skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The mentioned Baikal company is a supplier for russian army. The guy behind the patch every morning go to the work, knowing his job will help to launch the missiles to the Ukrainian cities killing children.

Given that the bombardment of east Ukraine preceded the 24.02.22 (by a few years), I hope you have the same standard for Ukrainians then.

> What is happening here is whitewashing a genocide machine many of russians are part of

"genocide" by Ukrainians is okay tho? Because you're very specific here that it only applies to Russians here while ignoring (and therefore whitewashing) Ukrainian acts of war that precede 24.02.22 against their own population.
> It's not much different from watching a movie with a friend at your own place

not to sound rude, but that's a bit of a stretch.

It is much different.

Maybe not better overall for some people, but very much different it is.

> VR gives the activity sense of presence which is hard to describe

Not really hard, it's similar to proprioception

Difference is proprioception enables you to feel limbs that are actually there, which is not as good as tricking your brain to feel something that it's not there.
> increase playback speed to 2x

But that's cheating -make it fast enough any anyone can see it I suppose.
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Imagine being so dense to drop $3,500 on yet another Golden Cage from Apple.
AFAIK, passkeys aren't really linked to a domain. It's old-school public-key verification, the server stores your public key and uses it to verify the signature of a challenge they send to your device on login. As long as the different domains/apps can share the public key you should be able to login.

And for things like Plaid, I think banks are moving towards OAuth-style permissions, where you login to your bank and authorize the connection. Under the hood, Plaid or other app can connect to the bank with limited permissions using API authorization keys. It's a different problem, I think.
Laptops' killer apps are arguably Word, web browsers, and Photoshop.
No mention of the ongoing lawsuit and licensing situation of input and output code as to why many in the HN crowd would give it a negative review?
> I would be weird to have your social app trying to correct your pose ;)

It would be less weird for it to call home so that Z*ck knows to serve you ads for painkillers for your spine...
> It's possible there's a secret plan which will turn things around, but it seems more likely that the only thing which benefits from our inevitable defeat is the arms industry.

The benefit of a Russia that is incapable of committing more or any forces to there numerous wars of conquest is a net benefit for the entirety of the Europe as it increases stability in the region.
How to verify Obsidian Sync's end-to-end encryption – Obsidian
huh, I thought this was a correct use. Thanks!
> So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc.

I don't really know how I feel about this...
The battery is for on the go usage. It also has a charger for “all day use” when you are stationary.
They're also selling much worse headphones than what an audiophile would buy for $500+, but trendier.
Can you name any war which caused the "way more deaths and displacement of individuals" since WW2? Can you name a country which commit genocide on a state level? Can you name a country which committed at least half of war crimes committed during last 1.5 years? Have you seen at least one world leader or government official who openly declare the target of eliminating some nation's existence?
> I assume in Rust it would bomb if pop()

That's the thing. It wouldn't. Worse you can do is make whole program panic, with well defined stack trace and message.

It will never return non-sense and pretend all is ok.
>They're targeting all use cases

Except for the one use case where there has actually been demand for VR: gaming. Apple's plan is to eat Meta's lunch. Meta's lunch consists of two peas and a leaf of wilted lettuce.
G'day Why! This is operating through the gateway. So you have to trust the gateway currently. Yes, you can move the gateway to your machine and then the trust requirement doesn't extend over the network.

However with local ipfs, bitswap doesn't support range requests, so you're at least downloading the enclosing blocks which could be 2 MiB for 1 KiB requested data, or 2000X more data than you need.
I would like to know how fast this is compared to a model shared on 3 A100s with 32 GBs of VRAM each.

What I am also interested in, is why model sharding has to be done manually. It seems like, one should be able to write a framework that will take your forward step and distribute the amount of layers on the available GPUs, automatically. But I haven't come across such a framework yet.
I'm from east Ukraine. Don't even try to tell me
Spreadsheets and word processors.
Your comment feels like you inherently misunderstand both the abstinence pledge, and this pledge.

Neither is about ignoring the thing, but about waiting for the appropriate circumstances. Abstinence is about waiting until marriage. This cellphone thing is about waiting until your brain is developed enough.
This quickly becomes creepy beyond my wildest imaginations. Kill it with fire, please.
I’ve never understood Plaid.
Given what they do, they can’t possibly encrypt the credentials they’re given, let alone hash them, can they?

And considering how most banks are set up, we are talking about the user’s only set of credentials. Which have the user’s permissions.

