skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for the purr, they don;t refer to the "satisfaction purr" cats do when you pet then

Before today, the only sort of "purr" I'd ever heard anyone refer to is a "satisfaction purr". What your quotation describes as a "solicitation purr" is what I reckon most people would call a "meow" or maybe a "yell". One of those cases where colloquial v. scientific uses of a word diverge rather severely, I guess.
Apple Launches Vision Pro, a AR Head Set
bullshit, simply.
> Repeal the Second Amendment.

Lets just repeal them on order, starting with the first. That one has caused a much larger amount of death and political destruction due to dis/misinformation over the last few years. /s
I would kinda like it…
It should probably depend on the product type. I get 20 year parents for medicine where research is expressive and time-to-market is long. But for most fields 5-10 years is plenty to make back your R&D investment and make a profit. And after your patent expires you still have the first-mover advantage
If you are going to ship a product that uses the model then knowing that it is not easy to jailbreak is essential.
Of course evidence would be much better (though I'm not sure what kind of evidence I would actually trust). But if the story is true, it makes sense that we're not seeing anything: given that they're talking about an arms race with other countries, the US would not want to show any details that adversaries might not already know. Since the US government looked over everything they wouldn't allow actual evidence to be released.

I'm not saying this is true or false, but if it's true, we'd expect no actual evidence.
Gensler explicitly stated that BTC was a commodity about a year ago: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/06/278669...
Apple reveals augmented-reality headset
Illumination started in 2010 and they've been on an absolute roll since. The pot that used to be owned by Pixar and Dreamworks is now a solid 3-way split pretty much every year as a minimum, with Sony and Warner also posting the occasional dark horse (Lego, Spider-Man, etc). Where before one could see a clear difference in animation quality between 3D productions, nowadays they're all pretty much excellent.
A one paragraph news article with effectively zero details? Keeping that quality bar nice and high at techcrunch.
I guess it could be considered a superlative?
'A truce with the trees': Rebecca Solnit on the wonders of a 300-year-old violin
We don't know if innovation, in general, is a bad or good thing. We assume it is generally a really great thing. Innovation requires time, fifty years is nothing to conclude that the financial system should exist in the same way as existed before.
30 people, for 2 years? Just as meaningless as every other time someone has done this. It would need to be for more than 30 people, and funded indefinitely. People are not going to make life changes based on a mere 2 years of guaranteed income.
Many people identified themselves with Russia and Russian culture even though they never even set foot in Russia . It happens after having the Russian potrayed as the enemies in basically all American movies.

Sure in the end the F-14 blows up the Mig, but it's a close battle nonetheless and the Mig looks just as cool as the F14,

The point is that if we don't want to deal with neo-Nazi or the Nazi symbolism that disturbs us, then it should not be brought up every 5 minutes in schools and movies and culture in general.

If 1 billion people watches "inglorious Bastards" or "Valkyrie", sure 95% will side with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, but there will always be 5% who'd root for the opposition. 5% of 1bn people is 50 million people.

Of the 50 million people who root for Nazi in movies there will be some 50,000 who think that such a powerful movement had to be onto something and decide to become sympathizers.
...or hyperbole, if you want to be more charitable.
At some point tax laws would be changed. I can think of several ways they could change so have no idea what would be the ultimate result.
I have a 16" MBP primarily because of the screen size — I use a lot of screen real estate. A 15" Air is perfect for me, so I'm looking forward to maybe picking one of those up when I'm ready to part with my current MBP.
192GB of memory on the Mac Studio is enough to run Llama 65B in full FP16.

And at 800GB/s bandwidth, it will do so pretty quickly. I think my M1 Pro memory bandwidth is 200GB/s and I was running quantized 13B Alpaca relatively quickly, I'd say useable for a personal chatbot, and I think it was swapping every now and then causing pauses.

So having 4x the memory bandwidth should allow large models to run pretty damn fast. Maybe not H100 GPGPU speeds but enough for people to do some development on.
Evidence in real life is accumulative,

Right -- and so far there's an accumulation of precisely zero.

On top of it you pretend to be able to judge the validity of "artifacts".

I defer largely to (legitimate) experts, actually. But as of yet: there are no artifacts to evaluate.
Depends. The "integrated" GPU shares a memory address space with the CPU. Depending on the workload that can compensate quite a bit.
The product page hasn't been updated yet, it's still describing the Intel model.

If it were current then they'd have something newer than the years-old W6800X Duo.
The U.S. economy and welfare state are quite dissimilar to the UK.
Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset
Alaska already has UBI, yet people continue to work in Alaska.
Ever since COVID, many companies have basically switched to these "fake live" announcements.
Indeed, I read "macbook". Still, going from 30W average over 40 hours a week to 60W continuous[1] doesn't change the calculus that much, and if anything a 3Y amortization is probably too short for a workstation. Really my point was that this was a bit too far down the hyperbole hole. There are reasons to like new efficient hardware, but "electricity bills" aren't one of them.

