skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, not degeneracy.

But seriously, that's a giant slippery slope and anyone claiming to be on the left should see that. (Unless you're an authoritarian leftist who's for economic centralization but socially conservative).

Speaking as somebody who remembers when my existence was considered 'degenerate', I'm wary of any attempts to put degeneracy on the same level as hate speech.
Not really. The passthrough and resolution is not quite good enough on the quest 2 or the pro for it.
> the r/de and r/France community have find some really concerning behavior by Reddit

For anyone who doesn’t want to translate the French post and German comments: Reddit is using bots to fill copycat subs with local content by machine-translating successful posts of the original subs, and then spammed every user from that country with an admin message about those subs.
React Server Components remind me of inline PHP with html. Wasn't a good idea then. Not a good idea now.
Many platforms have recently shown how you can monitize an audience without ads. It's weird to me that Reddit hasn't pursued something like that.

Discord and Twitch have a funding model that would probably work great for Reddit. Allow users to pay a small fee to upgrade their subscription to a subreddit - maybe $1.50/mo per sub or $15/mo for all subs. The upgrade includes access to special emojis for the sub, a special flair or re-colored username, and no ads on the upgraded sub. A portion of the money would go towards funding moderation for the sub, and Reddit could pocket the rest.
Again, I am pretty sure that is an issue of priorities.

If reddit puts two juniors working on the video player and then has half the team working on making the stupid profile pictures for users that is not an issue of developer talent.

I have 0 doubt that there are really good devs at reddit, and I am also sure they are being made to work on monetisation shit and not on fixing mod tools, video player, bot detection and power user options which would make the app 1000% times better
What is the value of digitizing computer shopper?
apologies for the clickbait title. i'm dumb like that sometimes.

fx is dope but i think zq from the folks behind the zed language might even be nicer: https://www.brimdata.io/blog/introducing-zq/
I saw that but it doesn't help change my mind. A lot of fun PC games are made with Unity, but not the kind that really benefit from the immersion of VR [0]. Meanwhile, at the end of last year they merged with ironSource—a mobile ad platform—which suggests Unity continues to see their future as being focused on mobile and F2P.

It's possible that Apple will once again define the market, but choosing Unity is not good evidence they've correctly identified the VR games market that's already there.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39750107-Games-Made-W...
Exactly! Even just a small Kojima game exclusive to the Vision Pro would've been interesting.

Kojima is sufficiently famous and well liked to bootstrap a gaming ecosystem, though. They could've gone further and announced an Apple TV Pro, a decent controller, Vision non-Pro (cheaper headset that requires an M1 Mac or Apple TV Pro) and one full Kojima VR game as an exclusive. That could've been enough to start competing with Microsoft and Sony for console games.
It seems lazy to me, do a Google search for "Vision Pro", excluding results from the past couple of days, and it seems there were already a ton of products and services with the same name.

Perfect time to bring back the "i", though they already have "iSight". "iBorg"?
Do you really think it's not the same people sitting at the top of crypto too?

Criminals gonna criminal where it makes money.
It could be the other way: Vision Pro will advance faster (field of view, compute power, some new feature) and Vision will become a lower price point full of rad hand-me-downs.
Vision Air is a nice homonym for visionnaire.
That's a valid point. Even as AI evolves, human supervision remains crucial. Pair programming with AI could enhance its utility safely.
Background removal in local browser WebGPU based ML tool
Hey folks!

I just released a beta of a free tool I’ve been working for a while which allows you to run a state of the art AI for background removal in your photos directly in your local browser (if you have GPU - M1/M2 Macs work great for example).

Data is not sent anywhere to the cloud servers - your private photos stay private. Additionally, given you have a decent GPU chip/M1/M2, processing is often faster than server solutions since there’s no network latency!

The only caveat is that you need GPU on your device - due to intensive machine learning models being executed.

Let me know what you think :-) looking for feedback - do you find such a tool useful? and do you like the concept?
Yes, I suppose "small" might be clearer than "simple". C is simple partly because of how little of what a computer can do it actually defines. That makes it more difficult to use, but the well-defined language is quite simple. Safe Rust tries to define all of that, so you can do everything the underlying processor is capable of, and becomes far more complex in return.
I think it's more comparable to GPU naming. 40XX gives me the generation, and the XX part (e.g. "4060"/"3080 Ti", etc gives me relative the performance within that group. Except instead of something informative, Apple just goes with an arbitrary word that means "the best."
When Ben Thompson writes something that you could also interpret as a massive paid ad, that says something really interesting about the product he’s writing about.
That's kind of a really "meh" thing if you develop web applications and not websites. The static parts aren't that large, and the app kinda useless until the dynamic parts are there. So that doesn't really justify additional effort.
They did that for a while during the GPT-3 days, Ada, Babbage and Davinci all were/are different variations of GPT-3.
Sure but can you play Diablo 4 on it?
Yeah, that’s unwillingness to do something they know they can do/learn if they wanted to. They aren’t helpless.

