginary numbers. But yeah in short a circuit structure was assumed (alternating between a global XX and single qubit operations) for which the phases of their generating matrices were the learned parameters of the network. Then multiple topologies (how many steps in the QC) could be validated. I think the coolest result was that NNs consistently outperformed other optimisation strategies to learn those parameters.
My junior high friends that I've been having parties with for 30 years live in Minneapolis (where I grew up). They fly out for New Year's Eve each year.

But, in fact, some friends who regularly attended LAN parties in the Bay Area moved to Austin around the same time we did. And some others are also willing to travel for New Year's.

(Most parties are just local people, of course.)
There should be a caveat that such this kind of decision should be based on experience and not treated as a rule that juniors might blindly follow. We all know how "fail fast and early" turned out (or whatever the exact phrase was).
> We're all on stage together and there are no rules.

Until the stage is gone.
3/4 of Americans are overweight or obese now. We need a lot of room.
You can explain these problems with simple business metrics that technologists like to ignore. Right before the recent Twitter acquisition, the various bits of info that came to the limelight included the "minor detail" that they had more than doubled their headcount and associated expenses, but had not doubled either their revenue or profits. Technology complexity went up, the business went backwards. Thousands of programmers doesn't always translate to more value!

Netflix regularly puts out blog articles proudly proclaiming that they process exabytes of logs per microsecond or whatever it is that their microservices Rube Goldberg machine spits out these days, patting themselves on the back for a heroic job well done.

Meanwhile, I've been able to go on the same rant year after year that they're still unable to publish more than five subtitle languages per region. These are 40 KB files! They had an employee argue with me about this in another forum, saying that the distribution of these files is "harder than I thought".

It's not hard!

They're solving the wrong problems. The problems they're solving are fun for engineers, but pointless for the business or their customers.

From a customer perspective Netflix is either treading water or noticeably getting worse. Their catalog is smaller than it was. They've lost licensing deals for movies and series that I want to watch. The series they're producing themselves are not things I want to watch any more. They removed content ratings, so I can't even pick something that is good without using my phone to look up each title manually!

Microservices solve none of these issues (or make it worse), yet this is all we hear about when Netflix comes up in technology discussions. I've only ever read one article that is actually relevant to their core business of streaming video, which was a blog about using kTLS in BSD to stream directly from the SSD to the NIC and bypassing the CPU. Even that is questionable! They do this to enable HTTPS... which they don't need! They could have just used a cryptographic signature on their static content, which the clients can verify with the same level of assurance as HTTPS. Many other large content distribution networks do this.

It's 100% certain that someone could pretend to be Elon, fire 200-500 staff from the various Netflix microservices teams and then hire just one junior tech to figure out how to distribute subtitles... and that would materially improve customer retention while cutting costs with no downside whatsoever.
2001 Anthrax Attacks
> It wasn’t only video. The reason the planes were scrambled in the first place was because of hits from the ship’s radar. The planes also saw them on radar. The pilots also made visual contact, and testified under oath before Congress as to what they saw.

Unfortunately eyewitness testimony (even from trained pilots) is notoriously unreliable, and none of the other supposed evidence seems to be available for analysis.

Mick doesn't seem to shy away from looking at any available evidence. It's not his fault that nothing incontrovertible has shown up yet.
How does proof of work prevent bots or spam? Most of these bots run full-blown browsers now.
Poster specifically mentioned CS3, which was a perpetual license. Adobe is not incentivized to keep a version of their software someone purchased once seventeen years ago working when they would much rather sell a monthly subscription.
If you want a speedy government and speedy paperwork, it might be worth asking if we could increase headcount to handle tasks, preferably in parallel if possible.

A comment like this is kind of bewildering on a tech news site full of software entrepreneurs. Instead of handling more paperwork with more people, why don't we find ways to automate the paperwork processing using computers? Every other competitive industry streamlined their processes decades ago (and continues to do so) - why is the government exempt from this kind of solution as well? Do we have to accept that millions of people must do useless tasks for the US government?

For example, if you require your house to get inspected for code, you may want to increase the size of your planning department so that code inspection can occur within the day. Can the environmental assessment be done in parallel to other necessary paperwork?

