skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it will be a walled garden ios device, instead of a "walled garden toy device like quest", which could be hooked up to a PC.

And there's no reason to assume random peripherals will work. Apple hasn't said it, no one has shown any, and there's no reason to think apple will let random third parties make compatible devices while they at the same time try to make sure you use guaranteed apple usb-c cables to get regular data rates from their devices.

Basically, it will be a walled garden device (btw the quest could still play steamvr) just ios instead of oculus/meta, and the lack of controllers isn't some special achievement that is empowering third party creators, its a bad decision on apple's part because they simplified the experience to the point where complex interaction is worse.
That's even worse that it works under the Community terms, as if one of your employees installs it you can be liable for license costs if you have 6+ employees or make 1mm. MS license auditors will be having a field day.
No, the problem they are trying to solve is not light pollution, it is that incandescent bulbs use several times as much electricity as LEDs.
OK, I've changed the title to that above, at least until someone suggests a better one.

Edit: on second thought, probably the original title is better (in keeping with the site guidelines). Better to let the comments hash out what it actually means.
The hypocrisy of companies that live on user content is pretty amazing. They want to act like we’re all just vibing. And then hey, really sorry, we gotta put a few ads up to keep the servers up and pay the devs ($424mm worth last year). But you wanna get paid for making an app for blind people to use our site? Helllll no.
And this is why all of the informal fallacies everyone talks about as if they’re the logical foundation of the universe are pointless. Of course who the source matters. It’s part of our evolutionary system of altruism.
Didn't read Dr. Suess's treatise on patricide, Hop on Pop, I guess.
BTW, I live in Brazil where ethanol from sugarcane is widespread
I get your sentiment but note that discovering a new algorithm doesn't have to imply a better time complexity. Bubble Sort and Insertion Sort have the same time complexity but are different algorithms.
I switched in 1998 and kept it up for several years. BYOD wasn't a thing back then so I had to be able to switch but it wasn't that hard. My main gripe was relearning emacs, never got efficient at it. Too much muscle memory and less memory of the names of the key sequences.

I was an 80 wpm typist since 1993. On Dvorak I never got that fast even on a Model M, which I was wicked fast on using QWERTY. Eventually the laptop keyboards took over and my accuracy and comfort plummeted overall.

I think most problems could be solved by sitting properly and typing on a keyboard with good response like Cherry MX Brown or buckling spring keyboards, and not using a palm rest.
That's a principle drawback of these things. They bullshit an answer even when they have no idea. Blather with full confidence. Easy to get fooled, especially if you don't know the game and expect the machine does.
> You vill own nothing

Welcome to the brave new world
macOS runs x64 executables just fine through Rosetta so I don't see why Wine couldn't make use of that hardware acceleration.

It's also possible to only simulate the entrypoints through Rosetta and then execute native aarch64 code from there. On Linux https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64 does exactly that, for example. However, with the performance Apple has been able to squeeze out of Rosetta, I'm not sure of that workaround is even necessary.
"It depends"

If you're in an older building (leaky) with a recirculating range hood (not actually vented) then opening a window is going to improve your air. Many prewar buildings in NYC were constructed with 'overpowered' radiators by the windows with the idea that people would in winter have the windows slightly ajar to bring in clean air.

In a more modern building with a tight thermal envelope (not leaky) you're not passively through cracks, etc. exchanging w/the outside world. So everything builds up. One solution is a fresh air system like an ERV or HRV which exchanges air, filters, and exchanges heat and humidity too (so an improve version of keeping the window open).

My 1985 run of the mill center hall colonial is moderately leaky. If I run the bathroom fans a negative pressure environment is created and air is pulled from under the slab (which creates a radon concern, for me). I suspect this approach, slightly pressurizing every room, would work for me. But I think this is very similar to what an HRV/ERV might do anyway...
Here is probably your best resource: https://ctftime.org/

Check out the "New writeups" section.

