skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The pace of technological development has always been permanently increasing.

Not in the same way though. The pace of technological development post-industrial-revolution increased a lot faster - technological development was exponential both before and after, but it went from exponential with a doubling time of maybe a century, to a Moore's law style regime where the doubling time is a couple of years. Arguably the development of agriculture was a similar phase change. So the point is to imagine another phase change on the same scale.
COLMAP + CloudCompare with a good CUDA GPU (more VRAM is better) card will give reasonable results for large textured objects like buildings. Glass/Water/Mirror/Gloss will need coated to scan, dry spray on Dr.scholls foot deodorant seems to work fine for our object scans.

There are now more advanced options than Gaussian splatting, and these can achieve normal playback speeds rather than hours of filtering. I'll drop a citation if I recall the recent paper and example code. However, note this style of 3D scene recovery tends to be heavily 3D location dependent.

Best of luck, =3
Thanks for detailing your viewpoint. I very much respect it, yet still disagree.
Kindly allow this analogy: if capitalism optimizes for monetary profit alone, communism optimizes for the common good..
I think this also summarizes the issues a lot for people on HN face.

Oversimplification and over confidence in estimation.

Engineers tend to do this a lot.
Yea, and most public discourse is at the level of "I saw a post online about it once". Most people aren't doing deep research before their opinions about things that aren't actually that relevant to their day to day lives. 95% of the world, at best, still has no idea who Ross Ulbricht is even today.
Deportation takes time. You generally have to be held before you go up in front of a judge. And then countries don't just accept someone that is claimed to be their citizen. They need to run their own validation before accepting the person and often time there's limits on how fast they accept people. So holding folks for weeks or months is common.

Plus there will be people who refuse to claim any citizenship and will need to be held until they can find where they go to.

Deportation sounds like a simple process but it's often anything but.
I was worried that an application I was building in Django, with a frontend built with Bootstrap and some LIGHT jquery was making me look like an old curmudgeon but the part about testability of the frontend really resonated with me. It was MUCH easier to structure everything as pytest unit tests and completely rely on Django for all the business logic rather than trying to put state in the frontend and deal with synchronizing states between FIVE distinct systems (remote devices, the Django application, the database, an event stream, AND the front end).

I recognize that I'm not hip or with it, because I really fell out of front end development at the peak of jQuery where it was mostly about fixing browser incompatibilities, but it's nice to see that maybe it went too far in the other direction and we're overdue for a bit of a swing back towards server side.
Technically yes, but DC operators want fast ROI and the answer is no.
> I don't think anyone in here is making the case that Ulbricht is a "good person",

I am.

He built a tool that allowed people to circumvent a wantonly unjust legal framework by an aging, decreasingly relevant state.

We need more of that.
A term you definitely want to look up is "exporting inflation" which is largely why the US has thrived while others - well not so much. [1] This manifests in many ways, but I'll offer a simple example. The US remains the largest consumer economy in the world. So imagine you're Carland where your economy is mostly selling cars, and mostly to the US. And now imagine the US prints a bunch of money causing their currency to become worth less relative to yours.

At a first level analysis this sounds great because now you get even more dollars per car! But in reality that's not what happens. Instead US customers can't afford your cars anymore and so turn elsewhere and your economy, which is dependent upon the US, would start to decline and possibly even crash. So the solution? You print money and intentionally weaken your own currency - helping to eliminate the relative US inflation! Now the US inflation has transformed into real growth (for Americans) and you've 'imported' their inflation, but can at least continue selling your cars. So your economy stumbles on for another day while the US economy only grows larger.

But in contemporary times many of the factors that enable the US to export its inflation are gradually declining. And when you look at many of our economic indicators, without any particular 'superpowers', it's not so pretty. For instance our peers in debt:GDP ratio (4 worse, 4 better) are: Greece, Italy, Bahrain, Maldives, Laos, Cape Verde, France, and Bhutan. Not exactly the economic peers one wants.

[1] - https://search.brave.com/search?q=exporting+inflation
Ask an actual sex worker what they think about that.
> As a mathematician, fetishisation of the golden ratio bugs me.

I know, but hear me out: it's a decent hook for teaching people about Geometry, Recursion, and Dynamic Programming.
>With server-authored HTML, this separate client + server deploy is not required.

