skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cute, but it would be more helpful to have react-style GUI programming in python, with Qt (Quick or widgets) as the backend (instead of DOM).
Yep, that's exactly the lecture I had in mind for my original comment. I decided to shorten down to "no one is sure what the advantage is" rather than try to both explain Sapolsky's conjecture and not mislead people into thinking its an established scientific fact.
If you click the three dots on a recommendation you can select "show less like this" and you won't see recommendations from that subreddit. Also, there is a setting in user settings to prevent recommendations from subs you don't subscribe to from appearing at all, but I would give the algorithm a chance since there are interesting subs you probably aren't aware of.

Also, I wouldn't call making recommendations in home feed a growth hack, fwiw.
Not that I'm drawing conclusions, but have you considered the possibility that the stuff that crashes is the alien equivalent of the ATV or the hoverboard?
Wow, another UFO story about how one guy said something but he was reaaaaallly believable right?

Lmao.
it's just a rendering. I presume nvidia wouldn't be announcing something that they haven't made and confirmed, I wonder why they chose that image.

Is it just they haven't done the molding of a production installation? Is it possible that their internal instances might not be that presentable?
>We're still adding to the periodic table...

That doesn't violate known physics in any way.
do it anyways. i worked with a guy who wore suits and ties most days because he was stylish. we ribbed him a little but he got respect because he looked so damned good.
> IDK how you think this is abusive

Let's have a look at some of the adjectives you have used, directed at people in this thread,

Noisy

nonsensical

ridiculous

silly

a problem

ignorant
What gave it away, the iron cross at the beginning of MI:2?
Maybe not on a $3 million 5-bedroom mansion in the hills, but with $500,000 1 and 2-bedroom condos, 20% down payment is $100,000 k, which is affordable by a high level engineer or product designer making $500,000/yr, especially if it's a power DINK couple making close to $1mm/yr. Whether they want to invest in housing there is another story, but let's not pretend the upper class is priced out of Cupertino.

Eg https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20488-Stevens-Creek-Blvd-... recently sold.
You don't think they are contributing something by creating this platform?
An alien was trotted out for a press conference June 19th, 1997 https://www.deseret.com/2007/3/25/20009206/former-governor-s...
BTC simply went on sale yesterday.
I know firsthand just how difficult it is to work with all the disparate APIs for the different hardware providers, particularly with smartlocks. How do you deal with providing an ergonomic API on top of the access management and key/credential granting itself? Each of the APIs has different concepts, e.g. Salto's API has "binary keys", "zones", "access groups", "audit trails", etc...whereas SMARTair has "sites", "locking plans", etc. How do you deal with all of this? In other words, does your API abstract over all the APIs for purposes of setting up access? How would I, for example, given any type of lock, grant keys to a visitor which should expire in one week?
I didn't know what WSL was, but now I do, thanks for the tip!
Maybe their equipment and pilots are in desperate shape after untold generations crawling across the black.
I can say I'm not sure what to think about this; I don't understand possible motivations nor psyop sufficiently to comment on the veracity/lack thereof.

Anecdotally, I'll note that this has sent folks I am acquainted with who believe that the Replicants walk among us (or variations thereof), right off the deep end. This validates what they've been asserting, and which people have pooh-pooh'd, all along.

Man, the fox is loose in the mental health henhouse. And please know that I don't judge or claim to understand that place.

It just all seems so irresponsible.
Agreed — I'm thinking we'd have just one joystick, to control movement. The second joystick could evolve into some new interface, or devolve into a row of buttons.
I just went to echo this. Most of the reviews I’ve watched or read have raved about the eye tracking, regardless of if the reviewer was a fan of VR in general. It feels really cool that we might finally have a new computing paradigm. There is so much potential here and I can’t wait to see where things go.
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"Not your keys not your crypto" doesn't mean a world without exchanges.

Exchanges should be used to exchange, not as a bank where you store your crypto.
Email is federated and everyone manages to use it just fine. It's possible the UX can be improved, in which case I'd invite you to contribute.
> I can't avoid feeling that the new direction taken by Next.js is not designed to help developers, but to help Vercel sell React. You can't really sell a service around SPAs: once compiled, a SPA is a single JS file that can be hosted for free anywhere. But a server-side rendered app needs a server to run. And a server is a product that can be sold. Perhaps I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I don't see another reason to break the React ecosystem like this.

Feels like this inevitably ends in a fork. It was a hell of a run though!
I don't mind leading with the conclusion, but I do mind that this piece never actually made any arguments in support of that conclusion. It's just a list of assertions.

