skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've seen many of these clever VR headsets do extra stuff that I don't care about, like allow you to look around a virtual cinema or see other virtual people who might want to virtually watch a movie with me or some nonsense.

That's kind of the selling point of a VR headset, yes. That's the sort of functionality that got most people interested in it.

> I don't want any of that. As the adjacent commenter surmised, I just want a television strapped to my head.

This product category has existed for decades, eg:

https://www.amazon.com/I-O-Display-iTheaterN-I-Theater-Displ...

It should be possible to find an HDMI version somewhere.

I don't think they ever got any traction, because this particular use case is so limited, but I'm sure they can still be found somewhere (try ebay, or look for cheap chinese brands taking advantage of interest in VR)

That said, IMO the best solution available is the Quest 2. I don't think you'll just find another headset that's going to be affordable and have a good image quality. The hardware in it is excellent.

It does all the VR stuff you don't want, but all you seem to need is a video playback app that will make sure to keep the image in front of your face regardless of head position.

You won't have company if you don't want it to, the included app simulates an empty cinema except for yourself in it.
Google Glass, Google Car, Google Plus...

Its always the same pattern. A lot of pre-release advertisment, followed by a release of a beta version and another press release declaring the end of the product.

At this point, I wouldn't adopt any Google offering because I sort of expect by default it will go away in 6 months or 12.
Not only it makes the food taste better, but if a human or any other multicellular animal does not ingest daily enough chlorine in chloride form a quick death is certain.

Chlorine, as chloride, is absolutely necessary for the control of the pH and of the osmotic pressure of the extracellular water contained in the body of animals.

Moreover, chlorine, as chloride, is necessary for the digestion of the food and for killing most of the microbes ingested together with the food (by making acidic the interior of the stomach).

The plants need much less chlorine than the animals, but nonetheless a very small amount of chlorine is absolutely necessary for photosynthesis, being bound in the structure of the Photosystem II, which splits the water, releasing free dioxygen.
Your corporate memphis girl splash-art is holding a puzzle piece that can clearly never fit. The subtle negative implications of that really sat with me.
Sad to hear it, but not too surprising with how little advancements Microsoft seems to have made in the space since the first release of HoloLens.

I'm sure AR will be back eventually, maybe all the factors align next time.
Me neither. Can someone explain the rules? (What do the red and blue tiles mean? How do you play?)
That’s not what people on the left are saying, it’s what liberals are saying. Not the same thing.
Those I expect will be double letter and triple letter tiles. You get double or triple the points for the letter on the tile.
Addition to the replies before mine, even if you could use CF - it's a joke, it's easily bypassable and there's tons of methods to do it (i.e. the most common we used is huge botnets with simply emulated browsers sending tons of req/s, and that's just the 'public' one, there's tons of private ones we used to write ourselves that were much complex but needless as the one I mentioned before worked just fine)
>The only downside is that some websites use web fonts as a replacement for iconography, putting random words alll over the place when you disable web fonts. I wish I could just whitelist icon fonts while still disabling designer cruft.

Yeah, I browse with a lot of NoScript and other blockers, and icon fonts often turn into little square boxes of "cant' display" or wierd characters. If the designers had actually put something on it that said what the icon meant, eg "share on twitter" or "about us" well, that would have been pretty useful.

It strongly implies a lack of testing, using semantic markup, and not complying with accessibility standards ... which makes for a poorer experience for many people, and a loss of machine-readability (isn't SEO important anymore?)
No restaurant is going to remember my face forever over a simple payment dispute.
Double Letter, Triple Letter (I think). It triples the amount of points you get for the letter that is on it. So try to put valuable letters on that spot.
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Triple Letter score and Double Letter score.

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scrabble/Rules

A simple search on your search engine of choice would have yielded the answer.
We are long, long way off from that. Much more likely that society collapses because of climate change or war first.
It is valuable, just not that valuable. It is not their moat.

Their moat is the mountain of dockerfiles out there, referencing thousands of images in Docker's repo. Nobody wants to redo all that work (repo setup, scripts, and images) if they can avoid it.

That's the silliness of this move: they are forcing people to pay up or do that work. People will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying, so there is a serious risk that they will do the work; and once they're gone, they're gone.
Is it possible to include all the fonts on the site? I know this kind of goes against the point ('cause it's supposed to showcase that offline fonts are cool!), but this is one of the cases where I might to exclude one of the fonts in a stack. I wouldn't be sure where to test that the whole stack looks as I'd expect it.
TL - Triple Letter. Letter value x 3
DL - Double Letter. Letter value x 2

Is this what you were looking for?
Anti-intellectualism in USA is apparently total now.
Crimea and Donbas had been a domestic affair of Ukraine before 2014, but Russia ignored that out of position of power.

