skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the would move the screens? E.g. Similar like they have in camera optical stabilization they slightly move the sensor array. They could make screen with not uniform pixel density but more dense in center and then do eye tracking and shift those screen mechanically depending where eye will be focused. Probably not easy to pull off as camera optical stabilization (need bigger movements and screens more heavy than weight of camera sensor) but maybe not completely impossible? Oled screens are very tiny and flexible just probsbly hard to make it non fragile.
Have you considered the ergonomics of doing this? I do know a few people who put their laptop up on a pedestal mount so it's in line with their external monitors, which is fine. (These people generally got the largest display-size laptop they could afford, so it makes sense for them.)

But if you have your laptop sitting directly on the desk — presumably because you use its keyboard to type? — then any time you look at its screen, you're straining your neck. There's a reason monitors are on stands that hold them up 8+ inches above the desk — it's so it doesn't hurt to stare at them all day.
I suspect the commmenter meant to merge the fin-tech companies ... Although, I'm not sure how that would even work, given international technology competitiveness being intertwined with politics
> If we punish them, they'll stop hiring criminally negligent C-suites.

I sympathize with your frustration, but this statement implies a Minority Report level of knowledge of the future. What happens when executives become negligent after being hired? Are shareholders still to blame? What happens when some activity that wasn't known to be unacceptable becomes known to be unacceptable?
Ask HN: Why do so many VR games move the camera now?
Back when I was doing research in VR about a decade ago, everyone followed the golden rule: do not cause any sudden acceleration!

This was because studies had regularly shown that doing so produced feelings of motion sickness. You could have teleportation or slow acceleration, but not any sudden movements like you would see in console FPS games.

I recently tried a couple of games on the Oculus and was surprised to see how common FPS-style 'walking' is in VR.

It make me pretty sick so I'm wondering: is there new research that refutes the 'golden rule', or did developers just decide to stop following it for some reason?
Oh, so you draw the line at domestic enforcement should require skin in the game and military power can use different rules.

In that case: sure, I can see some advantage to return enforcement happen as a human-to-human interaction.
Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s
The killer feature is going to be triggered when cameras that can capture video that this device can put you into come out. I'll happily pay this price and more to be able to record moments in my life and relive them later.
Do you have any references about this "repeatability"? Is it repeatable for a given person, or across persons?
AI: Nvidia Is Taking All the Money
For some reason I assumed you meant traditional non-realistic avatars - but yes - I concur those are avatars.

However the only reason these are needed is because you're wearing something that obscures your face. With your iPad scenario, you could use the camera view of your actual face.
Money is not created out of thin air. There's electricity to mine, there's funds investing in crypto, there's fiat used to pay ransoms... All this means real world money got spent.
Apple Vision Pro Headset's Leaked BOM
We time-shift money all the time with finance, so the idea of time-shifting votes is interesting. Like, the whole millennial generation invests their whole lifetime of votes in one glorious year to fix the housing market. (Or, more likely, to achieve some stupid mimetic goal.) Mostly it's social-sci-fi, but it's not totally outside the realm of possibility.

If we want to get truly absurd, we could problematize the nonexistence of unborn voters (no, this isn't an abortion thing, though you could take it in that direction), and apply a correction factor for different fertility rates. After all, if you're compensating for death at the population level, why not also compensate for disparities of births?

"One person in some alternate universe, one vote here, that's what I say."
the [real] government created the age of the smart phone.
> In a common enterprise - check (the staking pool)

I'd take issue with this one. Is the "common enterprise" here supposed to be Coinbase, or the Ethereum network itself?

The Ethereum network offers financial incentives for supporting the distributed infrastructure. In order to ensure good behavior, an amount of "stake" is required to keep people honest, such that dishonest people get their stake slashed. Coinbase provides a nice handy UX where Ethereum holders can stake their assets using validator nodes operated and maintained by Coinbase for a small cut of the staking rewards.
Maybe one approach would be to make it illegal for the police to deploy them without a warrant, require the warrants to be public, and to stream the drone's location.

The idea being to allow independent observers to check that the police are following the rules.
Classic car owners modernise with electric conversions
It isn't exempt. The miner will have to pay VAT when they try to sell the gold.
Turns out they have already [1]

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/naturallanguage/nl...
Amen. Love, hate, or don’t care (me), Apple does have an earned reputation for not delivering flops to market. While I have about as much (personal) interest in Vision as I have in anything Apple-stamped past the release of the iPhone 6, it’s certainly not crazy-pilled to think they will deliver a quality product on day one, with the caveat that there will probably be some iteration before we get to Vision 2.0 where the limitations get smoothed out.
I am from LATAM and I would treat the region the same way as you're pointing out - like it has the plague. There is so much regulatory and legal uncertainty, not to mention the sky-high costs at every junction, that it's nearly impossible to build profitable, high-quality companies in the same way it happens elsewhere. I give credit to Nubank for being an exception, but everything else has been such a massive bust.
True the temperature is throwing it, I just ran it four times and it got it right 3 / 4 -- still better than I'd expected from the initial description of it's shortcomings.
Since we are talking about AI, you should use Tensor Core Tops instead of regular flops. That number for 4090 is 330. So more than 10x of M2 Ultra
A security represents ownership in something. This is just gambling. It's more like an unregulated casino than an unlicensed stock exchange.
Interestingly, Instagram web has been going in the opposite direction - it is getting more features previously only available in the apps.

