skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think any company or fan base is different than any other, really.

Google, Microsoft, Apple, et al all serve their own best interests first, all in very similar ways. Their fans often have a blind spot for their company’s actions while lambasting the others for doing the same thing.

And it’s just plain human nature; people see fandom as “belonging as part of a group” and any criticism towards an “enemy” is going to reinforce their choice of browser/OS/phone/whatever and that the company they are cheering for is the best. And the deeper you are in the fandom, the more your echo chamber feeds into those same beliefs.

In truth, all companies suck, as do their fans. Some may suck less on a particular day/week/month, but over a long enough time period it’s all the same shit.
> I wonder if the parent comment was written by a LLM.

That's pretty disrespectful, I expect an apology from you

> I doubt Apple would be interested in making it support other OSs that run on more architectures

I don't think Apple is only using ARM and their chip for their whole stack, in fact, their servers run something else, and they support software that runs on other OSes wich run plenty of different architectures, including X86_64, and they are exploring a plethora of architectures [1]

> I assume it handles

> It may already handle

"Faux pas" indeed, let's stop assuming and let's stay positive, nice and respectful to each other

[1] - https://www.techpowerup.com/298936/report-apple-to-move-a-pa...
Yes, this means "in flight" (in experiment). Microsoft related articles use that every now and then. Some sort of micro-speak.
I went through a similar thing where I had some trouble sleeping due to external stressors and then started to get freaked out that I was having trouble sleeping, having always been a great sleeper. I developed a lot of anxiety around it and it was pretty awful, though I'm mostly over it now. To me, the key was accepting that I might sleep poorly and being okay with that. That true acceptance allowed me to relax. (The larger context for me fwiw is trying to overcome my perfectionism.)
I think you're missing the point and slightly arguing outside of the main point I initially made, which I think you understand already: It's more about how attention rather than ability of feeling sad or compassion towards animals.
What's clickbait about it? It seems quite clear to me, and vitriol doesn't make clickbait.
This is the situation I’m leaning towards. Military has been trying unsuccessfully for 80 years to figure it out. An adult finally walks into the room, sees how hopeless their attempts are, and whistleblows.
A somewhat common approach is to maintain a parallel DOM structure for accessibility and keep it in sync with the data structures driving the canvas view.
Guanaco 7B quantized to 5-bit got this right on the first shot: "Based on the information given, we can conclude that Shape B is blue. Since Shape A is red, and the only other option is Blue, it must be Shape B."
https://rumble.com/v2sgyx2-snowden-revelations-10-year-anniv...
That reasoning is fine in a world of video games and music player software perhaps, but not when it comes to running mission critical systems like flight control on a 747 or 10,000 autonomous cars carrying passengers.

I worry about complacency with overcomplexity and over-reliance on software, and our fast-growing trigger finger to automate everything....

Personal responsibility and training backed by a human touch will not be beat by code any time soon in my opinion. Citing that code is almost always deeply influenced if not forged and maintained by human hands, any credible singularity is far from our currently over-marketed Ai reality at the moment in my opinion as well... Google can't even get it's assistant and spell check to work properly, and they've been one of the largest companies on the block for decades now.
The system is for a Formula SAE (FSAE) Electric style race car. FSAE is a collegiate competition, and I'm part of a US Pacific Northwest team. Our car uses a 550 V battery and is 4WD. Most of our electronics and firmware/software are in-house besides motors and inverters. I lead the telemetry project and work with 1-2 other members on the system.

The system consists of an on-vehicle computer (Raspberry Pi or NXP i.MX) and a ground station (Rockchip RK3588S). We use Python heavily and the real-time dashboard part is done with InfluxDB and Grafana. Both computers and any user devices are on a Wi-Fi network made with a long-range WISP access point.

Our team is unfortunately very light on public tech blogs and how I wished I can change that... There is plenty of information on FSAE electric cars, vehicle telemetry, and both on the internet and they were a source of inspiration as I designed my own solution.
> and the open source community toils tirelessly making baby steps.

FWIW, the Open Source community has had DXVK running >80% of the titles on Windows for years now. The real champion isn't even Apple here, it's Codeweavers for keeping Wine fresh on MacOS and Valve for pushing gaming on UNIX-likes to it's logical conclusion. Writing and maintaining Wine is a feat Apple is not legally well-poised to do - without the tireless toiling of Open Source contributors, this feature would not exist.

So welcome back to gaming, Mac users. Let's hope this isn't a stopgap offering and more of a jumping-off point for DirectX9 coverage and the like.
The article outlines a "change and adaptation to a world where everyone is assumed to have a phone". Do you have a superior alternative change and adaptation that resolves the issues outlined by the article?
I don't doubt your experience, but in my experience judicious use of bang patterns and StrictData are enough to prevent those issues. It's no different from debugging and avoiding memory leaks in other languages. It just takes different skill sets that are more difficult to find.
I don't think it's charitable or polite to refer to GP's argument as fan fiction. They're making a genuine argument about what they think could have happened, not writing a made-up story, regardless of how unlikely you think their psy-op hypothesis is.
> there is life after heat death

Sure, this was known since Boltzmann and doesn't require a quantum mechanics twist.

