skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another maybe counterintuitive fact is that (to a reasonable approximation) everywhere on earth gets the same number of hours of daylight over the course of a year.

Not the same amount of usable daylight though as the amount you have to waste to get a decent amount of sleep all year around varies by latitiude.
I use a laptop, desktop PC, phone, and 2 tablets at home. Another PC and laptop and tablet when I visit my parents.
Not all of them are mine, and it is _very_ annoying to have to login to a website on them. You have to go through the unlock flow on your own device (long and complicated password) to access the password, and then copy the site-specific password (usually long and complicated) to the new device.

It is a giant pain. I can understand why people wouldn't want to go through it.
I guess so, though that might be counterproductive to the goals of Rhombus.
This 1000x.
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Well, in that case Trummp has done a fantastic job proving those people wrong. But that still confuses me: who can like this personality when it's on the world platform, and not just a TV stereotype?

Could we at least elect someone likeable like Bill Nye if we're voting based on "personality"?
For clean, classical edges in standard images, classical algorithms(Canny, Sobel) are hard to beat in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and clarity.

For domain-specific edges (e.g., medical images, low-light, or noisy industrial setups), a small, well-trained neural network may perform better by learning more complex patterns.

In summary, "Garbage In, Garbage Out" applies to both classical algorithms and neural networks. Good camera setup, lighting, and optics solve 90% of machine vision or computer vision problems before the software—whether classical or neural network-based—comes into play.
There is some market (and regulatory) stupidity but both your cited ones have reasonable cases to be made for them.

If you order the bids low to high then pay the highest bid then a) you encourage honest (i.e. lower) priced bids and drive expensive/inefficient plants out the market while encouraging new low price entrants who can guarantee they'll get used (because low bid) and make money, driving the market price lower.

The problem is the expensive gas caused by Russian invasions and planning a market pricing mechanism around such events is kind of silly when you can just windfall tax to fix the problem quickly and easily if the energy companies aren't all run by your mates from private school.

But also generation ain't the whole cost, there's the grid fees and taxes. The latter made sense when burning coal and now are looking likely to be shifted to gas.

Collar prices on wind farms are actually a genius bit of financial engineering, guaranteeing minimum funding in a volatile market at low cost by capping the profits.
I wonder if some degree of RPM-dependent shape change could be designed, like F1’s flexi-wing trick that extends its aerodynamic operating range
> Text files never contain 0-bytes

that might be true for ASCII but there are other text encodings out there

And again, if a detector doesn't check for the more specific matches first, before falling back to "ah, that seems to be text", then the detector is broken
No BMC, severally limiting remote management, so operations teams responsible for physical servers don't want to touch it.

JetKVM is a remote KVM, not remote management. It does not have the same integration into the internals of a server.
GPT 4o is not particularly good at this kind of logic, at least compared to other current models. Trying something that is at least in the top 10 from this WebDev Areans leaderboard: https://web.lmarena.ai/leaderboard would help.

Make sure it is allowed to think before doing (not necessarily in a dedicated thinking mode, it can be a regular prompt to design a graph before implementing it; make sure to add in a prompt who the graph is for (e.g. "a clean graph, suitable for a blog post for technical audience").
Yes, I do. In fact I had someone visit my house literally today because she needed to fix her SMS setup for her phone and I have been her tech support for years (as I am for most of my family and their friends). The people I help are quite smart but they have better things to do than figure out exactly how technology works. I explain what they need to understand and they know they can always ask me when they are confused.

I actually think your example illustrates this: people use their computers for porn. There's nothing wrong with that. If it's so large that he has no space left, I mean that's a pretty actionable thing to tell him. He's not an idiot for not figuring it out himself. That he "hid" the folder from you–I mean, people hide things from professionals all the time. Nobody volunteers to their doctor that they wipe in the wrong direction and thus have chronic UTIs. It's your job to work around the reasonable things people do that make your work harder and bring them to "oh, that makes sense, thanks" perspective.
Call me hysteric, but I think if this is true - as described - it will be a slippery slope into much worse things.