In other words, it's a sales pitch.
It's Amazon's own link shortener. That's the link they give out from the share button. It would be really funny if they drop it. That would maybe some domain snatcher very lucky.

Thanks for posting the full link with description so it's clearer for everybody.
The military industrial complex is pretty powerful (arguably it's the most powerful organization on the planet), and is plenty capable of engaging in ongoing conspiracies and psyops. It's naive to believe that the same government who created nuclear bombs with the secret Manhattan Project, and that inserted intelligence agents into media companies in Project Mockingbird, is not continuing to conspire at levels of grand strategy equal to or exceeding those of its past projects.
Praise the lord!
It would not defeat the entire purpose.

"non-discoverable" WebAuthn keys aren't part of "passkeys", apparently, but they locally encrypt the per-site data, including the private key, and then give that encrypted data to the server to store.
I also wonder if it made more sense from a security perspective. In the early iOS days, one of the big problems for desktop apps was unrestricted access to your data. IOS improved this with application sandboxing by default, and it eventually made its way into OS X.

But we all know the difference between implementing something brand new versus retrofitting something into an existing system. So my guess is iOS had more secure defaults for a system like vision.
> best in class latency for iPad + pencil

Hmm. Marketing horse-puckey.

A 2018 Dell XPS that has a Wacom digitiser and OneNote gives me lower latency and better inking experience than an iPad and pencil 2. I used them side by side for long-form writing for a while and the iPad was left in the dust.
Bard is a liar! Noted ;)
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> the galaxy is emptier than it should be.

It really isn't. Do the math, I did (scroll about halfway down): https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2014/11/30/this-jus...

Being very generous, in my opinion, and assuming 1 in 2 systems has a planet/moon that is inhabitable by life as we know it, and that 1 in 2 of those has tool-building life at some point, in our galaxy you get something like 1 tool-building civilization per 600,000 square light-years spread out over 12 billion years.
The ultimate reason why I don’t believe in this despite the attention this seem to be getting from congress and the more reliable than one can expect witnesses at least if we take them on face values this time around is that Trump hasn’t tweeted a selfie with ET during his presidency…
It should be strong if the effect is strong. We find strong signal in noisy data in all kinds of contexts.

If all the states with masks and social distancing mandates had, on average, 30% less cases per capita than states without, that would be a strong signal even if it's not conclusive given all the other variables involved. I doubt any other variable could be found that would show that much signal. But we haven't see anything like that.
It feels like we're at the pareto frontier. Technological advancement used to feel like it truly was progress, but we're now at a point where advancement is simply advancement, and we're well aware that as the technology advances, there's an equal an opposite regression in society somewhere.
Considering there is a "calibration" step. I'm going to guess that as long as the "bad" eye behaves relatively predictably, it should be able to ignore the bad input and put appropriate weight on the "good" eye.

It will also be interesting how the outward display will display the "bad" eye input including missing eyes, lazy eyes, nystagmus, etc...
> that still leaves most of the black hole's interior within GR's domain of validity.

Thanks, that's what I (as a layman) supposed: that inside the event horizon isn't some space that you can't think about; it's qualitatively not distinguishable from outide.

Upthread, someone mentioned that the singularity wasn't a place in space, it was a location in time. That made me think; the mass of a BH isn't the mass of a volume of space, it's the mass of the "singularity", which (presumably?) is located at the center of the space described by the event horizon. So there must be a place where the singularity is located, and there must be a direction towards it.

Someone else suggested there are two things: a mathematical singularity and a gravitational singularity, and that they aren't the same. That hadn't crossed my mind.
Fantastic idea and excellent execution! I look forward to using what you’ve created. Is there a way to support you with $$$?
Swift is next to useless on any platform other than Apple's.
why do you guys say this? Amazon's "View in your room" feature does a decent job of placing a furniture in AR. We can even walk around/towards it. And that tech is just Apple ARKit right?
> Auth with local storage can be quite nice

With the `SameSite=strict` option on modern browsers and the `HttpOnly` (plus `Secure` to only run in SSL secured context), Cookies are more secure and the way to go instead of storing credentials anywhere accessible from within JavaScript. Before SameSite=strict, cookies were a security nightmare and often resultet in XSRF attacks, and required XSRF mitigations (like xsrf tokens), but this is no longer the case as all modern browsers support it.
Thanks. This made my day.
>Don’t sell it short!

