skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"cmov" and several more interesting instructions in the draft RISC-V Bitmanip proposal were dropped before it reached 1.0 though.

There is a new proposal: Zicond, but it is quite crude, with two instructions. The "czero.eqz" instruction does:

rd = (rs2 == 0) ? 0 : rs1;

And the other "czero.nez" tests for "rs2 != 0". Both are supposed to be result in an operand for another instruction, where a zero operand makes it a nop: for conditional add,sub,xor, etc.
Conditional move, however, takes three instructions: two results where either is zero which get or'ed together.

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-zicond/blob/main/zicondops.ad...

Otherwise, the intention was that bigger RISC-V cores would detect a conditional branch over a single instruction in the decoder and perform macro-op fusion into a conditional instruction.
No, Arroyo is written is Rust, but the web front-end is React.
> Right now I have no idea if I should continue to work on Sync but as a subscription only app or throw in the towel

> A subscription + incomplete experience (NSFW etc) to me just doesn't sound like a good deal for you guys

> We have less than a month to decide what to do...

I hope these developers haven't put all of their eggs in one basket. Depending on a company you've got no contract with must hurt.
UFO sightings are much less interesting then abductions. Sightings require almost no effort and ultimately can be explained away. But people who claim to be abducted basically are giving up the assumption they will ever be taken seriously again. So why tell others? Are there some subset of abductees who were actually taken? We certainly do the same to other animals so there's no reason why it wouldn't be done to us.
I'll remember this next time someone shares a Guardian article as evidence of anything.
Stars are broadband light sources, there isn't a specific starlight wavelength. Likewise, the Raleigh scattering in the atmosphere is largely a broadband source of light, since it is a reflection of our sun's light. You might get some slight benefit by looking at the redder end of the spectrum, but the improvement won't be massive.

However, stars are (to the nearest approximation) point sources. If you use a telescope and zoom in to the star, then you can spread the atmosphere brightness over a large area while concentrating the starlight into a very small area, which means you can see stars during the day. Couple that with a reasonable level of high dynamic range sensor and integration over time, and it would be quite possible to observe the positions of a load of stars during the day.
There is no benefit in one-upping other people in tic-tac-toe.

There is a massive benefit in one upping other people in life.
This is the entry level M1. 15fps at 1400x900 isn't great (or even playable), but it's very impressive that it runs at all without any changes, let alone on ultra settings.
You know, I actually think you're right about the process, but totally wrong about the results. Yes, AI art is different in terms of creativity. It is only grounded in reality to a lesser extent than human creativity.

Where you're going wrong is what society will go for. Given the choice between reality and fantasy ... society will choose fantasy. AI will "win" fantasy, hands down.
I'd attribute part of that to there being so few games available that you've got a captive audience and limited content.

Meta was proudly boasting about how the Quest 3 will have "Over 500 titles" - thats not something to boast about, it's just highlighting how incredibly poor the platform has been from a developer adoption standpoint.
"Good" is subjective, I guess.

Daniel Gross set up a company that seemed akin to indebted servitude, modern day slavery. They called it "Pioneer" and later changed the terms, I guess because of backlash.

They gave you a little bit of money to "do whatever you want" but owned a huge stake in anything you did in the future for a long period of time. They didn't advertise that part very heavily, they mostly portrayed it as "we're doing this because we're philanthropists" imo, rather than because they wanted to reinvent indentured servitude within the modern legal framework.

Why do I write these posts? Because I desperately want to believe we can get rich without doing dishonest, evil things. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's why all these guys behave this way. Maybe it really is never enough.
You're gonna sell your stocks in the most successful tech company of all time because they don't have enough video games? I think Apple has proven they can grow a company's value without games. But what we all want is a larger investment in games so the Mac becomes a competitive platform again.

Not to mention the headset... we'll see, but there is no reason to expect it won't be an insane commercial success by gen 3.
my money is on convergent evolution. trees and crabs and birds on every planet. not sure about primates though
I'm not a physicist but this reads like a more sensitive type of inertial navigation, which currently uses gyroscopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
If you (especially on behalf of any hip, popular platforms like Discord) undertake any projects to aggressively denoise or compress audio, please (PLEASE) do us people with auditory processing difficulties a favor, and include such people in your testing.