Many teams will do CTF problem writeups.

It's reasonable to sign up for a CTF solo and struggle with problems, then read write ups after to gain tactics and strategies.

It's not uncommon for college level students to struggle completing one non intro problem even with 30+ hours of effort, so don't be hard on yourself.

If you get good at CTFs you should do write ups yourself. After all if you get a job pentesting the writeup is likely more important than the exploiting, and it's good to pay it forward to the people after you anyway.
There is a #design-feedback channel in the "Friends of Figma" Discord. You could give that a shot: https://discord.com/invite/figma
That's true about Oregon and Washington but NOT California. It's also why you don't see wildfires to nearly the same extent in the Northeast or South - we cut our trees.
I think there was another HN thread the other day saying this is how CA can depopulate the risk-prone regions - CA refuses real risk pricing yet carriers refuse uncovered risk, so high risk areas become depopulated as they can't be insured, and thus, not in compliance with loan requirements.

Once this is accomplished (as ugly as it might be for the residents) then you can possibly do some forest management and fire control.

This same thing is playing out in FL, but over there the insurance commission isn't as stringent so insurers are just flat out not paying claims.
It is rather obvious they dont give a flying flamingo over it.
With only a few sticks of incense in there, probably none.
Maybe they didn't. Maybe their sibling died and their ex left them with the kids from the last relationship and now they're looking after 3 kids they never expected to have to care for on their own.
Thankfully osxcross[0] is already a thing and does already work fairly well.

[0] https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross
He is talking about the fact that you can type so many words without even moving your hands. Dvorjak reduced the amount you move your hands and fingers to type. That reduces strain. That is the benefit of Dvorjak.
Buying a Tesla Model 3 with a $7,500 tax credit is tempting, except you're still paying over $40,240, plus $1,390 destination fee, plus $250 "order fee" at $41,880 before tax and registration(!!) for a compact executive car to later receive a deduction on your tax liability.

Then you need a wall connector, and you'll of course want a mobile connector, and you'll need to call your electrician if you have one, or else you'll need to search for one and have the wall connector install at an undetermined market rate.

Don't forget insurance; you'll want full coverage.

Oh and after that, that's all just the base model, without Tesla screwing you for another $6,000 for Enhanced Autopilot, or $15,000 for Full Self-Driving Capability.

You're still spending all of that money. It's not like these credits immediately apply at the point of purchase.

Just buy a Toyota Corolla. It too will steer itself on streets and highways, and Toyota doesn't hype their self-driving by calling it autopilot.
Wavefront Path Tracing
Male physical attractiveness is qualitatively different from female, because female attractiveness is pretty much a set of fertility proxies[1] and little else, whereas male attractiveness is much more dependent on signaling provisioning ability and overall social status.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29178517/
Fundamental problem of middle management. Want output but never concerned with how, until the how bites them.

Sadly, it bites them too late.
Algal biofuel boom-bust of the early 2010's: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lessons-from-th...
It might take Bard 3 more iterations to reach the current level of chatGPT, which to my surprise even managed to solve advanced linear algebra questions, while Bard was no where close to answering even basic questions in Linear Algebra
Well, I'll definitely defer to your actual knowledge on the subject as others should rather than following my ramblings given I'm honestly (and obviously) just speaking from what it looks like on the outside. Thanks for putting a bit more detail and knowledge into the motivations underlying this.
This is a great question. Apple's fee basically says:

"Software development should either be money-losing (developer pays Apple and releases a free app), or it should be a business (developer pays Apple and attempts to make a profit)." There is no room for developers who want to release pure hobby apps with no expectation of commerce.

I don't release any of the iOS apps I write. First of all, I would never charge for them, and therefore I cannot justify paying $X/year for the ability to release them. So I do them for my own pleasure and education and that's it.
Until a few days ago, the Mac Studio or Pro was sold with Xeon processors. I'd hope that Apple would continue to support those platforms with updates.
> Ellsberg probably sees a lot of parallels between Ukraine and Vietnam:

There are a lot of parallels.

