skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually makes me wonder if I should sell my Apple stocks, that they even put out something like this (even if only as an "evaluation tool" and based on CrossOvers GPL code) screams as an validation that there is enough developers ignoring Apple/Metal that they're actually starting to hurt from a lack of titles.

Sure, everyone doing Unity or Unreal will probably have the middleware take care of the biggest differences and Vulkan being too verbose has kept back the field, but given a choice Metal will still be an afterthought for those making custom engines.

One could hope for updated OpenGL/Vulkan support, but nobody is holding their breath anymore.
It is still way closer to the instrument than the deep end of the sea, most of the time. Square of distance is a very potent thing.

I am reminded of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...
I haven't read the book, but in the film the problem was the Red October was using the caterpillar-drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive (and not a propeller/impeller) but a chance detection by Dallas' sonar along with the ingenuity of Dallas' sonar operator, who figured out how to detect and track Sean Connery's boat. Nothing to do with gravity or gyroscopes at all.
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> any stable solar system capable of sustaining life will emit a steady heartbeat, just like a living being

What do you mean? What would be the source of the regular wave-like signal, and why only systems with life have one?

Do you mean that actual hearts beating create gravitational waves?
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This never made any sense in a global context.

Islamophobia has always been a thing in Europe for example. Hindus and Muslims have always lived a somewhat segregated lifestyle in Indian culture as well (similar to Hispanics in the US). If you managed to merge Hindus and Muslims, you would have the European Islamophobia left over, and the Indians would be Islamophobia without the positives of Hinduism (look at the situation in the UK).

Furthermore as far as I can tell, there is still the Hindu - Muslim division in most of the western diaspora as well. You get second and third generation Indians LGBTQ who still divide themselves into Hindus and Muslims, Hindu women who will identify with the Indian right wing etc... so I do not see how the movement is "growing" when it has always been there.
I was speaking more about the political system than the real estate, but they are related I'm sure.
If I were to speculate I'd say it's because they don't ship things until they are finished. I'm sure a lot of the polished launches we have seen have been late by 6, 12 or 24 months. If the market isn't ready, the product doesn't ship. If the technology isn't ready (say, a high enough resolution VR display) to create a wow product then the product doesn't ship. I think it takes a great organization to not "accidentally" ship bad things. You need to prevent bonuses, egos, sunk costs, and self-deception from shipping something bad prematurely.
I imagine that at the time they were just as ubiquitous as the phone books.
"Some of them are old" is a different statement than "None of them are young", but I see your point. It's true to the point that the local elementary school was or is closing down due to lack of enrollment.
Yeah, of course we had to row the damn thing too. Uphill and sub-freezing temperatures, both ways.
All road lead to revolution, but it takes time to build.

Until then, some sabotage may be in order.
Just watch the recent banned BBC Modi documentary.

It is a huge threat in India but I'm not sure about growing threat in US as much as things are slipping by people.
> people will believe whatever they want

Yes. I was discussing something related to this with one of my young-adult children and I said something along the lines of "Some people don't actually like abstract or self-reflective thought. They prefer to just believe what they want to, or what's comforting to them, and not to think about it." I believe it hadn't really occurred to them so starkly before, and I felt kind of bad for that.
Do you mean someone of a high enough rank could have official communications and military dispatches delivered, or do you mean any person could have any letter delivered to any home? I think tialaramex was writing more about universal civilian letter delivery, and particularly about universal (well, global or near-global) addressing, rather than letter delivery between officials within an empire.
The caste system is also present in Islam and Christianity ethnoreligious communities, but absent from the Buddhist communities. De facto casteism is worse in Pakistan than in much of India (especially South India where most techies come from). Though they may have converted for that reason, the Islamic community has its own caste system, and only in the Buddhist community and large tracts of Indian Hindus is the caste system non-evident or only slightly evident (e.g. Sri Lanka).
Because Windows is absolutely horrible and I'd rather not use Windows?
It's the "rogue psy-op" form of conspiracy.
We can do lots of things in the abstract. Concentrations of power, wealth and the political trends of the last 20 or so years make me less optimistic.
It's a strange time to be releasing this product. Not from a technological perspective (clearly the hardware Apple managed to put together is extremely impressive and they seem to believe that it finally got good enough to have real appeal albeit at a rather hefty price), but from a political perspective.

