skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South African Proto-human Homo naledi buried dead, ca. 300k years ago
How to write good handover documents when leaving a job
Sad how a genocidal terrorist state can still exist in this day and age.
8-year-old boy upends 100 years of science regarding insects and plants
If you treat LLMs as know-it-alls and just copy the output, then your expectations of the current generation of LLMs are too high.

That doesn’t mean they’re not useful though.
Money for Show Horses, Not Work Horses, on India’s Rails
Constant surprise how many pro Russian views there are from a mainly American audience on a tech website. I'm anti war, anti the US going into Iraq for example. Therefore I'm on the side of Ukraine here and we should give any support necessary for them to defend themselves. No "provocation" that happened or has been made up or imagined by Russia excuses what they're doing. There are plenty of political reasons I don't necessarily like for the west to support Ukraine, but reasons aside, outcome is aligned.
It benefits those who don't have to pay higher taxes (ie everybody) because of austerity.
AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests
But why did so many end up on exactly that model, when there are so many other brands? Because they're vastly superior, or because we're social animals and seeing lots of other people wearing them signals that they're a safe bet and will keep you in the in-group?

My point here is that the visibility of them on others help drive the sales. "If so many wears them, they obviously can't be bad". For this headset, you will not get that same kind of influences from others.
> The idea of inner monologue is to instruct the model to put parts of the output that are meant to be hidden from the user into a structured format that makes parsing them easy. Then before presenting the output to the user, the output is parsed and only part of the output is made visible.

This is quite remarkable. Can we now say that inner monologue is also an emergent property? Can this lead to some form of self-awareness or introspection?
So around 6 iphones?
IMO, there's a viable business model for "background news".

CNN feels like a channel you could set the TVs in waiting rooms to and not cause a fuss. They aren't as politically loaded as MSNBC or Fox, and the programming is bland yet is unlikely to cause people to ask to change the channel. It also seems like the default stop on hotel TVs, which I assume are designed to power up on the same channel to reduce the risk the last guest left it tuned to PPV porn.

I suppose that was basically the explicit intent of the old Headline News/HLN product, "waiting room TV" in its purest form.
Company Blog (domain you own). Use the others as tools or distribution channels.
Note that it is the second time the dam is destroyed here. During WW2 soviets exploded the dam upstream (Zaporizhzhya dam) perishing ~100k civilians and their own military.
I mean... It's not.

Magic Leap[1] did it years ahead of them, and in my opinion better.

I mean - they're doing pass-through AR which is silly. There's all this work being done to emulate people and faces when they could just build lenses.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watch everyone get so hyped over this, because there's literally better devices already out on the mark. This is effectively a $3500 Oculus device. Like what the heck? I know it's just because Apple made it, but still. This is pretty weird to watch the reaction.

[1]https://www.magicleap.com
It’s not a completely valid comparison - the ski goggles are much closer to your face so have less of a moment on your neck. While the vision pro notionally looks like a set of goggles from the front, the side view shows that they’re just as big as every other VR headset.

I don’t think we’re really going to know what they feel like until someone not from Apple puts them on their head!
> Can I run NVim on it?

Nooo it's an emacs device.

But seriously, can the early adopter type FAANG income techie use this for work standalone? Can it even act as virtual monitors for a Mac Studio?
Noted! Removing.
Any business that has a CEO can afford this.
I have code written 20+ y/o, which is still running in production at multiple places in the world. It's for non-trivial soft-realtime embedded system processing PBs of data in realtime, not some CRUD app which can be easily spit out by GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT.

But yes, every SW/HW/systems project should come with an expiration date.
From quick-and-dirty or throwaway, to extended longevity/support.

It's important to choose the tech stack, architecture, and SDLC accordingly.

e.g. don't use ecosystem with accelerated bit rot like nodejs/npm for long-term projects. Similarly don't use C++, Rust, etc. for one-off scripts or prototypes.

Same for Agile/Scrum vs upfront design/RUP/mini-waterfall.
Anecdotally, the Apple Watch is very popular in the bay area. I'd be very suspicious of any claim that Apple didn't make boatloads of money selling it
Sanctions on Russia may not be working, we now know why
I've done many hallucinogens and have seen great things but "unspeakable horrors" too. It was a legitimately terrifying experience but I came out of it feeling mentally strong and stable.

I can't recommend anyone to try it since not everyone may be able to handle it. But it was an amazing experience I don't regret at all.
I met someone at a party once who does this. I later found out they founded a popular video game streaming website.
CFC-gasses, leaded gasoline, and DDT are the first I can think of. There are lots of cases where a ban of something harmful done by companies have successfully been banned
Nice that you should say that :) I also wrote a home automation system.