This issue will be in the end again decided by power.
I wouldn't hold your breath either, Google shut down their attempt.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613214/everyday-robots-...
Err, weird take.

With the forenote that I'm opposed to slavery, British companies and wealthy individuals purchased (or owned) copper from Welsh mines (or some other commodity) which they traded in Africa with African nations in exchange for humans (who were purchased already 'enslaved') and then either further traded in the Americas to plantations or used directly in plantations owned.

eg:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/uncomfortable-...

This was a large and complex business enterprise and didn't involve formal enslavement by the British Government.

The Abolition referenced above was the British Government outlawing slavery within its territories and by its citizens - as an act of Government it was only supported on the promise of slave owners (which included nice little old widowed grannies of modest means with a 2/6 th share in a slave left by an uncle) being recompensed for their forfeited property.

The funds that flowed to former British slave owners went on to establish canals, factories, rail lines, develop colonies in Australia, etc.
Very well put. It's crazy to me that I, a software engineer, can earn 10x more from working a very chill 8 hour day in my pyjamas from home writing some software that's interesting to me but not very important for the world, while my buddy delivers letters and packages for minimum wage on his bike.
Mate he's welcome to not respond. No privacy has been violated unless OP decides to respond.

Presuming innocence is for the court and legal systems. I am neither.

I am not forcing him to answer and I will of course respect the decision if he doesn't want to.
Thanks for the feedback! Triple and double letter score. I've just changed now so it says it explicitly
GPT 5 will learn how to create microchips it can run on and the ones after will concentrate on optimization.

And GPT 10 will be the last release because Microsoft.
The point of my comment was that there are implications for the human body with the rotational artificial gravity. The video sums it up pretty nicely with a live experiment in 6min.

Keyword: Coriolis (pseudo)force
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force is a joke.
If you mean the anecdotes related to >used to fry lil hetzner servers for fun<

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/ddos-for-hire-service-we...

should be enough
A non answer / misdirection here may be to not go for tacking on malware detection to an already malware prone / hostile operating system, and rather start in a better position by using something like grapheneos.
Having more control over what happens on the system is important to get malware in the first place.
I imagine even more secure OSes will be coming out soon based on Rust, etc but the last time I checked GrapheneOS was a decent choice.
The main difference is that Stallman is absolutely terrible at promoting that philosophy.

Doctorow (not too familiar with Stephenson) has IMO done far more to sell people on the goals of freely accessible technology by actually showing off examples of this stuff going awry and ways humans have managed to work around it and what the solutions could be (while leaving the actual solution up to the reader as to what best fits them).

Stallman/the FSF on the other hand has spend the past 2 decades complaining about shit nobody cares about (GNU/Linux is and will always be the dumbest hill to die on), rethoric that mostly exists to promote the GNU projects nonsense (anyone remember their "ethical git servers", which conspicuously only approved Savannah as a "GNU seal of approval", and only because they couldn't get gitlab to load with librejs) or writing stuff that just... doesn't reach the masses because it relies on a lot of charged language.

Doctorow presents the same broad stroke points that led to GNU Free Software, but actually knows how to explain them in a way that reaches out to people. Stallman preaches to the choir.
According to [1], they trained an LLM on legal Othello moves, and 1) it got an error rate of 0.01% 2) when they analyzed its network, they found a model of an Othello board 3) when they modified the in-network model, it started generating moves legal in the modified board position.

In other words, the LLM did build an internal model that contained the rules of Othello merely from seeing legal moves. It's reasonable to assume that the same thing is happening (at least to some degree) with LLMs based on human speech.

[1] https://thegradient.pub/othello/
What would you have done as president in that moment? Sign this bi-partisan bill or not sign it? (Strike through $250M and write in $125M and sign that is not an option.)

I find it hilarious when the executive branch (of either team red or team blue) gets blamed for faults which plainly and obviously stem from the legislative branch.
> There's a scam going around targeting teenage boys that I don't see people talking about.

Its not just teenagers, they target older men. I get requests on whatsapp from profiles with an attractive woman's display pic. I sometimes accept these requests and chat with them. They all want to have a video call on whatsapp.

I have never done any video calls with these scammers but their end goal is to have a video call where the woman might be wearing revealing clothes or even nude, get a screenshot where your face is on the call and then blackmail you, if you dont pay up that screenshot will be sent to your contacts.
> There's only one government responsible for the war and needless deaths and that is Russia.

Well, we as Westerners have some responsibility too. We decided we preferred more war (and more deaths) rather than have some regions of Ukraine called Russia now.
Tap the letter to place them down. If what you put down is a real word it should tell you how many points you score.

Each letter has a number on, that's the score for using it.

