skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just last week owning and borrowing parameters got accepted as well. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

It’s been the focus for a while especially after the concurrency work. It’s probably the final major feature before Swift 6
Can you imagine recovering alien technology, and the best we have to show for it is an iphone, with East Asia starting to lap us in things like semiconductor manufacturing?

You'd sure thing ALIUM technology would be useful for Intel to leapfrog Asia's foundaries.

Weird, where is that stuff?
I was thinking the same. The Apple I know, starting with the orientation, puts incredible amount of effort into telling its employees that people will be coming to you for consulting gigs, hoping to steal their intellectual property.

Sounds like he cleared the post with Apple, though.
I think donations are where the NASCAR analogy falls apart. Twitch keeps a percentage of donations made on the platform, which starts to look a lot like Twitch selling a platform (and access to users) where the pricing is a percentage of revenue.

I don't think Twitch paying the streamers really nullifies that, otherwise companies could escape an Exclusive Dealing conviction by just adding an "oh, and we pay you $3" clause to their contracts.

Twitch makes more sense as a company if they're a seller. There's a clear story there where streamers buy access in exchange for a percentage of their revenue on the platform. If they're a buyer, what are they buying from streamers?

Just to add on top, I think streamers only get money from ads if they're at some tier with Twitch (partner, I think?). There's a whole bunch of streamers that aren't getting paid anything directly by Twitch, and are only getting donations after Twitch has taken their cut.
My understanding is that precooked crustacean meat is a byproduct of shipping loss (sh*t this crab looks like it's not going to make it, let's cook it before it dies). So yeah, not the freshest.
Apple is wise to leave controllers up to the accessory market to develop and evolve. Let those companies create the ecosystem for this singular device that might have limited opportunity to create accessories outside of head straps and battery packs.
>>The biggest risk with AI, in the medium-term at least, is it will be used by governments and organizations with power to surveil and manipulate people on a previously-impossible scale. Automated systems monitoring everybody, pulling levers to prevent anybody from speaking out or causing trouble. In the long run, it will be the end of human freedom..

THIS is exactly what I see happening. I personally think the "pause" on development is bullshit NationState jockeying for dominance by trying to gAIn AI Dominance - Israel, MI5, NSA, CCP <--- Every Intel Agency on the planet is building/buying/stealing/weaponizing whatever they can.

I wonder what/where Palintir is in this fight?

It feels REALLY Anime with the Sabre Rattling btwn the US and China over Taiwan and TSMC's chip fabs for AI cores.

The hardware is still relatively infancy - but in 5 years it will be really interesting when we see the perfomance for 1hr or 1D problems cut down to minutes seconds for massive AI apps 5 years from now
In a dynamic language, everything is only defined at runtime.

Given that, a sketch of a statically-typed system would be something like... At the time a definition is added to the environment, you type check against known definitions. Future code can change implementations, as long as types remain compatible. (Probably invariantly, unless you want to include covariant/invariant annotations in your type system...)

This doesn't change that much about a correct program in a dynamic language, except that it may provide some additional ordering requirements in code execution - all the various method definitions must be loaded before code using them is loaded. That's a bit more strict than the current requirement they the methods must be loaded before code using them is run. But the difference would be pretty tractable to code around.

And in exchange, you'd get immediate feedback on typos. Or even more complex cases, like failing to generate some method you had expected to create dynamically.

Ok, I can actually see some appeal here, though it's got nothing to do with monkey-patching.
Imagine if some construction company created a whole neighborhood that from the right vantage point would be a valid QR code.
I do all of my development work on my x86-Mac in a VMWare VM. Works very well. I am using Fedora.
You assume most founders don't have similar goals - make money by chasing trends.
Does that mean the accurate term would be "manga"?

I've never been sure if the only difference between the two is still frames vs motion, or something else.
We now know that exoplanets and the conditions for life abound in the universe. Where the conditions for life abound, the null hypothesis ought to be that life abounds. In discussions of alien life and intelligence, we are often biased by earlier states of knowledge about the universe and our position in it. When we first started digging up dinosaur bones, we came up with fantastical notions of creatures to explain these artifacts that were mysterious to us. Notions that fit into our existing worldview, drawn from folk knowledge and cultural history. Once archeologists started studying the bones carefully, they gave us stories more fantastical than we could have ever imagined in the framework of our folk knowledge. I suspect the same will turn out to be true of UAPs.

For example, UAP stories are often ridiculed on the premise that intelligent alien life would not bother to come all this way just to hide out in the ocean. That's our folk knowledge of aliens: they like to travel, are eager to make contact with other life forms and are capable of doing so. But the elusive behaviour of UAPs is exactly what we would expect from an "unmanned" scientific probe. The home planet would be dozens or hundreds of light years away, so the craft would need to be completely autonomous in the absence of any communication system. Where does an autonomous probe go to look for signs of life? Oceans.
Wait, that David Grusch guy never saw those stuffa despite that he led the analysis? This is weird. How can you do analysis without seeing the real thing?
My point is that our relative distance in time and technology is basically zero, yet we're already seeing massive gaps in capability.

