skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The same way face unlock doesn't work for some people and they inout a password every time, so it's not intractable.

I expect people for who eye tracking fails to be stuck on third party controllers for the default interface (hopefully they're supported outside of games ?).

The bummer though will be that this device is US only for its launch, so the first round of application might also not care at all about these kind of issues. Accessibility is something Apple usually cares about, but third party devs can be more casual about it.
All these optimistic articles without showing a single AR application - is Apple allowing access to devices only to pre-vetted publishers that would never criticize their products? 4k per eye sounds good but if it's only used for displaying 2D stuff it's kinda pointless as the resolution is still too low for that and the GPU is too weak for 3D stuff at that resolution (that would need like a minimized 5090 to make it work).
I've got a big problem with the attestation feature even existing in the spec. I know Apple plans to "zero it out" but if that changed sites could lock out non approved devices. I'd vastly prefer it wasn't part of the spec at all rather than relying upon the whims of a single megacorporation. If they ever drop that cover things will gradually become defacto locked to middlemen anyway.
Current proposals severely limit the amount of time students can stay in the country post-graduation, however, which will prevent student visas from serving as an entryway.

The student visa as a path to entry is a bug, not a feature, to the Tories.
Well I wrote one of the negative comments and I think you give the article an apologetic interpretation (which is great). I can agree that if this is the point then it is a good advice, but how is it different from setting yourself SMART goals and the general wisdom from personal management in psychology or theory of action in philosophy? You seem to argue that learned helplessness is alike weakness of will and while they might be on continuum there is something different between those cases since under normal circumstances you don't fail to run away from pain. And while the way "out" might be similar if we we fail to understand the difference then we will fail to understand the mental state of people who are in genuine cases of learned helplessness such as many-year homeless people.
So, like, maybe a careful criticism is not that the article is wrong but it simplifies things to the point where on the one hand we are blinded to the most important things about learned helplessness and on the other hand besides the point that you bring up the article includes many rhetorical devices which obscure the main point.
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Funny enough, Obsidians live rendering has shown me that plaintext sucks, and that I want richtext and data structures for my stuff. Just that there is no good tool for this. Notion and its clones are the best in that regard, but they suck in their own regard, mainly because they are online-only. And considering how many tried to replicate Notion in obsidian-extensions (and failed), I'm not the only one I guess. There probably is a market for a modern hacker-friendly offline richtext-IDE that no one has satisfied yet.
It depends on task though. Selection is easy to do using eye-tracking as you just have to shift your attention onto the object long enough to click.

Drawing is a task that is more like aiming - attempting to hold your gaze at a precise location for a period of time. It is possible, but you are fighting against the natural saccade pattern of your eye and it becomes tiring very quickly. You can expect fatigue / eye-strain within a few minutes.
Well during the "learning" phase, they have harmful consequences. Or at the very least they are ineffective. Thats why you learn not to do them.
It seems to be a pure nostalgia computing device, which has enough of a target market to make a few hundred sales.
Why do I want a device to be “personal” and “interface with who I am”?
If you meant abuse, you certainly could have been a lot more clearer than your original text that GP cited:

> One day, your kids are going to tell you that you are wrong. Totally wrong. Wrong about morality and ethics. Wrong wrong. And you are going to have to believe them, or you will lose access to a part of their life forever.
It's expensive for just the steel frame
I don't think I understand how your comment relate to what I wrote.
It's really about priorities. People don't mind paying $1000 for a bed or a phone, but 3x for something truly revolutionary?

...One can also translate it into coffees. Just 700 coffees! Ok, better not.
Maybe things were bound to happen anyway and your experiences just sped them up.
Other have asked, but I'd also be very interested in knowing more if you can share more details.
I had to spent a non trivial amount of time convincing others to use SQLite instead of dumb files in similar situations, stories like yours are pure gold.
Right, but an 8G RPi is $75 MSRP, so this is over a 30% - 50% higher cost!

For most projects that really _need_ a Pi (for the GPIO, CSI etc.), most don't require the 8G version, and you can get by with a 2 or 4G which is closer to $50 or less.

If the goal is compute/$ (or for that matter, compute/W) though, Pis are nowhere near being the most efficient for that and haven't been for years.
I've recommended the film previously on HN [0]. It's a movie that only gets more relevant with time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628290
I think that’s a bad example because it’s 100 years old and was reversed and, hopefully, is the last time the US does this.

There are tons of “virtues” that aren’t resulting in laws- exercise is good, sugar is bad, coke is bad, etc etc

Saying we shouldn’t encourage voluntary pledges to help our kids because it might be mandatory is probably not a good idea. The tangible benefit from the pledge seems more likely than the low risk of some future mandatory regulation.
>first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states of consciousness.

