skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the power consumption on panels bright enough for pancake optics aren’t good news for AR form factors.

Even in a dedicated HMD like the Pro, they had to redesign the SoC to move the memory so they could fit a chonkier active cooling system (that mysteriously is on full throttle constantly in recent firmware, which makes me wonder if they were seeing thermal failures). Bosworth admitted in one of those Facebook livestreams that the reason the Pro tops out at 90hz isn’t because the panels don’t support 120 - it’s because you’d cook your face from the heat of running those high nit panels at 120hz.
Genuinely not sure what methods they went through, but you can install it (and other firefox+chrome extensions) on the Orion browser. But they also have a built-in ad & tracking blocker that works well
"I think that's also not sustainable to just expect that rich people who don't need to care for their bread in the morning can just come and work for us." - Nataliia Tymkiv

Call me crazy, but $623,286 USD will buy a LOT of bread.

"Putting food on the table for your family" phrases start to become almost comical when they're made by people earning good portions of a million per year.
We (the citizens) need access to all the politicians communication, just in case if they do anything illegal... 24/7 microphones, digital communication tracker, etc. Let's start with that, and then move on to "normal people", if politicians still believe in no privacy.
Notes on paper are for humans.

Programming languages are for humans and machines. Machines do better with braces. (I've written lexers for both.)

Also, try to write an automatic formatter for a whitespace-delimited language; if your indentation is wrong, your logic is wrong, whereas with a brace language, if your indentation is wrong, you run a formatter, and it's all golden.
What are you gonna do about it?
Where are you getting 90% failure rate for those with access to enough wealth to easily sweep up $1m land + development costs for several buildings?

I can buy that for average folk, as they often do not have the expertise (nor the wealth to access the expertise) necessary to make better decisions for their business. For those substantially wealthier, it doesn't really make sense but maybe you're privy to more sources here that I would love to dive into.
Okay heh, bees may not actually do this the way described in the essay, but that doesn't invalidate the point, does it?

When there's safety in failure, take risks, and favor risks that have asymptotic upside.

Seems like good advice to me!
The nine hours in which Spain made the 100% renewable dream a reality
Isn't it widely known already that these drugs help resolve negative memories? The computer obviously needs to be on in order for the routine to execute..
"Think about it this way: you move somewhere and you're using 50 gallons per day of water. An agreement comes up that says you can keep doing that. 10 million people move in after and there's now a water problem. Were you over-allocated 50 gallons per day?"

There was a time when factories could pollute legally as much as they wanted. Then things change and they had to adapt. We can't have people insist on water rights that were given at a different time. They have to adapt.
This would probably be something closer to actors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model) rather than programs since programs are traditionally implemented as OS processes which are relatively expensive to spin up and terminate. At some level, though, somebody has to deal with freeing the memory, and they may do it less efficiently than you can.
This thread brought back memories of what could have been a game-changer for Lisp in graphics: Whitney/Demos Productions.

This was a company set up by the founders of Digital Productions of "The Last Starfighter" and Cray XMP fame. Their system was based around a Connection Machine and Symbolics workstations, with development to be done in Lisp.

Unfortunately, they folded almost before they started, due to their funding falling through.

One can only imagine how that might have changed the 3D production landscape.
Just an FYI, that's when it'll be completed and access opened up to a wider audience. Many parts are already built and being tested. We're talking about a DOE computer, not a AWS datacenter.
This is just a list of sci-fi movies. It’s not a list of underrated movies.

Logan’s Run is not underrated. It is my selection for the stupidest sci-fi movie of all time. No intelligent person can resist screaming at the TV while watching it.

“Why are you doing that?! Whoops, too late. I warned you.”

is a quote from everyone ever who has witnessed it

If you imagine it was written by a child, it does make some sense.
>has rescinded drilling permits

This is just saying that they had the right to drill MORE wells revoked, presumably they already have wells that will continue to pump water out of the ground.

>reported that the new wells would have pumped up to 3,000 gallons (11,000 liters) of water per minute.

That is an insane amount of water.
Jitsi is footing the bill if you use the hosted product. If you don't want it to shut down or become expensive, you need to take a look at how the server is being run.

With self-hosted, you're simply paying for the servers. If you can pay for the servers and maintain them, you can be confident they'll stay up.

The hosted product is great, it just seems separate and off topic to me.
Go look for yourself sometime (be mentally prepared to have your belief system / world view challenged).