If this is allowed, sooner than later the US will start to deny entry to all "undesirables", which translates to those that aren't 100% aligned with MAGA policies.

Just demand access to all phone data, run the data through some AI screening tool, which maps the data to some 2-D "desirability" scale.

Disagrees with Trump? No entry

Not opposed to LGBTQ topics? No entry

Reads too many left-leaning newspapers? No entry

And the list goes on.

I guess the (now at least 10 year old) tip still rings true: Travel with a burner phone, or some phone that you use minimally for anything other than travel.
> From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula and rigol.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rule#English
Yes.

Even ignoring the fact that no one forces you to add whole Qt to your project, do not compare Qt, which is a battle-tested, long-lived framework, developed and maintained for decades by the company that also provides commercial support for it, with a bucket of intermingled crap sourced from random repositories across the internet.
>A fair point, but there are some circumstances where both employee and employer may need to justify/document such circumstances -- but on the whole, you're spot on.

I think we should also make it common practice to share grocery lists with your employer, as well as the date and time of sexual acts. This is even more justifiable than the status of the train that takes you to work.

I mean, trains are late not often enough to make any significant difference. Whereas unhealthy diet, or say, sleepless nights of lovemaking, can dramatically affect a worker's productivity almost permanently.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoSpan
There are many aspects to this. The biggest is indeed memory. Scene complexity if VFX has always eaten hardware advances.

Average frame time used to be 2h throughout my career and it never got smaller, however fast hardware became available (and this includes GPUs).

And because scene complexity was always larger than what fit on GPUs for most stuff this was always the limiting factor in how effective they could be.

Another issue people in these debates ignore is R&D.

The amount of R&D you have to spend to make cutting edge offline rendering work perfectly on the moving target that is GPUs is insane, compared to CPUs.

To give you an idea, look at the list of limitations RenderMan XPU (CPU+GPU) has compared to its CPU counterpart (nowadays called Ris) [1]. If you're A CG supervisor that page is a giant red flag for relying on XPU in your production in any way because any limitation you hit has to be worked around. And the biggest expense in production is human labor.

Pixar has sunk probably dozens of man years of R&D into XPU (I think it was announced at Siggraph 2017). I.e. that's seven years times number of developers.

In a shootout, a year ago (with a scene simple enough to fit on a GPU, mind you), the noise levels of the RenderMan XPU render were marginally better that those of 3Delight, for the same render time.[2] And that's after seven years of R&D and with the aforementioned limitations (none of which apply to 3Delight or to RenderMan Ris but the latter had unacceptable noise levels if you look at the images).

3Delight only supports CPU and their team of just half a dozen people has spend 100% of their time, sinc3 1999, on that. Instead of chasing GPUs.

If you have complex scenes or volumes, 3Delight will beat any GPU renderer (and any CPU renderer anyway). I'm happy to bet on this.

On a side note, my guess is that GPU-related R&D was a factor in what killed Clarisse. They even successfully ported OSL to GPU -- laudable! But briefly after the company went under ...

Maybe their time would have been better spent to make the renderer more robust and faster on CPU instead. Just a guess ofc.

This is the high-end stuff. There are lots of GPU path tracers out there and they're all great as long as your scene complexity doesn't cross a certain threshold. And as long as you do not need OSL support, I think only Evee has this.

[1] https://rmanwiki-26.pixar.com/space/REN26/19661981/XPU+Featu...

[2] https://github.com/tristan-north/renderBench
You're sure that the company of "a thousand nos for every yes" is going to go out and make every single thing that people might possibly want?
Highly recommend nektos/act, and if it's something complex enough, you can Ssh into the server to investigate. There are many action that facilitate this.
There is also Mangum [0], which can wrap up any ASGI app and deploy it as a lambda.

