skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Uber and Airbnb should not have been allowed to get away with it either. That doesn't mean we should allow new companies to run the same "break the law and try to grow as fast as possible so by the time the government catches up, you're already entrenched" playbook for the sake of foolish consistency; just the opposite: it increases the urgency with which companies trying to do that should be rapidly brought to heel. Which is exactly what is happening.
Some topics just automatically make people turn their brains off and speak purely out of emotion – crypto, Apple, Elon, immigration, "woke culture" etc. You are never getting meaningful discussions on them here or anywhere else.
Human nature is a funny thing, and the kind of intelligence that attracts someone to the quality of discussion on HN doesn't appear to exclude them from some of the baser, competitively animalistic instincts still present down there in the basement of human DNA.

Personally, I think I can reason through a great number of things. But I still get depressed, angry, jealous, happy, enthused, etc. in ways that reason has to catch up to, before the instinctive emotion makes itself public - and sometimes reason does not or cannot catch up.

(Generally the positive ones I leave to run wild, but sometimes they need to be suppressed too).

Almost on the actual topic, I think cryptocurrency has proven it's use case in the global transfer of value without a centralised third party. And that, in itself, is pretty amazing. All the rest is the application of this technology having to work itself out.

The whole argument about criminal activity or porn or whatever is just proof of the use-case. The internet itself was accused of just being a conduit for porn not really that long ago.

Because it's related to "value (transfer)" means it should have been considered inevitable that it would attract, well, the kinds of people it has obviously and very publicly attracted. And that nicely ties off the loop of human nature...
Yes! A lot of things could be strung together though a shell and was "good enough". No need to fire up the compiler if all one needed was a shell script with the common set of utilities. (grep/cut/head/tail/paste/wc etc.)
>First order of business for anyone watching their blood pressure creeping up over the years: cut sugar in all forms.

No, first order of business is consulting your doctor and/or a nutritionist and otherwise adhering to common sense of having a reasonably balanced nutritional diet.

If your first order of business is taking random advice from the intertubez, you have bigger problems than high blood pressure.
Yes, that seems right. Humans fill in the gaps. AI is similar, where it "hallucinates", but are humans that much different?
And very rarely stable.
Not until we fix the gun problem. A child's phone could be the difference between life or death.
My family went to a Sandbox VR store and played a zombie game. In it they gave you “guns” that the cameras could track. I put guns in quotes because when you remove the headset you see that you were basically holding a stick with reflectors on it, but in VR it sure felt gunish.
There are very prosaic reasons for the popularity of UFO sightings in the USA.

1. The gdp per capita per cloudless land area is far higher than anywhere else. Africa and Australia have lots of empty sky but relatively no-one is out and about during night time. Plus USA does some have some interesting weather. So the opportunities to see anomalous (yet very terrestrial) phenomena is high.

2. The concern that comes from being the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world, that others are trying to infiltrate. (I was almost going to use fear or paranoia instead of concern, but some of the concern is warranted)

3. USA is the center of world culture. Everything American is amplified via Hollywood and music.
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> Nowhere near the fragmentation of Android

This is irrelevant, though, as the hottest Android framework (Jetpack Compose) is usable on devices released 9 years ago. This is the advantage of the way Google deploys major improvements vs Apple.
The problem is that the Quest 2 is what everyone bought and it's arguably not a compelling enough experience to encourage people to put it on instead of playing traditional PC/console games. Most people serious about PC gaming eventually upgrade to an Index because it's still the best option at a great price if you have the room for a full-room setup - and these people definitely play at least a few times a month.
Which is why I'm extremely long on crypto and patient. It takes more than 15 years to fundamentally change the type of things crypto might really be useful for. And as a currency it's already shown traction, just not ubiquitous adoption. The currency use case requires people to stop creating volatility by hyper speculating with it, so I welcomed the crypto winter. I remember when people bought pizza with bitcoin. It wasn't that long ago, as you point out.
What you're seeing is the result of survivorship bias. Software that doesn't mostly work doesn't get used.

Software that fully works is too expensive to build.
https://archive.is/frnOK
To paraphrase Rich Hickey, The only people entitled to say how blogs 'ought' to work are people who run blogs, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects. Just because someone blogs something does not imply they owe the world accuracy, originality, interest or education.

As a reader of a blog you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to depth. You are not entitled to be the intended audience. You are not entitled to gain value from the blog.

----

And your complaint can be easily dismissed by noting that the article author blogs about things she's learned, and that reading all existing content to see what is original is impossible.
1. Secretly repaint one wall of a house and redirect the qr code to a slightly different url
2. ???
3. Profit
(Sony's probably making the display for Apple anyway.)
Right, I hate to be that guy, but it essentially boils down to "take a random step and see if it's good, if so update" (with some fanciness). It should go without saying that this is horribly inefficient in a very high dimensional space (e.g. the number of parameters).

