skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of work to save $200 not buying a retro-printer HAT and Pi, but more fun too.
Apple is a generally more well run, mature, patient, and scrupulous company than most others.
As I mentioned above, I recommend avoiding Ubuntu because it violates the principle of dev - prod parity. For any significant scale, Ubuntu will be left in the dust. Don't rely on system packages, build your own stream of minimal vendored (/opt/company) dependencies and keep them current because defaults are always old and don't consistently apply necessary patches for bugfixes and functionality.

https://quay.io/repository/centos/centos
soo, this is the question that keeps bugging me

> basic instructions without the fake history and 17 ads

if this were ever to be truly commercialized as a mainstream source of information, do you think that whoever runs this will forego the trillion-dollar opportunity to still show you 17 ads? purely out of goodness of their heart?

In addition to that, at least a tiny fraction of those 17 ads' revenue went to the people who actually create recipes. In the brave new world, why would anyone bother putting out information if this chat middle-thing charges its users but doesn't ever pay to creators?
There's also the benign explanation of "coincidence".
RaiBo: A versatile robo-dog that runs through a sandy beach at 3M/s
arc4random() has existed to produce cryptographically random values for well over a decade (and despite the name, on Mac at least is not rc4 based and I assume Linux is the same). Additionally windows and Darwin/xnu have API to get large arrays of random values and I again will just assume Linux does too. This library should not be doing anything other than wrapping the specific api provided by the host platform.
I use Mermaid to visualize all sorts of processes, so this is very interesting.

Some immediate feedback:

- ability to name the node ID, because now the Mermaid output is hard to read and edit

- more shapes (diamond, circle, etc.)

- text on connection

- shortcut to connect with a node after one is staged for connection (didn't find one at least)

- ability to select connections with keyboard

- shortcut to delete the selected connection (now you need to click Disconnect, the shift+delete doesn't seem to work)

The layout gives me Excel vibes: what if these nodes could export values and do computation? Like, the Apple Income Statement example, but dynamic. This combined with an ability to export a snapshot as a Mermaid diagram, it would be great to explain business cases, etc.
> I have no real interest in it for gaming though. And VR is unappealing compared to AR.

Let’s see if Apple is able to change your mind this year if they release their MR headset. Unlike Meta, Apple historically focuses on applications first instead of games.

Apart from that, AR has even more hurdles to solve than VR, especially cost. To give you an idea, Apple’s upcoming $3000 MR VR headset is “cheap” compared to its delayed AR headset.
>"educate those who are not in that first highly selective pool of people how to be good citizens"

My answer to blessed self appointed "teachers": how about fuck you? We'll "figure how to be good citizens" on our own.
Yep. How many people talked about a song they don't like, then signed into youtube and saw... not that song, so they didn't post about it.
Google has the focus of a crack addled flea and has products that aren’t profitable and people working on them - including probably 4 new messaging apps simultaneously.

Facebook predicted that it would lose billions in potential revenue because of Apple making tracking optional.

Microsoft is basically just cutting employees that are on products that it doesn’t care about anymore.

You can say what you will about Apple. But no one can accuse Apple of a lack of focus on profitable product lines.
You mean there are places not like that???? What have I been doing with my life
Indeed. This gives rise to the triumph of robotomorphism over anthropomorphism, i.e. HR as human robots.

It's easier to hire humans that act like robots than to design robots that act like humans. Robots have an uncanny valley described on wikipedia, that, when reversed, leaves us with a robot-centric human critique:

In aesthetics, the uncanny valley is a hypothesized relation between a human's degree of resemblance to a robot and the emotional response to the human. The concept suggests that humans that imperfectly resemble actual robots provoke uncanny or strangely familiar feelings of uneasiness and revulsion in observers. "Valley" denotes a dip in the human observer's affinity for the robotic human, a relation that otherwise increases with the human's robot likeness.

Inspired by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
https://medium.com/@jannaq/the-robot-takeover-is-already-her...
> I've learned most the theory behind my current profession from the internet

These things rarely violate copyright law. They're usually something written that was intended to be educational. The scope of a human's ability to ingest information is also limited.

ChatGPT can ingest millions of lifetimes of information, and it doesn't give ad dollars or subscription money to anyone who created those things.
Your comment makes clear you didn't read the guy you replied to, and I'm not sure it would've been in good faith even if you had, so I'm not going to spend time writing a full response.
Every time I hear about JPL Qian Xuesen comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen.
You're spot on about simplicity, and it's the reason AWS may not remain the top cloud provider for much longer. There is no effort to implement any sort of consistency across their famed two-pizza teams -- that wouldn't be "Day one". So each service has its own IAM quirks, making basic security at scale a nightmare, and in some cases impossible.

