skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like you're just rewriting history. Apple product launches have had way more excitement in the past. A clip of Steve Balmer saying people won't buy iPhones isn't evidence of an overall sentiment.
Inspired by this whole upfuckery by Reddit, I checked out a lemmy instance sopuli.xyz. It looks quite good actually, and I'm interested in starting to contribute to the discussion there rather than staying in Reddit. For more instances check out https://join-lemmy.org/instances.
Not when the first laptop came out. Imagine lugging around a heavy piece of computer, with crammed keyboard and not so nice monitor. Why should one be subjected to such a subpar experience?
Wow that is more than double the retail price. You usually find them new for $1300. Alternatively, you could look into a used GPD Win 2 (Released End of 2018). In my area, I find them for €350 used.
AI isn’t just what the West does
With $3500 you can go on an epic drug fueled sex party with high quality real live escorts that will make your mates jealous and will be an experience you remember for life.

Spending $3500 just to wank at VR videos is crazy.
Isn't the parent's point that, you don't necessarily need to use psychedelics but can use other technology to simulate the perception of different cadence or scale...? (E.g. A similar experiment https://xkcd.com/941/)

> and you will never be as relaxed as a sloth.

Also FWIW, does the sloth also consider itself to be relaxed or rather just "normal" ;-)

Isn't the perception of being relaxed itself exactly reflective of how artificial* the experience actually is.

*: With the context that I have no intention of prescribing whether it is positive or enjoyable.
Yandex is also censored but in the other direction. Probably does censor less than Google but enough that you shouldn't rely on it alone for topics that involve Russia. Their index is also limited in general when it comes to non-russian content. But it does return many things that Google would rather you not see so it is invaluable if you want to get the full picture.

Yandex image search also has an infinitely better interface, linking your directly to image sources and not being full of links to sites that want you to sign up before showing anything like Google is. It's still not perfect and IME often groups images to agressively which effectively hides "similar" results.
Apple Watch also isn't really the game changer that something like the iPod or iPhone (or various Macs throughout the years) was. Sure I see people wearing them, but not a tremendous amount, and not completely out of line with something like a FitBit or a Garmin.

Apple created a very competitive product in an established market with the Watch, they didn't change the game.

Which is where I could see the Apple Vision Pro ending up, but I'm sure that's well short of Apple's expectations.
Imagine every book you picked up were nonsense, but you were forced to "read" them, over and over every day. Over time, your brain might stop parsing the letters and words because it has learned that there is no semantic reason in them anymore, to the point that you might read a meaningful work and no longer be able to understand it.

That is learned helplessness.
Most of the content on the good old Internet is made by people who don’t expect any money for it. This comment for example.
The “edge” for data storage doesn’t really make sense.

With SQLite, the data is stored very local to where it’s being accessed.

Either move it local to the user (SQLite with WASM/OPFS does this — this is mentioned at the end of the article, but that’s not the edge), or centralize it — for SQLite this means centralizing the execution of the code accessing the data too, since it’s designed for high granularity, low latency access, which, again, isn’t the edge.

SQLite is so good and convenient that you might still use it for some cases at the edge (e.g. some read-only or precomputed, predistributed chunk of data you want to access in a flexible way) though it would never be the only option for that kind of thing.
I own 0 Apple products and will never give them money, but this post really helped reaffirm my desire to not have Apple products anywhere near me.
Amazon have Inferentia[0] and Trainium[1].
You can use them today on AWS.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/trainium/
I would be interested to know of a consistent, on-board embeddings model. Trying to reduce latency and dependence on API calls for simple vector database search will go a long wag
Well, when every possible change would cause something to be wrong you have to pick your poison.
Everything in an organism is learned.

If you think it isn't then you're not observing the right timescale.
I mean, let's use a "proper" range 1 to 10.

Your first ride is a 6 (average, sufficient but nothing to talk about), you "upvote" him.
Your second one is a 7 (so better than your first one) and you then "upvote" him.
Your third one is a 8 (better than your first one) and you then "upvote" him.
Your fourth one is a 7 (worse than your last one, but exactly as the second one) but you "downvote" him.

Drivers #2 and #4 were at the same level, but one got an "upvote" and one got a "downvote".
I feel like this is the original Apple MO that has worked for them for all their most innovative products. Looking at iMac, iPods, iPhone, Apple watch - it was never a perfectly polished product they were pushing, it was a paradigm shift.

When they launched the firs iMac, the paradigm shift was personal computers are for everyone, and belong to every home and should fit into your surroundings. There were a lot of things you could not do with your iMac that you could do with a lot of much cheaper PCs, especially outside the US. You could do a lot more with your BlackBerry than you could with the iPhone, but here we are.

