skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it very notable that Graydon Hoare, the "founder" of Rust, went on to work at Apple on Swift for a while.

Also, Swift had tremendous work to implement ABI stability[1], which really allows it to be used as an OS API, which Rust can't do.

[1] https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/
For a species advanced enough for trivially navigating the universe, the difference between the US and Afghanistan would be trivial. If they are more in the individuality side of thing (in contrast to hive mind), the dumbest of their lot would probably be smarter than the smartest person we can find here, probably looking at us the way we look at other intelligent species.

To measure us, would they look at the capacity to produce tech or consume tech (they would probably be more interested in East-Asia than North-America)?

If they look at introducing themselves and communicate peacefully, what metrics would they look at to determine what society they want to deal with?

If they look for dominance, once again they would hit where we produce tech, and hit our means of communication, which are worldwide.
I think I've mentioned it before, but the isspace() and similar man pages used to warn that they made sense only if ascii.

So the recommendation was to always do (isascii() && iswhatever()).

With the advent of locales they seem to have just omitted this rather than put in a warning or hint.
When I worked as a mainframe engineer at IBM last century, the dress code was strictly suit and tie, and I carried my tools in a toolcase disguised as a briefcase.

It was quite the nightmare climbing inside a 3890 check sorter with suit and tie on. The machines were literally puiled high with oily paper dust due to the millions of checks that fired through them continuously and you aways emerged filthy and dusty. I constantly fielded questions from the computer operators as to why I had to wear a monkey suit when I was obviously more of a mechanic (sidenote: I married one so perhaps the suit had some sartorial impact after all).

At that time there was apparently only one IBM office in the world where the dress code was relaxed which was Darwin Australia due to the extreme heat. The dress code there was dress shorts and long socks, something like a safari suit.
In the demo, I was hoping to see some app/screen/display anchored to certain walls or being fixed in a 3D spot. That way I can walk to a place to see that "screen".
I could totally imagine a Ukrainian farmer pulling a UFO with his tractor on TicToc.
> But it does put an enormous amount of pressure on the eye tracking. As far as I can tell so far, the role of precise 2D control has been shifted to the eyes.

I've been researching eye tracking for my own project for the past year. I have a Tobii eye tracker which is probably the best eye tracking device for consumers currently (or the only one really). It's much more accurate than trying to repurpose a webcam.

The problem with eye tracking in general is what's called the "midas touch" problem. Everything you look at is potentially a target. If you were to simply connect your mouse pointer to your gaze, for example, any sort of hover effect on a web page would be activated simply by glancing at it. [1]

Additionally, our eyes are constantly making small movements call saccades [2]. If you track eye movement perfectly, the target will wobble all over the screen like mad. The ways to alleviate this are by expanding the target visually so that the small movements are contained within a "bubble" or by delaying the targeting slightly so the movements can be smoothed out. But this naturally causes inaccuracy and latency. [3] Even then, you can easily get a headache from the effort of trying to fixate your eyes on a small target (trust me). Though Apple is making an effort to predict eye movements to give the user the impression of lower latency and improve accuracy, it's an imperfect solution. Simply put, gazing as an interface will always suffer from latency and unnatural physical effort. Until computers can read our minds, that isn't going to change.

Apple decided to incorporate desktop and mobile apps into the device, so it seems this was really their only choice, as they need the equivalent of a pointer or finger to activate on-screen elements. They could do this with hand tracking, but then there's the issue of accuracy as well as clicking, tapping, dragging or swiping - plus the effort of holding your arms up for extended periods.

I think it's odd that they decided that voice should not be part of the UI. My preference would be hand tracking a virtual mouse/trackpad (smaller and more familiar movements) plus a simple, "tap" or "swipe" spoken aloud, with the current system for "quiet" operation. But Apple is Apple, and they insist on one way to do things. They have a video of using Safari and it doesn't look particularly efficient/practical to me [4].

But who knows - I haven't tried it yet, maybe Apple's engineers nailed it. I have my doubts.

1. https://uxdesign.cc/the-midas-touch-effect-the-most-unknown-...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade

3. https://help.tobii.com/hc/en-us/articles/210245345-How-to-se...

4. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10279/
The Mac mini M1 was on sale new for $400 at Costco a couple weeks ago. The M2 Mac mini is $499 on the Apple education store.
Even without FTL, time dilation makes travel conceivable, no?