SSR has been a thing in react for a long time.
Depends if you decide to use vim as an editor. By now it's second nature (even though I'm nowhere near a vim master and struggle) this is one thing I use often.
Nothing spells IPO like mid January layoffs
I like how you think this is possible.
And more importantly, among the crypto crowd that dumped millions into his campaign. Libertarians have essentially no clout or money on their own. This was a pardon bought by Coinbase and Gemini and A16z.
leaving your children and grandchildren money is surefire way to make sure they never do anything with their own lives
Game Features :

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Complete the free app, no internet is required to play the hidden journey puzzle
Just as an additional datapoint, since I’m confused by fellow commenters’ confusion—I thought your narrative was clear, colorful, and entertaining, and I hope you’ll keep things so literary and engaging in your future contributions too :)

As with so many matters of crime, punishment, and high dudgeon, the physical reality of the situation always feels so banal. Dread Pirate Roberts’ lawless dark kingdom, where he commissions trans-national assassinations… looks a lot like a nerdy dude’s laptop on a municipal library table.
> No more merge conflicts that make you want to quit programming.

Ctrl + W
The Uber Eats guy

Yes, my father is an Uber Eats guy. He depends on people ordering their lunch for his income.

I have nothing else to say to you.
Ross just posted this photo on X. Man served 10 years, time for him to be free.

https://x.com/Free_Ross/status/1881925029497377104
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do...
"What if there were no star in the sky?" also works even if you want to use the subjunctive.

Note that not all native speakers of English use or prefer this type of construction. Also, this use of "were" instead of "was" is sometimes now called irrealis and considered separate from the subjunctive (which is then used to refer only to constructions like "it's important that you be here early tomorrow").
Sentencing is complicated in the US. Generally speaking, they have a huge range and a standard for computing where one falls in that range, but everything within that range is open to judge's discretion. Life without parole was within that range for the crimes that Ulbricht was convicted of.

This standard is an enormous document, https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines which lays out the rules for adjustments. Evidence is admissible (by both sides!) for sentencing, with a lower standard of evidence and burden of proof, to either raise or lower the sentence within the very wide numbers of what the conviction was for. So the Judge in this case found that the lower burden of proof was met for additional violent crimes being committed (with Ulbricht's legal team having an opportunity to rebut), and that impacts the sentencing calculations.

Not a lawyer, but I have listened to US lawyers on podcasts.
Recommending anything is usually a no-win. It's maybe one time in 10 it even leads to a listen or a read, and 1 time in 100 they like it, and 1 time in 1000 they love it the way you hoped.

If people recommend books to me, there's a fair chance I can't get over the issues here to read it. I have a stack of reading ideas. I don't want to re-prioritise just to please you, or ignore you, or reject you: all these are about least-worst choices.

I am not an author, but I am told authors have two dreads: 1) that you want to talk about one of their dead children, instead of the ones you are nuturing to give birth to soon 2) that you have some brilliant idea which can kill one of your nurturing children because plagiarism, or "now you like it I can't"

I liked the aphex twin song being a hard match for complex formulae.

I will say tidal and plex both recommend in a soft manner. "this is similar" and "if you explore <here> you will see what others listen to, who listen to this" and "this is what the threaded model of relationships are, in space time and nathaniel, for that tune you just played" -and it is often on the money.

I love the 60s. Almost any hot 100 playlist for the 60s will occasionally throw up "battle song of the marines" or somesuch because.. the 60s were crazy, and somebody snowed the playlists back then and got a pro-vietnam war song high on the charts. Or "Colonel Bogey's march" because "bridge over the river Kwai" was a hit. Man, way to kill the mood. (ok, the list of whistling songs in the 60s is also immense)
Askds – Ask DeepSeek R1 to debug your tests
Hi HN,

Following the release of yek[1] I am releasing this tool which is an evolution of my script that I was using to debug tests with R1 without doing too much copy-pasting.

You can update the prompt to explicitly return a diff and automate applying the suggestion and trying again too if you trust AI that much!

Please let me know what do you think!

[1] https://github.com/bodo-run/yek
no victim means no crime. victimless "crimes" are just 'arbitrary rule' violations (like going 56mph in a 55mph zone) or infractions. the twisting and distortion of language by the state is counterproductive to society.
Okay, that's actually pretty wild. I totally misunderstood too, but the response from the "AI" does indeed "clear it up" for me. A bit surprised actually, but then again, I suppose I shouldn't be, since language is what those "large language models" are all about after all... :)
Yes. If you stop producing steel (which we kinda did), and just buy it from China instead, you haven't "eliminated emissions". You've merely moved them to a country which is currently not subject to the environmental limits. We are on the same planet - in the long run it doesn't matter where you burn coal.
Watching Meta rewrite Messenger twice without success was enough for me to never touch React for any large project, especially after that botched e2ee chat rollout.
A drug trafficker sells drugs

A developer builds a platform like eBay but without censorship that can be used by the drug trafficker

It's not the same thing
That was very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
These are called stacked branches in git. You're possibly looking for:

git rebase --update-refs

... or a GUI like Git Cola that does this for you by default.
I regret not voting for Trump. Hopefully most of his BS will be contested and the good stuff he does sticks.
table has two parts to it, displaying of data and datawrangling. If you separate datawrangling part to api or sql or arquero than displaying of data becomes quite simple. You may not need ag-grid like library.
Nah, it's more that you do not fuck with the money system. SBF is learning that same lesson.