This seems like a similar strategy. They are trying to win the space by changing the paradigm and moving xr from metaverses to visual computing.

That said, they have had a lot of flops with this strategz as well (Pippin, Newton, eWorld, iTunes Ping) so it's not a given that this approach will work.

But I'm definitely happy to see this strategy reemerging, as opposed a gazillion versions of iphone with a slightly better battery, one more camera, and less or less periphery in the box.
*punishing russia is a threat to your own citizenry which relies on the economy to feed their families. The economy isn't some alien abstract entity.
> I moderate a reasonably sized community (50k - 100k users). Without using an external app like Sync or Apollo, it is insanely hard.

Very doable on desktop with RES though, which so far isn't going to be affected by the API pricing changes.
I don't think such a huge fine is justified, how about confiscating his equipment, and banning him from using radio equipment capable of transmitting on amateur frequencies for a period of time?

It didn't cause any harm to emergency services, or disrupt anything other than a hobby. Fining him such a large amount for disrupting a hobby is ridiculous. And it makes me want nothing to do with amateur radio, and stick to unlicensed bands only.

The guy fined likely has children, a family to raise, which are all much more important than someone's hobby. You cannot impose such financial hardship for essentially what is trolling someone, on the radio. It's ridiculous.

Draconian penalties may only encourage miscreants to disrespect amateur radio, in an act of rebellion? And those miscreants might be able to get away with jamming it legally, by using powerline Ethernet adaptors, which will typically cause interference for the whole neighborhood. There's no law saying you can't have a really long piece of electrical wiring in your home, with absolutely nothing connected to it at the end? http://gm4fvm.blogspot.com/2018/06/power-line-adapter-noise-...

Maybe we non-amateurs should lobby the government to open up the VHF/UHF amateur bands for unlicensed operation at low power, just like 2.4GHz, and consign this hobby to the dustbin of history? How about getting industry involved in the lobbying as well? Can we find any good commercial use cases for those bands? In Europe we can already use a large part of the 70cm band (433MHz) at low power levels.

The radio spectrum is supposed to belong to all of us? Not just a privileged few who possess a license, and are so willing to punish others so excessively for relatively minor infractions?
Well, good for you. Great that you found an OS that you enjoy.

Is there anything else to add?
What about people who did psychedelics and got severe anxiety, depresion, panic attacks? Why the dark side of using drugs is always forgoten. It feels like cartels invested in PR - upside only.
I first skimmed over "a priori" and thought you went to talking about prions; I don't think I could think about the statistics of those with a cool head much less cancer, however rare..
Thanks. Where can we find bindings for other non-Swift languages?
Or does the 'embedding for 27 lang' in the title refer to 'human language recognition' and not 'programming language binding'?
What would be obsolete? The underlying operations are almost always just lots of matrix multiplies on lots of memory. Releasing a new set of weights doesn’t somehow change the math being done.
> If you meant abuse, you certainly could have been a lot more clearer...

debok are telling me they can have a relationship with someone who is immoral and unethical in their opinion.

Are you saying you think abuse isn't immoral or unethical?
Introduction to Rust – Part 1
Mine also appears to be purged now, it was a free ga domain registered from Freenom for 3 years.

So, there's no way to get it back now I believe. Guess I'll have to find a new one..
Decoupling virtual from physical movement is the fastest way to get people puking and giving them headaches.
It's interesting to watch Reddit lose control of the narrative on this. If you read the relevant threads Reddit admins swear up and down that the new API pricing is reasonable and not intended to kill third party apps.

Whatever their intent, it's definitely a failure on the PR front.
Why do people think they need these big centralized authoritarian "communities" on the internet? In the late 90's and early 2000's we ran PHP forums from our parents houses.
Sadly I cannot read this website on mobile (safari on an iPhone mini), both margins are cutting a few characters.
Considering the context, most people were probably overloaded with work and a lot of changes must have been made with little to no oversight.
For an open source alternative to obsidian check out Trilium. Electron based and with a whole lot of features and possible tinkering
German government launches FOSS Contribution funding program
The STF, a public funder based in Germany, has launched a "challenge" funding program to encourage developers who use and rely on FOSS infrastructure software projects to contribute back with security improvements, documentation or developer tooling. These relatively shorter duration (4 months with another potential 4 month renewal) contributions are meant to complement their main funding program which targets maintainers for longer term support. Participants in this "challenge" can ask for up to 300k in Euros to fund their work.
> So far, no one has commented on this large downside of passkeys: that it will promote the ease of sites to require login since it's much easier to generate a passkey than to remember a new password or even store it.