Then there are all these fintech startups saying that they’re secure because they use Plaid to access all your financial life, all to provide you with centralised analytics or supposed financial advice.

Sure it’s probably (one can hope) more secure than every single one of them rolling out their own hacked together equivalent. But still.

Am I missing something?
> I know people who already watch whole movies, etc, in VRChat. This usecase already exists.

mmmmm

this line of reasoning is a bit worrying to me.

I'll use an hyperbole here, apologizes in advance, it's not specifically a counter argument, just a thought, but to me it's like saying "some people are alone, don't have friends, so they use heroin, I can totally see a usecase for manufacturing heroin"

Maybe we should try to fix the underlying problem, before trying to exploit it?
I'm not sure 100%, but your second example does not imply UB. UB is caused by the act of accessing an object via a pointer of the wrong type, but just casting a pointer as you do should not be a problem.

On the other side, this would incur UB:

int32_t my_int = *((int32_t*)&my_float);
That's right to be jealous about, but 8hrs+ battery life has become rather common even in the Windows world.
It's not going to be successful unless Apple get this right. I expect a lot of people here spend a lot of their time looking at text in various development environments. with a smaller number working on content creation.

I would love a huge virtual area with multiple screen so I can see far more of whatever I'm working on.

That would be a game changer.

But Safari, 3D movies, Avatar FaceTime, and maybe some games? And that's all?

That's a tough sell, especially at this price.
I read reviews that actually say that the 2nd gen pros have better ANC than the Maxs.

So depending on what’s important for you they may be the better choice.
I am not assuming anything. Facts so far: boar in Bavaria is exceeding radiation limits for nutrition and can thus not be used (differs through out Bavaria of course), these limits have been put in place for good reason (I do not open a discission about the validity of safe thresholds for potetially dangerous stuff) and that this problem is directly linked to Chernobyl.

Your argument was, I summarize, that is not bad, the thresholds are way to low anyway and don't hurt. In short, we should increase safe thresholds and move on, right? That's how stuff works so, and it is a repetition of the arguments all the VW apologists used to downplay the scandal. That line of argument is dishonest, IMHO.

We can continue to discuss all those other points I raised, or the official investigation reports. Otherwise we turn im circles, and I don't have time for that.
This one is funny since I deliberately checked how to write it correctly and I found the form 'ad nauseam' annnnd somehow left it in the incorrect form. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In broad strokes having 100k SQLite dbs is a bit like having 100k git repositories. It's doable and just about having tooling to manage it.

It actually makes a few things simpler, say progressively rolling out visiting upgrades. You need to write schema migrations anyway, this lets you upgrade one customer at a time.
It is ugly as hell

Whenever I see

>while char != NULL

Im a little bit sad. It doesnt feel robust.
The same people who spend $50,000 on home theater gear, or buy a house based on the size of the "man cave."

I've met sports gamblers who have a dozen or more flat screens on a wall so they can fully indulge in their addiction^w hobby.
this comparison is with a major caveat of the platform you're buying. using workstation-grade hardware to contrast is not quite fair imo, unless you really want 100s GB of RAM for cpu alone.

you can easily go with faster cores and like 128 GB ram with the latest ryzen platform and buy consumer-tier gpu and save on much more. however, it might make more sense if you just want to buy in bulk and not worry about all that. then might as well throw in the 1k monitor stand in your shopping cart.
Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small
You can't see the killer app for the nurturing ecosystem.
Pro Display XDR costs around 7000 euros in Germany
Given Yudkowsky's stance on AI, it is hilariously jarring for someone to use HPMOR as inspiration for an article on prompt engineering.
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This is absolutely amazing to me -how would one go about finding more gems like that?
Is there any mention of the Black Iron Prison? https://blackironprison.com
My 27" $500 monitor smokes anything Apple has ever produced in the monitor space.
also wondered about that. nobody here from the valley who'd up the micro dose today and confirm the claim?
As a runner and a tech enthusiast, the prospect of incorporating Apple's new gadget into my running routine piques my attention.
Because in all those cases the person who knows the material is copyrighted has an incentive to tell people (so they can get paid). In this case the opposite it true: the only person who knows an image was AI generated will have an incentive to keep quiet.

And even if that is not the case, how much of the media you consume comes from "professional media" vs Reddit, Facebook, Instagram etc? I watch maybe 10min of TV/Movies per day on average, I spend maybe 1h on reddit alone...

Also, FYI, News outlets are not restricted by copyright.
Hm, that's a heft price, 200K per card.