[0] https://mangum.fastapiexpert.com/
For iPhones "Max" is basically irrelevant when it comes to SoC specs; the phones are differentiated by whether they are "Pro" or not. The Pro (and Pro Max) support faster speeds, and the regular iPhones do not.
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space
> CI is not "configured", it is coded.

Finally! I was always struggling to explain to others why YAML is OK-ish as a language, but then never seems to work well for the things people tried doing with it. Especially stuff that needs to run commands, such as CI.

> How does the resulting YAML look like? How do you run this stuff locally? How do you debug this? Just don't go there.

Agreed. GitHub actions, or any remote CI runner for that matter, makes the problem even worse. The whole cycle of having to push CI code, wait 10 minutes while praying for it to work, still getting an error, trying to figure out the mistake, fixing one subtle syntax error, then pushing the code again in the hope that that works is just a terrible workflow. Massive waste of time.

> You will not be able to avoid YAML completely, obviously, but use it the way it was originally intended to.

Even for configurations YAML remains a pain, unfortunately. It could have been great for configs, but in my experience the whole strict whitespace (tabs-vs-spaces) part ruined it. It isn't a problem when you work from an IDE that protects you from accidentally using tabs (also, auto-formatting for the win!) but when you have to write YAML configuration (for example: Netplan) on a remote server using just an editor it quickly becomes a game of whack-a-mole.
That is what most people are talking about when they are discussing the JVM, yes
It's absolutely crazy that the only way to get a native splitter in HTML is to use iframes.
There's no suggestion that Microsoft will add this to Edge if it doesn't go through, is there? Hopefully, even if it did, it will do so progressively — designers have learnt to let go of pixel-perfect web styling by now, surely...
The creators of the D made a big mistake. Instead of focusing on improving the GC, they focused on making it possible to avoid GC in D. The Go has shown that this strategy was wrong.
It was first coined in the 60s and has been floating around since, but it's really only seen regular use in the past decade or so.
In organization setting this is almost useless if you are (or forced to) use some pre-made actions and/or actions that are for your organization only (they cannot be downloaded) also useless if you are forced to use self hosted runner with image that you don't have access to. Not to mention env/secrets and networking...
I don't see sourcehut [0] mentionned here. I tested github and gitlab CI, sourcehut is MILES ahead. I'll drop two key features here :
- any CI run successful or not, gives you back a ssh URI so you can log into the machine to inspect/tweak/tinker
- CI files are NOT in the project's repository. no need to wrangle with your git branches when working on CI anymore

[0] : https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/
Finding evidence of a sophisticated attack is quite difficult. Most "IOCs" are not actually very effective in such a case.
> promoting antisemitism on social media

So Musk is next?
>Would they cover it on TV news?

Yes

> There's little-to-no discussion about the implications on tech, based on my reading of the comments.

You commented 3 hours in on a topic that was flagged for hours. How much discussion did you expect period?

The implications are obvious: other countries's businesses will be terrified reading this and refuse to enter the country. No one wants their liasons arrested by a foreign country. I can imagine many businesses in he EU marking the US as a no-fly zone over this story
pKVM is basically a box to run DRM in.
Translations in Stimulus Controllers
Why just stick to Mermaid? I expect that there is a lot more material with regards to SVG that large models have been trained on. And it's a fairly simple format. Asking it to create diagrams in SVG format gives it much more flexibility.
Of course there may be a bit less consistency, but there are ways around that (e.g. giving an example/template to follow).

Simon Willison has shown that current models aren't very good at creating an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle, but drawing a box diagram in SVG is a much simpler task.
Thanks that's helpful to know they picked a valid term, but if I'd hold a no-context poll (unless I mention ruler) a significant number of people wouldn't know this.
> We have very different definitions of what "low-level" means.

Does it really matter if you can understand them? waiting for strongly-opinionated engineers to finish their pedantic spiels (...even when they're wrong or there is no obvious standard of correctness) when everyone already understands each other is one of the most miserable part of being in this industry.

