skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find “ el corralito” in this article: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/crypto-argentina-black-m...

The article explains why cryptocurrencies are in use in Argentina despite the risks: mostly because Pesos or USD can have worse risks.
That is discussed in TFA. It has a quote that multiple countries probably have evidence.
How about "get fully capable smart phones out of schools now"? This safety argument could still be fulfilled with a cheap, simple phone that allows the student to text / call 9-1-1 and a handful of trusted contacts.
> Apps like Bear, Reeder, Anybox, Things 3, make switching devices seamless

I think Apple's whole point is that they provide the APIs so that apps can do this themselves. Which, yeah, is a bit disappointing; I'd love to have a 100% fidelity, flick-to-another-device type of Continuity built into the OS, but the APIs are at least a starting point.
Search Engines are not designed to give you the truth. They are designed to give you the result you wanted to find.

The linked article is a good example: the author was looking for a result from Bing which they could write a florid article about, and Bing obliged.
I wasn't clear but I meant the misinformation, I guess you are too? :)
I agree that so far that is where we've been, but imagine a Sim City or Civilization game on the Vision Pro. THAT would be a ton of fun. I'm sure Sid Meier could make something interesting on it. Frankly, I would love it if Apple would throw money at him to make one of his games on it.
I liked a much of classic macOS and the software. Maybe it's just childhood nostalgia, and perhaps it's also because I never had to really develop for it.

When you installed an app, it usually just went in a folder. Sometimes it was just one file. There wasn't a mass of dependencies and complex systems to manage them. Just some libraries built into the system.

Modern macOS is a bit like that too, except it has all the unix under there too, so there's a mess of files all over the place. There are many files hidden from the user (which the user wouldn't understand anyway). Whereas classic macOS had a beautiful simplicity where you clicked on the system folder and there was Finder and other things which were at least somewhat understandable to me as a kid.

I had Strata 3D, which I got with an educational discount. That was the software used to make Myst. Our Quadra 700 only had 8mb of RAM and I was trying to render a spaceship flying through mountains on a distant planet. I managed to replace the Finder with Strata (using RezEdit) and boot into Strata. The machine would crash if I clicked on the apple menu, but this got me a bit more RAM.

Anyway, something like NixOS addresses the flaws of Unix package management, but it requires quite some complex machinery to do so. AFAIK, we didn't have the versionitis issues on classic macOS, but again, I was just a kid. It was a simpler time.
Social contacts always have two or more sides.

For example red light cameras. Makes perfect sense right, running red lights is bad as it can cause harm, and harm would be a violation of the social contract.

.... except the cities were commonly taking the yellow light timing down far below recommended levels in order to maximize profits.

AI in a world that demands profits spells the end of freedom.
let them have a simple communication device. they don't need tiktok and instagram in school.
Can you point to a single semi-prominent crypto person who has blamed to SEC for losing their funds?
Btrfs can "rebalance" in place. This has had bugs in the past, but seems safe now.

On the side of ZFS, you can take one volume of a mirrorset, move it to another system and mount it in degraded mode, and copy a bunch of new files to it. When you return the updated drive to the full set and mount it, it will resilver the older drive with the newer content automatically.

That's a killer feature. With btrfs, you have to rebalance to mirror the new files, which takes a long time as every block must be rewritten between the mirrors. ZFS knows how to move just the new files in a resilver.
> All of this stuff reeks of some kind of psyop

Is it me or is the internet really quick to reach this conclusion? It's definitely not the simplest one you can make.

"The US government" can hardly pass a budget but is somehow presumed to be super competent at psyops and/or concealing evidence of aliens.
If aliens were here they would have something better to do than buzz navy pilots off the west coast and then crash.
I find it impossible to relate to this stance because no software I use works. Period. I haven't encountered a single piece of software that's not frustrating in the last decade. Tell me all about the archeology and cool shit but this stuff boils my blood at this point.
That was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing!

