skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watergate had tapes, reams of documents - and riveting testimony under penalty of perjury. When we have that on the table in regard to this matter -- we'll have something to talk about.

As it stands now -- we have nothing.
Safari books used to be good last time I used them a decade or so ago, but it seems they're not even keen to share their price on their own website nowadays until after you've signed up for a free trial, and googling it now seems very expensive compared to Perlego. But for technical books, they used to have a massive selection.
> No reason profits can't be something other than cash.

Other then the legal definition.....
AIU USPTO is corrupt by design: its incentive is its own commercial interest.
The implication is that these ballots were then counted in the swing states and added to their results rather than NY's. How would this even work? Each state has different ballots which reflect the races in that state and municipality. Even without any additional checks, trying to count ballots from a different state is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Apple Unveils M2 Ultra Processor for Mac Studio
I submitted a puzzle from https://dmackinnon1.github.io/fickleSentries/, with the basic prompt, "I am going to present you with a logic puzzle. I would like you to solve the puzzle."

https://pastebin.com/a3WzgvK4

The solution GPT-3.5 (I don't have access to 4.) gave was: "In conclusion, based on the statements and the given information, the treasure in the cave must be copper."

The solution given with the puzzle is "Here is one way to think about it:
If Guard 1 is telling the truth, then the treasure must be diamonds. If Guard 1 is lying, then the treasure can be copper or gold. If Guard 2 is telling the truth, then the treasure must be silver. If Guard 2 is lying, then the treasure can be diamonds or rubies. The only possible option based on the statements of both guards is diamonds."

Is there any way to improve that prompt?
How did you get that from what I wrote?
Yeah honestly I'm surprised and disheartened that Apple went this direction. This feels dystopian and less humane in many ways – an accelerant of the physical isolation that we've seen technology create. The shots of people at home alone talking to an empty room, the dad playing his daughters with the headset on, the woman grabbing a drink from her fridge.

My hope is that this is a calculated step towards a more integrated form factor that will enrich our sense of connection and engagement with the physical world.
What do you do with your "home lab" that can't run on a consumer-level desktop? I'm genuinely curious.
Hardly any different from game consoles.
But no SD slot and no old USB ports. Sigh...
Yeah if this just works it’s exactly what I want.
They've really gone all in on this, very curious to see how it works out.
I think the main reason for the product is to create excitement for its future generations, which I think is pretty successful at for the moment :)
Why do you say this is "censored" rather than just being the natural most-probable continuation?

Falcon-40B is a raw base model, it doesn't have Instruct or RLHF on top of it. What's the mechanism by which you believe it has been censored? Just through dataset curation?
Hey, I am out of the loop. Why does Reddit needs saving?
Very dystopian. Can't wait for them to be required for work like smartphones /s
This is the first inverse of Apple. It's the first device that doesn't live with you on the journey... everything from "the throw it out the window macintosh," iPod, iPhone, Air, iPad... you name it, was about going with you where you went. It's striking...

This is a shift of epic proportions.
I'm suspecting they'll ask users to enroll/login with camera for IPD correction, then make a figurative Live2D model using that picture, interior camera and lip sync.

Edit: and yep, your head is modeled and a doppelganger of you will show in calls.
They do look dumb. But compared to most other VR headsets, I think they are the best we have seen so far.

The problem is, that you are still going to look weird walking around with these. I am also not sure if that is practical (ie the battery/power situation).
I know a few people that have improved or eliminated their myopia through more use of VR.

VR apps typically use far focal distance so even though the screens are close to your eyes, your eye muscles/lenses are typically held at far/infinity focal length.
The cat that wears a blue tie is named Jackson.

"B...b...b...but it's just autocomplete." -- HN
This is kind of driving me crazy. I really cannot find anything out there and I cannot understand why.

