skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition of service is not "someone does their job". We should also recognize that food service workers are not, in fact, selfless and saintly as a collective group and have skin in this game.
How to Design Programs 2e (2023)
Not sure where you got the impression of that?

There do not exist "equivalent"s to any Apple devices (I don't see them licensing the M1/2 chips to anyone else anytime soon). But depending on what you care about, a "comparable" Apple device could be 10x more expensive. Of course, for other tasks a "comparable" Apple device can also be _cheaper_ than any non-Apple device available!

Only looking at aiming for similar "longevity" (since the parent is using that as a benchmark), there are plenty of devices that have a useful life comparable to Apple devices at 1/4 - 1/10 the price.
I'm happy to say that even HN largely doesn't work like that: many of us upvote comments with which we disagree because they are well thought-out or interesting, and made us reconsider our viewpoints, even if we ultimately settled on the same viewpoint as before.

Or at minimum we don't downvote as knee-jerk psychological defense mechanism.

And Dang doesn't go around removing comments and commenters he philosophically disagrees with either, even when they're obviously wrong or hyper-emotional, so long as they're not hurting the community.
If the Point of Capitalism is to Escape Capitalism, Then What's the Point of Capitalism?

https://eand.co/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-escape-capi...
Chrome _did_ actually support it at some point, though, didn't it?
> I'm trying to figure out what the target audience is

Probably it was some sort of terminal for industrial equipment; nothing to write home about by today's standards (and yesterday's too for that matter), but could be used for slow and not critical tasks such as EEprom/chips programmer, serial terminal for known soft/hard protocols and signals. I would find useful having one that accesses a shared directory on the LAN then can read firmware files and program chips or read/write on rs232 or i2c busses, work as serial terminal for debugging etc, and other tasks where a laptop could be overkill.
This is a pretty shockingly bad statement. Not only is it a complete exaggeration, it’s not even a good exaggeration. Saying “I worked on mind-reading features” for Apple’s new VR headset is just creepy.
> I understand I'm being absurd

Huh? Up to that point I was expecting a joke about Chrome being the receiver of the exact same thing Google practices.
There is some old saying that good things travel slowly and bad thing very fast. So do expect this tipping culture to spread all over but not tons of good things from US.
I believe that in the US, that's called "bribery".

It is not legal for some positions to accept gratuities here. Police and postal carriers, certainly. I think perhaps firefighters, too?
Yes, evading capital controls is illegal, part of the informal economy in large parts of the world, and very helpful to many people.

I also think there are useful legal uses, but yes - where crypto has the best comparative advantage is when people are trying to circumvent harmful laws. Not every country is a (relatively) well-run procedural democracy. Crypto helps people route around that.
> exciting VR product

So far I haven't really seen any reports to justify excitement.
> This chip is made on TSMC 4N, along with the H100 and 40xx series consumer GPUs. I assume Nvidia has purchased their entire production capacity.

I dont know why you would assume that. Qualcomm has been using TSMC N4 since last year [1]. I'm sure there are other customers as well.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17395/qualcomm-announces-snap...
Another ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214781.
It's behaving like a VC funded unicorn that is trying to get their IPO payday but it really isn't that at all.

Sucks.
There are very few people working with image codecs, and you will not find a codec "virgin" among people responsible for these subsystems.

One of the main JPEG XL contributors is a WebP contributor and a Google employee. If JPEG XL got shipped first you could make the opposite conspiracy from that!
We had binary plugin support before. It didn't work out well.
They also demoed using a Bluetooth game controller for Apple Arcade games (that already support them).
Maybe start compiling in a Notion doc.
Another ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214901.
Has Gensler never consulted lawyers on the status of ethereum prior to this hearing?

It should be easy yes or no from the lawyers, I'm hearing that the law is incredibly clear and not really prone to misinterpretation so it shouldn't be an issue. Or maybe Gensler's lawyers are "extremely inexperienced" if they couldn't figure out such an obvious issue?
In an OSS ecosystem, manufacturers inherently have to use work that has been done by volunteers! The real question is whether they invest their own resources too. For example, System76 has created their own distro, Pop OS. My team and I were happy with the laptops purchased from them and the OS integration provided a smooth experience.
Actually it looks like someone approaching will automatically fade in, even if your immersion had been dialed up.
Cool stuff but there are some omissions that leave me wondering how correct this is.

1. What's the proper way to experience this?

No information is given on how the judges experienced this content. Did they watch it in 1080p or 360p? Did they watch it over YouTube or on a local player? Did they watch it on a loop or did they have to manually play it every loop? Did they watch it in a dark room or with the lights on? Did they watch it on a phone or a monitor or a TV?

2. What is the transmission speed?

How much time did someone tripping take to see the message? These methods could be ineffective if it takes someone sober the same amount of time to read the message.

