skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment confuses me: Sandstorm itself is entirely local, and the vagrant-spk dev tool assembles local Sandstorm dev instances in virtual environments with three commands. I'm not sure what "thing like miniflare" we are missing!

As far as the killer app, Sandstorm has some really awesome Sandstorm-only apps, but probably not enough yet for our "exclusives" to be a draw to the platform on their own. Sandstorm currently has some limitations that make it difficult to use in federated environments, and we are working on it, but yeah, it meant we didn't have a fantastic story for social during all this Elon stuff.
Well the keyboard I use everyday fits my pocket. I'd definitely use this with my keyboard.
The main benefit of using modern GPUs is that they have large high-bandwidth memory. You need to put a lot of work into optimizations to reach >10% of the peak compute capability in practical use. That means an ASIC won't eliminate the performance bottleneck.
Great article on Absinthe, which is a graphql server library for elixir.

Also, if you run elixir in production, you should check out appsignal. It is incredibly helpful for my company (no affiliation with appsignal)!
And those cultural/law requirements are not arbitrary - they've been set at around the brain capability is sufficient for the task. There's both science and a ton of experimentation behind them.
I am surprised when I see people saying its saving them massive amounts of time.

I saved a lot of time when I needed to write a whole bunch of relatively simple validators using a library I hadn't used before. I have no doubt I could have written the code myself, but using AI meant I could write a simple prompt like "Write a validator using library x to validate the following data" and then just cut'n'paste all the different data samples.

It was simple but boring, and a job I would only do once so learning the validation library's API wasn't worthwhile. I reckon I saved myself a day or two.
> passkeys lubricate the path towards an ever-increasing login-based society where it becomes much easier to track and monitor your online behaviour

This trend is already in motion thanks to the deprecation of 3rd party cookies and Apple's restriction of device identifiers, etc, on iOS.

For most advertisers these days, the only way to run retargeting campaigns or measure conversions is with 1st party data. That means people are no longer relying on cookies at all for much of their conversion tracking. Instead, email addresses are used.

This is (I think) an unintended side effect of stripping away cookies.

At least with cookies, you could delete them locally. But now so much tracking is done with first party data, cookies are playing much less of a role. And of course there's not an easy "delete all first party data" button in your browser because the data is (obviously) held outside the browser.
Unfortunately you can't comment on a comment that's older than a few weeks.
Read the article. They got the mechanism of “learned helplessness” wrong. It’s actually a “learned lack of control”.

This makes every difference in how to treat people who have this problem. All you have to do is teach people how to feel they have control again.
Reddit is closing on its IPO and is seemingly desperate to generate "growth" by bumping every possible metrics possible virtually.
Aside from this move that is an obvious way to steer user toward the official app and have tighter control, the r/de and r/France community have find some really concerning behavior by Reddit [1].

Moderator from those community have been contacted by reddit admin to tell them that they created localized version of popular subreddit ( r/offmychest, r/tooafraidtoask, ... ) and asked them if they basically could signal boost them. In itself nothing is wrong here. The issue is that people have found that a lot of activity in those subreddit are seemingly just poorly google translated popular post from the original english sub or just plainly generic classique karma bait post (but also clearly google translated).

Karma bots are nothing new but in this case, those subs are brand new, have very few member and very few karma to gain and are basically of interest only to reddit (since the communities already usually had their own better moderated subs). So there is a lot of finger pointing at reddit themselves using bots to try to force engagement in non-english community and virtually (since it is mostly bots) bump their stats before their IPO, which is very dodgy.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/14199iu/reddit_saut...
Oh Snap Desktop Ubuntu Core to Arrive in 2024
MySQL backed, in turn, by a log structured storage engine (RocksDB). But the they reason they do that is storage space efficiency rather than availability or performance.
Good point / ideas about SQL date objects... but you wrote about date in response to a comment about datatypes. Is your point that datatypes more generally may be less useful than parent implied?
So, sounds like Apple nailed it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFvXuyITwBI
The hidden cost of a lifetime of STDs may be what this math is missing.
What about the poor people who jumped out of windows or in front of traffic while on psychedelics? Oh yeah, that doesn't happen, because the govt has had a decades long monopoly on fear mongering BS when it comes to psychedelics.
This so much. I remember visiting digg after v4 launch and it felt like a totally different site. At the time I remember looking for site that filled void and offered similar content but wasn’t so focused e.g. slashdot and I came upon reddit
hmmm.. still uses apex seals, would need seriously small tolerances to make it work effectively. Call me skeptical but I don't see how this is really any better than the traditional wankel/rotary design
> Much less for 3500 (+ TAX!!!!) dollars.

