skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I am going to spend $3000 on a VR headset, I don't really want to sweat all over it...

Also, the sort of people who are going to work out consistently don't need a headset to work out. Or any other tech. They just do it.

I know you're not implying this in your comment, but if anyone thinks you are going to take someone who is sedate, strap on a cool headset and give them some sort of virtual experience that will finally motivate them to work out consistently...I'll take the other side of that bet every day...
I'd go if it were a Star Trek experience though... Star Wars is too dystopian for my taste.
I'm pretty new to photography. I understand a lot of the basics (ex-wife shot as a professional hobbyist for a few years) but never really paid much attention to her editing workflow. Adobe already gets me for $20/mo for Illustrator (because designers) and I looked at alternatives. I've been using darktable http://darktable.org since I got my camera about a month ago and it's nice enough for me.
> What does the author consider to be a victory?

Well, there's the Apple II, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone...

Apple has had a long history of products that redefined the future of entire categories, and almost all of them up to this point except the Apple Watch included deep involvement by Jobs.
It is taxes. Taxes are a contribution to a functioning society, though! There's nothing wrong with them when they are used well!

> Otherwise, employers would get access to employees with NHS without putting a penny in.

It doesn't matter how you slice it, the penny still comes out of payroll. It makes zero difference to me if I get paid 50,000, and 10,000 of that goes to taxes, or if I get paid 40,000 and my employer pays 10,000 in taxes. But it sure causes a lot of spilled ink about whether or not its 'really a tax' and 'who pays'.
My job dictating my friends, romantic attachments and other social connections is incredibly disgusting and dystopian to me. Meaningful social activity has only occurred outside the workplace, to me. Being forced to commute to an office decreases the chance for that by stealing even more free time, and it pushes many people to move away from their friends/family to entirely different cities or countries!
The first amendment doesn't necessarily protect being-an-incredibly-invasive-and-creepy-stalker-with-an-eternal-memory (but "at scale", which apparently makes it OK somehow?)

The business model is what would be at risk, not Facebook's free speech.
It would be nice if every developer had to run their latest build on 10 year old hardware while testing it out.

Instead of their high-powered development machine with the latest CPU, tons of high speed memory, and the fastest SSD; they would get to experience what many of their customers have to endure on slower hardware with capacity constraints.

Nothing spurs optimization like seeing first hand how your code creeps along on slow hardware.
I would be interested to know what state and procedures would be banned where you live...
> Tidier

I have not tried it. I like that the project makes broadcasting invisible, I dislike that it tries to completely replicate R's semantics and Tidyverse's syntax. Two examples: firstly, the tuples vs scalars thing doesn't seem very Julia to me. Secondly, I love that DF.jl has :column_name and variable_name as separate syntax. Tidier.jl drops this convention (from what I see in the readme).

> I'm not sure if someone is looking directly at the data.table parts

I believe there was some effort to make an i-j-by syntax in Julia but it fell through or stopped getting worked on. By this syntax I mean something like:

# An example of using i, j, and by
@dt flights [
carrier == "AA",
(mean(:arr_delay), mean(:dep_delay)),
by = (:origin, :dest, :month)]

# An example of expressions in by
@dt flights [_, nrows, by = (:dep_delay > 0, :arr_delay > 0)]

The idea of ijby (as I understand it) is that it has a consistent structure: row selection/filtering comes before column selection/filtering, and is optionally followed by "by" and then other keyword arguments which augment the data that the core "ij" operations act upon.

data.table also has some nifty syntax like

data[, x := x + 1] # update in place
data[, x := x/nrows(.SD), by = y] # .SD = references data subset currently being worked on

which make it more concise than dplyr.

The conciseness and structure that comes from data.table and its tendency to be much less code than comparable tidyverse transformations through some well-informed choices and reservations of syntax make it nicer for me to use.
>Also, prolonged use causes nausea in a large percentage of people.

There's an excellent video of John Carmack talking about this and how to solve it.
This is much less of an issue now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLpKzUxjGk

I agree with you though that there aren't any killer apps for VR/AR yet, and it remains to be seen if there will be any at all.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and if there really is a viable Apple-scale device here.

The overarching XR vision makes sense to me -- that you could instantly drop into any kind of environment you might want to, whether for work or entertainment or socializing.

But who creates these environments, and for what purpose? They seem like they'd be quite expensive if done well, and if not done well, you wouldn't want to go there unless you had to. If there aren't great places to go, what justifies a $3K headset?

Meanwhile, with the reality of technical limitations, how good is the experience really going to be?