It seems like the last few years have generally had a technological backlash with worries about both invasive spying and surveillance capitalism on the one hand and mental health issues (especially in teens) sprouting on the other.

So it seems strange to react to all that by offering a product that glues a computer straight on your eyeballs. Now of course Meta has already been going down that road, but let's just say that company doesn't have much to loose in the reputation department.

To be fair, Apple seems to have made a few interesting design choices. They seem to have gone out of their way to create an illusion of two way transparency to their headset making casual human communication at least theoretically possible (although how much conversation you can have with someone actually wearing these due to distraction is an open question - if it's like trying to talk to someone on their phone that it will be at best half their attention).
Figma is excellent at many things, but they struggle with accessibility. It's been a year since they wrote a blog post about their accessibility efforts so I don't know how far they've managed to solve the issues they identified - https://www.figma.com/blog/a-step-forward-in-our-accessibili...
But that's not how it's written, is it? Given that English pronunciation rules are very different than how words are written, I would have thought native speakers would learn to actually look at a word and imitate the order of graphemes.

Especially if we're talking about an Internet thing: you've seen it in written form more often than you have heard it enunciated out loud. And seems like the iOS text prediction is also able to spell it the right way.

I don't care honestly, but as a non native English speaker I've never understood why natives make an enormous amount of banal spelling errors.
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This is really the only way that a discussion can become "settled": one group is driven from the field. Otherwise it's just endless trench warfare of rehashing talking points.

Especially as none of this is new. It's been obvious since the mtgox collapse, nearly a decade ago, that offshore unregulated "institutions" run by small teams of opportunists were going to be extremely risky places to put your money. It's been obvious for a long time that selling tokens to people with the expectation of profit later that could only materialize from selling to others (no fundamentals) was fraudulent, which the SEC is gradually catching up on enforcing.

The remaining questions are political, and as such unresolveable. Delusional people who thing the US dollar has been on the verge of collapse since 1932 vs people stuck in actual collapsed currencies who want access to pseudodollar banking. Europeans annoyingly pointing out that regular bank transfers can be free and quick vs Americans insisting this is impossible.
Regarding oceans, I want to add that the overwhelming majority of our land is in the northern hemisphere. Add the speed of light time lag, and anyone starting with a southern perspective will see a water-world with no technosignature whatsoever.

If one were to send a probe, one could wisely plan on purpose to land it in the ocean, deploy submersibles with flight technology and have them just go around and lay low.

They would hide, lay low and their aerodynamic performance might simply be their idea of a modest, basic platform. They would otherwise be wholly unprepared to make contact or perform in air to air combat.
In an analog computer, you’re trading quantization error for regular process noise and noise in initial conditions. If you’re concerned about modelling chaotic systems, you won’t get a more accurate just because you’re doing it analog.
But why are they having less sex? If a portion of the sex that was happening was rape-adjacent, and it is no longer happening because fewer people are getting drunk and less often, then it does equate to being "less rapey".
Btrfs has separate allocation pools for data and metadata. If you delete files, the freed-up space is returned to the data pool but that does not make it generally-available for use in the metadata pool. So in the case where the entire disk space is already allocated to one of the allocation pools, none of the pools can grow beyond their current size.

One of the effects of balancing the tree is to release unused space from the allocation pools to general availability, solving that problem.
Ian Buck is now one of the top execs at NVIDIA right now btw.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/ian-buck/
I found the following article about the topic really good: https://branchfree.org/2019/04/01/fitting-my-head-through-th...

In my experience using a 512 wide movemask (to uint64_t) is the fastest on both x86 and arm64. (Edit: just yo clarify, I meant the fastest for iteration, things like SwissMap are better off using 128 wide movemask)

With rvv you don't really what to go from a vector mask to a general purpose non vector register, because the vector length may vary. But I found it really useful that vector masks are always packed into v0. So even with LMUL=8, you can just to a vmseq, switch to LMUL=1 and use vfirst & vmsif & vmandn to iterate through all indices. (Alternatively vfirst & vmsof & vmclr would also work, I'm not sure which one would be faster)
> in e.g. Russian there are no separate words for "can" and "may"

I disagree. For "can", in Russian you would use the verb мочь (in the case of your example: я могу сходить в туалет?, lit. "I can / am able to go to the bathroom?"); for "may", you would use the predicative можно (in the case of your example: можно сходить в туалет?, lit. "is one allowed / is it possible to go to the bathroom?").
True story . . .