Mac Studio M2 ULTRA has 192Gb of RAM, potentially 188Gb available for GPU, for 5K.

Wouldn't apple be able to compete with that if they scaled it up?
I agree. I have been following the daily IAEA reports and the level of desperation on the side of the agency is hard to overstate.

Despite ZNPP being in an active war zone, as you say, the IAEA has done an amazing job monitoring the situation on the ground.

Incredible that hardly anyone in Europe knows or cares about it. Scary times, indeed.
Still, catching errors at runtime is subpar compared to catching them at compile time.

Even your dynamic example won't tell me calling pop/push x/y times respectively will fail if x > y.

I have to trigger it somehow.
> It’s telling to me that the biggest tech apps of the last 2 years all ran web/desktop first.

What are the two apps that you are referring to? No snark just curious. Because the only thing I can think of are video calls or social media (which are arguably older than two years).
Do you not suffer from how painfully boring reality and the default mode of consciousness are?

How can one stand decades of stagnation without the desire to escape?
> - 40% some dude in Siberia,

Is this remotely true? There's just 33 million people in Siberia, it would be strange for them to dominate OS like that.
Although it's common to use vector databases in conjunction with LLMs, I like to talk about vector databases in the context of unstructured data, i.e. any data that you can vectorize with (or without) an ML model. Yes, this includes text, but it also includes things like visual data, molecular structures, and geospatial data.

For folks who want to learn a bit more, there are examples of vector database use cases beyond semantic text search in our bootcamp: https://github.com/milvus-io/bootcamp
Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100K years before humans
Never bet against the RDF, it's slightly diminished post-Jobs but still very much active and unbelievably (sometimes literally, to me) powerful.
2007: ‘There’s no way I’d watch my kid’s entire school play through a 4” screen just so that I could get a recording of it.’

2023: ‘I certainly wouldn't be wearing ski goggles while he blows out candles.’

We — perhaps not you, but humans — have shown a remarkable preference for watching the live event through a tiny screen so that we can have a recording of it for later.
Ironically we had floating web browsers 16 years ago already (and there have been AR versions over the years as well): https://techcrunch.com/2007/06/05/spacetime-3d-browser-eye-c...

At this point, floating pages and waypoints are the "Hello World" of AR platforms.
And to be honest, a handheld magic cube that fits in your pocket and can display anything and be interacted in any way really is as magical as it sounds. Plus it is a quite good camera as well.

I really think that smartphone design is close to the optimal sci-fi tech for humans, exactly due to it being handheld. We rely on vision and touch the most and I think it combines those well. I am almost sure that VR would even in theory get as popular as smartphones, all else being equal.
> SQLite is not a good choice if you want to access a DB over the network from different hosts or even from many processes on the same host

That's a bit like saying that a family car is not suited for heavy goods transport.
Looking at the WWDC video, for me it looks like it's gone through uncanny valley and reached the final climb towards realism, but it's still not quite right.

I've noticed different people have the valley in different places, so I'm not at all surprised if it creeps some people out.
The perfect Skinner box.
Relying on argc instead of null termination is a bit more robust since the check will still work even if you skip entries for any reason.
I suspect it helps pinpoint invasive, rare, etc species and provides highly useful information for mapping distribution of species. Location is critical for understanding.

It should be entirely optional for passive viewing, but at least encouraged for active contributors.
Jdupes: A powerful duplicate file finder
Just in case anyone's interested, in the UK a parking space is usually 2.4 x 4.8 metres, with 6 metres between the double rows of cars for manoeuvring. (It's not a law, as far as I know, but those dimensions are mentioned in lots of quasi-official recommendations.) That works out, in the limit, for a very large car park, as an area per parking space of 18.72 square metres, which is just over 201.5 square feet.
That won’t be happening this decade, and maybe not even the next.
I don’t think you are, plaid is a horrible and completely insecure work around banks not providing programmatic access.

I’m not sure how it even works with second factors (I’ve never looked).
Is this a real question? Do you have difficulty understanding metaphors?
You missed Showers for Glassholes.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/gear/robert-scoble-wears-goo...
Give development a few years and it'll be faster than a human.
I have a Macbook, an iPhone and an iPad. They shown a lot of what's coming on for these products's OSs in the near future. They're not _selling_ any of that to me in the sense that I'm not paying any extra as they're free upgrades.

I like to know what's going to change. It's similar to reading the KDE newsletter, or the Linux kernel stuff to know what's new and how I might benefit from it or have to adapt to it.

