skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What remains to be seen is whether this is the greatest product in a product category with mainstream appeal, or whether this is the greatest product in a niche category that many people feel no need to be a part of.

Most of Apple’s other successful products are part of the former. Music players were a proven market. Headphones were a proven market. Cell phones were a proven market. Watches, fitness trackers, and jewelry were a proven market.

VR and AR are really not that. That market has sold an impressive amount of units mostly on the back of a cheap $300 device that its owners consider to be a toy, but the volume is nothing compared to all the other devices I mentioned.

This could very easily be the next HomePod (1st generation): an over-engineered niche product with a price that is too high to be palatable.

One thing is certain: people are getting fired over at Meta.
At some point the signals going to your brain won't be too different. VR + AI experiences have way more potential, and will greatly accelerate the trend of people mapping out their limbic systems.
I do prefer lighter but I prefer smaller form factor more. id prefer smaller (in all dimensions) over weighs less. Somewhere between the 12” rMB and the 13” MBA is my sweet spot size wise
> “no one would notice” really means “the maintainers don’t think anyone would notice”, and this ends up being somewhat arbitrary.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant, but this is phrased better than I did.

I do think that "Kernel never breaks userspace" is accurate in the common-understanding sense and a good policy to have, even though it's indeed not accurate in the sense that it's "100% technically accurate" (Linux also just breaks things by accident for example).

You could use a qualified statement like "Linux takes great care not to break userspace, except when there is a overwhelming case in favour of it, or when we think no real applications will break with it, and we don't always roll back accidental breakage if we don't think it's worth it" and that would be more accurate, but that's rather vague, and a clear "never break userspace" is a much clearer better as a policy for everyone.

In interviews and such Linus is of course much more nuanced than "never break userspace".
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I loved Computer Shopper. I regularly bought the UK version in the 90s just to gawps at all those adverts and dream about buying my ultimate PC.
I just love how people start making up reasons why "this time it'll probably work" because Apple is doing it.

They've certainly got a devoted flock.

I'm not anti Apple, they make some great hardware, but it just amazes me how much the brand convinces people all by itself.
React is a component library, Angular is a framework.

We don’t really compare them apples to apples at work because they serve two different use cases.
The PSVR2 also does foveated rendering, which the Vision Pro does not seem to do, which is about the biggest disappointment about this. I don't care about millions of pixels in the corner of my eye eating up my battery life when I can't even see them.
State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Pipelines Optimization via Vector Embeddings
Was it the V4 rollout where basically every link came from MrBabyMan?
Probably not (yet), moderating speech (abuse, trolling, etc.) should be quite easy, but moderating the information is very hard.
Doesn’t Apple Pay make it easier to not log in to websites (by getting rid of their desire to save payment details or addresses to get through later checkouts faster)? I just don’t really see some grand pro-login plan implied by Apple’s actions.
I saw it. But they are not 100% sure either. They think that it should be fine until old.reddit.com remains up - and we hope too. This is basically the last hope at getting something done reliably.

If its too hard I'd probably throw in the towel. I cannot invest my time & energy in futility when the parent company itself isn't interested to solve that problem space.
What's the point of watching a movie on a screen in a park, anyway?
> The experience you described is no indicator of whether "volume of thought is still much higher than normal" though? You'd have the exact same experience if the actual mechanism is that "had the label on [your] memories altered".

It's not the only evidence I have, but one of the main problems with trying to describe psychedelics is that the experience is... well, indescribable. As in, when I'm not on LSD, I can't even properly decode most of the memories I made with it.

> To scientifically test this, you'd need some normalized "benchmark task" of thought, and then compare the difference in progress on such a thought task between the control and psychedelic cases given the same amount of "real time".

LSD probably doesn't make it faster for me to process things. It just makes me jump between things more quickly so I have more distinct experiences at any given time. I know that while in voice chat with people, I would have moments where I would have a bunch of thoughts, completely forget what just happened, and only a couple seconds of real-world time had passed. In that scenario the other person is my time reference but I've also checked actual clocks and observed that effect.

I don't think LSD makes me better at computation at all (in fact, it probably makes me a bit worse at computation).
What’s the killer app for Apple Watch?
It's effectively an inside-out wankel, so the seals are stationary. This is a much easier problem to solve, and now you don't need to throw oil in the combustion chamber to lubricate the moving seals.
Back to Terraform
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If you're asking if I'm still alive, then yes.

If you're asking if I have "beat" cancer, then no. My cancer isn't curable. It doesn't even technically go into "remission", although some nurses will refer to it as such once it gets to an undetectable level; others will be more precise about simply saying it's at an undetectable level. It's still there, it will return, most likely in a year or two.