The results are decent, but it's just another in a long line of work (and more recent work https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08587 https://openreview.net/pdf?id=5i7lJLuhTm) trying to use backprop algorithm with some promising results but still falling far short of the standard backprop workhorse.
Everyone knew interest rates would go up at some point in the near future. SVB management didn't care about it.
It included information about the FVEY members collecting data from each other's citizens, but it did not contain information saying that members illegally asked other members for data on their own citizens, as you initially claimed. What you're now claiming they did is perfectly legal. What you originally claimed is not.
The gun problem doesn't impact 100% of kids though -- so why not both?

Anyway, they can probably still have old Nokias
IIRC float is just left or right, you can't embed an image "in the middle" of text. I'm no web expert and the conversation was a decade ago, so I'm sure something got warped in translation.
It costs 7 times as much as a Meta Quest 3, for that you get:

1) double the resolution.

2) better (perfect?) passthrough (not sure how good it is on the Quest 3, apparently a lot better than the quest 2 which was pretty bad).

3) native hand tracking. This is again in beta for the Meta Quest, and I expect apple to do it better but again how much better is the question.

4) A front screen to show your eyes: this is ridiculous and I don't know why anyone would care enough about this feature to pay for a high resolution curved screen on the front of the device to enable it. If it's a short conversation you don't need to see my eyes, if it's a long conversation I'm taking the thing off. Technologically impressive but feels like a huge gimmick.
Re: 2, they showed it being used to play Apple Arcade games and since they already have support for that it’s unlikely that they have deep philosophical objections.

Re: 1, it’ll be interesting to see how well the camera system works in practice. All of the reviews are quite positive about precise movements so it might be that they’re throwing hardware at this problem but I’d also be surprised if they were not very carefully tracking performance – if the accuracy isn’t there, it’d take an unusually un-Apple like product manager to risk a billion dollar investment rather than enable that class of device.
Note that this isn't just a paper reproduction but a new paper in and of itself (the github is by one of the paper's authors). This is unbelievably amazing. I wonder how it compares to rnnoise, which is also open source and also targets real time settings.
Yes, but you don't play tic-tac-toe anymore, do you?

Why? It's a stupid game. You can't win.

I do hope, just like the OP, the AI will show us that "trying to be more clever than others" is a stupid game, and our lives are better off if we don't depend on playing it.
Yep, couldn't agree more.
Interesting analysis but doesn’t that not make sense since the radar was tracking a fleet of the same objects? Radar wasn’t picking up a fleet of lens flares.
It's almost like companies wanted these layoffs to happen simultaneously to remove the leverage tech workers had due to steep hiring competition. Hard to push back when there's a glut of unemployed highly skilled tech workers.
It's my understanding that the website that worked fairly well was i.reddit.com (which was disabled recently)

Side-by-side comparison (i.reddit.com on the right): https://old.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/7kaqgb/could_...
Gold is a commodity because it exists in the real world and you make it. Bitcoins aren't a commodity because a random person or entity has created it with the intention of selling it to people as a financial instrument.

You can't issue more gold. And to pre-empt your inevitable reply: the limited supply of bitcoins is not equivalent because Apple also has limited amounts of stock. Doesn't make it a commodity.
thta's not going to get better with working in one. it'll still be forehead heating, nauseating, distracting.
thanks for the charity bit; handn't thought of that and it steels my resolve to continue to decline such random donation requests.
Qnm: CLI utility for querying the node_modules directory
You are familiar with terminus post quem? Genomic evidence and things like tree-ring dates often provide "no later than" evidence and so your observations to "but 80 years" are true, and reasonable, but also conjectural: find a document, get an artefact, or.. it's terminus post quem. (I'm sure you know this)

Within a few moments of being shown steel artefacts, islanders depending on stone age tools sought to obtain them, no matter how small, from sailors. It wouldn't surprise me if the first artefacts consciously designed to be sold to islander indigenous peoples has a 10-20 year lag, for whaling ships to realise it was better to source cheap knives to sell, than sell their own goods. Whaling ships stayed at sea for 2 or more seasons so it's easy to get to 5, 10 years purely on the mechanistic dynamics.

What percentage of written evidence to islander trade remains esablishes in like sense terminus post quem. If only one diary in a hundred survives, what chance it's the first one in time?

Patrick O'Brien writes of a reader complaining that his use of eau de cologne in georgean naval fiction is anachronistic. He responds in print that whilst written evidence of eau de cologne may lag his fictions time by 20 years he has little doubt people were using it, before they wrote about it. Analogous I feel.
Are you using a completely different definition of "sentient" than the article on purpose?