I beg of you, with utmost sincerity.
They've walked it back now, but they initially updated their content guidelines to basically say no non-Twitch advertising on their platform.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221942
Why would anyone want to do this psyop? Who benefits from this?
Yes this is where lack of controllers is going to be an issue. I guess you could use a PS/Xbox controller but then you may as well be playing on a pc.

I get why they didn't want to go the controller route, but they'll surely be very aware that it greatly limits what can be done with games.
> "Something in the Apple omertà makes me uncomfortable naming my collaborators as I normally would, even as I discuss the project itself."

I don't understand this. It's things they made them sign? I saw another article saying they make them sign a promise to not show they are wearing the headset, allegedly because they might look like huge dorks and cause brand risk.
Look at nostr. The beauty of being a protocol that shapes into twitter-style, forum-style, blog or upvotting reddit with the same text protocol underneath.

I guess the big innovation is owning your data and identity for a change. Those who invested in reddit for decades are now without chance to save their own data, at least without a way to move it elsewhere public.
For “serious play” I imagine you could hook up a Bluetooth game controller, just like you can with an iPad (and it sounds like this will run iPad apps).

Likewise for work you could use a normal keyboard. I think they did mention that in the presentation.
Incredible. That is indeed quite a figure.
Turns out that Cato the Censor was right.
I am surprised this is a big deal, I thought it was well accepted. (Other) Phoenicians did it, Romans practised human (not sure about child) sacrifice and I thought the Carthaginians themselves recorded doing it?

Humans are pretty crazy and we shouldn't pretend otherwise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehstrom%C3%BCbertragung_Lauf...
Yeah I mean I guess I’ve just stopped drinking entirely. What’s the point? I used to drink because I was anxious in pubs. Then I stopped. Then I stopped enjoying drunk people. I don’t push my views - but I’m not interested in it any more. I’m in the UK and our drinking culture is vile. I’ve never met a person I liked more drunk. It’s the aggression that gets me.
It's somewhat unlikely (but not impossible) that this method is based on navigating by matching patterns of the shape of the geoid (aka variations in g).

We need accurate maps of the geoid for a lot of different reasons. (Military as well as civilian. Potential fields geophysics is super useful for all kinds of different geologic use cases, and regardless, if you want to target an ICBM, you need an accurate geoid.)

However, a super precise gravimeter doesn't help much. We have more precision than we can use already. Rather ancient spring-based instruments from 100 years ago can actually still give more precision than we can use in many cases. Modern ship-borne gravity instruments work on different principles, but the signal is very noisy for the same external reasons.

The biggest issue is that you also need to know absolute elevation very precisely to use the measurement of g that you get. A few millimeters of error in elevation significantly changes the anomaly measurement you make. Sure, submarines can get accurate hydrostatic measurements of depth, but those assume a lot of things and critically aren't absolute. The ocean has currents - that's another way of saying that the surface of the ocean isn't "sea level". Those vary through time and would require satellite information to correct for. However, once you get down in the weeds, it gets tougher still.

Remember that we're dealing with an inverse square distance relationship. Things close by matter quite a lot.

People nearby standing in different positions? That actually does affect things. Easy enough to mount the instrument away from people, though. Different distributions of mass in the submarine? Also affects the measurement. You can correct for all of these in various ways, though, so long as you have information on it. It's just more complexity and another source of noise.

In the end, the "free air anomaly" measurement you'd be correcting things to is an bathymetry map, to the first order. If there's a landslide, that affects things quite a bit, and those happen all the time.

Finally, you'd be matching a "fingerprint" time series measurement as you travel to a pre made map. That's a non unique relationship. You'd have heading/etc information to help the non uniqueness part significantly, but when things don't vary much (i.e flat topography and not a ton varying geologically), you don't have much of a unique signal to match to.

At any rate, it's a very useful tool for many other things, but I'm skeptical it could be turned into a precise navigational aid. In combination with traditional gyroscopic/etc measurements of heading and distance, it could help constrain uncertainty, but it's not an independent measurement and it's relatively noisy.