3. What is the transmission method?

I specifically avoided the descriptions before watching the videos so I wouldn't bias myself by knowing the answer. I was still able to read the messages when I sat myself down in a dark room, put the videos on loop, and "spaced out" for a few minutes. I suspect these messages rely on the tendancy of someone tripping to stare off into space so the afterimage effect can come into play. I understand that the authors are coming from a non-scientific background and cannot pin down the specific traits of tripping on LSD that causes these methods to be effective. I strongly suspect these messages work by watching the content in a specific manner instead of the result of an altered function or altered reception of visual stimuli.
A CLI tool for tracking your daily habits
Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Front End Engineers
The worst will be blackouts for NBA games for this.

I had NBA TV for one season, but because I live in the Portland area, I can not watch Portland trailblazers games. It was ridiculous, so I did not subscribe this year.
> An older server with 192G of RAM, 24 cores and >8TB of storage can easily be had and upgraded within $1k,

Are you referring to a used server, or just buying a minimally-equipped new server and upgrading it with aftermarket RAM and (low-quality) SSDs?
My point is simply that crypto requiring a nuanced legal treatment is not implicitly by design even if it was promoted as a feature early on by grifters and anarchists. It’s a technology like any other and it’s the regulators’ job to create fair and appropriate treatment for it (and our job to elect ones who will).
Looks pretty different. Much closer to more modern state management approaches such as Recoil and Jotai.
I never said anything about soil pH. Pine needles are pretty acidic when they first drop but that goes away pretty quick. What i'm talking about is the biological perma-mulch that is the pine needle. Pine needles break down slowly and form an effective mulch layer that suppresses further growth. All you have to do to know that is true is to look under a pine tree and a deciduous tree of similar side and density and note the difference.
I think there's a distinction between the physical and the digital. One might say it's electrons at the end of the day but if you think about how we came into this world and how we've operated for a millennia, putting a veil over our eyes to deny the real world is not part of that. It came much later.

Look I'm an engineer like everyone else here. I've grown up on the internet, I've played games consoles since I was a child. I've lost myself to endless hours watching TV, movies, roaming the internet and building software till the odd hours. I'm also closing in on 40 so what I value now is not the same as what I thought was important 20 years ago. Living in some sort of matrix was really appealing back then but as my mortality becomes more apparent I reflect more on our existence and reason for being. In my opinion it's not to defer all of our faculties to a screen strapped to our faces. We are so far from the truth is crazy. But hey we'll keep going in that direction and like all technology there will be the pendulum of extremes and moderation. I will likely not use one of these devices for a long time and only when there's a compelling reason to do so and for limited periods of time. I think that's how all technology should be used, in limited capacity for the betterment of our lives. I do not want to stare at a screen for hours on end anymore and spatial computing is basically taking us further in that direction.
She Was Falsely Accused of Cheating with AI – and She Won’t Be the Last
yep! It's actually on my desk right now! (https://imgur.com/a/3pAYfnx).

Colin, EE on our team, is building a test fixture for it in order to correctly simulate certain scenarios on it. I think we'll have the access system integrated in the next 4-5 weeks. The camera stuff, we're still toying with the exact API & use cases. If you have specific camera features you want supported, could you post them here or email me (sy@seam.co)?
Not a counterexample of the type system of Rust itself, but this one with LLVM following C and C++ definitions of "side-effects" is interesting: https://counterexamples.org/eventually-nothing.html
This is a misdirection.

I hear people discuss this issue all the time and the focus, like TFA, is focused on compensation and ‘labor demanding too much from consumers’. But consider that processing fees (at least in the US) are generally a small fixed fee of some cents + a percentage of the transaction.

Including tips in the default POS checkout flow has more to do with card transaction fees determined in large part by the transaction size, which creates a strong incentive to boost that transaction total in any way possible.

Similarly, do you ever wonder why everyone wants to you donate to a charitable cause at the grocery store all of the sudden as part of a similar flow in industries that don’t have a tradition of tipping? I suspect that card processors have discovered guilt is more effective than up-sales at increasing transaction size and has been a major driver of increased revenues over the past years.

Edit to add: transaction fee clarity
> Wow. I didn't know about that.

According to the Apollo dev's recounting of the call this is "sexually explicit content only, not normal posts marked NSFW for non-sexual reasons".

I assume there's a flag at the subreddit level or something, because Narwhal doesn't show the "cheeky narwhal" on /r/cigars (something it does on NSFW subs). I don't know how they'll handle SFW subreddits where NSFW is used for both spoilers and dodgy content though. That's assuming they even care.
Where the definition gets confusing is when a cryptocurrency gives you voting rights to modify the underlying protocol, or determine the direction of an entity that manages the underlying protocol, etc.