Azure policies are comparatively a breeze, making it the smart and increasingly obvious choice for any regulated (read: large) corporation.
Usually I like to hike from the valley floor to the top of one of the foothills. Some trail maintenance along the way if there have been storms (gave the sak saw a workout today).

Try to get to the top in 45m or less, call out on some simplex frequencies on a radio or antenna I've been wanting to try, see who comes back.

On the way home I do some journaling by talking into my phone, usually feels really good.

At home, isometric exercises, push-ups, dips, kata, pull-ups, dancing, weights, whatever sounds interesting. Skills included, even random stuff, like I've found that tossing erasers or badminton birdies into an old peanut butter jar is a good skill exercise and my kids usually join in.

Needs: Figure out how to do wargaming on the floor without getting cramped up... Getting old. Lol

Benefits...IDK. It helped me lose like 100lbs, 36% of bodyweight or so. Nurses always ask if my resting pulse is normal since it's in the low 40s. That's been funny...

...but none of this is worth it in isolation, unless I'm excited by what I'm doing, or thinking about, etc. Has to be all around interesting. I'm always trying out new gadgets on my hikes for example.

https://twitter.com/systematikk/status/1072960631916027904?t...
Is a Lua that compiles to C anywhere near as useful as a JIT Lua? I thought one of the major use cases for the language was run-time scripting. Am I misunderstanding?
> And it's a pretty bad point because it only works if you constrain yourself to head-mounted (including battery) standalone devices. The article gives a nod to other ways of doing it, but otherwise ignores them for all its main arguments.

The article isn’t a complete survey of the entire field, it’s talking specifically about the most popular approaches and extrapolating what the author believes a breakthrough popularity device will look like. It does mention other options such as Apple’s rumored support devices or how industrial applications can take advantage of their environment. The challenge here is price: these systems are expensive and getting people to buy them means they either need to be cheap (impossible) or give a lot of value, and companies are assuming that means something you can easily move around in and use for long periods of time (not many people are going to set up a VR room, buy a headset and sensor array, and a pricey PC).

While it’s true that it doesn’t need to be perfect, some of the hard problems spoil the illusion - people get sick or suspension of disbelief fails - and it has to be enough better than the widespread mainstream entertainment systems to justify the much greater cost. Currently we haven’t hit the point where many people, even many self-described fans, use these systems heavily and that makes it an expensive hobby.
I like to refer to this system that is always listening as The Daemon because I like to assume it has a commen backend. Also lookup the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez it is pretty great
When do you ever want that symmetry?
>Do we an in-depth analysis done somewhere that proves / disproves the theory of an actual microphone / STT being used either in Android / iOS itself or by a running app?

For mobile, actual voice processing (i.e., not just hotword detection) would have some kind of telltale higher-than-baseline resource consumption. Whether CPU, disk, memory, battery, or network. Processing voice has to happen somewhere, and it takes resources to either do it on-phone or ship it off elsewhere (either immediately or later).
My first step is to learn the data model for the application. Then everything starts to make sense as code to read/write/present that model.
Today: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS50146623
> Law is different because the bar has a legally enforced monopoly on doing legal work.

I don't see how this would decrease DoNotPay's liability.

Regardless of how you feel about the bar, I don't think that changes anything about who they would sanction or why. Having a legal monopoly means they're even less likely to go along with a "the AI did it, not me" explanation than a normal market would be.

I mean, no matter what, they're not sanctioning the AI. They don't recognize the AI as a person, they recognize it as a tool that a person/organization is using to perform an action.
Good for billionaire lords not employees.

Coinbase on the other hand is very employee friendly in terms of liquidation. Their employees are rich as fuck with direct listing (no lockup) at the height of the market.

Just think about it.

Coinbase, who is ridiculed for being apolitical, treats employees better than Stripe.
Not a fan of violently modifying the system outside of the package manager either.

rm -rf isn't configuration management, it's system entropy increasing leaving users scrambling to reinstall the world.

If people don't want docs, then distro vendors should package them separately and make them recommended packages.
I disagree: There IS plenty of room and resources (more than enough really) if people can figure out how to live ecologically, in efficient high-density cities. However, if they all want to live like suburban Americans with giant gas-guzzling SUVs and highways and McMansions, all powered by fossil fuel, there's nowhere near enough resources for 8 billion people to live like that.
What an incredible sound!

