skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> accessible enough for non-programmers and advanced users

I mean unless you also discredit Windows and MacOS as being accessible because there exist pro applications that aren't present on those platforms, Im not sure what your point is.
How many industrial design projects has he done, though? He doesn’t have any particular expertise in the area so while it’s fair to ask why they picked the trade-offs they did, it’s pretty far-fetched to think one of the best industrial design teams in the world forgot about a primary success factor, especially given how much other effort they made to hit weight targets. Absent someone who’s actually worked in the field saying it’s unnecessary, I’d give the benefit of the doubt and assume that they used aluminum instead of plastic for a good reason.
A game needs to be purpose-build for VR, that makes it almost an exclusive.
It's smart. 1: it will fund the product, 2: you only get rich people and youtube fans talking it up (price-quality heuristic bias), rather than regular consumers talking it down, and 3: when the price comes down (inevitably when they release a non-'Pro'), everyone will clamor and that thing will sell like hotcakes.
Curious to know more about their sales...

I am already veering away from everything Vercel, didn't know RSC are so NextJS affiliated, this will certainly influence my library choices.
Because the experience of gaming on Steam Deck's SteamOS is better. Because I already have a MacBook and occassionally want to play a round of Civilization or Victoria 3 on it.

Removing OS silos for gaming is amazing, Valve really opened the floodgates with Proton. Windows, Linux and now macOS all being able to run same games is just great.
Yeah. I'm more or less off the web completely. Except HN, to which I am addicted.
I love the idea of built-in offline Wikipedia, huge plus.

Coming back to your first point... how often would you maintain a fork of your own encyclopedia? Even with Git, you would fork mostly in order to submit a PR to the original repo. I'm just trying to understand the use-case here since I cannot imagine a situation where I would fork Wikipedia and make my edits to be shared with my friends only and my friends would do the same.

Did you mean something like fandom.com where communities (not individuals) can start their own wikis? I'd also love that.
Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, etc...
> against the wishes of its userbase

Against the wishes of a (vocal) part of its userbase. There's plenty of people running Debian that welcome the switch to systemd.
This would partially explain why sea level didnt rise up. But then again, reading the comments, seems like a lot not that happy with this piece of article. Maybe not conforming to current narrative?
> Who goes against the fed. government and wins? big tobacco couldn't do it. neither could the auto industry.

Drugs won the war on drugs. Prohibition is another infamous failure. When the government tries to attack a decentralized commodity valued by the people it always loses.
RIVE: Build interactive animations on all Plattforms
OpenAI partnered with Shutterstock.
So it's not most likely, it has been publicly announced that a part of DallE training dataset was Shutterstock.

https://www.shutterstock.com/press/20435
I totally see this point, in particular as an opportunistic Apple customer myself. Apple doesn't need to do marketing regarding some aspects of their products (e.g. build quality) and can focus their messaging on more specific parts.

On the other hand, that doesn't seem to be what most consumers long for. Apple had two runaway successes with the iPod and then the iPhone, but to note, the iPhone is not the best selling phone brand nor dominates the international market. Same way Apple is not the #1 computer maker.

So yes, focus and consistency brings tremendous value, but there are many other ways to get that level of value, and many customers will have different priorities.

(I also don't think any brands need to be #1, being profitable should be enough, but I am more and more interested by how Windows has stayed at the top for so many years. In particular Apple progressively feels closer to Sony when it was at its peak: superbe products, strong ecosystem binging, coupled with also a heavy dose of strategy tax on how to benefit from what the other companies are doing)
Mind giving a quick run through of how it works?
> He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named managed to cut headcount 80% at a fairly prominent tech employer and drama aside, the business has not severely suffered

We need to stop repeating this lie.

They have reduced site reliability to reddit levels, had multiple breaches (probably far more than the ones we know about) and managed to get in trouble in multiple countries.

And yes, they were overstaffed like any other company hiring during the pandemic but not by 80%.
Apple buys Mira AR headset startup
Dunno, 'brand name' writers of airport novels have been forever accused of having ghost-written their novels, I think AI will allow writers of lesser budgets to also get help in writing their novels. Or who knows, even the 'King'-s of the world will use AI to fill out their chapters.
It seemed like they were doing better when they were running leenucks servers in Azure. But you can't upload images on LinkedIn with firefox (at least on leenucks.) And there were some UI weirdness on GitHub, so yeah... Playing dirty is in their genome. And I was just getting to the point where I liked C#.
The increase in income during a recession is because people are choosing stock instead of going and doing a photo shoot themselves.

Stock is still the easiest, safest, cheapest option - VS your own shoot.

So I don’t think that means it’s future proof in any way.

On the contrary it means that the same cost-saving decision will be made again and there’ll be a move to AI images when they are slightly more mature - ie when the legalities of copyright have been fully figured out.