Yes, Aristotle would likely be able to pick up on the new monke uptake given that he was a unparallelled mind. That was a pretty weak analogy given it didn't impart the information that I intended.
How about cell phone video?[0]

[0]https://www.dvidshub.net/video/843620/navy-2021-flyby-video
Maybe it's emptier than it should be because that's how the universe is always made to appear to emergent civilisations at the dangerous and volatile point of evolution we presently find ourselves at?
Thanks! btw I don't know if you recall this, but very early on in Seam, you took the time to give us some advice. That was really kind and thoughtful. Thank You!
Apple Vision Pro VR (Live Reactions and Recap)
> Why do we - humans - feel it is so damn well appropriate to outsource our responsibilities and accountabilities as humans and integral members off an ecology to technology and, in doing so, forego a necessary immersion into and deep reverence for the world, substituting instead a tech-derived and mediated superficiality, detaching ourselves from our biology mostly for the sake of self-gratification and self-grandeur?

I mean, the simple and inelegant answer is evolution. Maximize mating opportunity and minimize energy expenditure. Grandeur means mating opportunity. Passing off responsibility means minimizing energy expenditure.

Humans aren't transcendent beings. We're just good at math.

> The bigger question is, what values do we - the collective we - attribute to a world and a life to be saved and will our AI adhere to such values?

Ask different groups of people and you'll get different answers. I don't know that there are "human" values.
I assume that interstellar travel is really difficult for any civilization. That assumption is based on my knowledge of physics (relativity in particular).
FreeBSD layers narrow and wide character typing on top of a single common mechanism based upon 32-bit signed "runes". Basically, the 256 narrow characters are treated as the first 256 characters in the Unicode BMP, and an accident of implementation allows one to pass in other Unicode code points to the narrow character functions, given that the int and wint_t types are designed to be trivially convertible to a "rune".
> Hopefully this will support more architectures in the future, that's pretty impressive

What architectures would it support? I assume it handles aarch64. It may already handle x86-64. macOS and iOS don't run on any others. I doubt Apple would be interested in making it support other OSs that run on more architectures.

(It's probably a faux pax of me to say this, but I wonder if the parent comment was written by a LLM...)
I think it will be more like iOS for three reasons:

1. Apple don't want to be associated with smutty content, which it will inevitably be used for with sideloading (people will find an App Store approved way anyway)

2. The headset is far more intimate than a phone; better controls are needed to protect privacy and security

3. Although the device has an M2, it is not just a head mounted Mac, and visionOS is supposedly a realtime operating system
Good thing my browser settings are to show scrollbars all the time!
Colonists with muskets and cannons didn't care which tribe had the best bows and spears
Where are these mystical things that function because of crypto that wouldn't function with regular money, and which also are not fraud?
You think extraterrestrial life is impressed with ad tech?
If anything, they'd land in Veldhoven.
Ask HN: Did IBM Cloud Leave the Bandwidth Alliance
This page advertising IBM's membership in the Bandwidth Alliance is no longer up: https://web.archive.org/web/20230321113948/https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ibm-cloud/ .

Does anyone know what the status of IBM's inclusion into the Bandwidth Alliance?
But who is the messaging intended for? Foreign military intelligence agencies can draw the same conclusions, that this is some kind of misdirection, and that it's more likely a cover for US or Chinese weapons tech, they're not dumb.
Anything that doesn't have an explanation is labeled a fake unless it's from an official source like the military.
Yeah, if their eye tracking plus foveated rendering works as advertised, it could be a huge step forward. I'm really curious how responsive the gesture controls will be too, it was really cool seeing the finger pinches(?) being used as an input method. I wonder if it's specifically designed just for that thing or if it's all built out to track any arbitrary hand gesture accurately. And I wonder what the language/api for describing hand gestures would even look like.
Wow, excellent. I'm trying to justify replacing a 2015 desktop with either a mac studio or a ryzen/zen4 desktop. I'm not a gamer, but do occasionally fire up steam to play something old like Xcom 2 or Majesty.

Knowing that at least some x86-64 steam games could work is promising, thanks.

For me it all comes down to the extra memory bandwidth.

A recent metal port of llama is pretty tempting and being able to run GPU accelerated LLMs with greater than 16GB (mid range GPUs) or 24GB (highend/RTX 4090) on the mac studio is interesting. $3,600 (for 96GB ram) interesting, not so sure.
Why is it useful in a world where no quantum computer physically exists?
Yes, smaller subs do not have this issue.
Good point. I wonder why they'd make such a rookie mistake.

