skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It loads fine on an iPhone 14 Pro Max, it just has a very small font. Reader mode works great though.
A lot of people and companies are making money from Linux, including Linus Torvalds and many kernel hackers. Linux is GPL’d. I think it is hard to make the claim that making money is antithetical to FOSS.
Beatsaber and other rhythm games are very dynamic. I think the problem is more that the things I would want to work well in VR don't always work well. (But there are probably lots of amazing dynamic things like Beatsaber I never would have thought of.)
I think this is really interesting - I've heard "guys" used to address a group of mixed genders ("how are you guys?") but it sounds much more gendered when used to refer to a group ("how many guys are in there?" or even "are you looking for those guys?").
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Sure, the maintainers have no obligation to review and merge other people's PRs. But when this also applies to genuine high-quality community contributions, I feel like there must be some negative side effects.

I'm sure this model works well for an established project like Fody that's already quite highly polished, but I'd be pretty sad if all (or even a significant subset) of open source adopted this model.

I'd definitely be interested to hear any counter-arguments to this though. Are there any avenues for individuals to contribute for free, if they aren't using it for profit?
Do you mean Shor's algorithm [1]? Most likely no, or IBM would have made sure you'll hear about that.

But let's say it can, and somehow IBM forgot to mention.

Shor's algorithm reduces to a quantum Fourier circuit, with 2N qubit inputs and 2N qubit outputs, where N is the number of digits of the number to be factored. That's 4N qubits only for inputs and outputs.

So, in the best case scenario, this computer would be able to factor a 108-binary digit number.

My computer (2020 Intel-based iMac) can do that in one minute.

Here's the code if you want to try it on your computer:

import sympy
n_digits = 54
p = sympy.randprime(2**(n_digits-1), 2**n_digits)
q = sympy.randprime(2**(n_digits-1), 2**n_digits)
sympy.factorint(N)

Output: {53882560694857690729: 1, 44658549937294814041: 1}

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
They’ve demoed it to the board twice, it’s shipping. It’s not what you’re imagining - will (imo) be all day wear flip down passthrough AR with 4ish hour battery life.
I wonder how much the per-search cost is marginal cost vs. amortized fixed costs.

If their paying user base grows by 10x, do the searches drop from 4¢ each to 2¢ each?
It's not a currency, it's not a store of value. Nobody uses it to buy anything, it doesn't work against inflation.
It’s okay though because Twitter has announced an upcoming “Official” tag that will take the place of the blue thing and work the same way the blue thing did.

A year from now they’ll announce a premium subscription that allows you to have the “Official” tag and shortly thereafter they’ll announce an “Acutally Offical” tag.

Rinse repeat.
It will have similar usage patterns as your watch (all day wear not all day use) but will be AirPods for the eyes via a flip down visor. (Imo)
https://archive.ph/AD6lb
Would you be interested in purchasing an NFT of your comment?
Switched to colima a while back after the licensing debacle and have been mostly happy with it. Only real issue has been with some tools making assumptions about the docker socket location, which was easy to fix in the config file.
Is P2P torrent type of sharing the load possible under AppStore guidelines (be they iOS or Android)? I've honestly never even thought about this being a thing, but with large shared data that doesn't change, why not?
https://archive.ph/biUL2
I still want a search engine that highly ranks pages with no ads. Get us back to those 1990s days a bit more.
Archived: https://archive.ph/AD6lb
I did something similar. I ended acting as a human two-pass assembler before I before I got a real assembler.

My source was in text files. I'd script them into DEBUG to assemble them just like in the article. I'd put NOPs in place of branching instructions, script the source into DEBUG, and then use the output to get the calculated offsets for the intended branches. Then I'd go back and put the branches and offsets into the code.

Nothing frustrated me more than having to insert code and recalculate all subsequent branches. I ended up peppering a lot of NOPs into my early programs so I'd have "spare" bytes to use for instructions I needed to add.

Getting a real assembler made a huge difference in my workflow. Translating DEBUG scripts into MASM/TASM-compatible source wasn't awful either.
the problem is there isn't any good way to monetize a public town square (at least not monetize to the degree will make $Bs); if Jack had kept Twitter private and ran it like Craigslist -> profitable but with revenues in the 100s of Ms instead of Bs, it might have worked. Now it's private again, but with $Bs in leveraged debt it has to become a cash cow :/
Also makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
That's more or less what manifest v2 allows for. But, you can use that to block ads. It simply had to go!
Add all those together, and you can buy a Starbucks Fripolocini and some avocado toast.
The Kroenke's will back FSB just like they backed Arteta, FTX will be top of the table this time next year remind me one year
So what did he do in 7 years? Ideas are cheap. Maybe the company didn't execute so well due to the bloat and inertia, or maybe the brand itself had other vulnerabilities which are missing from this vision.
There is some first mover advantage, but in the long run, it's true--no one will care who was first. Apple has a good shot at a general consumer platform, not so much for gaming. Microsoft or Valve/Steam has a shot at gaming, and maybe Sony. For business, MS again has a shot as does Meta. HP can access some parts of it but I can't say they have good experience in delivering the software part of a platform.
It's not quite the same as the web directories of old, but I find the links and content contained in the "Awesome [topic]" lists on GitHub to be a useful resource. The curation aspect is managed via pull requests just as any other open source project, although this doesn't make it immune from going stale.
>>It's actually kind of heart warming that you think environmentalists have so much power. Why do you think they chose not to use it to stop coal, plastic or beef?