Especially not without very carefully considering counterparty risk!
No one has used it for an extended period of time. You don't get a headache right away, but after a while, you feel it.
The eye tracking as the interface is what stood out to me as the most radical choice in the device.

I'm doubtful we really know how good it is yet. Without a few hours/days of hard use its just not going to be obvious the degree to which they've overcome all these long standing obstacles via "magic".

It's hard to think voice is anywhere near ready for this application, I still find it highly frustrating after decades of tries.
Mojo looks cool. But I'll wait for it to be open sourced AND as easy to use as Typescript + React for real complex web apps before considering it. I expect this to take 2-5 years if it ever happens. It's a possible future, not the present.
Swift is not a C or C++ replacement, so there is no indication that would happen.
That was a deeply disturbing part. Especially "[...]with the machine version of infinite love."

It was very hard to keep reading after that maximal bit of creepy delusion.
It’s not that they can’t figure it out I think, it’s that it’s too hard and too limited of a market to justify the expense to build anything cool.

Given enough time and adoption I believe it will happen
>There are 3 comprehensive possibilities

I'd say there is a 4th comprehensive possibility: these are one or more natural phenomenon we've yet to document and may have no intelligence behind them at all.
Yeah, it sounds like you're not aware of various things like ring signatures, SNARKs, STARKs, etc.
There is a strong bias against scams in general, let alone multi-billion dollar scams.
Ring signatures. Every monero transaction is signed by the source of funds plus N other keys. The effect is that nobody can prove which key actually signed the transaction.

Monero has numerous privacy features. It mixes in multiple transactions into one so that amounts, sources and destinations can't be correlated. To an outside observer, it looks like everyone is constantly transacting with everyone else. Maximizes the anonymity set.
Exactly, nobody needs encryption anyways. Cryptography is a waste of energy and is bad for the environment. All it’s used for is planning terrorist attacks and Russian military invasions. We should simply use state communication channels and require third party messengers to provide KYC documents to the government. We as a society decided on taking away communication privacy, so even if you voted against it you still consent.
I’m going to chalk this up to micro markets, I think. I get recruited harder now than I did as computer.guy and I’m that many years older thanks to taking a break for law school. My passing familiarity with Accenture means I understand what you’re saying about the big four. One factor I wonder if you’re taking into account is that there aren’t a lot of law firms as big as the big four accounting firms. Maybe the situation you (and that law.com article ) are detailing is how it is in big law right now, where I am not?
At the end of the day people want to move to something that works with Apollo or RiF, and that's something Lemmy lacks.

Best second alternative I come across is Tildes, is invite only and is like how Reddit was few years ago, without the memes, AI bots, astroturfing and glowies.

There is an alternative being developed in nostr worth keep an eye.
Adobe supports WebP now:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/support-webp-image-form...
>and not the commercial pilots

Because they don't want to lose their job when their employer thinks they're nuts and shouldn't be flying hundreds of people.
not as such no.

Part of (my) definition of a platform is that when you buy it you are fully paying for the cost and contribution the platform provider made when you buy it. If there's a residual financial (or other) obligation after that then you don't have a platform, you have a partnership. I know there's other definitions of platform but that's the one that's important to me.
Making peace by allowing an aggressor to expand their territory is called appeasement, and there are historical reasons why people are reluctant to do it: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-hoped-to-avoid-wa...
The US can't even manufacture an iPhone if they wanted to. The world's tech comes out of East Asia.
Does it make a difference that he acknowledges he is gushing?
> a global solution continues to elude us

You gotta love the implied premise that there's a problem to be solved, because of course that's all our government is good for: solving problems it creates.

I think the problem here is the government's tendency to lie to its citizens. The solution is unrelated to aliens.
That sounds like a smart way to get your engineers to take the time for writing! I do assume you all do at least a basic suitability and security review, though?
What he said is not very far from that.
I'm really not sure you should be thanking everyone for ad hominem.

Yes yes, HN doesn't like a16z. Not one of those comments were useful.
Same thing was happening in the New Zealand for some time.
Method that is declared as only ever returning bool can also raise any exception that is an instance of java.lang.RuntimeException (which includes NullPointerException) this somewhat bizzare design which combines unchecked and checked exceptions is a source of major discussions since at least late 90's and has much to do with the current concept of null-safety.
Apple’s Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it?
My understanding is that the non-locality is a feature of AdS/CFT:

The map from the interior to exterior sends information that may be “local” on the interior across the surface (eg, crossing of a knot). That information isn’t lost… but it can get smeared across the surface.