- I'm either not able to search well enough to find a tool
- It's just not valuable enough for anyone to create
- Schelp blindness
The integrated memory design doesn't prevent doing it over a dimm slot. It seems more they just didn't want to deal with a ddr5 or some bespoke connector.
If it's just DNS, as it seems to be from my perspective, that's likely to break the gateway for browsers, but it doesn't mean the gateway is down; just hard to access.

The phone client is resilient to DNS failures, but it's hard to do that for a website used by a browser (I'm not really sure how it would be done, probably something with service workers which can intercept and process outgoing requests?); and impossible to do if you hadn't loaded it previously.

Disclaimer: I worked at WhatsApp until 2019, including on resilience to DNS failures.
I think it's telling none of the presenters actually had the goggles on when talking about it.
Understanding the Different Uses of the Asterisk(*) In Python
I'd be worried about being able to use this for more than 30-60 minutes without getting a splitting headache.
I’ve been draggggggiiinnngggg my feet on a new desktop workstation. Waiting for the store to come back to truly make a decision but I think that I’m gonna go for a Studio. The hacker in me wants to build a beefy Linux workstation but the pragmatist in me wants a machine that just works. I think the Apple tax is worth it here.
Obviously I don't know how it'll actually feel to use yet, but I think it's interesting that this finally feels like an incredibly ambitious Apple product like we haven't had in a while.

Software advances (and new chips!) are great, but this feels like something truly new
Putting leader (follower) behavior back into transformational leadership
See-thru is a lot easier design-wise. It would be my choice if it was possible.

Otherwise, a live image works too. Doesn't even need to be 3D.
I might as well be the Queen of Romania as far as you're concerned.

And hey, you can believe whatever you want about this stuff. I really don't care. I do find most of the line of discussion here to be quite silly, though.
> The ability of Apple Sillicon GPUs to use system RAM for the GPUs is a game-changer.

It'd be a lot more of a game change if Apple didn't continue its tradition of charging extortionate prices for ram.
Probably because it’s not just the screen/goggles, but the whole ecosystem, i.e. the OS (input, touch, scrolling, mouse, widgets, …)

Imagine building this on Windows. It won’t suck less, it’s just suck in 3D.
If this shows something crystal clear is that if the litter is let alone it doesn't burn necessarily. Just accumulates and made deep soil. The only wildfires in Chernobyl since 2014 were those provoked by soldiers. No men messing around + no cattle or farmers = no big wildfires.

Of course we want this litter to remain just where it is as many decades as we can, but under each rock there is always an idiot, so the healing process is never guaranteed.
Unfortunately, nothing beats Excel for "agility" and smoothness of the learning curve. You can whip up something that kinda-sorta-works, very quickly, without any software training.

Another thing to consider: we are conditioned to believe that the web browser is a "universal runtime", i.e. it's the thing that everyone has, so you should target it. But actually, it's not the only one. When considering Windows computers (which is all that matters in offices), Excel is a kind of dark-matter universal runtime, for dark-matter IT[1]. Better, it's one that doesn't require a persistent server, or logins, and it's peer-to-peer, in a sense. Everyone has Excel installed, everyone has an org email account, therefore everyone can email xlsm files back and forth, no extra setup required (try doing that with exes). No SaaS offering has that kind of caveman convenience. And you might think -- that's horrifying. But email is the way communication/collaboration actually happens in the median bureaucracy, so Excel's ubiquity and file-orientedness is an insurmountable strength.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_IT
I'm curious about how it would work for people like me who are nearsighted. Do you get alternate lenses? Or do they correct the picture in software?
Boise (and elsewhere in Idaho) is thriving when it comes to materials research and agricultural research, because of the combined influence of Micron and Simplot. So its ultimately a question of what kind of industry you want to talk about.