There isn't (AFAIK) a commodity that operates in this manner. Owning a lot of gold doesn't mean that I'm able to unilaterally adjust how gold is mined or obtained, for example.
In my experience it's mostly the not very small but also not very large companies _which have a small set of very excellent programmers_ which do so, with some tech lead spearheading it and having the skill (but not time) to pull it of just by themself.

But in larger companies this kind of team structure is rare, fleeting and if it exists most times focused on other more core business areas.

I mean in a start up you might find people with skills they could get highly payed for working for a fraction of their salary due to various freedoms and work atmosphere aspects, so you might have an excellent skilled person you can put (or which puts themself) on working on such UI tasks.

But in a large company you have this rarely, most highly skilled people there are also highly payed and in turn to expensive to put on such tasks which on paper don't yield that high value (not on a "they can't afford it basisi" but on a "it makes financially no sense" basis).

Similar even if that isn't a problem such people tend to be much more constrained by other influences.

Then there is the problem that software development isn't that easy to scale (I think most more experienced people know the "onboard a person to gain speed but losing speed" kind of situation). So often approaches to development become more stream lined, with more overhead, and in turn more expensive (but scaling to more devs). At which points considerations for cutting costs come in and in turn the "only one app" decisions is on the table. A good technical example is if you compare (a bit older) react + full reflux with the dart blocks pattern at the core they are the same but the react one is scaling better with many devs while also but in turn also has more overhead by splitting more things apart spreading you logic across all kinds of (standardized) places.

Through probably most important companies do not thing in terms of "can we afford it" but in terms of "does that yield enough profits for it to be worth it" (assuming they can afford it).
IMVHO: those who cry "AI will destroy anything" AND those who equally cry "AI will makes anything better" are both largely wrong for the present and still wrong for the mean and long run.

Today "AI" systems are nice automatic "summarize tools", with big limits and issues. They might be useful in limited scenarios like to design fictional stuff, to be "search engine on steroid" (as long as their answers are true) and so on. Essentially they might help automation a bit.

The BIG, BIG, BIG issue is who train them AND how can we verify. If people start to get the habit of taking for truth any "answer" their grasp on the reality would be even lower that today "online misinformation", and that can go far beyond news (try to imaging false medical imaging analysis consequences). How can we verify is even more complex. Not only we can't train at home with interesting results but also we can't verify for truth the mass of training materials. Try to imaging the classic Eduard Bernays "dummy" sci journal publishing some true papers and some false one stating smoking is good for health... https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/12/consumer now imaging the effect of carefully slipped false material in the big "ocean" of data...
>That's a significant handicap Mexico has had to struggle since being a Spanish colony, and it hasn't helped in the various independence and revolutionary movements.

Please let me LOL again at the arguments you people are making.

I grew up in Mexico and being a Spanish colony 400 years ago, plus the independence and revolutionary movements you mention have had absolutely zero impact on my everyday life in the 21st century.

Excuses have an expiration date.
How common is avx on edge platforms?
In the Platform State of the Union talk yesterday they actually showed how developing Vision Apps will work and it can be done through the device just by looking at your Mac. It will spawn your Mac screen and the Vision app you're working on in the air. It looked pretty slick.
>Gen Z would be better served by building a sustainable career and life they enjoy.

Okay..

>Millennials inherited a job market offering unstable employment

>Chronic stress, burnout, depression and anxiety are all factors that could be triggered by work

>However, there are many who “retire” from one job just to pivot into another line of work that perhaps better aligns with creative passions, interests, or doesn’t pay well. Or one person retires and their spouse works, which makes the argument of retirement complicated.

Somewhere along the line, the author forgot to mention how one can even get to that 'sustainable career and life' reliably, and only mentioned several reasons why it won't happen.
> And from my handful of years as a commodities trader

If crypto was limited to commodities traders we wouldn't have had nearly the number of problems we have had.

> The vast majority of cryptocurrencies (modulo a bunch of shittokens)

You can't eliminate a huge part of the sector that the exchanges are actively involved in trading.
Except that AI teachers trained by for-profit corporations are far from perfect.
It depends on the usecase. A database is not only a data store, it can also be used as an analytics tool.
More or less yes.
If it's an internal name, maybe, but external names are generally intended to manipulate the public via psychology to make unconscious connections to the product that will make them want the product, in other words "marketing 101".
https://archive.ph/w5BBC
I think it's not only because he's an ex-apple employee, but an ex-apple employee that's worked on the patented tech on this specific product.
Your comment raises important points. The non-local nature of braiding in topological quantum computing contrasts with the inherent locality of the AdS/CFT correspondence, prompting us to wonder how these paradigms might coexist.