Anything with a spine is sentient by this law. Can you rephrase your answer while keeping that in mind?
This has quickly become legend in my house
They make a massive amount of money selling user data.
OpenCV is C++ (though there are 3rd party C bindings)
> It honestly confounds me that people think developing a general intelligence capable of reasoning and planning, that talks natively to data, that can input information by the gigabit and expand its capacity by hardware that never sleeps isn't going to be one of the most revolutionary changes since fire.

It honestly confounds me that people think humans are close to developing AGI with all the properties you claim. "expand its capacity by hardware that never sleeps" - who is paying the bills for this kind of thing? "talks natively to data" - we don't know how to make our brains talk natively to data, and we don't know what similarities and differences between our brains and neural networks matter for GI, so why should I believe it's even possible to create an AGI that can do that?
It's very varied by person. My friend used a index on my 4090 dedicated (All other monitors to the 2080ti). Running at full frames on google earth. He puked his guts out 20 minutes later and took about 40 total minutes to recover. I was watching the stats the whole time. He just suddenly went urp right in the middle of mt rainier.

I had just showed him WA state and no ill effects, but I didn't have issues on a pre-release vive prototype or release occulus OG while doing barrel rolls and back flips or movement vluprs.
Also check out Dutch drone shows. Amazing co-ordination among hundreds of drones.
Meh, I've got kids in school, it's not really that bad. The school systems getting worse every year is way more important to fix.
Or confused. Or mistaken.
Lmao that sales pitch trying desperately to get a job
I have quite a lot of sympathy for Google, but I'd wager 90%+ of people heading down the Canvas path have really shoddy cases for why they're doing it.

I'd also love to see more hybridization. With something like Figma, I both am sympathetic to their use of canvas. But I'd love it if they had a hybrid renderer that could also use HTML as well, with fixed position divs and HTML text. There used to be a slow but steady stream of blog posts on combining HTML and WebGL, some even with nice css3d transforms to make HTML act like a texture, but overall I don't think we've seen much hardcore uptake or attempts.
That's it. It would be far better to know if it's some feedback in our sensors rather than Chinese hypersonic drones. I find it concerning that so many people want to just dismiss this off-hand when clearly the military considers it something to be worth looking into.
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the history, did they explicitly say that crypto were not securities?

explicitly saying they are is not necessary for them to be.
> The gun problem doesn't impact 100% of kids though

it impacts far too many. Let them have their phones.
You can always crash, given that mechanic failure happens all the time.

Plus, you might not be able to recover from that failure, e.g. stuck on a planet forever, given that you do not have the material to repair the ship.

You are probably thinking, how come such an advanced species cannot repair its own ship? Well we humans can rarely repair our own ship, we usually rely on professionals to do that. Now that advanced species will have much more advanced systems that no individual can achieve that. Even if they rely on AI, what if AI system broke?
Hacking around Safari's 7-day Cookie Limit
It does seem like this is correct ... a server can store any cookie in a first-party context, and Safari doesn't mess with that (as far as I know, anyway). So, if it matches the name of the client-side cookie, then it can persist that cookie.

However, I do recall seeing that ITP got stronger recently, whereby Safari might actually erase server-set, secure, first-party cookies after 7 days, on any site that uses some sort of third-party CNAME cloaking domain that is on their shitlist. Is that true? How far does ITP reach these days to delete information, in these cases?
>And our AI is not an alien to us. It’s just our books compressed.

This is a potential mistake.

Do you have pets? Even if you don't you'd generally consider animals to be intelligent, right? But even the smartest animal you've seen is far dumber than the average human being (except visitors at national parks operating trash cans). I mean you can teach many kinds of animals quite a bit, but eventually you hit physical limits of their architecture.

Even humans have limitations. You can learn the most when you're a child, and you do this in an interestingly subtractive method. Your brain is born with a huge number of inner connections. As we learn and age we winnow down those connections and use a far lower portion of our energy output on our mind. Simply put we become limited on how much we can learn as we age. You have to sleep. You get brain fog. You end up forgetting.

With A(G|S)I there are many questions unanswered. How far can it scale? Myself I see no reason it cannot scale far past the human mind. Why would humans be the most optimized intelligence architecture there is? It seems evolution would create that. When you ponder on the idea that something could possibly be far more intelligent than you, you have to come back to the thought on your pets. They live in the same reality of you, but you exist on an entirely different plane of existence due to your thinking abilities. What is the plane of existence like for something that can access all of humanities information at once look like? What is the plane of existence like for something that can see in infrared, ultraviolet, in wireless, in context of whatever tooling it can almost instantly connect to and work with, something that can work with raw data from sensors all over the planet feeding data back to it at light speed?

