skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you're taking your figure of twice as much, but I assume it's the AppStore vs Google Play break down ?

That number is the total revenue for the whole store (there's a lot to say about it, since Google is also not the only Store for android, in particular in China and Korea), and it matters very few for any individual developper.

It's not because the total amount of in-App purchase for all games is twice as much on iOS that my new ssh shell app will make twice as much on iOS than on another Store, for instance.
The old joke about lisp ruining all other languages holds true (at least in my experience), so it's a monkeys paw wish of yes, you get to work with lisp but you'll never be able to enjoy another job again.
In the US, specifically California, the so-called "mandatory" lockdowns were in effect without real legal threat. There were no police checkpoints and no meaningful enforcement. It was obvious that some people completely ignored the situation and did what they pleased regardless because they could claim they were "essential workers".
Ask HN: Is there an impending Banking crisis?
Is there an impending Banking crisis?
Of course, it's possible. Almost anything is possible on some abstract level if we allow our imagination to roam freely. I'm all for asking the US government: "Do you hide alien UFOs?"

The question is how you react when the answer is "No." If you keep insisting the government is lying, then you're more and more getting into 'tin foil hat' territory, especially if you're a government employee and have no evidence other than alleged hearsay. It depends on your strength of belief in the contrarian opinion. Saying that it's possible is one thing, saying "they're doing it but I don't have proof" is another.
I pesonally pay for:

• Strava - tracking my runs

• Fusion 360 - freelancing my designs

• Notability - where I keep my notes and ideas

• ChatGPT - no comment here :D

• Midjourney - also no comment

• Netflix - man has to relax at time to time

• Play Swiss - as I am swiss, I also watch Swiss movies and shows

• GitHub - version control + doing some collaborative projects with friends

It is probably not that much, but for me now when looking at this condensed list, seems a lot. :)

EDIT: Ah yes, thanks to the guys with the other comments! I also have several domains + SSLs + Hosting.
You can just flip the goggles up if you’re talking to someone. That’s often what people with tinted safety goggles, like welders, do.

Having to take AirPods out of your ears is more obtrusive I think.
I mostly agree with the piece, except this part.

> And AI is a machine – is not going to come alive any more than your toaster will.

There have been claims that AIs are conscious. For example, Ilya Sutskever has suggested that LLMs may be slightly conscious.

It is possible that machine consciousness could be quite different from human consciousness. This idea aligns with the philosophy of Nonduality, which proposes that pure consciousness is the fundamental substratum of the universe. Our minds are able to reflect this pure consciousness, albeit in a limited way. If our human minds can reflect consciousness, perhaps artificial neural networks can as well, but in their own manner.
Having unified memory and having much more compute performance/watt are two orthogonal issues. Unfired memory had already existed before Apple silicone and was already present in most consoles, cheap tablets and smartphones due to how ubiquos SoCs and Intel chips with iGPUs were.
Those ingrates!
The Three-Body Problem science fiction series involves gravitational waves. I’m not going to spoil it, but the series is a great read :)

Not quite possible today, though, as others have pointed out
A lot of these large companies also, for some undisclosed reason or chain of events, design a phone so that a non-neglible amount of people can't hold it without dropping calls (iphone 4), and then blame the user for "holding it wrong".

Also such a thing as being too conservative with battery size (iphone 6?) so that when it unavoidably degrades, you must throttle down the phone to avoid killing the battery and perhaps more (literally by a current draw it can't handle since the internal resistance has increased).

And that's just apple, then there's unintended acceleration (toyota), exploding airbags, faulty ignition (ford was it?).

Don't think that just because they are large, or a company, or old, or whatever, they always have their shit together. Companies are people. People make mistakes. Mistakes can slip through the cracks.
This is true, but might be misleading. It follows the Visual Studio Community license so if I'm reading it correctly there's no cost to use it for individuals, open source organisations, and for up to 5 users at small/medium non-open source organisations.
That first bit sounds like a very hot take to me - the headset quite literally blocks and intercepts the standard human signals for attention and emotional response and then tries to recreate them on an OLED screen with a CGI model.

