skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are actively using passthrough in VRWorkout (to be aware of your surroundings while jumping and knee high running) and I have to say that even the low quality Quest 2 passthrough feels magical for that [1]. If you do look at 0:20 you can see that it really shines when the virtual hands interact with real objects

[1] https://youtu.be/DDwmXsvD-NI
Eiffel Software keeps the lights on for almost 30 years now, given how little many care to pay for their tooling, it seems quite usable to me.
As much as I like questioning the government, let's please keep partisan politics out of HN. It gets tiring to read the same tropes again and again.

Indian government has a long documented history of banning things without much thought and it looks one such case. I hope it gets resolved soon as other users are reporting that they can access it fine.
This isn’t just normal?
Yeah, I think that explainability and safety (e.g. racist, harmful, health related disinformation, etc) will be the huge issues here. Open AI can afford to play fast and loose, but big companies with reputations to protect like Microsoft and Google cannot.
Show HN: Lexverse – Find the Gems You're Looking for in Lex Fridman's Podcasts
This was a cool project. I took the youtube transcripts of Lex Fridman's podcast, created embeddings, stored them on Pinecone and served them via fly.io.

I wanted to see if I could develop an app around semantic search. Originally was going to use OpenAI's new model but ended up using something lighter (I might change it up to see if there is a significant improvement).
It's doable, but it requires a bunch of extra expensive equipment. Most people that want to accomplish that goal just install a battery array instead, since you're spending the money and it also gets you power coverage when the sun isn't shining. But the point stands that the typical grid-tied solar system just turns off when the grid goes down.
Or a missing finger. Those things are pretty nasty to get going without a starter motor. Some of them come with a spring loaded starter, those are a little bit safe, but the ones that you start manually are really nasty.

edit: Hah, that's actually mentioned in the article.
Launching a Graphic Tee Campaign from a Sketchbook
Japan is pretty difficult to integrate into. Aside from the language issue, it is also difficult to integrate socially if you are a foreigner. It's also not the most attractive destination for skilled foreigners to immigrate to given that wages are much better elsewhere. Fixing these issues is more complex than simply increasing visa quotas.
I don't think so. Moving to Fuchsia and producing SoCs with some closed parts will allow any vendor to obsolete any part without any problems. Stopping to provide drivers will make any IC as dead as a well cooked brick.

I think Fuchsia's main aim is to provide Google more control on the Android stack. "We will be able to do things more securely than Linux" reads like "We'll be able to close down devices even more while giving you a sense of openness" to me.

So, Google might be using RISC-V as another way to distance the platform from contemporary hardware/software ecosystem and make it practically harder to tinker/root/exploit beyond their (financial) comfort zone.
This is a thread about an email chain from the author of this article, in which the context of "HBD" is made quite clear. There's no useful parsing to do here. If the term has other, more benign uses, I'm not aware of them, and am not super interested in discussing them; here, to be clear, we're most definitely talking about a malignant meaning.
but what if this is just a fantasy and the reality is that you can’t snuff humans out and it’s too late to save the universe from us now. We’re not here to stay the heat death, we’re accelerating it. Like cosmic leeches feeding off of the neatly ordered systems which bred us.
Oh okay - I think in that case it's possible Hunter would solve your problems. If you rewrite your library to use Hunter, then when it gets pulled in with add_subdirectory(), it should just build and get it's dependencies with Hunter - all from within CMake itself. No external tool necessary (the Hunter functions are defined in the project root `.cmake` file)

I don't see any reason that wouldn't work - but.. you'd have to test it. I've never tried running a Hunterless top-level project with a Hunter-ized subdirectory. The top level project would still get some benefits like the namespaced targets (so you won't clobber anything in top-level)

The only small catch is that Hunter inevitably does build a cache of build artifacts/targets for your dependencies. As long as you keep using the same toolchain files these keep getting reused each time you rebuild your project. That does however mean you will get some user folder like ~/.hunter with those build artifacts (look at the Hunter config options.. maybe this can be somehow hidden in the build directory?). I dunno if that would irritate the project users. If it's company internal that's probably an okay ask. If it's random devs on github then that's a bit not-nice :)
Yes, its the U4320Q.
Decisions i made right after graduation was not working for others and no marriage.