But the issue still remains: if your industry relies on your workforce moving every 5 years or so, and does not itself involve travel, then you have a structural problem.
AWS Endpoints
For anyone who didn't read the article, it basically boils down to gun sales and corporate profits. Being responsible would be less profitable for the companies.
People relentlessly mocked the appearance of AirPods when they first came out, but we all know how that ended up.
Maybe this is what is sold as the ownership model, however this is not what is in practice today.
Hi author here. Slide 3 from my FOSDEM talks explains my own very subjects reasons for choosing jq https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/bintools_fq/attachmen...

To sum up: Very CLI friendly syntax, generators/backtracking makes working with tree structures very convenient.

But now after writing lots of jq i even thing writing multi line programs in jq to be quite nice :) but i can recommend IDE help, see end of slide 17
Interesting that Tether and BitFinex have always been the worst and most corrupt, and are somehow last in line...
I don't care if I look dumb, but don't use Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkq9Rgoj8E
That is not the case with existing VR headsets. I'd be very surprised if apple has changed something to make that no longer the case.

Without glasses, i can only really make out text if its inches from my face. With my quest 2 though, i cannot see anything in the headset without my glasses. The objects in the headset act as if they are several feet away. I cant see objects several feet away without my glasses.

edit: later in the presentation they announce they are partnering with a company that makes corrective lens inserts. Similar solutions exist for other existing VR headsets already.
Full open source of their latest chips? Make that $30 billion and you’ve got a deal.
That might be a good sign if it is, just because it would mean the headset isn't "locked down" inside a walled garden of approved apps and content.
Imagine being a "family" that spends time in these...
I'll definitely be in the minority here but I'm not excited by this at all!

I'll give it a few years/generations but doing nothing for me.

Loving pretty much everything else Apple currently.
Apple's GPU does not compete sufficiently with the discrete GPUs one would put in a $7000 PC.
>Someone gotta collect that garbage, and the sewer won't unclog itself.

What's your answer then? Robots? "These dirty but necessary jobs should pay better" would be a reasonable take, "let's give free money to everybody" seems a bit less so to me.
In what reality can I have three displays mounted around my couch?
> I can only speak for myself

The argument was that "if everyone gets UBI no one will work".

Many people choose not to work even without UBI. Many people would still work even with UBI.

I probably still would work, mostly because I'm greedy. I like money. It's colorful and buy things.

Personal perspective in this discussion is less than useful as it fails to address the reason why UBI is a good thing. It attempts to remove the coercion inherent to the existing system, where people are essentially forced into servitude under threat of homelessness and starvation.
I hope we all remember how much we dragged Google "glassholes" when that mess happened.
To be fair, that's true about a LOT of fashion.

Airpods look idiotic - like the worst of the 90's/00's era "bluetooth headset bro" stereotype, only on BOTH ears now.

But they're considered fashion-forward. Humans and society vote with their feet.
Linux hits a multi-year high for user share on Steam thanks to Steam Deck
That's surprising. Does anyone have a source for this? I'd love to learn more.
The battery pack cable seems really un-Apple to me as well, even if it's hard to avoid.
You don't have that level of performance though. Not even close really. RAM amount is only one piece of the puzzle.
> If they aren't doing that, why do we need distros at all?

- To set up system daemons in a sane way. You're not going to containerize systemd.

- To set up and maintain desktop primitives. You're not going to containerize Wayland or audio systems.

- To integrate all these containers in a decent manner. Flatpak and its ilk have limitations that will have to be smoothed over by distros.

Will that mean a consolidation, since differences over packaging become less relevant? Maybe. I'm pretty sure we will still have significant differences between The Way RedHat Likes To Do Things, The Way Debian Likes To Do Things, The Way Canonical Likes To Do Things etc etc
Sawstop is a fabulous example. After the patent expired too, what are those other companies doing? Well, when I looked into European table saws last year, they started using it as a market segmentation tactic and putting stop tech only on their upper tier of $$$ saws. Disgusting. Felder, go fuck yourselves.
You're making a silly point. There are not legal substitutes for paying taxes (inb4 loopholes for wealthy and corporations), while there are plenty of more affordable substitutes for Apple products.
As a layperson, that would be unsurprising if myopia is being caused due to short focal distances. It's not like your eyes are actually focusing on something an inch or two in front of them. As far as they're concerned, they're looking at something potentially several feet (or miles!) away.
GopherVR – Enhanced Gopher client with 3D visualizations
You go from one caricature to the next, trying to sound like you have it figured out. And yet, your inexperience shows from how you view the world.

