skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed lisp is built on these tree nodes, pairs, tuples, cons cells, whatever. We should rename it 'treep'? 'nodep'? Lol
Can you even properly define "self" using Occam's razor?
> Miles Morales (Spider-Man), original character: Peter Parker/Spider-Man, first appearance: 2011

> Jane Foster (Thor), original character: Thor Odinson, first appearance: 2014

> Riri Williams (Ironheart), original character: Tony Stark/Iron Man, first appearance: 2016

> Laura Kinney (X-23), original character: Logan/Wolverine, first appearance: 2004

> Sam Wilson (Captain America), original character: Steve Rogers/Captain America, first appearance: 2014

> Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel), original character: Mar-Vell/Captain Marvel, first appearance: 2012

> Monica Rambeau (Captain Marvel), original character: Mar-Vell/Captain Marvel, first appearance: 1982

> America Chavez (Miss America), original character: Joey Chapman/Miss America, first appearance: 2011

> Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel), original character: Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel, first appearance: 2013

> Kate Bishop (Hawkeye), original character: Clint Barton/Hawkeye, first appearance: 2005

> Gwen Stacy (Spider-Woman, aka Spider-Gwen), original character: Peter Parker/Spider-Man, first appearance: 2014

Disney purchased Marvel in 2009(let's be honest 2010 is closer to the real year), only 7 of the 10 you listed occurred under Disney's watch. Big marvel fan indeed. Since you listed 7 times a race and/or a gender was swapped (I won't bother differentiating between swaps vs additions, e.g calling Ghost Spider a swap is a massive stretch.) under Disney as proof of "pushing progressive ideologies" I must assumed that is your threshold for something to be considered a trend. Here are 4 (plus the 3 your listed) times a race and/or a gender swap occurred under the previous Marvel owner's watch.

Michael Clarke Duncan as King Pin

Nick Fury (Ultimate Marvel Team-Up)

Lady Bullseye

Miss Sinister

Its almost as if Marvel did this sort of thing before Disney was involved, interesting.
The USDA does have primary federal law enforcement power for National Forests including drug crimes, but that is irrelevant to this discussion.

The FDA not the DEA is the primary regulator and enforcement agency for poppy seeds intended for human consumption.

The USDA is the primary regulator of seeds intended for planting. Since the seeds being sold at Monticello were sold with the intended for use in the planting of poppies, when surveying for opinions it seems an appropriate agency to get one from.
You can project your Mac’s entire screen in virtual space.
You are quite wrong to think they are panicking. I can assure you they planned and anticipated for a backlash of this proportion. And also came to the conclusion this will be worth it.
So basically this is great for watching movies. Or porn.
USEnet is alive and well, thanks. It doesn't need resurrecting; it never died.

I have a free account on Eternal September:

https://www.eternal-september.org/

I use Thunderbird as my client. In T'bird >100 you get mail, including Gmail etc via oAuth, including calendar/contacts/tasks, you get News, and you get chat over Matrix. All in one app.

It badly needs spam filtering for its NNTP client, but it works a treat. Runs on Win/Lin/Mac just fine. Sync between instances is coming real soon now, MZLA claims.

I wrote about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/new_betas_of_firefox_...
Explicit demand signal? The only way you can do that today is through gift cards. In principle the company could issue gift cards at a discount and if they were tradeable, then "investors" into the gift cards would hold onto them until the gift cards are worth more than they originally paid for.

There are also Genussrechte in Germany which are commonly used to pay interest not as money but as gift cards which can only be used at the company you invested in. This is done to fund local bakeries where the future customers essentially pay upfront for their consumption in exchange for receiving a return.
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail
Wow! What are they going to do with so many pixels!?
Do these passthrough displays give you a variable focal distance like the world does? As in, without the goggles, to focus on my dog, I have to focus about 10 feet away, but to focus on my hands I have to focus about 2 feet away. With passthrough, is it all effectively the same distance from me as far as focus is concerned?
I hope the ACT/SAT get with the program. Have a teen who just took the SAT and had to be there before 7:45. On a Saturday, so no good reason for such an early start time. Give them until at least 9!
Here's hoping and wishing for a "Steam Controller 2". Fingers crossed.
> “I have little doubt that Edmund Burke would have smiled on the endeavours of this convention,” he said.