But the closest parallel to the US role in Vietnam in the 1950s-1970s is to the Russian role in Ukraine in the 2010s-2020s.

Russia is the one citing Domino Theory to justify first backing local proxies and no conducting massivr direct combat operations against a regime they claim is not the ultimate enemy, but just a pawn in a superpower scheme that must be stopped.
Invoking That Guy's sexual assault in this context, really? So far over the top I don't know what to say.
Well there you go, add chicken and tortillas to the mix and your budget doubles just for dinner. People generally enjoy eating more than just the bare-bones, most minimal staples.
Looking back, civilizations which span hundreds of years do oscillate over long decades.

Comfort and complicity are said to produce ambivalence, maybe a break from the galvanized hardliners of war, or the impoverished interruptions in mass consumption supply ecosystems.

A after 800 it is said the Sumerian valley cultures were corrupted and perverted, we all know what happened to Greece, Rome, the early Christian world, and finally the consumertopia revolution.

What might come of our delegation of effort to technocracy?

The future awaits us, whatever it may be!
Furnace fans often use a lot more electricity than you’d expect. You can check by looking at your electric meter with it on and off (or maybe by looking at a sticker on the furnace).
The Cuboid might be better, but because he used two completely different fans, this is not a valid comparison. The Cuboid uses a ducted fan, where the tall duct will increase the flow rate by promoting expansion in the exhaust. The other fan is just a non ducted (or very poorly ducted) box fan. It looks like he also only does one trial for his measurements. Most of the efficiency CADR/power probably comes from using a better fan, which is the whole purpose of adding a long duct.

The extra effectiveness might also come from the Cuboid fan being elevated off the floor. With the box fan standing on the floor and pointing horizontally, it has an additional solid boundary restricting intake air. The vertical pointing fan in the Cuboid does not have this restriction.

A proper test would use the same fan in both designs. The non-Cuboid fan would be oriented upwards and mounted on stilts. Multiple trials should be done with the results averaged. He omitted a chart showing both particles counts vs. time of both approaches, which would be the most important figure to include.
The issue with this approach is that you are basically arguing that WFH changes in 2020 due to pandemic were legally problematic too.

I’d be willing to bet that any employment offers made since the 2020 WFH blitz for the legally savvy organizations have stipulations that the employer can control the working location, and of course the employee can choose to leave if the location changes in a way unfavorable to them.

More than once in my career I have been at a company where the office location changed. I didn’t get to say “no, you can’t move my office because this is where the office was when you hired me”.
First off...wow. Never expected this to hit front page. Just started writing and trying to get the juices flowing.

You could totally use an Ansible playbook. I've used a lot of them over the years. Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, Puppet, etc...
As I said at the end of the article I glossed over a lot of things and the beauty of tech is there are lots of ways to do things. Do what works for you. Tradeoffs all over the place.

I do think that shell scripts provide lower level insight to people that may be trying to understand what is going on rather than the magic of something like Ansible that abstracts things away. Or maybe I'm just old school :D
The description is everything. It has a more local target with where it goes, but the starting premise has repercussions that shake this civilization deeply, I in countless ways:

> Software is opaque, unknowable.

This ain't just about software practitioners, it's about mankind having built a far off remote invisible kingdom that actually is 4 dimensionally (many dimensionally) all around us all the time.

This IMO is the only interesting fight now. Theres trends & tech & control happening that matters, but this question is mostly social, mostly cultural, of whether we walk forever into proprietary consumerized walled gardens, or whether the general project of computing finds a stake where it can uncloak & reveal a true self to the public, whether we can find good common roots to express ourselves with, that can be useful to everyone not wearing developer monk robes.
Also fuck those of us who are visually impaired but not blind because I bet their definition of 'accessibility needs' is going to result in a Reddit so limited it's useless to those who need anything other than text only.

