skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe in the potential of this product. Having a quest 1 that use still to this day, I believe very strongly that Apple will make this work.

People talk about use cases, but there are quite a few. VR/AR is going to be fantastic for home fitness and Apple already have a fitness subscription, pair that with a watch for stats etc and this really will be a great device for that. Also exactly what apple loves at the moment, requires two products and a subscription in the apple eco system, great to getting people locked in.

I think AR/VR as long as they can get it comfortable will replace screens and the TV, why have a TV in the house, when you can put on a headset and be at the cinema? Without it taking up the space of a TV and being something you can take with you anywhere, like a hotel etc. There were rumours for so long that Apple were working on an actual TV, I think what actually happened, is they will release the device that will replace it.

All that needs to be done, is for someone to make all this work together and you have got a killer product, so i wouldn't write Apple off just because Meta have done a bad job with trying to sell the metaverse vision to everyone. I don't think Meta were stupid for pursing this, the current products are just half baked and badly executed, but Apple is in the position to do this right. This was the talk of the tech world not too long ago, before AI came and took over everything, but I believe Apple is going to put it firmly back on the map in a few weeks when they drop this. What Apple does, the world listens.

This will be expensive and have a lot of flaws, but any generation shifting product that Apple has released has been like that, just wait a few years down the line and see where it goes.
MoMA closed for years, twice, in 21st century, as they expanded. Maybe they have something like MoMA QNS in mind for Centre.

(The original MoMA was a minor gem and an oasis in midtown. I almost forgave Philip Johnson because of that garden. Now it has lost all its charm.)
> For file encryption, there's age. This uses all modern crypto and does authenticated encryption.

GnuPG offers AEAD encryption since version 2.3.0.
If people want checksums, it seems like it would be better for everyone around to just use checksums? If you just want to make sure that some file hasn't changed, that's a much better primitive for that then signatures.

To me the most interesting part of the article is whether or not the current signatures are even capable of being validated or not, which the answer to that is > 50% of them are not, and those are of the people who care enough in the last 3 years to still be using this undocumented feature.

Is it possible to build a secure signing system ontop of GPG/PGP? Sure. But doing that requires working around or eschewing so many features from it that you might as well just use the base primitives yourself rather than being tied to GPG/PGP.
Yeah, it’s like comparing a Lisa running the Office System to a PowerMac G3 running Mac OS 8. The family resemblance is certainly there, but one is way more advanced than the other.
Please consider sending patches back if you think they would be of wider interest.
This sounds like what Adobe and Microsoft are also doing. It seems like they assume that they are somewhat invincible and therefore can do whatever they want.
Most of the logins are sequestered in the password manager, for which I get a moderately decent subsidy from the government.
Piggy-backing a fashion means that if it crashes, or when it slows down, a lot of companies cut jobs at once.
How is the affair "linked" to Epstein? As far as I can tell, Epstein merely learned of it and tried to use it as leverage.

Besides, how could Epstein use his own crimes to blackmail someone? If he did somehow procure this woman for Gates, he couldn't reveal that fact without revealing himself as a sex trafficker. That would be a suicide bombing at best.
No, and we can't trust it to big government either. This is my belief and fear, the government will or has already implanted itself with open AI exactly like they did with Twitter. So now we will have the most powerful corporation in the world secretly controlled by the US government.

Is there a lesser of two evils here? I honestly don't know, but I don't think we will get a choice.
When something ubiquitously used breaks that often you should stop to consider if maybe your experience is not normal, and so seek to find what's wrong with it.

Hint, there's likely a problem with your hardware.
Very handy tool for sure. I really appreciate the efforts you made on in-line, repo and website documentation.
But throughout this journey, we’ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice.

I really get tired of companies blaming these mythical users for not using their product rather than asking themselves why users didn't use the product to begin with.
I highlighted the bit associated with transmission vs distribution, but it’s not completely clear cut. Some issues with transmission resulted in distribution problems: https://youtu.be/QPL8dh6b1M0

Anyway, by far the safer solution is electricity not using rail or pipelines to move fossil fuels.
The title wordplay dates back to at least Drew McDermott's 1976 essay "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity" [0]. The intro is phenomenal.

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> As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward this charge, drawing ourselves up with dignity when it is made and folding the cloak of Science about us. On the other hand, in private, we have been justifiably proud of our willingness to explore weird ideas, because pursuing them is the only way to make progress.

> Unfortunately, the necessity for speculation has combined with the culture of the hacker in computer science <Weizenbaum, 1975> to cripple our self-discipline. In a young field, ,self-discipline is not necessarily a virtue, but we are not getting any younger. In the past few years, our tolerance of sloppy thinking has led us to repeat many mistakes over and over. If we are to retain any credibility, this should stop.