You overestimate the purchasing power of 3500 these days.
It's a thought provoking angle you have here for sure. However, am I right that the implication of this direction of thinking is that we should stay with our current ways of doing authentication simply because them being too hard to use puts up a natural barrier? That some of the ways in which they are broken are intrinsically good?
This is really good advice. Writing a language you'd actually like to use is difficult. It's been a richer source of interesting subproblems than any other I've found. If it's for education or entertainment, all good. If it's something you're going to quit a day job to pursue in the hope it'll make you wealthy later, quite high risk.

Language classifications normally antagonise people and tagging Lisp as essentially COBOL is well chosen for that. You're missing the prolog family and proof languages (coq/isabelle/lean etc). Also smalltalk (from which one might draw self and javascript).

Knowing exactly what one has rejected about existing languages is useful as a guide.
I use plain FreeBSD daily since almost two decades.

After trying all available FreeBSD based Desktop Distros my conclusion is that GhostBSD is the best of them. Most complete and works out of the box.

I also liked NomadBSD and helloSystem. MidnightBSD also seems to work.
Related HN Thread "If You Double-Park and You’re Rich, Should You Pay a Higher Fine?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813265
> Loom does not completely do away with function colors in Java, unfortunately, and yellow functions still remain. For instance, any synchronized method or block is yellow and cannot be called from virtual threads

AFAIK, they only pin the thread. They are absolutely callable, you just don’t get all the advantages.
I liked the tutorial, it showed how to get started with some interesting choice of technologies.

What I would have liked to see more:

- Why not Docker? Why Podman instead of other container tools?

- Why Elixir instead of other languages? https://elixirschool.com/en/why

- Why not Phoenix?

- How to clean up after the tutorial: shut down Podman, etc.
>Anyone who flies a lot will be able to use it as advertised now for entertainment and work.

It will have the added advantage of being private, so nobody can shoulder surf what you're doing.

But ergonomically, writing emails, presentations and filtering spreadsheets - I'd need to use it to
see how fun that might be.

I guess you can see through the screen, so you know if somebody needs your attention ?
There's open source to export fully trained AI models for efficient execution on arbitrary CPUs. Most likely, you won't be able to build up any moat in AI inference.
I was really hoping there would be an analysis of why the v4 was needed from a revenue point of view. The v4 essentially winked the company because no one likes the UX/UI. Digg insisted on it. Interestingly years later, Reddit followed the same route. They moved to the exact same UI that I hated with digg. Luckily they kept the older UI which is what kept me with the site. I am yet to get an answer about why the redesign was necessary and what it would give them they couldn’t get with the old design
The amount of memory available is the obsolescence.
See also: LWN's coverage from last year: https://lwn.net/Articles/882799/
If it is easier to do something, more websites will do it. Passkeys make it easier to make new logins, so more websites will do it. Just like seatbelts make people drive more dangerously.

If more websites require logins, they can track you more easily, simple as that. It has nothing to do with the engineering aspects of passkeys, and everything to do with the fact that technology which makes logins easier will encourage more login-based services.

You need to step away from the engineering details and look at things sociologically.
It’s mostly how sites will likely still allow full account recovery with just sms-based authentication, making account recovery the weakest link. It’s still required, though, in case someone e.g. signs up with a passkey on their Windows desktop then forgot to enroll one on their phone before taking a vacation.
I wish the reasoning here was a bit more established, as it sounds like there is a particular interpretation of the law as it exists in Japan which could have been eye-opening with more context.

From my own reading, it looks like Japan already had specific provisions which allowed "data mining" to occur without copyright violation, and that this interpretation just extends machine-learning to be a data-mining activity.

If so, that's an interesting moral argument as I wholly believe that "data mining" (and for that matter, scraping) should be an allowable activity to avoid copyright becoming an overly cumbersome or destructive tool, but at the same time, dislike AI being used to imitate a particular artist's works.
Largest 3rd party apps need to cooperate and build their own backend. They have a perfect frontend, and the users. It could be a seamless transition.
You are ignoring the other side of the equation: more sites with logins.
I want to use an actual playstation controller or something, those things actually work and you don't have to wave your arms around.
By the same token, if the server can be tricked into storing the wrong password, authentication is defeated. However, with passkeys, even downloading the entire database doesn't give the attacker any useful credential information. This is in contrast to today, where a database download gives you salted & encrypted passwords that are (generally) knowable (given enough time). I'll take passkeys over passwords any day.
I hope you’re right, and that this is reddit’s Digg moment. Looking forward to whatever the next big thing is.
You probably missed the announcement a day ago where they mention how things might change with the API update.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RESAnnouncements/comments/141hyv3/a...
My theory (and many others') is that the high price tag is a feature and on purpose.

Enough companies have tried the cheapo approach and failed. Even mid-price ones are still niche devices.

