skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the pure commodity coins (layer 1 networks like btc, xch, etc) are confusing at all. You do work and get rewarded with a digital commodity. It’s exactly like digging up gold, or tapping a tree for maple syrup.

Then a bunch of crypto anarchists showed up and started speculating that these coins would be worth a lot in the future because we could topple the financial hegemony by their powers combined. Okay whatever, still commodity trading.

Then we started getting all these fake Ponzi coins that are standing in for something else. That’s a security.

What is possible with e.g. BTC is that it’s easy to trade at scale. A commodity that’s easy to trade isn't a security, but if you squint it kinda looks like one. Regardless, it’s not crypto’s fault that regulators are having a hard time understanding it. That’s the regulators’ and lawmakers' problem. (So elect people into power who are your peers, and who aren't 70 years old and have no hope of anything more than a cursory understanding world from the last 20 years.)

But, of course they’re not going to stand aside while people get scammed. Only the anarchists want that. The rest of us just want crypto to be treated fairly.
dash is referring to the grammar.

I'm also guessing that's also what all the downvoters missed too.
The expense of helicopters acts as a natural limit to the amount of abuse that cops can engage in with the helicopter. Drones are a lot cheaper, and essentially lifts a restraint.

I'm not necessarily opposed to the use of drones, but I think their use needs appropriate restrictions and oversight. Given how little effective oversight cops have in general, and especially in the use of powerful tech, I am very skeptical that we'll see that with the use of drones.
It depends on the amount of binocular overlap: https://www.roadtovr.com/understanding-binocular-overlap-and...

The correct number is somewhere between a multiplier of 1 and 2 depending on the setup of the display. But 2x 4k screens is only 16 megapixels, and so it also depends on where the other 7 megapixels are.
macOS Sonoma will support JPEG XL, so presumably all Apple platforms will, come September or so. OP is blogging by title edit, less than 24 hours later, about how Chrome hasn’t reversed their decision.
I feel like comparing categories of products to an individual make of product is a bit unfair.

Like, of course the car was a world-changing invention. And Ford's original model T remains a significant point of the history of automobiles.

The smartphone was certainly a world-changing invention, and it seems the iPhone was just as historically significant to it as a technology. I don't think the LG Prada is going to be so thoroughly remembered by history.
My understanding is that the term “presence“ is more about your feeling of being truly immersed in the VR space.
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Well, if you want Wankel in your bike...

https://www.aieuk.com/225cs-40bhp-wankel-rotary-engine/
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>why isn't seam itself open?

I'd say primarily because making money with an open product is very very difficult, regardless of the industry you build for.

It sounds like it would be difficult to "open core" the product too.
Big difference between tech giants making software used by businesses and a glorified message board
Sorry if it's too much to ask, but would you mind posting a list of your common sources? I'm familiar with everything you've posted, I'm always looking for new sites.
Apple cut the price of IPhone 2G by 33%, and got AT&T to subsidize handsets for $200. It was dead in the water before then.

Even if Apple made a similar price cut here, the device would still cost over $2000.
I don't see why it is unreasonable to desire Apple to provide documentation and open up their hardware. Honestly I'd ask the same as any other hardware vendor. Intel for example provides very detailed technical documents on their new GPUs (A770).
Thinking of games as databases
Is anybody daily-driving any M2 macbook pro on Asahi Linux? What is your experience like?
apple have changed or introduced dominant paradigms that have shaped the entire computing industry several times, and have changed how most of the world access or use technology
3rd party apps have 5% of reddit userbase according to appstores download stats.

Also, they likely will find out that backend is also not an easy part very soon.
The referenced comment does not even take into account that also the lossless compression is more efficient than PNG. This and the easy handling and efficient storing of (short) animations could in total combine the three major image formats: JPG, PNG and GIF.

Even when gifs are now mostly replaced by webm and HTML5 viideo tag, the unification of image formats for both orthogonal uses (natural images vs. technical or generated images) is a big advantage.
What about tokens that are used to pay the network, like Ethereum? If you want to use any chain that uses Ethereum, either as a L1 or L2, you need ETH.
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> This is interesting, am I correct in thinking this a feature implemented by Apple

Yes, battery charge control is a hardware(/firmware) feature supported on other modern laptops as well, such as the Lenovo ThinkPads, but it's not a standard so it requires explicit driver and OS support.

OpenBSD recently added support for this as well for both of these implementations (Apple silicon and ThinkPads).