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The majority of INS platform drift is from a thing called "tilt error" - where the IRS initially misjudges the exact direction of the gravitational vector during alignment. All this will do is improve the accuracy of the accelerometers but will still have the drift caused in the INS itself. How will this make such a large improvement over what we have already?
You can just host on Gcloud and report as GoogleBot, good luck with that. There's also plenty of proxy services.

> The companies that reddit (officially) wants to target, e.g. OpenAI et al., have no problem scraping.

Indeed, on their case they just need the datasets anyways
I guess I believe they’re competent enough to have figured out a video of lens flare is of lens flare and not of alien craft. Though I was on the fence. They could be incompetent or too lost in bureaucratic clusterfuck to even look at these videos. But there are other factors indicating they are probably engaging in psyop.
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I don't know where the concept of "consciousness" came from in the discussion but as I said in the first comment these models already empirically show intelligence and creativity, proving otherwise would be much more meaningful than aligning with the evidence.
That would be depressing. Now if it were less empty than average, that would be more interesting.
The parent did the math for you and you ignore it and trot out an anecdote of no relevance (someone that experienced 2 shootings). Bizarre.
Not as massive an achievement as Proton getting nearly every Windows game in existence running well from unmodified binaries on Linux.
It could be one of many cheap probes sent by something like the Breakthrough Starshot.
Does Discord actually make enough sustainable money from Nitro? It doesn't seem feasible.
Leviticus is a part of the Bible/Torah. It's just a joke obviously, implying that crypto technology is simply against both nature and the writings of thousands years old religious texts.
pip-compile provides exactly that: https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io
It feels like another pretty Apple device which is purely for consuming content, and of little use for serious work (or serious play). And $3500 is way too much to pay for that sort of device.

A UI that relies entirely on eye tracking and arm motion tracking, without a single button for 'accept' or 'back' or 'fire' in the case of games seems incredibly limiting. They didn't demonstrate text entry, did they?

I expected to see Apple's headset being demonstrated as a product for professionals, perhaps for architects, product designers, and engineers to visualise their designs for clients. Maybe it could have also found a niche in education.

But no, they seem to have iPad-like use cases in mind, and for that, the price is way too high.
Leveraging existing content from the iOS/macOS app store is going to be key I think. The "now what" is a common issue with the Quest. It's a fun little toy but once you realise they're charging AAA prices for what are essentially tech demos in many cases it becomes a bit of a hard sell.

That combined with Meta boasting "over 500 titles" like it's a good thing really do put into perspective just how devoid of content the quest really is.
I play civ 5 from time to time, and it is a cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows). Why don't other gaming companies do what civ devs do to make it cross-platform? I understand why companies would make games on Windows exclusively if it was 10 years ago, but AFAIK, there already exist many cross-platform development tools you can leverage.
>It’s also not hard to find people (see: me) in industries where AI has been prophesied to be exceptionally disruptive, saying that actually, meh, it’s not going to mean much ultimately.

Indeed that's quite a bit easier than finding people who are 5x more efficient thanks to AI.

Never mind, I'm sure that we will see the results soon in the form of lower inflation and a lowered retirement age though /s

After all, we're so much more efficient now. It's not just a smokescreen for the disemployment effects of industrially hollowing out the country for profit? Is it?
> But seriously, this article is light on details

I'd expect it to be light on details. It is a project funded by the Royal Navy for next-generation navigation. Thye don't really want to give away details other than, "we have this"

A recent TV news report covered this in the UK. The only thing they could show was an prototype in a lab setting and a sealed white box on the test platform boat.
It uses a proprietary framework that implements Direct3D on top of Metal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36224057
Works mostly fine for me from Firefox on Android. All scans fine except one.
Looks promising, we are planing to try this in our company.
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Then how come everybody thinks AI has a more or less distinct style? Incredible amounts of detail everywhere, whereas human artists tend to focus details in service of the "object" or purpose of the artwork.

AI art is more like what would happen if you took Baroque art and applied it to modern styles. For a human artist the effort is not worth it.
Have you tried uninstalling chrome from Android? I can't even uninstall "pixel tips" - an entirely unimportant "tips" app is mandatory?!

