skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They wanted to wait another 5-10 years to get the miniaturization and price down so it can just be a pair of glasses. But they don't have that luxury; Zuck is trying to own the market, and Apple needs developers now rather than later. They know this device won't have high volume (and they've told shareholders that for months) but they're investing for 5-10 years from now when the tech is at the point where it does.

This is the best defense of the device that I've seen. I can absolutely see the appeal of AR in a pair of glasses, that's a form factor and convenience that makes sense.

But how will Apple retain excitement for this device and retain developers doing stuff for it, if the install base is tiny compared to the competition? Over ten years? Once this thing ends up on people's shelves, why should any company develop for it? "Trust me bro, Apple Vision Air 5 is finally going to kick off!"

The iPhone introduced the app store, which allowed for a literal gold rush, it suddenly became a whole lot easier for developers to earn money for their software, of course developers flocked to it, even though the install base was small. There's no such mechanism in place this time, all the other VR headsets have app stores. So what's the draw? All the Apple Vision owners are rich, so you can price your apps higher?

I understand the long term goals of Apple, they have to make this bet in case VR becomes the next revolution, but VR has been a solution looking for a problem for thirty years now at least, and this product is not going to become successful, and yet this thread, and every other one like it, is full of people predicting the VR revolution.
It's the difference between evaluating all the elements of a list, consing them, and returning it all at once and evaluating the elements one at a time (i.e. lazy evaluation). Saves memory and time and it gives you a chance to quit early.
Once I created something similar for my simple needs:

http://simpleddl.infinityfreeapp.com/

(Freshly uploaded to a free webhosting provider :-)
While true, the main problem the ChatGPT era presents is the ability to do powerful things with weakly defined understand.

This is like handing out footgun coupons to all citizens who become "of age" and saying it's cool cause they were already legally allowed to buy footguns.
We had something like that. It was called USENET. With the right reader and a decent ISP, it was great.
IANAL, this is not legal advice

You can always take notes, write down things about the conversation, you can even write down the whole conversation without consent

So essentially you can have a transcription of a conversation, but not the audio recording (without consent)
A decade ago I was complaining about only having so many GB of memory on my machine while developing our Java terror tech stack.

An ops type person overheard & mentioned we had some mostly unused beefy as heck remote desktop machines running NoMachine, which was a nice slick fast proxying X vdi thing I already loved. I was so happy.

It really let me work anywhere. At crazy speeds. Loved it.

These days I definitely am almost all ssh based. Back then though I basically needed Eclipse(+eclim).
> weren't even aware

I guess that aspect can't really be replicated anymore. Back when information moved slowly (in person, telephone, print) and broadcasts only included things with mass appeal (TV/radio ads, etc.) knowledge of a small but high quality community would remain tight for a long time, growing slowly. But the cat's out of the bag now: even the most obscure thing only needs to be posted in some place with tons of eyeballs (which simply could not occur at scale back in the day), if it's good it's upvoted to the top, and immediately it's no longer obscure.
We Are One Planet
So basically you want the clients to store their data themselves? I actually thought about such a thing as well, but that would have severe performance implications, or require a DHT-like storage where stuff gets chopped up and replicated on a bunch of other clients, meaning those other clients would not only have to offer extra storage, but also experience a lot of bandwidth usage.
I have cats, and the kneading really seems to me that they’re only making sure the place they’re about to lie on is comfortable.
They're either entirely incompetent or they're intentionally driving away 3rd party apps. I can't see any other alternative than that.
At this point the changelog is surely just stuff along the lines of "retrained with more data" and "slightly tweaked model architecture in a random way that improved performance".

And out of curiosity: as someone with a lot of expertise and money on the line, how would you compare Google Translate with LLMs? And also smaller self-hosted models with bigger ones that require API access like OpenAI? Do they perform better or worse and are they cheaper or more expensive?
Further notes regarding Superfluid Quantum Gravity (instead of dark energy): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36258299
Reddit CEO: “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive.”
Communication from executives is just like communication from politicians. It's designed to get the outcome they want, to manipulate, to make the strategic commitments they want, avoid those they don't, hide the things they don't want you to know yet, play to 40 different audiences etc..

On one hand I get why they do that, on the other hand it's made communicating with these people or believing them completely impossible if you just want to know what they think or what their plans are.
I always get a little suspicious of big nonfiction books arguing some big thesis that arrive with fawning reviews from all the right places and whose authors immediately get crowned as important public intellectuals.

These books often seem to have a life cycle: sensation, canon, “but wait a minute,” and then lastly forgotten.

I figure the initial splash might mean the author just knows the right people in New York. They seem like the nonfiction equivalent of what someone I know once called a “tobadny” which stands for “trendy overhyped book about dysfunctional New Yorkers.” These are the occasional literary fiction sensations about… well… dysfunctional New Yorkers that arrive with gushing reviews in The New Yorker.