I suspect you're going to be able to pay $3K to buy into some games and productivity software that, once the novelty wears off, are going to feel pretty mediocre and may never really get past the tech demo stage. And your hardware is going to be dreadfully obsolete in about 2-3 years too.

IDK, maybe I just have a lack of vision and I'm too down on this stuff.

I would like to try it and see!
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Isn't it illegal to drive without auto insurance? (At least, in California?)
If people want to live in cities and want to have a car-free lifestyle, then more power to you.

Cities are becoming increasingly unaffordable and increasingly violent. I think that we are past “peak metro” and that the absolute refusal of many people to return to office work is going to result in an acceleration of out-migration from cities. This in turn will exacerbate other urban problems as the revenue base dries up and low wage employees become ever more difficult to find in urban areas.
> A young person just starting out or at least earlier on in their career doesn't really have the opportunity to make friends, meet people (romantically), or otherwise make social connections while working from home.

Sure they do - if they live in a city. I am a young person who started my first FTE job last year and am WFH. I have an incredibly bountiful friend group that comes from hobbyist meetups, social bike rides and dating apps.
People are very good at picking their source data, depending what they want to prove.

Staircase looks a lot less exciting here: https://149366104.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
Doubt it... I seriously doubt even 1% of android users has even heard of FDroid or knows that Amazon has it's own android market you can load on your phone. That will really limit network effect overall.
Not close resemblance. Copying. Andy Warhol didn't happen to paint it similar to that photo. If he had, there wouldn't haven been a case, since copyright doesn't cover independent creation. Andy Warhol painted it by copying the photo.
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Recent and related:

Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35988348 - May 2023 (114 comments)
And the 4th option - it’s eating American companies lunch and apparently the free market party thinks it’s now okay to take away things from its citizens based on scaremongering and innuendo.
FCC rejects Dish 5G plan that could have made Starlink broadband “unusable”
Everything that you need to know is conveniently provided within the article
Eh, I think this is just one of those things I don't "get". A 2 second video seems without value to me.
What an odd, contrived problem caused by eternal copyrights.
I've only ever heard of parking complaints in urban areas.

Suburbs are awash with parking. Maybe we should require parking to be "behind" stores instead of in front.
Trying to layer on endless context to guilt trip people into disliking being in connected spaces seems so far beside the point.

If a lot of the bad hypothetically disappeared, I don't think the situation would be necessarily all that much worse from now. And I think what we have now is an enormous & incredible assemblage of experiences.
Perhaps many many many more people would have made the bet on LLM versus NFTs or virtue signalling with “Data as an instrument of coloniality: A panel discussion on digital and data colonialism”, right?
Any such scheme immeasurably benefits large corporations over individual creatives. Disney's lawyers have no issues dealing with copyright frictions. Individual authors do.
Those backends are spending most of their time waiting to do work, which is my point.
> tragedy of the commons

This is a great way to put it. Quite often these arguments against cars feel completely blind to reality. We've built our cities and culture around having cars, we can't easily change that. Starting with some small regulations, like having bike lanes everywhere, would go a long ways. I would love to not pay for a second car, and gas, and insurance, but where I leave, it's just not reasonable.
> It’s odd to me that these anti-car polemics never talk about why Americans don’t want to ride public transit, while people in most other countries have zero issues adopting it wholesale.

This is talked about if you follow urbanism communities. In addition to the reasons you mentioned, it just doesn't go to where people want to be. The last century of urban planning in the US has left transit and alternative modes of transportation as an afterthought or not thought of at all.

Land use is a major problem. In my particular city, half of the stations are surrounded by parking lots instead of actual destinations. Transit in the US has been treated as a band aid to car traffic, pollution, and costs. If it were funded and prioritized appropriately, we would see more transit oriented development and ridership.

Lack of ridership is seen as a reason to decrease funding. But when ridership increases, you get improved safety because there are more eyes to witness and report a crime.

I don't think most people make it moralistic crusade, but those kinds of comments and attitudes get the most attention. If you delve into the communities and read the relevant books, you may find that nuance is actually appreciated and discussed quite a bit.
The problem is you need to be able to get to that area before you can eliminate cars. If you are not careful you can kill an area because the people who used to drive there cannot anymore and so they just go elsewhere. If you already have a lot of people arriving by something other than cars, then you can replace the parking lot with something else and make better use of the space, but most areas don't have that advantage.

Building such places is not easy where they don't already exist. It isn't impossible, but you need to start there.
Indeed, GPUs are not much better. For example, the NVIDIA H100 SXM has roughly the same price per transistor as the A100 SXM. The gains between generations were roughly equally split between (1) better chip design, (2) higher clock speed / power consumption, and (3) more transistors. Cost per transistor did not meaningfully improve.
> Then whoever did the bookkeeping recorded it as if they had purchased COTS items each with some normal price, instead of doing it as a contracted service with both material and labor costs.