Apple went full-on to Varjo[0]-levels of tech inside the headset. Now developers have 6-9 months to bring their A game.

Then Apple can see what kind of applications and use-cases stick and start figuring out what parts of the Vision Pro they can downgrade or leave out to make a Vision Regular, which will come out in 2-4 years along with Vision Pro 2.

[0] https://varjo.com
Interesting article. It pretty much shows that Copilot is just a dumb text-completion engine. Copilot really is just regurgitating texts that are in someone's repository (or, possibly, a combination of repositories). ChatGPT, for all its faults, produces somewhat more "intelligent" results.

As far as Copilot is concerned: Can you spell "copyright violation"? The T&C on GitHub do state that you grant them the right to "parse [your content] into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers". It's not at all clear that this grants them the right to reproduce parts of your content (without credit) using Copilot.

What about private repositories? "GitHub considers the contents of private repositories to be confidential to you." It would be interesting to see if one can get Copilot to produce code that is in a private repo.
My guess is that it’s for older industrial equipment. There was another laptop on Aliexpress that made the rounds the other day:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/brand-new-laptop-rec...
With 3rd party cookies going away, companies now need your email address to effectively track you.

Tracking you via your email address is actually better than using cookies (for the advertiser) because it works cross-device and cross-browser.

Any mechanism that makes it easier to login to sites will promote the usage of email addresses for tracking purposes. Think retargeting and conversion tracking (no longer needing to be cookie-based).

Passkeys = quicker and faster to get a user's email address.

Email address = even better than "super cookies"
I wonder why they don't just buy one of the highest rated apps (boost/sync/apollo), and go with it?
> I wish Apple success here, because the VR industry needs someone to come in and kickstart it back to something interesting and worthy of attention.

XR has the potential to be the next general computing platform after the PC and the Smartphone.

This might be controversial, but I believe what the VR industry would need most is for the giants to agree that collaboration for a wide open ecosystem yields the best result for everyone.

Unfortunately we may have another company here which is not interested in such a direction at all.
What we get instead is the biggest giant of them all forcing through it alone with yet-another closed ecosystem in expectation of taking full domination of the market and all its innovation.
But this time it's the player with the highest chances of success.
Whether it's obvious or not seems to depend on a lot of factors. For instance I've seen a lot of Wittgenstein so that made me think it's made up. Someone else might think it's real.

Anyway I think you did a great job with Midjourney. Even the coarse clothes correspond to clothes Wittgenstein wore. Would you like to share your prompt?
Do you see how prevalent people glue to their phone in public, or how earphones are everywhere. They were once frown upon. Now it’s social norm except for in person gatherings. Same will happen here.

A dentist friend of mine is so excited with the ability of using it for his work. He doesn’t want to look up to the X-ray screen, or has his assistant read out loud for him the number associated with the patient’s scanning result.
That "Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no" as the answer" is so tilting... by the way, did you know that in e.g. Russian there are no separate words for "can" and "may", so the taunts of the "Can I please go to the bathroom? — I don't know, can you?" kind are even more infuriating than in English?
Homepod for the eyes.
There was a reddit toolbar browser extension at one point that did this. If you clicked a link in reddit, you'd get a bar with title, score, comment count, and voting buttons. It was integral to my reddit experience until it stopped working and afaik never worked again.
The first iPhone was the first phone with a proper touch screen.

The Vision is about the 50th VR device, in a market that's already quite busy with the Vives, Indexes and Quests. It brings nothing new, and is just one more high resolution VR device (which existed before for cheaper).
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It makes sense to me, but for LLM spam bots, not training. I’m assuming it’ll only increase as time passes.
That is/was tech culture, but also the cost of catering an event like this is not that high. Maybe a couple thousand dollars to boost morale? It probably cost the same as a couple of MacBooks or office chairs and those are consolidated costs to individual employees. The catering is divided by everyone.
I don’t think this makes sense.

Sites already desperately try to get people to log in. I don’t particularly see it as an advantage for Apple if eg the Reddit website or some random online shop makes you log in. If Apple are interested in selling ads, I think they should not want to make it easy to track people on websites through logins as that helps their competitors.

I generally model Apple as preferring that you use (and pay for/in) some app rather than a website, and logins are less necessary for apps where you can store information about your session and don’t need to regularly prompt the user for passwords. I think Apple would rather you don’t have some separate account you can log into on a website to eg pay for a service without in-app-purchases.

I mostly think of passkeys as a better version of the password manager: allowing users to do what they already want in a more secure way. If there is some subtle business advantage it is maybe that users would make new accounts rather than using sign-in with Google/Facebook, though I don’t know to what extent those features are valuable to Google/Facebook.
"... you'll need to complete ... such as doors, windows, electrical, plumbing and finishes."