That seal video chasing the squid was so captivating given the context of the article.
This brings up another question... How is a social contract defined when you have 20m people and 50m AI enabled bots forming relationships with them trying to change their mind on said social contract?
That's how the new "react server components" work too. It's more sophisticated than this but the network concept is the same.

Blazor was the pioneer here.
>What evidence do we have that they traveled faster than light rather than, say, leaving a very, very, very long time ago?

We would see a generation ship coming. It would be big, it would give off waste heat, it would probably have to stay in orbit, if we're assuming it follows physics we're familiar with, it would have to use chemical or nuclear rocket propulsion, dump waste and need constant refueling and maintenance.

So either they have warp drives and magical tech bullshit or they don't exist. Those are the two options.
> it cannot detect a heart attack though

Perhaps the watch can detect deadly heart attacks (stopped heartbeat)? Although I’m not sure how much use that feature would be.
This is what springs to mind for me:

* https://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html space shuttle used a 386
* https://www.cpu-galaxy.at/article/cpu_in_space.htm ISS still does too
* https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/space-grade-cpus-how...
> The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user.

The problem is, for most users, to have a decent experience you need... COMPLEXITY.

See, there are roughly two groups of people when it comes to computers:

* Real Human Beings. Your mom. Your sister. The CEO of the company you work for. People who have real needs that computers might help with, but don't want to futz with them to get them working.

* Lizard People. People who love programming and don't mind futzing with a computer or its software. It's an open secret that they're not really human because it's all over the marketing. When Ubuntu called itself "Linux for humans" they were a) trying to assure their customer base that theirs was not a scary product intended for Lizard People; b) lying. Unix is a Lizard Person OS. Apple, who had already invented and perfected[0] the Real Human OS, did more or less the same to Unix by adding layers of complexity, but even then some of the ancient Lizard Person tech shows through.

If you like building pipelines to process data, you are a Lizard Person.

If you are concerned about how much resources a program is taking, you are a Lizard Person. If you hate that all this memory and CPU time is being WASTED to do something you could do with a couple of Unix commands, you are a Lizard Person. Real Humans may notice when their computer is slow; if it's a persistent problem they throw it away and go down to Best Buy to buy a new one.

Do you see what I'm getting at? Most users are not computer literate, don't value becoming so, and get scared when they see the ancient underpinnings of Lizard Person technology. So in order for them to have a good experience, hiding the details, automating pain points like configuration, and putting a nice friendly face and good presentation on everything is an absolute MUST. That requires engineering complexity and layers of software working together. They are TABLE STAKES for a good experience. So while I find myself quoting Ryan Dahl an awful lot about the experience of users, I think 99% of the time I mean the exact opposite of what he means.

[0] No, shut up. The Xerox Star sucked, and Smalltalk was a propaganda tool for indoctrination into the Lizard Person way of life. Inasmuch as computers are usable by Real Humans, the fact that they are so is an Apple invention entirely.
/? "Critical Technology Security Centers Act" of 2023 https://www.google.com/search?q=Critical%2BTechnology%2BSecu...

Text - H.R.2866 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Critical Technology Security Centers Act of 2023. (2023, April 25). https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2866...
might just use pyxl4, by dropbox or Guido himself.

https://github.com/pyxl4/pyxl4

example:

# coding: pyxl

from some_module import x_user_badge

user = User.get(some_user_id)

content = <div>Any arbitrary content...</div>

print <user_badge user="{user}">{content}</user_badge>
The 1st amendment was written in the era of printing presses - should we scrap that too? After all, there's no way they could have predicted the internet.
I mean... according to him, that company's business HAS suffered. Granted, he blames it on a conspiracy out to "cancel" him with advertisers rather than technical problems, but still.
oh this is an eternal discussion, just like salmon vs pencils
Shameless plug, I'm the founder of Willow[0].