Grand poofery at its finest.

Burke was no doubt clever, but I wouldn't deem him extraordinary. His ideas on the sublime got me in a row with a Romantic Literature professors at the University of Texas who told me I should "have more respect". I simply pointed out that Burke's thoughts on the sublime were simple, apparently limited in their understanding.

Today I would anticipate extending such judgement to all of his work (and by extension his followers), but must stop short of such damnation as I haven't given it proper treatment.
Yes a couple of them I've been on are still around but quite a few are a shell of their previous activity and some have disappeared entirely. I think people, myself included, are too easily distracted by the quick hit proposition of sites like reddit and Facebook. I would spend a solid 20-30 minutes daily catching up on some forums without really encountering something of interest. It was more like watching a rerun of a favorite show. My actual dopamine generating activity was in real life putting the things I learned on the forums to use.
Apple's speakers don't have any audio input nor standard Bluetooth support, so it's safe to say that Vision Pro will show only Apple-blessed content the way Apple wants it.
> Applo said they would sell for 10M

since this keeps being passed down as fact.

while it's clear that the apollo guy is a bit awkward, he did clarify in the recorded conversation, that this was intended as a joke. [0]

I read it as he was trying to point out sarcastically how ridiculous the numbers were.

[0] https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f9...
It has a feature called Mac Virtual Display, which I guess creates a large screen in space that mirrors your MacBook. But I’m not sure about a more general-purpose input than that.
When I first read that comment I thought it was just the GP snarking and riffing off this phrase.

Nope it’s actually what the CEO said.
Isn't that opposite.

If all humans are equal, and one group wins, then it was either external factors or luck.

But if it is not luck or external reasons, then isn't that racist, because now you are saying Europeans are somehow genetically different (better), or have a better culture, and that is what caused their success?

I think you are mixing possible reasons. There are non-racist reasons.
The trick is to go to bed earlier. This doesn't seem to actually solve any problems
The main issue with the Quest 2 for me was the resolution. I didn't mind the headset nearly as much as the blurry text.
It's a shitty analogy, and TFA is pointing it out.

> Perhaps to frame it better: do humans trade with GOD?

This is also a terrible analogy because:

1. There is no general agreement on whether or not any deities exist, and if so, which ones.

2. Historically, many religions do involve trade with one or more deities (e.g. protect me from this battle and I will sacrifice 2 goats when I get home). While this is more commonly associated with pagan religions, the Abrahamic religions are not entirely devoid of this tradition either.
For what it's worth, this morning I heard on the news a judge ordered a spaniard paparazzi got a restriction order due to his harassment of a soccer player.
If you're interested in that line of thought, read about illusionism. I first heard it from Chalmers, but specialized philosopher actually think on what that would mean, and it's more interesting than the conclusion imho.
> the self is an illusion, a byproduct of *our* thought processes.

I don't think they thought this through.
this blurs further with UK leaving Europe. Berlin doesn't pay much. And what's left then? Paris? Or Stockholm Sweden? Even the CxO's there don't make much more than 200K
WebKit published a list of things they don't/won't add support for, so you can count them out on iOS.

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/

I have an native app for both platforms which uses some of these because I can't do it with a webapp, I'd love for everything to be done in the browser.

