skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve attempted the 3 sisters technique in an urban environment and one difficulty I’ve struggled with is the fact that corn does not seem to grow strong in pots or raised beds.

Recently I learned from a farmer that many popular corn varieties require exceedingly deep roots to be sturdy. More than several feet deep in many cases - depending on corn variety, soil and weather conditions, etc.

This wouldn’t be much of an issue if I planted directly in the ground, but the trouble is I don’t trust the soil or water around here quite frankly.

This year I’m building up a mound of dirt around the base of the maturing corn stalks to help support the weight of the plant. We’ll see if they stay upright through the late summer storms. Would love to hear if anyone else has successful workarounds.
Re: maximum efficiency: I believe bees construct honeycomb cells as circles, but due to surface tension they then form themselves into hexagons to achieve a “minimal surface” (lots of popular math/science YouTube’s have covered minimal surfaces, great videos all around).

I don’t think this invalidates your ping at all, but it’s good knowledge to have. The hexagon emerges from the constructed circles.
Instead of searching for the next big idea, how about you fix your dam OS first and stop installing stupid games and showing Ads?

They’re monetizing their install base. All of the things they do that annoy the heck out of people on HN are things they’ve A/B tested to increase revenues. If they listened to you then you’d be happier but they’d be leaving money on the table.

You’re probably right that this sort of “scorched earth” monetization at all costs is bad for the company’s long-term future. But the stock market doesn’t care about that. They only care about the next quarter.
Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations (ietf.org)

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-farrell-tenyearsafter-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097082 (10 days ago)
Reading the silicon erratas from various companies.. it's a wonder that anything works

https://www.st.com/resource/en/errata_sheet/es0182-stm32f405...
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/errata/IMXRT1170CE.pdf
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/errata/IMX8_1N94W.pdf
Traditional forms are linear. I’m describing something more branching, where a bump starts a new branch off a trunk, but still nested under the original post.
> This is also a triumph for open source imho because wine is now receiving patches for macOS directly, and it’s a symbiotic relationship that hopefully grows.

I wish. Unfortunately the MetalD3D is proprietary under a very restrictive license. The rest is just Wine code written by Codeweavers.
I also have a fairly expansive vocabulary and talk about esoteric technical matters on my phone frequently. As far as I can tell Siri was trained on 8th-grade level text and constantly dumbs down my text and distorts the meaning.
In the Anglosphere, 'Native' generally refers to the US Native Peoples, particularly in the central-south Americas, extending up to around the Canadian border.
Ironic complaining about improper English usage and ending your sentence with “… because reasons”.
Strabismus and amblyopia are common enough (4% of the population) that one would hope these types of systems would make sensible provisions to accommodate people with these conditions.

https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions/strabismus-and-...
It’s a billion dollar business.
There are some things in Swift that definitely are not as easy going as on Golang. Swift I think, at least offers a good starting point (the bits are there), but it is so hard to find good Swift documentation or blog posts that are not centered around the idea of making an iOS app. Even trying to find decent blog posts where someone shows off or talks about writing command line macos apps is virtually non-existent. Swift for sure, has the building blocks to do it, but you really gotta dig to find that stuff.

As an example. I have been dabbling with controlling my Roku from a watchOS app. Roku devices respond to a call on 239.255.255.250:1900 with a SSDP packet over UDP. Try finding good and recent tutorial on doing UDP programming and it is non-existent.
Used the Anthropic 100K tokens model to summarize 2K HN comments on Vision Pro
> You support the redistribution of consequences

You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.

> Stop moving the goalposts.

Ditto.

> You do not have the right to other people’s money

If you say so. I guess we won't have roads or a government then.
Yeah that jumped out at me. Sperm whales can grow to 60'. Makes me wonder what other facts might not be accurate.
Maybe I'd love to see Tinygrad beat GGML in its own game (4 bit LLM support on M1 Mac GPU or Tensor cores) before adding more backends / models.

It's easy to debug because the generated kernels can be compared to GGML, and still gives something practical that we all can play with.