In short you can:

1) Run a local Willow Inference Server[1]. Supports CPU or CUDA, just about the fastest implementation of Whisper out there for "real time" speech.

2) Run local command detection on device. We pull your Home Assistant entities on setup and define basic grammar for them but any English commands (up to 400) are supported. They are recognized directly on the $50 ESP BOX device and sent to Home Assistant (or openHAB, or a REST endpoint, etc) for processing.

Whether WIS or local our performance target is 500ms from end of speech to command executed.

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow

[1] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server
> Oh hey, yeah. A bunch of small utilities that communicate and interoperate. I can see it working out. You could even have them communicate with each other via some sort of universal interface.

The key is to have that interface be narrow and well defined - something like gRPC. Allowing them to communicate via a huge, poorly specified, non-concurrency-safe swathe of shared state (filesystems with all their ad-hoc semantics, shared memory, signals, pipes, KAME sockets, namespaces, goodness knows what else two processes on a Unix system can do to fuck with each other) is a recipe for disaster.
If you bring me back from the dead, I may or may not go full Frankenstein’s Monster on you. Be warned, posterity.
An other clickbait title from theverge?
Agreed. A person in power making policy changes is not just engaging in speech. He worked to deny others rights (e.g. marriage equality) and this is a bit of accountability. He still has his platform and is not exactly silenced.
In my experience post nasal drip shouldn't make it into your lungs, that sounds like a more serious problem.
Actually, my guess was that parent poster had neither science nor experience to back him up and was just making shit up.

Not sure exactly what point you are trying to make.
I haven't used go for some reason but it always looked nice. I like the simplicity, for some things. I know old C programmers trying to write web services in C (with hand rolled json...) and I wish I could get them using Go. :)

Rust is neat. I wrote a decent sized side project backend (weatherfy.com) in Rust, with sqlx, postgres, and axum. Shared cache was tough to figure out but everything else was easy.

The whole backend has like one lifetime annotation, so that wasn't too bad. Honestly, I'd use it again, but the compile times scare me.
Background information in how dams fail does not constitute “crafting a narrative”, and is entirely compatible with Russia casually committing atrocities and war crimes.
> Why can't Europe build amazing high margin software businesses or any hyper growth companies?

The regulations are onerous and the taxes are high. Why would anyone take the extreme risks associated with building a high-risk high-reward business when everyone gets in your way and most of the reward upside would just get taken from you anyway?
I'm not sure what you mean here - you can't move application launch logic to install time, it's inherently a launch time process - loading resources into memory, setting up runtime data structures, etc fundamentally requires time.

Now plenty of apps have unnecessarily large start up times, but those apps can largely be improved without just doing more work at install time - it's simply that a lot of devs don't care. There's a lot of "if it's not being measured, it's not being improved" for launch time for many - most? - projects and companies that means launch time is just slow for no reason.
Despite this I’m sure there’s a counterintuitive reason as to why this is actually bad, far worse even than the 20k Gt loss scenario. Can anyone explain?
I like dlib better if you want a swiss army knife of algos.

ccv is moved on to be all-in on neural-network based computer vision and all development effort happened in that area. (Similar can be said for dlib but at least the author still implement random black-box optimizers from time-to-time).

SOD seems try to reimplement some of OpenCV but TBH, these are not "modern" at all. These are 15 year-old algos while works, the useful domain is shrinking and people who interested in these also might be looking for hardware-accelerated options (AVX-512 / CUDA etc). Some very specific classic heavy CV applications (such as SLAM) are quickly moving to their own dedicated libs (such as Cartographer from Google or ORB-SLAM).
there's nothing right wing about this. I'm a democrat/centrist and what the dean said is completely correct both technically, and morally.
Yeah, except those simple 'apps' that went into a folder had a resource fork that was hidden away from users, and could be accidentally lost if you copied it to a disk formatted for windows and suddenly your application wouldn't work anymore and you had no idea why.
I had a BTRFS raid corrupt because one of my HDD had a firmware bug and was silently discarding writes.

