skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably an unreasonably hard problem, but I asked ChatGPT to write me a boot sequence for an AWS machine that would write "hello, world" to the serial port then terminate the instance.

What I got was some fairly generic stuff about bootloaders, and some hallucinated links to non-existent AWS Nitro whitepapers.

I was probably expecting far too much, but it was disappointing given reports of it approximately solving problems out of whole cloth.
No, it means that Apple rewrites your app and releases their version for free with macOS, destroying your business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherlock_(softwar...
Great post. I'll propose one more "myth": writing a blog doesn't benefit you personally, except by drawing attention. I've found that writing about a topic can also be a great way to solidify your own thinking on that topic. There ideas that I've understood much better after blogging about them. Basically, you're using the entire Internet as your "rubber duck".
I think they purposefully avoided showing a VR controller because they're making the claim that you don't need one at all for the use cases they were showing.

I think they're claiming that their hand and eye tracking are good enough that you don't need to be waving your arms around to navigate menus.

They did show people using a Playstation controller to play games so I assume there will eventually at least be a third party VR controller.
It's so atrocious with the Quest 2 as to be virtually unusable though.

It's black and white, low-res, incredibly grainy, and there are weird seams in a bunch of transition spots because the cameras are further apart than the eyes so it's doing weird reconstruction. It's legitimately hard to grab objects using it because your arms and hands aren't quite in the right place.

What Apple looks like they're doing makes it actually useful.
microsoft 365 is down https://downdetector.com/status/microsoft-365/
Once people get an AppleTV, do they go back to a chromcast/roku/firestick/media pc?

It has a higher MSRP than the others, but once you get one…
Sounds like you know that this new product weighs less than a large laptop.
Apple’s Vision Pro headset seems too good to be real – because it basically is
Yeah, I said this about videophones in 2002 or so. I was sure I was right. Videophones had been reinvented five times over. You could only use it at home, sitting on the couch, giving it your full attention. Who would want to have regular conversations that way enough to pay for a videophone with limited compatibility?

Now I go to the supermarket and people are holding their phones out at arm's length having FaceTime conversations at full volume with their adult kids.

Once 3-D works and integrates with physical objects it's going to be a big deal. We just keep failing at that.

Social stuff changes.
> It’s a professional tool

That you use to look at family photos, use iPhone apps in a giant window, watch movies, and play with VR Mickey Mouse? The presentation seemed to lean more towards the consumer than industry applications.
Fun fact. DOCSIS 1.0 through 3.0 cable Internet uses MPEG-2 Transport Streams to deliver the IP packets. It has to, because the QAM specification (ANSI/SCTE 07) is built around 188 byte TS packets.
The content you’ve linked really does a good job at showing how completely decentralized P2P social media is a terrible, terrible idea.
The Quest doesn't. It's not detecting facial expressions at all, it doesn't have cameras to do so.
I saw this on reddit today

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/141n...

Unfortunately it's actually a music video prop not a combat vehicle, but a man can dream
"guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people" is the usual rhetoric I see.

This is perfectly fine, if you didn't have a country with a mostly failed education system, increasingly extreme views due to the media, and more and more people getting financially crushed by "trickle down economics".

I get that guns aren't the problem. Unfortunately you have enough of a population that can't be trusted with guns.
I'm going to call "mostly wrong" on the server-to-server propagation.

By 2000 the NNTP mesh was very interconnected and fast. Sites competed[1] to get messages propagated fast. Especially text messages.

Any site hooked into the mesh was going to be offered any article multiple times within seconds of it being posted.

Slow articles would happen but only during outages or with sites that were not following good practice.

[1] Via http://top1000.anthologeek.net/
this is very readable if you know to read the operations inside-out instead of left-to-right
I got a base-spec MacBook Pro 16 inch with the M2 Pro chip from work last week. Before that, I was on my Linux workstation with an AMD Ryzen 3950x, a desktop CPU released 3.5 years ago.

The compile time for a debug build of LLVM and MLIR is basically the same on those machines, the desktop machine only winning by a little bit. Roughly 10 minutes. Yes, of course desktop vs. laptop is unfair, but it's also a 3.5 year old chip.

And if you really want all-out performance, there are still AMD ThreadRippers, which should easily beat an M2 Ultra in almost all multi-threaded workloads.

(Details on the benchmark run: Building LLVM from source using precompiled LLVM 15 downloaded from the official website, debug build, only clang;mlir;lld projects, using mold/sold linker on Linux/Mac respectively, ninja build tool).
Okay I need details. What distro and headset? What are you using it for?