A merely very talented author outside the New York scene usually has to wait until they are dead to be noticed.

In our scene the equivalent would be an overhyped overfunded startup run by someone who knows the right people in the Valley that is the hot thing for five minutes. Meanwhile someone in Nebraska who invented a working Alcubierre Drive will never get funding.
You'd still be able to see that he's replied in the thread though, it'll just be collapsed but still there
Wild they haven't made profit in so long. Who's running that place.
> They have in fact studied how often people are dying from a 24 hour exposure to bad air. Statistically, a few people are actually dying from one “bad day” exposure.

Yeah it wasn’t the million other things they did in the last 80 years of their lives. Perfectly healthy people keeling over because of a bad air quality day lol. Please take a moment to use a small bit of logic here. This is a make believe idea like people who died in car accidents but had Covid were victims of Covid. This is aggregate nonsense and to suggest a single, mild event (hundreds of miles from danger) was the bullet to the head is so far fetched as to be hilarious to me.

I’m not a science renter but as a person highly educated in that field I can spit bullshit quickly. I know what the report is saying because stats and math are fun to tell a story. But just because you’re using the tools of science doesn’t mean you’re doing meaningful science.

Your report is a political statement to justify power/action when it isn’t warranted. Much like people used to reference the word of god as authorities truth.

Maybe all the alarmists and doom sayers caused unhealthy rubes undue stress that that’s what did it. They never even breathed a breath.

Your science is laughable at best in the context of this weeks event.
“Distasteful“? Really?

Their current sponsor isn’t a deep pocketed publicly traded cloud provider. All of these cloud providers advocate for open source. Cloudflare could come in and cover these costs and write them off as donations or something similar. For AWS they’d probably not even make a material difference in the accounting software.

I think you’ve got some deep seated angst against the Uber wealthy (join the club) but I never mentioned bezos. I mentioned these companies sponsoring selfishly for the goodwill it would bring.

I’ll try to make my case better next time.
This is really cool. One day I’d like to see a JS based window manager running as the main window manager on a local machine. I’m not entirely sure how that would work. Imagine using a JS window manager instead of Windows explorer or MacOS’ finder or even replace KDE or Gnome.
Wouldn't surprise me if the "official" Reddit app is now weighed down by a metric tonne of compliance that none of the other apps have to do. Not that it explains shipping actively user experience degrading features, but it can explain how they can get stuck with them once those poor decisions are made, because there is so much process involved to fix them that you basically give up.
We just need a copy of reddit but with better management. Have a barebones UI like this site so that it runs on minimal hardware and then just pay for it with donations.
But that’s the question though: are they all getting such huge value from it if none of them are willing to pay for it? Or is this an issue of Nix just not even asking for money?
Eugenics, I should have said. The point remains.

Have you ever even had a dog? You speak as if you’re pretending to be an expert in canine physiology but everything you say is just plain wrong.

For one, my dog can control herself just fine around studs while she’s in heat. And her being in heat is a minor, annual, occurrence. Contrast that to humans, whose heat is painful and monthly. Would you advocate for forced snipping of all human tubes as you so callously do re canines?

Glad to hear that you’ve somehow managed to “look” at a dog post invasive surgery and determine “idk probably not bad”. I assume you didn’t notice the months-years-lifetime of depression following?
If We Can Master Artificial Photosynthesis, We Can Thrive in Space
One of the Wolfram/Chatbook developers here.

I'm happy to answer questions or accept feedback about the new functionality.

We're very excited about the potential of Wolfram technology + LLMs, and we've got a number of interesting projects underway in this area. Stephen's other recent blog posts linked at the top of the Chat Notebooks post provide a nice tour.

The Wolfram/Chatbook[1] package mentioned in the post is freely available for any Wolfram 13.2 users. It's also open source and available on GitHub[2].

[1]: https://paclets.com/Wolfram/Chatbook

[2]: https://github.com/WolframResearch/Chatbook
Considered they paid 4 billion for the franchise alone, I think they wanted more.
Just make your own financial system bro
https://old.reddit.com/user/spez can read through his responses here and check the context of the question, he hasn't answered all that many
> Its product is volunteer work by moderators and users to produce value.

The way the Reddit works, moderation is a free and limitless resource. You will never run out of people volunteering for the job.
Dedup can be used with compression I thought.
Your comments / posts from banned subs are available in your Reddit archive.

