skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try VR porn. Like actually try it. I have heard it loses it's gimmick really fast. It's extremely limited because the camera rig required for video content is restrictive, and the only ones who can afford it are really boring studios, and it's not actually "VR", but merely "3D with a large field of view", which turns out to not be that great, and the "games" that let you interact are often cash grabs, and plenty more often just store bought 3D assets with extremely mediocre animation.

Go look at the VR porn subreddit. It's really not impressive. Also the story that VHS won because of porn is a lie. Porn doesn't drive innovation like most people claim.
what you don’t like in macOS?
Onion futures are banned in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
> We have lots of examples of this in other heritable disease types

You're saying that diseases persist in humans because they're selected for, because they're beneficial to others? That's interesting, do you have some examples?
Navigating Office Policies: A Guide to a Harmonious Work Environment
Just don't get married then?
Has there previously been a system where one could live without working at any point, except in the case of positions taken and held by force?
> Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross provided the pre-seed funding.

Why? Why should VCs get involved again?

They are just going to look for an exit and end up getting acquired by Apple Inc.

Not again.
You could say that about almost any technology, yet we also have to face the reality that every technology has social implications. Take the Internet. A lot of people who were around in the 1990's thought it was a great thing at the time. Perhaps it wouldn't be the great equalizer, but it would reduce the barriers to access information. Consider the Internet today. It is undoubtedly better at reducing the barriers to access information, yet I doubt that many people have such an optimistic view of the technology. We discovered that it is just as good, perhaps even better, at distributing junk information. We discovered that the information becomes consolidated in a limited number of hands. The technology itself hasn't fundamentally changed. Even the use of the technology hasn't fundamentally changed. It simply took time for the distributed to become consolidated. It was almost certainly a given that this would happen as wealth facilitates growth and growth attracts people who wish to exploit it for wealth.

Does that mean the world is worse off because of the Internet? Probably not. Even if it was, I'm not sure I would want to give it up because I remember the hurdles I faced before the Internet was nearly universal. That said, I do believe we should be conscious about how we use it and skeptical of those who present hyper-optimistic views of new technologies. While some may be genuine in their visions, we also have to factor in those who wish the exploit it for their own benefit and to the expense of others.
> no one cares that Stripe, Twilio, or Plaid aren't fully open source

You keep drawing parallels to fintech

> Tbh, it's pretty much the same reason that made Plaid popular with the fintech ecosystem.

But it's not the same thing. It's impossible to legally implement this yourself. You can't just make a library (I, naively, did try). All that being said, I understand the product now. It's not for me, but that's ok. Thanks for being so responsive
I don't understand how this is obvious -- non-locality does not inherently imply that iteration increases complexity. For a concrete not-entirely-trivial counterexample, von Neumann's middle-square method also appears "non-local" (in that every output bit is a function of a majority of the input bits including well-separated ones) but famously tends to converge to short orbits if not a single constant value.
So the geography didn't matter in the slightest for the evolution of Mexican political, military and economic history? The federalism isn't due to the impossibility for a central government to exert any sort of real control?

How long does it take by train to move goods from the main Pacific to the main Atlantic port (oh, btw how many big natural harbours are there in Mexico?)? How long from agricultural lands or where industry is located?

To pretend like the geography of Mexico hasn't had any impact in it's political or economic development would be missing a decent part of the big picture.
> Java isn't more scalable, stable or simple than any other solution, that's Java consultancy bullshit.

Twitter would disagree[0].

> We now have the capacity to serve 10x the number of requests per machine. This means we can support the same number of requests with fewer servers, reducing our front-end service costs.

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0: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/
Can I just ask why the hell are cab rides expected to be tipped?

What is the "above and beyond" service being performed now that your phone does the navigation for you? Never had a cabbie help me with luggage either.