I've been playing with an Index on Gentoo but it's been a buggy mess and I really just wanna use it for VRChat without having to boot into Windows.
You misunderstand, it’s two hours with the battery pack connected, there’s no internal battery that’s intended for standalone use.
I wonder if we will be able to connect this to a PC for use with steam VR. All of the best things in VR happen in the PC realm where you don't have to jump through hoops to get your experiments out to others.
I agree with the general thrust of your point, but I should point out that there are non-technological ways to error-proof. E.g., this pre-computer approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping
See also: "Best practices."
well, i have seen a lot of very bad c++ code in my time, but nothing like this.
> I sincerely hope this might make Chrome change its mind.

I take this to suggest that Chrome actively decided against implementing JPEG XL? Did they consider supporting it and reject support for it, or has it simply not been prioritized, but still might be prioritized one day?

If the decision was intentional: did they state a reason why?
Marlboro Man boss calls for date to be set for a full smoking ban
It's hard to be excited about a device that will supposedly be released early next year yet had no live demos. How do we know that anything they announced will work as expected?

I recall that with the original iPhone and Apple Watch, they even had live demos 6+ months ahead of their release.
Games that can beat Beat Saber?
It has been 5 years since the Beat Saber is out, what are the games in AR/VR that give an immersive experience that could rival it?
I can see where you are coming from but it doesn't make too much sense to me. Why can't we have both.
$1500 + for the fastest consumer GPU is one thing, $3500 for a slow computer that wraps around your head with no real application is another. This thing is priced for the US defense dept (its biggest opportunity), and other tiny specialized industries. Even if it were $350, i still would barely be intrested tbh ...
Not anymore in common usage. ML is roughly "learning from data". AI has had some historical meanings, but in the last 10 years became first a marketing term for Deep Learning (a subset of ML) and now a term for LLMs and Diffusion Models (and the like). Which are subsets of deep learning.

There still exist people who refer to AI as the general study of computerizing intelligence, just like somebody somewhere is still telling people that "begs the question" means dodging it. But the most applicable definition of AI as it's commonly used right now is the as the brand under which OpenAI and friends are releasing generative neutral neural network models.
Extropia's Children Redux
How rationalism, cryptocurrencies, effective altruism, and modern AI philosophy/doom were all birthed from an obscure 90s mailing list.
Definitely experienced all 3, but still getting more boost than drag overall.

The large codebase context might be somewhat solvable and I've seen projects that use embeddings to find the relevant bits of code to feed GPT to help it with context. No clue how well any of them work though, haven't tested them yet.

I've definitely noticed times when the conversation gets cut off and it can't "remember" the previous messages. Often, it results in a loop of ChatGPT giving me a solution, me getting an error and sending it back, then ChatGPT being terribly sorry and suggesting a new solution. Repeat 3 times and often we make a full circle to the first solution in this way...
Waiting for MK2 Ultra
If they could only apply this concept to an iPad…
It doesn't matter very much that the "official" instruct tune is censored as anyone can create their own and there will probably be many freely available ones as happened with LLaMA.

There is one already: https://huggingface.co/ehartford/WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-...
Here Maps is still available on iOS and Android with offline maps. Owned by an EU auto consortium and well maintained.
Well, we just had Apple boast about 5000 patents.
My Mom went to her favourite store, and took Gran and me with her.
It's weird to use the name "plebbit" considering that's the derogatory term for Reddit used by 4chan folk. It's like begging for this to be a dumping ground for some of the worst human behaviors.

Does the decentralized nature mean that illegal content can't be easily be removed?
There’s a third perspective, largely unspoken: organized crime is a valid use-case for crypto and it will likely remain so. Even if all “legit” CEXs went bust you’d still have a path for cross-boarder transfers of value that can be exchanged on local black markets.
From April: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/free-software-group-...

Discussed several times previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563378
Fair. Probably. We’ll grow into it. Vision feels slightly too generic and off product. Kinda like how they spell it “Apple silicon” and not “Apple Silicon”.
Curious to hear anyone's experience playing non-VR-optimized games on a VR headset, as I have a lot of those types of games and am working on a WebRTC project that streams those types of games.
Relevant thread, for those who’re curious: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
There's an Ampere workstation with like 128 arm cores as an alternative you can run Linux on. But it's going to run $5k+
Yeah, actually you're on to something. I admired the hardware but you just nailed the feeling I was getting from this presentation but couldn't describe.

It's the old print magazine adverts for the Atari ST or Amiga or early PC's... and shown on the screen was a spreadsheet...(and don't get me wrong, I love a good spreadsheet, but.... )
I'd love to be able to update apps without going to the App Store. Just long-hold an app and have an update option, or at least a "see update in App Store" option. Most of the time I go to the App Store, I have to wait for it to load a bunch of ads, then click search, then type the app, then hit update.
There is an article on the debfrief about this too https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-re...

That site is a bit more reliable than the New York sun, there is also a “fact check” sister article.
Yes, it's meaningless.