This tool has iffy support for adding rich data for deleted comments, but I have some plans.
He didn't answer many questions. I guess he gave up.
the irony is that I've seen Guns, Germs, and Steel get trashed by people on the right for downplaying the idea that Western culture was/is special and the key to success/wealth/innovation and attacking Diamond for saying it was only due to geography and other random factors rather than Western culture itself

Universities and academics have shifted so far left that they are increasingly eating their own, the entire point of the book was to try and say that race and Western culture wasn't a factor. It's a pretty obvious argument against most right wing talking points, but apparently that isn't enough anymore in academia
I have never bought them but I have actually received a few silver and gold badges like that for some of my comments. So I guess that makes my account a fake then?
Reddit CEO Spez AMA Overview
> founders to tell 3 different stories to 3 different sets of people these days and the lies exist in parallel and never reconcile for years due to divergent incentives and class divides (and media filter bubbles)

The cost of automated detection of story arbitrage is also falling, e.g. hypothetical StoryGPT analysis of testimony to a blockchain (or paper) notary.
Honestly, web platform is an ugly example of bad engineering, lot of legacy, weird choices, lots of privacy leaks, dangerous crossdomain requests enabled by default, etc. Instead of adding new APIs it would be better to freeze it and design a better platform.
lieto di aiutare l'amico
Is this a joke response? The law, as it does now for other cases, would differentiate work that can be done remotely and work that can be done on site.

Did you think my suggestion meant that e.g. waiters and sailors would also work from home?

>You clearly haven't given a fraction of a second’s thought to this topic

Oh, the irony!
Curious to see whether pessimism about big-$$$ companies getting to shape US law to their will could win versus pessimism about the seemingly inevitable creep of the security state, if Europe actually forces tech companies' hands here... one can kind of imagine it being possible to repeal the CLOUD act if enough lobbyist dollars were spent.
I remember when they fired Victoria Taylor who was the ambassador for their celebrity AMAs. At that exact time, AMAs were absolutely hopping with celebrities and even President Obama. Reddit was getting huge media coverage and that was likely lots of new traffic.

...and then they killed it...

They still have celebrity AMAs but that was the peak and it immediately lost most relevance.
OK you got me there I guess, but even learning that we've learned nothing is learning in itself. Otherwise the act of compressing wouldn't give any more information.
LLMs are so valuable that these fees are must be this high to keep them in check.

The fundamental problem is they’re not differentiating pricing between data scrapers and user apps.

Heck, they don’t even need to display ads in 3rd party apps. Just let me subscribe to Reddits API directly. Let me pay for my monthly usage.
Funny was that he seems to have gotten his responses from a shared document with answers that his team prepared for him. At one point he copied "A: ...", which users noticed so he removed the "A:" afterwards.
14 replies on a 20K comments post
Great writing. Love it
Maybe they're hoping that future LLM trainers will cough up the crazy prices?
lol, I can tell you don't have FSD. I don't even drive anymore, I just watch. The vast majority of the time the car does something unexpected there's a child crossing in the middle of street at night, or a car behind me moving into my lane that I didn't see at first because it was in my blind spot. FSD is already good enough that if it stopped progressing I would feel like I got my money's worth. FSD is amazing. It's almost a solved problem, I believe that it's currently 5x safer than human driver, and that seems/feels right. One year ago FSD was an insanely expensive party trick, now it works. Headlines can state stuff like this, but it's a lot like Microsoft going on about how much better they are then Linux. You should watch the videos on how bad the Mercedes L3 is, it only works on freeways UNDER 45 MPH with a lead car.
Sure - you can't just look at how an ANN works and assume that's how the brain does that too, but the ANN's operation can act as inspiration to suggest or confirm the way the brain might be doing something.

It seems neuroscientists are good at discovering low level detail and perhaps not so good in general (visual cortex being somewhat of an exception) at putting the pieces together to suggest high level operations. ANNs seem complementary in that while their low level details are little like the brain, the connectionist architectures can be comparable, and we do know the top down operation (even though interpretation is an issue, more for some ANNs than others). If we assume that the cortex is doing some type of prediction error minimization then it's likely to have found similar solutions to an ANN in cases where problem and connectivity are similar.
He was very right. And if he's around in 2023, things are immensely worse than 2007 too.
The Reddit board of directors should choose a CEO with better judgement because this doesn't look good.

While I am sad for the communities, I am excited at the opportunity to short this stock if it ever goes public with such poor leadership.
If you can get your GDPR archive, this tool will still work a bit. I have features planned that will support that better.
Nothing in the quoted passage suggests that China does not have different dialects. But it doesn't take a history professor to recognize that China has been under centralized governments of much more comprehensive reach in space and time than Europe ever has, and it is with these periods of unity and stability that Chinese culture most identifies itself.
I used to work for Roy Rogers, when we had to call the customers “Pardner.”
"Unfortunately, it's very easy for certain founders to tell 3 different stories to 3 different sets of people these days and the lies exist in parallel and never reconcile for years due to divergent incentives and class divides (and media filter bubbles)."