I'm visually impaired (on the mild side) and I have a lot of neuro-visual issues. I have a lot of problems with visual crowding, visual sensitivity to stimuli (bright colors, movement, etc.), and have ~ 20/50 vision when corrected. (Or 20/80ish in my glasses at night time which is also when I use Reddit). I use third party apps because I need a lot of their 'cosmetic' features: I can set the colors to not be too much to process (pure white on black or black on white sucks for me), I can set images and videos to hide by default so they don't distract/tire me browsing but I can easily see them if I want to, I can avoid ads (which tend to flash/move or be very glaringly colored and can easily result in headaches), and I can have more fine grain control over text size, where information is located, etc.
There are two facts you have to reconcile with:

1. Snowden materially damaged the US government.
2. Snowden swore an oath of allegiance to the entity who most desires to damage the US government.

I cannot blame someone for having trouble finding the nuance and having trouble reconciling that.

My personal opinion is likely closer to the idea that Snowden was a ethical person who wanted to do good, and he was handled as an asset by people who knew how to manipulate a desire to do good to achieve goals like chaos and distrust. That is a casual opinion, not informed by facts or significant research.
Partially yeah I agree, but also running on way more hardware as opposed to being locked down like apple, but I could also see that as an argument for being developer friendly.
There's also two forms of "British" English, with the less common being Oxford English, which uses ‑ize instead of -ise for most words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
ChatGPT is still not great at the X-Y problem. It doesn’t often ask probing questions to elicit greater context and provide better solutions. It’s fantastic, but no where near replacing people for non-trivial problems.
gotten still remains in occasional use in Britain, certainly in spoken English.
Trading brand goodwill for monetary value is akin to cannibalism. Apple is now a megacorp without vision other than increasing prices, ensuring repairs stay plentiful and expensive, and haphazardly dabbling in categories without really innovating forward.

SJ built Apple with ruthless vision. I don't foresee this magic recurring anytime soon except post TC with a leader who deeply appreciates both design and engineering.
A seldom expressed idea is that maybe we acted close to optimally throughout this whole thing. I hesitated to write that, because I know someone will bring up a case where an official lied or there was widespread corruption (and I still welcome such arguments)...

But, some mistakes pushed us towards too much lock-down, and some mistakes pushed us towards too little lock-down, and perhaps they balanced out to something close to optimal. Not only in the case of lock-downs, but in other things too: surely some executive acted with primary concern for profits, and surely some others spread baseless anti-vax conspiracies. Maybe they balance out?

Maybe society is like a huge machine learning model. It has many errors, sometimes it estimates too high, sometimes it estimates too low. We are always striving to correct both types of errors, but the errors do not stop us from finding an approximate middle path which is often good enough.
It's a lot less work per Kwh to harvest the energy that plants store than what would be needed to make and maintain solar panels to make the same amount - I assume
> You aren’t the center of other people’s lives

And Apple is?
I am not cynical about the research itself, I am critical of claims such as "new sorting algorithm uncovered", "up to 70% faster", or "first change in a decade". The research is good. The achieved results are massively inflated.

What they achieved: automatically generated good code.

What they claim: automatically generated code that is revolutionary and an improvement on the state of the art.

And as another commenter noted, superoptimizers are also already a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization

There's also automatic searching being done on faster sorting networks that actually recently produced better than state of the art sorting networks: https://github.com/bertdobbelaere/SorterHunter
Glad to hear it's working out! Hope it continues to prove to be an exception to the rule, then.
what happened is they took the recording of him saying "2004" at the 00:47 mark and spliced that audio over the 00:07 mark. strange, but if you listen to the 00:47 and then back to the 00:07 it's quite clear it's the same.
It's indirectly solar power, and ethanol can hold more energy per volume than batteries. However all of the other inputs that go into growing ethanol cancel that advantage out. If we were using Nuclear or maybe pure solar to produce the fertilizer perhaps the math may work out.
Wow I learn all sorts of cool things on this site.