Just charge me $X per mile and don't bother me during my ride (some cabbies were actually asking ME for directions, when I already gave them the address).
Alternative alternative headline: the SEC wants to have their cake and eat it too while "protecting" "investors"
> Why would that change anything about tipping at all?

It shifts the cost of hiring an employee back from the customer to the employer where it belongs.
That's called Righteousness.

Until you win hearts and minds, nobody's going to want to hear what you have to say. Strafing a community with truth bombs will not endear them to you, even if you're right.
Yeah I really hope this is real. I won't be able to participate for sure but the mere recognition of existence of such projects is going to impact global society profoundly.
I think the ability to block/ignore users would be much better than having down votes. If some poster is simply insufferable to a person, better that they have the ability to block than that they silence by downvoting.

And upvoting people you disagree with if they move the discussion forward in a good way is something we all should do, but it is a struggle.
It is not at all surprising to me that he would refuse to answer the question, but the precise reason he is doing that is so that the SEC has freedom of movement to regulate without being pinned down by public statements he has made in front of congress. But that entire notion belies the idea that the regulations are super clear or predictable. The whole reason for this kind of maneuver is because the regulations are not clear or predictable.

I have no doubt he has discussed the status of ethereum with SEC lawyers before.
Purely speculative, but I suspect quite a number of vr players have gotten used to the floating movements.
Some vr games are just vastly better using floating movements, especially FPS games. Look at Pavlov VR for example, it's honestly the best movement I've ever used in VR, but it requires the player to overcome the motion sickness introduced by the floating movement.
And if players are getting used to it, I'm guessing new games have an easier time utilizing that?
Apple is best off with 4 tiers eventually.

Vision Pro. Vision Classic. Vision Air. Vision S. (expensive, everyday, luxury slim, budget.) They can also make variants of those 4 using Nano and Max modifiers.
Isn't SwiftData mostly a wrapper around CoreData?
Wait, how did I miss that it is now possible to tweet full-size essays?
I don't want you to store my credit card info
If given the option, I never have online vendors store credit card information. The only exception to this rule are well-known vendors I believe I can trust. An easy example of this is Amazon.

What are examples of vendors I definitely do not want storing my CC info? Well, an easy one that came-up recently is the local parking service I use by the airport when I travel. I just don't trust them with anything other than providing a spot to park my car.

I see plenty of websites that do have an option to not store CC info.

Are there consumer rules requiring this option?

It would seem this should be common sense. I mean, just because someone has a website they should not be entitled to store data you do not want them to have.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877893

“OpenAI recently released a model for automatic speech recognition called Whisper. I decided to reimplement the inference of the model from scratch using C/C++. To achieve this I implemented a minimalistic tensor library in C and ported the high-level architecture of the model in C++.”

That “minimalistic tensor library” was ggml.
I don't use Rust. But the point I'm making is that, whether it's GLSL, HLSL, or whatnot, it all has more of a guiding influence over the code that gets compiled and actually runs on your GPU.
Yes. 99% are just too busy to fuck with your food.
> TFA says that Python being dynamic means it is not type-checked at compilation time -- that's practically the same as saying the opposite of "python is strongly typed" for most people's intended meaning of "strongly typed".

Strong typing is a weak concept (pun intended). The most useful meaning is, roughly, no or little automatic type coercion (so a numeric tower might still be "strong", but coercing a string "1" into the number 1 is "weak"; `"1" + 1` => `"2"`). Anyone who uses "strong typing" as synonymous with "static typing" is making a very silly mistake.
Is it similar to the mainframe in concept?
> It's a C++ library that Google needs to secure and maintain security patches forever.

Compile it to wasm and run it in a sandbox? Or throw some rust groupies at it?

> Once released, it's pretty much impossible to rollback support for media formats on the web.