I have already lived longer than the headline "statistics" would suggest, partly due to my unusual age (typical age is 80+, I'm less than half that), and partly due to new treatments that haven't yet fed into the historic survivability statistics.

I'm doing just fine for now though thanks, the biggest impact on my life is that I only work part time because I need time off for medical appointments and I'm unlikely to get a mortgage ( if I could get one, I wouldn't want to borrow from a bank irresponsible enough to lend to someone not predicted to live for half the mortgage term! ).

I'm fortunate to live somewhere that I've never so much as even seen a hospital bill, I've never had to worry about insurance or co-pays, or go fund-me. I've therefore had the privilege to focus entirely on my own health, as well as having supportive employers who have let me work flexibly throughout. I very much appreciate this doesn't apply to everyone, even within my own country if I worked in different circumstances or for different employers I may have had a very different experience.

I've veered very off topic from the original post though, so I'll probably rein in my posting about this topic now.
It needs to nail many things: pancake with diopter and open drivers.

I also want it to use lighthouse tracking since I have them.
They already have you covered then. You'll be getting a comparable or marginally worse setup than couch gaming. It brings none of the benefits of the medium. There is no reason to use VR to game in this way. Perhaps you and some others want to do it, but it has no additional value prop to most people and is not what people mean when they say "VR gaming".
SQLite/appendvfs.c – append a SQLite database to your executable
I've coded a moderate amount in Rust since it was born, I think the prevailing rustfmt style is too bent towards machine-perfect neatness (one example: function definitions are split so that every parameter has a new line).

This machine perfect neatness comes from lots of small places in the syntax where Rust decided let's make the syntax permissive so that it's easy to autogenerate code with some macro or to make good diffs.

Then a systematic implementation of trailing commas and allowing leading/trailing separators in some places. The result is quite sterile and to me is no longer organically nicely readable.

tldr: rustfmt has no soul
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Still, the 300,000 years figure is way off. That's an anatomically modern human and they most likely could be trained to operate a car much like a human of today can. Getting to that point took billions of years, but producing the driver of a car was never the goal of that process.

It's just the wrong way to look at the problem. You're not trying to develop the generic system that can learn how to drive a car, you're trying to develop the specific system that can safely drive a car occupied by humans, naturally employing machine learning.

I would argue that we're 95% there, but solving those last 5% is exponentially more expensive, but not commensurately more valuable. There's a "profit ceiling" imposed by the cost of a human driver, which appeats to make solving the problem economically intractable.
I enjoyed listening 'Darknet Diaries'.
>Some tribes use psychedelics for hunting

OP saying slow doesn't mean that it's actually slower. If you process more information time _appears_ more slowly, but you're processing more, i.e. faster.

In hunting it might be good to have improved pattern matching abilities at the cost of a higher false-positive rate.
It is while people still have too much money to spend.
I find Wittgenstein's work in PI to be actually pretty therapeutic. He's not really insistent on finding the solution to a philosophical problem. His method is more about dissolving seemingly intractable philosophical problems by patient analysis of the assumptions hidden in our use of language. Seen in that way, his philosophical work is less focused on capital T truth, and more on clarification. We know for a fact though that he did struggle with coming up with his method, that it caused him something like mental anguish for his perfectionist mindset; but I don't think that reveals something inherent about the nature of philosophy. Instead, I think that reveals how terribly knotted our ways of thinking can get when we engage in language games that are seemingly intractable for 1000s of years.

His biography is actually incredible. I would recommend it; he lived through incredible disaster, tragedy, and triumph. He was an odd man to say the least, but he was also a brilliant philosopher, arguably the 20th century's most important.
“Up to” is legalese, I think. If you say “x% faster” and there is anything that isn’t x% faster on the new hardware, you may be taken to court and lose.

You’ll also always find a footnote on such claims explaining testing methodology. See for example the long list at https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/#footnote-1.
They could sell it as a contraceptive for men. (SCNR)
This has happened in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue
The goal isn’t usability, Reddit wants engagement and to be as addictive as TikTok.
Reddit's messaging is focusing a lot on how moderators aren't going to be affected. Reddit derives value from the unpaid moderators' work, but they doesn't seem to care about the user experience for the regular users, so it still feels a bit self serving whenever they swear mods will still be able to use certain tools.
It's a good thing. React team needs to keep up and keep fighting on the performance story.

Longer story: I hate ALL-in-one framework/libraries.

I prefer separation of bundling, compiling, rendering,... . It's called the SRP principle.
Yes, I’m splitting hairs over the semantics perhaps.