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=168436150408382&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=168458409622780&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=168521616605492&w=2

I know certain Android/Samsung phones support this as well, not sure about iOS/macOS.
> The cheap, cheap paper is a nightmare to run through a scanner

Not to mention having a faint mirror image of the other side. You need a dark background and a lot of light on the front to catch as little of it as possible.

And, then, one could add some smarts to try to align and subtract the image of the other side of the page to get an even cleaner image.

Now, just imagine if they kept an archive of their photo plates (or, better for later issues, PDF copies). By 2009 that's the very least one should have.
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The already were one company.
Pretty much any short is way worse, unlimited downside! If you bought Bitcoin and stored it correctly you would be down less than 100%. Buying S&P 500 is probably less risky though.
OK let’s say if I don’t, how can I make sure what I get is correct, even after a few iterations?
Ethereum is used to pay for transactions on its network. It is called “gas”.

What level of detail do you want?

People have a need to secure their transactions from double-spends and stealing etc. I personally think blockchains are a first-gen technology but the network requires ETH to pay for transactions. What is your point?
I was excited to see Carmack working on VR, but in retrospect he may have been exactly the wrong guy. Romero knew what 3D shooters needed to be, Carmack knew how to make that happen within the constraints of the day.

With Carmack’s guidance, Facebook made an eminently buildable VR headset, a perfect device for the constraints that limited VR at the time. I bet they could have satisfied a ton of demand if they’d shown anything that got people excited enough to actually have demand.
This. Should have been taken out in Python 3, but nah, still present even today.
Not at all. Are you saying that abuse is the only (or even primary) thing that a kid could conceivably complain is immoral or unethical?

P -> Q != Q -> P
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Linux distributions are free to distribute their own builds of Chromium with whatever features they want. It's just that distributing a fork of Chromium, even with minimal changes, is a full time job for several people at least, due to the fast pace of updates and the security critical nature of browsers. And people prefer Chrome anyway due to the features that rely on Google servers like sync or translation.
If you use a service like Cloudinary then it will detect the appropriate image format to serve to the browser based on the request. I would expect JPEG-XL to start being served to Safari clients once macOS 14 and iOS 17 are released.

Chrome can hold out but ultimately all they are doing is hurting their users.
I remember reading on this site, not that long ago about large US companies regularly block traffic from outside US where they don't ship to or expect purchases. Home Depot was specifically called out.
Fun fact: even theorem provers have counterexamples

- Breaking Badfny: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coq/comments/x4d31y/breaking_badfny...

- Falso (Coq): https://github.com/clarus/falso

- Coq critical bugs (some of these mention potential ways to prove false): https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/master/dev/doc/critical-bugs

(You can also get the theorem prover itself to hang or crash; if you work with theorem provers often, you'll even do this unintentionally, many times!)
> The 'right' solution would be to just use system codecs for everything.

That doesn't always work. VLC became as popular as it is partly through bundling its own selection of codecs for its own use, when getting certain things to play in some places was quite a faf.

If doing it the right way is hassle to the end user, we'll often sidestep rather than campaigning for fixes where they should be made.
The article talks about it.
I think 3D photos will catch on, but you'll take the photos with your phone, like you do now. This device will really be for viewing them later.

(iPhone 15 or 16 will include the ability to "...take spectacular 3D photos that are incredible when viewed with a Vision Pro!!!" -- sorry, that quote is me imagining an Apple presenter at a future iPhone event.)
webP and avif are basically video codecs that can eventually render a frame as a static image and are good at masking low res artifacts.

On the other hand, JPEG XL is for static images only and is way better at rendering fine details.
It has a bunch of specific features and optimizations. if you want to know more in details, check this post: https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl
Their work tempts me to get a Mac some day just because I know I can run Linux on it.
Do you think humans would do that? Intentionally instigate online engagement for profit?
I'm not a new account and I _still_ can't downvote in some situations. I haven't cared enough to figure out why, but it happens.
It still depends on how you define the outcomes. In a world of thieves, I still would not define becoming a thief as a net positive. If you're talking solely in terms of material wealth, then sure.
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I think it’s actually more reflective of the fact apple tends to be pretty thorough in product development and anything launched usually covers an awful lot of the problem domain. However their 1.0 launch of any product is usually an 80% complete product, for apple. For most other device makers it’s a 220% complete device at 1.0. So, I expect the first version will be a directional indicator that address more than twice the gap of other products but is itself not “done” by their aspirational standard. They then iterate in their respective cadences by product towards some converged state that reflects a “done,” then hit an iterative improvement cycle. It seems to be in the range of 4-5 generations.

