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by polemic 3y ago
Meh, AI doesn't break information theory. The relationship between the prompt size to the "similarity" of the result will be such that it doesn't beat traditional compression techniques. At best we might consider it a ne
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by polemic 3y ago
How big is the SORA model itself?
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by polemic 3y ago
Music rights management is independant of production and distribution. This means that Spotify, Apple Music and any other music services are able to negotiate rights to large libraries of music quite easily.
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by polemic 3y ago
[According to the article] He has acute autism, is violent in custody and expressed intent to continue comitting crimes. This isn't just "some kid with potential" – he will end up in prison sooner of later, which will be an
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by polemic 3y ago
Insanity. Just because Paul - or anyone - thinks something "is plausible" does not mean that you should say "it is fact". It's the very root of everything wrong about social media and modern "conspiracy theory
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by polemic 3y ago
I touched on this a little in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075723 - but tldr; OSM has it's own versioning model, and their data model isn't a great fit for the flat-table structure of most o
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by polemic 3y ago
This is a great question, and one of the first things we had to answer before deciding to build Kart. These are my top 3: 1. We found Geogig hard to get running. I'm a software engineer but I struggled to get Geogig installed correctly
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by polemic 3y ago
I haven't, but it looks like it's a Git repo hosting solution? This issue with using Git with data directly, is you generally loose the per-row/feature change information. With common binary GIS data formats, just putting the
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by polemic 3y ago
Yes, you can do shallow clones with `--depth` as well. This is incredibly useful - it means we can publish massive Kart repositories of spatial data with lots of versioning info, but still allow users to work with small subsets of the most
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by polemic 3y ago
One of the benefits of building on Git is a lot of people have put a lot of time into make it work really well with lots of objects. And even though we say "files", Git abstracts that into packfiles etc very efficiently. So, we&
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by polemic 3y ago
Dolt is a neat project, but it's tightly coupled to MySQL. Kart supports MySQL as a working-copy format but MySQL has some limitations around geometry support that make it unsuitable for most GIS usage - see our docs for more info: ht
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by polemic 3y ago
Hi there, OpenStreetMap has it's own versioning mechanisms (and a fairly specific-to-OSM data model) and Kart isn't really designed to work with OSM data as such. Kart adds version control to the GIS data that planners, academics,
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by polemic 3y ago
Hi there, Kart supports points, lines & polygons, as well as GeoTIFFs for imagery and LAZ for point clouds. Kart is a CLI tool, but provides fully machine readable outputs. You can use the QGIS plugin to get a visual diff of vector feat
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by polemic 3y ago
Hi everyone, I'm Hamish, PM for KartProject here. If you want to learn more about Kart: * Our CTO Rob Coup presenting on Kart at FOSS4G 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B-HB2Z3Vlc * Docs are available at https:
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by polemic 3y ago
Hi! It's neat to see Kart making HN. These are great points, we'll get that Docs link much more visible.
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by polemic 3y ago
Kart repositories are also Git repositories - they're 'interopable' in the sense that there is a lot of tooling that will work, but the storage structure for vector data differs, and using Git on a Kart repository won't
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by polemic 3y ago
Roundabouts are great (and common where I live), but a downside is they can be difficult for pedestrians to cross. You need crossings that are set back from the exits, but this also makes it a longer path for the pedestrian.
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by polemic 3y ago
Alternatively, as many argue, wages are not only set by supply and demand.
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by polemic 3y ago
Note that this page hijacks the back button, and is paywalled.
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Windward Performance Perlan 2 – high altitude glider(en.wikipedia.org)
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by polemic 3y ago
> It's interesting that the complaint for scrutiny comes now when loud liberal voices are upset with current rulings. FWIW, the scrutiny first came about because Justice Thomas's wife was involved in an insurrection against the
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by polemic 3y ago
It's unclear to me how Overture manages to "license wash" OSM data here. > Transportation: The OMF’s Transportation layer represents a worldwide road network derived from data in the OpenStreetMap project. This community-
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by polemic 3y ago
FOSS4G (Free and Open Source for Geospatial Information Systems) - https://2023.foss4g.org/ It's a yearly global conference series run by volunteers. There are also regional versions, e.g. FOSS4G NA will be in Baltimo
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by polemic 3y ago
I've just spent a week in Kosovo for an international tech conference and it's pretty clear that the article is shit-posting. Kosovo might be small and somewhat 'wild west' but you'd be very silly to take any of tha
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by polemic 4y ago
The article states facts. It doesn't call anyone evil, or stupid. But at face value, outlawing the teaching of well established scientific theory in science class is exactly the sort of thing you'd do if you were a theocratic bump
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by polemic 4y ago
The very last thing you should do is commit a GPT-3 generated commit message for a fairly simple reason: if GPT-3 can interpret and and explain the change as written, there is no reason to commit that message. You will always be able re-r
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by polemic 4y ago
As we'd say here: "Yeah, Nah". This is a caricature of parochial English thinking of the colonies from the 50s, and is entirely divorced of what Australia and New Zealand are like today.
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by polemic 4y ago
> They trust technocratic experts to know what's best for people. And implement. It helps to be small & pragmatic. People (mostly) follow the rules and politicians (mostly) only implement rules with broad support. Police have wi
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by polemic 4y ago
There seem to be a lot of data version control systems built around ML pipelines or software development needs, but not so much on the sort of data editing that happens outside of software development & analysis. Kart ( https:/&#x2
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by polemic 4y ago
Exhibit B: non-code policy changes have non-zero effects on your infrastructure. https://twitter.com/atax1a/status/1594905195737419777 > we don’t think so. the prod incident we heard about involved someone mak

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