Well... actually, it's a kinda burglar alarm except it's focus is alerting way ahead of actually getting inside. I added home automation bits (minimal) just so one can elicit a real world response, but I do use it for minimal home automation (Lights, heating control and letting the chickens in and out).

I have yet to announce on on hacker news and so because I still have to write a bunch of documentation. It uses the latest state of the art computer vision triggering, currently yolov7 and I'm about to release support for yolov6. It's multimodel, so you can double check it's result with more than one model, even for specific parts of an image.

The architecture diagam and installation instructions are here:

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-install

I actually, started writing this in 2008 and most of the current state in terms of the user interface were finished in 2012 but I only released it into open source last year really. In 2019 I add support for yolov3 and have been adding models even since.

It's written in Java and installs in just two commands on nvidia jetsons at the moment (Not in containers). The inference framework is a simple websocket based wrapper around other models so it's easy to add new models and that's written in python.

Well I finish the new release to introduce yolov6 and support for the seeed studios platforms I'll make an announcement on hacker news, note I still have a lot of work to do on documentation.
War as an impersonal phenomenon doesn't bring anything inherently, saying so simply blurs individual responsibility. It's up to the belligerents, up to the individual commanders, units and members of armed forces to decide what and whom they target. Targetting a dam by the Russians is a war crime per Art. 56 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions.
What about Russia trying to kill Yanukovich's opponent (who after the failed poisoning even failed to win, despite confirmed election fraud)? The same Yanukovich that promoted European integration during the 2013-2014 campaign and then reneged on his promises once elected, thus prompting Euromaidan—it was all his doing, no need to involve US and Europe in the supposed "coup".
Of course you shouldn't blindly believe everything one side says, but saying that Russia is as trustworthy as the rest of the world (barring a dozen countries at the bottom of the democracy ranking) is just wrong.
On one hand, I thought the same initially, that all the sources seem like typical tabloids.

On the other hand, it may be that more 'trustworthy' organisations are doing some level of due diligence before republishing this.

If nothing surfaces in the larger outlets in the next 24-48 hours it probably is just the first thing.
Based on this logic, it should be the USA who committed this act since it's the only country which used nuclear weapons.
One said Ukrainians are nazis and satanists and that NATO wants to invade Russia. And that Russia won't invade in 2022.

The other side said Russia wants to invade and that it will invade in 2022.

Believing that when there's 2 sides the truth is always in the middle is foolishness.
Hijacking the discussion - did anyone noticed OpenAI does sille mistakes very often now?

Not talking about complex matters, just not closed quotes or incorrect closing quotes, which is very easy to see.

When confronted it apologies and then gives corrected answer, which... yea, sometimes have other silly mistakes too.

It wasnt in GPT-3 so wild guess would be they adding mistakes on purpose.
Rather off-topic question: but what makes rust toxic in your opinion?
Oh I want my tools to help me, don't get me wrong. I just wonder if all the horror stories I hear are the norm, or just the stories we like to share the most.
You know it could have also been damaged by the war or it needed some maintenance and then it simply blew up open. No one knows who did this but it is really beyond the point now. There is a war going on and pointing fingers only make peace harder to achieve.
Hmm, compare for https://elk.zone , is it still slow? For me it is almost instant.
russia invaded, end of story. keep your pedestrian whataboutism to yourself, please.
"In November 2013, a series of events started that led to his ousting as president.[10][11][12] Amid economic pressure from Russia,[13] Yanukovych retracted plans to sign an association agreement with the EU, instead choosing to accept a Russian trade deal and loan bailout. This sparked large protests by supporters of European integration, who held a wave of protests dubbed the "Euromaidan" and were met with violent reprisals from authorities. Three months later, the escalating civil unrest led to over 100 deaths[14] and culminated with Yanukovych's flight into exile in Russia.[15] Later that day, Ukrainian parliament voted to remove him from his post and schedule early elections on the grounds that he had withdrawn from his constitutional duties"

So, when people don't like what their government is doing it's only because some external powers are to blame for supporting them?
> I'm not talking about the 2014 "election" that happened after the Crimea invasion.
I'm talking about before all that. The 2014 coup openly supported by US and Europe that overthrew Ukraine's pro-Russian elected President.

Neither am I, did you even read my comment?

It’s a revolution, not a coup, when will you learn already?

And I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. That without US and Europe Euromaidan would never succeed? Or that Euromaidan was orchestrated by US and Europe?

> These things aren't propaganda, they are events that happened.

Events that happened is Ukrainians CHOSE Europe. Russians CHOSE to invade in 2014 and 2022.

> Do you honestly believe that coup was totally organic and the US had no hand in it?