At this point breadth first is a bit boring, because this way we don't know how far tinygrad is from optimal generated output.
Interesting bit of info, thanks for sharing. Sadly for them, I think the genie is out of the bottle on this one; while I've seen a few people use alternate names, most call them QR codes.
I'd be truly embarrassed to put that statement out. Microsoft can really find no bottom
I don't disagree with your other points AT ALL, but given how repeatedly proven that common sense is entirely a fiction, if any argument falls back on it you have to be immediately suspect of it.
So they get the right to vote or own property too? Do they need a TV license?
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Curious. How do you go with 'normal' VR? Are there any problems playing games?
Some people also eat dogs. The taboo against eating cute critters is arbitrary.
> In the Anglosphere, 'Native' generally refers to the US Native Peoples

Yeah, no. That might be true of North America but that's definitely not the case in the rest of the Anglosphere.
Georgi if you're reading this, I've had a lot of fun with whisper.cpp llama.cpp because of you so thank you very much.
Faith in what exactly?
I am not looking for a fitness tracker, so Garmin is not even close to competition for an Apple Watch to me. Why? I use VoiceOver. Garmin does not have any speech output at all, so they can not even be compared for me. I do a lot of FaceTime Audio from my watch, another use case where Garmin doesn't even come to mind. Dont forget that products these days have a pretty diverse feature set. Assuming everyone is looking for a fitness tracker just because this is the new hype is rather, erm, unimaginative.
I don’t doubt them. The PSVR2 has both and it supposedly works very well.

That lacks other features of course and must be tethered to a PlayStation 5.

But eye tracking + foveated rendering seems like it’s going to become table stakes in the next few years.
It’s quite astonishing how consistently twitch seems to fumble the ball by fundamentally misunderstanding both streamers and viewers. It is like a restaurant run by aliens who don’t even understand why human beings eat food.

One prominent twitch steamer (MoistKritical)’s response pulls no punches https://youtu.be/-5zGuFPxW88

It’s crazy to me when you think about the sporting example. If you watch a sporting event there are billboards next to the field, there are ads on players’ clothes etc. The broadcaster doesn’t get to monopolise ad and sponsorship revenue.

I think twitch are wildly overplaying their hand here. It’s not like they have a great service that people will be reluctant to leave or replace. Twitch itself is basically horrible. The only reason to be there is if you like the content. If prominent streamers and events leave they have literally nothing.
Maybe we could at least consider the lobster.

http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf (David Foster Wallace)
We have to actively TRY to stop killing other human beings; animals and plants haven't got a chance.
It's literally what transit providers do with a leaking tunnel. They just keep pumping grout or epoxy into the crack until it stops leaking.
the server decides what's on the menu.

the client picks items from the menu

the server sends back exactly those items.

in REST, the server sends all of the items on the menu! as a result you end up creating many different menus.
Apple addressed that in the keynote. There’ll be an invisible canvas over the window content, and the app never learns where you look (nor Apple, ie it is not further stored or processed). Only when you click (ie tap your thumb and index together) does the app get an event.

(Downside is that one loses the capability for hovering, but strikes me as the correct trade off.)
I read Graydon's recent "If I were a BDFI" essay and found myself mostly sympathizing, especially with the "I wanted Rust to have potentially costly abstractions, because that's the point of abstractions, pay a known cost to solve common problems". It seems Rust was taken over by the "zero cost abstractions at all costs" crowd. Graydon seems at peace with that because it's what the community wanted. But I think it's also obvious that he was frustrated by the regression to the mean that comes with shared ownership/leadership.

Then I thought that what we really need is a Swift-like language with the ability to remove costly abstractions when you don't want to pay the cost, but that default to ergonomically solving the problems that the majority of programs need to solve. You should opt-in to more semantic complexity, not be encumbered by it by default. Rust's obsession with performance above all else confuses me. But I also guess it's nice to have a safe space for performance sensitive programmers. But like how can a systems language not have a stable ABI? Very mixed messages.

Ultimately this "Rust with better ergonomics" language could be Swift. I do think it is more usable across platforms than people give it credit for. But it's also missing the "let me dip down into lower level but more complicated semantics when I need to" option. Having a stable ABI is awesome, though. I really can't wait for the day where I can start a portable project in Swift without a second thought.
Double digit? I live walking distance to Apple HQ and there’s not exactly a lot of people in the shops and cafes with Android phones and you practically never see someone pulling out Google pay at a register.

Whereas I’d wager more than half of Google employees use iPhone, and a lot of Google staff work exclusively on iOS and Mac apps. Apple software runs in their hardware, period. It makes them too insular and unable to see their shortcomings.
Like those 800k or so Maryland drivers with starspangled200.org on their license plates.
I don't find these argument convincing

- hackers in Shenzhen are underrepresented b/c of the language barrier. There is actually a huge Chinese language ecosystem (a lot of it off Github on Gitee) that is sort of impenetrable but you come across it all the time. I said 10% just b/c typically I have no way to use their work b/c it's under-documented in English. If you zip around this map you will see lots of "Zh" islands: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/

- Are Indian hackers working in Hindi and other regional languages?