(I work at a big ad agency and I know the copyright thing is currently a massive drag on potential usage)
For companies, there is no sane equivalent to Active Directory. The switch is actually much harder than for home users.
Yes. That does not mean that terms may be changed unilaterally (your question) but that the bargaining power is such that the employee may be in a weak "take it or leave it" position anyway. In that case ultimately it is for both sides to decide based on how easy it is to find a new job/replace employee.
What's wrong with "Tarsnap type things"?
They combine multiple custom algorithms that are designed to run on high-RAM (>24GB) GPUs. And, they incorporate a lot of user-provided feedback into the training of new models. If you have more time on your hands than cash, you can get some free generation credit by rating images.
Great, where's the data? Right, he doesn't have any, and is asking for other people to come forward with the data.
There is a lot of potential for aspiring photographers in creating (and licensing) photo libraries for the specific purpose of AI training.

Where previously you'd take 100 photos to choose the perfect one, now you'd include all of them, with labels that describe their quality or deficiences (which you do anyway as you curate the photos you took). This makes almost every shot the money shot.

Less glamorous for sure, a lot less money per photo, but more volume for virtually the same amount of work. And you can always treat the really unique and special photos as today and not include them in your AI dataset.

Combine that with the fact that a photo (and photoshop) pro can produce better results with AI image generation (because they can guide them better than people who don't know what they're doing), and the future doesn't look so bleak.
I paid 14 at 1 festival for a vodka seltzer, and 18 at another for an IPA in the last month.
Is there any way to get a usable point cloud suitable for 3D reconstruction in blender?
Brave Search is a lot better.
Google used similar tactics to promote Chrome at the time.
You’re somewhat missing the point of what passkeys are. Instead of the something you know part, i.e. a password, the authentication is done by something you have. Your common use case is only common to single factor password authentication. It’s not a situation that is allowed for in passkey’s security model.
What are you using to run Whisper locally?
It's Microsoft, what did you expect?

This is a company that makes products that spit in the user's face and the users still happily continue to get disrespected again and again.
I wished to see some analysis by smart people on HN if this is a lawful request, can they do it and what are the local/global consequences. So far not that much discourse in that regard.
Praxis guest lecture on AI chatbots
You cannot really compare Rust and Go.

Rust is for when you really need to perform manual memory management. If you don't need that, then a GC language is better.

If you're choosing manual memory management over GC, you better have a really good reason to do so or a really small application that you're writing.
ARM was supposed to be RISC but this sounds BISC - baroque instructions set computer.
> broadening the definition of acceptable content

Let's call it what it is: he is using his power to promote some people and some ideologies while actively censoring others.
What’s your product if you don't mind sharing? Curious.
Comparing a not-for-profit that made one decision you didn't like to a company that has a long history of screwing over the entire personal computing ecosystem for commercial gain is delusional.
TL;DR: Good step for the entire market, productization is the harder problem.

I had been formerly involved with Kemtai, which built a fantastic physical therapy/fitness experience (in my biased view) using motion tracking.

If anyone's interested, it is running well and quickly over WebGL on a pretty impressive share of regular phones and laptops across all platforms with WebGL (not just Apple)

My learnings is that the hard part is the productization on top of motion tracking: what constitutes an exercise? What is a "good" performance? How to build the authoring workflow for the many hundreds to low thousands of exercises necessary to reach a typical user base?

In any case, that's awesome news. There are literally billions of people whose condition is going to be better via motion tracking based health and fitness. May it grow there, and quickly!
The point is whataver America does is basically western / English civilization because the USA is such a big deal.
Hi, and thank you!
I could see it happening. Of course it would be in addition to sql, not to replace it. First, prql would need to support insert and update statements, though.
Flags are mostly from users, although I probably flagged some of the ones in this thread, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195570, which were blatant rule violations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178586 wasn't nearly as blatant a violation, though litanies of links supporting pre-existing agendas do eventuate in moderation scoldings.

I replied to that commenter here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207435. We're equal-opportunity moderators, but I agree with you that dang being a secret communist (let alone an open one) is pretty amusing.
Nope - a.i. is essentially just rearranging pixels because you can formally delineate (via mathematical expressions) how to arrive from input set to output image. To compare this in any respectable degree to human creativity is not reasonable.
Where is the photographer's skill necessary in the process?

Eventually, all the "photographer" will need to do is to take a 8K video recording of the subject and AI will generate a set of great looking pictures (it already knows what people like).
I use quite a few Apple products every day of the last 10 years, and I’m very impressed with certainly all the technology and reviews and explanations of how this device works and what the user experience will be. However, this is the first Apple device that really makes me pause. All of the marketing material, the WWDC videos, all of it feels very uncomfortable to see all these people isolating themselves in a room with big goggles on. I find it really hard to comprehend this is the direction that technology is taking our lives. Imagine walking into a house, and a lot of the people are just sitting around by themselves in corners with goggles on. The whole thing just feels very strange and post apocalyptic to me.