Actual helplessness has an element of fear or lack of control. The person thinks they aren’t able to do something. Essentially, they’ve given up because they don’t feel any of their actions have control over the outcome.
>Agreed, polarization is a good sign that this is going to make an impact. Ironically "unimpressed" is communicated by a lack of response, not by a negative one (which more likely indicates people's beliefs are being challenged).

To quote Elie Wiesel: "The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference." It's an extremely good barometer.
It won’t be as “magical”, “delightful”, and “inspiring”.
Now nature.com gives “coding” advice? Is openai paying for such articles or are they bored?
Science emulating nature I guess; it's like how computer-optimized structures seem to emulate nature (e.g. the internals of a bird's bones), or the most effective robotic grippers being the ones that look like human hands.
They showed it, but didn't really focus on it. They also mentioned pairing with their magic keyboards and other peripherals.

I experimented with a keyboard/mouse in an Oculus headset and having physical keys under your fingers is much better. Only problem was that I couldn't see the keyboard inside the headset which was a bummer.
I am not sure how you deal with opinionated debates with the Automod. I cannot speak for your community. It also depends on daily active members (we get about 5.6k DAU on weekly average i.e these people are upvoting/commenting at least. I hope these numbers scale linearly for you).

We have automod set up but given how strong opinions can be on heuristic driven scientific areas, I'd be careful not to make it rule based. People will be kicking each other's comments out. That defeats the idea of moderation: civil, well reasoned conversations & productive posts.

But then it depends from community to community. Maybe the conversations in your community are more linear. Mine has to deal with multipolarity & we simply can't do it with how flammable it gets.

(FWIW, this is a screenshot of our efforts to run it according to the rules:
https://imgur.com/a/RuU0NKA

The top row is mine as others are dormant moderation members who step up on need basis. 1.3k actions are reasonably high which we can't solve only by automod)
That's because (as with the release of every new shitcoin) it's just a scam to raise money for the "investors" - by which I mean insiders - and dump it on retail.
The one potential requirement I'll caution you on is resilience against write failures, in case you're collecting time-series data and can't afford to lose a "session" or spend time messing with recovery options. HDF5 is not made for that. Binary and SQLite are better in that respect. SQLite wins on usability against binary and HDF5.

https://cyrille.rossant.net/moving-away-hdf5/
> Apple, meanwhile, isn’t even bothering with presence: even its Facetime integration was with an avatar in a window, leaning into the fact you are apart, whereas Meta wants you to feel like you are together.

[was with an avatar in a window]

And how Meta is fixing that exactly?
It's an interesting decision to be sure. Then again it's not really that arcane, the question is simply whether you calculate function defaults once or on every invocation. Python made the choice to run it once.

What I don't get here is why they didn't simply use 'None' instead. If a parameter is optional then 'None' makes way more sense than an empty list.
I’ve been using aider since last week when I got GPT4 api access and it has easily quadrupled my coding productivity. I didn’t realize how slow it was to constantly be pasting and copying in the browser until I started using it
“You must be fun at parties”, “awwwkard”, “okaaaaay”, “tell us what you really think”…

It’s just a way to dismiss a point.

Reddit has controversial subreddits, the vast majority of which were closed down. That’s neither here nor there.

I’m not looking for a pleasant subreddit for racists. I’m looking for a subreddit for my local hometown where the default assumption isn’t that it’s populated by racists.

I’m looking for a subreddit for posting Star Trek memes where the default assumption is that I’m not interested in depriving trans people of their right to exist.

The problem with Reddit and its mods is that the defaults are way out of wack. It’s always war-time and anybody who isn’t quoting from the latest propaganda film is a commie-nazi.
As much as us HNers like to talk about technology, moderation of content is the key to any social media platform being successful. Moderation goes away or drastically changes and the users leave when the site fills with garbage.

Occasionally mods will duck out for a day, on purpose, to let members go nuts with content. That is what would happen without moderators and after a while, all those un-moderated subreddits would become cess pools of bot content and spam with members leaving and traffic will take a giant nose dive.
Pro is consistent with other product lines that Apple produces. IPhone Pro, MacBook Pro, etc.
They could change the convention, but weren’t y’all just complaining about how naming conventions for things like Windows, Intel, Nvidia, etc are not consistent?
Well that honestly is a relief. I will see if I can set a muted ringtone

Though I seriously doubt Apple will allow someone to set a custom ringtone. I haven’t checked it.
Yeah, it's very hard to describe. Almost like you perceive the present moment and the past couple seconds at the same time. Time seems to pass by you very quickly but, then you look at the clock, and it's only been 5 minutes

That being said, I can't imagine having to hunt while on a lot of psychedelics
You mean like where they say "you broke the law" and crypto bros respond that the laws don't apply and new ones need to be made up?
I agree that these (Glass and HL2 at least, and Vision seems a lot like HL2) are probably not actually useful to businesses.