- While I understand that it's not as financial comfortable for a programmer in Indian compared wtih the US or Europe, Chinese and Russian hackers aren't significantly better off. Your typical Chinese program is also of course worried about working for a big company and making money and all of that jazz

- "escape the hell that is 'unpaid open source work' " - I think maybe is the crux of it... Most people work on open source work b/c they enjoy it.. You're definitely not going to make a major github project used by other people just because you're looking to pad your resume.

Sidenote: I don't personally know anyone who got hired from a deliberate effort to build an open source portfolio. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as a way to try to find a job
I can’t find Cards … Is it US only? I recently started using Chrome again - like last month - never noticed any “Cards”. There is the weird Journey thing though. No idea what’s that about.
> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
A lot of people have remarked that the government couldn't keep a secret this big for so long. This is correct but misses the point that this secret wasn't kept. I've heard this story multiple times in my life, it's been a staple of US lore for decades and numerous whistleblowers have come forward in the past to retell it. All have been discredited and often smeared as nuts and the media has reported as much and moved on. If this really is true and they really do have a massive disinfo campaign to protect it, we have no choice but to admit that they have never kept a lid on this through secrecy, they have done it through character assassination and control of the media narrative, turning anyone who speaks up into a lunatic off his meds, a liar, and so on, and then moving the public's eye onto something else. That this strategy has worked so effectively and for so long is scarier than aliens, IMO.
That money’s already spent and factored into the stock price.
The recent iPads based on M series chips now support swap. I think it was added in iPadOS 16 last year.
Hostile licensing. mold, like many other ill-informed projects lately, is pseudo-open source aimed at being locked up as a commercial product with a license that is incompatible with free use in the real world.
> I doubt I'll ever buy an iPad or laptop again either.

After seeing the Vision Pro marketing material, my first thought was about how antiquated it already looks to use a slab phone to do anything. The new iPhone/AirPlay/TV integration was like looking at an old tech commercial from the 90s.

I can't shake the feeling that blended AR+VR is going to be the next big modality, and Apple is going to make this market. A lot of people aren't going to like it, but it will catch on and come to replace almost everything else.

On another note, I suspect the Vision Pro is an important stepping stone to releasing an Apple EV.
Technology certainly isn't a substitute for real human contact, but it's a hard sell to argue that technology is worse than literally being alone.
DoorDash moved their python backend to kotlin afaik
Aliens could exist with or without speedy travel. We can assume slow-traveling aliens must be from long-lived civilizations, but we can't assume fast-traveling aliens are from short-lived civilizations.

Slow-traveling aliens likely come from a long-lived origin civilization (although it's possible that origin civilization went "extinct" millions of years ago, but its descendants continue to reproduce of spaceships traveling slowly outward in different directions, these descendants would arguably be from the same origin civilization, which must definitionally be long-lived).

Fast-traveling aliens might be from a civilization doomed to be short-lived, but they achieved FTL travel so we just happen to meet them. They could have popped up a million years ago, and be on schedule for extinction in another million years. But since they can travel quickly, they don't need to be a long-lived civilization in order for it to be likely that we might encounter them. They could be one of many short-lived civilizations.

In a universe without FTL travel, the probability that we encounter an alien civilization is dependent on the expected duration of an alien civilization; the more long-lived civilizations that exist, the more likely we'll encounter one, because they've had more time to slow-travel. In such a no-FTL universe, there could be a high probability of civilization, but with a low expected civilizational lifetime. So we'd be unlikely to encounter any civilization, despite the high number of them in the universe.

So what I find ironic is that even with a bunch of aliens crashing (regardless of how slowly) onto our planet, we can't actually infer much new information about the Fermi paradox, or whether we've made it past the Great Filter. Either we're encountering civilizations that must be long-lived because they're slow-traveling, in which case there may not be a filter because the paradox was resolved by the lack of FTL travel; or they can be both long-lived and unknowably short-lived, in which case we don't know where the filter is because any civilization we meet could go extinct next (perhaps achieving FTL travel even achieves some prerequisite for a specific class of extinction event?).

So either there might not be a filter, or we don't know where it is. The most informative scenario would be for us to meet a long-lived, fast-traveling civilization.
Most of us pirates and hacker types use Yandex or Baidu these days. We get MUCH BETTER quality searches there than the US search engines. And yes, I'm located in the US.

The ONLY problems we have are local-to-us searches. Then again, you're better off with a yellow pages/business phonebook than hoping that scroogle will give you what you ask for.
The Birth of the Grid
https://github.com/apple/homebrew-apple/tree/main

This isn't the DX12 emulator itself, right? It's just a patch to crossover which makes it use the emulator which is proprietary and bundled with the OS (or Xcode)?
I tried "apache cassandra" with yahoo and duckduckgo and they both have similar ads that look like search results. Yahoo is even worse, as they just have "Ads related to: apache cassandra" at the top, and then a bunch of ads, where is isn't really obvious where the actual search results begin, just a horizontal line.