And poke around Youtube sometime. Plenty of people in Russia loading up videos (including westerners) of what life is actually like there.
It is so ridiculous that the exact same discussion has to be repeated again and again. The arguments haven't changed. "Bad thing is happening and we need this to ensure it doesn't anymore". The bad thing changes to what's currently the most popular threat although protecting children is obviously an all-time favorite.

I think the next angle will be that it's needed to prevent hate speech. Any other ideas?
My father in law (deceased) used to spend 8-10 hours a day doing woodworking art for his business, then several hours delivering things to customers each day as well. I asked him how it tool 8-10 hours to do 3-6 pieces when I had been watching and he finished each one in about 30 minutes (other than paint drying and stuff). He said that people were always talking to him, because his store and work area were basically right in the middle of town and he worked out front rather than inside because he had no workshop in the store. I hung out with him for a day and saw no less than a dozen different people stop by and have 10-15 minute conversations with him, and he couldn't do much work during that time.

That's a pretty useless story for HN, but seemed relevant to the topic at hand, and I like remembering my father in law and telling stories about him (I miss him considerably).
I do, ask me anything. It is great.
Apple is on the hunt for generative AI talent
I wish I could include Fig. 1 of the paper here (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33384-9/figures/1). The result should be "ANN performs similar nonlinear time domain filtering as human brain stem". There seems to be nothing at all about the learning process, just that ABR recordings of English and Spanish speakers hearing a confusing syllable are different, and ANN trained on English and Spanish has a similar difference
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I live in Toronto and modified exhausts on motorcycles and cars are quite common and annoying. I don't see any enforcement action whatsoever.
The alternative route people would prefer is for people in charge of these companies to act ethically and not try to squeeze everyone around them for every cent of profit possible. Especially if you're already one of the richest companies to ever exist. That's not very realistic, though, since sociopathy is essentially taught in business schools now.
Thanks -- great way to visualize how massive this set of languages really is.
can't believe we're this far into a thread about Nick without someone mentioning Tab.
i worked with this guy who had alerts popping up on his screen for everything that was anywhere in his calendar (somebody else having a meeting in room X? he got an alert when it started), every email that arrived for him, and probably some other stuff, too. while you were talking to him, his head would twitch over to the monitor every time one came in, yet he never knew what email he'd received.

i don't think i've ever met anyone who had a higher defect rate in their code.
You would not though, so it's not.

You might as well say we should not have police because if they're required to beat you up if they saw you commit a crime then that would be bad. It would, but they're not, and it's the people who would intend that who you should oppose.
I guess that's how you get to be a trillion dollar company.
Do you have any examples of software that currently accomplishes this for any services that are based around user profiles, often tied to a phone number?

Especially for unilateral users of such software? (if I could convince fellow proprietary service-users to use some obfuscating software that generated/filtered a bunch of fake communications, I could just convince them to use Free software instead of the proprietary service)
Unions are all about setting up a cartel to fix prices, and have the full backing of the law. When companies try that, they get busted for collusion.
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkpad/

https://system76.com

https://frame.work/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/scc/sr/laptops/xps-laptops
Bureaucracy:

Success at achieving goals => budget gets increased

Failure to achieve goals => budget gets increased
> only looked into Schwarzschild black holes

What plane is the authors' "equatorial plane"? Shortly after their eqn (31), "One should a priori do a similar computation out of the equatorial plane to obtain the total size of the solitons. Due to the complexity of the geodesic equations, this is only possible numerically. However, we will see in the next section that the outer photon shell is actually almost spherically symmetric and slightly flattened at its poles". (ETA: "... the Schwarzschild topological solution is not spherically symmetric ...", just before section A. Methodology).

Central SMBHs' spin appears to be largely far from parallel to their host galaxies' angular momentum[1]. Spin gives us an equatorial plane for the SMBH. Is there physical motivation for picking an equatorial plane if we found an SMBH with negligible J (and no jets)? I don't doubt that people would land on some convention (e.g. equatorial plane parallel to host galaxy's north if available, our galaxy's north if not), but do doubt that the convention would reflect physics (i.e., that there is such a plane where J = 0 or even that such a plane is relevant where J <<< 1, even if the plane is thereby picked out) rather than useful coordinates.

I scanned the paper only briefly (I'm not really interested in black holes out of a cosmological or at least astrophysical context and am in no hurry to jump ahead of further EHT results) but found myself curious about the authors' "these solutions can be embedded in string theory" as their ref [17] at first glance seems to be about AdS, an acronym which is found only once in this paper.