You can get halfway across the galaxy in less than 50,000 years.
If the true picture were to be revealed, I suspect it would cause an enormous disturbance in society. Poor dads, they should for sure check that their kids are really theirs
Here are some things that were, at some point, long considered to be physically impossible:

-Deep sea exploration

-DNA sequencing and cloning

-Flight

-Long-range electric power

-Microbes

-Organ transplants

-Solar panels

I understand the enormity of the proposition of things such as FTL travel. But just saying "it doesn't have a fit within our current framework of understanding, so it's impossible and a moot point" seems a little...conceited, given all the historical precedents of exactly the opposite becoming true, eventually, given enough public interest.
Because it avoided some of the bad choices made in programming languages in the past half century I don’t think it will reach C++ complexity. For example, it doesn’t have the C preprocessor, (unless I missed some developments) avoids some of the complexity of C++ public/protected/private inheritance, and makes it hard or even impossible to make some errors that are way too easy to make in C++, such as not following https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/rule_of_three.

They sure seem to be trying, though.

It does add such things as async and ownership, and those complicate the language, but IMO not programming in the language. It only makes issues explicit that C++ programmers also have to think about, but cannot clearly document in code.

I also think it’s starting to be two languages: the relatively simple high-level one that it started out as that has Unicode strings, reference counting, copy-on-write data structures, and makes multi-threading magically work through GCD and a low-level one that has byte arrays, ownership, allows implementers to implement data structures the way they want and has explicit locks, etc.
I'm pretty sure there are documented, widely-recognized case of this happening. Can't remember the details, but I think it was an amateur radio operator that found a secret broadcasting station, and was thrown off the trail when said station decided to broadcast fake stuff about aliens. And another case where the government needed to test animals for radiation following a nuclear test, so secretly stole them from farms in a way that suggested UFO abduction?

I can't remember where I read/heard this, but sure it is on the internet somewhere.
Isn’t that an intractable problem without LiDAR? I suppose the naive solution would be to fix the screens in spots as you suggest as opposed to pinning onto real life locations.

edit: ah, right the vision pro does have lidar. I look forward to seeing this pinning if it's implemented. I'm still skeptical it would work well - I've used ARKit and it's not really that accurate when you're moving around.
Extend that too:
a) An alien civilization has overcome the massive problems of interstellar travel and is able to visit in a manner that doesn't create a second sun in the sky

Seriously people underestimate the ludicrous energies involved in near-c travel. Even with engines off at those speeds the interstellar dust undergoing nuclear fusion off your hull will give you away
Gen Z is drinking less at concerts
haha - I do not recall! But you're welcome :).
Since IQ is designed to be a normal distribution, isn't the average IQ the same (100) year after year?
Interesting point — if you no longer need to use a joystick to aim your weapon, how will controllers evolve? Will the second joystick be used for some other function, or will it be replaced by a different type of input method?

It would be funny if controllers evolved to be more like the single-joystick models that we had decades ago, with the joystick on the left and rows of buttons on the right. History doesn't repeat itself, but perhaps it'll rhyme?
> likely few would hear a joke… take it way too literally…

This is the premise of about half of I Think You Should Leave skits
It’s not a matter of what tokens are “permissible” but rather what protections market participants get against fraud and instability. There was plenty of opportunity for crypto to actually raise the bar in protecting the consumer and it just never happened.
Fantastic title.
The flip side is that AI generation makes nudes, real or not, plausibly deniable.
Treaties are about Americas choice in the global community. Unless you think these treaties are some how a lower standard of care
In the demo there is a scene where a guy displays some iceberg photo on a virtual screen and then moves closer to it, with the screen anchored to some 3D point in the real world.
Controversial, but I think that rather than trying to make Web stuff (e.g. React) work in Python, a more fruitful direction would be to make ML stuff (e.g. PyTorch, OpenCV) work in Typescript.

Javascript/Typescript is way faster than Python, is ubiquitous and can run pretty much everywhere, has many engine implementations, has an incredibly wide ecosystem, has a type system (Typescript) that blows any Python type system out of the water, runs in browsers, has non-stupid package management systems (PIP is a joke), is easy to get started, etc.

<The world if data scientists/ML/CV people used Typescript.JPEG>
Regular teachers are trained by for profit corporations too. They are called private universities
Well, surely you saw this coming, but I'll ask my previous question: how do you guarantee peace after the armstice? Why shouldn't Russia attempt the same thing again in a couple of years, since the war would have netted them territory (you're not mentioning Russia retreating from invaded territory)?
His original thesis on Bitcoin as expressed in his NYT article "Why Bitcoin Matters" [1], is still very compelling. His later obsession with shitcoins is quite misguided, I agree, but not enough to compromise all of his credibility. It'll be nice to see a decent critique of his AI position, instead of ad hominem.

[1]: https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/...
Interesting notes.