Jeff Skilling (Enron) served 12 years in jail for insider trading and securities.

Not saying that Skilling, Maddoff or SBF shouldn't have gone to jail. They deserved it. But I do find it interesting that financial crimes can tend to be the most harshly judged, likely because of who they impact (the people with money) and because they cause distrust of the financial system as a whole.

> Madoff stole $20-35B

Not to defend Madoff, but it's not like he made off with that money himself, so I'm not sure "stole" is the correct term. Most of that money went to investors -- it just went to a different set of investors than the ones who had put that money in (the nature of a Ponzi scheme).
This somewhat feels like 2 layer neural networks are a universal predictor.

It is true in the limit but not useful in practice.

When it comes to studying food / diet studies really do need to be a lot more careful about trying to control their variables.

Nutrition science as a field seems to have few absolute truths and many many overturned papers / results.
> BALL Stack

Remove the T, it's cleaner.
There is no spoon in this room. Equivalent to "There are no spoons in this room".
My math is rusty, but it looks to have a higher complexity than the original attention. I cannot say if it is an issue. Generally it seems we are willing to spend more computation at training time if it produces better results at inference time. In this case they are reducing the resources needed at inference time (an order of magnitude for the KV cache) or enabling longer sequences given the same resources.

There's another paper I saw yesterday, "Element-wise Attention is All You Need" which looks like an early preprint, written by a solo author with a solo A800, and tested on some smaller problems. If the results hold up for language benchmarks, it could reduce resource requirements during training as well. It looks to have a lower complexity when scaling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05730
Have you ever thought of just hiring an Enrolled Agent to do it for you and be done with it. Talking about the “autocracy” and all that, I feel like you might just be way overthinking this. It’s not that expensive if you’re making all this money.
Did you read my whole comment? It feels like you didn’t read my whole comment. Because I said “I realize it doesn’t produce polished, professional looking UIs”.

I don’t think that’s an intrinsic quality of a DearImGui type API design. I’m reasonably confident it could produce a professional end-user facing UI. And that it would be perfectly performant and battery efficient.
> Yeah. I do wish git added multiple named stages to keep this sort of thing a lot more organized.

You mean commits? You know that you can easily edit, reorder, squash, split, rename and reorganize them into separate branches before you push them anywhere, right?
I can't agree with the quoted sentiment either. Even I attempt to remove all my bias, most of the tools I use to work (app developer) are fat javascript clients.
Do you also have a native app? How do you plan on using your current setup with Swift?
I doubt that's the reason. It could simply be bandwidth reasons as another commenter in the thread implied.
this makes me realize how lame GPS is, a centralized system that will take every thing down with it, should it ever go down
Of course not, the tweet here is _the_ original source for that news
Looks like it's just a matrix decomposition in the paper. I'm guessing anyway. These attention papers are always a painful mix of mathematical, quasi-mathematical, and information retrieval jargon.

There is something in the github repo about higher-order decompositions. Don't find where the method for factoring is given.
As with most (all?) efforts to merge values- with task-based* leadership regime, the issues are what passes for documentation..

https://github.com/judge0/judge0/issues/514

*What was the main rival of tasked-based leadership? I looked over your comment history for enlightenment and was delighted to discover that your informed opinions on tasks=>profits are a lamp over our possible common "ideological" issues :)

In the case of Judge0**, I suppose the core tension is manifested between them wanting to be open source vs sustainable

**Croatian, therefore ex-KuK ~proddy-commies?

Spc being proddy in my book
There are a number of papers which aim to improve the attention aspect of models, all being some derivation of the original "Attention is All You Need" paper. A pattern of "'blank' Attention is All You Need" has emerged
even more naive way - just club several requests into batch of classification requests into one prompt. in practice, this is not production-ready as the llm output does not always contain results for the same number of input (sometimes more than inputted even!)
Well, you do have to move a lot of earth and pour A LOT of concrete :) Many steps have to be x-rayed, and many other tests done before other steps can be started. Every weld is checked and, all internal and external concrete is cured, treated, and verified. If anything is wrong, it has to be fixed in place (if possible) or removed and redone. It's a slow process and should be for many steps.

One of the big issues that have occurred (in the US especially) is, that for 20+ years there were no new plants built. This caused a large void in the talent pool, inside and outside the industry. That fact, along with others has caused many problems with some projects of recent years in the US.
Endow a university or private high school somewhere?