Still buggy as hell, but they are improving it.
PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf
EDIT: Ah, I think I understand where this went wrong. I was answering from my comment thread and did not see your other comments, especially the one where you explained how Julia handles this case. I did not know about that. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to berate you I just was under the wrong impression you said what you said because you were not aware of Rusts discriminant elision. My apologies.

ORIGINAL:

Not sure what you mean, so I'll try again.

An Option<T> in Rust should occupy the size of T plus the size of a discriminant. On a 64-bit machine for example an Option<i32> will take up 8 bytes. Four bytes for the i32 and four bytes (including alignment) for the discriminant. A 100% increase in space is clearly a performance hit.

If, however, T is a non-nullable type, the Rust compiler is smart enough to use this null value as a sentinel and you end up with an Option<T> that only takes up the size of T.

So, for example, both a &i32 and an Option<i32> will take 8 bytes, no difference, zero waste.
Both of these things can be true:

1. You can enjoy and appreciate films with subtitles
2. All other things equal, subtitles take attention away from other visuals details of a film
Meh, if they forked they should have called it "iron oxide" or "FeO" or something. Lost opportunity...
The SEC issues fines. To them it's taking a cut, to Binance etc, it's operating expenses.

These "enforcements" are more like protection money paid to gangsters. The SEC could have created clarity a decade ago.

It's not in their interest to do so, plain and simple. They are incentivised financially, to persist in creating a lack of clarity, and then randomly "enforcing" inconsistently to extract multi-millions off of effectively approved profits.

If / when they refer cases to the DoJ, it's different. But, typically they don't, because typically most of the players they're going after are doing their best to comply with the "uncompliable" landscape they are facing. Or - they're FTX.

And let's just remember that, always. The SEC, effectively, gave FTX a green light. Maybe the most damaging crypto fail in history likely an outright fraud, of massive proportions and where was the SEC? That's what we're dealing with here.
Saying they haven't reversed their decision sounds like they affirmed their previous decision in spite of changing circumstances. Nobody popping up and saying something is more "nothing's stirred publicly on the Chrome front" than "Chrome still hasn't changed their opinion."
Does anyone have an estimate on how much work it is to maintain support for JPEG XL in Chrome? Your comment sort of implies that it's the kind of thing they'd need to really weigh the pros and cons of before pushing their chips forward, but my (unfounded) assumption is that, having implemented it in the first place, the maintenance would be relatively low, essentially a dim star in the constellation of things a browser manufacturer has to maintain support for. So, it just feels odd that, faced with at least some criticism from the community, and in the face of growing support for the format (e.g. from Apple) they would choose to dig their heels in on this issue.
Is there any benefit to JPEG XL (over other formats) other than old JPEGs can be losslessly re-encoded?
The poor UX of moving the user camera in the virtual scene is trivially avoided.

If any of the immersive apps drop framerate, you'll feel it. Its not just a games concern.
> We don't tax people on the FMV of gold when they dig it out of the ground.

The IRS considers found gold to be gross income and taxes are owed on it.
AI will save the world?
There’s a fairly obvious connection:

Braiding is equivalent to circuits, as shown by Microsoft’s idea for a topological quantum computer.

If you start a system braiding, it will build complexity because braiding appears to be non-local — and so the tangle becomes an increasingly complex circuit. The cusp of a black hole is a regime we’d expect such topological effects to accumulate.

AdS/CFT suggests that maybe there’s something deeper to the relationship between braiding in spacetime and quantum systems. Indeed, braiding is one of the few ways we know to generate quantized properties within a continuous geometric setting.
That is putting the cart before the horse. The USA is not a libertarian government. Why did anyone think that it was a good idea to invest in products that would only survive in a libertarian government?
Imagine your business or employer is suddenly blacklisted by payment processors over political/cultural reasons.

The advantages of crypto should become pretty clear at that point.
You have Marine Bank v. Weaver (and FDIC insurance) to thank for that.