I spend all on myself and find a date easily for a little money.
i don't get this - control-line planes were very popular in the 1960s and were not particularly dangerous. I built and flew a couple of diesel engined ones myself - not very well, it has to be said. the main danger was not getting your fingers out of the way of the prop when you flicked it to start it.

the advent of cheaper radio-control systems kind of saw them off. one of my flatmates in the 70s built a beautiful r/c slope-soaring glider.
Interesting to see the connection of moles and epoxy putty but wish this article was more in depth. The two parts of putties are typically different colors so one can visually tell when they're sufficiently mixed.
It would be nice if epoxies in general (putty and liquid) data sheets had more information on their constituents. For example if an epoxy is 1:1 by volume and you have a scale available what would an equivalent 1:1 by mass/weight be? It's possibly to find out somewhat visually/by trial but would be nice if we could more easily calculate the mass/weight ratios

edit: fwiw in recent experience with 1:1s there's not much of a difference between equal weights/volumes but it could made a large difference on industrial scales
Author here. Some folks wanted the details on pricing.

Pre migration, the Terrateam AWS monthly bill was about $200/mo. With Fly.io, we're paying around $90/mo.
God I first saw lindy here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098353

Still don't know what the fuck it means in regards to diet. The wikipedia page shows a bunch of equations.
The underlying problem is that having kids is sort of irrational, and the strong cultural pressure to do so anyway that used to be there is gone (there's still some pressure, but a far cry from what it used to be).

I say this as a dad: having a kid, especially the first few years, is like having the world's worst second job.

You get paid? No, you pay to have the job! Set hours? No, you're always on call! You might get an occasional break for a few hours, if you pay up for it! Decent working conditions? How does constantly cleaning up shit and piss sound? Ah, but you could get out of it if you change your mind, right? Sure...after your 18 year long contract is up.

Obviously I'm glossing over the emotional angle, but yeah, from a material perspective having kids is fucking dumb, and for all you know spending that time and money with existing friends and family would've actually left you happier overall. It's a big irrational gamble in a lot of ways.

Anyway, you can't fix all of that, but it would be possible for society, via the government, to fix some of it. For example, you could implement subsidies to the point where having kids had a net zero impact on your finances, so that you wouldn't be looking at lowered standard of living or reduced retirement savings from having children.

Of course many would object to this, because culturally we believe that parents should be people who accept a worse standard of living with a smile on their face. That's stupid, of course, which is exactly why birth rates are below replacement in pretty much all the developed world, and beyond. People may be okay with the emotional effort involved in raising children, but telling them to throw away going out as a couple, abandon most of their nicer vacations, blah blah blah isn't gonna sell the idea.
What if I said LOL for "lots of love" instead?
Sounds like a terrible search engine, to be honest. Just the same gamed bullshit we get today with more noise, and harder to distinguish.
But the Big Five Inventory [1] does explicitly ask if subjects consider themselves to sometimes be cold, distant, rude, unkind, selfish, or inconsiderate of others, and these answers are all used to compute their (dis)agreeableness scores. Similar questions also show up in other inventories. So, without even getting into any other behaviors these traits might correlate with, the Big 5 definition of "disagreeable" extends well beyond literally just tending to disagree with others.

[1] https://arc.psych.wisc.edu/self-report/big-five-inventory-bf...
glow plugs are pretty easy to start - stupid question, but you did have a big battery to power the plug?
Why ? So that they can pay dirt cheap wages to desperate workers like Saudi?
The eye test is hilarious - the true test of AR!

But I love my Meta Quest Pro because I love the Oculus 2 for fitness VR and the Pro is incrementally noticeably better

And the humble AR is fantastic for minimal interactions like physically orienting or real world communication in a pinch (ironically!)

it vaguely resembles being there ... because I am?

I have yet to run a Meta social VR or AR app. Too scared I will run into a creepy Zuckertar!!!
FSD is not happening in the sense I mean it but it might in the sense you mean it. I mean “single-lane three-dimensionally-twisty-motorcycles-do-40mph roads covered in literal ice in complete darkness”. Because that’s what a large chunk of driving looks like around here. Even assuming no traffic and perfect understanding of the placement of the vehicle on the road (there’s no technology currently that can do that - no roadside markers, snow everywhere etc.) keeping it moving in the roughly the right direction without crashing would be a miracle of automation. But on a well-maintained California highway - sure, why not.
As far as I'm concerned, every single act of identity theft that occurred after the breach where at least one piece of data leaked in the breach was used, are damages. Sure, it might have happened anyway, but it doesn't really matter which illicit source they got it from it was available anyway.