OK, and why was that? Like, they were essentially embezzling this "R&D cost"; even if they were embezzling for the sake of buying useful military equipment, embezzling is still an outrage, I think rightly.
I’d imagine by checking that text is in the drawable area of the PDF, above some font size, at the maximum z height, colour different from the background, etc etc etc.

Though I think this sort of prompt injection is actually very difficult to parse for solely because you could also just put it into a body of text.

Your recruiter is only skimming your resume, a quick parenthetical in the middle of a paragraph won’t be noticed.

Will get a chuckle at the interview though, but now you have a foot in the door!
Are these all vulnerable to Indirect Prompt Injections or is there a solution to this rising security challenge? Anything plugin developers should do to limit impact?
FWIW I really like this new "neo-brutalist" website style with hard shadows, clear, solid lines and simple typography and layout.
(Disclaimer: I work at MS, but not on WSL, opinions are my own.)

I don't see how WSL is embrace-extend-extinguish. Embrace, yes. Extend? No. There's basically nothing that only runs on WSL and not real Linux. Only QoL integrations with the Windows shell like X11/Wayland and Explorer integration. The point of WSL is backend dev. If WSL were on an EEE path, you'd expect to see MS adding Windows-only integrations, and encouraging people to run WSL server instances. Instead, MS has never positioned WSL for prod use, and instead cautions against using it for non-dev activities. Even internally, we don't use WSL to host Linux stuff. We use CBL-Mariner instead [1], which is completely FOSS.

The whole point of WSL was that Windows lost to Linux for backend. Unlike Ballmer, Satya didn't want to waste resources fighting a losing battle, so he pivoted the company towards Azure and dev tooling and away from Windows Server. And that succeeded, and it's why we're not irrelevant like IBM - we ditched our mainframes, as it were.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL-Mariner
> [1] Is a summary of [2], by one of its authors, not a separate source.

Yes. Your point? I included both because I found them both interesting. The paper is the source, the 137 emergent behaviours page is one of the authors continuing the work, and [3] is a journalist talking about this, so I included it as it's a unique perspective.

I used the word "emergent" because that's what the SME used when describing this. From 5.1 in the paper linked:

> Although there are dozens of examples of emergent abilities, there are currently few compelling explanations
for why such abilities emerge in the way they do.

You say this "should be surprising to no one", yet the authors disagree.

Additionally, in the GPT-4 system card - "Emergent" appears 15 times, specificly section 2.9 is interesting https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf So it's not just a word used callously by one group of researchers at Google.
I was looking for this comment and I think you're exactly right.

Over the years, Moore's Law became a household term for computer performance doubling every couple of years. Under that definition, Moore's Law died in 2005 with Dennard Scaling so for most intents and purposes, Moore's Law has been dead for a long time.

It only held under the more restrictive definition of performance for tasks that were able to be parallelized perfectly, but even that has now been broken.

You could also argue that Moore's Law died in 2005 because the term CPU used to refer to what we now know as a CPU 'core' and the term was redefined.

Ultimately, what matters is that the performance the end user experiences hasn't been doubling every 2 years since 2005.
"Ad targeting is listening more often than you think" is a "conspiracy theory" I believe in.

I've had too many "mentioned an idea, then got targeted ads for it within a day" incidents to not think some combination of things on the Google Home or iPhones or other smart devices is spying. Yeah, yeah, familiar with all the "someone else on the same wifi probably searched for it" or "Baader-Meinhof" or what have you, but I don't live with a lot of people and Instagram ads in particular are VERY focused these days in a way that Baader-Meinhof doesn't really fit - if I'd seen the ad for [specific thing] a couple days before I mentioned it, it would've been noticeably weird and out of place in a different way.

I was in ad-tech for a bit in the last decade, and even at a tiny company there were some data sources we bought or heard about that were pretty spooky, so I would not be shocked if there are some wild ones out there today.
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The argument is that he didn't (a) disclose what he was doing, nor (b) disclose that he owned the company where the money went.

I work at a very, very small startup. Even our very small startup has by-laws that cover this:

> An officer who is a party to, or who is a director or officer of or has a material interest in any person who is a party to, a material contract or transaction or proposed material contract or transaction with the Corporation shall disclose in writing to the Corporation, or request to have entered in the minutes of the meeting of Directors, the nature and extent of such person’s interest at the time and in the manner provided by the Act. Such a person may participate in any discussion related thereto but shall not vote on any resolution to approve the same except as provided by the Act.