What provokes my wondering is in particular, "and so an asymptotic observer will barely notice the difference between the parallax angles" (among other references to an asymptotic observer), drawing a comparison with a distant Schwarzschild observer, again around eqn (31). "Barely notice" is, at least qualitatively, interesting wording. Can an observer at infinity more than barely notice the difference between a cold noncompact spherically symmetric uncharged nonspinning central mass and a Schwarzschild BH?

[1] This is especially true for Sgr A*, see EHT paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674 which is wildly "tilt"ed (to use authors' expression).
It's actually a brilliant move on the part of the Saudis. They are essentially pumping Arizona's aquifer across the globe and the alfalfa is a convenient storage mechanism.
Foxconn somehow made $137m profit in the past 12m.
This is a big part of why I don't use social media beyond HN and Reddit (if those count). Being inundated with a constant stream of notifications is not only distracting, it makes me feel less in control of my mind, and therefore, my life.

My regular email, slack notifications from work, and text messages from friends are pretty much all my introverted mind can handle, and even then I still feel out of focus much of the time. Meditating helps considerably, but it feels like I'm swimming upstream.

While I'm not immune to wanting to pull the content slot machine, at least with HN and Reddit I get at least some choice about how I interact with those environments.
Chomsky is a writer. He is probably scared out of his wits that his job will be taken over by a bunch of transformers.
> "If corporate profits were to decline from the extremely high levels that we saw recently, would it be possible to sustain" growth in workers' benefits "even as we get inflation down to the target of 2%?" Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen asked Powell during the Fed chief's semi-annual testimony before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.

> While that might be difficult in the long run, "over the shorter term though, yes," Powell said, dipping tentatively into a debate that may become more pointed over time depending on how inflation, the job market and the economy evolve.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/feds-powell-acknowledges-...
> eh, there was probably something similar in the trainset that the LLM just had to tweak slightly

Look for examples of mixed image-text generative AIs, and see how they are able to understand visual jokes and memes and explain the source of their humour.

To do that, the AI not only has to recognize and classify the items in the image. It also has to identify the context of the items in the image, and figure out what elements are unusual in that context.

All that process is something that could be only imitated if the training set contained exactly the same meme; as the source of humour will be different for each image. But the AI is capable of doing it even for memes not included in the training set.
Sorry man but you are delusional if you think this is the best the Ukrainians have got. The Russians are in for a world of hurt.

While the Russians have depleted their forces, the Ukrainians have spent the winter training on modern military equipment from the west. As one example of many, take a look at this:
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-brigade-was-trained-in-s...

So far nothing the Ukrainians have used comes close to the above mentioned brigade. The Russians don’t have anything to match. In addition, they have one massive advantage which is the continuous support of the U.S. intelligence services, nothing the Russians have come close.

I don’t doubt the Russians are continuously improving their strategy and tactics - not hard considering how badly they’ve been doing since the war started.
Not quite free. Last I checked, adding automatic differentiation to GPU computation for pricing exotic derivatives roughly doubled the computation cost. (Though, traditional bump-and-reprice has exponential cost in the number of dimensions.)
Oh absolutely, but extremely few people regularly tow a trailer - if at all.

There are certainly use cases for cars with a 1000-km range, but the average consumer isn't going to need it.
Even beyond that though, it needs to be enough to make them actually care.
Hermano Largo, at any rate.
> found a giant CD book

> That someone was me.

I'm confused. Did you break into her car, or not?
Prompt – A Lightweight JavaScript/TS Interface to OpenAI's Chat-Based LLMs
I'd have more sympathy to the "we need to be able to read every one's message, and open up everyone's communication to criminals to stop crime" story if there was any evidence it would actually do anything.

There is no evidence that the reason terrorist attacks (the common go to) would be stopped by removing encryption from people, because we know that existing attacks have occurred even when law enforcement is already aware (take the Manchester bombing: multiple friends and family had reported him to the police on multiple occasions).

We do have a huge amount of evidence that any such attack on privacy will immediately be abused. In the UK those laws that were passed to "stop terrorism", etc are used to catch people not picking up dog poop, not paying TV licensing, etc. In the US we had wide spread warrantless surveillance of literally everyone, courtesy of AT&T.