I'm disappointed even though it's entirely predictable that VisionOS is built on the iOS/iPadOS foundation rather than OSX. I guess we'll see how "walled in" it is but it's hard to see any reason Apple isn't going to be just as constraining and controlling about what happens on this OS as they are on iOS, if not more so. Which ultimately means I'll be very reluctant to ever adopt it in any meaningful way as my primary computing device.
It should be relatively simple with a QR code or similar physical marker in the real world.
That's part of a whole program; while reddit lets many mods work for free they are paying these "mods" $20/hour to "organically" drum up subscribers on non-US subs. I shared some links about this a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34481478
Lacking an understanding of the mechanism, I'm not sure I understand how that necessarily follows regardless of the mechanism. Completely pulling something out of my ass, imagine that they determine inserting occassional white frames results in more significant pupil dilation increases when someone is in a heightened emotional state. Sounds doable and vaguely plausible? It would allow them to infer that heightened emotional state from a quickly flashed visual in a way most users likely wouldn't perceive from a measured reaction to it. But I'm missing how it would follow that you could use the same to cause that emotional state.
So be it. I released a year ago and for now I support iOS 14.0 and above. I just think it's the right thing to do when reasonable enough. I will probably rewrite some parts to more modern SDKs and cut that support at some point, but I don't want to do it just for the sake of using the newest thing.
I think the position of the SEC is that these companies should comply with the law. Which is what is said just a few seconds later. And that's the problem with slogans: we lose track of the wider issues.
> which really allows it to be used as an OS API, which Rust can't do.

I think that's a massive simplification
> And the incompatibilities with ARM are not negligible.

Namely?
>incredible yet useless.

I almost always begin my tasks with ChatGPT, by asking it for a framework. "Design a x request that gets me results in form of this JSON, and now display it on y table according to this criteria"

It gives me framework, I adjust and expand upon it. Works wonderfully.

I even have a 'bot' running on one of the IRC channels that was almost 100% self written by ChatGPT.
But it does put an enormous amount of pressure
on the eye tracking. As far as I can tell so
far, the role of precise 2D control has been
shifted to the eyes.

I've got one good eye and one bad eye. The bad eye is legally blind, has an off-center iris and is kind of lazy w.r.t. tracking.

I'm extremely curious to know how Vision Pro deals with this. One certainly hopes there's some kind of "single eye" mode; certainly seems possible with relatively small effort and the % of the population who'd benefit seems fairly significant.

Eye tracking most certainly sounds like the way to go, relative to hand-waving.

The Minority Report movie probably set the industry back by a decade or two. Waving your hands around to control stuff seems logical but is quickly exhausting.
I mostly have experience with Instant NGP, and it should work on older consumer NVIDIA cards. Their github page calls out Pascal cards as working, for example. 6 GB isn't much memory, though, so you may be limited in final resolution of the latent model and thus of the output.
It’s not just brand, Apple is much better at making high quality devices than HTC.
I have high BP due to my insomnia coupled with sleep apnea.

I have insomnia ~5 nights a week. and for some reason I can no longer take naps in my older age. I used to be able to Nap-on-command when I was younger. It SUCKS
American of course, the other sort isn't a unit of measurement!
> Why do you think Gensler in official capacity should just dispense one-off soundbite determinations at the request of some clown grilling him?

Because the whole point of the rule of law is that the law same law applies to any clown. If the head of securities law in the country can't tell you whether a basic thing is legal or not then why even bother having a congress and elections and any pretense that we live in something other than a corrupt oligarchy?

> [edit] The law is not just what's written but the entirely of case law. The SEC has provided a framework for analysis of securities in the context of crypto. It's here. [1] And it builds on the DAO report, here. [2]

If the SEC themselves is incapable of applying their framework to the second-most-prominent entry in the category of things it's designed to analyse, then what is that framework good for?
In a general office context people can talk about going wine tasting the previous weekend.
Does the drake equation takes into account the timeline earth-like planet have to be inhabitable to carbon-based lifeforms?
The fix if one wants to stick to the standard library is to make use of

locale_t posixctypelocale = newlocale(LC_CTYPE_MASK, "POSIX", NULL);

saved somewhere early on and then

b = isspace_l(c, posixctypelocale);

and

b = iswspace_l(wc, posixctypelocale);

whenever one needs them.

The irony is that systems based upon the BSD C library like MacOS and FreeBSD will have this.

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/n...

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/i...

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/i...

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xlocale&sektion=3
I'm not sure AI is even needed for this to occur. Sexting and onlyfans-style hustles have become so normalized with the always-on-camera smartphone generation, the trajectory is clear.

Just a matter of time before the prudes all die off. Progress of this sort tends to be generational... just look at tattoos and weed.
Sometimes I wonder how future generations will judge our meat industry practices once they figure out artificial meat production and also have a more accurate picture of consciousness/sentience and hence the suffering we cause. It's quite plausible that their judgement will be just as harsh, if not hasher, as how present day humans look at "savages" of the past.
I got ads for LEGOs because I have kids and have recently searched for LEGOs [this is less of a humblebrag and more of a sigh at how old and boring I've gotten.]