I—and I emphatically don't include the above poster in this view as it takes continual & repeated behavior to accrue such judgement—see this as a small tantrum, essentially, for people who never learned to regulate their emotions in professional spaces. I don't understand why this sort of bickering is considered acceptable behavior in the workplace or adjacent spaces. It's rude, arrogant, trivially avoidable with slight change in tone and rhetoric, and it makes you look like an asshole if you're not 100% right and approach it in good humor.
I assumed everyone salts their memorised passwords. Like you add something that's a function of the thing you're logging into, in a way that's not atrociously obvious. I think (hope) that anything beyond "superpassword1+facebook" is going to be adequate to stop a successful phish cascading to other accounts.
So, after deactivation and the expiry time, it doesn't reset the account or require and kind of verification to prove you were the prior owner, it just keeps everything as it was before?
If that's true then there's absolutely no chance of me visiting the US ... possibly again!

A shame, as wanted to drive the Californian coastal roads in a year or two ... guess I'll stick to the Alps.

But let's be honest. Even I was let in, I wouldn't choose to now and ... I guess perhaps forever. Many many good people in the USA but your democracy has spoken. You want Biff in charge and no one wants to be a part of that.
Hello,

author of Stelvio here. Stelvio is in very early alpha far from any production use, but it's able to deploy simple API gateway, lambda and dynamo db tables with just few lines of code.

Idea is that Python devs should be able to deal with infra with Python only and minimal boilerplate - simple thing should be simple.

I'm currently working on v 0.2.0 which will have support for lambda dependencies & layers, Dynamo indexes and CORS and authorizers for API gateway.

I hope to release that in April.

For v0.3.0, stelvio will get it's own CLI too.

Any feedback is welcomed here or michal at stelvio.dev

Michal
The R&D story behind Sesame AI
So… beyond the naked corruption, who is this _for_? Half the US dislikes Trump, so this is probably a turnoff. A decent fraction of the remainder are, well, not keen on the idea of the government telling them what to do, so again, turnoff. Some of the remainder are financially literate and are thus likely to be turned off by “I own this thing, you should buy it too”, because that is how pump and dumps work. And it’s hard to see this being compelling _outside_ the US. So, what’s the point?
Really sad the sibling comment got flagged to death. I code in English! Everyone should code in English! No more C++, no more language standards committees, no more nonstandard languages!
follow the money as always. Same reason why US has the highest incarceration date. Incentivize people to be put in cells, and they'll optimize for it.

Hence why I'd rather revamp the incentives towards punishing recidivism and completely nailing petty imprisonments.
How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way
Were I to have a religion, it would be following the poor, stressed programmer tasked with creating (on some insane deadline) the universe we inhabit. To fix various performance bugs, he (I like to think he's called Colin) had to implement all sorts of hacky workarounds: lazy loading so some information is only calculated when it's observed, a maximum speed of information propagation to enable sharding, a system to insert new nodes in the linked list of spacetime, pushing galaxies apart and ensuring the complex timelines of intelligent species never have to snap together and run on a single instance. The work is constant and unrewarding, but I am thankful to Colin for his work, however mysterious it might seem to us.
Ah OK, I was thinking about youtube, I re-read it and saw noticed you were talking IG. Yeah, I've noticed some IG URLs are suspicious: different from other users or opening related info that it shouldn't be there.
> * Invest time that your pipelines can run locally on a developer machine as well (as much as possible at least), otherwise testing/debugging pipelines becomes a nightmare.

Yes, a thousand time.

Deploy scripts are tougher to deal with, as they'll naturally rely on a flurry of environment variables, protected credentials etc.

