skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have it running on Mac without this: my server close has a Win11 machine and I play through Remote Desktop on 10 GB/s backbone. :) Zero lag. Problem is, the game is boring as hell.
If it really costs them tens of millions to support third-party apps, aside from the timing and handling of it all, what is the issue? Google maps went down this road as well.

With Apollo for example, aside from emotional knee-jerk reaction, was it impossible to basically make their app paid and subscription based? They'll lose most users but might still survive as a profitable business due to their superior UI.

Reddit is a publicly traded company. And IMO, distributed social nets are the way foward, that also make it difficult for LLMs to steal user generated content. I am really looking forward to joining a class-action against openai for my nanoscopic part in my public posts they monetized without permission.
As a non-native English speaker, calling places is absolutely soul crushing. People cannot understand my name, cannot understand me spelling it, and half of the time I cannot understand them back. Why have me call and tell you my name for you to be typing it when I could enter it in the computer myself?
> spam was unheard of

Eh, not exactly ;) There was (and probably still is where needed) an elaborate system of killfiles being exchanged among trusted nntp servers. Also, you might want to look up the origin of the word spam:

> The first time that the word ‘spam’ was used in this sense actually arose from an innocent-enough affair. In 1993, Usenet administrator Richard Depew was responding to a discussion group, but he accidentally posted 200 duplicate responses to the board.

(from https://www.mailcleaner.net/blog/spam-world-news/whats-the-o...)
The question with games is how you're going to control them

The lady in the presentation just used a regular game pad.

I don't know why people keep thinking that the only way to use this thing is with hands, when the presentation showed several different input devices, including Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad.
This seems like a pretty serious crime. I can't imagine anyone higher than an officer keeping classified documents, or even contesting that they have any or if they are classified at all!
Have to call you out on that one:

> The [Virtual Boy] display consists of two 2-bit (four shade) monochrome red screens of 384×224 pixels

That would be 127K pixels for the Virtual Boy.
It's that same curious passive voice used to report on cops shooting people. The last time I made contact with a dog, the dog was uninjured and happy.
Seems like there could be a lot of false positives in that, and some high frustrations.

If I slowly blink my eyes right now, I'm more prone to doze off than stay hyper-focused on whatever I'm working on.
stock is not a total crapshoot when you get issued more stock at regular intervals. At least where I work, if the stock price goes down it means you will simply be issued more stock.
We're already telling them to go to bed earlier. However, they aren't rational because they are not yet adults. Therefore, an imperfect solution is better than the current situation.

I've seen this sort of template play out in many contexts, the most recent being fluoridated water ex: We shouldn't fluoridate water, even it if improves dental health because kids should stop ingesting sugar.

I'm curious, where does this mindset comes from?
I’d find this more compelling if you or I were running a Reddit competitor with pro-social choices.
The lightweight consumer version will be called Vision Air, a.k.a. Visionaire.

You know, for visionaries. ;)
The government can't really enforce bedtimes, but it can enforce this.

And as someone who has identified as a night owl my whole life I am thankful that future night owls may be less forced to accommodate the morning bird world we live in.
I'm going to predict a controller will come later. much like the first ipad didn;t come with the notebook keyboard or apple pencil
> The game is utterly rigged but there isn't a whole lot you can do about it if you are trying to make ends meet with a family.

I disagree there isn't a whole lot you can do, and I'm saying I know plenty of people doing it.

I have multiple friends that used to be Engineers and Doctors and Architects, and now just ski 100+ days in the winter and mountain bike 100+ days in the summer. These people are in their 30s. They don't want to work much anymore, so they just live cheaply and don't play the rigged game.
> But in the startup world it’s make profit, sell, or shut down

In the startup world 90% of companies are shut down because their ideas are not viable. If reddit still isn't viable after 18 years it might be time to pull the plug and move back to something sustainable.