Just like in an assault/homicide case, if a victim has a heart attack and dies soon after you assaulted them, you can't prove that the attack led to the heart attack. Could just be bad timing. But most courts and juries would likely find the assaulter guilty to some extent.
Perhaps to some extent. But then the extraction becomes more expensive.
The person you're replying to is not sure what they did differently.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3187040/Sudanese-mi...
The problem is in the US they're not 'credit bureaus'. They're largely unregulated and unaccountable for-profit private corporations. Couldn't buy a home or had to pay higher interest rates because one of these private credit reporting companies had inaccurate information on your credit report? Well sucks to be you and the credit reporting company is in no way liable for your loss. The fact that Experian, one of the 'big three' credit reporting corporations in the US, is offering to boost your credit score if you install their app is a damning indictment of how misguided and contrived the US credit rating system is.
This service exists, you know. It's called going to a store and asking.
Delayed acknowledgements are mentioned, but as mentioned in the article, this is only a POTENTIAL issue if you can't fill packets and if BOTH sides are using Nagle's Algorithm (which shouldn't be the case, as mentioned in the article).
Irrespective of whether major search engines might use language models, fake web sites will use them.This could make it increasingly difficult to find valid information and maybe precipitate some sort of arms race between algorithms that detect algorithms

A pathetic scenario but somehow consistent with the rules (or lack thereof) of the game
We'll se how miners react to falling prices and increasing energy costs.
it won't cut off your finger, but it will hurt!
What concerns me about these scams is the ever increasing velocity.
Old timey gambling required cash or collateral. So there was a physical limitation.

Day trading and crypto and freemium games fleece people digitally. It's all ephemeral. What holds people back?

It pains me to buy a lottery ticket, so I've never been tempted by these scams. But I imagine having everything online hacks player's inhibitors. eg I've read rants about how Robinhood and the like weaponize "dark patterns" to loot their players.
It was a predictable move in search engines' continuous goal to control access to information and prevent eyeballs leaving the site (except via paid links) to find the information on their own, e.g. this thread going all the way back to the more tribal Web 1.0 links exchanges based on shared interests rather than data-mining users: https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/108164769201676440
That is also how the legislative process works, and is likely how the Koreans got in to this mess in the first place. Experts at the time identified IE6 and ActiveX as dominating the market and standardised on them^. If the web had converged on IE and ActiveX it wouldn't look as stupid as it does now. Back at the time it was arguably clever, it only looked ill-advised if you were a free-market thinker.

^ The cynic in me cheerfully suggests the experts were probably endorsed by Microsoft, at the time a colossus on the net and world's most successful web browser purveyor. Hard to get better pedigree experts. All recommending that people commit hard to Microsoft technologies.
The answer to these type of questions is almost always let it run its course and in a few generations the gene pool will change to favor people where this is steadily less and less a problem. It is important to note that that is not the correct answer because it is a good answer, it is the correct answer because the alternatives are draconian and terrible to the point of being worse.
and how MS is going to make money from this?
A lot of camera technology that was cost prohibitive a few
years ago is now in every smartphone. Remember 4k video cameras costing >$100k?
Until someone shows me a very detailed video how this works I wouldn't put it in my house. It looks like a nuclear bomb.
Interesting. I did not think of it. Agree that there is no technical barrier.
You're pretending the option is fossil fuels or nuclear like every other concern troll. Never has been because nuclear is incapable of solving the problem.
Also, you just _know_ people would just defer maintenance on this.
I really, really hope that whatever Apple ends up releasing completely wipes the floor with Meta's headsets. They need some real competition to force them to really push the limits.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens if the rumors about Apple's being extremely lightweight are true - it wouldn't be surprising if it is given their tiny but efficient SOC design. This is what will kill Meta if they arent careful. They're about to get a competitor who's able to deliver performance levels significantly higher, and at lower power consumption and weight.
SoftICE Debugger for Windows 11
We are either the cancer or will have a cancer end us.
from the article it seems it's not a true "glow plug" heating element like one may use to start a diesel engine. my impression was the engine is so small the radiant heat of the engine is what causes the fuel to ignite in the chamber - seems tough to start cold
Show HN: I built a simple, hackable Google Home replacement fully in Rust
Fully built in Rust (Yew, Cursive, Rocket, RustEmbed, Sled)
Easily extensible
Compiles to single binary
Only needs a Raspberry Pi Zero (or others) and a 15$ display
Widgets can be configured by the user via a web interface
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There's a well known phenomenon that everyone appends "reddit" to their search results as otherwise there's too much SEO garbage. The thing with search engines is you can actually tell how good they are by comparing a few queries.
It's a tragedy of the commons situation.