Once again, these huge corporations are destroying the world for profit and getting away with it.
US SEC sues Binance, founder Zhao alleging securities law violations
https://archive.is/H4xWz
> "We have identified the problem as a street cut impacting hundreds of fiber-optic strands"
meta has consistently been releasing affordable products only. They've been on a mission to drive the price of VR down to widen potential audience, because for them the VR metaworld is the actual platform they want to own and sell.

Apple showed a headset that does what most headsets do, but better, with a lot of nonsense features ("it shows your eyes!") and a stable of mobile ios apps for launch, at a price thats unreachable to most buyers.

People buy quests for their kids, they aren't going to be doing that with apple vision anytime soon.

So its actually not that apple disrupted 10 years of vision at all. Apple's vision is totally different from metas, and meta continues. You have an imaginary view of what meta is trying to accomplish because meta isn't interested in $3500 unicorn headsets.

If meta could figure out $100 headsets that gave a decent experience theyd be doing that. This apple vision isn't related to meta's vision at all, and hasn't disrupted it. Meta wants to run the metaworld to control what you see. If they could get there without VR headsets they'd do that first.
the US Supreme Court has gutted federal protection for wetlands – now what?
I think its a growing separate population

I’ve toured sublets recently and met the current tenants, and some of them are not using ipads, laptops and TVs for their digital entertainment consumption, but instead using a Quest or other wireless headset.
Raccoons have achieved flight?
No, I only used Option<Int> because the person I replied to did, and I don't expect them to know what Maybe Int means.
And now Apple Maps will have it, yay!
There's an interesting parallel between this critique and bad interviewing practices - the kind where the interviewer has a toy problem with a particular "correct" answer in their head and asks the interviewee to figure it out. A lot of the prominent critiques of AI seem to be taking the form "LLM are based in statistics, so they fail to produce strictly-defined solutions, therefore they have little value", which is as close to a straw-man argument as you can make.

Instead, I tend to value critiques that check whether LLMs are useful for the huge number of challenges that we have as programmers where we have to infer 'best' solutions from under-defined problems, or where we have a large set of reference data but need to infer patterns/correctness - those challenges are just as hard (if not harder) than implementing algorithms precisely, so

- I accept that LLMs aren't good at implementing specific algorithms
- Can they help write exhaustive unit tests based on code and/or a written spec?
- Can they help identify potential errors in your best attempt at a solution, even if they can't 'fix' the errors?
- I can think of a hundred ways to get use out of "a cocky graduate student, smart and widely read, also polite and quick to apologize, but thoroughly, invariably, sloppy and unreliable" - that's a skill that programmers now need to develop, but there's a huge amount of potential in such people, and an analogous potential in LLMs.
A union's power is not solely in the ability to threaten to strike. Collective bargaining, for one. Right now, there is zero bargaining for postdocs over salary or benefits. You start work and you get the salary on the chart for your years of experience. How were those numbers decided? I don't know, but actual current postdocs had zero input. Simply forcing the NIH to have to sit down at a table and justify their (unjustifiable) numbers with the union would be a win.
What’s up with Apple touting this headset for remote work while they were one of the first to force people back to office.

And now Facebook/meta too.

Marketing hypocrisy.
Author should've read up on the tech first.
Will it solve the problem though? Assets & IP would be auctioned off. Shell companies would be formed to handle liability. The problem lies with the people who made the decisions that led to the toxic materials being discharged into the environment & the people harmed.

A Chapter 11 would allow the same staff who caused the problems to join the new companies. Unless the people who caused the problems are personally & criminally held liable, nothing would change.
Stock Discovery Algorithm
Stop Silly Security Awards
About the "posts need to be 100% correct", I sometimes read through my old blog posts and find a bunch of errors. If it was a post on HN you can no longer edit it, but if it's your own blog you can just edit and make corrections! Sometimes I add a note like "Me from the future..." it feels like time travel.
Overcharging on those kinds of bumps is standard industry practice, though. I just checked Lenovo, and they want $224 to bump an X1 from 16GB to 32. And that’s a sale price, the normal price is $340 (which seems largely theoretical since thinkpads are eternally on some kind of sale, but that’s neither here nor there).

Apple-to-apple (heh) comparison is tricky in this case since I don’t see LPDDR5 laptop chips for sale on their own, and this is a soldered-on-laptop chip so DIY after buying isn’t feasible, but an entire 32GB DDR5 desktop set can be had for about $100, so even if the low-power laptop form-factor commanded a premium, that’s still pretty egregious.

Dell is similar: for a desktop they want $200 to bump from 16GB to 32GB DDR5.