> or be owned by Meta

I voted for kodos

> or 10 companies

Would that be the total number of companies that could pay the money reddit wants for API access?
The game they were playing with a regular game pad was an iPad game, not a VR game. Nearly all VR games are built for VR controllers like you get with the Quest, and those are something that Apple themselves would have to facilitate for it to not be a massive hack.

The industry already went through this phase, the very first Oculus Rift came with a regular Xbox controller and that idea was quickly abandoned. The Quest has hand tracking but it's treated as secondary to the set of controllers it comes with.
That’s possible though even better would be to have independent control of focal lengths for different parts of each screen. https://www.optica.org/en-us/about/newsroom/news_releases/20...

What’s hard to fathom is just good eye tracking can be on these systems and how many hacks such tracking enables. They can for example spend extra rendering time on the pixels in the center of your vision and update this fast enough that you don’t notice the difference. Similarly using adaptive focal control the screen can always be in focus no matter what depth you focus on.
how would such a protocol achieve distribution?
What about daily cancellations or total subscribers? Is this just an initial bump before a return to normal?
While "obscure" is probably a fair assessment for most of the world, in the UK and any serious consumers of British comedy, Trigger's Broom is one of the most famous scenes of Britain's favourite ever comedy, Only Fools and Horses, so its as famous and un-obscure as scenes come, in that context.

I remember watching it for the first time and thinking it was the cleverest joke I'd ever seen, until its ancient origin dawned on me. Then it seemed even cleverer.
> The poweruse and mod community fleeing to another site

A lot of the mod community on the popular subreddits do that as their dayjob as social media consultants or whatever you call them.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milchtritt
You make it socially unacceptable to run a server that emits spam. You make it socially unacceptable to work for a company that emits spam.

At an interview: "OK, I see you worked for an oil company, right, and then a porn company, fine -- oh, you worked for a spammer. Sorry, we're done. I don't know how this happened, I'll need to talk to HR about their filters."
Evans and Sutherland also developed CDRS (Conceptual Design and Rendering System) which was later bought by PTC and developed into ISDX. This is a 3D CAD tool for high quality surfacing used by industrial designers and surfacing experts to develop exteriors for automotive and consumer products. It was originally written in Lisp.

Unlike many other CAD tools, especially for its time, it described the relation between surfaces as a bunch of rules. So surfaces 'A' and 'B' could influence 'C', and then the user change their mind and decide that 'C' should drive 'A' and 'B' instead. Unlike other parametric tools which would come later, you didn't set this up by reordering a bunch of features, you just changed the connection icons between the surfaces. It was up to CDRS to figure out what order to solve the constraints and build the surfaces.
I didn't even realize there was an alternate path, but heard about people say the game was intentionally difficult. Banged my head on the graveyard for a few hours, then gave up.
Photography is great as items to sell into that market can be quite expensive.
It's nuts that the Reddit CEO doesn't get how Reddit works.
There’s plenty of weird environments in Skyrim too. Even if you do not necessarily see them during the main quest.
Interesting, this made me research PPD. Apparently 2 feet away from my MBP, ChatGPT says my ppd ~100. So I suppose it will be roughly 2/3 the resolution of what I currently experience today (which is phenomenal)

import math
distance_to_screen_inches = 24
pixels_per_inch = 254
ppd = 2 * distance_to_screen_inches * math.tan(math.radians(0.5)) * pixels_per_inch
print(ppd)
The math in this article doesn't seem to add up correctly, as far as I can tell. Its calculation of the Vision Pro's PPD (pixels per degree of vision) seems way too high.

The Vision Pro has 23 million pixels total, or 11.5 million per eye, or 3,391 x 3,391 if square.

The Quest 2, by comparison, is 1,920 x 1,832 per eye, or 7 million pixels total across both.

So the Vision Pro has 3 times the total pixels of the Quest 2, but just 1.81 times the number of pixels along a single dimension (sqrt(23)/sqrt(7)). And the article quotes people saying that the field of view is comparable to other headsets.

The Quest 2 has a PPD of 18.88 horizontal and 18.69 vertical. The article also mentions the Quest Pro as having 22 PPD.

