skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>VR was a dream - and it's failed in spectacular fashion.

My whole point is that VR is a smash hit for exactly what it was always meant for. One of the earliest integrations with the Oculus dev kits was Euro Truck Simulator 2. VR is basically essential if you enjoy sim racing. VR is an incredible experience for flight simmers. VR is awesome if you like gun games, as Hot dogs horse shoes and hand grenades has no equal in video gaming, and lots of first person shooters work great in VR.

But that's all it ever will be and all it can be for normal people. It's a peripheral, not a console in it's own right.

Maybe it can be good in enterprise setups, like architecture, or training, but that still leaves it in an incredible niche.
Coinbase hired a top legal team to avoid regulation. You're parroting the story that those expensive lawyers have concocted as justification for their efforts to avoid enforcement while the company was busy selling unregistered securities.
Well then it’s known risk.

If it was known risk that the alleged perpetrators didn’t accurately account for, that’s on them isn’t it?

I agree with the general complaints about unconstitutional power, but when you know the SEC operates a certain way, and you try to get around that by throwing massive amount of money/lawyers at the problem, are you really a victim?
PSA: Many criminals enforce 'don't steal from us' in with punishments that are more brutal and with a lower procedural protections than the state does.
No benefit. I am just passionate about some topics & I try to maintain a good discussion with scientific temper around it.

I do the same work as @dang would here, without the pay and with a little more unreasonable users. (Its not hard to believe HN is the most behaved discussion platform on internet)
Economic actvity that you don't want a bank or government body to stop, so: illegal activity.
yes! I was discussing this exact idea yesterday with a customer with a bunch of devices locked into an old software platform. Ideally we'd want to provide both open firmware and an open backend.
This is a rehash of a previous article, which is a complete lie. I summarized what the original Japanese source says a few days back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147226

Slides published by the Japanese government shows that they're evaluating how to deal with copyright and AI. Their view is that current laws has few (but not zero) restrictions when it comes to training AI. However, strict copyright restrictions do apply to AI generated works even today. If it's proven that an AI-generated work is similar to or based on existing copyrighted material, that would be regarded as a violation and criminal charges may follow.

Here's the slide (in Japanese):

https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/ai/ai_team/3kai/shiryo.pdf
A large multitouch display was a pretty big deal. I watched movies on my iPod classic but it wasn’t a very nice experience and the scroll wheel is not exactly the most flexible input method..
There's a line of critique that says it's unfair for the government to have allowed Coinbase to break the law for so long, and then change their mind.

But in the American system, the burden of proof is on the government (SEC) to prove the behavior is actually illegal and until then, Coinbase was presumed innocent and had the freedom to continue doing what they want.

What's frustrating for crypto advocates is they were unable to use the 5yr analysis period to convince society to legalize their behavior (in the way that Uber/Lyft were able).

But this is one of the things the American system gets very right. A "trial" period where new behavior is allowed until the Executive branch can either prove its illegal, or Legislative branch can explicitly make it legal. It's an expensive system that achieves a balance between regulation and experimentation.
Drone as first responder makes a tremendous amount of sense -- Police already use helicopters, which are exceptionally expensive, limited in coverage capability, and have disastrous consequences when they crash.

But there are huge benefits of 'eyes in the sky' during a crisis. Car chases in LA are often eliminated when there's a police helicopter because they can simply follow the vehicle safely from a distance as the chopper tracks the car.

Providing overhead visibility support in advance of police arrival is a huge benefit to citizens during 911 calls. If a drone can respond in two minutes, and police are 7-10 minutes away, that's a massive situational awareness benefit that will save lives.

When someone calls for a house fire, having a drone arrive in minutes, potentially with a fire retardant payload, while ground-based fire vehicles arrive 5-10 minutes later, can mean the difference between life and death. At the very least, it provides tremendous information to the fire fighters on the way as to what to expect. They can see the fire before they arrive.

Two major life saving improvements for emergency rooms in the last 50 years were radios in the ambulances so that the ER knew what was coming in, and electronic EKG / vitals relay so that doctors had more precise telemetry of patient status. Drone first responder will have many similar benefits.
I'd assume any credible consumer version will be a few years down the road, anyway.
> When these things can understand the business requirements

I’ve been looking into this. Nothing definitive yet, but my hunch is that current LLM’s struggle because they lack curiosity. They will answer your question, however vague, with the first most obvious answer they can think of.

This is great, if you’re a junior team member. Super talented, very eager. But a more senior engineer approaches the problem differently. They ask more questions than provide answers. They’ll happily spend the first 25min of a 30min meeting asking heaps upon oodles of really dumb sounding questions.

Then the last 5min, that’s the magic. They now have a solution perfectly tailored to the problem at hand, with all sorts of edge cases either explored or eliminated through questioning. The questions they kept asking weren’t dumb after all, they were pruning a decision/option tree in their head of all possible solutions until they landed on the most optimal solution for a set of known constraints. With further options to dig and improve.