Apart from deeply hating PCs, which is understandable.
Apparently they got a bit carried away after a fundraising round https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/9/22274077/reddit-funding-ro...

Astonishing really considering Reddit hasn't changed that much since back when they had like 100 employees.
Laws are written and passed by legislators, not the SEC.
Sounds like an internet connection would suffice.
One thing that's notable about devices that "only run free software" is that they actually don't, since people use web browsers on them, and the websites are not free software.

You'd also have to never talk to another person with them, since other people are capable of manipulating your emotional state and can't be audited.
Did they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station#...
Much of Gen Z has been done with Uni for years at this point.
You are literally wrong on both cases: A normal key can be quite easily copied and a yubikey or similar security key cannot be copied.
Oh well... It's not like they tried hard.
Thank you for the feedback!

1. Yes! Underhanded entries are welcome. The obfuscation doesn't only apply to the code, but also the purpose of that code.

2. No tricks are in poor taste! The only limit is that we asked for submissions that don't re-use the common types listed by the IOCCC: https://www.ioccc.org/faq.html

3. No max length limits, and yes if you are able to create a very short program that will help. If you submit a longer program it would help the judges to provide a de-obfuscated version as well.

4. Yes, as long as it doesn't require any human intervention to produce output. There can be an alternate mode that allows human intervention, but the main goal is just to reduce confusion from potentially incorrect inputs.

5. Good point, will fix.
First half is live reactions to the announcement by a couple folks with many years in the AR app development space, second half is a recap of where apple's product stands after watching the full announcement.
Training data is the main thing. We have lots and lots of text and text has the special property that a sequence of text contains a lot of information about what is going to come next and is easy for a user to create. This is a rather particular circumstance, the combination of so much freely available data and their being a lot of utility in a purely auto-regressive model. It is difficult to think about what other modalities are in a similar position.
Interestingly 'meta' given that Andy talks about the disappearance of interactivity cues that happened about a decade back...
We been studying biology for many years and can't figure it out. Cells are basically alien technology to us.
Commercial pilots don't get scrambled to get eyes on radar anomalies in the middle of nowhere. They get paid to go from point A to point B using a pre-determined amount of fuel.
Like most technologies it depends on how you're using it. When I first starting working in GraphQL, paired with a React frontend I used it in an a similar way to REST, pull the data and then do all the logic of what to display on the frontend.

For me I saw the most benefit when I used the schema to define what to display in the frontend, all the logic of what to display is done on the server and my frontend just becomes simple components that render the pulled schema.
> "What explains this divergence in potential outcomes from near utopia to horrifying dystopia?"

> "Historically, every new technology that matters, from electric lighting to automobiles to radio to the Internet, has sparked a moral panic"

LMAO. Yeah, totally the same thing.
Woodworking. I picked it up during the pandemic and now it's an outlet when I don't want to code any more.

The current project is a beer stein made out of white oak reclaimed from an old whiskey barrel. I'm trying to retain the burnt interior, but make it less fragile and not able to flake off. I'm trying to find a way to evenly coat the walls with resin to smooth things out (it won't be used often, so I don't particularly care about it being food safe or containing BPA). I probably need to keep it spinning while the resin spreads and cures a bit, then pour the rest out.

It's nice to have a different set of rules where I need to plan my order of operations out more carefully. e.g. I can't glue the handle on before I do the resin because it'll make it much harder to spin.
Which low level optimizations specifically are you referring to?

I'm happy with most of the abstractions. We are pushing to assembly codegen. And if you meant things like matrix accelerators, that's my next priority.

We are taking more a of breadth first approach. I think ggml is more depth first and application focused. (and I think Mojo is even more breadth first)
I assume you meant "fake != 1"?
The replication subreddit has had some really impressive content also.
Client-side countdown timers via URL query string
Not quite sure understanding SQL your cloud (using their AWS account?) but from what I guess by the consideration of D1: I'd wager you want something like Neon but self-hosted. I am building a similar product where I give each customer a full-blown Postgres (without individual extensions) and that is the solution I landed on with the most flexibility and security after testing out SQLite vm per user (via Fly.io), SQLite on the edge (Worker + S3, before D1 existed) and Postgres cluster per user (via Stackgres)

The nice part is the decoupling. User not using their DB for 5 minutes? Time to idle them and use that compute for another customer.

And it's also really nice that storage becomes way way way easier. Storage is the biggest hurdle when your database count scales with your user count so you can instead build out the compute system once, fix a few issues along the way and from then on just babysit a single big storage cluster.