Now that I think about it, though, a fully passive "seamount proximity sensor" is rather useful, and that's something you'd get even with a noisy signal...
Neither Perlin noise or Fast Square Root came from game development.
I learned so much from BYTE, Creative Computing, Dr Dobbs, Nibble, UnixWorld, and so many others.

But... I still receive my print subscriptions of IEEE's Computer and Spectrum and ACM's Communications of the ACM. Always great reads in physical format.

Reading them on a tablet definitely doesn't feel the same.
I'm very happy with GraphQL. We use it mainly for APIs that are consumed by several clients (web app, mobile app, other services).

The main benefit to us is that it's a huge time saver. There is almost no similar/duplicated code for similar operations (for example search, list and get operations). It's also very easy to write a generic API once, without thinking to much about how the clients will use it, and have it used in ways that weren't anticipated at the time it was written.

It's also pretty easy to have the API made of entities that are always the same, rather than having routes that return slightly different data.

Another benefit is that the default / basic tooling works well and with no setup. The playground works, it's easy to generate idiomatic clients in many languages, which is not really the case with openapi or grpc.

However, although I have no data to back this up, I feel that the adoption is not that high, and more advanced or unusual tooling doesn't exist or isn't very good or progressing.

Another problem is that developers don't seem to grasp the best practices intuitively and the docs don't make it very clear what they are, but it's necessary to use them to have a useful API and not a slow, more complicated version of REST.
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Using version history for ChatGPT-proof assignments
> I often wonder how much autocorrect will shape the evolution of language

Apple recently announced that it was going to stop autocorrecting a certain expletive intensifier to "ducking", and I think that one actually had the potential to catch on....

I wonder if it'll ultimately do more to preserve ridiculous quirks of English spelling (and US/UK distinctions) most people don't remember or care about than change language
They've had developer units but not a publicly released one as far as I know.

When Apple TV was being developed they were handing them out to devs for free like they had millions they were trying to get rid of. I was a lowly single app creator and they happily sent me one.

For the Intel to M1 migration they did something similar but required them to be returned this time, and limited which devs they sent them out to.
Given the overall trend of blaming Gen Z for everything, the title could as well read "Zoomers are causing event industry sales to plummet".
The apple device it seems most like is the iPad and likely iPad with sidecar.

The presentation clearly showed that you could use the goggles to display your macbook screen, so in that sense, if you want a screen in 3d space, or maybe even multiple screens in 3d space, you can have a window to whatever your macbook can do.

In the presentation, I believe they showed that they abstracted away the parts of IOS that are common to all systems and built visionOS on top of it, so we are likely to see a locked down IOS like ecosystem.

The flipside is that AR is an unproven technology with no killer apps, so a closed ecosystem and limiting OS api access could stymie innovation that might validate their investment in unproven "future tech."

I think it is plausible that apple might let a steam like service on their platform.
Would it be possible to replicate that on mobile phones? Or a special device is required?
1. trying to figure out the feasibility?
I wonder if they made similar contributions to MoltenVK as well to bring it up to the same quality standard.
Damn, that was deep!
Don't you see? The government is trying to suppress this information. That's why it has to be true! /s
I don’t know how it will actually work, but the Mac has always been click-to-focus, which would avoid that issue.
They are feasible and I dare say already working given its essentially a modded iOS, which already has support for game controllers.
Those are only the first steps. Companies with a relatively inflexible amount of programming that they need doing might lay off staff, but it'll have neglible net effect while other companies want more work done faster.

How much unmet need for software is there in the world? Probably an enormous amount. It's pretty easy to think of software you wished existed or wished had an extra ten thousand hours of improvements put into it. It could take decades before efficiency gains translate into reducing numbers of programmers in employment. ... Edit: I mean competent programmers in employment. Easy to imagine that when there are more highly productive programmers around there will be less need for the ones that are less so.
The demo with the vac is certainly not a success.

I sometimes wonder if all those filters optimise for a wrong thing. Removing noise is meaningless, unless the overall discernability improves. If you remove noise with the price of the voice becoming choppy, "robotic" and unnatural, you didn't improve the situation, and in some cases you can say only made it worse.