I suspect this is pretty boiler plate stuff. The family corporation that my wife and I own doesn't have this text in its by-laws...but that's because it's a closely-held company. I'd certainly hope that a "real" VC-funded company would have this text.
You can add multiple passkeys on your Google account today. If a website is dumb enough that they only allow a single passkey per account, they have misunderstood passkeys profoundly.
Convert to bitmap, then OCR again.
Mega yacht costs bazilions.

Yes, lot of people would not reject idea of having it, but at the same time actual demand (i.e. actual number of people who would think price is worth it, is quite lower compared to spagetti which is much cheaper but has many more buyers)

All in all. high price does not necessarily mean huge demand.
The worst part is, the fog of war allows both sides to gaslight their civilian populations about what is exactly happening. Vietnam would have never lasted as long as it did with portable cameras and data networks like we have today. Just looking at the Ukraine conflict now, it's easy to see how shitty war actually is.

You can watch videos right now of happy kids volunteering and then coming back as husks of a human being with dead eyes and stories that chill you. Or being shelled in a muddy trench on a drone camera. You can watch humanitarian convoys be shelled. People's homes being destroyed. The bodies of children, dismembered and splayed in the street. The corpses of men crushed under tank treads. They don't show this in the media, but it's there for us to see if we uncover our eyes.

I used to love the idea of joining the air force and becoming a pilot. Now I just see the fragmented remains of "Collateral damage."
$9k a year may be some sort of an average, but there's got to be flex in that, because poor people drive cars and poor people don't make that kind of money.

If you can get a beater for $1k and some insurance, you're basically down to gas (when the beater dies, you get another one or fix it).
This sounds like American exceptionalism - I'm not sure the prison industry or the water industry being more competitive is good or that they are less corrupt than the state running them.

Corruption of markets happens because of no regulation or because of too much regulation. I personally think where to draw this line is an art and very difficult in an extremely polarised country like the US.
Is this some that small government I've heard so much about it?
This is where the TOFU model comes in, you implicitly trust the key on first use.

Finding a legitimate download one time is better than having to find it every time.

Bootstrapping keys is a difficult thing for sure, but TOFU is still better than nothing at all and seems to work pretty well in practice.
probably "Tom, Dick and Harry" in this context, meaning everyone
Like I said, I think most companies don't fit your model so feel free to throw out some industries.

I think service/API companies like Netflix are the most suited to your approach, but even with Netflix leaning into that style of company hard they still have thousands of engineers. There is most definitely some amount of irreducible work for a problem/domain/other.

> Obviously a lot has to go right for this sort of thing to happen

It feels like a very naive approach. When I'm building stuff, the edge cases often require a lot of digging into the surrounding context and working with other teams.

I don't think you can solve this by abstracting it away, because it's still working at the same level of abstraction just in a different part of the codebase.

There is also the fact that every abstraction is leaky...
You initially wrote:

> Magic is that which can not be explained.

You have now redefined what you mean by "magic" as "that which inspires wonder". Changing definitions after a series of comments is a pretty poor way to have a discussion.
In my area (Washington State, USA) this doesn't happen.

If you ask for phone service, Comcast will sell you a "landline" that just consists of a combo box cable modem and VoIP ATA. You can buy it with internet access or without, and they still give you the same equipment. The ATA part gives you an analog phone line to connect to your house phone wiring, but everything outside the house runs over existing coax infrastructure.

Maybe I'm not asking the right questions? It seems exceedingly difficult to get services over actual copper.
What does this mean? I don't get it.
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I dunno. I’ve been to all of those European cities and they were nice to visit for a week as a tourist but the density along with everything that goes with it: noise, smells, crowds etc were always a reminder that I only want to be there on a brief visit. I’m my suburban city, I simply hop in my vehicle and can be anywhere I want in 3-15 minutes.
> Picking up a USB-C cable only to find out it charges slower than the device burns battery

You have to try hard for that, as any compliant cable is able to pass 60W, which is what I can comfortably charge my laptop with. You only need e-markers for going higher than that, which is perfectly reasonable as that's plenty of power already.

Cables with no CC lines cannot be called "USB-C cables". They're not complaint at all. They're just broken, and it's no surprise that broken hardware fails to work as expected.
The will have to make presence _really_ good for this to be worthwhile. The closest thing I have seen to next level is Google's Project Starline [1]. I would spend so much money to get one of these for my home and one for my parent's home halfway across the country.

1. https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
From the POV of the user it's much more "a photo" than a video. It just gives you a bit of extra context and ability to pick your key frame.