Given infinite time any unlikely thing will happen unlikely
We see this over and over: people , like the author, who were thin/normal who gain weight later in life despite not changing lifestyle or diet much. This happens to so many celebrities after the age of 30 despite having top trainers and personal chefs, even. Another example is Bill gates, who weighed 130 in his 20s and obviously starting in the 2000s put on a lot of weight, all in his stomach area. It's not like he was more active in his 20's--his job literally entailed sitting at a computer all day yet he was rail thin. the obesity crisis in America is likely more due to people getting older and becoming aware of being overweight or it becoming a problem . If the media and everyone online is talking about a condition being a crisis or a problem, it is reasonable to expect more people are going to identify as having it. I think obesity was likely under-diagnosed in the past compared to today. Ozempic is one of the most promising solutions yet to this hard problem. 2 cents.
A philosopher's perspective but still interesting nonetheless.
This isn’t a fair comparison. Open Chrome then open Edge. In the former, you see a simple inferface with a search bar and maybe a few icons for frequently visited websites. In the latter, you’re meandering through a Turkish bazaar filled with thousands of knick-knack vendors, newsstands, etc. Microsoft puts no thought into the user experience and every thought into “we can use it to make money!”
> Microsoft has no shame

entirely clickbait, ambiguous, over the top, all fluff

> Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search

comically, suspiciously aggressive

> with a fake AI answer

ah, the purpose of the article

A non-clickbait, but not very punchy alternative is:

"Microsoft's Bing Presents Pre-scripted Response as AI Chatbot in 'Chrome' Search Query"
I've been working on this for awhile now and I'd love to chat. I'll send you an email.
You can get a surprising amount of information about cognitive processes from eye tracking. I worked on the industrial version of HP Reverb G2 which included a PPG sensor and Tobii eye tracking. Was really an amazing product which suffered from having to use third party platforms like Windows Mixed Reality and OpenXR which didn’t have first class support for what was possible.

One notable takeaway is that eye tracking of saccades is loosely correlated with cognitive load. In fact, “cognitive load” was a product that would be licensed to developers to use in their apps so that difficulty levels could be dynamically adjusted to keep users in a sweet spot for learning.

Especially when combined with a PPG sensor which can in theory detect if a man gets aroused (HP never investigated developing a model for that, but some comments from friends who were DoD-aligned contractors expressed alternating concern or interest in it, because they knew from their own career and independent research what applications might be possible with those technologies)

…it could be used to infer things which someone might prefer to keep private (I.e. which categories of things they have an emotional response to).

Apple definitely is aware of this and is heading off potential issues by not only not providing that data to third party app developers but also even to Apple itself. Apple does have a strong pre-existing framework for dealing with sensitive health data, so they could have decided to capture similar data and treat it the same way they deal with ECG data. HP did not have a HIPAA compatible framework so they threw away 99% of the PPG data and distilled it down to just “heart rate” which was the only data source available to app developers from the PPG sensor.
Sadly my team is pretty light on public tech blogs, but there are plenty of projects like this one! Copying from my comment above:

> The system is for a Formula SAE (FSAE) Electric style race car. FSAE is a collegiate competition, and I'm part of a US Pacific Northwest team. Our car uses a 550 V battery and is 4WD. Most of our electronics and firmware/software are in-house besides motors and inverters. I lead the telemetry project and work with 1-2 other members on the system.

> The system consists of an on-vehicle computer (Raspberry Pi or NXP i.MX) and a ground station (Rockchip RK3588S). We use Python heavily and the real-time dashboard part is done with InfluxDB and Grafana. Both computers and any user devices are on a Wi-Fi network made with a long-range WISP access point.

> Our team is unfortunately very light on public tech blogs and how I wished I can change that... There is plenty of information on FSAE electric cars, vehicle telemetry, and both on the internet and they were a source of inspiration as I designed my own solution.
Somehow the temperature of the earth is now a political football so any actual facts are hijacked by people with an agenda. Intellectually, I'm scared to touch this subject because it's such a hot potato. (no pun intended)
As a former Microsoft employee, “flighting” is the internal (and external, in some cases like https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/flighting) name for A/B testing or feature flags and has been for a long time.

If that was the original definition from whoever introduced it to the company, it’s long been forgotten.
I’m honestly hoping AI lets us transcend or at least fully control biology. It sucks being trapped in a bag of meat you have no control over whose only optimized function is to reproduce and then die. No thanks, I’ve got more important shit to do.
Is there any argument that phones are a good thing for kids to have in school?