Yes. How much do you even know about history of Ukraine?
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> Meanwhile you're sitting in your comfy chairs asking for 'credible sources' and wondering which side this benefits more.

But it's precisely because we're sitting in a comfy chair that we have to ask for credible sources. "Fog of War" is a real thing and disinformation campaigns have been integral to this war. Most people here couldn't pinpoint this dam on a map and it's not immediately obvious that this isn't some tactical decision by ukraine to advance their counter operation.

To you it might be obvious that this is part of russias illegal war, to me it's not and i'd rather wait a few days until things clear up instead of rushing to judgement without understanding it.
I think it's both. They'd be remiss not to use it as a psyop. Ha ha ha! :) But part of the allegations are a decades long psyop against the American people. This story is bigger than Snowden. People need to be writing to their representatives! Ha ha ha! :)
News van news isn't necessarily news. It creates the appearance of currency by having a big "LIVE REPORTING" tag, which consists of someone standing where there was a fire/homicide/car wreck four hours ago.

I'm actually surprised how aggressively local news seems to still try to fill the space. I assume it's among the more expensive ways for a local affiliate to fill airtime-- paying for talking heads and cameramen must be more expensive than Dukes of Hazard reruns. But you have local broadcasters kicking out a 2-3 hour breakfast show, then noon, 5, 6, 9, and 10pm programs.

For a while, when ATSC was new, one of the broadcasters made their own "news channel" by repeating their six hours of local news through the day on a subchannel.
> You can be an achieved software developer, civil engineer or doctor - doesn't mean you're not an idiot.

Whatever you are doesn't make you some genius either.

We're all just people. Trying to understand an incredibly complicated situation doesn't make someone stupid.
It’s tempting to think this, and I’ve thought this way before, but I don’t think it’s true. All of the cultures mentioned in my comment are manufacturing powerhouses - by most measures, each has (at different points) been literally the best in the world at manufacturing. I don’t think you can get that without being able to build things that work, efficiently, at scale.

I do think it’s true that some cultural approaches are so incompatible with each other that they will never be able to work together efficiently at scale, but each culture is internally consistent and knows how to operate within itself.
I said this in a previous thread and I'll repeat it here again.

Magic Leap[1] did it years ahead of them, and in my opinion better.

I mean - they're doing pass-through AR which is silly. There's all this work being done to emulate people and faces when they could just build lenses.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watch everyone get so hyped over this, because there's literally better devices already out on the mark. This is effectively a $3500 Oculus device. Like what the heck? I know it's just because Apple made it, but still. This is pretty weird to watch the reaction.

[1]https://www.magicleap.com
I don't know but I could see the possibility that maybe AMD really can use more throughput for mobile chips.

To spitball some figures, the rx7600 is 13b transistors, 165watts, and runs off 128-bit 288GBps GDDR6 memory. Or take 2017's rx580, but which was 256-bit GDDR5 good for 224GBps, at similar power.

An APU is going to be considerably lower power than either of these discrete gpus. I think I somewhat overestimated AMD's ability to scale up their APUs to be throughput limited, in most cases. The 256GBps LPDDR5X memory they're planning should offer a nice bump over where we are be pretty good.

I'm a bit surprised to see the memory bandwidth not being as constraining a factor as I had first guessed. It's also seemingly bizarre how overbuilt it makes Apple's memory setup look.
Literally none of the evidence on the website's own "Why" page supports their suggestion: https://www.waituntil8th.org/why-wait

All of the studies (bonus points for linking to news articles instead of directly to the studies) have something to do with "time spent using screens/a phone/social media", but nothing to do with age of first use.

How can anyone trust this website has any basis in reality when they wrote a whole page explaining why and none of it was applicable?

Of course parents should regulate how much time their kids spend on electronics (similar to how parents of previous generations would prevent kids from watching TV 5 hours a day) - but there seems to be little to no evidence to suggest that giving a kid a smartphone in 8th grade rather than 5th grade would make a meaningful difference.
Just imagine being a chef: nearly everything you make will be gone by tomorrow ;)
They're not going to show you jerking off to the most immersive porn ever in their ad

But that's what majority of people would actually buy VR headsets would do
Too much content is blocked for nitter this days. At least on my experience.
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> Well, let's talk again in 5 years.

Every time new fad appears, I say this. And I say the same about chatgpt. Never failed so far.

So yea, let's talk again in 5 years.
The answer to this is solidifying reputation and filtering out the garbage from sources without a good reputation. The irony of this is that this is mostly idiots without a good reputation leveraging an AI that isn't much better in order to build a reputation so people take them more seriously.