> This paper is an effort to ridicule some of these mistakes.

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[0]: Drew McDermott. 1976. Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity. SIGART Bull., 57 (April 1976), 4–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/1045339.1045340
You could go the other way: the program is incorrect if it doesn't explicitly close files. Allowing incorrect programs to somehow work correctly only encourages programmers to create more advanced incorrect programs, until they exceed the ability of the language/runtime to fix.

I tend more towards this line of thought. But I'd still put a finalizer on file handles. I just would have it yell very loudly that there's a bug. Maybe even close the file, but there's no way I wouldn't at the very least be generating a lot of diagnostics saying things were broken.
I didn’t go to a party school, so maybe my experience is biased. Also, the period I went was before CS was a mainstream major, so maybe things are different now.
Do you think those people would have been better off without those jobs having existed in the first place?
They would if they were aware.
US investors are not doing this out of generosity. European elites built up their wealth with land holdings and real estate over centuries. In most cases, the value of these assets are unknown. There is little benefit to be gained from disposing of that wealth to speculate on the latest fad and facing taxes.

The Duke of Westminster for example was the youngest billionaire in the UK with an estimated net worth of £10bn at 35. His family's land includes 100s of acres of the most valuable real estate in London. Their ancestor was granted these lands by William the Conqueror in 1066.
This sort of comment is actually a rather obscure compliment.

If you make something that's obviously shoddy, nobody confuses it for a serious product. Nobody is telling grandma that her knitting isn't as practical as a waterproof jacket from J. Random Outdoorswear Company. Nobody is telling the electronics newbie that a blinking LED isn't actually of any use to anyone. Everybody has nothing but positive encouragement.

But if you start to make actually really good stuff, requiring an enormous amount of skill and experience, you instead get "cool, but actually not quite as good as the nearest commercial competitor".

If you're so good at your hobby that people are comparing you to the literal state of the art, you're doing something right.
My point was that the architecture they are using has already been done multiple times for graph databases using things like RDMA (which has existed in HPC for ages), that is a known quantity. It was less "it's just engineering" and more I've seen similar implementations for a long time so what makes this different? I am interested in this space in part because I spent much of my time in HPC working on graph databases.
Can you define "cope" in that sentence?
I got the idea from the emails Intuit kept sending me saying that the desktop version was done and I'd have to buy a subscription from now on.
What are these used for in the “real” world?
On Android when installing from an unknown/unverified source, the installer can literally prompt you with a link to the correct settings page where you can enable installing from other sources, and once you click it opens the correct page, scrolls to the right toggle switch, and highlights it for you. So I totally believe OPs story.
> On every new windows 11 box of mine, I spend around 4-5 hours setting it up in a way to prevent any phone-home or auto-update. Group policies, deleting things, setting up fake domain controllers etc.

Would that even work on an Apple device?
there is a large collection of annotations for autosuggestion of commandline arguments for fish and other shells that should be usable too.
This makes perfect sense and the “why” is spot on.
I loved the series the first time through. Great concepts. First use of “dark forest” that I am aware of. Very specific arc of what could happen in the deep future.

I went to read it a second time and found I simply could not get through it. That which I found so exciting was significantly less so the second time around.
They are significantly more dangerous than using power lines to move the equivalent amount of energy.

This is one of the reasons we moved to electric lighting from gas lamps, but the same is true of home heating and electric cars etc.
This sounds similar to the no free lunch theorem in AI
Using a Golang package in Python using Gopy
Not really. Well, a project making a big deal about how many stars they have is a soft negative flag, but that's about it.
If you are asking yourself this question seriously, I implore you (whoever is reading this) to explore the incentives the different players have in every decision that is made.
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Show HN: Banana Beat Maker [Desktop Only]
I made this over 10 years ago, a game version of my friends video. I'm bored today, so I tried to get it running again.

I think this was the first thing I uploaded to github.

Code is horrendous - and no longer works on mobile.
Apparently, they took away the ability to set Volume in JS - is prob for the best.
Denying reality even after being proven wrong
You should quickly skim sections marked with a (comically fat) "!" symbol. These indicate their "key design choices and insights" in the design space.
In some cases that'd be fine -- namely, if they used the extra time to extend the QA process. Of course we all know it wouldn't work that way.
This was actually life, as in biological life.
The charge of Lack of innovation is more that they returning money to shareholders instead of funding more r&d (organic/acquisition) not how (dividends/buybacks )
They are not "fake", they are estimates from industry sources. There are in total four such estimates, all somewhat different, though similar:

https://xrdailynews.com/en/apple-vr-ar-headset-bill-of-mater...
>US investors are not doing this out of generosity.

Of course, neither are European investors, but that's not the point. The point is a dinamic jobs market where the money goes on ideas and businesses, insted of assets, pushes all wages up and benefits the middle class.