I can't see how that's better than filming on a phone, where although the eyes are looking at what's going on on the screen, their response is still clearly visible in the raw form.
It’s unfortunate how much everything is America centric. Even in tiny details, such as Office and Teams defaulting to American instead of English even when installed on a Windows PC set to UK.
That's definitely really cool, but there must be a way to detach from that paradigm too for things like flights and hotel rooms, where you want the work/whatever to be wherever you are. And you'd still want to be able to rearrange the things in your home office room.
Could this be ascribed to a generational change in the general population which includes journalists and editors and whatnot?
There's much better ways to solve that problem than "being able to call your kids in the event of".
What about Occam's razor? Think about the reports as well. It's not like some alien was seen walking around by hundreds then disappeared we are talking about unexplained visuals and mass moving in an unexplained way. Why even go right to aliens? Because people already believe it's true and are looking for anything that can be attributed to it.
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Guys, Reddit won't backtrack on jacking up the price. They are preparing their IPO and need to show revenue growth for investors to adhere to the equity story..
While this is not a well studied phenomenon, as in to the extent of having well formed theory, we do know that eyes constantly perform micromovements.

One of the prevailing hypotheses states that due to low inherent resolution of the retina these micromovements are used to create sort of sub-pixel resolution. Hence, visual cortex inherently works in predictive/generative mode with constant feedback correction. This hypothesis is sometimes used to explain phenomena like pareidolia and might as well be used to explain perception of UFOs.
Imo the most likely scenario if it's true, is that these are automated von Neumann probes that traveled here without faster than light propulsion and that they're here merely to explore, observe or possibly self-replicate. I believe this is the most likely option because it takes just one successful civilization in our galaxy, or even a close one, that employs this strategy.

Crafts made deliberately to meet us would have to originate from much closer civilizations unless the civilization has both FTL travel and much more sensitive and high resolution observation technology than we currently believe possible.

Supposing it is a von Neumann probe. There may be a planet or nearby system where these crafts are being built, but we're unlikely to be near the main star/region of the civilization. We might be stuck with just handful of these crafts for probably many (hundreds?) of thousands of years before any real first contact happens.
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Domain names (too many!) and hosting (pretty cheap).

NextCloud hosting - can't be bothered running and securing my own.

BitWarden - I like their product and happy to pay for the family plan.

The occasional app or game. Mostly when they're on sale.

Very rarely one of my personal projects goes over the free tier of an API on Google or AWS, so a few quid here and there.

But that's about it. I'm usually happy to sacrifice my time in order to save money.
Yeah, it's very plausible that if another civilization exists some 10 light years away, the vehicle they use to travel 90,460,730,472,580 Km in order to get to Earth has the size of a compact car and copies the design of a 1950s experimental aircraft.
Remember those mysterious propulsion patent the us military filed?

Perhaps they had inspiration
Yeah, this "just a machine" -argument doesn't make any sense.

First you need to define consciousness precisely. Then you have to proof that we as humans are somehow more than biological machines.
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It's a bit of an artifact of the "dash indicating long e":

アニメーション - a-ni-me-ee-ts(u)-yo-n

Just means long e "me". It could be written more like:

anime-tsyon (dash indicating long vowel). Or: a-ni-me-e-ts(u)-yo-n.
FWIW, the original ARM CPU from 1985 (which was a very 'pure' RISC implementation) already could execute each instruction conditionally, the condition bit mask was just part of the regular opcode structure:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/armv1
web browsers on ios can't ship their own rendering engine. It's all apple rendering engine internally, with a skin for chrome/firefox/safari etc.

edit: aha, you mean on the mac.
Gawd, why do these Apple presenters have to be so creepy and Zuckerberg'esque?
this trend of apple building api that only serves to make good-looking wwdc talks but fall short under real life usage is one of the worst things... It has now reached a point where people don't trust anything apple dev say during those presentations, because they know there's a limitation hidden somewhere.
> Electric lighting was far cheaper than gas or candles per unit of light.

All the more remarkable when you consider how inefficient the "electric lightbulb" is - it's heating a metal filament to a ludicrous temperature (towards 3000K because that's the colour you want) to get light instead of just directly converting the electrical energy into light as you would now.
what mysterious propulsion patents? I'm out of the loop.
Hmm, sounds like we need a grand upheaval in the global economic system in that case.
Even the Xbox 360 had unified memory. It's old as the hills at this point.
I did the same with my grandparents, guess this is a more common way of saying goodbye than I thought!

I'm afraid I wasn't systematic enough to create a useful data set though, lots of gaps. I'll make sure I won't repeat that mistake and take a good fly-through of the apartments of my parents.
Of course you can. Waste != destroy.