You can even imagine a situation where the surface as a whole contains the crossing information, but the projected shadow is locally a pseudoknot which doesn’t contain that locally for any “interaction”. Hence a local theory on the surface would need to not only be quantized (eg, a theory of crossing numbers), but statistically so (eg, a distribution of pseudoknot resolutions).
The focus seems to make a smaller (not better) OpenCV
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I'm a little confused here, React might have a SSR component, but the thing that makes it React is that it runs client-side. So... how are you putting Python in the browser?
I'm with you on this one. It was a solid argument in 2017, but even by 2018 the writing was on the wall for crypto. John Oliver recently did another segment on crypto and he absolutely nailed it in saying that the only real currency in crypto is confidence, and that tends to attract a certain kind of individual, namely scammers/fraudsters.
You might be SOL on version 1 or 2 but they'll figure it out eventually.
It's a bit odd if you think about it: a desktop OS effectively creates a virtual 3d space for windows to live (move them in X and Y, or change their depth relative to each other), and the iPad or iPhone treats the surface as just a simple 2d plane with no depth or really even XY axes (you could sort of argue that the app switcher is an X axis).

So they're effectively recreating a lot of the elements of the macOS w/r/t window positioning, resizing, and depth, but building all on top of the iPadOS paradigm. If you consider the input methods are probably closer to a touch interface than a MKB interface then it kinda makes sense.

Personally I have zero interest whatsoever in living inside Apple's "only what we allow you to do" world, and the fact that they seem to be expanding it to what seems like a very powerful, desktop replacement computing device is kinda gross to me. But from an interface standpoint I think it's really interesting and actually makes some sense.
I don’t think it’s that good. “Decent” is accurate
It's hilarious watching how HN upvotes insane theory instead of crazy theory. Wild times!

There is a very very simple explanation, which is that everything he says is true. There is a secret program, they did reverse engineer, they did withhold it from congress, and people did tell him that there is alien stuff.

Why make up silly make believe?

The guy isn't claiming 'oh i saw aliens'. He could simply be telling the absolute truth.

Why so many people told him there were aliens, I dunno, but who cares. Those people aren't the ones whistleblowing and so it doesn't really matter, does it?

I for one believe the guy, 100%

My only complaint is that perhaps he should probably be a bit more circumspect about what actually exists.
I think the biggest risk of AI, near-to-mid term, is massive unemployment and the resulting serious increase in poverty.
If there were a large animal in my garage, I would hear it.

Is there were a large animal in my garage, I would see droppings.

If there were aliens, we would......what exactly?

Every day we see new stuff in the universe that we didn't see before.

The difference between my garage and the universe is immense.
I would agree if the bias was against the shitcoin casino game where you play to see who can rugpull the fastest. The truth is HN hates even proper cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH, XMR.
The quality of implementation of the Swift compiler is in no way comparable to Rust's. It's super easy to cause its type check to timeout, which is something I haven't seen when using Rust. I even managed to make it crash several times. It also lacks some pretty standard features such as turning off warnings of a certain type or on a certain line. The language itself is quite problematic when compared to Rust, too. For instance, Swift doesn't have the orphan rule, so it's possible that 2 packages implement the same protocol for the same type, and when this happens currently there are no solutions; there is this strange design decision that classes and structs should be different things and each have their own set of random limitations; and there is SwiftUI, which hacks on the syntax itself, making statements no longer mean what they are supposed to mean.
To expand upon his first paragraph:

> People are worried that anything they say to ChatGPT could be memorized by it and spat out to other users. People are concerned that anything they store in a private repository on GitHub might be used as training data for future versions of Copilot

Individuals care because if they disclose highly personal secrets or mundane private information (eg health status, PII like address, tastes/preferences) then those could easily be disclosed later.

Companies care for more obvious/less speculative reasons; both the trade secret version of the individual concerns above, but also strategically, in that many companies don’t want to aid their competitors by training OpenAI/Copilot how to write code for their domain. (Obviously what you really want is to fine-tune GPT-4 on your code and be able to trust that they aren’t going to use that for training future models.)

My gut feel is that they aren’t saying anything because they are doing grey area stuff pushing the boundaries of “fair use” and plan to ask forgiveness later, which will be easier to do when they have demonstrated massive levels of utility & everyone is benefitting from their model.
I don't think 80 years of global peace and safe international trade have been a huge waste.
> Did weapons manufactures go out of business when machine guns were invented?

Some certainly did.
If there is an actual threat from these possible visitors then they get all the funding.