I think you should self-reflect on whether you're projecting the same flaws you exhibit onto others, whose shoes you also haven't walked in. I think you're earlier on the Dunning-Kruger line than you believe.
What is so beautiful about this door? On al-Jazari as an engineer (2019)
I'm not sure this fixes anything. GPT/LLM will be able to produce monumental amounts of reasonable sounding bullshit. Google may crumble and fail, but all we'll be left with is small islands of sanctuary in an ocean of bullshit.
I mean to be fair, in that video he was recording a video using the headset. In that context, I don't think it's _that_ different from a parent pressing their eye into a camcorder or holding up a smart phone.
Someone on the design team saw a lensor from The Chronicles of Riddick and said "THIS - this is the future. Make sure it has the leash coming off the back too."
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Middle class people already have the equivalent of UBI from their families. Not only do they still work, they are more productive and pay more taxes than people without that support.

My parents provided me with free housing and food for over 20 years with no strings attached. They never told me to get a job or to help pay the bills. While my less fortunate peers wasted their lives working at McDonald's, I had the privilege of being able to study and experiment with different careers without needing to worry about food and shelter.

Behind every highly productive worker is hundreds of thousands of dollars of FREE support that they did not work for or earn in any way.

The only problem is that how much support you get depends on what family you happen to be born into. When the government provides that support instead, it means everyone gets equal opportunity and it doesn't matter what family you come from.
You can also avoid sales tax by buying at the Apple store in Portland Oregon. But I'm not sure what the point is here.
The only way this even tries to make sense is by creating the idea that the obviousness of it being a security (you're lending something of value to an enterprise in hopes of generating return) doesn't count, because it's a computer or something.

Like if the exact same thing was accomplished by people it's obviously a security but since it's done by code (which was magically and immaculately conceived, presumably) then it's different somehow.

It's not different. Coinbase wants people to give them money, have them do [complicated thing] then give them a return on that money.
What kind of work do you do? I occasionally daydream about working in something like APL/q, Forth, or Lisp.
This is actually a win if u could actually do that against apple lockdown and their stance against porn
I'm not sure that will be available this generation, that was a big "imagine" scenario from my understanding.

From what I understand the other headsets aren't suitable for code. With 23M pixels, I hope this one can cut it
I agree, part of this is that a lot of essential services are also monopolies where folks cannot vote with their money to build the best value add ... Part of the reason I'm currently in favor of voucher systems that serve both redistribution but also market solutions. UBI as a replacement to social safety net (for those of sound mind) is also a similarly intriguing option.
They need to leave some hype for the next year as well.
It is just another techKNOWlogy between me and another human, between me and reality.

I do not want someone interfering between me and those things.
Radiation has a notable sterilizing effect - this is why the speed of a natural decomposition is diminished. Fewer microbes leads to a slower decomposition.
I still find people wearing their Airpods 24/7 rude.
Flora Incognita – free AI-supported plant identification university project
That's not how private companies work, and that's not how bankruptcy works either
I was hoping to get 10 cores and 32gb of RAM but I have to spend a lot more for that on the MB16.
They just said there will be inserts for vision correction. No real detail about ranges of power yet.
2 hours of use on battery. Hmm.
Please release the pictures and distract everyone so I don't have to figure out this disgusting mishmash of visual basic and sql anymore.
I believe the original insulin is cheaply available. But newer, faster acting, variants which are easier to administer are still patented.
The most dystopian part of it is that it takes away from TV/Gaming from being a social aspect to everyone being in their own pod and silo.
Welp, they require magnetic glasses that clip onto the screens.
192GB ram does seem like enough for a large fraction of the potential market, especially @ 800GB/sec which makes it much more usable than similar amounts of ram on Intel/AMD desktops at 1/8th the bandwidth.
But if you feel anxiety you can download a 9.99 per month Mindfulness app, plug it to your 3.999 RSP headset, your 149.99 Bluetooth headphones and pretend you are in a Goop-approved Buddhist meditation landscape (in—app purchase at 9.99)