This is exactly the kind of crazy hobby project I love to see on Hacker News.
Its not even proven science that we evolved from apes
A couple of the most popular hits from 30 years ago. Are you sure you didn’t hear them on some advert recently? Seems less likely that Google discovered your obscure love for Nirvana from a conversation you had.
Most university libraries have a proxy bookmarklet. Go to site with paywall > hit bookmarklet > login > no paywall. zotero will even detect this bookmarklet and run it automatically after you've used it the first time for a given site. It even works for stuff like using your university library's access to newspapers like nyt. At this point if you are going to r1 you have access to everything under the sun.
No you and other nonbelievers are misunderstanding the word "full." It's not called wholly full self-driving so it's on you for assuming that instead of half full or partly full self-driving.
This is fantastic. This is what we do on our platform. + Copy and keep what worked and what did not so you can fine tune :)
https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

The eff articulates it better than I ever could. Those alternative services will also fail to exist without section 230.
I saw that it was from sourceforge and never even bothered clicking so as to not give them traffic. Will the taint ever leave Sourceforge? I think not, they squandered any good will forever.
owned by the man
If you look at the headcount growth chart, it looks like they just didn't overhire in the first place.
https://techpp.com/2023/01/25/tech-layoffs-apple-2023/

> Amazon, for instance, hired about 780,000 people during the pandemic. Meta, too, had more than doubled its staff in this period, going from about 40,000 to 87,000. Even Microsoft had hired about 77,000 people just before the pandemic.

> Apple, in comparison, is believed to have hired under 20,000 people during the period of the pandemic.

Can't layoff people you didn't hire.

Besides, if they lay anyone off, it'll be through retail (already happening in their third-party channel sales staff, who are employed by Apple but work in stores like Best Buy) and eventually retail closures when/if they can do it without being accused of more union-busting.
Elasticsearch in later versions has done quite a lot in terms of memory reduction. Last section of https://www.elastic.co/blog/three-ways-improved-elasticsearc... but it has been an ongoing effort in multiple of the later 7.x and and 8.x releases.
What’s interesting is that it’s rumored that Apple is going to sell its upcoming VR headset at cost. I could be wrong, but I don’t feel that this has ever happened with Apple before.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/apple-rea...
Violent crime in general is dominated by men who have faced "major life stressors"; it's just a fact of life that is unlikely to ever change. Men are much more likely to react to heavy stress violently, and struggle to both find and accept help.

Finding men who may be going down a dark path is a good first step, but genuinely helping such individuals (beyond trite therapy) is challenging. I suspect the problem is only going to get worse as society becomes more and more isolating.
Yes, it happens way too often to be a coincidence. I talk about different topics with friends, they end up on my Youtube feed, not sure how. But I use iphone and a mac though.
By the number of comments here, I imagine not.
>"Compiled to C"

Must be fun to debug generated C code.
Teams creates knowledge siloes which is worse than Slack. Every company I have used ends up with people creating various "Teams" and channels under them, then everyone just creates group chats all the time because it's easier.
You can run Kubernetes on mainframes as well as Linux, so developing for mainframes has become easier these last 20 or so years.
If your master password has enough entropy, you're safe with 1 iteration. It's not a great idea, and what "enough" is can be ambiguous. But if your master password is provably 70 bits of entropy or so, you should be fine.

But it's probably easier to just change your passwords anyway. At this point I wouldn't be suprised if the story gets even worse somehow.
I don't think AR/VR will ever take off, mostly because it seem's impossible (yes I'll go on a limb and use that word) to fit a supercomputer in a pair of glasses, as Zuckerberg put it.

We're currently seeing the tail end of progress in transistor technology, evidenced by chip fabs now costing 10s of billions of dollars each, smaller improvements between transistor nodes, and so on. This is a huge obstacle and something which these AR/VR companies just have to hope and pray TSMC will indefinitely, magically overcome.

At the same time, consumer expectations are continuing to increase year after year. We're so picky now about screen pixel densities, color gamut, contrast, refresh rate, etc compared to 10 or even 5 years ago. No doubt in 5 years our expectations will be much higher.
I don’t think Apple went on a hiring spree like the rest of the tech giants during the pandemic, but there is still time for even Apple to start cutting jobs.
Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
Plenty of researchers are opting to publish in open access journals instead. Cell press journals will let you publish open access these days, for example.
That defeats the entire point of VR. It’s like limiting the number of digital copies of a game for sale. It’s nonsensical.

The reality is that now everyone can have their own private movie theater to watch sports games or whatever they want, if they have a headset.
Intel Sunsets Network Switch Biz, Kills RISC-V Pathfinder Program
I would call writing one of the most underrated skills overall, not just for successful people. In fact, I'd extrapolate "write" to "communicate" since the same thing applies to the spoken word, not to mention other ways of communicating (except that speaking and writing are probably the most commonly used).

I'm constantly amazed at how bad some relatively smart people are at writing in particular, let alone communication in general. Getting good at writing is hard, and takes lots of practice.
That whole video watched like an ad, it made me sick.
Do reproducible builds even matter if you're building/linking and executing a binary on the same system?

The biggest benefit seems to be in making it infeasible/dangerous for a malicious actor to distribute binary versions containing different behavior from the published source.