And these 3D spacial moment recordings, imagine children growing up in a house where when something nice happens, the parent rushes to put on goggles and stare at them through them, their little virtual eyes displayed on the outside, it’s frankly creepy to me.
Isn't this the method used by the sub in Hunt for Red October? Or did they also use a gyroscopic and look for changes in the gravitational vector, not just its magnitude?
eh....US is still leagues ahead, especially in artificial intelligence, where Nvidia has the same dominant position in AI computing as TSMC has in SC. Further export controls should slow down China's rate of innovation, maybe even permanently cripple it. Continued supremacy is not guaranteed, but it's a pretty good bet
Under what circumstances has it ever been that long term, improved efficiency would mean fewer employees needed? It's quite the contrary - improved efficiency will lead to more profits which will lead to more aggressive scaling and hiring, like it always has since the beginning of industrialization.
i did mean low, yes :)
yes, and we can expect a flood of those 'lesser budget' works.

One domain where I welcome AI is computer games. Having more natural flexible characters will make games more interesting. As opposite to current pre-written texts.

Also education, where kids can ask questions and give the answers. Not just read or listen passively.
> as the number of users has increased

Source?
This is a day later now, but for posterity I'll add that thanks to this thread I learned that there is a concept of "OSI approved licenses"[1], and that those licenses include MIT No Attribution License (MIT-0), and that MIT-0 is also a supported license in the GitHub UI.

It is likely I will be moving from Unlicense to MIT-0 in the future.

[1] https://opensource.org/licenses/
Another perspective: If a human weighs in at 72 kg and a honey bee worker weighs in at 120 mg, then the bee is 600,000 times smaller — weightwise — than a human. Doesn't that mean that a bee has 6 times the number neurons per body mass unit than a human?
> It's not hard to find accounts of people who say they're 2x, 3x, 5x more efficient in their work now

Yet labor markets are strong, with record low unemployment across the board. I wonder if the anecdata or the real data are right.

Offshoring was not motivated by technology. It's not technology that harms people, it's other people being greedy.
HN is painfully slow to me, partly because it chokes under load, and partly because nearly all software is painfully slow to me. It can definitely get a lot faster.
So far, all of the "laws of physics" have turned out to be true, if they were considered an approximation applicable with a certain set of preconditions.

My only hope for human kind travelling interstellar distances is to figure something orthogonal out, as even speed of light is too slow (perhaps we extend our lifetimes to span millenia combined with teleportation? :).
This is a good point. Svelte has a lot of 'magic' under the hood but a lot of it does not look like magic which can lead to confusion.

The docs are pretty complete and well structured. There are of course obscure issues, but most of the footguns folks run into for typical use cases (e.g. doing something like using an array method and expecting reactivity) are well documented, and solutions on avoiding them are easy to find.

This means that if you do run into something which is not completely intuitive in Svelte, it's normally because there's not an intuitive way of doing it, which means you do more 'ad-hoc' learning as you try to work out what you need to do to get things working the way you want, and sometimes it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that something that should work is not working.

React does less to 'hide' its magic and makes you work harder mentally up-front to understand what it's doing in terms of component lifecycle etc. In exchange, because it doesn't look as intuitive, you're a bit less surprised when it doesn't work.

For example, in Svelte, you might create something like:

<script>
const colours = ['red', 'white'];
</script>

Colours of the British Flag

<ul>
{#each colours as colour}
<li>{colour}</li>
{/each}
</ul>
<button on:click={() => colours.push('blue')}>Add blue!</button>

If you click the button here, nothing happens, because you only mutated the array, which doesn't trigger reactivity. If you're not aware of this, you might not immediately understand that you've made a mistake.

A similar React component would look something like:

function () {
const [colours, setColours] = useState(['red', 'white']);

return (
<div>
Colours of the British Flag

<ul>
{colours.map(colour => (<li>{colour}</li>))}
</ul>

<button onClick={() => colours.push('blue')}>Add blue!</button>
</div>
)
};

You'll get an IDE warning that 'setColours' is unused, and anyway, you already wrote the code to destructure the 'setColours' function out of 'useState', so you theoretically should know that you need to use it, the mistake is 'clearer'.
Absolutely unethical. And, also highly effective. Together with the placebo effect, the walled garden, sunk cost, etc, it is almost impossible to convince some otherwise very intelligent people that the number crunching, if that is the primary workload, is a fraction of other systems.
yes, inconsequential was the wrong word. Ineffective was better. Thanks
The latest Beta of macOS? Does it have wine built in??
Thank you for replying - that did clear the things up.
The California Senate approved $300 in weekly payments to immigrants on Sunday
Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products
I distinctly remember the opposite to be the case -- that there was a positive eariy adopter hype cycle on this site for crypto in the early years.