What even further deteriorates legibility for most noise suppression filters is the discrepancy between the completely dry pauses and the remaining ambiance "under" the voice. It would be much more interesting to see some style transfer for voice ambience as an alternative to current de-verbs.

When dealing with voice processing I advocate for restraining from noise suppression filters for as long as possible, and I haven't seen a publicly available noise suppression filter which could change my position yet.
We have enough knowledge of physics to say these are extraordinary claims that require some extraordinary evidence.
I don't. Not because of the idea of itself (I think the idea is good), but because of the implementation: we need yet another layer of abstraction to make it happen.

I would use GraphQL if it were natively supported (just like GET/POST/PATCH is, so no libraries on top needed).
> At least in the past even if it was an influencer, I knew it was a real person or location, if a little Photoshopped.

Maybe not you specifically, but society generally: why does one follow an influencer? Surely they won’t meet that person, likely won’t go to that location, can’t afford those clothes etc….

And in answering those questions, does AI generated content still fill that requirement? I suspect yes for some.

I do follow the occasional influencer and brand. Some because I want to peak into a glorious resort filled life I won’t have, others to see remarkable places I won’t go. If those were fake, maybe I’d feel better about FOMO.

Some people (especially queer people) follow influencers to experience people and social groups who are like them, when they don’t see them in their normal life. AI content can’t replace that.
Proton isn’t as massive an achievement as the sun! That thing pumps out around 2.3012⋅10^27 joules a second!
Nothing to do with C++ - it's a plain C code as a matter of fact but that's not important at all. What the code does is that it employs low-level intrinsic knowledge about the CPU microarchitecture (x86-64) and compiler codegen ability (clang) so that they can pack as many instructions per cycle as they can so that the resulting (de)compression speed is improved. You cannot write such piece of code so that it looks "beautiful" to an average Joe.
> Okta for example charges $2 just for sign in: https://www.okta.com/pricing/

You're looking at the wrong product, $2/user/month is for their Workforce Identity Cloud, so auth for employees, not end users.

For a comparable market segment, Auth0 (acquired by Okta) which serves the B2C market charges significantly less [1]. Taking the B2C Professional plan at 1000 MAU which has the highest pricing per user due to lack of volume discounts costs $240/month for 1000 users ($0.24/user/month). Scaling up to the limit of publicly available pricing, at 10000 users Auth0 will only charge $0.15/user/month.

[1]: https://auth0.com/pricing
Firefox has a love relation to be sponsored by Google, no thanks.

Brave was founded by the same person in front of firefox for many years, plus blocks advertisements. Their team built a capable search engine.

Don't really want to use a browser with a political agenda that goes against me.
I don't think this is something most "normal" people will do. However, I can see use cases in industry where grabbing a quick photo of some equipment etc might be useful, or in sports where for example cyclists could have a heads up display and use the camera to capture a beautiful view they discover.

As a parent myself, the idea that someone would stop what they are doing to put on goggles to take a photo seems crazy. You would miss the moment. The only reason I use my phone for most photos over a DSLR or Mirrorless is because the phone is right in your pocket and instantly available at all times. I'm pretty sure the newer iPhones already have lidar sensors don't they?
Nice, imagine all these games on an iPad…
Wow. Your mom is a wizard.

Thanks for the hint, that Geron has books on machine learning. I know him from a YouTube video, where he explains how they use the google knowledge graph for YouTube: https://youtu.be/ywfYMQD6yYk

He explains it so well. Then his books are worth a read.
I don’t really understand what is meant by “the months of Hitler’s occupation” — occupation of what? And what months?

Hitler didn’t invade/occupy Russia but the Soviet Union, but that fact notwithstanding, Operation Barbarossa launched in June of 1941 and the Germans weren’t pushed out of Stalingrad until February of 1943.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Not much of anything the Carthaginians recorded survived. Their civilisation was destroyed as thoroughly as possible, and the only proper accounts of it are Roman and Greek. So nearly everything about Carthaginian history is naturally controversial for that reason.
Apple has video games, there are probably more people playing games on iPhone than ps5/Xbox combined. Many very popular Moba/eSports titles also work on Mac (LoL, all things blizzard, cs:go). The fact that there aren't many AAA games (that you can play on consoles anyway, not your laptop) is not a problem for Apple.