We must live in a time where flash still dominates short web animations, streaming providers use silver light and every enterprise user is stuck waiting for the companies 5GB Java applet to load right when IE6 suddenly pops up to kill everything with an ActiveX based Windows update that adds more video codecs instead of removing them from the system. The list goes on forever. Browsers are not above killing features and breaking things for security reasons or if they just feel like it.
Maybe I was too biased when I skimmed through it. I understand that people all have complex psychologies and being aware of the recurrent traits is useful. But to me it lacks real warmth.. I'll try reading it again.
Congrats Jerry! Amazing community and excited to see you all continue to build.
Completely agree about MKBHD. My point was strictly that Stratechery is trash.

I cannot argue with Apple’s ambition but as has been hashed over in these, and many other comments I am skeptical of the adoption story.

The [i]VP is a snazzy product without a market. It remains to be seen whether it will create the market in the way gpt3 did or if it will be another flop like glass, oculus, and every other attempt in the space.
Maybe they think an obscure way to close down apps will lead to less dissent?
That’s on Mac. PWAs on Mac aren’t a new capability since Chrome et al have had it for a long time. I’d be more interested if they improved iOS PWA capabilities
Ouch. If somebody told me that account is a bot, I wouldn't think twice about it.

But it doesn't look hostile. It's just random noise.
Scientists are exploring how deadly gamma-ray bursts could sterilize the Earth
There is a difference in perspective here. Being a sitting president didn't excuse him from breaking their codes of conduct.

A person who broke their codes of conduct, who also happened to be a sitting president, was mass banned.
What escalation? These mods need Reddit, but Reddit doesn't need them at all. Suppose Reddit banned every single mod today. They'd have a rush of incoming volunteers, and the quality of moderation might actually improve if anything. I'm saying this as someone who is pretty bummed about losing 3rd party apps.
It doesn't work, because you can't constrain the user's hand to match what's happening in the game, meaning it completely removes any immersion benefit you get from VR in the first place.

Melee in VR feels awful. It feels like swatting flies.

Shooting in VR is amazing. There are multiple games that let you play Star Wars battlefront knockoffs so you can cosplay the droid army.
Is there an app using this for coaching running form, or doing a custom bike fitting? That would be awesome.
Yes, see for instance prediction markets in the US.
> It is not at all surprising to me that he would refuse to answer the question, but the precise reason he is doing that is so that the SEC has freedom of movement to regulate without being pinned down by public statements he has made in front of congress.

Because they're a legal body and what they say off hand is precedent, so of course they have to be measured and thoughtful. This was a shameful display, but not by Gensler.

> I have no doubt he has discussed the status of ethereum with SEC lawyers before.

Me too, but again, I refer you to the DAO Report and the Framework for “Investment Contract” Analysis
of Digital Assets

> But that entire notion belies the idea that the regulations are super clear or predictable. The whole reason for this kind of maneuver is because the regulations are not clear or predictable.

They're quite clear, and the whole reason for this kind of maneuver is showboating and pandering. Based on this thread it seems to be working.

In a similar vein I'm confident that Brian and his attorneys have spoken and concluded that they're almost 100% certain to be securities, and for that reason, they chose to avoid working with the SEC at all costs at every point along the way. But of course that determination would undermine the business, so off to court we go.
> But without patent protection there is a zero reason to spend $2 billion to $3 billion to get a drug through FDA trials when a competitor can make a generic afterwards for roughly $5 million and undercut you dramatically in the market as a result.

I see. The solution here is simple: let the private labs go bankrupt, hire their researchers in public facilities. You’ll get your innovation back. As for the costs, well, sure you need to pay those researchers, but you get most of that back in the form of much cheaper medication.

I mean, why keep capitalism in the areas where it is so obviously failing? I want effective roads, schools, energy, water, hospitals, mass transportation… along with health insurance, retirement plans, unemployment insurance… and for all of those, the best way I know of is to make them public.

And while we’re at it I’d like some democratically run media that aren’t owned by a bunch of ludicrously rich people, so I don’t get automatic propaganda about why making the above public doesn’t work. Because it does. I’m living in France, I’ve seen it work.