The military bought enough Hololens (for whatever reason) to make it worth it for Microsoft. They knew that ahead of time too.

Apple has enough people that will buy whatever they make that this will be successful even if it is also useless.
In case somebody looks for a quick summary of "this" in "...and then this happened". There's no single "this". It was many steps and eventually AWS rolled out a fix a month later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187705
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36196343
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36198487
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202277
I always ignore WantItAll when looking for products here, it's clearly just a "re-shipper" of overseas online stores so everything is always pretty insanely priced because you're paying the normal overseas online store "retail" price + the cost of it being shipped to SA + import tax + WantItAll's markup + local courier fee.

I think their market is people who have so much money that they don't care what it costs to get niche items imported, to me it's a bit sickening that said market here is apparently big enough to sustain such a company.
FDA is actually pretty collaborative with pharma companies. But also pharma companies’ business models aren’t entirely dependent on circumventing regulation and they aren’t openly combative with regulators.
France warns against killing a European ChatGPT; Too many rules on AI
I worked with an electrical engineer who disclosed to me a mid 8 figures investment made by a PE firm to develop Ethereum FPGA and ASIC hardware, and while he told me they were underwater on that deal, they did achieve (IIRC) 30%+ performance (watt to flop) relative to (at the time) top-of-the-line GPUs.

I wonder what they’re doing with that hardware now.
The "eye passthrough" display is something that could be trimmed quite easily to get the price down. It's not like any other VR device has it.
Deep Drowsiness Detection Using YOLO, PyTorch and Python [video]
I'm in management, have been for about 5 years. I've never found it difficult to judge the productivity of my team members. Even in the 15 years I was primarily an IC it was obvious, to me, who the most productive people on the team were and who were the least. If you are actually involved in the work the team is doing, and if you take even a little bit of time to have an actual relationship with people, it is not hard. What to do about it (besides the lazy "fire them") can be very hard. Helping people grow can be very hard, depending on the people. But my team doesn't work "for me," they work with me. I'm as much responsible to them as I am for them.

As another comment points out, the people that use these tools would never give their reports the same data about their own "productivity." Employers try not to even let employees know about this kind of surveillance because it directly undermines any supposed "team culture." They have no place in an equitable relationship. When management uses these kinds of tools they make it clear that they don't care about those being managed. They don't care enough to be honest with them, to be accountable themselves for how they manage. The obvious message these tools send to those under this kind of management is that that management does not see them as respected colleagues and team members, but rather cogs in the machine, "resources" to be exploited.
Impressive, but the price point seems steep. Curious to see if its unique features will justify the cost.
US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
It just means "more expensive" (implying a later "less expensive" version).
I’d say most, but certainly not (almost) all. There are quite a few (real) German subreddits, and most of my countrypeople prefer their native language over English, and are often not even that comfortable with it. Forum culture is also still relatively big in Germany, so for niche hobbies there are probably several forums, I know that for ecigs, the German reddit community can’t hold a candle to the several ecig forums.
People who grew up in the Web 2.0 era are obsessed with trends and influence. Posit A#1 of these people is: The more people who think something, the truer it is. Therefore, you must be in the biggest group of people possible in order for your groupthink be true. A small group that tries to disagree with a big group is wrong. Therefore, their ideas will die, and there is no point in being a member of such a group. You might as well just think for yourself, which, as they all know, is insane.
Fortunately it reads like one. Says a lot about the product.
Presumably they will wait and see how people use it in practice before deciding what is and isn't essential.

It's hard to believe that the screen on the outside is really necessary, but I'm sure it did well in testing or it wouldn't have been included.
Need someone spinning up a reddit clone
Yeah I thought that was an interestingly pointed mention. Idk why they'd mention it though.
I don't think so? The charcoal would remain identifiable as the coal is matured by burial and heating (perhaps not all the way to anthracite).
Presumably with an avatar outside of a window
"Pro", in AppleSpeak, means "the expensive one". They've actually done this before; the MacBook Pro (first Intel Mac) launched some time before the MacBook (first consumer-oriented Intel Mac). This feels like fairly clear signalling that there'll be a cheaper more consumer-oriented one along later.
These people want to become executives to be at the helm of a ship and the leader of a social group.

When the social group is scattered around they find themselves without purpose
Visiting your link on Microsoft Edge triggers the phishing warning:

You might have misspelt reddit.com
Microsoft Edge recommends that you double-check the spelling of the site you're trying to access. Misspelt sites – with similar spellings to popular ones – are known to redirect users to sites that steal and scam your personal information.

Should probably change your domain.
Java is just about the only sane language that one should use for complex projects.