Sure... HDDs shouldn't do that, but it's literally the job of a BTRFS raid to protect me from such issues. The data was all still intact on the other drive. I could see it with dd, but BTRFS refused to read it.
Maybe. The eyes are a sort of the canary in the coal mine for lots of neurological issues. Sometimes people don’t notice problems because the brain adapts well, and accommodation may be more challenging than one might think.

I have a loved one having issues due to a brain cancer. Optical seizures were the first warning sign and went unnoticed for some time. It would be amazing if VisionOS could potentially detect some conditions or help folks with epilepsy just as the watch has for some cardiac events.
I use GraphQL, React (concurrent mode) and Relay (hooks version) in a front end app of reasonable complexity and this combo makes fetching data and managing fetched data very ergonomic and cut down on a lot of the usual boilerplate (loading state tracker etc).
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/phone-free-schools
Oh, I had a case where I had built an ML based recommendation app, and utilized Flask for serving the results on my localhost. Would have loved to use React but my lack of sufficient JavaScript knowledge prevented me from doing so. Your tool seemed to have perfectly catered to my needs!
Not possible -- QR codes have error correction.
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Me too. My hope is that Intel, AMD, Google, MS and others eventually catch up with a common standard and the software doesn't require special customization as an end user (on paper something like DirectML has potential for this).

Another thing that could happen with so much money in the AI hype train right now, I wonder if we will see something similar to bitcoin, with special ASIC chips optimized for specific models like ChatGPT, CLIP or Stable Diffusion, or some shift to FPGAs.
I agree.

Remove the double-negative in my phrase "no more illogical", and my argument is that there is logical cause-and-effect in both situations, despite the easy potential for assuming a different outcome based upon select, surface assumptions.
Why does the government not just say that? Hey, our instruments are having errors/artifacts and we want to fix it AND also dismiss any suggestion of alien craft --but, no, they go along with the most unlikely scenario. Are they looking to look stupid?
You can use GPT-4 to automatically diagnose Python errors
Because, when it comes to consumer electronics, we have experienced massive deflation for the last ~50 years, to the extent that we simply do not expect to pay big bucks for any electronics. Spending more than $1000-$2000 on a gadget is way outside most people's norms.

Remember, the original Macintosh cost $6000 in today’s money, which most people would consider an absolutely ludicrous sum for a computer (of any kind) today.
So just to add another note, the infinite volume of black holes is likely an artifact of the classical (not quantum) representation. Just like the ultraviolet catastrophe.

Think about volume like this: it's measured by the amount of "liquid" that fills the given shape. This liquid consists of infinitely small idealized "atoms". Volume in curved space is similar, except that the "liquid" has different "densities" at different points in space.

This breaks down in case of black holes, as the central singularity can "compress" this "liquid" infinitely.
Maybe instead it is the school that should change and adapt to a world where everyone is assumed to have a phone.
Sorry for hijacking this thread for a question about personal curiosity but does anyone know of an affordable way of measuring pupil distance?

I want to measure my pupil distance while browsing social media. The reasoning is my reading in "Thinking Fast and Slow" that pupils dilate when we see something we find interesting / something we like / when we are thinking and vice-versa. I want to put it to the test and it seems like finally the consumer tech is close to making it possible.

Does quest support pupil tracking? I did some cursory research but couldn't find any reference for it. Industry pupil tracking headsets are way too expensive; My last hope is that someone will jailbreak vision pro...
It's all in preparation for Apple Vision. Everything you see will link to something...
You can attribute those achievements to entire species, but entire species do not drive vehicles--individuals do. Imagine a species with a mean IQ of 150. If such a species had a IQ distribution similar to ours, around ~2% of them would be as dumb as the average human, with almost half of them being dumber than a human 'genius'--and we don't expect human geniuses to be infallible!
The advertiser exodus has been caused by Elon's contentious personality and his strategic decisions on how to structure Twitter as an experience, with regard to re-platforming controversial users, broadening the definition of acceptable content, and so on and so forth.