But for everything else writing the script for local execution first, and generalizating them for CI one they run well enough is the absolute best approach. It doesn't even need to run in the local shell, having all the CI stuff in a dedicated docker image is fine if it requires specific libraries or env.
fixed the readme; i used the turndown from mixmark-io/turndown repo.

regarding license: i figured it'd be fine with MIT license but i noticed after your comment that the turndown licence has a copyright line.

what's the right thing to do here? do i add turndown's license along with existing MIT one or replace the license in my repo with turndown's?
Twilight is caused by scattering rather than refraction. There's sunlight bouncing around in the atmosphere, keeping the sky non-black even after sunset.
Radar detects ancient megastructures beneath Khafre pyramid
Wow, the train system actually giving you something when it’s late seems great, NS should take notes.
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You must have simple, straightforward flow touched only by a handful of folks max.

The world is full of kafkaesque nightmares of Dev-ops pipeline "designed" and maintained by committees of people.

It's horrible.

That said, for some personal stuff I have Google Cloud Build that has a very VERY simple flow. Fire, forget and It's been good.
> Have you at least lived an apartment lifestyle full-time for a few years, or is this just coming from your speculation of what it's like? If it's just speculation, please spare me.

I've lived my entire lifetime in apartments, ranging from Eastern European panel blocks to ultra modern high energy efficiency ones. Heck, if we go the "spare me" arrogant route, based on my experience with apartments I can probably show you a thing or two (or two hundred...).

I haven't even downvoted you, because I can't. It's some sort of HN mechanism. I'm fairly sure you're the one that downvoted my original comment, though.

As usual for any type of housing, you need to choose where you live.

Claiming that everyone wants to live in a single family house is, again, just sad.

Single family houses in walkable and bikeable areas with easy access to daycares, kindergartens, schools, corner stores, super markets, pharmacies, coffee shops, cinemas, theatres, ... are insanely expensive and most people can't afford them, so the only relevant comparison is between:

Single family houses in suburbs versus medium sized apartments in urban areas.

In most of the rest of the world you can pay comparable rent (or comparable purchase price) for a decent apartment in a mid-to-high density area versus a decent house in a suburban area.

> is gobsmacking

So was your comment. You attacked my initial generic comment with a purely personal and emotional personal perspective. I think in real life terms it would be akin to what's called "emotional blackmail" ("look how hard it was for me in an apartment with bad weather" - WTF, did the apartment cause the bad weather?!!?? :-)))))) ).

Anyway, this is useless.

* * *

Again, some people prefer to live in houses, some prefer to live in apartments. Both should be built to decent standards and no one should enforce most others to live in one single type (Europe is better than the US in this regard, in the US basically everyone is forced to live in single family houses in suburbs - something crazy like 80% of buildable land is legally zoned to be only used for single family houses).
Oh really the tread is so big ,so I didnt read everything sorry
"...explains a lot of things about the current state of the JavaScript, Python, Rust and Go ecosystems."

The difference is that with Go or Python you can, if you decide to, do quite a lot without either pulling random stuff from the internet or making your own implementation from scratch, due to extensive standard libraries.
Come to Canada. Our pacific coastline is stunning, too.

Tofino, or Haida Gwaii.
That most likely playec a role as well, but SoftBank has been very open about their backing for O-RAN and building the standards for 6G since 2021.
I assume WebGPU related? FF lacks behind in support and I assume they use it under the hood. Meaning I would try chrome. (I know, I know)
Softbank is BigOil money.
The peasants will get a new type of flu.
A lot of America (even parts of the left) still fall for the "hard on crime" narrative. They assume the sentences are just, and thus bad people deserve the worst. Even if our constitution has a clause agaisnt "cruel and unusual punishment".

never-mind that we've had decades of initiatives using such prisons as a form of soft racism, something so longstanding that is publicly declassified information. And people still don't care.
Most country are 't fascists wanna be
I think the real question is how is it degraded after 100/900 cycles of 0.2C/10C which is a normal charging pattern.
Firebase is not a db, its an entire platform as a service. So you don't really create much a backend, it handles it all for you.