On a local machine, when and with what would you compare your binaries?
Graphs here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34448103
True… the Atari 2600 was released in Sept 1977 and used a 6502 variant. The 6502 was released in late 1975 by MOS Technology, but I don’t think any sold until 1976.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Introduc...
Memory management is hard. Thread safety is hard. Go (and Java, Python, …) pushes the complexity of the former to a GC, which has its own drawbacks. Few popular languages actually tackle the latter - most languages have safety problems there such as race conditions (in Go, Python, Java, etc.)

This is not to deny that Rust also has other sources of complexity. But, most of Rust’s complexity can be traced to its fundamental goals of safety and performance. If you’re willing to sacrifice one of those, there are much simpler and easier languages to use.
Thinking Fast and Slow Reading Notes
Considering natural selection is rarely wasteful at the species level, must've been some nasty predators to evolve that much armor.
Google can reasonably infer people that live together based on billing addresses, location, etc. If your roommates pay particular attention to certain media (a video, a song, etc), it's more likely to show up on your recommended media.

In this post, chances are that Google classed each user as being socially close and based its recommendations on that. It's uncanny, but with how much Google data has, eavesdropping is unnecessary for this use case.
People in academia know the game with the top impact factor journals, and they understand that there is plenty of great science that occurs outside of those journals.
Time math and 32 bit longs
Well it's not surprising since the company changed it's frickin name to "Meta". Regardless I'm pretty sure the parent's were all referring to Meta's Horizon worlds.

> Metaverse is literally just AR and VR over the internet

Not really, that's way to vague, it's come to mean something more specific. VR games existed first on VR and they are just games, often over the internet, they are much like games on PCs and Consoles but with an extended human interface and perception.
This is my point. Japanese people can have multiple citizenships but in order for a foreigner to gain Japanese citizenship, they must renounce at least one of their other citizenships to fulfil the "single citizenship" criteria.
I read articles like this and then understand why the average person thinks that Bill Gates implanted a chip in them via the covid vaccine.

To anyone who has worked on mobile devices or ad tech, this sounds as silly as your uncle telling you about the covid chip and how vaccines cause heart attacks.
Could easily be a correlation thing, rather than a causation thing.

It would not be hard to believe that the friends were talking about the songs because they're trending as "90's throwback" or whatever, and then YouTube suggested those songs because they're trending.
Yet another cherry picked attempt at music gen with a "demo" page that only contains the outputs that happen to not sound like incoherent noise. There's a reason ChatGPT and Midjourney are so popular, but no music-gen tools have even come close: you can actually create stuff with them that is useful and/or enjoyable. Good music gen is much harder, and the reasons for this (still unclear) are pretty important to the future of AI, imo.
I just popped in to mention that part. It kinda feels like when Dalle generates text - like from a distance you recognize it, but it is utterly gibberish. It's interesting because there are certain parts of machine generated outputs we zero in on - for image generation it's typically eyes and, if it has it, text. It will be interesting to watch what evolves as tell-tale sign for computer generated things.
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They're animated GIFs, which were an extension of the longstanding format and predate CSS
I mostly agree with you on this, although I do think in the case of modern China to be intellectually honest one has to be careful to not attribute all the good things to capitalism and all the bad things to communism.
So these tech giants just happened to all do layoffs around the same time. What a coincidence. Almost like they are organized against their workers.
I think they mean it's 30% higher than 'market'. I've seen article stating that Stripe's current internal valuation is like 60B or so. That valuation might be what they're referring to.
> I don't think AR/VR will ever take off, mostly because it seem's impossible (yes I'll go on a limb and use that word) to fit a supercomputer in a pair of glasses, as Zuckerberg put it.

It’s never wise to say something is impossible unless it breaks laws of physics. Computing wise, it’s already possible to stream a PC wirelessly to a VR headset either right now from a local network or even the cloud in the very near future. I mean we’re already streaming AAA Xbox games to phones now.
I think it a problem of size. Having worked in a big tech company before, I saw first hand how sometimes inefficacy can creep in. It's very hard to execute quickly in new areas once a company gets too big. Size, bureaucracy and politics can reduce the speed of decision making.

Another issue is sometimes big companies don't feel the need to push too hard in one area. Open AIs survival depended entirely on their execution and delivery of GPT. It's very possible that Google would have killed off a GPT like project in it's early stages because it has many other streams of revenue. They can afford to kill of a 1M revenue business cause its merely a rounding error. See https://killedbygoogle.com/
>And most "proper" journals don't charge you (the authors) a fee to publish

I've not noticed this in biology. Most journals charge a couple thousand to publish. The only exception I can think of are the plos journals. And they also never ever pay you to review.
Realtime collaborative filtering using proximity transmission. :B
I sense this Apple positivity in the news cycle will fade next week when the earnings report comes out.