[1] Measured average consumption of my 64-core Zen 2 box, which is surely going to be more than that Mac.
In the vein of Douglas Adams you could open "the restaurant in the centre of the world". Probably won't get many customers, but you might end up with an enormous number of misdirected parcels.
It's just now coming on (as of this writing) in the presentation. I'm guessing it's TechCrunch trying to "frist post!!11!" about the headset.
Something that just crossed my mind...

I've always been a proponent of a decent minimum wage, because I've argued that eliminating minimum wage would result in a race to the bottom on wages as people become more desperate for work, and the standard of living would hit rock bottom for the people at the bottom.

But with UBI, the dynamic changes. If UBI pays for your basic necessities, people only need to work if they want something better than the bare minimum. The power dynamic has changed, and now all employees have leverage. No longer is it "The job pays next to nothing, but if I want a least two meals a day, I still gotta do it", and instead is "I don't need this job to survive, so they need to make it worthwhile."

In short, I would happily be in favor of dropping minimum wage laws entirely if UBI was implemented and was enough to survive off of.
Fedwire operates during extended banking hours only. Some people prefer to use crypto. It’s okay.
Indeed, I am not interested in getting into a discussion with a vegan.
You're technically right that AI is a superset. But, at least in a computational context, "AI" is hardly ever being used to refer to cognitive science and other AI subsets that are not directly related to ML. So ML is usually the more precise terminology. But I've pretty much given up on that one.
Did META just kill off WhatsApp during the Apple presentation when Apple is presenting their own VR solution?

Or am I reading too much into this?
> It's a shame it's a Windows-only product.

WinUAE: yes. But UAE, the core, is multi-platform.
“ The S.E.C. said the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent them to a separate company controlled by Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao.”
1) What percent of all media is AV1?

2) Does software encoding/decoding block any workflows? Which ones?
UBI would drastically shift supply/demand curves for all sorts of things. It's hard to predict what all the nth order effects would be. I'm generally in favor of some kind of broad assistance to establish a floor that preserves people's dignity, but the cynic in me also expects the rich to play games with supply and demand if it's implemented to paint the effort as destructive to the economic order.
I'm running a political party that will give everyone $2000/month at a minimum.

If another party promises more money we will beat it by 15%. We will always give the people more money than any other party.
Technical capabilities could be shadow by political capabilities.
big scuba mask vibes
GiveDirectly loses $900k in DRC mobile cash fraud
All of this is available in Excel by the way.
The effect of the anti-patent push has been to pivot the VC and startup industry from technology to buying market share. When patents were strong, you came up with an idea, got it working, got a patent, and then went to a VC for funding to deploy. Now, you come up with an idea, hype it, and go to a VC for funding to hype it more.
I want in on this.
Ok, create one for less and sell it.
You can also avoid sales taxes by not buying. Like a sales tax, it's a tax you have to pay it you really want to buy the thing
Doesn’t look very comfortable to wear for people that use glasses (50% of the population)
I care very much how much time their backside is in the chair as that is significantly more correlated to productivity than shopping.

I guess this is where our perspectives differ. I want the time when people are working to be productive. People have other things going on in their lives - sometimes very important things - and someone who is sitting in the chair with their mind on something else probably isn't going to be very productive.

Of course they are there to do a job and it's important that the job gets done properly and the rest of the team shouldn't have to pick up the slack if someone is abusing the relationship. But the most reliable way to keep the work on track IME is to make sure there's a decent work-life balance and build the mutual respect that any good relationship needs. Sometimes that means trusting people to get things done without imposing too many rules on when or how they do it.

I find the recent trend for experimenting with shorter working hours fascinating because so often the outcomes are counterintuitive - at least if you expected that shortening the hours would lead to a proportionate loss of productivity. One of the most interesting results I remember - I wish I'd thought to bookmark the paper but unfortunately I didn't - was working 9-3 every day with a half-hour allowed for lunch or something like that. It turned out that the company's performance actually went up during the period of the experiment. Participants reported that because everyone knew they had only that much time in the day to get things done the level of focus improved and there were fewer distractions and more awareness of not interrupting colleagues who were trying to concentrate. They managed to sustain that for something like 3 or 6 months and it's hard to argue it was just a novelty effect after so long.
> Static typing is a _decrease_ in expressive power in exchange for compiler diagnostics.

This sentiment is at the heart of the blubbiness in question. Just like homoiconicity (relative to something like C) lets you say more about code in exchange for a reduced ability to implicitly move back and forth between syntax and operational semantics, a good static type system lets you say more about computations in exchange for a reduced ability to implicitly move back and forth between denotational semantics and syntax.