Having a look for other search engines, I see all the regular ones from the 90s seem to be dead. There is one called swisscows.com which I hadn't heard of, and it has similar inline ads.
Recap of HN Discussion about Apple Vision Pro (generated by Anthropic Claude)
The implementation of an insurance contract management software system can greatly benefit insurance companies by optimizing and simplifying contract-related tasks. By utilizing this software, companies can efficiently manage their contracts and increase productivity, ultimately leading to a more successful and profitable business.
To be 100% crystal clear, this is a Wine distro. https://www.osnews.com/story/136223/apples-game-porting-tool...
> “In short, we found that sucralose-6-acetate is genotoxic, and that it effectively broke up DNA in cells that were exposed to the chemical,” Schiffman says.
Look again. Amazon is a tree, Apple is hub and spoke.
Unless the assertions made by those interviewed in the article are true. We are all arm chair quarterbacks who only have a view from the goal line to the one yard line. There is no sense in trying to say we know what happened in the game. We don't know what's actually happening and I don't see much sense in eliminating plausible explanations. It could be sensor aberrations, China, or something else. Why not keep an open mind and be scientific about evaluating it? Yes, we should probably focus on eliminating the more mundane explanations, but I don't think we would want to give up if we don't find it at first.
There is a total prohibition on AGPL software at most MAANGs.
Goat, yes. Sheep, no.
The point is to have Linux support on some of the best hardware available at the moment.
I keep bees and enjoy them on a few levels, but they're far from being sentimental animals. They regularly kill their siblings off for one reason or another; I find it helpful to think of the hive as a single, distributed organism with the individuals akin to cells.
Debian is *NOT* hostile towards its user base. And these days, that's worth more than its weight in gold.

But feel free to keep being the "old man yells at cloud". that cloud (microsoft) doesn't care.
You are aware, that H. was actually disappointed that he didn't get what he wanted, namely war? (France and the UK would have missed on getting an entire cycle of the arms race into the field.)
Huge respect for these people. Wish I could do what they do.
> don't even notice

Yea exactly. Microsoft is so oafish and blatant about it that tech writers pay attention
Security vulnerability in the CurseForge platform
Multiple groups are reporting CurseForge as compromised. Malware has been uploaded in various projects and it may be a security vulnerability in the CurseForge platform. Fabric may also be affected. For reference, CurseForge and Fabric are popular extensions to Minecraft Java Edition.
> I think the big usecase of the Vision Pro is just a larger screen and immersion

No one has come up with anything better yet. That’s one of the big problems with VR that I’ve seen. Do you have games on one hand, and a virtual environment showing mostly 2D stuff on the other.

I think that’s one of the reasons Apple is releasing this when they are. I sort of suspect they’ve gone about as far as they can. They don’t have a killer app, but that’s ok.

They’re putting it out there for developers, and we’ll see. Someone will come up with something compelling.

VisiCalc, Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Photoshop, PageMaker, Angry Birds, the web… none of them came from the platform vendor. So what will someone come up with that will make everyone rush to order the Vision 2 when it’s announced for $1500?
Alternative perspective - believable AI-generated nudes completely eliminate the risk of "revenge porn" or embarrassment from leaked photos.

If someone can say "Hey Siri, generate a picture of Alice and Bob fornicating" and get a realistic image, then neither Alice nor Bob ever need to worry about their private photos being hacked, leaked, shared, etc. They can just laugh and say the image is a fake.

It's a huge win for everyone in the long term, the perfect counter to privacy invasion - simply bury any real private information in a mountain of fakes. Oh you think got my medical record, my tax return, my nudes, my private texts, my performance reviews? Which ones? Here's 500 equally plausible alternative versions of all of those.
Lazy eyes, I think, are probably popular among software developers (I got one, and most devs I know have eyes issues). I think that's why Apple got lenses too. I think (hope) they got us covered since we'll be the first to use, develop on, and afford these devices.
agreed, it's very impressive
I sow directly in ground, but it's not great soil, so probably 6-10 inches below ground, the soil starts to get crap fast... lots of clay and rocks. Hard to build up good deep soil.

That, plus lack of proper nutrients (sun, rain, minerals) led my corn to be thin and short, and they quickly topple over from the beans. You can still string them up of course, but it's annoying, and the corn ears are small and sometimes under-developed. The squash also didn't seem to fare well.
VR games? Sure gaming, but I didn't know VR games specifically made so much money.

Either way, if I was gaming, playing a new single player 2D (Last of Us, etc) game on a MASSIVE screen on the Vision Pro seems so exciting. Beat Saber and throwing my hands around? Not so much.