I went back a decade and randomly clicked on a discussion and found most of the comments constructive and matter of fact. Perhaps I got lucky, but it lines up with my memory of the period.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322752
Perpetual motion machine? Why bother with that when we can scale our EBITDA to infinity too!!!
I actually share your hope - I want the world to collapse before an insane AI or set of greedy VCs eradicates humanity.

As for downvotes - I would say the OPs post again and then ask yourself if they would not downvote anything that doesn't match their marketing pitch. Some people are trying to build careers here and don't have time for pesky things like morality, or thoughtful responses if they can't monetize them.
FK! someone either so desperate for virtual points or sensational news - that they forget to check published date
A mind map to understand Apple WWDC 2023
Ask HN: What makes game developers such programmers?
I have observed that no problem seems unsolvable for game developers. You throw a complicated problem at them, they will create a solution (in whatever way) and make the thing work. The first solution is not always the most efficient one.

How is that tremendous power gained?

Also so much have come out of the game development world like Perlin noise for terrain generation, fast inverse square root, etc.

Are game developers the only raw hackers like the 70s that exist today?
The average user doesn't need to understand software. The average programmer doesn't either, unless they're developing it.

That's kind of the point, software encapsulates a process so you don't have to do it.

In 2011, we didn't have SSDs(Or at least I sure didn't) compilers were not as good, and people said "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" way too much.

I'm willing to tolerate just about any amount of complexity if it's well factored, reliable, performance, and the abstractions aren't leaky.

Even for very small tasks... Because chances are, if I'm bothering to use software for a small task, it's because it's something I do every day and it's fairly important.

If it drags in 10 million lines of code from 1000 devs to make sure my notes app syncs reliably without manual intervention.... then that's fine. Almost all hardware still in use seems to be fast enough.

We have built amazing things with software. The only thing I don't like is that the FOSS scence has a tendancy to be less innovative and more Kackzynki, and all the cool stuff is proprietary cloudware.

That, and that things are getting harder and harder to develop. Not even because the languages or APIs are hard, those are amazing these days, it's that you have 50 layers of DevOps nightmare time with Docker to get a hello world running because everything is microservicy, and developers have a high amount of tolerance for manual setup, and programmers really think it's worth breaking a whole ecosystem just to rename a function.

"Getting started with X" used to be a half a page, now it's 5 pages.

I have a lot more complaints about hardware than software. Almost everything has a few missing things that would only cost a few dollars to add. Limiting charging to 80% to save battery, reporting status on Bluetooth, a tiny metal ring to protect the plastic bit that wears, a cheap molded case instead of sharp sheet metal that collects dents...
why does a human need a job?
I appreciate the last sentence in your reply, so thanks for that.

Old accounts have lots of benefits. One is that age confers credibility in the community and thus enhances your presence here. Account age, in fact, is one of the few sources of status on the internet that can't be faked. Another is that new accounts are subject to extra restrictions, and new accounts that break the rules get banned more quickly.
There are so many photographers out there putting so many images on platforms that you get paid almost nothing for them. Unless you get a great image and have a proper agent or contact passing them along you don't get much. Payout for some of my images ranged from under 5 USD to at most 40 USD for one image one time.

Some photographers just spam TONS of images on the platforms to get some cash by betting on the long tail. Someone, somewhere with a shutterstock subscription might need your image for a local magazine/paper and you get 2 dollars for it.

That kind of stock photography might suffer even more with generated images. Actual premium stock or for hire photography will not.
- Solve your own problems, personal or your job related

- Talk to family and friends and solve their personal or job related problems

- Join communities online (facebook, reddit etc) you find interesting and solve their problems

- Join platform communities (wordpress, shopify etc), engage people, find their problems and solve them

You need to combine coding with something else, some other field, unless you want to focus on projects related to coding

If you can't see things to fix/improve in your own personal or professional life that are interesting enough to keep you going, you need to go out, be a little social and engage others. Get out of your own head/room/circle

(Note that this is for finding project ideas. If you want to find business ideas, the process starts off the same but there are additional steps to make sure you can build a worthwhile and sustainable business)
Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2023 Proceedings
This is where first principles thinking would be useful. Har har. But as an older guy, I have the same question. :)
China faked videos from Olympics, so.. It will work if nobody can tell the difference and details are unknown.
An inch! He was lucky! My friend was only given half an inch, and that was considered generous!
Then it's a stretch to conclude that the problem was Haskell!
Usually companies that don't let their workers choose their tools. They buy what's cheap and looks good on paper.