Lisp seems less expressive than C until you start thinking of programs as more than just sugar for machine code; ML-family languages seem less expressive until you start thinking of programs as more than just their implementations.
iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive
Thinking About Code Review – Kent Beck
Yes, but only from a strictly theoretical view. One influences the other, and in particular, one makes the other much more difficult. Representing "INT32_MIN is None" in, e.g., Rust, is possible, but it's much more troublesome. I'd need something like Option<ASpecialI32>, where that inner type excludes the sentinel. Cf. representing "all i32s are valid, plus there's a None value", that's just Option<i32>.

And in practice, if someone has an odd sentinel value like that in the data format, library authors tend to be lazy and not take the time to do that wrapping; instead, they just expose the i32 directly, maybe Option<i32>, and sharp edges abound around the sentinel.

(That is, the data format — a sentient value — encourages buggy code. And that is the billion dollar mistake: that a nullptr pretends to be a pointer, while it is not, and gets swept up in the same operations.)
You would look for a thing and the first five pages were random mailing list discussion archives discussing how the thing was 5 years before... Altavista was impressive, but there is a reason why it went away.
Not with the same bandwidth.
Indeed, when you are married, you're the father. Abortion is the women's decision only.

The father used to have 14 days off when his baby was born, now it is 1 month, but it is still not as long as the mother's leave (very far from the 14 months in Germany to share between the parents as they want).
So you are angry that you can't freely talk about killing n** and Jews or call trans people things they ask you not to call them to by without getting sued for damages? Just to make sure what is the crux of your issue with free speech here.
Having it time-limited, here two years, is another challenge that gets brought up when trialing UBI. It's more of a temporary bonus than something participants can depend on.

(not making a point one way or another for UBI itself)
Because they need to pay people to stay in Alaska, also becaues they have oil money.
Why on earth would the whistleblower have to be a scientist here? That's utter nonsense.

This guy has worked exactly where it is necessary in order to get hold of the claimed information, in a faculty with the necessary clearances.

Again, you are putting the cart before the horse by demanding "evidence" of some mystical quality, while entirely ignoring the information that is actually presented.
> But where does that leave us as a society?

I'll worry about that once we address what it does to us as a society that CEOs outearn workers by 400:1 while oddly almost never being affected by layoffs.

Same goes for smaller businesses: Campaign for worker protections, and then we'll talk. (Some small businesses do in fact bend over backwards to protect their employees - and they usually get fierce loyalty as a reward. But the average business cares very little about long-term impact on workers)
AFAIK, just about every state has Sales tax... it's really not much different in practice than a VAT though, just accounted for differently. Not to mention, that many counties and cities add their own.

You COULD live in a state without an Amazon presence, then you won't get charged sales tax. However, you're supposed to file use taxes to your local state, and there are efforts to change the mail order regulations altogether.

Most states will eliminate or reduce taxes on food.
Every man now has access to a swarm of atomic clocks in Earth orbit and the necessary relativistic corrections to know time anywhere on earth, down to a few nanoseconds.
For that price I can even clean the dishes if you will, say, for a year or two.
$10/gal gasoline is not the answer, because it's a regressive tax that just prices the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder out of the transportation they need to get to work. It also adversely affects businesses that can't use public transit, like technical service people with tools and materials, and delivery drivers. The actual answer is to build a comprehensive mass transit system that makes driving unnecessary for most people. Trying to force people to use an inadequate public transit system by making the alternative unaffordable is just a shitty thing to do to people.
They are saying this thing at every release.
Glad to hear we've moved from me being "badly misinformed" (now that you took a second to look at the actual data) to now having a "myopic fixation on covid".

Speaking of myopic, please do talk to the families of the ~1200 additional deaths per million people in Sweden and tell them their tragedy was "only visible if you looked at it with a microscope."
European cities underwent changes over time, some of which accommodates cars.

They're not static at all.
Hi fq author here and also acquaintance with the gnu poke author. One difference is that fq is focused in decoding and querying while poke might be more focused on editing and runtime modeling of formats. But we have both inspired each others think.

Here is video of me demoing fq and talking to jose (gnu poke author) about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJOq_b0eb-s he also organized the FOSDEM binary tools track.
What would killing WhatsApp achieve in relation to that?
You can also go a level deeper and consider what the dollars themselves are, and why those will not go away either.
This is an attempt at backtracking right because people realize it has been nerfed now and they're losing money?
It's a livestream. There is more content being added literally as we speak.
So lack of evidence it itself -- a form of evidence?

I'm not sure what to say to that.
> multiple compile units

Yes

> shared generics

I don't know what that is. Some googling suggests that it's a nightly-only feature, whereas we use the stable compiler. If it's something that can be done in stable, I'd appreciate a pointer.