Because this pattern is has been done again and again it’s fairly obvious. The first is the high bar for releasing at all and the willingness to let it die before launching something less than 220% better than industry standard despite tons of investment (apple car?). The second is the progressive improvement over the first several iterations that advances the product in the remaining gaps as their technology improves.

To me, this feels fairly objective and rational and not particularly cultish. It’s the benefit of an earned reputation and a clear and adhered to product development strategy.
Egregious off topic self promotion going on here.
Why not? Just not as gullible/influenced by advertisement/celebrity worship/branding/following the herd as Westerners? Or simply poor?

I witnessed people trying to build consumer app in one East European country which was their home one. Eventually they quit saying that "it can't work, people here are not stupid enough". Same app worked fine in the U.S. market even as they have never been in the U.S., had no idea of the culture things, and even their English was so-so.
I don't have the numbers, but nothing you've said here correlates with my own observations and experiences. And yes, I spent a large portion of my life poor, living in poor and marginalized communities.

Perhaps there are regional differences in play here.
What's to stop reddit from taking ownership of the subreddits and assigning new mods to them?

This has happened in the past with subreddits with frequent rule breaks, and has even resulting in a reversal of the original viewpoint of the subreddit

Even if the users start posting only black videos on /r/videos, couldn't reddit just remove it from the default subreddit subscriptions and laugh while the protests themselves have been de-platformed?

It's really unclear where this power struggle will end.
I have a VR headset, and it lives in a cardboard box. The reason is that the only thing I'd actually use it for it does poorly. That being immersive media consumption. By the time you have a virtual movie theater the resolution remaining for the actual movie might as well be a VHS. If this is as good as it sounds like it is, that problem is solved.

I won't be getting one for $3500, but if I was single or a higher earner I probably would. I'm sure they'll sell as many as they can make.
One of the authors here - while it is a best practice to restrict the roles any identity can assume, following the concept of defense in depth it is also good to use trust policies on the roles to be extra safe.
I'd like bigger GPUs. A trillion parameter model at 16 bits needs 2000gb+ for inference, more for training. All kinds of things can be done to spread it across multiple GPUs, downsize to less bits etc, but it's a lot easier to just shove a model on one GPU.

We'll likely see more efficiency from bigger GPUs and hopefully more availability as a result.
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If people on 4chan don't like what you say, your post dies after about 15 minutes so I don't understand what your point about that is.

Which is worse, your post literally disappearing, or having a big negative number next to it. Which is less censorship?
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That's because TorgueLang is TBA, but don't worry it'll be an explosions-based language.
I guess technically you could store original and encode to <whatever format is popular> on-demand then just cache the most popular ones
I honestly love posts about Forth (or Factor) and Common Lisp (or Lisps in general). I love both languages. On top of that, I use C a lot, along with OCaml, Lua, and Erlang (and rarely Ada). I find each one of them beautiful. :)
The features support page lists the webcam as TBA. How do you do video conferencing? USB webcam? No video?
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I think this will be one of those “iPod, less storage than a Nomad, lame” comments in a few years, but I guess we'll see.

I'd love to work comfortably lying in a hammock, couch or bed. The monitor part is solved, it seems, I just need one of those split keyboards where each half attaches to one hand.

I'd also love to feel like I'm in a colossal movie theater without all the viruses, noise and popcorn from other people.

I'll pay good money for either.
It looks like they replaced the usual sorting step in Dijkstra's algorithm (used for selecting the next node) with the first step of bucket sort in which the values are distributed across a fixed number of buckets. This can be done in linear time but requires integer values. Then they just skip the second step, which is sorting within each bucket, and pick an arbitrary element from the lowest-cost bucket. And I think one of the proofs shows that this incomplete sorting is correct for this use-case.

I didn't get the formal details either, though, so correct me if I'm wrong.
I haven’t been able to get GPT-4 API access months after applying and being a paid subscriber.

The world right now seems to be divided more into “have GPT-4 API/ don’t have GPT-4 API”.
He may have some negotiated heavy discounted plan for now from whatever reason, it doesn't mean all internet owes him discounted plans too.

Or he is just not truthful, we can't check.
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I would cite the growing unease in Siri as evidence that they almost certainly don't have this done well.

IR dot-patterns will be its own problem. And I hope you never want to curl up on that couch to watch a movie with a blanket. :D

That said, I am certainly not trying to say they definitely got it wrong. I share high hopes that this will work. Not enough that I will be an early adopter, though.
I want to believe (invoking Skully/X-files here)

I'm viewing this release from Apple as, essentially, a public DevKit for more slick versions of the same kit in the future.