Actually, this ease of use may be beneficial to privacy. Sites don’t need user generated/remembered passwords to require a login, they can just use the sign in with Google/Facebook/Apple buttons. Because it is easier than remembering another password, users will typically use those options. Passkeys is more private than signing in with Google/Facebook/Apple, while also providing more privacy than those options.
At a minimum this will force the Russians to bring troops and weapons to guard a stretch of more than 100 km, which they didn't need go guard before. That could be thousands of troops that will not be taken from a different part of the frontline.
Except that device is not owned by you, or even accountable to the public. It is owned by a private corporation whose mission is to do whatever it takes to keep you making purchases to make stock price go up.

I do not even carry a smartphone anymore and am happier for it.
> So yea, the big fanfare about "debunking" and how the science progresses are out of place. This is a one paragraph news without citation.

Wait, what?!

This post is summarizing and then (past the sponsor blurb) literally citing the paper on this. Not just any paper, but one by the same authors who first created the theory of "learned helplessness" - and one in which they conclude they initially got the mechanism backwards. See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920136/
Inference is mostly just matrix multiplications, so there's plenty of competitors.

Problem is, inference costs do not dominate training costs. Models have a very limited lifespan, they are constantly retrained or obsoleted by new generations, so training is always going on.

Training is not just matrix multiplications, given hundreds of experiments in model architecture, its not even obvious what operations will dominate future training. So a more general purpose GPU is just a way safer bet.

Also, LLM talent is in extreme short supply, and you don't want to piss them off by telling them they have to spend their time debugging some crappy FPGA because you wanted to save some hardware bucks.
Svix (YC W21) Is Hiring an Account Executive (US Remote)
When you can't escape suffering, you learn to cope with it in your mind instead of by escaping the stimulus. This allows you to adapt to a new normal and take what actions you can, optimizing for what you can control.

I see an interesting parallel with mindfulness here.
Each website gets a unique key. They are not signed or rooted in any trust. You can still pick any username you want for the account. What passkeys do is replace OTP and MFA. They live along SSO and do not replace it.
> The recipient has no idea, they receive bank transfers and see no different than any random person.

You're not using it as currency.
The built in apps of the iphone were more of a technology demonstration than anything else. They few that existed were also kind of useless because the iphone didn't have mobile data other than glacial slow GSM until the iphone 3G.

This new headset also looks like a technology demonstration. That doesn't mean it will become the next iphone, but it certainly has potential.
Ask HN: How Can I Find White Label Partners?
I'm currently looking for some advice on finding white label partners or software resellers who can assist me in marketing my SaaS. However, there does not seem to be a dedicated place on the internet to find people with marketing / sales skills who also want to handle operations.
Yeap, this was definitely the point where many of us jumped over to Reddit. I remember hating Reddit's interface but it was the lesser evil.
Docstring would prevent it from rambling, but you'd then be required to write the signature first.

PEP 257 prescribes the imperative mood:

The docstring is a phrase ending in a period. It prescribes the function or method’s effect as a command (“Do this”, “Return that”), not as a description; e.g. don’t write “Returns the pathname …”.
> Yeah right, counting calories works for "99.7% of the population" but then everyone struggles with weight loss, somehow.

Yes, because being hungry sucks. Why this has to be explicitly pointed out to you, I don't know.
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna
I see A100 80GB cloud capacity available on both runpod.io and vast.ai currently.
That just depends on how you define "distributed". If it means "running on multiple machines", then even centralized protocols are distributed, since a part of the computation is running on your computer.

In context of protocols like Mastodon, if the end-user devices aren't primary holders of data, then I don't call it distributed. It's just decentralized. I guess that way, "distributed" necessarily implies peer-to-peer.
It would help if the text wasn't truncated on mobile. How does one even break HTML text reflow? One has to do it on purpose, or choose to design a website in 2023 with Dreamviewer.
ASICs did take on bitcoin, but not on Ethereum. The ASICs provide an optimized compute unit but they do suck when it comes to memory addressing.

Effectively it'd require the entirely memory controller and the cache, and scheduling. At point point you got most of the GPU w/ a stuck, non-programmable interface of a designated compute. Likely you'd never have to compete for advanced nodes as well.
License plates have unique numbers and letters, so no plate counts as more rare than any other. Distinctive or desirable maybe, but vanity rather than scarcity.
My experience has been similar. I recently wanted it to write code to parse and process a rather strange data file into a list & dict. Here is what I found:

I went through a process of re-writing my prompt several times to get correct output. In fairness, I think getting the correct result meant being more precise with the prompting language.

Overall, it was a bit spooky seeing it respond to my varying prompts; then noticing it's errors; then re-prompting to fix its misconceptions. In the end, though I could have written it myself faster, so I am not sure it is saving me time.