The First Law tells you can't create or destroy energy, but you can transform it. The Second Law tells you that this transformation always reduces the amount of useful work you can extract from it. This is how energy is "used up" - it's transformed from a high-grade form (e.g. electricity) to a lower-grade form (e.g. waste heat). Per the Second Law, you can't then go back the opposite direction.

(For a hands-on example, compare the utility of an egg vs. that of a smashed egg, and the amount of effort required to convert one into the other.)

So no, Proof of Work isn't destroying energy, but it's wasting it. It's literally the whole point: you're meant to burn high-grade energy down to waste heat in order to prove you can afford it - there is math to show that trying to make it not wasteful (by e.g. doing some useful math like protein folding, instead of brute-forcing a random hash) creates incentives that defeat the whole system that PoW is supposed to establish.
I think you’re noticing the big five trait called “openness.”

Some people are very open, some not at all.

I’m happy I’m open to things. God, Love, Art. Some people tell you it’s all make believe, there’s no free will, just machines acting out biological imperatives in a world that’s so well understood by science that we’ve reached the end of history. No way!
The dirty secret is: yes, many of the new instructions aren't used very often. They only come into play in certain cases: encryption, signal processing, CPU graphics (e.g. paint packages), video/jpeg decoding (when not done on GPU) and so on, most of which are packaged inside libraries which may or may not have multi-CPU implementations.
Happy user of wiki.vim here. I've just started using the journaling feature which I enjoy. What do you use on mobile to edit your wiki/journal?
Yeah, people with high blood pressure or other cardiovascular issues should be careful using all psychotropic drugs, including psychedelics - some if which are 5HT(2B) receptor agonists, and those receptors are expressed on the heart valve. But MDMA has still more dangerous physical effects than LSD/psilocybin.
What is the game porting toolkit?

Is this something that game devs would use or is this some wrapper or emulation layer for the end user?

Is there a list of games that use it?
Are saying that all artists that got fooled by AI art, have untrained eyes ?
I think op was trying to be funny, like, everything being ported to rust these days
When you drill down, OCRs are indeed just a (large) bunch of ifs. All programs are ultimately composed of only calculations and conditional JMP statements.
I'd argue that a 'conspiracy factor' of 1 is not a conspiracy, just like a road with an occupancy factor of 0 doesn't have any cars on it, and I presume this was exactly the point of the GP.
And the cycle begins anew.
Looks like word got out that America's for sale and everybody's buying except the citizens.
This is nice. In general icons work well when designed in common style. They must be distinct enough to be easily recognisable, but sit nicely next to each other.

Since favicons are designed by independent authors, they don't usually look nice in dense list. However, you can try making them 1.5x smaller and apply common style tweaks: e.g. round the corners, apply slight desaturation/tinting to match the HN style.

Then, they won't be distracting from content, won't look out of place and still would give useful visual cues when scanning through the news.
If the street lighting was truly in series, then the current would be the same all along the path. Perhaps you meant something different.
Technically, yes. I believe there is a theorem which states that any neural network can be transformed into a decision tree. Good luck, though, trying to write an OCR algorithm with a bunch of ifs.
Thank you for bringing Serial Experiments Lain back into my recent memory.
It feels like optimizing NeRFs to the point where they are usable by consumer hardware while producing decent results is the main thing everyone is working on, so give it a few more years
It's ok - the post is killed and thus removed from view for most users, and we don't need to worry about past problems. We just care about people using the site as intended going forward.

I appreciate the kind reply!
However, one thing that every government employee knows is that they can't arrest you for fictional stories. In contrast, if you're saying the truth, then you're facing decades in prison. So what are you going to do if you need to make some money with books and talks, etc. Tell the truth or lie?
That is a pretty small use case to rationalize having an expensive, power hungry OLED screen on your portable headset. Also, it doesn't directly show your real eyes, it's a digital rendering of your face+eyes, using the eye tracking for showing where you look. Don't know how it gets all the small facial expressions though, or if it does that at all.
I only pay for hosting (~1.5 EUR / month).
Used to pay for VPN, too, but I don't have much use of it these days.
Nowadays they rely on COM for that purpose, which is nice as idea, if the tooling wasn't so clunky.
I'm pointing out that your "AI Effect" is one-sided in the wrong direction.

Surely you agree that we care more to prove the affirmative of whether a machine is conscious rather than prove that it isn't. If not, I don't think we can proceed.

The issue is that the AI Effect you linked is often actually used in the reverse, including by yourself, where the burden of proof should be to prove a machine is NOT conscious. However, like we've agreed, we care for proof in the affirmative.