Web Bluetooth

Web MIDI API

Magnetometer AP

Web NFC API

Device Memory API

Network Information API

Battery Status API

Web Bluetooth Scanning

Ambient Light Sensor

HDCP Policy Check extension for EME
Proximity Sensor

WebHID

Serial API

Web USB

Geolocation Sensor (background geolocation)

User Idle Detection
>it doesn't take a very high rate of improvement to reach 90-100 PPD

everyone that worked on these for however long it took just reached for their virtual pitch forks and are looking your way
US foreign incursions have always needed the support of the population, and therefore been scattershot and bumbling. What makes the US a relatively free country for individuals is also what makes it a lackluster great power in terms of formulating long term, coherent strategies that it's capable of carrying out. One could say it has always had a short attention span baked into it. This has been good for some places (Canada still exists after 1812, Europe isn't living under the 3rd Reich, Taiwan is... well... it is) and produced mixed results in others (our own Southern states are still a racist train wreck 130 years after reconstruction, Libya is a bunch of guys running around with scimitars, etc). The fecklessness sucks, but the overall inability to fully commit to domination is probably a good thing on the whole for the world. Consider the opposite... a US with a government and foreign policy unmoored from popular attitudes and free to prosecute any and all imperial wars without internal resistance or dissent or risk of power changing hands every 4 years.
Indeed. I bought a Valve Index and it's great. But other than Half-Life: Alyx there hasn't been any other AAA titles that target VR it's all Beat Sabre level niche games that are fun for a few goes then get old (for me at least).

As you allude to there is no killer app for VR after a decade. Maybe the "Apple factor" might bring some more devs and some fresh ideas but at the price point its at you're still at the "the market is too small" for most companies to ivents in.
> On May 21 in San Francisco, a small dog ran in front of one of our vehicles with an autonomous specialist present in the driver’s seat, and, unfortunately, contact was made.

"Contact was made" is an interesting way of wording it.
Heh! One of my first big computer purchases was for an Evans & Sutherland card, as it was one of the only cards available that would run on NT, supported OpenGL and had a whopping 32 MB of vram... and it was full AT length board fitting nicely into a $1,600 price tag! (crappy drivers, IIRC)
I just feel it, also if you remove the word self from the English, it would be difficult to say “I’m by myself right now”
Crowdinvesting is a form of Crowdfunding in Germany that is very successful. The only problem is that the ECSP license is onerous enough that nobody bothers to apply for it. This means that the crowdinvesting platforms merely act as sales people for conditionally repayable loans. These loans are considered equity and therefore pay higher interest like 8% which in turn makes this form of financing less attractive.
It’s probably rendered at a lower resolution outside of the focused area, so you don’t have fine detail, text becomes blurry, etc.

The quest does this but without eye tracking, whatever you’re facing toward is higher detail than stuff toward the edges.

Rendering full resolution at high frame rates for 23 million pixels would be too much for an M2 gpu, but most of your retina can’t see that fine detail so you don’t need to.
I've supported it on and off for years and currently have Reddit Gold. It's easy to justify the cost when considering the conversations over the years and the amazing resource it's been for making decisions or learning.

I was already considering dropping Gold at the end of this payment cycle due to some of their advertising bedfellows, but this mess has really sealed the deal.

Maybe Reddit doesn't have a breakout competitor for people to jump to atm, but I suspect blood is in the water and we're about to see an influx of alternatives.
Is this referencing Robert Sapolsky? I didn't know there was controversy there also?
StartPage may not be so anonymous now that it's owned by an ad company. Still, nice to see folks thinking about ways to be more private.
If you are referring to the stock price, I'd guess there was a lot of run up anticipating an unknown great announcement. Once it was announced, the "fear of missing out premium" went away and the stock went down just a bit.

The other factor is probably the the high price made everyone realize Apple is really targeting devs and early adopters. They aren't ready to sell one of these to every person who owns an iphone...at least not yet. So regardless of how promising the technology is, they probably won't start making money from it until some point in the future.
You might have a very narrow view of the Western tradition, then. There is plenty of discussion of the nature of "self" and there are plenty of models.
Isn't explicit subreddit-level engagement and information organization incredibly valuable for targeting/monetization?

imo, it like they're disorganizing the site to undermine and eventually cut out independent moderators, to avoid the business risk that is actively playing out.
I don't see that the cognitive capacity of humans relative to AGI would prevent such trade anymore than the cognitive capacity of e.g. dogs prevent trade between humans and dogs. It's not a relationship with equal power, but there is some level of reciprocity there.
Exactly. I have used Linux since 1994, from Slackware to RedHat to Debian to Gentoo to Ubuntu to Arch.