DL and tl are double and triple letter tiles respectively. You get double or triple the points.

I'm not sure if they added it but in the real game you'd get 50 bonus points if you use all your letters.
True. But is optimism wholly inappropriate ? One hopes not.
Google says: "In 2022 there were estimated to be approximately 3.32 billion people employed worldwide"

A billion people losing their job would be massive.
I haven't added the bonus 50 points but maybe I should?
If you're lucky enough, you can buy coffee and cocaine for 10 Euros:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61343037
I don't buy it. The idea that automation reduces overall employment needs to die in a ditch. It's just not true. Look around you, we live in a world that's automated up to the eyeballs compared to any previous generation, yet employment is as high as it's ever been. In fact it's substituted for domestic labour and has allowed generations of women to go to work and build careers, and hundreds of millions of rural labourers have been drafted into industrial work forces in my lifetime. As automation has expanded, the demand for labour has grown voraciously.

These LLMs are incredibly smart compared to humans in some ways, but they're incredibly stupid in other ways. They're just another tool, and tools need users. Hopefully they will be another big force multiplier in knowledge based industries, but this will increase demand for knowledge workers, because they will become more valuable due to being more productive from having better tools.

If better knowledge tools reduced demand for the people using them, Moore's Law and the availability of ever more sophisticated software would have ravaged employment in the IT industry. But that's just not how that works.

It's based on the assumption that when a worker becomes more productive, that the only effect that has is reducing the amount of work there is for others to do, but that's an incredibly naive view. In fact it also dramatically reduces the cost of that work being done and increases the capacity of the organisation to do work. This increases demand for that work, it makes that labour more skilled, and increases profits thus stimulating investment. Yes there can be localised negative effects in some cases, sure. Ive seen some of those myself, but any economic realignment can have it's pains. Taking into account all the positives it increases the value of the economic activity overall.
well at the surface level it might seem a bit strange, but when thinking a little bit about it, it makes total sense. your buddy can simply only deliver so many packages and letters in a day, impacting a few hundred people or so. Sure, its valuable, and required, but still.

You can write software that millions that each are enriched as much, possibly more than the package delivery your friend does. As such, you simply can command a much higher salary
If you are using containerd then you might find the "hosts" section of the configuration file useful: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/host...

You could mirror the images to another registry of your choosing and then use containerd configuration as a stopgap until you update all of your `FROM`/`image` fields.
Hah, dang!
U.S. Threatens Ban If TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes
> Experts in the fields have been predicting that since the invention of computers, so we're closing in on 100 years of "trust me bro it's just around the corner"

Even that's true, simple extrapolations on raw computing power make the 15 - 25 year estimate realistic. That was definitely not the case 100 years ago.

> AGI won't build a house

Are you sure? Computers are already a indispensable tool when it comes to planing something like a building. Without computers the planing would be much more labor intensive and much less safe.

And when it comes to the physical building: The branch of robotics for application on construction sides is more or less exploding the last few years. It won't take long and a lot of work on a building site can be almost fully automated.

> AGI won't pick up your trash

Well, actually cleaning robots are the first "serous AI powered robots" that start to show up in more and more average households. And even "simple" vacuum cleaner robots need quite some AI…

So AI way below AGI is already picking up the trash; and that's just the beginning.

> AGI won't mine your lithium, &c.

It won't? I'm not sure.

AI helps already to find new mining sites.

Also like with construction sites mining is something that gets automated more and more with every year passing.

All the dangerous and labor intensive but profitable tasks get automated first. That's a clear trend throughout history.

I myself am very skeptical on the current AI hype. Though I'm very sure our AI Overlords are coming, and this will happen sooner as some people would like. In 25 years we will have enough processing power to simulate human brains just by brute force. That's more or less a given. But maybe so much computing power isn't even required to reach AGI—if the used software is constructed in a smart way.
The Pentagon releases video of a U.S. drone’s encounter with Russian jets
> It used to be that people worked until they were to old and broken to work. If they didn't they'd starve. For most people meant 6 day work weeks, long shifts, not a lot of leisure time, etc.

Hm, depends, not necessarily, just one of many references:
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
Agnostic application framework in ASF incubation, FL, BigData
Thanks for sharing that.

What I find interesting here is that the summary is essentially all the ideas I already had from reading HN and trying out ChatGPT twice. i.e. nothing new (new compared someone casually following the last few month's AI news). This seems similar to peoples' accounts of getting ChatGPT to generate boilerplate code for them.

Such a summary may useful to people who're not following news regularly. Wolfram's article might provide useful detail, but I can't tell from reading the summary if it's worth me reading the article. So how is any of this useful (the summarisation, or Wolfram's article?)