There are a lot of things children are not allowed in school. Why are phones, which at best have little to no benefit, and at worst may impede learning, cause depression, cause bullying that follows the child all the way back home from the playground, cause social stratification, etc allowed until we have a better idea of their impact?
Yes, that is true. My wife and I are childless. We could buy two of these devices and immediately get rid of our two TVs, sound system, and monitor. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another monitor, sound system or TV again. I doubt I’ll ever buy an iPad or laptop again either. I think there’s a big enough market for this device at the $3500 price point. Obviously I could be wrong. I hope not because I’m excited about the possibilities of this device.
Genuinely asking, how do you make something like their map view accessible with so many objects and layers? I'd imagine you end up with a solution that exposes various content rectangles and ignores everything else, kind of how Google Maps does it.
Dr. Handmer seems to be neglecting the historical effect of Mt Pinatubo on the ozone layer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00598-w
Worth noting that Apple is not just riding Proton/Wine’s coattails. As I wrote on another comment:

Previously: DirectX -> Proton/WINE -> Vulkan -> MoltenVK -> Metal (yuck)

Now: DirectX -> Apple GPT (groan at my pun, Game Porting Toolkit) -> Metal

You could call it Proton with a Metal backend and more developer tools?
The “Pro” in the name is a clear (IMO) signifier that this isn’t the mainstream consumer edition of the Reality product line. It’s for developers, for enterprise and military evaluation, and for early adopters who want a bleeding-edge experience. A sub-$1,000 non-Pro edition will be available in 2025, maybe sooner.
> comically, suspiciously aggressive

All of those words are necessary except 'spit'! Come on!

And if you got rid of 'spit' you'd need a different verb.

You could remove "Microsoft has no shame", but I don't think that changes whether the article title in total is clickbait or not. Clickbait would be "Microsoft has no shame" all by itself.
bitcoin goes up fast and goes down faster or as fast. same pattern forever
I haven't gotten a clear answer on what exactly this is. Is it a developer tool? Or is it like Wine? Can I just run an unmodified DX12 game from a Windows .exe on my Mac? If not, what's the process to port it? What portion of development work of porting a game does this cover?

Edit: More information here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-enabled-thousa...
> how do we prevent the system they're embedded in from churning out the same cookie cutter individuals

Everybody's already so crazy different, both from genetics and from family influence, there's no need to worry. There's so much diversity in people.

> each with the exact same political beliefs and inability to comprehend the grey and nuanced?

Education (at least in the US and Europe) is usually about teaching critical thinking, not political indoctrination. Why do you think tutors would change this? (Teaching political science, for example, is very likely to reduce your strongly-held political beliefs and lead you to see things as much more gray and nuanced.)

> Do we even want perfect tutors at all?

There's no such thing as perfect. All it said was infinitely patient, infinitely knowledgeable, etc. Computers are already infinitely patient, and even just Wikipedia alone is getting qualitatively similar to inifinitely knowledgeable.
It worked for Microsoft VC++ for a long time.
If I remember correctly, Safari addressed many transform-related bugs two years ago, which resulted in me noticing fewer bugs (quite drastically). Around that time, Safari became my primary development browser, which may have also contributed to this observation.

Based on Web Platform Test [0], it looks like Chromium browsers are not performing any better in this area.

[0] https://wpt.fyi/results/css?label=master&label=experimental&...

But I feel the pain of having to carefully test 2D/3D transform and animation on all browsers across platforms (even Safari on iOS and macOS can have different behaviors).
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"Gorilla arm" is a term engineers coined about 30 years ago to describe what happens when people try to use these interfaces for an extended period of time. It's the touchscreen equivalent of carpal-tunnel syndrome. According to the New Hacker's Dictionary, "the arm begins to feel sore, cramped and oversized -- the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touchscreen and feels like one afterwards."

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/gorilla-arm-multitouch/
It kind of sounds like they were being sarcastic?
Yeah, and then suffer endless barrage of hate on "how evil mega corporate stole the work of lone developer"
Suckless.org is merely a subjective catalog. Not a bad one, but for a tiling Window Manager, which I have to recompile every time I want to change its settings and need to somewhat know C for that - because what if I don't - that hardly sucks less.