Investors living off land and other such rentseeking endeavors destroys the middle class as it's just feudalism with extra steps.

>There is little benefit to be gained from disposing of that wealth to speculate on the latest fad and facing taxes.

Of course, but this is the fault of our tax system which incentivizes land hoarding and rent seeking by those already afluent, at the expense of the have-nots looking to buy in.
Sure. But people pay to use GPT, and people pay to have others do their homework for them. Compensation is orthogonal to the question of whether someone else did the work.
I like Google's Jsonnet [1], which has all of this except for 4.

Jsonnet is quite mature, with fairly wide language adoption, and has the benefit of supporting expressions, including conditionals, arithmetic, as well as being able to define reusable blocks inside function definitions or external files.

It's not suitable as a serialization format, but great for config. It's popular in some circles, but I'm sad that it has not reached wider adoption.

[1] https://jsonnet.org/
look at https://gitlab.com/gnukhata/gkapp/-/issues

this is a AGPL V3.0 licensed accounting software aimed at small businesses and schools and professionals.

Its currently being developed for indian market because devs are all based out of india so if anyone wants to implement for their own country, please submit a PR.

we need more accounting softwares that are free and open source
I can expand: They are not actually better at capital allocation than the sum of market participants (obviously, who is?) and so when they lose money it is because the market is so stupid they are losing money, rather than some failure in their ability to model.
What is your definition of productive?
In an enemy-of-my-enemy perspective, Walmart comes out as the "good guy" here because their market position aligns best with the unbanked/underbanked audience.

Neiman-Marcus is less likely to complain about their audience not having access to modern payment rails; they might kvetch about the cost of accepting a Platinum Amex, but that's a different debate entirely.
> If anything, this protects smaller investors.

The only access investors have to outsized gains are through investing in the companies that invest in these companies. What small investors need are private equity index funds.

Someone else mentions Netflix vs. Blockbuster. Small investors would have been doubly screwed if they could only invest in Blockbuster because Netflix was still private.
There's the soft power LE uses also as a result of this issue. This covers things like abolishing encryption and privacy, scanning, liaisons, etc. I believe people self-censor when they know they are being monitored and LE knows that too.
GPG doesn't have competitors because modern security thought rejects the approach and treats it as a relic.

The modern thought is that security can't be an add-on, it needs to be part of the system. So encryption for a chat client and encryption for a web browser, and signatures on a binary are all different problems to be solved differently.
No as journos are all talk and no do (else they wouldnt be journos)
>"In a distinctly non-humanlike way".

Over the long term this is going to be a primary alignment problem of AI as it becomes more capable.

What is my reasoning behind that?

Because humans suck, or at least our constraints that we're presented with do. All your input systems to your brain are constantly behind 'now' and the vast majority of data you could input is getting dropped on the ground. For example if I'm making a robotic visual input system, it makes nearly zero sense for it to behave like human vision. Your 20/20 visual acuity area is tiny and only by moving your eyes around rapidly and then by your brain lying to you, do we have a high resolution view on the world.

And that is just an example of one of those weird human behaviors we know about. It's likely we'll find more of these shortcuts over time because AI won't take them.
Check out the Xilinx "Zynq" series of FPGAs. They have a lot of uses.
Can alligators climb trees? (2021)
Success to the successful
For awhile people realized that if you spam calendar invites they appear on your phone. Not sure how rot was solved.
Yep. So the trade off is then app compatibility or a radical new interface
I guess it would look very much like

A
#if B
#if D
#if F
G
#else
H
#else
E
#else
C
#end
The stuff at https://github.com/besm6 is great! Being much later, the programs are substantial, but it gives a better sense than the simplified examples like https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/examples/chapter... .
Sorry I don't think if you need to wait half an hour to see a result it's the same thing really.

You don't need to worry about deluge of AI content if it can only come from a few crazy people with top of the line hardware spending days iterating on prompts. Especially if really good GPUs start requiring a license. At some point it's just faster to learn to write properly.
A stock buyback is not much different than a dividend payout. Calling it "appeasement" is kinda ridiculous. Investors invest to get returns.
There are 6 Billion or so display users, give-or-take a billion.

Head mounted displays are just the obvious evolution of display technology.
> Now, when I see the US university curriculum even at schools like MIT. They take 3 calc classes before they even get to see the good things like combinatorics, statistics, etc? I mean why? What went wrong? There has to something that I am missing

Unfortunately I don’t have it offhand, and I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but I remember reading something a while back saying that this was the result of Cold War era education reform, when engineering fields were big.
What's "wrong" with the practice?
> “Market can stay stupid longer than you can stay insolvent.” -> Yeah, that is called cope.