But this article is claiming that by their calculations, the Vision Pro has "50 to 70 PPD", which is supposedly in the ballpark of the PPD of the fovea which it says is around 60.

If the Quest 2 is 18.8, and the Vision Pro has 1.81 as many pixels in a dimension, then the PPD of the Vision Pro should be around 34. Nowhere near "50 to 70".

Did the authors forget that PPD is calculated along one dimension only, rather than two?

I mean, the resolution is a great improvement, but it's not "retina-level" yet. It's halfway there.
I think you are agreeing with him.

Your quote > "It so happens that the industrial revolution happened in England and not India, and a bunch of European gangsters went on a three hundred year world wide rampage that is coming to an ignoble end now"

This is exactly what happened. The book agrees with this.

That is not being argued against.

What he is discussing is 'why did the industrial revolution happen in England?'. What lead up to that. Not that they didn't do bad things once they had the technology.
I haven’t yet, though I plan to. I need to split it up into a couple of projects.
For what it's worth, I deliberately trained myself to be able to do that as a kid. I noticed I couldn't, and it bothered me, so I just kept practicing until I had it down. I don't know whether it's possible to train as an adult, though.
Diamond's geography thesis is that migration is easier east-west than north-south, not that Europe is (otherwise) special. (Until the UK figured out how to use their island made of coal to make steam and steel at scale.)
Some of those stories are tragic, but they are a tiny fraction of the number of people who would literally given up anything they own (including their own life) for their kids.
Re. Twitter Inc's request for universal discovery protocol in arbitration cases [pdf]
...or charge users $x/mo if they want to use third-party clients.

None of reddit's monetization so far has been even remotely appealing to me. I don't click on the ads (except by accident), I don't buy the NFTs, I don't pay for gold or get the coins or whatever. It's all stupid, asinine bullshit as far as I'm concerned.

Just like Twitter, the monetization plan is "a bunch of stuff that doesn't make the core experience better". A blue check mark? A stupid-looking avatar hat? Give me something tangible and I'll pay for it.

An MMO selling cosmetics makes sense. A social media site selling cosmetics... not so much.
> "Thought experiment" does not mean you can make up whatever you want.

The only thing we can agree on is that "thought agreement" means that you can't make up whatever you want :-)
As someone who makes a living developing AI/ML solutions for various government organizations from the NIH to the DoD, I am confident that the first large-scale, AI-related disaster is going to be far less agentic and far more mundane than any of the recent headlines seem to suggest.
Circadian rhythms are different between people, and throughout one's life. They also typically vary by demographic.

Adolescents and young adults typically have a circadian rhythm shifted a couple of hours later than younger kids and adults. Even with the best of intentions about sleeping earlier, they're likely to be sleep-deprived by waking up earlier.
Do you have any suggestions? I tried but still unable to get rid of it totally.
"You can book appointments for documents services or hospitals, see all your medical history or even heritage records"

you must be crazy if you think this is a good idea
> if we solve the alignment problem, and AI, despite being infinitely more intelligent than us, bends to our improbably balanced benign collective whim and fashions an epicurean theme park of enlightenment and joy to span the stars.

"The Good Place" is not my idea of a good time.
If it was at all popular, this thread would argue against it.
Is it considered, 'more accurate'?
Easy. Sell user data to the Chinese, and sell access to (pre-moderation) ingestion streams to domestic intelligence agencies. Win-win.
Well, it's more like some article seems great if you don't know the topic well, and it may look flawed only when you do know a lot about the subject.
A former Danish prime minister is known for saying

Man har et standpunkt til man tager et nyt

Or translated

You make a standpoint until you make a new one

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_har_et_standpunkt_til_man_...
>The settlements did fail though, right? So something happened.

The area was already very marginally habitable for humans. In the same general area, the Dorset Eskimos also died off (in their case, we aren't entirely sure which century that happened), so even specially adapted cultures had serious trouble. Maybe it always had little slack.