Now, you're most likely correct in the sense before we get some super ASI that is far beyond us, we'll have some AGI just good enough to power someone greedy and cause no shortage of hell on earth. But if somehow that doesn't happen, then we still have the alien to contend to.
But “upstream” is created by us, humans. All it takes is enough of us to change the direction of the current.
This is the “ what about emergencies” argument but phrased in the way that is least likely to lead to productive conversation.
I don't understand the details but I know one case it can fix problems is after deleting files to free up space on a nearly full disk.
TypeScript is a JavaScript superset. It adds features, but doesn’t change the meaning of existing stuff. (Almost all of what it adds can just be stripped out syntactically to yield JavaScript, but there are a few features that generate actual code, like enums.)
It matters if it's actually meant to be used on the web, but I suspect the use case here is an easy front end for small python program in which case it doesn't matter at all and python interop is critical.
Hearth: An audio streaming server 30X Faster than LavaLink
I mean I get what you're saying. But most doctors have normalized refined sugar intake. Cutting out refined sugar and simple carbs is not harmful at all and carries not risk whatsoever. So I don't see how listening to some modern wisdom in a HN comment is dangerous. Our understanding of nutrition in the western medical theatre is woefully incomplete and outdated.
It seems to be almost 3x the size of something like the 'Bigscreen Beyond.'
Core data is nice for the whole package of built in persistence and cloud sync…but can be annoying to setup
I don’t get the example - how is it obvious what should be the result of comparison of 2 lists ?
I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions
The part that is worth dismissing is the immediate jump to aliens. This topic is really a sensor data analysis discussion, not a conspiracy theory convention.
You mean like being on the board of Theranos?
https://archive.ph/YvW3l
I dare say one of the next iphones will introduce the 3d video/photo capture capability. Then you could capture with the phone and view it later on the headset.
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You have to look at the nicer lines from the laptop companies, which are harder to find. PCs are a competitive market where every possible niche in the market is targeted. You’re doubly disadvantaged because Linux may limit some options.

I’d recommend looking at the Microsoft Surface, HP z series, the fancy HP series, or a Lenovo T or X. Dell has good stuff too, but I don’t know the lineup. I use a 3 year old HP Z mobile workstation for work and it’s a solid device, a little heavy but well put together and with good thermals and display. The trackpad is hopeless, however.

Apple is unique because despite lower market share, they have better economies of scale. Dell has a product for any niche — they make 6 different devices catering to police and other vehicle mount solutions. My guess is they probably have 60 different laptops for sale right now.

Apple makes like 8 Mac products in total. That’s why the cheapest Mac has a better touchpad and display panel than 90% of the market - Apple just buys all of the good stuff.
Are you referring to the explanation of how the First Amendment allows for rules regulating speech that "substantially impairs the effective conduct of a meeting" or something else? I thought it was a pretty good article. Here's a sample passage:

"The Federalist Society has the same rights of free association that other student organizations at the law school have. Students calling for the law school administration to restrict the organization or the speakers it can bring to campus are demanding action inconsistent not only with freedom of speech but with rights to freedom of association that civil rights lawyers fought hard in the 20th century to secure. To do so would also be inconsistent with the Stanford Statement on Academic Freedom’s requirement that '[e]xpression of the widest range of viewpoints should be encouraged, free from institutional orthodoxy and from internal or external coercion.' Unless we recognize that student members of the Federalist Society and other conservatives have the same right to express their views free of coercion, we cannot live up to this commitment nor can we claim that we are fostering an inclusive environment for all students."

Which parts of the article do you disagree with? And do you do this from a legal perspective or a moral one?
Laughed way to hard about this.
Wildfire smoke live updates from the NYTimes
Sweating profusely in an electronics device... I've ruined ski goggles just sweating in them and they're meant for that. Also just stumbling with these on or slipping and there you go cracked $3500 screen.
destroying worker power is definitely why interest rates were raised.
Poverty leads to populism and populism commonly leads to fascism. Great, now you have fascists with AI and an agenda of rancor.
I paid for Alien Blue to get rid of ads, and all I got in return was a bunch of months of Reddit Gold and an app full of ads. I miss Alien Blue.
Oof! Seems Safari now caps ALL COOKIES to 7 days

https://snowplow.io/blog/tracking-cookies-length/
You can eat an animal without it suffering too, if that's your main worry.
Speaking only for myself, I’ve tried to learn Swift but you really need to be developing an app on an Apple OS to be able to get practice on the breadth of the language.

Go, by comparison, can be learned in a couple of days, and it’s trivial to build a useful CLI with it.

So from my perspective, the barriers to entry for Swift are much higher, but it’s mostly due to the domain rather than the sponsor.
Weren’t they responding specifically to a comment that said AI would make it easier for “freedom fighters and democracy”? I don’t understand how your questions relate to that. Furthermore, you seem to be implying that AI will help deal with the bully problem… how?