Now I just have to figure out how to work this into a conversation.
Author proposes the hardest part is you're now old and the dreams you wanted to fulfill are gone, along with a smaller window of time.

Some find a new dream, or even wanting to work more.

Time makes us no promises.
Yes, he did. So what's your point?
> and they have no hope of ever figuring it out on their own.

It's not a case of not understanding, or not having the skills, or it being “unreasonable to think they might” do anything.

https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine...

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2022/04/12/its-not-about-the...

I get not understanding, but can you try not to be so obnoxious about it, please? It's clear you don't have these problems. If they seem to you to be absurd struggles to have, read some Albert Camus.
> Tingo’s Auditor Is An Israeli Firm That’s Part Of The Deloitte Global Network
It Gave Tingo A Clean Audit Opinion For 2022 Despite What We View As Glaring, Obvious Anomalies That Even Basic Auditing Checks Would Have Spotted From A Mile Away. The issues in Tingo’s financials are glaring enough that we’d expect they could have been spotted by any semi-conscious finance undergrad with severe vision loss.

> Intrigued at how the company could so rapidly move from buying a stock photo of an oil refinery to laying “foundations of its numerous buildings”, we decided to pay the site a visit on May 24th, 2023.

> We found several cinderblocks that were in place as part of the ceremony, but not one single additional brick or additional site prep, despite the company’s claims and supposedly being only 18-24 months away from targeted completion.

(Pictured: Tingo’s claimed in-construction food processing facility, May 24th 2023, showing a pile of cinderblocks)

Seriously, I urge you to read this entire thing. It's even funnier than the binance comments.
Author of the article, happy to answer any questions.

A bit of background, my house is in Northern Thailand that has similar levels of air pollution every year than what we see currently in North America and Canada and it took me a few years to get my house to zero PM even when having the worst wildfires around. So before installing a positive pressure system and making my house air tight in the process, I experienced with all types of air purifiers but did not find anything that works consistently at very high pollution levels.

The experience with these wildfires let me actually found AirGradient and we are proud of open sourcing many of our air quality monitors.
Ohio-class submarines (the ones that carry missiles): when they're "on station" they're just tooling around staying as quiet as they can. There's a relevant phrase for them: "Three knots to nowhere"

Los Angeles and Virginia-class submarines are always doing something: doing exercises, transiting from one location to another, etc. And typically multiple things at once. While the boat is transiting from an exercise area to homeport, the team is doing engineering drills, or other kinds of training. Or the forward part of the boat is doing exercises with a carrier battle group while the engineering team is doing engineering drills. (There's ALWAYS engineering drills or maintenance happening.)

Fuel isn't a primary concern: a nuclear reactor is fueled for the life of the boat, so 30-ish years. That said, effective life of a reactor is something the Navy tracks closely, and depending on the life of the boat, the life left in the reactor, some boats are decommissioned as they get close to the end of their fuel life, and others get re-fueled. (And in the case of the USS San Francisco, who had recently been refueled before it hit an underwater mountain, they cut off the front half of the submarine and welded the front half of a recently-decommissioned submarine on, because the reactor and fuel was too valuable to go to waste)
I was browsing Airbnb the other day and noticed a sentence in a listing containing “P[SENSITIVE CONTENTS HIDDEN]. Turns out the word was “Pagoda”.
FBI helps Ukrainian intelligence censor Twitter users and obtain their info
> "It also seems that this new library format ... bumps up the number of library types that developers need to onboard and possibly support."

No, a mergeable library is just a special type of dynamic library, which adds some additional features and metadata. I can't imagine why you'd distribute both mergeable and non-mergeable dylibs?

In fact, rather than having to support more library types, developers may actually have to support less - because it may eliminate the need to ship both a static lib and a .dylib with your framework?