My opinion is that any law that proponents proclaim will only be used to stop X should contain terms along the line of "any use of this legislation for any purpose other than X invalidates this law, any evidence acquired must be destroyed, and any convictions derived from such evidence are no longer valid". I would give good odds that any attempt to add such text would result in push back by the people saying the law is only needed to stop X.
Crazy that we need big corporations to protect us from the government. It was supposed to be the other way around.
Right, the issue is that "modern" work still requires attention, but is often accompanied by an expectation for responsiveness and a wide array of demands on the worker's attention.

Nobody is saying "why aren't our production line employees very active on the #dogsofourworkplace slack channel?"
Yes, I had hosted it on Digital ocean for a long time to bypass telco regimes where FaceTime and WhatsApp is blocked for A/V calls.

It worked pretty well. I was scared of security issues where I thought some miscreants might have calls and I get blamed for it. There were security issues(which probably could be fixed but I didn’t spend too much time)

The problem was UX for mom and pop folks
Thanks for this!

I have made a point over the years of hanging out with people that are far more intelligent and talented than myself, many of whom are in completely different fields to myself.. and I realise that I've always done this!

Whether it's art, music, or the future of power generation, I've been able to hold many conversations that have an aha moment halfway through, where some nugget clicks and backfills the conversation to that point.

And yes, I feel a pang of guilt when entertaining these conversations, but I've made solid friends off of a number of these interactions, so I figure I can't be a completely unbearable bore!

Or maybe I'm a bot.
From Feb. The generators were used for deicing. More at https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dozens-scot... .
Liturgy of Liberalism (2017)
The executives don't either. They're all passing through on their way to bigger and better gigs. If they can get more out of the employees for less money it just makes them look better. They don't care if they burn down the team long term because they'll be somewhere else.
Do you have evidence or facts to show that the news reports on the Patriot system are wrong?

Would love to see evidence that the system was destroyed (as in couldn't be repaired; couldn't still do it's mission) and that Kinzhals have not been shot down.
Not sure this is meaningful. Too many variables. Those seeds they buy today? Producing 10X the yield of 50 years ago. So what should they cost?

https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-char...
Thanks!

> I can't tell what the hashtag button is for

It's demonstrated in the guide [1]

I have to think about how to explain the feature in the app without overwhelming the user. Always open to suggestions!

> The numbers in the lower right corner of each stack seem like they refer to the number of sub-comments, but in my brief experience this doesn't seem to be the case. Is this a bug, of have I misunderstood what these numbers refer to?

It's the total number of comments in the subtree (including all the child subtrees and their subtrees and so on).

> I'd prefer to be able to tap a comment stack and have it open up. I get that swiping isn't that hard, but I typically one-hand and would prefer if mere tapping did the same thing as swiping (and I can't think of what else a tap would mean, so it shouldn't cause a conflict to have this as an option, right?)

I think it could be a frustrating experience when you mistap upvote or any other button, expanding/collapsing the stack instead. I will try it to see how it feels, it just might be one of those things that look good only on paper, and once implemented it'll be just an extra option that everybody ignores. There's also a good argument for that - accessibility [2], but there are alternatives for the tap gesture.

> I would suggest adding Settings to this menu, as an alternate way of reaching it.

I figured that on average users go to settings only a few times, mostly when they initially set up the app. Adding an entry point on the thread screen would increase the complexity, support and testing efforts, but further down the road when other things are ironed out it can be a good improvement.

[1] https://github.com/devandsev/HackerNews-Support/wiki/Guide#a...

[2] https://github.com/devandsev/HackerNews-Support/issues/1
Same.

- I block all unscheduled phone calls, whitelisting only parents/SO

- I block all notifications and check apps pull-only

- During work hours I check Slack about once every 30 minutes. (If there's some urgent deadline coming up I might check it a few more times in the evening but that's not the norm)
> because america is assumed to be an unsafe country (because govt can at any moment force a US company to show the data)

I assume here the EU can't do the same?
So goes for robots as does for humans.
I still don't see where color comes from in this global process you've described. Grainy or not, we still experience color. And color isn't something that rides in on photons, and then hops onto electrons which are sent to the visual cortex. Instead, the process of visual perception has to color in the world somehow. Mental paint is one way of putting it.
Wait why is renting a GPU in the cloud not a solution? You can even try multiple options and see which ones are capable enough for your use case.

Look into some barebones cloud GPU services, for example Lambda Labs which is significantly cheaper than AWS/GCP but offers basically nothing besides the machine with a GPU. You could even try something like Vast in which people rent out their personal GPU machines for cheap. Not something I'd use for uhhh...basically anything corporate, but for a personal project with no data security or uptime issues it would probably work great.