If I had to take a very wild guess: What changed was the Little Ice Age making conditions even worse. Maybe plague played a part too (though I can't substantiate that). Eventually enough people died to make the society not work (you need a certain number to maintain a complex society). Perhaps the reminder decided to leave, but with no food stocks the sea journey failed... Or perhaps they died in place, having nowhere to go. Grim either way.

> pretty sure there was a counter-counter addendum to the book on Easter Island. He published on his web site a new chapter re-discussing the latest theories on Easter Island.

Can't find anything on his current website. I'll try more thoroughly later.
> I’d go even further, and argue there is no hard problem of consciousness. Just folks who don’t want to accept the obvious answer, we’re thinking animals with a generative world model in our heads.

Supposing that I'm a thinking animal with a generative world model in my head, wouldn't the notion of being a thinking animal necessarily be a part of the generative world model?
This was terrible journalism, for reasons I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
The White Stripes produced such a tight, complete, profound body of work and then somehow and the awareness and self-control to stop.

Maybe it was just happenstance but it makes their limited catalog that much more timeless.
This raise one more issue about Chinese providers.

The site using this exploit, HiCA is run by xiaohuilam on Github. He/She is also the founder of two famous SSL certificate provider in China, DigitalSign and QuantumCA. Additionally, he is also a contributor of acme.sh repository. The acme.sh repository locked issue #4659 quickly after it raise attentions in the developer community in China.

It's hard to imagine that, as one of the repository's contributor, once you have found a vulnerability, you are going to use it in your own product, instead of fix it. They are just another version of Pinduoduo (owner of Temu, and also the one who put spyware on user's android phone).
I think the intention is to offer an ultimatum. proof of organization and the threat of an extended loss.
RubyKaigi: Yet Another Ruby Parser / Kevin Newton [video]
> Can you name a single battery factory that has seen delays of cost overruns like nuclear regularly has? Can you point to a single investor that's willing to back new nuclear in the US like they are backing new battery factories all over?

I mean, those aren't the important parts in my view but yes to both. Berlin gigafactory had significant delays and the proposed expansion is on indefinite hold. Bill Gates is a large backer in Terrapower and they have a pilot plant planned in Wyoming. But I'm sure you will simply move the goal posts.

> Warranties for grid storage batteries are already longer than 10 years, and they don't suddenly stop working, they just experience finished capacity over time

I did say ten-ish, and good luck collecting on those warranties since the battery manufacturer corps are pretty ephemeral. Also, I kind of doubt operators will want to keep old batteries in their facilities since you're at increased risk for fires and those tend to be pretty dramatic in BES stations. Especially since in theory newer batteries should be better and cheaper right?

As for the 60-80 year lifetime, the Gen II plants that are worth keeping around are just now getting close to their 60 year birthdays. Most of the shut down plants in the US are gen I with small capacities, usually less than 200 MW. And the ones that aren't often fell to local and private interests that wanted them gone for other reasons. The problem with nuclear in the US is not a technical one but a socio-political one. I have no idea if the turning tide of sentiment will be able to fix these issues but I find more people are coming around fairly recently. Thank god for France, South Korea, and China.
This is the issue that it feels like Reddit doesn't get. Maybe those people are 0.0001% of the user base, but if they leave then everything they were managing goes straight to hell, subreddits become choked with off-topic posts, spam, porn, and toxic behavior. The 99% of users who only ever lurk, and only rarely if ever comment, will stop having a reason to come around, and they'll just dwindle away.

It feels very much like every story of the toxic boss who says "my way or the highway" and then is all surprised pikachu when the only person who knows how things work chooses "the highway" and everything falls apart in their absence. I guess we'll see how it actually plays out.
For AI communication with human might be really boring and not worth time spent. Imagine if human was thousand times slower in thinking, and produced thousand times less deep thoughts.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474501

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887931
Who manufactures the display?
Boring writing is bad writing. If you can't holder your reader's attention long enough for them to get what you're trying to say then you've failed to communicate. If you follow that formula, not only will your writing be boring but too long as well.
That ‘triggers broom’ sketch and Del boy falling through the bar being ‘sophisticated’ was the height of comedy for me as kid. I suspect we are similar ages!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rcdLeXiU8
I'm curious if leaks like this are used to validate directory style websites or if they purely function off of official public records requests and releases.