You had me at the start but lost me here. That’s not speculation, that’s a fact. Some big shorters of the 2008 crisis almost went broke waiting for the market to catch up.
No idea if it's relevant but the name means "claws" in Swedish. Seems to fit with the hand posture during use, maybe.
Yes, or Trend Micro just wanted to get in the news with a spectacular sounding report. It would be a lot less interesting if all the affected brands were unknown ones.
In case when someone deliberately seeks such material, purchases it on a darknet market or distributes it to others - I totally agree.

But how does prosecuting someone for accidentally viewing it, because some sicko posted it on a public forum, helps exploited children?
What if the packets are kept on disk and sent only when not in private mode?
I recommend: William Gibson, China Miéville, Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks
Show HN: Filtir – Fixing ChatGPT Hallucinations
Hi HN,

Filtir edits text generated by ChatGPT to remove hallucinations and provides evidence to justify the edits.

Warning: it's a bit slow, because currently, it still relies partially on a biological large language model (working to remove this)...

Feedback is very welcome.
Always worth remembering that only the finetuned ChatGPT is so filtered. The raw GPT models accessible through OpenAI's API are not, and will happily generate violence, gore, pornographic content, etc. They never use the phrase "As an AI language model..." - if you ask gpt3.5-turbo "What are you", it will even claim to be a human being.

The "AI safety" argument that OpenAI is so fond of is nothing more than cover for policies that avoid making OpenAI look too socially disruptive. The APIs will always be accessed through someone else's frontend so they don't care about making them "safe".
A process that leads to more of people’s wants being fulfilled. By this definition, there is maybe mild productivity benefits from gambling, but nothing compared to giving money to productive enterprise that is resource constrained.
If you hold stock for more than a year, the dividends become "qualified dividends" and are taxed at long term capital gains rates.

The only practical difference is you pay taxes on the dividends when you receive them, and taxes on the capital gains when you sell.

Investors expecting a return on their investments? How awful!
As soon as I read about the programmable I/O setup, it reminded me of the Propeller series chips from Parallax. The "cogs" that are the main processors of those chips aren't as general use as something like the STM32 cores, but they do certain things very, very well.
In that case the CPU is basically the co-processor for the FPGA. I've yet to see a use that wasn't primarily using the FPGA because it needed to be an FPGA, they're not great if you just want to run something fast (outside of a few small uses).
Exactly. I also use capsword to capitalize more than a single character (autoshift gets old very quickly otherwise).

I also have one-shot combos for ctrl on the home-row, so to do Ctrl-N for instance I can just tap ring + middle finger on the home-row followed by N. Super convenient. (You can hold one-shot modifiers to act like a regular one too.)
Hi! I'm the author of this project :) Happy to answer any questions, and yes I know I need to finish it.

The project includes a VM for the BESM which I think has pretty sexy visuals: https://twitter.com/xldenis/status/1035557182337499137

I've been meaning to return to it now that I'm finishing my PhD thesis.
oneTbrain... What does the T stand for? I can only think of one appropriate acronym.
> Cyberstalkers with physical access to their victim’s iPhone can set up Phone Link with their own Windows PC

They can setup a lot of things. They can even see pictures or read messages. What is new here ?
Company makes money, company puts it into stock buybacks instead of company development and expansion.
Right, but what they are supposed to be modeling is the market, so if they went broke doing so they failed at doing that. [0]

> Some big shorters of the 2008 crisis almost went broke waiting for the market to catch up.

At what point are you a successful predictor of the 2008 crisis vs. a guy who just shorted the economy in 2006?

[0]: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/08/recessions_ofte.htm...
A vr headset is just a really big screen. Imagine how much stuff you can leave on your desktop if it’s a perfect sphere and you can sit in your office chair spinning round with it all whirling past you…
It’s time to guarantee healthcare to all Americans as a human right
If both sides are using a language with integer types, this is a non-issue. JSON does not prescribe the number types in use, so the implementations may just say that the field contains 64-bit integers, and just parse them to and from the usual int64 type of their language. It is also legal for JSON parsers to parse numeric literals into an arbitrary-precision decimal type instead of IEEE 574 floats.
Stating that someone “is a machine” is somewhat ambiguous these days as it is increasingly possible that they literally are one.
Thanks, that's good to know!

How is the Nvidia stock image beyond the home screen?
I would switch to Windows 95 If I could.
I think I might setup future networks to block all incoming AND outgoing connections by default, and then only open the ones I know or want (and perhaps even some of them “for a time” when clicked).

I already block the IoT junk/cameras.
> ...but this way they fuel a high demand for SW jobs leading to competition and high wages in the industry,

There are many sides to this. Over a decade ago, Apple colluded with other tech companies to artificially suppress wages by crafting "no-poaching" agreements. Facebook refused to play ball.