I feel like this is technically true but also misleading towards the belief that there is an overall perceptual computation advantage of psychedelic states. You can maybe get a higher score on certain tests, but it comes at a loss on other tests. I'm willing to bet basic tests like an eye exam will score worse when all the letters are dripping. The reality is psychedelics effect a particular band of brainwave frequencies, and so is not like the blunt general stimulation or inebriation of other drugs. It may be better for your brain to be in a psychedelic state on certain tasks, but if it was better in the general case evolution would have already made it so. Remember, I can rig a system with absolute perfect perception just so long as you don't mind a rate of 100% false positives.

Still congrats to QRI on this research. Very impressive result. Seems like they had some of the same method ideas I've had, or thought my ideas were worth taking last I spoke with them.
I support this movement. I don't think I need to sign a pledge as a parent to do it, but if this makes you feel like you aren't alone making this decision go for it. Reading through these comments, a lot of them miss the forest for the trees. "Kids should have access to all the earths information except for the stuff I don't like which then I have parental controls on (which we all know don't actually work but we'll pretend they work for this sake of this argument)"

Boredom is a powerful force in your life. It forces you to go out and find things to do, people to interact with and activities to enrich yourself. If you can craft a perfect entertainment box with a constant feeling of socialization that exists only for you, you are never bored. You are never going to go out and do those things that I think are critical for children. Being bored and learning what do you like to do to fill that boredom are a big part of being a kid. You invent games, find hobbies, discover how to live with being bored.

We hosted a foreign exchange student from Europe and it was a waste of time. He didn't make friends because he didn't have to make friends, his friends were on his phone. He didn't go out because why bother, he can sit online with his original friends. The entire concept of immersion was lost on him. He got to choose exactly what elements of place A he interacted with and exactly what elements of place B and didn't really grow or change as a result.

Forcing children to adapt to their situation and not giving them an endless dopamine drip of "things they like" is a net positive for the kind of person who you are helping to raise.
I can’t see it, but I trust others when trhey tell me it’s there. :)
Ive heard a lot of folklore surrounding these topics. I'd just be weary personally. At one point if you admitted you had used psychedelics some number of times you were considered insane and there's no way you could pass a polygraph.

Obviously no one can vouch for this topic, but consider the vulnerability associated with intense psychedelic use. If someone wanted to make you die in real life, black mail you, etc, this would be very good leverage. I've been told that the government likes leverage like this for maintaining control/order of the people who work for it. But who really knows, could all be conspiratorial mumbo jumbo. What is known is that the government invested a lot of time into studying psychedelics for purposes of mind control, IE, something that is not in the interest of the practitioner whatsoever.

Me personally... If I had to choose between being a psychedelic user on my own with my own tribe, or durring a government evaluation of my character, I think it's probably safer to choose the former not the latter.
You're comparing training a model from scratch in ML, to the equivalent of model fine-tuning in humans. It's unfair and incorrect. Eg, no human can drive without first learning to operate their limbs, recognise shapes etc.

The GP is pointing out that training in fine muscle motor skills, self-awareness and ability to project self-awareness to other objects under ones control etc, all took many thousands of years to develop. AI is faster.

However, it's again unfair, as AI only knows what it knows from us, so in that sense any comparison is built on shaky ground.

But for the purposes of comparing a stock human brain as hardware, versus a current high-end GPU specifically in terms of ingesting information and then perform tasks, the GPU beats the human brain "hands-down" in any category.

The only categories it doesn't are simply ones that no one has trained it to yet - so the argument on a pure hardware capability basis stands.
>A good example of this trade-off in Java is Lombok. A very handy library that legitimately avoids a ton of boilerplate, but it also absolutely tanks your build time.

I don't think this is actually true right now and for a while.

>In a real system, a large one, your team is better off just getting good enough with their editor that they can generate the hateful boilerplate

Which you can get by delomboking if you really need to.
> The first iPhone was pretty crappy

It had some must have killer features for the time. Blackberry and feature phones had some pathetic "mobile web" while the original iPhone would load real websites.
I’d rather have something in this form factor that runs modern mainline Linux (as in no weird kernel modules that won’t get merged).
But why a 386? Why not a 486 with a better screen?

It's annoying me that I can't get my head around it.
That's not a function of Java.
The users that pay for premium is probably also the most profitable ad viewers
One of the most widely used novel AI technology companies has a vested interest in public safety, if not only for the sheer business reasons of branding. People are complaining about the steps that Open AI is taking towards alignment. Sam Altman has spoken at length about how difficult that task truly is, and is obviously aware that "alignment" isn't objective or even at all similar across different cultures.