If you set it up properly, reputation is very hard to fake. You have to build it over years and you are dependent on other people with good reputations consistently up voting and vouching for your content. Every time you post something, you stake your reputation. AI can generate a lot of content fast; and some of it might even be alright; but unless it builds a reputation over many years, you can trivially detect it as coming from a source without any meaningful reputation. It doesn't matter how good or bad the content is if you slap a giant noob sticker on their account.

All Stackoverflow needs to do is reset people's reputation to -1 if they get caught posting AI content. You don't need any fancy detection algorithms for this. And as the whole site is basically engineered around the concept of reputation, that shouldn't be too hard.
Thanks!. The canonical url is much better than the one I found. I've seen it mentioned that this originally came from Usenet groups. I'm pretty sure it wasn't created in this final form, as I recall seeing it evolve in the early Slashdot days too.
Your reading skills need significant improvement. It's the 6th paragraph of that letter; and also mentioned in many individual explanations such as https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/20324/43344 . Then there are https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389814/167145 and all of the comments at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389583/167145 .
Couldn't headphone transparency limit earshattering noises like infant scream down to reasonable level?
Apple presentations have kind of started to give me the creeps. They're speaking is so soothing and the production so polished, it's just kind of off-putting, like an AI generated video telling you "everything's gonna be alright."
Is it really a laptop replacement if it requires a laptop to do that?
> Perhaps you work few enough hours or have the resources necessary to parent in a way to make this work.

This is a rational statement. That we live in a world where this /can/ be a rational statement is troubling.
most people here are not achieved software developers.
A polished UI is only what you are looking at, not what is underneath. You have failed to understand the years and years of hardwork poured by vast majority of OSS that helped building all the systems that underpin every single system out there.

Your comparison of OSS developers as tinkerers who can't reach the Megacorp scale is totally absurd. I've worked at these corporations, and out of 10 only 1 or 2 would reach a scale of a great developer. But, OSS developers innovations, contributions and impact surpasses any company out there.

Also, nobody in their right mind wants to work 80 hours a week competing with a team who's trying to better you, if you pit the developers against each other it doesn't matter how much you get paid, your time is owned by the large corp at the end of the day. Easy to undermine the work of OSS developers who go unappreciated and hail the rat racing corporations.
Apt for ChatGPT which literally has no capacity to think outside of the process of writing.
Fool me once, you invade a country and lie about everything.

Ukraine exaggerates their victories to get weapons.

Russia lies about war crimes, murdering civilians, rape, etc.
I think "defector" is the wrong terminology here, since it's likely that most - if not all - the US based execs who weren't charged handed over these chats to the SEC.

It is noteworthy how often this happens. Many of the people found guilty of sedition after the DC riot had the same thing happen when the majority (or a large minority) of people in their encrypted chat groups handed over them over to the FBI.

Is there an E2E encrypted chat app that does disappearing messages and doesn't cache them on the client?
They may not “need” the water for drinking, but it looks like it supports a lot of crop irrigation.
I think the most important thing at this point is to build a meeting point outside of reddit for all those people.

It doesn't have to be a fully built reddit alternative, but it should discuss how software is governed.

I think that's what it all lies to.

Software is not like other products. Websites are not like other products.

We've let them own us for almost 20 years now.

But we used them for more than that, in china they had post-walls in the street. We used to simply have community boards in real life.

And now those highroads are being jeopardized by companies in their own interest.

Shouldn't we ask ourselves, is it a benefit to humanity, if ours highway communication is being controlled by corporate entities ?

Can't we make an ONG which sole goal is to discuss and exchange on how those highways should be governed ?

This is a chance for humanity to grow but we are turning this into a pile of disaster instead of grouping up.

I do not think any individual at this point should be "in charge" of those high ways.

It should be an opportunity for all of us to join up, and build a governance framework of sort ; and from there create free tools which are not tied to economic narrow sight. Developers of such tools are all around the wrold, and centralization or decentralization is not the problem, it's either an achievement or a nice-to-have thing ; but in most cases, users don't care.

How do we group up, how do we discuss together like we do on HN, but we keep posting "some new alternative" every few week without realizing that if we group up in a simple github organization, we might be the most impactful workforce of the entire web ?

Do we really have to benefit from this ?

Is this all not above us ?
It still needs to be staffed to continue shutting down
This "whataboutism" is perfectly valid, because it highlights double standards. Whataboutism isn't a blanket logical fallacy, it's applicable in certain scenarios.
SW in Industrial Automation lasts a long time as the code is inherently tied to the physical processes and control system hardware.

Early in my career, I worked on a Honeywell TDC3000 control system which was 20-30ish years old by that point.
It's super big. Much bigger than a thin laptop.

And you need your laptop also because you can't work in it the whole day.

Gz now you have to travel with two laptops each 3k expensive and you look totally funny with it in anything public.