Your narrative doesn't line up with reality. In Germany, the primary political force behind the decision to shut down the country's nuclear plants was the national Green Party. A similar dynamic is seen across numerous countries in the EU.

Greenpeace and other environmental groups have significant influence on the leading left-leaning parties, and are the most responsible for so many governments stopping nuclear power expansion.

>>Not until one exists that actually runs in breeding mode on a commercial scale and that's what you're proposing building.

We'll have such reactors long before we run out of uranium. And once operational, they will be able to use the stored waste from the non breeder reactors as fuel.

The shunning of nuclear power at the behest of so-called green parties and environmental groups like Greenpeace is why it has not grown massively as an energy source. If permits for new plants were actually issued at the pace that the economy needs, and especially if that were combined with next gen nuclear tech got anywhere close to as much funding as solar/wind for deploying generation potential, the technology would have rapidly progressed, and today would dominate energy sources.
Ladybird isn't mainstream. So it doesn't count in this list.

Blink (Chromium) and WebKit are also closely related as the former is a fork of the later.

So there are effectively only two "independent" engines.

But in reality there is actually none. Both engines exist through Google money.

Given that most people can't even tell the difference between the internet and the web (hello, Arc developers!) and the web became the new all encompassing platform (like MS Windows was before) we have here a very dangerous concentration of power. Almost all private computing is controlled end-to-end by Google these days.

If Microsoft got almost split up for having way less power Google is long long overdue for a divestiture. Should this ever happen (I suspect the US would not give up control of personal computing all over the world so it's imho unlikely, but if) everybody would recognize quite fast how bad the mono-culture in the browser space really is…
AppHarbor Is Shutting Down
Who remembers when it was DEBUG.COM?
Most of the adult search for meaning cases i’ve met (including myself) comes down to disguising one of these underlying issues:

1. Depression and similar type of disorders. You seek for some “purpose” as a magic pill that will suddenly make your troubles go away.

2. Fear of taking responsibility for your own life and decisions. Sort of a passive infantile position when you subconsciously hope that Santa Claus will finally give you some ultimate gift that will make all major decisions for you and will give you some magical motivation, guidance and answers to major questions out of nothing.

3. Form of addiction when all the usual stimulations like social media, porn, eating, smoking, alcohol etc. are not enough anymore to give you high, but your wise mind blocks you from switching to heavy drugs and masks this as a socially acceptable and even encouraged noble “search for meaning”.

All this doesn’t mean there is no purpose or it cant be found.

But my personal observations suggest, that once you’re out of the games you play with yourself and healthy enough physically — you don’t need a dedicated process for that, it comes more or less naturally.

And usually in a very unique way that can hardly be extrapolated to other people. Despite the opposite view of all those fancy bestsellers that not worth the paper they printed on.

This is the reason you haven’t found yet and ’ll never do any certain final answer, but just tons and tons of materials circling around and never hitting the target.

The best you can count on is to find someone who’s life, values, circumstances, personality are close enough to yours so you get some spark pushing you to your own answers.
Given Sam Bankman-Fried's relation to effective altruism, it's also interesting to read how the EA community is responding to this. For example:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tdLRvYHpfYjimwhyL/...

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yjGye7Q2jRG3jNfi2/...
Recently got on a Vonnegut kick. In one of the books he calls Our Town by Thornton Wilder the best play ever written. So I went and read that. He's right. It's damned good.
He only wanted to become a real boy.
It's due to to technology like Newton from apple. There is nothing u can do about it
Given the high turnover of companies in the Fortune 500 - these big CEOs aren't wrong.

The changing of order is inevitable.
Germany Blocks Two Chip Facility Sales to Chinese Investor
Both are in my top five, but something about Vonnegut’s style gives him the edge in this comparison for me.