NixOS is also a subjective take on packaging, heavily luring people into a functional programming world, where one set of problems is merely replaced by another set of problems. I tried NixOS, so no, thank you. There are better ways to isolate packages and have multiple versions of libraries. The simplest of which that come to mind are things like Flatpak and containers. There's almost 0 usecase for NixOS - it merely replaces one set of problems with another. And forces you to learn something, that does not justify the time it'd take to learn it. I feel like people who built it just wanted to be smart, not create things that are seemingly simple and beautiful (which is what true artists strive for, I think). I learned Vim in two weeks. I gave NixOS the same time and it was almost a waste of it. Not a complete waste, however, because, I recall, I discovered an extremely useful, but unrelated thing (zfs), but I don't remember how come it worked out this way.
Here is another way to think about these numbers: Antarctica was predicted to lose 140 cm of ice, but instead gained 4 cm. (This assumes the change of mass of ice would have been spread over the entire 14.2 million km² of the continent.)
Which region if I may ask? Did you encounter any permitting difficulties?
Yes, but the goal is developers to use that to come up with rough estimates for performance if they did optimizations. Users aren’t meant to directly use it - it’s a launching point for developers.

Also it’s more special than Proton for Mac because Proton does DirectX to Vulkan (needing a second round for Vulkan to Metal through MoltenVK), this is DirectX to Metal.
> The better societal rule is to disallow tipped employees from receiving less than minimum wage

This is already the case in California where minimum wage is $15.50 and many localities are higher. There is no exemption for tipped employees, regardless of how much in tips they may receive.
To be fair, this has been allowed to grow into a rat's nest by a decade of ignorance and inaction on something that obviously needed attention and action by these authorities that have, only as a result of the FTX, Celsius, Voyager, and BlockFi debacles, been woken from their hibernation-deep slumber.
I've been watching these and so far I think midjourney 5 is still best for plain text to image. If you want highly specific models (like one that only makes trains or whatever) then I think stablediffusion is better. For image-to-image I think controlnet in stablediffusion is also better. For some things it's possible that adobe firefly is better, like I think its outpainting is good.
Are you sure about that?

Chrome has a feature called “Cards” which is enabled by default, but is currently not as in your face as the Bing News stuff.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/11032183?hl=en&co=G...

> Chrome curates content that may interest you based on your activity. You must be signed in to your Google Account for your Cards to appear on the New Tab page. When you click on an item in a card, it opens the content in the same tab.

It looks like right now it’s limited to recipes and unfinished shopping carts, but the intent seems to be the same in the long run.

FWIW it can easily be disabled, but so can the Bing News ads.
I would really like to see level four and five implemented at all public schools.
To me it seems that a plug-and-play integration with HuggingFace transformers is the killer feature here. If this simply allows to fine tune a model on your local GPU, that you otherwise can’t train, this is pretty interesting.

It seems that it also might work for 4bit-quantized models. And removing the step of model quantization and acceleration in terms of TOPS for quantized inference can maybe compensate for the need to do more steps.

Also, a good question of how well it works in a distributed/batched setting.
Vision Pro opens opportunities for a new web interface of the type that Gary Flake and team were building with Silverlight and Pivot at Live Labs.

Gary has a great TED talk (Mar 2010) on this radical but intuitive spatial sorting interface. Foveation and hand movements are perfect user links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_x9s67yWA

Combined with a Vision Pro—OMG.
Honestly this is the outcome I'd hope for. Got to leave some mysteries intact.
This guy seems to have done all the right things you're supposed to do if you discover a coverup as a DoD employee. He reported to the Inspector General. He reported to the committees in Congress that oversee intelligence activities.
That's all authorized by law and regulation.

He may be wrong, but he didn't do anything wrong.
You are entirely neglecting the requirement that at the end of the days, these leaks need substance: documents, photo, or other actual evidence besides one guy saying someone else overheard a conversation where another person described our secret ET program.

One crank making headlines every few years with nothing that actually backs up their claims doesn’t cut it. By that metric you might as well believe the hundreds of “leakers” claiming the government is made of lizard people.
SIA decentralized solution.
It is a developer tool, and it is Wine. It sure seems like you can just run an unmodified DX12 game from a Windows .exe on your Mac, provided you're running the latest beta OS.
Punch Cards --> Text Terminals --> GUIs/WIMP --> ?

? =! Vision Pro
Windows and Macintosh crash and are slow. And the author doesn't want to do any work in setting up Linux.
The ice shelves, not all of Antarctica, gained ice.
I guess you could read the HN title and think, "see Antarctica must not be getting warmer if it gained ice." Where the shelves could have gained from the glaciers flowing faster off the land, and amount of ice could still have gone down.
Definitely not. It's just funny to see the Open Source contributions reduced to "baby steps" because Apple had to play catch-up with their graphics API.

It's all good stuff, though. One of the big reasons I switched to Linux was how smooth the DirectX translation is. If Apple makes an effort to support a back catalog of DX9 titles and fairly decent DX12 coverage, that's enough to put them back on the map for me.
eBay pulled it off. Just a search engine that pulled up a bunch of ads would have been great.
To quote Lukaz Kaiser in his famous talk on 2017: "stupidity is all you need"
If you’re comparing the Quest 2 to the Vision Pro, it seems more like 2x as good for 5x the price.