I'm curious if the degree of ad personalization varies by site (do some sites show more personalized ads?). Or maybe the average demographic of a site's viewers is somehow factored in?
>Generating content is not the same as falsely counting users.

I agree, but all content _is_ generated by users.
The Revenue Company
and set it for consistency of ordering (collation) between sort, join, tsort, look, etc.
This is how you know you're in an engineer bubble.

Average people care much less about productivity than you think.
This feels like something i’m going to log into the ‘why do i know this’ section of memory.
Commenting to remember. Looks good
Not if you're using anything other than macOS or iOS derived systems.
The slowest framework now available for the slowest language.

(this is a joke, it was my immediate thought when seeing this. More seriously, probably not for me but looks interesting technically, I'll need to check out how it works)
Why would third party reddit apps all under non-commercial?
Third party controllers for the headset likely wouldn't sell for the same reason smartphone game controllers don't sell.
Yeah this seems to combine the worst of both worlds: react headscratching (e.g. why useEffect do this weird shit) and slowness of the phoenix style send it all back to the server. The solution? For python people: learn some JS and use django.
One way to look at it is a generation of boiler room operators moved their pump'n-dump schemes from central securities clearinghouse to crypto ledgers, because they realized what a loophole the Bitcoin exception was. And they brought in enough politicians and celebrities to slow walk promises of updated regulations, and regulators cautiously warned and waited, and here we are, with some bowtied man criticizing the SEC for doing its job precisely in the manner politicians demanded.
For a while, I have been looking for an analysis on how it happened. To no avail.
Oh I totally agree. The scenes with parents/kids were so off, and felt emotionally jarring

> And I am struggling to see any UI design/consideration that was new in this clip. Do you have a rundown on exactly what was amazing?

The State of the Union video has more detail. All of SwiftUI and UIKit now sits on top of their material-based renderer. You can now render a Metal Shader on a SwiftUI view in one line of code. They have consistent and detailed paradigms for how menus, toolbars, productivity apps etc should work on this platform (likely from porting all of their own). 3D models fit seamlessly into the UI view hierarchy. They have detailed design and interaction constraints for all new types of spatial windows, as well as legacy apps. All of this even goes back to their Objective-C APIs, which are updated appropriately

Then they've implemented things like process isolation for eye-gaze tracking. Simply so apps can't read your gaze and abuse that data. No one else makes decisions like this in a v1 product. It probably required a whole team of people to get right, considering that gaze is the primary interaction method a user will be using with your app

It's hard to explain just how much depth of thought has been put into this platform. They have addressed a lot of hard questions with some very good design, and above all, they are opinionated about their platform. In every corner and detail there is a strong design choice about the right way to design and implement that interaction. That opinionated design is why people get so excited, and it can be so jarring when they get it wrong
As the saying goes, this is good[1] for Bitcoin... As people are buying it, presumably in order to be able to flee their Binance positions. Nothing breeds confidence in the ecosystem like the world's largest exchange getting its funds frozen.

[1] When it'll drop in price, I'll be here to provide different post-hoc justification for why that market swing happened. Tune in tomorrow, as the SEC keeps unraveling this rat's nest.
Looks like the US Govt is going to eliminate the competition before replacing US Currency with its own crypto, likely developed and administered by a third party because the government sucks at building stuff.
Even if we pretended aliens wouldn't be able to surpass FTL, Von Neumann probes only take half a million years to spread across an entire galaxy, which is a grain of sand of time in cosmological timescales.

"Let's take a look at one of John von Neumann's most fascinating contributions to science: the Von Neumann probe. Simply put, a Von Neumann probe is a self-replicating device that could, one day, be used to explore every facet of the Milky Way in a relatively small window of time.

The general idea is to build a device out of materials that are readily available and easily accessible out in space, like on rocky planets or small moons. Once it finds a suitable destination, it lands and mines the material it needs to build even more devices, which, in turn, land on other planets and moons and build even more.

The system is very effective, and by some estimates, it would take around half a million years to dispatch millions of probes across our galaxy, assuming each one travels at approximately 1/10th the speed of light, or 18,640 miles (30,000 km) per second (though the real number could be closer to ten million years, which is still no time at all in the grand scheme of things)."
> :) I didn’t read your comment as argumentative. I hope I didn’t come off that way.

:) I didn’t read your comments as argumentative either, this is actually a great conversation, thanks!

> That’s an astute point! I hadn’t considered that there may be a bit of a race between AR/VR and AI/ML in medicine.

Thank you, it’s a new idea I’ve been thinking on.

> Ideally the strengths of both technologies would be incorporated into well defined products eventually.

I couldn’t agree more. I feel like there must be some fusion of VR/AR/LLM technologies that I’m missing.
REST is simpler to implement and understand.