I think you can make an LLM do this (i’m trying), but it’s very very slow still.
I have this feeling that all of Musk's comnpanies are technology development ventures intended to support his primary goal of getting humans to live off-earth. Note: I am not defending his goal, or idolizing him. But consider: boring company: finance learning about tunnel construction; tunnels needed on moon or mars for habitation; solar cells: very useful on moon or mars; hyperloop: finance learning about vacuum seals and related technology. My explanation makes much more sense for each of these than the ostensible goal of the company. which brings me to the point in Cthulhu's post: tesla is selling cars to understand the techne of energy storage for use in space habs.
As usual, if I’m reading about it like this it’s too late to try.

This is fun to think about though, it’s like being Omar from “The Wire”. As the author points out, different targets have differing moral valence.
> You must be fun at parties.

FYI,this can come across as an ad hominem attack.
Same with Sequoia China for the past few years as well.
Pretty much every app I've ever needed required an API, which meant a server, which meant Next.js would have been a viable candidate. Sure, there are use-cases that you truly don't need an API or you can just hook up to an existing one, but I don't think they're nearly as common.
Apparently they have 210cc 25hp engine available.. is there any reason someone (or they themselves) couldn't throw that into a bike to see how it performs in real-world? There are plenty of 250-300cc bikes around with comparable power ratings, so you'd think it'd be feasible project and a bike sounds much simpler than car/aircraft/etc
I don't mean revoking 3rd party support entirely.

We don't know the implementation details yet but if this requires Apple vetting and whitelisting the providers then it can always be revoked for technical, business, political or any other reasons.
Passkeys were designed from the start to enable portability if desired. The rollout has been a mess though, so it’s been very effective in causing a lot more confusion than needed.

From the page:

> What’s new

> Now people can share passwords and passkeys from iCloud Keychain with their trusted contacts. *Password manager apps can save and offer passkeys on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS*. Enterprises can take advantage of passkeys thanks to Managed Apple ID support for iCloud Keychain. And administrators can manage which devices passkeys sync to using Access Management controls in Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager.

Emphasis is my own.

Dashlane and 1Password both support passkeys, and you can export your data from both services. I am certain more will follow as more third party support arrives for managing passkeys.
Why Is Everyone Watching TV with the Subtitles On?
I love FreeBSD and use it everywhere on the server/device side. But for a regular desktop, and especially laptop, is it ready yet? Last I tried it had no Wifi5 for a regular Intel card and I couldn't grok around it. As for things like hibernate it was common to just laugh sarcastically when anyone asked about it on the forums. Have things changed? But frankly I don't care. Who cares about desktop? Windows is fine. For many people even Android / ChromeOS is fine.
> Time shares

They bring the probability that you will be harassed by police/landowners/elements/civilians when residing in an area way down. Personally, I take the harassment and sleep on the street. But it's not easy and many would pay not to.

> collectible card games

You have fun when you play them. People pay to have fun.

> collectibles at large

Idk some people just get weird addictions. I put collectables at large in the same bucket as crypto, no defense there.

> fashion at large

Looking good is more likely to get you laid. People like getting laid, and will pay for it.
We are in a much different world then when google glass showed up. People taking pictures, videos, streaming is now much more commonplace. There was near no external indicator of taking a picture on google glass.

I also dont forsee this device being used outside often at first.

Google glass also flopped for many other reasons, it being uncomfortable, awkward, and abandoned quickly being some.
The headline is misleading. The actual study proved that the recorded date of admission to hospital in Ireland with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction was increased on a Sunday and Monday. Increased admissions on a Monday is not that unusual given that people often seek medical attention after the weekend but maybe more surprising is the increase on a Sunday. https://heart.bmj.com/content/109/Suppl_3/A78
About 10 seconds after the first one gets shot down.
Yeah, this is what gets me--and at least on IOS you can get a sense of this simply at looking at the difference in what data the app requests access to compared to e.g. Apollo.
"A whole desktop GPU" is cheaper than $3500 for a very locked down headset with no controllers.
If it’s as good as they say, then the market will show it. It’s not worth worrying about whether it will succeed or not; that’s Apple’s concern alone. We can all just enjoy the ride in the meantime.
Windows Mobile and Symbian devices were a thing for years and had functioning browsers. The iPhone was an improvement (as long as you had wifi) but it took a couple of years before it actually become widespread
Is someone depositing and withdrawing from a darknet market without transacting a criminal? Internationally?

Are all buyers of substances the U.S. controls inherently “professional criminals”?

Does the belief that someone is a criminal justify taking their money?