Thus, the paradox lies in that the "AI Effect" concept is critical of those demanding the proof which is more valuable.
There are many quantum computers around, IBM and Google's supper conducting ones, our ion traps, optical ones by e.g. Quandela, and they are all heavily used. There exist compilers for them and they heavily employ ZX-calculus for optimisation. ZX-calculus is also the main language for optical quantum computing.

Within the year we expect them to do a task that is impossible on classical hardware within a realistic timeframe.

Btw ZX-calculus as part of categorical quantum mechanics is an alternative formalism for QM, independent of quantum computing. It has been proven to be complete for Hilbert space and linear maps.
Fascinating. I really enjoyed that.
So there is more information here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/142tomx/apples_g...

And the restrictive license part is this:

"you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, personal copyright license to (i) install, internally use, and test the Apple Software for the sole purpose of developing, testing, or evaluating video games for use on Apple-branded products"
I guess you'd say something similar when thinking about blind people? Humans relying 90% on vision is apparently killing most of their imagination.
> big moving parts (e.g. the rotor)

The shaft and screw are confined to the end of the sub. A navigation instrument like this would not be in the engineroom.
It isn't transparent. It shows a digital rendering of you on the OLED screen facing outwards. And to me, it reeks of "Glasshole" yet again. It would be like someone having sunglasses inside, "can you please remove them when we're talking?".
Likely sales, teams to attract advertisers in each region (including AMAs, sub-editor prizes, etc.) Then moderation, legal, PR and abuse report handling.
Personally I only use SvelteKit which I find is nice by building around what the web technology currently is.

As for static types to be honest I don't see how it's useful in the context of ML. You might use a Pandas dataframe, which already comes with types enforced inside of it. You shouldn't ever use a for loop on a Pandas dataframe or whatever because then you're running Python instead of C++, Pandas has inbuilt functions and operators.

However Python does have type hints but probably not strict enough, Mojo may improve in this if it really supports both AOT and JIT.

Package management in Python isn't that bad with requirements.txt. The real problem is Python versions are breaking and whatnot (very often ML libraries are months behind latest) but the main Python installation you have only supports virtual environments for packages. Really it should support something like conda out of the box where you create an environment with a Python version.
i believe this is one of the reasons consumer VR hasn't taken off and likely won't: even if 5 people are in the same room it disconnects most people too much to be enjoyable on a regular basis. People would rather intuitively gravitate toward watching a netflix show or whatever than being bodily isolated and cut off for too long.

I haven't yet read/seen much about Apple's take on it so maybe they closed a gap I am not aware of.

> 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.

Well, I have always found that creepy, even with old analog camera from back then (but I always found adults staring at children when something nice happens a bit creepy (or cringe ?) so that's me).
Well, A1 and A2 are clearly conspiring, co-ordinating their activities. So some of his claims, even if you _don't_ believe them, point towards coordinated activities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222266
> > At least Python has some semblance of runtime type safety.

> No.

I mean.

>>> 1 + "1"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'
It is almost meaningless, about 10% if at all.
https://archive.ph/vaIlJ

http://web.archive.org/web/20230607080527/https://thequantum...
Wow. I love your work. Thank you for coming here and talking about it. You could write Hacker's Delight 2nd edition for a new generation.
I expect fps will still require a controller/kbm rather than relying on the eye tracking/gesture input. For one thing, I don’t know how else you would move and perform actions at the same time.
> From the title I was expecting the QR codes to move, but they're actually "anime drawing style", not "anime"

Given the description of the apparent technique, its likely trivial to extend it to animated QR codes using the same ControlNet models and ControlNet inputs and existing techniques of animating travel through prompt and/or seed space for StableDiffusion.
>Cryptocurrency has a few people like that but also a ton of get-rich-quick types

There are literally hundreds of millions of people who're into cryptocurrencies...and you clearly don't have a clue what kind of people are into it and to what degree. I'd suggest not to make up statements like this if you want your opinion to be taken seriously. FYI bypassing capital controls with cryptos does not necessarily mean "breaking the law". Learn a thing or two if you're going to spout nonsense.
Apparently it’s a emulator like Proton as used by Steam to run Windows games on Linux. It even uses Rosetta to run x86_64 core on ARM. But it’s not intended for end users. Instead it’s intended for developers to evaluate how their game would run on macOS so they can decide wether or not to port it.