NixOS and nix-darwin both using nixpkgs is the first time I have the exact same shell and programming/CLI environment on all five of my personal and work machines which run Linux and macOS.

I upgraded them all to the 23.05 versions from 22.05 by updating my flake.lock and doing a rebuild switch on all machines. No regressions.

Some cobbled together shell scripts and a Git home dir management system (yadm) is what I had before and it doesn’t come close. I also dreaded upgrades with the previous approach. And didn’t have nearly the same control pristine replicated environment across machines.

It’s even flexible enough that on Linux desktop machines I have X11 and bspwm DE environment, on servers no X11, and on macOS it configures my system preferences, Dock icons and installed App Store apps.
I'd agree. I tried one of those virtual desktop environments, the closed environment, the dense foam, buildup of heat and moisture just made it uncomfortable quickly. The battery life was an issue too, with the common recommendation being to get an external battery back on your belt with long cable and wire it into the headset.

I think it would have to be something like immersive AR glasses on the order of glasses for simple corrective lenses to have the level of comfort necessary to not only want to use it, but use it long enough to actually be seeing a productivity increase.
You should try OpenObserve. It combines logging, metrics and dashboards (and traces) in one single binary/container
Apple has recently added support for Xbox controllers to macOS. Optimistically, that could have been a warm-up before adding support for Index controllers.
easy guess is that it's similar to AirPlay with an AppleTV, but that's just a SWAG on my part. it works well enough on my 65" 4K TV. I don't watch features or anything (that's the point of the AppleTV), but the shared/extended monitor looks fine from my couch
https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve
Yes at some level, every company should have at least one rack in a colo and I think that point is very soon after it starts, months.

I didn't say only, and I did say you should have footprint in every cloud for when you need to scale or deploy in a region.

If there was an "App Template" for a company, I think have your own hardware in a place you control is super important. Cloud providers literally don't give a shit about you. It is about agency.
A college philosophy professor of mine memorably critiqued this idea of Hume's by asking "Who is doing the observing? It's like a man who wants to know if anyone is home, so he goes outside and looks in the window."
publicly traded companies are swarmed with people watching them from every possible angle because they’re trying to profit off of seeing something thing before someone else does
I'd love to have this, but I see two near insurmountable problems for most teams:

- velocity metrics go down and timelines stretch, because effort is "wasted" on things that don't get finished.

- someone needs to do the boring hard work of laying out a whole project in advanced, fairly clearly if folks are allowed to jump around on the project.

Without those two, either the team looks bad to management or folks get stuck in a dead end even if they want to work on something (or spend their whole "20%" time just gathering requirements)
I’m skeptical an intelligence like you describe will ever exist. I don’t think enough credit is give to the external factors that make our intelligence and experience what it is.

Let’s first start with this, why on earth is a robot going to be doing genetic engineering projects ? To grow itself skin ?
I am not a vision expert, but simply matching the resolution of your display to the resolution of your sensor wouldn't necessarily produce a clear image, unless the pixels are aligned to the sensing elements.

By analogy, if you resize a 1025x1025 image to 1024x1024, it's usually going to look bad.
Not gonna lie this is the first time I’ve read the term “memcon”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_conversation
Bravo Netflix. This is actually mind boggling to me.