Society at large benefits from a stable, ongoing population. But the burden of keeping that going obviously falls much moreso on parents than non-parents. You can try to even things out more via subsidies, but non-parents will quickly start objecting, even if they're materially still better off than parents.

It used to be cultural pressure, combined with kids being not as materially demanding, meant that people had kids anyway. Obviously less true today.
Just so I understand correctly - the fact that the cameras are places a couple of inches in front of where you're actual eyeballs are causes a lot of discomfort? And so you need to warp the camera feed to look like it should from your eyeball's perspective?
I recognize this StackOverflow user name. I have read many of their answers. They are usually excellent.

See more here: https://stackoverflow.com/users/50617/employed-russian
>> ChatGPT (and presumably soon CoPilot) learn via * Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback*

Technically, they aren't trained that way, their opposite recognition AI is trained that way. That's less than ideal when their original set of training data aren't drawn from their own output, only from a pool of humans influenced by their output. It becomes suicidal to the AI when it begins consuming its own output through what it considers to be trusted channels.

[edit] The ancient coder phrase "garbage in, garbage out" has never been more significant than now in the context of what's fed into neural nets and ML algos. I think it's basically silly hubris sprouting from a lack of underpinning technical understanding when people assert these models will train themselves without much more extreme means of assessing their output than can be provided by a few minimum wage workers somewhere.
>as this is likely to happen again with Python 4

Apparently there will be no Python 4 [1].

>The idea of having to test a language seems weird, either the interpreter runs, or it doesn't. Why should the Linux Distribution have their fingers in it?

Sorry if this was not clear - not testing the language (although you'd need to make sure the standard library works properly for anything with C bindings), but that the interpreter runs properly under each new version of the Debian operating system.

Debian would have to build and package the Python2 binary and related stuff from upstream. There are no Python2 vendor-supplied Linux binaries or deb packages. Officially continuing support would also include having to provide patches in case of security issues etc., fixing any breakage (I'm not sure what Python depends on but I have had friends suffer breakage between versions of Debian with newer versions of glibc and so on), etc.

>Also, why does an interpreter need security updates?

Things like this issue in Python's sockets library[2]:

"Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string. "

There have been a number of vulns for Python itself over the years [3]. Not aware of any for the last version of Python2 but that may be simply for lack of attention given it's EOL and in theory everyone should have migrated to Python3 by now.

>You should be able to run any random program in a safe and secure manner, no matter how evil it is.

>It's the lack of capability based security that is the real problem with Linux.

Perhaps, and things like SELinux help, but it does not change the reality that someone has to maintain the software when these issues do show up.

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/programming-languages-w...

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-1912/

[3] https://www.cvedetails.com/version-search.php?vendor=Python&...
How it's possible that delayed acks and nagle's algorithms are both defaults, anywhere? Isn't this a matter of choosing one, or another?
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Yes, a few days ago there was a story in HN that went mostly ignored: “G-3PO: A Protocol Droid for Ghidra” https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/g-3po-a-protocol-droid-f...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34161642

That’s a script for the reverse-engineering tool Ghidra that uses GPT-3 to de-compile machine code and to write plain English explanations of what a piece of code does.

The article is quite detailed and describes both its capabilities and its limitations.
That G-3PO script is open source, MIT license: https://github.com/tenable/ghidra_tools/tree/main/g3po

There was also another HN story about what at first sight looks like an alternative implementation of the same idea: “GptHidra – Ghidra plugin that asks OpenAI Chat GPT to explain functions”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165291

This one is more recent and lacks that good write-up mentioned above. The script is smaller and it seems to have fewer features.

I suggest checking both of them.
I had one of these in the 80s, a P-51 Mustang.

I vaguely recall it being annoying to start, but was with my dad so he definitely helped with getting it going. We had a bunch of soccer fields behind where we lived, so we flew it there to avoid any accidents.

It did eventually crash, but was fun while it lasted.
I'm sure most kids aren't big on personal protective equipment but seems with some gloves it wouldn't be too bad to start. This reminds me of a "friction welding" toy set from around the 70s/80s that was featured on HN a few months ago, which may seem potentially more dangerous without experience on either
Which books or courses to recommend to beginners for learning coding in 2023?
Apart from CS50 and MIT's intro to python course, which books or courses do you think will be suitable enough to be recommended to beginners wanting to learn programming with high school knowledge of algebra and a bit of calculus?

The books/courses are just get them up to pace so that they can start building their own projects after that?