Assuming Wolfram is far ahead of the curve, did GPT miss the depth and nuance, because it's only been trained on data that ends at 2021? Is Wolfram too subtle in his thinking that it's impossible to summaries effectively? Or are both his article and the summary just different flavours of "now"? Are my expectations of AI power & creativity, and my expectations for constant change too much? Are we seeing AI's current limits, or its eventual limits?
sir, I'm the former staff member of the infamous webstresser.org, I think I should know what we received millions of dollars for,

I understand that you never received attacks of such 'large' scale but it takes $5 to take a hetzner server down (assuming you don't know how to do it yourself)
So I'd call that a diverse set of views.

The "true" outcome will be a combination of all of the above, or even more. It is an emergent phenomenon, not a logically derived outcome. Which is also why it is unpredictable.
A couple more ideas:

- could be nice to have it calculate and show the score of the word you have currently placed

- when you place a tile on the DL or TL you can't see where the DL and TL are any more (I think on Scrabble board they have little triangles that stick out past the edges?)

- I found myself wanting to know the 'target' score, but I guess that would change the experience a bit
Russian language has an idiom similar to 点滴穿石 - "капля камень точит", literally "a drip grinds a stone", i.e. small but persistent effort eventually overpowers even the most hardy obstacles
Do affiliate marketing, but don't actually do it, talk about GPT-4 and rake in the investor cash. Seems to sum up the current craze perfectly.
>Things like Starline are where Google will shine for now.

I had to Google-fu because I never heard of this before.

Turns out it's buried beneath at least five other companies/brands named Starline, and the thing I did eventually find was a single non-descript Google blog post from 2021.

Suffice it to say I expect whatever the hell Starline is to be another of many on the Killed By Google(tm) pile.
One of the excuse Indian scammers give is that the West stole money from India during colonial times now its India's turn to steal that money back.
In the case of companies like Steam the answer is: Because some products are not available elsewhere. So it's not that you want to do business with them but that not doing business with them also cuts you off from a large number of other companies. Similarily, if your water company overcharges you then you still want to be able to get water even if you need to charge back or take them to court over the dispute. In some way, Steam has taken over the role of infrastructure for Game delivery and I don't think its unreasonable to recognize that by applying different rules to them in the same way your local power and water companies get different rules from a mom&pop store.
Brazilian researchers find plastic rocks on remote island
Cheers.

On a related note, are there any examples of magnetic field coupling having a significant effect (for some time scale) on orbiting masses? Mercury, again, might be good case for such a thing.

In a similar vein as

> (searching) "solar radiation pressure satellites"

is "Magnetorquer satellites" - small effects for attitude adjustment with a complicated "surfing" twist as the field fluxes so much on a daily basis.

I'm under no illusions that these (solar particle pressure, magnetic coupling) would be significant - but theis is a thread about a paper on the evolution of small perturbations :-)
This is true, I can put nix apps in a container. It improves the reproducibility of builds, but it still wastes disk space, because the container is still based on layers and not packages.

> There is definitely a bit of a learning curve but the time investment is frequently over exaggerated

I'm not talking about the learning curve and its time investment, I'm talking about design problems. Nix's invasiveness is completely unnecessary in modern Linux, it makes its installation a very special case and requires lots of patches to just get stuff to work in nix. The fact that nix patches built binaries so that they point to correct shared libraries locations is a crutch which shouldn't be there in the first place.

It also tries to reimplement pretty much every package manager and build tool, even if they already work well and provide the reproducibility guarantees, including cargo, poetry, npm/yarn. This is a time investment, but it doesn't help me build software that is more robust and correct, that part is already handled for me. Instead, it just worsens the DX, as it forces me to use tools non-native to the ecosystem without first-class support for commonly used features.
> This is not a truism, even though many managers see it like that.

Which is, I think, exactly the point that OP is trying to make. Incentives are defined by managers, after all.
If real estate goes back up then you're quids-in, if it doesn't, worst case scenario you just walk away having lost $1. You personally may have $20m in assets, but those are separate from the company you just bought.
everything creative where true creativity doesnt matter :)

sure, it will illustrate a book, many presentations, all sorts of stuff, but it will not create novel things as a human does. Sure, it can produce a smattering of what it was trained on, it will not produce new original well thought out masterpieces.

think about how it works for a moment, sure, its great, very nice, simple chores can be done with some reasonable effectiveness. but people are clearly expecting things that an LLM simply isnt meant or capable of doing
I'm saying it's an inappropriate question. Their privacy wouldn't be violated even if they did respond, but it's just an uncourteous thing to ask.
Patiently waiting for someone to post the archive link.
1. It shows the score just above the word if it is valid!
2. Yes agree thats a good idea.
3. I could add a new game mode where it shows you the target score, but I'm going to keep dad's score hidden for my own entertainment haha