It's funny you use this as an analogy, because home inspections are notoriously pointless. They tell you stupid things, such as that the step to the house is 11" from ground, while code is 8" - meanwhile totally missing issues in the crawl space because "it is unsafe for us to go in there". I paid $500 to be lulled into complacency, and no amount of money for more inspectors to do the job "faster" would have convinced someone to find the important issues with the house I was about to buy. I'm not interested in paying even more money for more useless information. That's the point - scrub out these useless checks and parades of stupidity, which there is plenty of in both the home-buying process as well as in government.
Yes, just like this. Since 2015 when I started work professionally with python, after each year, a new project shows some kind of "messiah complex" around the python distributing software problem... They usually say in some part of the readme: "That time we will be saved! We have the right tool here that does this and that".

No, it's not solved! And probably will not be solved neither.

Obviously, things get better honestly, 2015 was far worst than now, but currently it's very far from perfect.

For instance, go static build are much superior. Or even Rust, with all the language issues, at least the tooling is good and the software distribution works great.
Not necessarily. Red Hat issues patches and backports to customers regularly and those don’t necessarily flow upstream right away (or sometimes ever).
Just as a data point, I'd recommend going through it in Racket, which I believe has an explicit SICP mode. I went through it in GNU Guile and it was a pain because there were some minor syntactic differences between Guile and MIT Scheme.
I was bullied in elementary school and middle school. I fought back and generally if not always, beat the main person who harassed me. I mean, I remember in 7th grade one kid used to harass me daily for not taking a shower after gym (which I didn't 'cause the showers involved more bullying). I eventually (2/3rds of the way through the year) picked him up by the heels and slammed his head again the gym locker as hard as I could, let him fall head-first to the cement floor afterwards. He didn't bother me again ... But ... it didn't change anything overall, it didn't stop either me being in the harassed group or harassment at the school.

In fifth grade, however, one teacher confronting the bullying did change the entire tenor of things for that year and the next (then I moved and graduated).

Which is to say, all the posters here hot to recommend fighting back as some kind of solution. Stop, just don't. Schools need systems for stopping bullying and those system are social changes. "What about the fight-backers" is someone's cowboy trip.
the lack of organization is the point I think - the constant novelty in topics you get scrolling the feed is addictive for some
The final straw for me was Apple deprecating modern OpenGL. There's no quick and easy solution to migrating even to Metal. So, they shafted us, and I'll never recommend another game developer bother with an Apple device ever again.

Use Windows for games.
Getting Things Done with Suspense Files
For context, one of the core Bluesky developers was very involved in Scuttlebutt. It was a deliberate decision to not make AT more similar to SSB.

https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p
this place has a tight enough focus to be decent. generalist platforms are doomed from the cradle.
Daily reminder that every Turing complete language has undefined behavior.
I think the NYT rent or buy calculator prices that in
He answers this in the FAQ. You’ve got to get into his friend group or get hired by Cloudflare. Not sure which is more challenging!
It reminds me strongly of absinthe. Wasn't that popular in Europe during that period as well?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125818
> R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president.

adding on to this, typically it takes 1-3 years for the effects of an administration to really bear fruit in the economy, either good or ill. So a common tactic from the R side the last several presidential cycles is to claim ownership of the economy handed to them by the outgoing D president, then when their policies cause some kind of problem, blame the incoming D president 4 years later.

See also: who the R's blame the deficit on vs. which party's presidents actually increased the deficit the most over the last 20-25 years.
How is this not a solved problem by now?

I think this is a result of most software "engineering" having become a self-licking ice cream cone. Besides mere scaling, the techniques and infrastructure should be mostly squared away.

Yes, it's all complicated, but I don't think we should excuse ourselves when we objectively fail at what we do. I'm not saying that Netflix developers are bad people, but that it doesn't matter how hard of a job it is; it was their job and what they did was inadequate to say the least.

Jonathan Blow is right.
> fundamentally the result of every major city making it expensive or impossible to actually build enough housing

ZIRP certainly had something to do with this too! Don’t overlook ridiculous fiscal and monetary policy.
So now our self-driving cars will not only drive us around but also provide running commentary like a chatty Uber driver? "By the way, I'm braking because that squirrel looked suspicious." Haha!

But jokes aside, it's intriguing to see researchers focusing on making autonomous vehicles more personable. Maybe timely explanations are the secret sauce to stop us from clutching the seat every time the car makes a decision we don't understand. Trust in automation might just come down to good communication. It would be interesting to see the results of the tests on video.