> We see, therefore, important differences between a certificate of deposit purchased from a federally regulated bank and other long-term debt obligations. The Court of Appeals failed to give appropriate weight to the important fact that the purchaser of a certificate of deposit is virtually guaranteed payment in full, whereas the holder of an ordinary long-term debt obligation assumes the risk of the borrower's insolvency. The definition of "security" in the 1934 Act provides that an instrument which seems to fall within the broad sweep of the Act is not to be considered a security if the context otherwise requires. It is unnecessary to subject issuers of bank certificates of deposit to liability under the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws, since the holders of bank certificates of deposit are abundantly protected under the federal banking laws. We therefore hold that the certificate of deposit purchased by the Weavers is not a security.
I believe the chiplet links are pretty generous, they handle L3 <-> chiplet traffice and chiplet <-> chiplet traffic. On the smaller configs they use 2 links per chiplet.

Thinks like McCalpin do not seem to show much difference on the different number of chiplet Epycs, although I've not personally tested the newest Genoa chips.
I've seen this a lot lately. I never personally experience this guilt, but understandably a lot of people do when publicly presented with this choice. I'm not sure what the solution is, but the companies producing and providing these point of sale tablets have made it far too easy to request a tip in situations that have no business asking for a tip. I suspect that the option exists to disable it, but then we have a problem of defaults situation and only the most respectable business owner is ever going to consider losing revenue to make their customers feel better.

At any rate. No service, no tip. For me this means I near exclusively tip only at restaurants which I'd still prefer raises their prices and got rid of tipping culture.
Self-hosting an AI (LLM) chatbot without going broke
With how many people utilize LLMs, I wanted to see about running my own. Unfortunately my RX 570 GPU has neither the memory, nor the support for running most of the models out there, nor do I have the money to rent a VPS with a GPU in the cloud.

Thankfully, I managed to find a way to get things running on your regular Windows/Linux consumer hardware, or in my case, also inside of Docker containers, thanks to a few different communities and projects out there. This does let me run the GGML models from Hugging Face locally or on x86 servers.

While none of this will be replacing GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT anytime soon, it's still nice that there are self-hostable options even for something like this out there, even without you needing specialized hardware.
Everywhere. Argentina and Venezuela due to need, Brazil due to the criminal opportunities it offers. It's even a running joke in Brazil that every week they arrest a new crypto-pyramid ring leader and give it the name "Sheik of Bitcoin", "Pharaoh of Bitcoin", etc. the press is running out of royal titles to give out.
Note: Vanilla PHP was not the cause of the scaling issues.

Digg was 3 webservers with 8 database slaves in 2006.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060412174457/http://www.oreill...

Digg even moved some processing from MySQL into PHP in 2009 to increase performance.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/23/digg-4000-performa...
I'd be curious to know if these heart attacks happen equally in those that have to work from home vs those who have to commute to an office.
Again, we're in agreement that software patents have many flaws, but the statement "only obvious things are patented" is plainly false.
Respectfully, I think your understanding is behind the curve. Even the SEC says BTC itself is a commodity.

You consume a BTC by using/trading it. You consume gold or maple syrup by using/trading it. Just because the uses are a little different doesn't mean it's incompatible with the definition of commodity. If I started using gold in a nonsensical way you wouldn't start saying "oh now it's a security", would you?
This problem has become ridiculous, and has led me to completely revamp my tipping strategy.

I'll still tip for the things that traditionally have been subject to tips. Dining where I'm being served, cab rides, hotel housekeeping, etc., but I'll no longer be as generous in my tipping. And I will no longer add a tip at the point of sale no matter what.

Nobody else gets a dime except when some individual actually goes above and beyond for me. If a place insists on demanding inappropriate tips through PoS machines, I'll avoid going there in the future.

This tipping problem actively worsens my day. Enough is enough.
If everyone is supposed to have made money, where did that money come from?
What's this got to do with the price of onions?
Unfortunately, nothing.
I think the point I was making is different. It was that perception and experiences are real, just not necessarily reflective of a shared reality. The state of consciousness is much more than just the processing of external signals.

> if you have a solid source or line of thought that manages to explain one's sense of reality being more than «it's how I feel it for me, so that must be true of others, otherwise it's quite scary», I'm really (really) interested.

The best example I can think of is a dream. Dreams are real experiences despite not being shared with any other human. It would be absurd to say that you can't have dreams because they aren't perceived by or true for other people. The same holds true for thoughts and feelings.

People don't get sent into an existential crisis because they feel happy while someone somewhere is unhappy. Having a feeling is a real experience, despite being personal and subjective.
Apple is adding support to macOS/iOS/Safari
Nothing would stop them because Reddit can do what they want with their site.

That said I think moderators should make it permanent and see what happens. Reddit will have to install their own mods to turn them back on, and might even have to pay them, but then again I'm sure there's a long lineup of people willing to moderate any of the bigger subreddits for free if push came to shove.