I think given some of Linus’s LKML rants directed at people who have broken userspace, it’s reasonable to take the claim at face value and assume that there is a hard guarantee of backwards compatibility (modulo bugs).
I'm certainly going to laugh at anyone I see wearing one not in front of a gaming rig.
The human eye actually has terrible resolution. We only see in high resolution in the fovea in the very center of our eye -- basically the single point of primary focus. Resolution beyond that drops off dramatically (1/7th and much worse).

I've seen people claiming on sites like Reddit that people who watch with CC on simply read it in their peripheral vision while focused on the action, and that just isn't possible in most situations for the reason I mentioned. You actually only see high resolution in the middle 1 degree of angular view.

So to come up with such a number someone took the entire FOV of the human eye and assumed that you focus your fovea on each and every angular degree of it.

That's neither here nor there are your point is as valid -- where you're focused on will have a pixel density below "reality" for your fovea, however it presents lots of optimization potentials in software (e.g. no need for fine rendering outside of the focus) and in hardware. There are already devices which use tiny mirrors and optics to basically concentrate the pixels wherever you're looking and render a distorted view to match.
The complaint
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...
You know, as a Ukrainian, what I appreciate the most is someone claiming to both be "in a comfy chair" and lecturing me on what is going on in my country of origin.

You have three potential explanations:

(1) The agressor, who:

- Has a history of using the very same tactics in Ukraine and sacrificing thousands of its citizens in burnt Earth approach,

- Has shot down a commercial airline "by mistake" several years ago

- Has a history and culture of endemic lying, which they also foster in Western countries through soft power and social network campaigns

- Who have started shelling the very citizens in Kherson they claimed to have liberated once they lost the city

- Benefits from the flooding massively, because it blocks off the looming counteroffensive by Ukraine

(2) The victim, who:

- Gains nothing on the battlefield by doing this and actually makes it more difficult for them.

- Has to sacrifice the lives of its own civilian population to achieve this.

- Has no history of such misinformation tactics.

(3) Force majeur.

But wait, here come the enlightened HN commenters to assign equal probability to all three explanations, disregarding all of the above, because:

- They haven't bothered to actually inform themselves (thinking that *oligarchs*, even with a Ukrainian citizenship, have nothing to do with russian secret service is another level of naive)

- They feel entitled to have an uninformed opinion

- Imply that the lives of Ukrainians are worth so little that their government would willingly sacrifice them.

Thanks, but I'll keep the outrage.
https://www.zerapy.ai/
Edward Snowden 10 years on – Whistleblowers' reaction
Lots of really nice new stuff, particularly excited that Apple are finally embracing PWAs!

Interesting to see Safari adding JPEG XL support just as Chrome dropped it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940
The author is talking about Angular.js, which the legacy version 1.x, and not the modern Angular 2+.
Twice now in the past 2 decades I've gone more than 24 hours without coffee.
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I love this idea and will try to create apps with it.
I’ve been thinking about creating something similar in ruby/rails for a while. It is currently a proof of concept with dbt like functionality using erb templates for sql. I would love to chat about it with interested rubyists, reach me via email on my username at hey dot com.
This is the exact model that I use on RadioReference.com. We have an API that exposes our entire radio database to end users, but they must be premium subscribers to access the data through the API. This spurred the development of tons of radio programming and other apps in the ecosystem. It's literally a win-win for all of us.

It's easy to detect "abuse" or "commercial use" and we contact those users and license them accordingly for such use cases.

We also went one step further and completely eliminated advertising on RadioReference.com. Given the user base is very niche and highly technical, the goodwill alone we got from that move gave us a sizable increase in premium subscription revenue. Plus, the quality, of Internet advertising has become so poor it's barely worth opening the space up to advertisers.
Launching Peak XV Partners
Well reddit was still able to run without money for quite a while, I wonder how it was possible, and why they wanted an IPO.

Anyway they improved the new reddit, it seems? It looks like they fixed some things and it's not as bad as it was 1 or 2 years ago.

Anyway the reddit model seemed quite good enough, I don't doubt that anybody could really make an alternative clone and gain users.

Mastodon is also expected to slowly get more and more users as twitter seems quite threatened.
> Global hyperscalers and supercomputing centers in Europe and the U.S. are among several customers that will have access to GH200-powered systems.

So, not for everyone.
They bought Alien Blue and turned it into the official app. I'm sure if they bought Apollo they would find a way to introduce all sorts of bugs (and worse, anti-features like ads and microtransactions) in no time
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I think this is entirely a documentation and marketing issue at this point. React Server components are very new, probably new enough that most people should not use them unless they're very comfortable working on the bleeding edge.

The problem is that React points towards Nextjs as a default, and Nextjs makes Server Components the new default.