> People complain about patents endlessly without offering a realistic solve for this problem

I think I just did. But you have to accept that it means reducing the scope of Capitalism, if not outright ending it. If you don’t, well… explain to me how Capitalism will somehow not burn our planet to a crisp and depletes its resources. Because as far as I can tell the "only system that works" will not work for long. It cannot. Because Physics. Thus it will end, one way or another, and it’d be nice if it didn’t take the world along with it.
To provide an alternative perspective, your comment convinced me to read the article and I didn't think it was substantive at all.

Can you give an example of an "sharp" "observation" he made?
It's possible to do whatever you want without VCs. The code is open source so you can start where he's starting from and run a purely different enterprise if you desire.
Is this a ground up rewrite or just varnish over CoreData.
"It's open source, just fork it."
I thought generating html from function calls went out with the dinosaurs. We back doing it again?
Agreed.

My local cafe started saying "we pay our staff well, no tips please" at the same time as putting the price up a little. Then, with nothing else changing, the tip screen starting showing up again. It just makes it awkward.

For me, it means the walk I used to take every day to get coffee turns into a walk to grab some groceries or something else instead - side benefit being that my latte art is getting better.
How a global network of psychedelic centers could help beat existential anxiety
My understanding is that pre-agricultural hunter/gatherers worked a lot less than post-agricultural workers.
I kinda doubt it would be comfortable to wear it for 8+ hours...

I can't use Quest 2 for more than 30 minutes at a time: sweating, eye strain, etc.
You would need a lot of the same tech to terraform Earth, or make Earth habitable, if it became unso.
The technical things being described here put a bottom on the operational costs of standing up the servers ex nihilo.

Yes, you can stand up a server that can respond to 2300r/s and handle 200GB/day (6 TB/month which is another few hundred dollars)... and the storage for it.

The problem with standing this up is the "how do you pay for it in a way that isn't out of the goodness of your own heart" - because part of the reason people are using these is to avoid paying Reddit or see advertisements.

You will also need someone to answer take down requests for whatever legal reason exists. If you do not handle the takedown and leave it to be unmoderated, there are a number of other applications that serve as an example for the community that forms there.

The difficult part is not paying for compute, egress, or storage. The difficult part is figuring out how to get the customers to pay for it and to pay for the staff needed to maintain server and legal availability.

Writing an app that acts as a conduit for data is quite a different than than being responsible for hosting a service that provides that data.
Sorry it didn't work for you. I would recommend anyone buying at notebook to get one with linux pre-installed. I did that because I want to use this thing, not futz with it.

I'm assuming you're using Asahi Linux on your Macs (though you said you wouldn't touch it..). The lack of hardware diversity should make comparability easier, even if everything need to be reversed engineered.

I get 6 hours or so on my machine. Its pretty much silent, unless I push it. Its a Ryzen 7 5700u. We do a lot of parallel compute and genetics code tends massively parallel and x86 optimized. Mostly run on cluster though. I haven't done any maintenance and have had not hardware issues.

I don't link I could ever go back to macos, or windows.
You have to pay to view that article.
Tipping exploits the american culture of niceness: when one feels compelled to look nice even when it's against his interests and contradicts common sense.
The things you list aren't products, they're the inventions.

The car is the invention, a car product is a Tesla.
The TV is the invention, a TV product is the LG OLED CX.

I'm not saying the iPhone is the greatest invention ever (though the telephone might be).

I'm saying that it's one of the most groundbreaking and transformative products ever.

Hope that clears it up.
A computing platform with intermittent and/or slow network connectivity?

I would say "low computing power" but a raspberry pi is 4Ghz these days.
I’m actually really looking forward to this. I tried building a few apps in 100% SwiftUI coming from React/Node.js and it was a pretty major pain. I also don’t know UIKit so I couldn't easily fallback.
They aren't - all 50 states have laws to the effect that minimum wage is minimum wage. The states that also have a lower "tipped minimum wage" require the business to make up the difference if tmw + tips < mw.