Any chance you’ve read any Paul Beatty? His book “The Sellout” shot to the top of my list of funniest books as well, in the same realm as the above when it comes to absurdist comedy.
$118 16TB SSD on Amazon, 4 star reviews mention cuff links and coffee cups
Could totally see it replace tv. It’s just too compelling of a new format. Especially if it the hardware fits in your normal glasses.
How in the world does Amazon allow this
> making them hold the bag when there is fraud means they will be motivated to accurately judge risk and refuse transactions when it is high.

Except I would like to be able to use my own money, please
> Some much for freedom of choice. We the state, decided that you can't be trusted with making decisions about who to transact with, so we mandate that you use a transfer service with arbitration/escrow so you won't be financially harmed.

You say this like these regulations magically just appeared fully formed from the head of Zeus ...

These regulations exists precisely because the fraud was rampant enough that it became a sufficient threat that people would quit using the financial system altogether.
it's intrusive today; ultimately they'll look like a pair of regular glasses. Just like cell phones went from clunky beasts you couldn't even fit in your purse much less pocket, to a watch.
Home devices were a nearer-term alternative, not sure why AR/VR had to be the thing.
>which is to create a human-curated whitelist-only search engine.

You might be interested in watching the series "Halt and Catch Fire".
why couldn't they buy Unity?
Gates personally wrote the embedded BASIC interpreter for the TRS-80 Model 100, among other things. It isn't valid to question his technical "hacker cred."

Pick a different line of attack if you want to slag Gates; there are several others to choose from.
A fun comparison is that Usain Bolt, who literally wins gold medals, is not even a 10x runner: a tenth of his world-record speed 100m works out to a brisk walk.
I just tried it for a few terms that Google found no relevant results for (related to Wasm/Rust); and holys*t there were many results from people (developers) who wrote in their blogs.

I'm a user now, and potentially a customer if I hit their free limit.
> Professor Bankman-Fried is my tutor. He’s as good at explaining the principles of macroeconomics as anyone out there in the world today—and I know this for a fact because I’ve subsequently watched YouTube’s best on the same subject. But SBF teaches me Macro while simultaneously playing round after round of Storybook Brawl.

This stuff is beyond parody. Dude's getting interviewed for a nauseatingly butt-kissing puff piece, and he can't tear himself away from a game targeted at literal children. (He bought the developers and proceeded to cram NFTs into it.)
It appears the science, definitions, and numbers should indicate a recession.

It the USD is the world reserve currency, and it is experiencing the highest inflation in our lifetime (with significant changes to how CPI are calculated). This is also happening while the USD gains strength, blunting inflation in the US.

It is starting to look like the rules used for the last hundred years, governing economic are not applicable at this time.
As someone with social anxiety while I don't mind enabling my camera for 1-on-1 meetings I have noticed I'll often shy away from talking when my camera is on in a large meeting. I really hate that people are probably looking at me and thinking, "what a freak lol".

I generally try to do whatever everyone is doing though... But might be worth noting some people in your team might prefer to have their cameras off for a reason.
What stops us from making , decent quality 20 $ glasses and selling in US for 50 $ max ? (inclusive of shipping, export duties etc)
I agree with your points about high school completion and college enrollment, however I think the reason for the increased difficulty of getting into a school is due to increased competition rather than an increase in absolute standards. A way to test this would be to look at the history of schools that use admissions tests. (I'm thinking of elaborate tests such as at Cal-Tech.)

> The data dont show consistend decline in years where it did not changes, but there are massive drops in scores when the test was recalibrated.

I'm a bit confused about what you are referring to, but I think that by "recalibrated" you are referring to 2011 when they introduced the revised scale. I think I can clear this up by explaining about standardized testing.

The purpose of the GRE, SAT, and some other tests created by the Educational Testing Service is not to measure absolute performance of individuals but relative performance of populations. The goal of test design is to adjust the difficulty of the test to provide maximal discrimination in the tails. So when the average performance of a population changes, they have to adjust the difficulty of the test to keep the results curve in a nice shape. This is what I meant by "recalibration". If they achieve their goals in this, average scores shouldn't change much over the years.
Used textbooks have been cleverly neutralized by the technique of bundling new copies with single-use codes for required online courseware.

Adopting and requiring such courseware is somewhat abusive to students, but instructors are probably trying to save their own time and avoid reinventing the wheel.