(I trace cryptocurrency professionally, depositing is key to identifying clusters and it sure is nice to get the money back)
> Crypto companies think they don't trade securities […]

I think the main debate is whether they are (in the US) securities under the SEC or commodities under the CFTC.

Though there may be related products and funds that are being traded.
"Getting sherlocked means that Apple just announced the software, or feature that a developer built their business on."

https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...
Is it really a problem if it works and people buy it?
Do this search a year from now and I’m sure Apple would’ve done (and gotten done) enough SEO for its device to be the top or among the top results.
The EU is the same as the US: pretending to be the land of free but effectively controlled by interests, driven by hidden agendas. Some other countries don't try to pretend to be free nor pretend to work for the people, and maybe less hypocrisy is not worse (China or India). A healthy balance of competition between world powers is much welcomed.
Thought experiment

- Sue Google for being non-compliant and <insert other reasons like indexing scam websites or displaying scam ads> post IPO

- Announce FedFind search engine

- "Too bad for you Google, should have been compliant and not engage in scamming innocent users"

Yeah. I'm grossly oversimplifying but w/e. Highly doubt FED intentions are unbiased here and that they're doing this out of good will.
The article, the people on SF board, and everybody else seems to confuse remote-controlled devices with AI-powered ones. To me the difference is essential: why I might agree to remote controlled devices carrying out the operator orders (I might), I definitely am very very, but very very very far from trusting an AI with carrying a weapon (I already don't trust humans that much).
lol I am pretty sure the GP is talking about the era of crypto swindlers who rode the good ideas of liberty, financial diversification, and such into the ground and will all hopefully pay for it
A "prosumer" desktop is just plain not up to the job. The Mac Studio is comparable to a high-end gaming PC. It is not really a workstation and definitely isn't a server. Its 16 performance cores and 192 GiB of non-ECC memory cannot compete with nearly 200 cores and multiple terabytes. Its GPU compute and memory bandwidth are many times less than what Nvidia can build at the high end.

The Studio would run large workload many times slower than a high-end server, if it could run them at all.
The most dramatic case is older — VHS literally won because of porn.

And there was video porn long before YouTube was founded. The claim is that porn drove people to get computers capable of showing video, to buy internet connections fast enough for video, etc. It is not that video sites must serve porn, but that the grassroots interest in porn created the market conditions that made YouTube possible.

It’s hard to substantiate because how would you? Other than just having lived through that time and observed (VHS was before my time, but The DVD market was similar).

Maybe that era has stopped and horny people are no longer seeking out the newest best way to consume porn, and technology is now pure. I’m just not seeing it, but maybe that’s my cultural bubble.
it s heavy but also the eyes get tired. but of course people in their 20s dont get it :)
Ehhh, I got confused over the myriad of collapsed companies. Perhaps I shouldn't try to get better memory, but instead cryptocoin companies need to stop collapsing. Its getting difficult to remember each company's situation on an individual basis.

Gemini was sued by SEC for running unregulated securities and was forced to shut down Gemini Earn months ago. Whatever, but its just another example of the kind of products the SEC is clearly looking at.

> Luna is.. a coin

Lunacoin supported Terra, and Celsius was backing its staking product with Terra coins. Are... you unaware of the connection between Luna and Celsius?

I wrote "Lunacoin / Celsius" for a reason. This didn't even happen that long ago, so I guess I assumed people would know where I was going.

I'm trying to describe the scope of unregistered, unregulated, super-dangerous "staking" schemes that collapsed over the last year. The names I discussed are all related to staking.
Guess you haven’t criticized Californian way of business and was banned by d*** for it yet.

Nothing of value lost with the user full of internet-points. Though I’m no reddit user (never was), so it may be really worse there, but this was already too much bullshit for my post-communist easter-european taste.
Yes, it would be like a married man asking his wife for a list of things that count as cheating so that he can be sure to avoid doing anything she wouldn't approve of.

Very few women would respond, "here is the list, if I forgot anything it is totally my fault and not your fault for doing something that is technically not on the list"
This is a really great idea! I spent a few hours playing around with it today, as I've been looking for a low-boilerplate way to quickly interact with a relational database. I've got a whole load of tables with relationships defined, and I want a nice way to render that.

I really love the idea of having "virgin" SQL statements to get and set the data - doing all the JOINs etc in SQL so I can pull together the view I want from a few interlinked tables. The low effort declarative GUI which interacts with that is nice. It's super-powerful to be able to describe a CRUD app as a set of relational tables, and a set of SQL insert/select statements, and then a very lightweight declarative GUI to start modifying and reading data from it. Then if the app becomes important you can take the same underlying data structure and wrap it in a more established framework with a "real" front end. And if it doesn't, you only spent a few hours on it!

A few thoughts:

1. It took me a while to work out how to render anything. Maybe make the first example you hit in the "Your website's first SQL file" section actually have everything needed to render a page (including "select 'shell' as component")

2. More examples! Maybe a straightforward CRUD type example would be good - it took me a while to work out how to create a row.