I am surprised when I see people saying its saving them massive amounts of time. Are there any good examples out there of it producing copious amounts of code, correctly, from prompting such that I can easily believe using CoPilot is a time-saver?
> Do you not suffer from how painfully boring reality and the default mode of consciousness are?

Agree... I'm nearly unable to fantasize properly (dream or daydream what I want), and it's difficult to describe how it makes me feel, but I would probably use something like "fantasy withdrawal".

I've gotten pretty upset in the past over it and keep wishing I could find some drug to help me experience the things that I can't normally. LSD was the first thing I tried, ketamine will probably be next.

Curse my stupid brain for being stuck in reality. Makes one wonder what the purpose of dreams really is. It could be to try to prevent something like this from arising, but mine don't properly address that need.

It's not aphantasia, not even close. My coping mechanism for most of my life has been roleplay and story writing, which I have no trouble imagining (in fact I can seemingly do it better than most people). It's just that I can't properly dream it, can't experience it using the slots reserved for the normal senses.

I've never gotten a straight answer to whether this is normal or not, but I have heard that similar things can be caused by being autistic (which I am). Some autistics are known to be very literal and aware of reality and only reality. I just don't want to be that because it's painful.
No guarantee that any of these will ever become part of the product though.

The post is talking about past research work and about patents; Apple has lots of unused patents.
Wedding videos classify as "shooting a movie"?
> There's no telling what time perception is "correct" or "real".

Perception is always, always false, the same way that our internal reality is imperfect. The only way to trust perception is to go through repeatable experiment and see that results conforms to prediction, eg. science.

Science is the only and sole way to determine our shared reality, anything else is literally lucky heuristics, including the behavior of scientists. The worst deceit from those heuristics being our conviction that there is any kind of truth in what we think, preventing the whole thing to fall appart.
> Some of the complexity may be doing double duty.

Since we have not succeeded in imitating even the most primitive brains, even though computationally we should have enough juice by now, it would seem that complexity can't be discarded at all, no?
Not by flooding tens of thousands of people out of their homes and wrecking the local ecology
*) They are foregoing controllers on the default interfaces, for the presentation of this initial product which is expected not to ship for another 6 months.

It's what i would do as well if I would want to steer the developer ecosystem in a certain direction.

From what I heard it also supports Bluetooth Mice and Keyboards to productively use a Macbook (which is streaming its video into the glasses)
Humans have
1. Pre-trained fine-motor control and visual perception that is encoded in genetics (think base model training). Who knows how many millenium this took.

2. 16 years of fine-tuning to adapt to the current modern world.

3. 50-100 hours of specific task based fine-tuning for driving, think LORA training.
Getting a bit triggered by all this "lonely adult" type language, some of us (maybe more than a few) are alone for "reasons", we might even have more cash because of that. There is no stigma/shame attached to living alone, at least I didn't really think there was. To catch this attitude, on hackernews of all places, is a bit inelegant imho.

I will grant you the cognitive dissonance though of Apple of all companies making the ultimate bachelor toy.

Do you really need to hug your kids or throw things at the dog whilst in the middle of a code flow or devops nightmare (or whatever focused work is your poison) ? Until some chick turns up and suddenly falls in love with me, maybe I can use that cash on this thing lol.

This does seem to be targeted at people being remote/isolated/alone; they probably could have saved some time and not bothered with those eyes and the virtual avatar stuff.
There are some industries that take advantage of FPGAs alongside CPU(s) to move some computations into hardware for speed gains while maintaining flexibility. Maybe something like that is possible. For examples, look at the Versal chip.
GameStop, Telos Team Up to Build Web3 Game Launcher
I, for one, would love for the Kernel to tell users to f themselves sometimes an break compatibility. In that order.
Yup. At least I don't sound disingenuous and shill, tho.
The experience you described is no indicator of whether "volume of thought is still much higher than normal" though? You'd have the exact same experience if the actual mechanism is that "had the label on [your] memories altered".

To scientifically test this, you'd need some normalized "benchmark task" of thought, and then compare the difference in progress on such a thought task between the control and psychedelic cases given the same amount of "real time".

IIRC earlier papers (that I am too lazy to find) shared on HN that have done this seem to show the opposite, that there is no measurable difference on the task yet the participants reported a difference in their label of the experience. (I think the paper then was related to some form of creativity and showed that there was no post-hoc measured difference despite a significant reported experiential difference).
>Then outsourcing came along, Indian developers started eating my breakfast, and pay for UK developers nosedived.

I don't know many companies that fared well with this. Pay nosedived everywhere and a few years later when the companies realized it isn't working it went up again.
A year or two prior to this, they were also putting linked sites into iframes, with the "digg bar" on top. So they had managed to alienate not just their users, but also the site owners that all the content linked to.