> lld (or mold ideally)

$ echo $RUSTFLAGS
-C link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld -C debuginfo=0
Companion article on how they have fact-checked all this:

https://thedebrief.org/fact-check-q-a-with-debrief-co-founde...
Looks like a diving mask - clunky and bulky.
It has a cable to something.
And then the guns would magically disappear?
Where exactly do you think they get the money to make payroll if not by selling goods and services?
nobody would work in a miserable job for a miserable wage

FTFY
Interesting account of use of gossip to spread information that ordinary people might not have been in a position to learn and how the author leveraged his contacts to expand his own local network of trusted sources.

I am left wishing for a joke about priests talking to nuns though. Maybe someone could dig some of these old jokes from the document so that the rest of us can chuckle at the same jokes this guy and his peers enjoyed.
errr... they are so hierarchically oriented they add in a different order of significant on the other end of the list of authors, so being first OR last is good
> your file was in 100 pieces, and if you lost one of them, you were just fucked.

That is, until Parchives were invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
In the fast-paced world of technology and research, where breakthrough innovations and advancements shape our future, there exists a concerning phenomenon: the prevalence of showmanship.
How does one FOIA request for the written communications of government officials like that? Asking for a friend
To be fair we dont even need ai to replace some of them. Nested if statements will do.

If economy_bad() layoffs else if rain() layoffs …

I am amazed at how badly some lack innovation skills and are just glorified conditional blocks.

Good and great ceos lead and grow companies. That job type needs disruption.
I don't understand what conclusions you can draw from an experiment with a predefined termination date like this. If I were part of this group, I would realize that in two years, I am back to supporting myself, so I would keep working the entire time. If instead I knew my basic needs would be covered for free for the rest of my life, I might just quit my job and enjoy life.

As someone else posted here a long time ago, a better way to estimate the effects of UBI on productivity is to study people living off a lottery annuity of a similar allowance.
As a CPAP user using a nasal mask but would not wear this for too long.
The sample size of thirty people is going to be too small and the two year duration is too short.

I expect that participants will be happier than average and feel more secure. On the flip side they will continue working and their lives will not change much because they can see the payments will be terminated reasonably soon.

Even with the small sample size they are splitting the trial between two locations and trying to make it representative (whatever that means). This seems to raise the risk of a lot of anomalies.

I struggle to see how any meaningful conclusions would come out of this.
The tragedy about it is, that they only had to count 600 votes and had a committee of 20 people for doing that. All 20 people could’ve just counted all the votes, without any „technology“ involved.
I'm aware that there are allegedly "bad" IPRs including the OpenSky case. The alleged "extortion" here is that VLSI, a non-practicing entity, I believe backed by a hedge fund, would lose their 20-year government monopoly and no longer be able to seek billions of dollars in court.

I have no idea who or what OpenSky is, and I don't weigh in on huge corporate cases like VLSI v. Intel where everyone has plenty of money for their own representation.

But it's really wild to me that this alleged "abuse" (that could lead to the loss of... a patent) immediately got the attention of officials, who are taking rapid action. Yet there are thousands of victims of patent troll extortion every year. These extortions are real, and documented, and hurt businesses that are much much smaller than VLSI. (and operate actual businesses, which AFAIK VLSI does not).

But here's the value proposition: It's just not wrong to challenge a government subsidy or monopoly. Period. Especially on computer software and hardware, because they're often wrongly granted.

Even if you accept that the OpenSky situation is the moral equivalent of patent trolling (I absolutely do not), it's happened to patent owners ONE time. (Maybe a few others, but it's a count-on-your-fingers thing). I wish people extorted by patent trolls for real money got 1/100th the attention of the tiny numbers of patent owners who lost (or almost lost) their patent monopolies.
Ask HN: Why doesn't MFA as a stand alone API exist?
Most MFA exist only as part of an identity product like Auth0 or Stytch.

We only want to use 2FA for specific purposes under specific circumstances. Why doesn't this service exist?

Well Twilio's Verify APIs exist, but they're incredibly expensive ($0.05 / verification + SMS prices). If you plan on verifying users regularly, that's a huge cost.

I cannot be the only one who needs this service (can I?).

So why doesn't it exist? What am I missing?
Moderators do not (and never did) rely blindly on automatic GPT detector tools
See also "Dear SE, please stop disparaging the moderators in the press" (https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389824/167145)
It's not the compiler, in this case. Lombok generates code, and for reasons (which I have since forgotten) it always generates code and invalidates incremental builds in gradle, for example, at least when used in combination with ORM annotations. This happened at a previous contract on a company computer so I don't have the links, but IIRC the gradle docs mention the interaction(s).

I wanted to delombok to save 30s off of each build, but the rest of the team(s) refused to let it go. I thought, and still think, that was a short-sighted mistake.
Ok, what about: https://leonardschuetz.ch/blog/nan-boxing/
It's so hard to convey the experience this stuff without actually using it. Sure it looks awesome in these fake renders of what passthrough looks like, but IRL how does it look?