There's a special place in hell for people who leak PII.
I didn't see any mention of it in all the material I've seen so far. Seems like a missed opportunity for applications which require external hardware but lower latency than streaming across wifi.
Advaita, which my orthodox Brahmin family believes and practices, proclaims the supremacy and totality of the self.

Buddhism which was dominant among the elites and aristocrats by 8th century was largely displaced out of India via scholarly debates.

This idea that east doesn’t believe in self is hokum
I was thinking of our effective "trade" with honey bees (for honey and for pollination). Sure, we could do either without them, but it's a lot more efficient to do these things with them.
Maybe keep the app around if you have a subscription; Selig is going to do refunds for Apollo subscriptions, and you will probably need to have the app installed to decline the refund (if you want to continue to support him rather than get your money back).
Fluoride and sugar operate completely independently on dental health. Fluoride is very beneficial, regardless of any other diet or dental hygiene factors. If you eat a lot of sugar, fluoride helps. If you don't eat any sugar, fluoride still helps.

I don't agree with putting fluoride in the water - but it should be available to anyone without a prescription.
The memcon between Nixon and Mao (with Kissinger present) is also pretty interesting[1].

[1]: https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/memorandum-...
Some websites just don't allow a simple crawler to get their contents. They need to execute javascript to get it
>We have all noticed that the Russian military appears far less capable than we thought it was; frankly it seems incapable of even some of the very basic tasks of modern industrial armies engaged in conventional military operations.

It's an unfalsifiable premise because the performance of the military is compared against a nebulous "less capable than we thought it was" bar, which by all accounts was clearly, albeit in hindsight, an incorrect worldview where Russia was supposedly going to conquer all of NATO in Europe in 3 days: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21344/us-...
Surely the good reason for the early start on a Saturday, is that all the adults running the exam can finish everything quickly enough to still have a restful weekend.
The reason Usenet can't work today is not for the reasons you surmise.

I used Usenet before the Eternal September.

The reason it worked back then, is because to a certain extent, it was a relatively homogeneous group of users, meaning, people of comparable education, interests, etc.

I'm not really interested in sharing a newsfeed with a kitchen cabinets spammer or a Russian troll or some MAGA trumpet endlessly gazing upon Hillary's emails, etc.

Also, the legal landscape is different today, we're a long way from a pre-DCMA world. Usenet servers act as common carriers but they are not legally common carriers (in my opinion) which means if I am right, the experiment will end as soon as someone decides to litigate against a server operator for passing on material that someone felt offended by. Not even copyright violations, just something they were offended by. For example, it is illegal to insult Ergodan (really) and while that law isn't enforceable here, it was elsewhere until recently in places like Germany which still had laws on the books saying it wasn't legal to insult foreign heads of state, etc. So it's just a big litigious mess now. You may have noticed the other year how the right-wing wanted to sue/shut-down the tech companies for being too woke and suppressing their free speech rights, etc.

Usenet was a lovely time and I miss it, but that ship sailed long ago and isn't coming back.
> I can't really think of any uses humans will have

You can't, yes, but can the AI? Ants can't think of the uses they have to us.
Coinbase CEO Says He’ll Fight the SEC for the Crypto Industry
> The Apple Vision also attempts to solve a problem: Create a computing interface that interacts with the real world.

You're not describing a problem though.

That's like saying:

"Mr Coffee designed a new coffee maker that attempts to solve a problem: it works underwater"
Is it not common in America to share tips with the entire staff?

In Europe there is much less of a tipping culture, but at the end of the night all tips go in one big pot and then get divided amongst the staff.