I'm starting to look for new places to go as well because this feels very reminiscent of what Digg did and their downfall. Going from Digg to Reddit seemingly happened overnight. That might even be a good idea - if an alternative is found moderators should go redirect the subreddit to a reddit replacement. That'll really tie their hands up.
Weird how none of that mattered when webp was forced on us.
A polyfill (in the form of a wasm blob that implements the decoder) would be an interesting solution at least, since it would make the chrome experience noticeably worse than any competitor that has native support.
Can we please stop putting things on a 1-dimensional “better/worse” scale? Even more, can we stop assuming that there is a high correlation between “processing power” and this reductive grading system?

It’s clear to me that the brain, the brain on psychedelics, computers, etc are all just systems that are attuned to specific things. These tests do not show a system that is purportedly better than a sober mind using technologies to achieve the same effect - they provide some insight into how the mind, in particular the visual system, works.
Social media ‘trust’/’distrust’ buttons could reduce spread of misinformation
You admit that there is plenty of recreational and therapeutical use for them and then that leads you to the conclusion that they’re not spiritual gateways. I find this surprising as those are one in the same to me.

Spiritual experiences have been about recreation, understanding others, the self, personal growth, coming of age, etc…

I feel like your post in general is full of acknowledgment of these drugs capabilities followed by attempts to downplay it with pejoratives like “chemical glitching” or “lower dimension”. It’s quiet confusing that you seem to think positively of the drugs but then dunk on them in the same breath.

I don’t think being able to explain, categorize and describe phenomena needs to make them less significant or impact. The mechanism of action being non mystical doesn’t need to change the significance of the experience.

This reminds me of a quote from Margaret Boden about her work on understanding creativity in a academic context.

> A scientific understanding of creativity does not destroy our wonder at it, nor does it make creative ideas predictable. Demystification does not imply dehumanization.
I think at this point some legislation needs to be made, otherwise every place that turns this "feature" off on their terminal will be at a disadvantage.
> depending on a small team of volunteers to resolve all hardware issues in an ecosystem hostile to OSS, which might break at any point Apple decides to do so

You are describing how most OSS software has been developed. I don't see how this is any different than early linux when no hardware manufacturers had any interest in supporting it.

A lot of the work that the asahi team is doing is just fixing Arm issues in the linux kernel (and sadly user space). That work will benefit everyone using Arm systems, not just folks running asahi on Apple hardware.

Its good for there to be more hardware architecture competition! I'm glad I can run my server workloads on the Arm servers in AWS that are 20% cheaper than the equivalent x86 machines. I'm glad that I can run the software I like (linux) on legitimately nice hardware (m2 air). You can make different decisions on what architectures are best suited for your needs, but the competition in the market improves the options and prices for everyone.

I've been using Asahi since the fall of 2022. When I first started using it a lot of software was broken because of bugs in that software that had never been exposed before (specifically around page sizes larger than 4k). All of that software has now been fixed. Support for linux/arm will only continue to improve as more people use it.
I agree. The role that Nucleus asks you to create does not ask for the AdministratorAccess policy. Instead, it calls out the specific product areas that it accesses. We also have a description of each one and why we need it in our docs. https://docs.nucleuscloud.com/home/concepts/permissions-over...

However, we can definitely be more detailed and call out specific actions that we need in those areas. That still leaves us with IAM though. I think we can still do better here to further limit IAM, but as of right now we can still do a lot if we have full access to the IAM featureset. It's something we're working on improving, but for now, I always suggest folks turn on auditing in their AWS accounts to keep ontop of anything that is happening.
Oh, let me tell you about the real community young one, Usenet. Once upon a time, there was this system where servers collaborated and exchanged posts overnight with this dark magic called UUCP. In the morning you would wake up, and messages, discussions and such would be structured, and organized in a sane, logical manner! That is right! We did it both ways, uphill, in shorts!

We good import certain "branches" into our BBSes, respond, and then at night we dialed up the nearest BBS or system and exchanged our messages. Sooner or later the entire collection was exchanged, and everyone was up to date. Not just that, you could slice off a piece and then splice it back in (FidoNet), and it still worked!

You can have a discussion in comp.compression and lo, people would discuss only compression! You wanted to chat about something off the wall? You can find it under the alt. branch, and lo people talked off the wall stuff!

There is nothing new under the sun.
You could use an iPhone app. Here is an article from 2009 that mentions some https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/qr-code-read...
It means you use ETH to do things on ETH, just like you use gas to run a car or tractor. So what is the security part of that?
Unfortunately I think there's some patent/legal headache involved.
Edge et al are not going to support it unless Blink does. Firefox and Apple will have to lead the way here if Google doesn't.
iOS 17 detects nude photos and videos before they are viewed