3. I want a searchable table of database items with a way to edit each one - maybe an extension to the table view? Either a way to add a custom link to each row in the table, or an extension to it that allows editing of data. That's where a CRUD example would be good.

4. The form should have an input type "multi" which is constrained to the options I've queried from the database. That way I can use the form to insert relational data, or limit users to a set of selections.

5. The "checkbox" type is either whatever it's value is, or NULL. If I've got an integer not null type in the database, I have to coalesce($myCheckbox, 0) when saving it - can you make it have a default unchecked value?

6. The examples are all hard coded data - can you have more examples that use the result of database queries to get the data that's rendered?

It's a fun project though! I like how lightweight it is as well.
Technically Sherlock predates Watson, it's just a lot of the useful additional features added by Watson were copied to Sherlock.
Crypto is like the worst investment ever: huge legal risk, does not hedge inflation, not a safeguard in crisis, does not benefit from tech/ai boom, does not generate profits. Only downside, no upside, no strengths, only weaknesses.

the chart is only one direction: down

The obvious weakness of bitcoin relative to QQQ demonstrates this. A daytrading pair trade method that shorts Bitcoin in market hours and goes long qqq would have cleaned house over the past year, including a huge win yesterday. i was running this and made a lot.

Who goes against the fed. government and wins? big tobacco couldn't do it. neither could the auto industry.
> I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the tracking in the official app vs third party apps

I don't think many engineers use the official app.
The work of the Asahi team is incredible, and so much fun to watch unfold.

I wander if now that you can get a rack mount Mac Pro with Apple Silicon (launched yesterday, the second coming of XServe), running server workloads on them with Asahi Linux becomes a viable route for some people?
It’s worth remembering the original iPhone did not have GPS at all. It had google maps for calling up information like you would with map quest, but no turn by turn/live navigation
You also get sitewide access to emojis/stickers from other servers, for the $2.99/mo Basic plan. For $9.99/mo you get profile customization, HD video streaming, and 500MB uploads.

Decent perks for an eye-watering price, and you don’t even get encrypted messages to boot.
> The relevance is that fertile material is not "partially spent fuel" in any extant fuel cycle.

Nobody was ever talking about fertile material until you brought it up. Let's re-read the relevant part in the root comment shall we?

> As pointed out in the video re-processing the fuel gets all of the usable fissile material out.

We were always talking about recovering fissile material. "Partially spent fuel" refers to fuel rods that still contain some fissile material. I have no idea where you got the idea that "partially spent material" referred to fertile material, especially when the comment you're referring to explicitly mentioned recovering fissile material.
One thing I think I have learned from all this is the limited power of lobbying.

Despite throwing billions of dollars at lobbyists and campaign contributions over nearly a decade, no legislation of any note was ever passed to protect crypto.

It's almost impressive, although I don't know if it could be chalked up to the complete ineptitude of the crypto industry.
True but as we need to cut them off, so that seems like a great move over the long term and a little pain now.
> This comment confuses me: Sandstorm itself is entirely local

The hosted version wasn't. Having to prop up your own Sandstorm instance pretty much compromises the project goal—ease of app installability means little gains when you're still responsible for running Sandstorm infrastructure that it relies upon.
Any notable use cases live you can share?
They certainly appear to be making cells now too.

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/09/22/everything-you-need-to-...

https://electrek.co/2023/04/21/tesla-update-4680-battery-cel...
This is a really good article although i don't fully agree with the conclusion. Thinking that Meta's quest is a social headset whereas Apple's is a solitary ignores the fact that social interactions and integrations can and will be developed into the VisionPro.
> Watching the game on tv is already a far superior way to actually see what’s happening.

Yes and no.

Knowing the entire state of the game? Sure, TV's pretty good.

But watching on TV doesn't give the strong impression of the sheer physicality of the game that sitting a row or two away from the court does. I used to sit baseline for Warriors games and it sure left an impression.
Its been more than a year I'm running asahi on my macbook air and I can't stress how grateful I feel for enjoying such wonderful freedom.

I don't feel like ever going back to x86 to be honest, at this point there is nothing lacking or unable to run and when the neural engine drivers come online now that the GPU is starting to mature people will be able to juice out every last bit of computation this machine is capable of.

For the record, I've switched to the edge branch a couple of months ago and honestly I noticed no actual difference in my day-to-day tasks which is really telling about how powerful even the M1 is when it can handle software rendering in such an effortless manner coupled with anything else running.

Really thank god for asahi being a thing.
I’ve been working in Ruby that whole time, and Postgres is like the right arm of the prototypical Ruby app. We did have a fad where Mongo was used at my company in the early ‘10s, and indeed we had little choice but to do rewrite that part. We actually had an amazing intern do that one year.