A browser I can understand with how common PWAs are these days.
A lot of games on Steam, GOG, HumbleBundle were Linux and Mac as well
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Exactly. I’m not being called “an asshole”, even on Reddit: I’m being called racist, transphobic, homophobic, etc

And only on Reddit.

In real life, and in other online communities (e.g. I’m a member of a “DINK” Facebook group for people without kids), I haven’t had this problem.

I haven’t gotten into flame wars with ad-hominems in recent memory either.

People are a lot less eager to play the “you’re vaguely problematic” card outside Reddit.
> bought a pub and lamented that "the kids aren't drinking anymore!"

Not going to pubs doesn't mean they are not drinking, may be they are drinking at home? Curious to see stats for overall alcohol by age. With price of a pint in a pub 4x-5x more than in a supermarket it could steer people already squeezed by rising cost of living away from pubs/restrains. And AFAIK pubs cannot lower prices to keep customers, they feel inflation pressure themselves.
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I think this response lacks the context of the current state of the video game industry. In my mind this is no different than nVidia providing white glove engineering support and optimizations for titles to run on their GPUS.

There is a reason nVidia has generally won the consumer GPU arms race over the years over AMD. They go out of their way to support studios and titles, compared to what AMD does imho.

It shows that Apple recognizes it needs to lower the barrier of entry for studios to considering targeting Macs. Because compared to the larger gaming market most studios have very little incentive to build and maintain this because Mac’s could account for 1-3% of your player base. Is that worth 1-5 ICs worth of time if you are a small studio. Probably not.
Well if there are no changes made to the game whatsoever, then it has to be using Rosetta. Fantastic would be DXVK approximate levels of performance hit. This is far short of that.
Of course, people don't leave their cultures and beliefs at the border.
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Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. Think about how many Steam Decks have been sold. Game devs are already actively targeting the Deck. If porting games to Mac can be made easier, we all need to actively encourage it. Unfortunately, the only way we get Apple to give us more game dev tools is by porting the games.

I have a Steam Deck and a Mac. I would love to play half the games from my Deck on my laptop.
Same experience here. For stationary position games I found it fine, but anything with any kind of walking handled by the controllers it felt awful.

Interestingly I tried out F1 2022 in PCVR mode with it and was surprised to find that didn't make me feel ill. A lot of it comes down to the refresh rate and quality of tracking as its the lag that causes a lot of the nausea.
> This is philosophical BS. A species is a species. Is a technical term [more or less] well defined that is the basis of all live sciences.

On the contrary, most of philosophical BS starts from a mistaken belief that categories are a thing. They're not. They're just fuzzy selectors. A "species" is a technical term, and so is a "chair" or a "rivet". Good enough, as long as you don't zoom in on it too closely. If you do, you'll find the boundary of the category is fuzzy (and if you ask another person to zoom in with you, you'll discover your fuzzy boundaries don't fully overlap).

The "basis of life sciences" you refer to is a historical artifact. People like to categorize and give names to things. They did so according to their practical needs and tools they had. We have better tools now - particularly ones that let us see how life ticks. Genetics is pretty much upending the old taxonomy "that is the basis of all live sciences", because up until ~100 years ago, we had no first clue what's actually going on.

And if you look at what the modern life sciences discover, you'll see that organisms indeed break the usual definition of "species" in every possible way.

In a way, species not being a thing is also fundamental to evolution - after all, how would one species evolve into another, if not through intermediary forms that are kinda both, and kinda neither?

> Is also the product of millions years of evolution so when lost, is irreplaceable.

Well, yes. But that doesn't immediately make it valuable. Random googling says the estimate is of about 8 million different species of plants and animals on Earth, with barely a million classified so far. That's a lot of diversity, but losing any one of them hardly matters. Something else will take its place. It may not be exactly the same, but similar enough.

If you disagree, then ask yourself why. Why value "the product of millions years of evolution"? Could it be a practical reason (e.g. it may have evolutionary adaptations or genetic patterns useful for us)? Could it be aesthetic reasons (it's pretty)? Something else? It's good to name it.

(Personally, I mostly care about biodiversity for practical reasons - primarily ecosystem stability, and secondarily medical and biotech research applications.)
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