Just like the actual Buddhist monks!
It'll be interesting to see how this affects the market for high-end TVs and audio systems. A very large TV is $2k, an audio system is another couple thousand (including wiring/install).

If one of these costs $3k, it becomes a pretty reasonable decision for a single person who's investing in a setup. Of course, if you want to have people over to watch a movie/game, that complicates things. I wonder if there will be a rental market for these, or how long it will take for enough people to have them that they would bring their own.

Our projector + Sonos setup feels obsolete on a going-forward basis. My guess is that in 5 years we'll use it only when 4+ people are watching something, and even then we'll be tempted to complain about how much less immersive it is, thanks to the hedonic treadmill effect.
Software decoding tends to use a lot more energy even if the CPU can keep up.
So for glass-wearers you have to buy prescription lenses that fit inside the headset?
Very disappointing take, mind to share at least the logic behind it?
While I can see this as useful for work, every other application does honestly frighten me. We're human. We're embodied. Digital things can be fun, but we're meant to be in the real world.
They announced additional corrective lenses you can attach, which is the approach I use with my Index headset to supply my -5.5 and -6 prescription. The ones for the Index and other headsets are aftermarket though.
Most of the times when I've traveled by public transit I've had for more room available to me than when driving.

Should I hate driving because sometimes my car is filled full of people or items?
You have to buy separate lenses from zeiss in order to adjust the display if you need glasses???
It's the same argument they make with voter ID laws; non whites are too stupid to successfully get an ID / open a bank account / etc. It's some of the most racist rhetoric I've ever seen but somehow it's pitched as "anti-racist".
It’s not just the latest memes, that was merely an example. Just consider that huge parts of the social life of children and teenagers happens on social media platforms now. Take that away, and you made it a lot harder for your child to be accepted by their peers.

No matter the other variables, that is a pretty common theme for teens nowadays, no matter the community they live in or school they go to.
I've got RiscOS running on my pi 400. Neat little OS.
It's the same with all the other VR headsets -- I know so many people who bought them and then months later they just sit there used only very sporadically.
Your use of Tinyurl doesn't really shorten the URL. Please don't obfuscate unnecessarily.
Does this explain why Hollywood writing feels so factory-produced these days? The writers guild has turned script writing into a collective, dispassionate activity?
Every single one of the links you post directly contradict your given summaries. You're lying and you're not even very good at it.

You're right, why trust the internet, especially anonymous forum commenters with no reputation to uphold?
AML and KYC got more intense in my EU country at the same time as instant payments became a thing. Between regular banks. I don't think those are the problem.
In contrast, for me this seems like the "killer feature" that differentiates it from the current generation of headsets. I've always been completely uninterested in anything AR/VR and a big reason for that is that these headsets make you feel so "cut off". The ability to see someone's eyes while they are wearing the headset reduces that feeling of isolation.

I agree that it will always be weird to just keep the headset on during an entire conversation or to just walk around with them all the time. But if someone is doing work or watching a movie or something with these on, and just needs to turn their head to talk to you for a minute, it's a nice feature to have.
The Apple keynotes in the last couple of years seem like some weird ads created by these evil corporations from Robocop or Black Mirror. I'm expecting them to present a new urban pacification robot or something similar, so you never have to leave your house and live magically in your loft meditating in the amazing virtual space created by the new Vision Pro.