Which makes tipping even more infuriating, since why single out service staff when Amazon warehouse workers have worse jobs at the same basic pay? Raise the minimum wage to something livable, make prices transparent, and be done with tipping.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
Even better if some product came onto the market, that used wideband powerline communications for its functioning, and practically everyone's got one. I think some electric car chargers might do so in the future. That would not go down well with amateurs, at all! When everyone down the street would have, in effect, legal jammers.

MaxLinear have some nice ones, complete with datasheet, it also works in MIMO mode, not for just powerline but pretty much anywhere.

https://www.maxlinear.com/document/index?id=23257&languageid...

Update: I think solar inverters are causing big problems here already, so it's only a matter of time now as they become increasingly popular. So we can kiss those amateur radio enthusiasts and their utterly draconian punishments goodbye in the long term.

https://hfdxarc.com/technical-pages/how-to-reduce-electromag...
https://www.pa9x.com/how-the-replacement-of-solar-panel-micr...
I'm starting a company – Georgi Gerganov
I feel like I am missing something. Is the way you should use controlnet to get this amazing result too trivial to describe? Or is it just missing
This is an article about the SEC coinbase announcement. That happened today. So I'm not talking about what happened yesterday, I'm talking about what happened today, because that is what is relevant to the article we are discussing.

so, ummmmm..... like..... bruh. go check what it did today
A general-purpose robot is entering the workforce
Could be fun to see this replacing jinja in old frameworks like django. Although inheritance had a better feel with templates..
This is where we are at. SQLite took care of us for ~8 years, and will certainly continue to do in many cases moving forward. But, we are finding that as we scale up beyond customer #5, the idea of having tons of small databases scattered across our customer base becomes concerning.

I am looking at moving us towards 1 gigantic SQL Server Hyperscale DB for most things. Force our clients into a PaaS solution over time, enforce one standardized product model, etc.

Where you probably don't want to be is somewhere in the middle where half your data lives in some centralized place and the other half is in your edge/client nodes. Synchronizing across these domains can rapidly become a nightmare.
Nice now fix 3D transforms, SVG animations and clip-path or give me 200 hours of my life back. Safari rendering engine is a bug infested nightmare.
I highly recommend trying mushrooms or acid for someone in a good place mentally who wants to improve themselves. Obviously one should do their own research for responsible consumption, and find a good set and setting.

I went from drinking a consistent 1-2 alcoholic drinks a day (very rarely getting drunk tho, just loved homebrewing and craft beer), being nearly obese, with little cardiovascular/muscular fitness to being in a much better place. I now exercise regularly, have a resting heart rate of 54 bpm, lost 30 pounds, meditate every day, eat much more healthfully, rarely consume alcohol, and I am more patient and listen to my partner better.

The increased neuroplasticity caused by physcadelics when combined with a desire to improve habits is a very powerful combination.

There is also a legal, mushroom based therapy for anxiety and depression that has shown great results, available in Oregon.

I really do believe society is much too welcoming of alcohol consumption, and much too resistant to physcadelics. We got this one so wrong.
Congrats Jerry and the LlamaIndex Team!
As was pointed out elsewhere, we've seen some of the R&D show up in other places already. AR kit has been around for a while. All of the Apple Silicon has been in everything for a few years now (except the new R1 chip, but I'm sure that builds on their M1/M2 work).

Face unlocking tech on the iPhone applies to eye tracking (and eye unlocking). Battery tech applies across devices. All the new cameras on the last few years' of iPhones. And so on.

So it's totally reasonable that total all in is in the 10s of billions.
Yet another reason to explain that your accent is actually Canadian.
I was banned from many subs just for being subbed to the "wrong" ones. I haven't even posted there.
I think it's a Twitter Blue feature.