It doesn't actually change anything for anyone that still wants to develop a standard SPA. And these changes also don't seem to make any of the old methods obsolete, they simply add another method that you can use to develop web apps.
at the same time SEC don't tell them what to do or not? Such a weird agency
They'll be in front of macs, not gaming rigs.
The reddit web on mobile is a sad experience, before it was possible to shut its continuously asking about installing the app but they removed the option. Now it always asks to use the app when I navigate to reddit. And no, I don't want to use any app to read it.
> I don't support Ukraine in this conflict for different reasons, one of which is that in case of their victory my family will loose everything and I'll end up in jail (and that's best case).

Why would this happen?.
Reddit, the clear winner of Diggs traffic was written in python. Guess Python might work just fine :\
They did this before already. They bought Alien Blue back in the day and replaced it with the official app. You can judge how that went for yourself.
Java itself is pretty good if you stay away from any popular Java library.
That's true, to a degree. At some point you will hit both a time delay barrier inhibiting the training...
Having to learn delayed gratification is hard for an AI and hard for humans.

And then you'll hit the resource barrier. There's only so much and so hard any one person can control and influence with any given means.
Xilinx's AI has a dedicated AI accelerator in the versal so calling it taking advantage of FPGA isn't quite accurate. It's really another chip that happens to be copackaged with the FPGA
All good, but the natural response to discomfort was to do something about it (perhaps this was previously learned?) but after repeated failure to do anything about it, the shocks become accepted). The helplessness was learned. Maybe that's reversion to a default though?
Regarding your criticism of Copilot: I think the productivity-related outcome of the results varies from person to person. The exact results you mention help me in a way that I acknowledge is somewhat irrational. The mental load of verifying and manipulating conditions (that are already correct) is much lower than writing them.
Taking something free and putting it behind a paywall of any size is going to anger users.
"Authentication has to be messy and painful so it isn't adopted" is an odd take.

This also seems to be the polar opposite of most complaints about passkeys. The typical response is that they won't replace passwords because passwords are easy and accessible. Here you are saying that passkeys are easier. It can't be both.
Maybe with reader mode? Desktop Firefox provides it on this website.
I've given server components with Next.js an honest try in my personal projects, and honestly, the pain of using them far outweighs the benefits.

I MUCH prefer the pattern of getServerSideProps seeding data on-page-load and working with it via context providers. The fact that data loaded in with server components cannot support reactivity of any kind means you have to litter your code with "use client" wrappers that take in their parent data as initial state, then introducing client reactivity on top.

That^ also means that any time you drop into "use client" you drop any SSR benefits anyway. I agree with a lot of this article that the transition feels forced, and I can't help but hope that Vercel commits to supporting pages style routing indefinitely.

Here's an example, the pattern makes it almost impossible to highlight a currently active route in a navbar. Literally a basic building block of web applications: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/43704
Really nice, it is very useful now with so many new models and datasets for NLP
Thanks both, I'm not very mechanical and came to the comments to find out what makes this not a wankel.
It inverts where the apex seal goes. So instead of having it on the rotor, and hard to lubricate, it goes on the housing, which is much easier to lubricate.
I find Copilot to be a WET enabler; it figures out patterns that are boring to type and infers where they’ll be needed again.

It’s an even better experience with notebooks where the abstract vs repeat tension leans more toward the latter.
I don’t think it’s about having a screen everywhere though: I would be uncomfortable going out in public with it, for fear of being mugged for it.
Also check out logseq, workflows a bit different but pretty intuitive if you're taking notes instead of doing longform writing.

https://logseq.com/
https://github.com/zadam/trilium
I think so, they apply it to Computer Vision datasets as well
Unity's sales play is greater than just games. I wouldn’t say the partnership signals games (but it doesn’t exclude them.)
I think we as an industry underestimate the value of stability.

It's easy to always look at what isn't perfect and think, "Hey, we know better now, let's fix that", but what does more damage, architecture that isn't perfect or constant change?

It's hard to really get any momentum going when all the tooling changes every few years.
There was never nearly the kind of hatred towards looking at your phone as there will be towards strapping a TV to your head. You have the occasional person complaining that people aren't connecting, which is no different from newspapers in the 20th century.
> Humans aren't perfect.

Humans are good at designing processes and procedures that compensate for their lack of perfection. In this case that capability was not used apparently.

Anyone can make a mistake and that's fine, but a company would be expected to have processes and enough eyes to make sure that a bunch of other people need to make the same mistake before it makes its way into prod at which point the likelihood of mistake becomes really low...
No, that's the gist of the whole article. Some people do not learn how to control their life and I would say that's the important diference. You have to try to learn this new skill not to unlearn "helplessness".
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I think you severely overestimate German speakership in Turkey.
It's the datacenter closest to your user(s) where you deploy services that require minimal latency. That's all there is to it.
“AI Will Kill Us All ” Say People Programming AI to Kill Us All