Lol
We didn't. Try to get ChatGPT through a maze a C. Elegans can solve in minutes. (That slow mostly because pond scum moves slowly.)

Seriously, get it to successfully play through a text adventure maze game.
Apple has always maximised profits on selling hardware and getting a cut from software.

They've never gotten any profits from selling targeted user data. Mobile gaming marketing units are _still_ butt-hurt about Apple's randomised user/device IDs that prevent them from tracking where users came from and downloaded their game.

FB and Android tracking still works perfectly, but those users are less valuable because they don't spend money.
Nothing like programming with a 1 kW power plant on your crotch.
crazy that people bash VR viability until apple releases a 2.5k machine they haven't even tried yet
Yeah, the technical issues weren't that crazy from the user perspective. The change of features were though.
It was a totally different site, people left because the core functionality of the site disappeared over night.

Edit - makes me wonder if they used the site themselves.
This makes perfect sense to me. I used to suffer severely from “learned helplessness”. I’d spent my entire life dealing with undiagnosed bipolar.

Once I learned my mental issues had a name and could be coped with, it shook me out of that “helplessness”.

Knowing what you have power over lets you focus on the things you can control.
I bet it took them much more time to make it. Don’t think metaverse had anything to do with it.
Is there a table somewhere that lists which new features will be available on which iPhones?
There is a line in Wittgenstein’s Vienna (by Janik and Toulmin) that links W’s love of westerns up with his philosophical work (esp the Tractatus), roughly “W liked westerns because they showed ethical principles vs trying to demonstrate them with philosophical arguments.” I’m not an expert but I think the book is a great intellectual biography not just of W but of the time and place in general.
Why not have it teach itself if it’s so smart!
Nah, it'll mess up their hair.
Plenty of techies love idealized versions of open protocols, even horrible ones like FTP.

Similar story for ubiquitous tools. Shell is a horrible tool with a few lucky features (pipes, focus on text) that's everywhere so it wins by default. And techies turn a blind eye to its million defects.
I don't know. Sevastopol is super important to them. I hope they won't do anything drastic.

It's the only warm water port Russia has on the black sea. And thus full year access to the mediterranean. I doubt they will give it up. Perhaps the rest of Crimea, I could imagine. But not the base.
But Apple offer this service where they make a fresh proxy email for you which is unique to the service. Why would they do that if they want to enable cross-service tracking via email address?
One could say this about all chemistry.
Why would SO allow AI content Sseems completely insane. They actually are in a real competition with LLMs and their one advantage is that an expert on some niche topic easily outperforms AI and isn't blatently claiming false things as true.

If the site is flooded with AI the content on it is worthless. Just ask ChatGPT...
MacBook Air m2 just got 100 cheaper yesterday
LLM trainers can just scrape the content. It would only slow them down. I wonder if reddit imagines they would pay for the data.
Homo Naledi were burying their dead at least 100k years before humans
We are already seeing chips for inference, really. It's how these models are getting into the consumer market. A lot of the big phones have an inference chip (tensor, neural core, etc), TV are getting them, most GPUs have some stuff dedicated for inference (DSS and superres).
Last time I heard regular people use "Mirc" was 15 years ago.
might need regulation to prevent insurance companies from collecting this info and using it to kick people off insurance or raise their rates until they can't afford it. Perhaps further, we get rid of the need for a private middle man in the first place. 2c
Exactly. Middle men are not needed. Passkeys can and should be handled by an open specification. In this way, passkeys will be decentralized and can be supported by anyone and everywhere.

Users should decide by themselves where they want to store the authenticator: be it a separate device or a password manager running on their computer. Authenticator is just an algorithm that uses key material from elsewhere (biometrics, master password, whatever user prefers) to perform the authentication.

Tying the whole thing to a couple of corps is cringy and creepy at the same time. There must be an open standard where everyone can participate.
The first iphone was the first time most people could actually use the internet on something they could carry around, even if it was just with wifi. It did everything phones did but much better since it was all touch. Interfaces to alarms, the calculator, the camera etc was entirely different. Anyone who used it knew that everyone else would either copy it or go out of business.
Improving Tails for human rights defenders in Latin America
Postgres in leader/follower config = centralised
Cassandra = distributed
Bitcoin = decentralised

The crux comes down to the consensus model for state
The Ukrainian president said earlier the Russian army mined the dam, to prevent the bridge being used by Ukrainian military. Perhaps it detonated, either by accident, as a reaction to an actual Ukranian attack over the bridge, or simply because of a very nervous Russian soldier.

On the plus side, this should mean the damage should not be too bad, as Ukraine had time to prepare.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/21/zelenskiy-accu...