What should be painfully obvious to all the smart people on Hacker News is that this technology has very high potential to cause material harm to many human beings. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't continue to develop it. I'm arguing that these people complaining about Open AI's attempts at making it safer--i.e. "SF liberal bros are makin it woke"--are just naive, don't actually care, and just have shitty politics.

It's the same people that say "keep politics out of X", but their threshold for something being political is right around everybody else's threshold for "basic empathy".
I think it makes sense here because of the peer pressure effect of middle school aged kids. It’s hard when your kid is the only one in 5th grade class who doesn’t have instagram and Snapchat and everything else.

So definitely not dumb as hell. Also, this isn’t one side fits all as there’s lots of room for variability. It’s no more “one size fits all” than not allowing drivers younger than 16.
if book publishers spent the same amount of money movie publishers spend on marketing a single blockbuster movie (50% of the budget, i.e. billions of dollars) books would sell a lot more too.

Don't be fooled by the raw numbers, look at the big picture.

Anyway that's not a fair comparison, you don't need special hardware to read books, you already have it installed by the OEM, they are called eyes.

But in all fairness books help to sell a lot of devices too

By 2018 Amazon reported selling close to 90 million e-readers. By 2022 the number of Kindle devices sold globally was over 150 million. By 2027, Statista projects the number of e-reader users to grow to 1.2 billion

The problem is e-readers are very reliable, so people don't buy them new every 6 months.

Which is also why people buy books, they are very reliable and last for centuries, without consuming a single drop of energy.

Books are sold in the millions per week and e-books in the hundreds of thousands.

It's a completely different market.
I kinda prefer controllers. Tapping my fingers together and waving them around with even less feedback will mean the gesture recognition needs to be extremely far beyond anything we’ve had before, or is going to feel awful to use. Any time you’re in a game and are meant to be holding an object, having something to hold helps a lot, and most games want that.

If we can turn everyday objects into the thing you hold, that’d be great, but I’m not sure it’s feasible yet. We’ll see if anyone tries.
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> Just delaying their first contact to the age of 13/14 won't magically guarantee they will be able to navigate it responsibly.

There are no guarantees in life (except death (and taxes?)).

It's about playing the odds/probabilities to achieved the desired outcomes (presumably happiness, or perhaps Aristotle's eudaimonia).
I used Google Translate for the Python dev role page and it lists native level of Japanese as a requirement.
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I'm not trying to shut up critics, just the morons calling ChatGPT "woke".
The Ggraph is another major feature. I wish I had the same in form of a widget (a desktup GUI toolkit widget preferably) to experiment with. Obsidian is such a great app but still is very far from what I want to I'd love to be able to build a similar thing from blocks for myself.
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Don't underestimate the unwieldy shape of these headsets, they aren't very bag-friendly. The Apple design seems to do some compromises to decrease bulk but it still won't nicely slip between other stuff. Portable displays on the other hand, they are wildly underappreciated because so many still haven't the slightest idea that product category exists. They offer a very favorable bulk/utility trade-off and allow day on day scaling between the extremes of the smallest laptop you can find and what could be considered a mobile workstation.
BTW: Since we're already here and I'm too nostalgic now and all, I Googled my old posts from back in time, and found a [post] that we wrote and posted on microsoft.public.cn.msn.messenger as the moderators of the group.

[post]: https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.cn.msn.messenge...

I'm pretty sure Alex Zhang, who's a rank higher up than us, was probably annoyed by all the request for guidance that we constantly need. But...still, good times.

I also remember how it ended: the moderator tool that Microsoft provided to us has stopped working one day, we queried and waited for a few months and it didn't come back. So we assumed that Microsoft has changed the plan.

Also, now that I got my timeline clear, my lunch money was not donated when I was 13 years old (and just to be clear, it was not to Microsoft newsgroup, of course), I would say much older than that. But I can't found any record of the action since the server is private, so, sad I guess :(

Reading the old posts now, judging by the words we wrote back then, we... were really acting like cooperate freaks. Glad I've grown more human since :)
It's the language barrier. Germany is targeted by Turks and Eastern Europeans in similar fashion.
That's a subjective interpretation, and I say that even as someone who believes in objective reality.

There's no telling what time perception is "correct" or "real". It is actually within the realm of possibility that they did experience an eternity-scale (but sub-infinite, natch) amount of experiences.
Why does it have cpu ram?
I don’t read that as implying that conclusion, but rather closer to “if you’re not getting the outcome you want, you should change something” versus “you should do what I’m doing”.
That's my recollection of it. Just one day the content was not interesting anymore and felt certainly more gamed than before, which they wanted to combat as per this blog post.