Aside from that, they were presenting a whole new product, very different from any other products in the same-ish niche. I also watched the Sony PSVR2 announcements, and recently the Meta Quest 3 launch videos. I find it interesting. Why wouldn't I watch it?
43% of all smartwatch shipments in Q4 2022, so I'd say yes.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartwatch-shipm...
I work very long hours for the Internet Archive, and I am making a huge difference in the world working for them. It wouldn’t be right or useful for me to take on any other job. I also don’t want to be doing something like making “stuff” that I sell or otherwise speculate into some market. Leave aside I have these documentaries to finish, and time has to be short.

from http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5251

In a world where people are rushing to pump out AI generated content, polluting the internet, all for a buck - people like Jason also exist. What a gem of a person!
how? if it's a war then isn't it legitimate to destroy energy sources?
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I also only found out about Obsidian recently and I've become interested in switching. So far for my notes for the last several years I've just been using raw tex files with TexStudio, and creating various level subsections with macros bound to key combos as needed. It works quite well with the navigation tree and MDI, but Obsidian sounds like it might be a better solution.
This is very cool. Once we can generate good 3d models (possibly even rigged ones) we're so much closer to ai-generated videogames.
> Someone much more insightful than me pointed out that most of the safety advantages of Rust are really a cultural phenomenon, rather than a strictly technical one

It's not. It's a safety phenomenon. See Java, C# etc.

Java doesn't have huge focus on it, but managed to get it right.
This. A patent is a ticket to a court battle. If you can't afford the court battle then the patent is worthless.

All this talk of "small, inventor-led businesses" is bullcrap because no small business can afford to enforce a patent.
For people who are loners, live alone and don't share anything with others. I guess if you enjoy sitting on your couch watching TV all by yourself all day this is it, yes.
How is this thing STILL on top here?
If you allow at most 2 versions and expect team introducing change to rewrite all code...

At small size of code, tooling for that may be off-the-shelf for monolith.

Are there any rewrite told that work cross repos though?
I'm not sure about this. I've played all the way though Grounded and didn't witness this behavior at all.

(Joking, of course)
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Writing a T-STD compliant TS multiplexer is not trivial. When I was at LSI Logic, I spent many hours perfecting the TS multiplexer used on the MPEG-2 encoder in the Motorola DCT-6412 P3 STB.

Here's a short clip that's T-STD compliant with about 29 ns of PCR jitter.

https://www.w6rz.net/advatsc3.ts

BTW, last time I checked, the TS muxer in FFmpeg is horribly T-STD non-compliant.
Go ahead and ask datacenters why they all use overpriced Nvidia chips for AI training instead of shoving cheaper Mac Studios in there. Their answer might blow your mind.

Spoiler alert: CUDA ecosystem, Linux suport, and most importantly for data centers, Mellanox high speed interfacing with virtually infinite scalability and great virtualization support so they can rent out slices of their HW to customers in exchange for money.
Obviously ruzzia benefits, by blocking western front in preparation of the Ukrainian advance.
How are we losing? Ukraine was supposed to fall in days. For them, even holding the line isn't losing, and they've pushed the line back.

I talked about politics that I don't like here it is: the west is not losing, it's winning substantially. Even if Ukraine doesn't win back territory, the west sees Russia bash itself against a wall losing men and equipment, and showing its hand operationally. And the amount spent is a pittance to western governments. We could, and imo we should, give Ukraine to means to win. But I would say there is a calculation going on the US about stringing out the war longer to weaken Russia even further and perhaps even pull out its alliances, see what happens.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine are going to "win" in the sense of coming out of things better than they went in. Ukraine obviously. But Russia has probably fallen further from higher. The war has essentially solidified Ukraine identity and politics, but it's starting to unravel Russian politics. Nobody can know what the future holds, but I cannot see a future now where Russia is not considerably weakened - it's turned it's western neighbours/customers into enemies, shown weakness to its vassal states, and gone begging to China for material and trade.

Also what outcome do you want? We surely don't want Russia to win this and think its great and start more wars and repress more people. I think we should care at least.
But they are working. They now have to buy through third parties, increasing prices and delivery times. That’s the entire point of sanctions; we all know they’re gonna get the stuff eventually anyway
if we're already at it - have you heard about the freedom of russia legion? allegedly russian citizens turning against their own government. everything i could gather about that group smells to high heaven and nobody questions that narrative. pro-ukrainian media basically just praises those selfless heroes for their action. but none of it makes any sense. neither psychologically, nor militarily, nor socially, nor politically - any theories on what's going on with that?
There is more:

> Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.