Pay for research on something you think is interesting or worthwhile?

Create a park or a museum?

(A bunch of billionaires-in-today's-terms from the 19th and early 20th centuries tended to do stuff like that, and a lot of the stuff they endowed is still around!)

Pay for an expensive social, architectural, scientific, or ecological experiment of some sort?
Because the commenter is a pro-nuclear who thinks nucler will solve all of short-term demand problems.
I think Trump is doing this just to get more federal workers to quit thereby decreasing the size of government.
I'm also a mathematician, and it doesn't bug me at all.

> nothing to do with spirituality

It clearly does have a lot to do with spirituality, for many people, as symbol. Much as the cross does for Christans. Neither of these symbols have spiritual meaning to me - a cross is just a cross, a spiral is just a spiral. I don't have much need for spiritual symbolism myself - when I meditate, I rather to focus on a simple sound or light source - but I'd consider it highly egotistical of myself if I was to start judging other people's use of symbols just because they don't understand maths, or whatever.

> fetishisation

I've yet to ever see this word used except to denigrate other people's beliefs, or as an attempt to make the user feel superior. I believe you did both here.

My advice, one mathematician to another: chill and let people have their symbols. Don't expect them to have a deep understanding of mathematics, much as we don't have a deep understanding of their need for spiritual symbolism. Nonetheless we can let each other be, and all get along.

Who knows, perhaps a fascination with this "sacred geometry" as they call it, might be a starting point for someone to have a genuine interest in mathematics.
It might be visible. Just not a large amount from one account to another. Thats not how laundering works and definitely not how trades work that are supposed to go unnoticed.
Would anyone, even a member of the Academy, write "il y a 1.33 femme pour chaque homme"?
Because to publish in a real journal, you typically need both novelty and for your work to be "interesting". The job of the abstract and introduction of a paper (where the word "novel" normally lives) is to sell the reviewer that the paper should be published and to sell you that you should read and cite it.
I've been looking for an alternative to GPG for git signing because key rotation and revocation is painful and there's no agreed upon flow for handling that situation. This looks promising as it eliminates the need to fumble around with the GPG command line, key pairs, revocation certificates, offline backups, and Yubikeys every year or so.

One caveat is that GitHub currently shows commits signed with Sigstore as "unverified." Relatively minor, but it'd be nice if it received more attention.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37703
Not a fan of all the hexclad stuff, but I have to admit their pepper & salt grinders are excellent.

I was given the large set: https://hexclad.com/products/hexmill-salt-and-pepper-grinder...

Seems to be pretty similar to the other one posted, but about half the price ($129 for just the pepper grinder, $200 for the pair - they go on sale down to ~$85 on amazon every now and then as well).

Having the built in cap is actually pretty damn useful, too - you can just grind into the cap and measure tsp out of it directly without needing another container.

Easily the best grinders I have ever used, going strong 2 years in now. I use them just about daily.
A lot of people are worried about powering gigawatt scale AI data centers in the US, but China is over here installing 450 GW a year. I really hope we can also figure out how to do this with renewables instead of natural gas.
Improving UI performance by optimizing our debouncer
I chuckled when I read, in S-3.1

> Specifically, for each token t, with a small abuse of notation, we define:
indeed, reviewing notoriously takes just as much effort as producing the artifact under review!
Sex Begins in the Womb (2001)
>For decades, America pursued free trade with gusto, chasing cheaper goods and higher corporate profits. The result? De-industrialized towns, millions of lost jobs, and rising inequality.

Millions of lost jobs, millions of better, easier, higher value jobs created.

Unemployment rate is extremely low and has been except for a few years of the Great Recession.

>Traditional economic models assume fair play.

Why? It has never been fair play. The US has the world's biggest military and they push countries around for economic gains. The US has historically installed dictators as long as the they side with the US.

>But if the aim is rebuilding industries, protecting workers, and rebalancing global power, tariffs start to look like a strategic necessity.

No one in America wants to work in factories anymore. Unemployment is already extremely low. Where are you going to find workers to slave away in a factory in America? Illegal immigrants?
This looks like it could also be useful in embedded programming, specifically around detecting allocations in platforms that allow them.
And places like Wikipedia don’t even give you internet points! What dummies these contributors are.
I'm rather tired of these "$LABORATORY_EXPERIMENT could sweep the world" articles.

If the complete supply chains for all the ingredients of the thing do not already exist and operate in the billions of dollars, it can't conceivably "solve" anything at global scale in under three decades. More likely, seven decades.

In the world of atoms, scaling is not just a matter of emailing AWS. It's a matter of project plans and environmental reviews and planning permissions and financing. Multiplied several thousand fold.

In the mean time, announcements like this serve mainly to keep us passive, waiting for the miracle.