Personally I'd be happier if the textbooks and courseware access were sold separately.
The odd piece of this is characterizing VR as a bridge to AR from the user's perspective. An AR that is out of the way when you don't want it is somewhat plausible, but for most people the idea of strapping a VR headset to your face and completely blocking off the outside world is a nightmare. How do you get from one to the other?
Putting a rental in an LLC is very standard advice for anyone buying one. You've clearly made your mind up about this and won't change it if you think PE is buying up all these homes when you linked an article saying 5 public companies with $110 billion in market cap with access to almost unlimited amounts of cash only managed to capture 1.3% of the market.
At the moment Apollo offers a new ‘Apollo Router’ apart from the Apollo Gateway. It’s meant to substitute the Gateway. The Router is written in Rust while the Gateway was a Node.js server.
vassal?
that's a fantastic idea. I've never thought of that!

it's funny, because within 10 minutes of me writing the above I got an email from a recruiter that was addressed to netflix@<mydomain>.com. This is absolute proof that netflix sold my email to a recruiting agency (I had applied to them a while back, but they didn't have an opening on the team I was interested in). Shameful stuff..
My wife is an artist and has been using some of these systems to inspire her own work with clients - she's said it's both given her creative new ideas, and improved her efficiency by about 30%.
The trouble with that is it's a central server which means an IT department to fuss with it.

Better would be something like Excel but that works P2P like SyncThing, or even directly using SyncThing itself.

I don't think it would actually be too hard as long as you didn't need truly realtime collaboration if you used file sync as your backend, and gave up on the 2D sheet model in favor of a table/records model that lends itself to conflict free operations instead of edits to specific numbered cells.
> the truly adversarial case is rare

The problem is not adversarial, or due to malice. The problem is ignorance and expediency driven by a desire to push code and little incentive to cleanup your git history.

The easy fix is to squash PRs.

The hard fix is to enforce that devs become "crafters" and to define what is and isn't "good faith".
I actually talked to Sam for a bit in the "early days" and he always seemed like an OK guy. Approachable and "honest" which makes this all the worse... I kept asking "why start an exchange when you're killing it with Alameda?" and his response seemed to consistently be about wanting to make a better product and legitimize crypto... ugh, don't even know what to think now... if that was all a front.

It's really odd to think because its always "some guy in the news" that gets bad press and demonized (not unjustly), never really someone you "know of." (prob a lot of ppl w/that experience hanging around HN tho, lol)

It's just weird feelings but mostly just "wtf man."
Ftx.com Has Probably Collapsed
Recognizing the technology wasn't going to be available in 10 years in a 10-year plan seems important. But you can't expect that from somebody who might legitimately think building hardware was as easy as hacking software.
I use 1.1.1.1 myself, if cloudflare follows this court order i doubt I'd ever notice.

Despite that, it's absolutely disgusting, and sets a bad precedent. What happens if China/Russia/The USA start demanding blocking of sites that they decide aren't in their own interests?

Part of me is hoping to see a pretty severe response to this from cloudflare, especially since cloudflare was very rational in their appeal and it was completely denied.
Well the `colima start --network-address` lets me ping the VM and to use `--net=host`. Nice!
Good time to try 5G ultra capacity if you have it on an unlimited plan - will be faster than most people's wifi.
Nausea is definitely in the spotlight for John Carmack who’s the progenitor of a shockingly large percentage of all 3D game engines, starting with Doom. He’s a performance tuning genius and nausea has been one of the biggest engineering issues he and his team have tackled. A brilliant CTO cannot make a hard problem go away, but he and his team have been able to move it to a far better place than where it was back when I tried the DK1.

You raise excellent points and it’s plain to see that John’s work has put him at the fore of violent masculine tropes as entertainment. The whole idea of endless slaughter of “evil” humanoids feels a bit more wrong than it used to, and certainly wouldn’t be the mark I want to leave in the world. I’m not calling him an infamous misogynist, but he’s no infamous feminist either. I hope that people keep holding people to account, and I hope for their sakes they don’t intend on leaving behind 15%+ of their market simply due to malicious or incidental ignorance. I hope a lot of things for them though lol.

I did some brief fact checking for this and came across an ancient 4chan screenshot. I debated sharing it but I think it’s good evidence that these discussion has been in the public conscience for a long time:

https://imgur.io/yDqMRxw

Research confirms your concern:

https://venturebeat.com/games/a-survey-about-vr-sickness-and...

If some make decision maker forced an organization to adopt VR and it’s women found it unusable, I would think that ADA would be a route through which there should be grounds for protections and accomplishments.

Frankly, it’s not fully fixed, and it might not be fixable. Our bodies are far more clever than the gods of gaming have presumed. We do proprioception with our toes and ears and sense our surroundings with the tiny hairs on our arms. As long as VR creates dissonance for processing info from the nervous system the more the cerebellum starts to get cranky, and tipsy.
Yeah, excellent idea. Definitely have to delegate and decentralize the verification process if you want something that’ll scale.

And if Musk doesn’t implement this users could perhaps do it themselves with a browser extension where each user verifies those they interact with and deem notable. Then as you scroll Twitter you can see which accounts have been verified by those you follow. Get a Web of Trust situation going on.
Eh, taking venture capital and donating it all to random strangers is pretty altruistic in my book.