Apple might be a bit more daring with those prices than some PC manufacturers, but it’s hardly a behavior unique to them.
Historically, I think it dates back to Jobs not liking them, Apple doesn't really care about games. It begrudgingly accepts them on the platform as second rate citizens since there's a lot of money involved.
Yeah I think first generations of apple products are for the curious, the rich, and the engineer seeking to build the next generation of apps on their new platform. I never look at them as “a good deal,” or a mature product. I think that’s foolish for any 1.0 of anything. Generally 3.0 is where maturity begins, and 5.0 is where incrementalism starts.
>Nazis, for example,

Then you have the problem of labeling everyone that disagrees with you a "nazi" for example just because they favor strong border laws, and immigration controls, or oppose social justice and ESG "capitalism" or other such things

Or the true crime of having a difference of opinion with a trans person...

>>This is not necessarily a bad thing.

yes it is a bad thing, it will always be a bad thing, even if doing to to actual nazi's not the new age defination of "nazi's" which seemly is anyone that happened to vote for Trump, or holds conservative political positions.

>>If people are calling for enforced neutrality, they're really calling for government regulation

yes and no, depends on what we are talking about

Are we talking about an already heavily regulated industry like banking. This yes 100% I am calling for enforced neutrality. JP Morgan Chase, nor MasterCard should be able to refuse business to someone for the protected political speech.

Services like AWS, or CloudFlare.... No I would not call for supported regulation but then we come full circle back to loss of cultural support for Free Expression

There was a time were the ACLU would defend the KKK's right to speak, We should return to those days, where the axiom was "I disagree with you but I will defends your right to say it"

If we at the point was the population is pushing for AWS to de-platform competitors of Twitter because of disagreements over politics we are not far removed from government censorship

The reality is you would likely support both, as you clear abhor actual free speech

This is also why Elon's purchase of Twitter was so critical and 100% support his efforts.
> you’ve become basically unapproachable

I don't want people talking to me on planes.
An empty string could be interpreted as a null integer.

Now how do you do that with a string? If you have to ask these questions, CSV is probably not the right format.
Not by machines in driving trucks
It supports wireless keyboard and a trackpad. For sure mouse is not a problem.
Why do you care about paying taxes in funny money? I never understood complaints about inflating money by gold bugs or cryptocurrency advocates. The presence of a mismanaged currency is your opportunity to profit so you should be cheering for its collapse. The only situation where you end up losing out is if you have a fixed income in the mismanaged currency.
You want your tax bill to inflate away so the government accepting Bitcoin for taxes is not that meaningful to you.

I mean, if I follow the same logic I should advocate for collapsing the economy with tight money policies because I can then work on financial innovations that undo the government intervention.
They did all the work required to implement it, sat around for a few months, and then removed it, before anyone else even noticed it was there / had a chance to start integrating it.

My personal conspiracy theory is that some Google engineer who works on Chrome, came up with "JPEG XL support" as a feature they could work on, pushed it through to prod, patted themselves on the back, and forgot about it; but this was all done without first getting sign-off from whoever at Google is trying to push for WebP to be a thing. When that person or group noticed "Chrome now supports JPEG XL", they got that support ripped out.
There's a little gap between a programmer saying he "gets no value" from AI and "turning programming into a completely different process".

I'm sure AI will close that gap ;)
There are several clones. They all follow the same pattern.

1) clone Reddit
2) must attract users because Reddit's value is in the large user base
3) the only early adopters are the ones who are banned from Reddit
4) curious 'normies' visit the clone to find it is full of white nationalists
5) clone dies

e.g. Voat
The alternative is me sitting at my desk, with my back to the kids, while I tell them to stop bumping into my chair.

Which one seems more engaged with their kid?
I liked how one of the cards on the screen was a sound card, as if a PCIe slot wasn't 1000x overkill for that amount of I/O. We had USB ports that could handle that when Bill Clinton was still president of the United States.
My brain loves to pretend that this is what happened for millions of years, but the truth is that it turns into dust and "dirt." Things still weather and get broken. Even stone turns to sand. But it takes longer than we're currently used to and the particles don't get processed. But this same event that the parent linked led to all our coal as well as an important niche that modern fungi hold today (they existed back then, but couldn't process the lignin. Interesting thing, there's a term called "evolutionary radiation" and this was one of the largest periods of time for this, but it is not related to the radiation in the context of Chernobyl.
Tech is so cheap now. When the Macintosh II came out in 1987 [1]:

> When introduced, a basic system with monitor and 20 MB hard drive cost US$5,498 (equivalent to $14,160 in 2022). With a 13-inch color monitor and 8-bit display card the price was around US$7,145 (equivalent to $18,400 in 2022).

Even the Commodore 64 was expensive [2]:

> Volume production started in early 1982, marketing in August for US$595 (equivalent to $1,800 in 2022).

If the experience is worth it and there's no cheaper competitor, people have the money for these things.

And honestly, as a big user of the Quest 2 -- the Quest 3 isn't anywhere close to the same ballpark as this. Apple Vision Pro looks absolutely more than 7x better, the only question is whether it's worth it for you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
I have a collection of your prior posts on the subject that I’ve been saving for this purpose!