Could braiding and entanglement entropy, both non-local quantum properties, hint at new understandings in the AdS/CFT framework? Additionally, might these braided structures help illuminate the microstate structure of black holes as theorized by string theory?

Finally, your insight into quantized properties emerging from continuous geometry recalls how quantum field theory has been linked to knot theory. Can we use these ideas to further probe the quantization of spacetime?

Your reflections beautifully intertwine quantum computing, holography, and quantum gravity, encouraging us to weave together these disparate strands in the tapestry of theoretical physics.
excuse me while I roll my eyes directly into the back of my head. Would you prefer I used the correct Sanskrit term?
> It is part and parcel of the general breakdown in civility after Covid

Oh, this was a large an increasing problem before covid. Covid perhaps accelerated it, but didn't cause it.
Thanks! This still seems to be just an abstract, though, and I was unable to find any details about the actual method of data collection. Been downvoted enough for today, though, so...
> Crypto currency is a commodity

Could you explain this to me?

Are there any other examples of non-physical commodities?
GNU Parallel + some Python code?
Hacktivists claim DDoS attacks on Outlook.com
I don't get this. There is no live demo so far, only a pre-rendered ad. So you have no idea what the actual experience will be like (in an industry famed for over-promising and under-delivering; remember Magic Leap?). The use-cases are also dubious: you can... watch TV alone? Scroll through photos alone? Take pictures? Only the virtual desktop thing was something that I thought "that's useful".

I'm unimpressed so far, maybe that will change maybe it won't. But right now I don't see anything worth being impressed by.
They're going to have developer previews available in certain cities around the world. You'll be able to take your app and run it on the hardware to see how it works outside of a simulator.
To be clear, it'd be below 720p if you're making them at the same size as an 27" display at the regular distance.

I do completely agree that the promise is there, I've been saying for years that VR/AR is completely pointless as a gaming medium and it's only future is in exactly what Apple is aiming for, here. 4k per eye is just not going to be enough realistically
This information is on their website wiki. See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
> It's a bit of a different design point.

I don't see the point of your comment. It matters nothing if you underline design differences if in the end you can get a cheaper minipc that's upgradeable and ships with more memory, and you can't do anything about your Mac mini other than scrap it and buy a more expensive model.

> The mini is a perfectly decent Apple Silicon Mac

That's all fine and dandy if you artificially limit comparisons to Apple's product line.

Once you step out of that artificial constraint, you get a wealth of miniPCs which have a smaller form factorz are cheaper, have more RAM and HD, are upgradeable and maintainable, and in some cases have more computational power as a whole.
I did already. I even said that they are at most skepticism.

I asked you to do it for your own benefit, because it doesn't exist and you clearly don't know that.
>I was HIGHLY doubtful that Apple could pull off a workable digital avatar based off of just a scan of your face using the Vision Pro headset itself. Doubt crushed [...] It’s not totally perfect, but they got skin tension and muscle work right,[...] and the brief interactions I had with a live person on a call [...] did not feel creepy or odd. It worked.

One of the things that shocked me most from the keynote, was the Persona avatar demo. Meta has demoed what they call codec avatars[1] which are super impressive, but still very much in development and not anywhere on the horizon yet.

To see Apple demonstrate realistic avatars was honestly super impressive and will be imo one of the features that you just need experience to truly realize the world of a difference it makes to talk to someone on a flat video screen or feel like you're in the same space together thanks to these avatars and spatial audio.

Immersion is so powerful in VR, I can't wait to hang out with friends and family abroad, play tabletop games, watch a show together, or just shoot the sht.

[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=SDxMZ9zjqMs
That's not remotely a fair characterization of what TFA says about Python:

> This is intentionally a fairly narrow definition. Some examples of things that are not "type systems":

> Python's type system: Dynamic languages like Python do local type checks to establish global safety properties. However, the type checks are not done purely on the program's source code before running it, but examine the actual runtime inputs as well.

It does not say "python is strongly typed but [...]", not even "python is strongly typed". The words "strong", "strongly", and "strength" do not even appear. TFA says that Python being dynamic means it is not type-checked at compilation time -- that's practically the same as saying the opposite of "python is strongly typed" for most people's intended meaning of "strongly typed".
> An extraordinarily privileged and tone-deaf response. Well done.

Responses like this degrade this community. Ad hominems add nothing to the conversation.
> 1. Despite any theoretical applications, all applications of crypto thus far have been to bypass laws.

Not so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_in_El_Salvador
I don’t normally eat at places where a single person is spending $50 per meal (assuming 20% tip). And if you have multiple people, depending on the type of food and the portion size that number of plates and glasses expands.

It’s worth noting that the tip is distributed amongst people who serve, so at a $50 price point that probably includes whoever made/recommended your drink.

I also wouldn’t tip at buzzer places.
Here is an example where human intelligence was actually augmented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36209042.