I look forward to quarterly results.
We have to stop talking about resolution only in terms of being able to see pixels. Not being able to see pixels is not the final limit to human vision.
If it was 4k monitors and TVs would have never become a thing.
There are other aspects like seeing aliasing or the blurriness introduced by antialiasing that is a particular challenge to small text and very well perceptible well beyond the point where you can spot individual pixels. It's incidentally also something Apple pointed out as the strength of the Vision Pro. So I wonder, how does the perceived sharpness compare to other Pro branded products by Apple?
Paving a Digital Road to Hell? (NYU School of Law, 2022) [pdf]
Fry & Laurie had a sketch[0] that, behind the silliness and ridiculous characterization, sets out Ferdinand de Saussure’s distinction of langue versus parole that is the foundation of modern linguistics.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg
Humans absolutely try trade with god in the form of cosmic karma ? I’m not saying they get something in return but they do try.
A long survey from Jetbrains (the more you check, the longer it gets)
interested to hear why you mod for a subreddit like that
That's what I was wondering, what happens to your eyes natural lenses? do they need to contract to read the content or does it account for divergence so the muscles in your eyes can relax as if the screen is 20 feet away?

Seems like that would be the case otherwise it would cause insane stress guess apple isn't dumb.
> we don’t need to trade with them because they have nothing of value and if they did we could just take it; anything they can do we can do better, and we can just walk all over them. Why negotiate when you can steal?

If we could communicate with ants, we would do all manner of business with them.

Everything from pest control (defend our crops in exchange for the corpses and perhaps extra sugar instead of using pesticides) to archeological exploration to health and chemical detection (ants can detect cancers in your urine) could benefit from ant services. Could use them for microplastic cleanup too.

Really, this applies to many species. Fisheries could certainly benefit from the knowledge of dolphins and whales. Birds could work with us to clear up litter. They already do this with crows to some extent. Imagine being able to partner with beehives to direct pollination.

So the barrier is that we cannot communicate with them, not that they have nothing of value to offer.
> professional civil engineer blaming a new untested simulation software after a bridge fails and causes injury

Which bridge failed and physically injured someone here?
Spez made 14 comments, the others made 7 combined, all in reply to 26,000 comments or so.
It's entirely possible. They did it.. and, it went exactly how you would expect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
I never understood the complaints of complexity about AWS. You can easily just use EC2 and maybe S3 and ignore the other 100 icons.

I think, in practice, what folks are complaining about is that AWS has the worst UI known to man. In which case, you can use GCP for their nice UI and still get the benefits of a hyperscaler.

I don’t mean to say that the simpler services have no place in the market but it’s pretty narrow. The fact DO and Linode offer things like Kubernetes now is evidence of that.
I cant see Apple officially adopting Index controllers, the need to semi-permanently install base stations in the play area is very un-Apple. Maybe they'll make something like the Quest controllers for the gen2 product when they get the feedback that hand tracking is kind of terrible for gaming.
Calling them "lowlifes" is too far, but you're absolutely right that there are hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands, of users who would jump at the chance to moderate any given subreddit with 10k+ subscribers. For more popular subs you could even get them to pay for the privilege.
Where a company puts the bulk of its resources, that is up to them for whatever reasons they have. I am not arguing against that. What I am arguing for is that you every company needs to have >1u running in a colo, with hardware that is largely theirs. Every company I have ever worked would be in the >=1rack range.

I will only address TC comments with supporting numbers. Just math, no boogeymen.
I don’t think any app store or payment provider would look fondly on a process that refunds that many transactions just because you want to turn around and double/triple the price. Credit card companies/payment gateways hate mass refunds and normally it could be cause to terminate your contract. To refund people because the app was forced to go out of business is one thing, but if you want to implement a price increase the supported way is what the developer said: to announce it in advance for next renewal.

Probably what you’d have to do is close the current app and publish a new app with the new business model (subscriber-only at a higher price). The amount of people who would move to such app would only be a tiny fraction of the previous userbase (as most app users were free before), and now you keep having to deal with this chaotic company who could just change the rules again at any time with little/no notice. Plus you’ll never get the kind of reach you had before without the freemium model. I think most indie devs would likely choose to just quit and move on with their lives. If someone wants to buy his code from him and publish their own subscriber-only app, probably it’s an option.
Considering how much money Wikipedia makes, that would be pretty amazing.