It has not been caused by laying off 6,000 project managers and react developers, and will not be fixed by bringing back on 6,000 people at six figure salaries.

The app itself is functioning well even as the number of users has increased and number of staff decreased, and not only is it being maintained, but they seem to be regularly releasing new features without protracted delays or major technical bungles.
I didn't say it was perfect :)
Yes—until this year, the first public beta wouldn’t be available until early to mid-July.
The U.S. Inspector General called the claims "credible and urgent" and congress has planned a hearing on the documents provided to them under oath on said retrieval programs.

This clearly goes well beyond someone simply being mistaken.
This point was addressed in the article:

> But would a school where every student has a smartphone be safer than one in which only the adults have smartphones? Ken Trump, the president of National School Safety and Security Services, warns that using a cellphone during an emergency can increase safety risks. “During a lockdown, students should be listening to the adults in the school who are giving life-saving instructions,” Trump explains. “Phones can distract from that. Silence can also be key, so you also don’t want that phone noise attracting attention.” In addition, it seems to me that 300 parents rushing to the school in 300 cars would probably make things more difficult for first responders.

I would add that if Haidt is correct that removing phones improves mental health, then the likelihood of school shootings might decrease as a result. In any case, if you're going to argue with the headline, you might as well respond to the relevant portion of the article.
What is 3DoF screen mirroring, and what does XREAL Beam do?
> As such AI inherits all the "world-saving capabilities" of software which, empirically, are not exactly overwhelmingly proven.

Are we significantly closer to solving non-polynomial problems in polynomial time? I don't think so. I think this should be the bar. Otherwise it's just a server process that is probably smarter than a teenager, and less smart than a PhD. This would likely kill more low wage jobs and push more people into poverty. I don't see this kind of technology saving the world, anymore than the internet brought people together, or nuclear power provided cheap, clean energy.
They kept doing that, like the woman sitting on the sofa watching a film leans down towards her popcorn[1] and the screen doesn't move, or the woman lying in bed watching the ceiling change into a blue sky[2] instead of just a blue sky where she was looking.

[1] https://youtu.be/TX9qSaGXFyg?t=180

[2] Same video, 5min 12s: https://youtu.be/TX9qSaGXFyg?t=312
Yes, this is well stated. I understand why people write articles thqt lead with a provocative statement, but I think it's important for us all to read between those lines.
Wait, were you the one controlling where he was going? Like zooming him around the planet? Cause that’s a sure fire way to make anyone nauseous.
I think given the amount of tech and at least presented level of quality of experience (which I do not doubt) the price is fine. I think the problem is it is $3,500 in search of a problem to solve.

A camcorder has a clear use case. It let you make home movies.

They failed to articulate the use case in a compelling way and every scenario I can think of is extremely hampered by the 2 hour battery life.

Business is out. Everyone outside Silicon Valley that can afford this thing will be rejected if they show up with a weird uncanny valley avatar to a meeting.

Travel sounds good, but 2 hours really limits it. You better have a seat charger and even then it must be pulling down how many watts? Will seat chargers on planes have enough sustained power to do more than prolong battery life?

Watching movies at home? Sure. If you are alone and you are plugged in.

What else? Weird VR computing and web browsing? The friction of putting on the headset is too much to make up for however good that experience is.
fair criticism - we like punchy, sound bites.
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You asked, analogously, if he would be able to recognize the F-35 as a vehicle. All it would take is watching one land and seeing the pilot climb out to make it absolutely clear to him.
So it's to make money off of suckers? They are swindlers? We're no better than John MacAfee's banana republic low-level bribe seeking government employees.
I'd wait for the product to actually launch before making such a judgement
Yes, you can have multiple timers now if you want.