I'm surprised the conclusion is not that they learn to never do a full rewrite of a social product again.
It's opening up a perceptual time domain that is not available in a sober state. That's not 'slower processing speed'.
I highly doubt it. The average pixel density is 33 pixels per degree (compared 60+ ppd of a no-frills monitor at a typical desk distance). Concentrating pixels in the centre to make a reasonable display would leave something like 10ppd for the periphery, which is like 1/5 of eye's resolution.
> Why is "You might have cancer" even an email at all? Shouldn't that be done face to face?

Not necessarily, but you’d have to phrase it as “we need to take a closer look”. If you’re doing population screening, you often have so many false positives that the probability that you have cancer, given that you had a positive test result, still is fairly low (for example, if 1:10,000 people have cancer, and the test is 100% reliable for those having cancer, and 99% for qthose who don’t, ≈1:100 people will be false positives, so in the group who tested positive, ≈99:100 would be false positives)
Facebook made Cassandra specifically because of this.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshma...
Finder > View > Show Path Bar

After that navigating folder hierarchies gets way easier.
It is perfectly sensible… if your language is guaranteed immutable everywhere
Thank for sharing this, that makes lot of sense to me. The focus on running everything on edge has been confusing to me for a while due to the increased db latency. That makes so much sense to dynamically move processing to the best location in the current network instead of the binary choice “close to db”, “close to users”.
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I think learning for the sake of learning is highly overrated in programming. Would a woodworker advice anyone to learn wood working from a book?

Find a project that you think is important and work on it. Doesn’t matter which language. You can always switch. Knowing C++ will make you a better Rust programmer and vice versa.
Thanks, any idea if the tutorial will be recorded and made available later or is it just for the participants ?
The killer app will be porn and/or virtually undressing the people around you.
> Many users don't experience it as such, but in the proper dose, and especially ones first usage of it, can be intensely psychedelic.

ime/imo the main reason why it's so uncommon is because you have to go _comically_ far over your tolerance to hit the truly-psychedelic effects, and, as you said, it can be deeply uncomfortable. I've only ever managed to hit truly-psychedelic effects by ex. eating 600mg of RSO with a low tolerance, or doing a dab after a t break and way overestimating my tolerance.
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contracts are still runtime checks and thus different from a static type system, which gives you a proof, ahead-of-time, that your program will be well-typed no matter the input (well, at least in theory - in practice, many type systems are unsound, but it takes some effort to actually break the system).

you're right that a contract allows you to specify more precise properties than a "regular" type system, but it comes at the aforementioned cost. If you want both, dependent types would be your best bet, but those are... rather complex in practice and to my knowledge, not really "production-ready".

as for your example though, it would be possible to implement `Math.round()` in such a way in Java that it doesn't just return an int, but some sum type that encodes whether it's an actual result or some invalid value. The reasons why this isn't done are probably a) it's awkward, though possible, to express sum types in Java (this would be easier in some other languages), b) it would force the caller to always have to explicitly consider the case that the value is invalid even when they know it's not, making mathematical calculations tedious and hard to understand.
> Nobody wants to invest significant amounts of money in hardware that will be obsolete in a year.

When talking about the current ML industry it's more like nobody wants to invest significant amounts of money in hardware that will be obsolete before it's even taped out.
Lots of people would work with anyone to drive out invaders that where raping and torturing there way across there land.

You don't have to like people for them to be useful too you.

Like how Russias main PMC is run by a Nazi, but it doesn't make all Russians Nazi's does it?.
That's very reasonable actually. Pay for the product or be the product, whatever suits you.

I'm curious how the laud power users would react to this though. I suspect they won't like it because it's not the same as using the product on VCs dime.

The good old internet that we all love and adore was built on VC money or creative people's content. Unfortunately, the VCs are not into philanthropy but in money making and the creative people need to be compensated too, so this can't last.

I really really hope that we can leave this behind and have good quality paid platforms as standart. Paying through extra steps(advertisement) or paying through political power transfer(free curated content with agenda) is bad for the society.
My prediction: Reddit just pushes these changes through maybe with a non-apology.
Mad respect for your solution, but how do you get to this point where you can look at a thing and say “oh yeah, it’s XYZ”?
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There were also hundreds of phones doing that already. And phones with touchscreens.

I guess we’ll need to wait to see what happens with this. Apple has a good track with proving tech literate people wrong.
Thanks for those links. I'd definitely need a Math refresher.

Assuming ISLR is An Introduction to Statistical Learning?