"These days" .. but was it better before?

The ruling class literally spoke a different language (aristocraties in europe french and the clerics latin).

That made it even easier to seperate realities and not accidently share insights to peasants what they are not supposed to hear.
Tbh I think that's a good answer. As someone about to delete their account after archiving their data, I'm fine with that. They need to be profitable. If they can't break even Reddit will absolutely disappear.

The problem is that they're fucking it all up.
Cause he was pasting answers haha https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
I'm not sure that schools teach the PhD track to be writers. They must write, but they are not really expected to write well. An MFA in creative writing, sure, but that's a different sort.

I think of the modern or contemporary "intellectuals" I have read and many are mediocre writers. For every William James there's a Pearse or a Lewis who is hard to read.

But I think that the author has a different idea in mind, that of the novelist, story writer or journalist. A lack of life experience and appreciation for dialog can lead to poor writing in these domains, and perhaps a waiter would have a leg up.
It's pretty obviously the latter, the decision to kill access to NSFW posts via the API while the official apps will (AFAICT) still be able to access them means that 3rd party apps will be on the back foot even if they pay, for no good reason Reddit has been able to articulate.

NSFW on Reddit isn't just porn, the tag is used in the literal sense of "your boss wouldn't approve" or as a content warning for violence, heavy subjects, etc.

e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/search?q=nsfw%3Ayes&restr...
Such a shame, I've used reddit for over a decade and enjoyed it for the most part. There's a lot of value in the communities and discussions on reddit, but I think the writings on the wall for this one. Hopefully someone can build something that captures the reddit experience and pulls in the communities
I know this is repeated over and over but in the case of Reddit I think it’s pretty true. They should never have taken VC money. I don’t think technically they are doing anything that is very tricky. They have surely innovated on their tech stack but even the things they have tried to do seem pretty miserable. Their media player is horrendous and while they do have scale problems, I don’t see much happening on the product side. They have not done much to make admin’s life easier. Beyond the new UI they got years back, I am not sure what they have done to improve the product.

Maybe I have not paid close enough attention but Reddit feels mostly the same since forever.
I would expect python2 to only have gone away across major versions of an OS, which is about as non-disruptive as it could have been, considering.

Of course, as I write this ansible is broken on one of my machines for reasons that appear to stem from a python 3.x->3.y update, so...
Selig's response to that private/public claim was "Please feel free to give examples where I said something differently in public versus what I said to you. I give you full permission." He's doing very well at making Reddit look like a lying bully.

Context (the article mentions spez's comment doubling-down, but doesn't mention Selig's immediate reply): https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
Yes they’re wrong. Raise prices if you need to.
Ok, I misunderstood the difference between an autoimmune disease and immune dysfunctions. COVID can cause malfunctions such as cytokine storms which have a downstream effect of increasing GFAP and NFL, two biomarkers which indicate brain health. If you search long COVID and NFL and GFAP, you should get several studies linking the after effects of acute COVID to increases in these biomarkers. I don't have specific examples though since I didn't read this, I got this from a researcher that's confirmed it in her own (currently unpublished) study and using it to make other observations, I can link you that though when it does get published! That being said I believe articles (like these https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8320425/) will confirm as much, I'm just not parrotting any of the findings.

As for variants, Omicron was not as bad I'm told, mostly because Omicron caused fewer people to get severely sick as it evolved to become less deadly. Thus there were fewer immune malfunctions. Vaccines should not have caused immune malfunctions as those malfunctions were induced by COVID making people severely sick, often to the point where they ended up in ICUs.
Old-timer here.
I learned to use the unix built-ins via Unix Text Processing, Unix Power Tools, and UNIX Relational Database Management. The last of these is a commercial version of Walter Hobbs' work at RAND. The code is avalable at github. https://github.com/ironsmith58/RDB These were a great way to learn shell commands and perl. (and a free database)

The Wiki Way was the first book on wikis.

Another book that helped me was "The Addictive Organization" by Anne Wilson Schaef. It's just amazing how common behaviors are that are normally associated with addiction. Principally: Projection and denial.
To control the narrative.
Does anyone have an idea what sort of design could achieve the proposal near the end:

> Clearly the immense loss of energy by gravitational radiation is an obstacle to the efficient use of neutron stars as gravitational machines. It may be that this sets a natural limit of about 108 cm/sec to the velocities that can be handled conveniently in a gravitational technology. However, it would be surprising if a technologically advanced species could not find a way to design a nonradiating gravitational machine, and so to exploit the much higher velocities which neutron stars in principle make possible.

From my dim memory of Kip Thorne's popular book, a spinning black hole could be used in this way, which would mean there's at least one solution.
Let's not pretend the old ui is good, it's just not as bad as the replacements.