Something with the described functionality, but the form factor of something closer to Google Glass would 100% be game-changing

ie. You develop your AR apps on this, and then come out with something much more user-friendly in a couple of versions time.

I'm just not convinced that most people want to walk around with this thing on their face for any extended period of time, regardless of how amazing the tech is (and it is amazing!)

Time will tell, I guess.
It's very brave to mention such heinous crimes in this discussion.
For me even GPT4 does that, super annoying
I don't know if watching movies is a great use case for VR though? Unless it's gonna be a fully immersive 3D experience, I'd rather just watch it on a normal screen and give my eyes and head a rest.
What exactly do you mean when you say “multiple processors”? The way I use the term we are talking about the same thing, except apple can only deploy fewer cores.
For the first few minutes I thought Hololens was fun too with ET. If you have to look at a lot of letters you are going to get tired of it fast no matter how good it is. It's just not a great input method for typing compared to a real keyboard. If they are so good at hand tracking it'd be better if they put a virtual keyboard on a surface near you that you can type on (I bet they'll have that option eventually)
When Vulkan drivers are ready maybe the Asahi Linux perhaps also be ready to run some SteamVR apps https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/blob/mast...
I remember seeing QR codes in my high school in 2010 so idk how people were using them back then (I wasn’t allowed a smartphone as a teenager).
Depends on budget and use case?

A low end Acer would be fine for browsing Facebook & YouTube.

A maxed-out Lenovo W series might be better if you're doing heavy lifting in 3D scientific modelling.

I'm personally a fan of the Framework laptop, the focus on user repairs, environmental consideration and future expansion.
They aren't claiming Bitcoin is a security. In fact they've made it pretty clear Bitcoin and maybe ETH are not.

They are claiming a bunch of the newer cryptos like SOL are, though.
Imagine a world where we prioritize optimizing for the best human experience instead of doing the bidding of people with capital.

You can do it, I believe in you.
I would love to see your stance substantiated by an accepted (preferable Western) law or moral code.
Another question is what is interesting in a speeding electric car in such a way that 4000 events per second must be captured about it.
VR headsets get pretty grody (I've seen how this goes at a VR cafe). I'm not sure widely shared headsets are really a business class experience.
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I don't think you understand in the slightest what is being said here.

If you assume, this guy was lying on behalf of the government you might want to try to rationalize that, because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

That idea about the US wanting to impress other nations with bogus UFO tech is ridiculously stupid. You completely underestimate other countries for instance.
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SEC isn't suing Coinbase over Bitcoin. They're suing under two things:

1. Unregistered exchange for several tokens the SEC believes are securities:

> This includes, but is not limited to, the units of each of the crypto asset securities further described below—with trading symbols SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, SAND, AXS, CHZ, FLOW, ICP, NEAR, VGX, DASH, and NEXO—(the “Crypto Asset Securities”).

2. Unregistered sale of securities related to the staking program for XTZ, ETH, ATOM, ADA, SOL. This in particular has a full, point-by-point rationale for why they are defined as securities under the Howey test (in short, you deposit money, and the terms make clear that it's Coinbase's money at that point, not your money, so definitely an investment; staking involves a common enterprise; and it's clearly advertised as making you money based on Coinbase doing stuff with your investment).

Maybe Coinbase should have listened to its own advisors on how to tailor a prospectus to not meet the Howey test definition of a security... or maybe their advisors didn't do a good job in the first place!
In the same way that the current state of a computer can be described by the position of electrons within its components or a party can be described by the relative position and density of various types of atoms in the room, sure.
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You do appear to have difficulty as you took what I said in metaphor and applied it literally. that's not how metaphors work.
I'd be curious to know more about what has been done with ARKit since launch. I know it's a thing....I just don't know if it has been used for any major purpose or at any major scale and, by extension, if it is forming the ground work for anything.
I wonder if modern smartphones lay the groundwork for people knowing they're on the cusp of a heart attack.

E.g., using sensors that are cheap, and are less invasive than EKG electrodes. Kinda like the way Apple watches can now continuously monitor stuff
I think they only started using the scientist codenames publicly starting from Tesla, but yeah they've used them internally almost since the founding of the company. Early on there was Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine and Curie, then the well-known Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, etc.
I'm still disappointed that you can't use (silent) videos in <img> tags or CSS properties where you can use images. Animated webp is so much less efficient than webm its not even funny. There are many places where you can already embed images (including GIF and animated WEBP) but video is not supported or has other restrictions.