All phones since the last 30 years (including the famous Nokias) shipped with Java and apps that simply worked. Android is constructed on top of Java. What I build today with pure Java will run in 100 years from today without needing changes. Quite a different scenario for whatever other language that breaks stuff every couple of versions.

Using other languages is of course possible. In the same manner as building a wheel with stone is possible instead of using rubber.
I see it better when my head is really close to the screen.
> could be interesting if as users we got access to all these measurements

You can! It's not trivial, but not very hard either.

eye tracking - OS projects getting this from a laptop camera exist and work well enough for assistive tech (i.e. it can replace your mouse today)

electrical activity in the brain - there are fancy things like https://zeto-inc.com/device/ but there are basic options as well

heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood pressure, skin conductance - there's lots of cheap sensors for those
Just because we decided it that way arbitrarily, right? It's not some natural law that this is how it should be, that the rule makers can't possibly explain rules, only enforce them. I mean, you could make the same argument about the IRS and Congress with respect to taxes: it's not their job to make it easy on us, just to punish us when we make a mistake on our tax returns. I mean, I guess... But just because we wrote the law that way. Plenty of other places have put 2 and 2 together and figured out that if the goal is to collect taxes and not to enrich TurboTax, then they can make the process dramatically simpler.

Similarly, if your actual goal is to reduce the occurrences of "bad behaviors" (which is presumably the whole point of creating these rules to begin with), then it doesn't seem that unreasonable to have someone try to lay it out clearly, right? If for no other reason than maybe a bunch of people negatively affected by these behaviors would have been spared since there wouldn't have been this grey area to operate in for so long? That's who we're ultimately doing this for, right? The public that is hurt by securities that are misrepresented? Now, if your goal is to punish people, then yes, the current system makes more sense.
iWear if it didn't clash with the watches. iBorg / "I, Borg" would probably not land well with Trekkies.

iPiece?
> A portion of the money would go towards funding moderation for the sub

That creates bad incentives, though. A streamer I mod for once suggested something similar, I told them I’d quit modding in that case. If it’s a job, it stops being a hobby.
Most planes have power at the seats though, I don't think it'd be too hard to wear this on a plane.
Apple has managed to combine AR and VR, by simply re-creating the AR inside the VR.

The idea is simple but profound.

However, for a company that prides itself on "shared" experiences, the VR is for "lonesome" experiences (watching a movie, watching vacation photos, etc) in some cases, but bang on for others (especially at work)

This will spurn the industry, just like the iPhone did, and hopefully, we will have a lot of use cases. To list a few.

1. Watching your family from afar, by linking two VR devices in real time.
2. Incredible engineering and design advances, with the combination of real time sharing, AR and VR merging.
3. A whole new way to experience content. Honestly, the idea of an unlimited screen size is appealing.
4. Incredible potential for gaming.
same thought
This is essentially how reddit was founded - fake users, fake organic content. We shouldn't be surprised.
Short-legged pets like hamsters and rabbits might be trickier.

vs goldfish, which are easier: the pose is simply "Live" or "Dead".
If he say the product sucks what are you gonna say? It was paid by Meta?
They aren't making a noticeable change to the system at all. This method challenges roughly 350 patents a year while roughly 300,000 patents are granted per year. That's in the area of 0.1% of all patents. I think these numbers are very consistent with the predominant use case being the challenging of bad patents and there are very few examples of people trying to overturn good patents.
I don’t know about your last point. Their devs can’t seem to get their website to be usable on mobile at all. Safari/latest iOS and the site has issues with zoom (it’s not desktop level of zoom but it’s way too small but only after you log in and make a comment or a post). Images and videos load about half the time. The site cannot for the life of it remember that I don’t want to download the app. Half the user settings are still tied to the old desktop site. Reddit chat does not work on mobile. DM inbox is a mess. Search UI is clunky as hell.

I understand their focus is on users downloading the app, but this is just sloppy poor craftsmanship.
Well I can stop a fast spinning (to the point of blurry) tire with my mind into a still image of the thread, all I need to do is to be tired enough to have micro-conciousness lapses... doesn't make that into some new perception state
> everyone else seems to missing the point and comparing this to traditional headsets.

I think most people are trying to find better value in the product.

Headsets focused on providing a screen already exists, NReal is a decently selling product. Sure the Vision Pro has way better resolution, but we're also assuming that NReal and co will have better resolution in their next iterations.

To jest, if a VR screen dedicated device comes to market in 2024 with a tad lower resolution than the Vision Pro at half or a third of the price, will the Vision Pro still have a market as a virtual screen ? At that point it will need to justify the price with all the other things, the hand tracking, the surroundings integration etc. All the stuff people are trying to find value in outside of it being a screen.
“I’m trying to interface my sewage pipes with the municipal drinking water supply, but for some reason the water company are being real dicks about it”