And if that becomes too big at some point, replicate it, shard the tenants by region or whatever and you "only" have to manage storage a dozen times or something. It's obviously always annoying, but at least the setup is similar enough that you can park on FTE per Storage cluster and serve enough customers to make it worth it
Does this mean Tonic has the ability to access Domains? Or that's not how it works.
They have their own template engine, but it can be swapped for Jinja2 optionally.
As I was watching and reloaded the page, apple seems to have taken down their tutorials related to this, for now. Still, really exciting to see official support for getting games ported from windows!!
Nobody wants to do anything with anyone's data. The idea that your data is valuable is largely an excuse to feel self important.

Facebook, for instance, makes money by showing you ads, not with "your data".
Footguns are still footguns.
It's "the" use case because of the scale. There are all kinds of niche use cases that constitute $0 billion of turnover, and thus don't contest that fraud is the use case.
More funding from Congress.
AI is talked about as a singular something but arguably it is just the current stage in the long running process of software processing more data with ever more elaborate algorithms.

As such AI inherits all the "world-saving capabilities" of software which, empirically, are not exactly overwhelmingly proven.

Ergo, AI will not save the world any more than software as a whole saved the world in the past half century. That historical track record is the best guide we have as to what role AI will play. Ceteris paribus the future will not be different from the past because of AI. AI is a different CSS applied to the same HTML.

The only thing that can save the world is human wisdom, which is a software of sorts, but alas after several millenia of recorded history not yet fully understood.

Can "AI 3.0" help with enhance human wisdom? Of course it can. But so could have AI 1.0, 2.0 etc. and it didn't happen.
It's not personal. The war for having nice things on the internet is lost. Spam and other bullshit are so omnipresent as to need automated removal. And automated removal will always have false positives and negatives. It's bots fighting bots, and every so often a real person gets to post something, as a treat.
Is ad personam a meaningful way of making HN responses, if we're at it now?
Damn. So now they'll declare corpse burial to be an act of cultural appropriation.

Tomorrow's funeral: set out by the dumpster on an old couch.
It's bound to happen soon enough. I noticed under the dev portal (as of yesterday) the only Mac OS beta for Sonoma was for the M series processors .
We may have to wait for hw jxl encoders for that. Which is likely to happen, but it will definitely take time.

Meanwhile there will be software options for authoring, e.g. Adobe Camera Raw.

For the web, the trade-offs between encode speed, compression , and fidelity consistency are quite clearly in jxl's favor. Avif still has the advantage in terms of support of course, but deploying jxl just for Safari already makes sense for many use cases. When Chrome follows, it will become a no-brainer.
Andreesen went on so many podcasts talking up their crypto bets. It was such a clear failure mode of a massively high horsepower brain drawing elaborate mental constructs to justify an obviously stupid conclusion. His writing is a treasure trove of the kind of poor reasoning that only really smart people are capable of.
Also, one question I forgot to ask about the widescreen support. What browser are you using?
> I saw an interview with this guy just yesterday. He didn't see anything himself. His claim is that some people, and he believes them to be trustworthy, confided in him and showed him some documents. So, at best his testimony is hearsay.

This is the same MO as Stephen Greer's grift about the same thing. Greer claims that he was given access to classified documents and information that say the government is hiding their knowledge of, and interactions with, aliens and UFOs.
From the forward:

> This is an excellent report which argues that the
cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans
should be included in the UK animal welfare law in
an explicit way, based on a detailed and important
scientific and philosophical framework and
evaluation, coupled with extremely helpful
suggestions for improving best practice and
welfare, and for regulating existing practices that
currently raise widespread concerns about the
welfare of these animals.
I suspect because it's easier to implement defaults as values than as expressions.

The scoping of list comprehensions in Python 2 was far less justifiable, IMO.
Knowing that life may be common is a lot different than knowing that intelligence is.
> GR itself breaks down per the need for a quantum mechanical description

This is the current predominant belief among physicists, yes, but that doesn't mean it's established fact.

> the truth is we don't know what happens within a black hole, and probably never will

This is way too pessimistic. The predictions of GR for this regime are precise and unequivocal. Even if you believe GR breaks down when spacetime curvatures reach the Planck scale (which is the current predominant belief, as I said above), that still leaves most of the black hole's interior within GR's domain of validity.
The truth is out there. Somewhere in the middle.
Optimized Battery charging has been available since Mac OS 11. Works on intel MacBooks too.

https://www.macworld.com/article/235001/macos-big-surs-batte...
When we were evaluating employee entrance systems for a FAANG back in ~2012 we were demo'd systems that could do retinal scanning on streams of people as they walked through the turn styles and they could read your eyes even through polarized sun glasses.

I cant recall its name though - but yeah - OpenAI basically brought capabilities for extreme real-time surveillance to an 11.
You can give an infant an ipad and they will figure out how to use it pretty quickly. They will have an understanding of its purpose. You merely extrapolate from our advances of 5000 years that there must be technology that is inconceivably advanced.

Though he did not believe in it, Aristotle was aware of the concept of atoms (that he had no hope of observing). I am sure he would have gotten the gist of quantum physics too.