skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminded me of a short and simple story I wrote long ago: http://alejo-stories.blogspot.com/2015/12/two-apes-and-one-a...

I hope this little bit of self-promotion is okay, the story certainly seems fairly relevant to this topic. :-)
But in the startup world it’s make profit, sell, or shut down

Do people really prefer Reddit shut down or be owned by Meta, just because of an app made by a single dev, that someone could buy and keep alive, or 10 companies could recreate tomorrow?

Reddit isn’t going to be turned into a foundation
Facebook isn't a hardware company, all their similar ventures are essentially duds. They will like the market legitimacy but they are more likely in the position of Palm when the iPhone was announced (ie, have been in the market with tepid success for years, then eclipsed by Apple).

Apple's core strength is the hardware/software vertical integration, but another strength is that they know how to partner with others, even competitors (Intel/MS/Google/Netflix/IBM/you name it) if it makes their product more cohesive in a way they couldn't do alone.
This happened in the US as well many a time.
Yeah, $0.00099/GB (roughly $1/TB per month) sounds cheap, but retrieving that data will cost you almost two orders of magnitude more than the storage, so not really such a good deal. Also, obviously the latency of the "glacial" tier is so awful that it is useless for anything other than archival of long-term data without any need for speedy restoration.
It's an almost irrelevant question because as soon as most nodes would stop carrying alt.binaries, posters would no longer respect the convention that binaries should go there, because users would want the data regardless of what their provider wants. Them it's a cat and mouse game like everything else, where binaries would just be split up more and obfuscated more.

When the cost of storage and compute isn't really borne by the users, content limits are just challenges to overcome.

Maybe if there was a total messages or bytes limit per user it might prevent using it for binary distribution, but those are painful for users to the degree it might kill usage enough to kill any hope of it continuing.
I am amused by the idea of presenting philosophical "terms of art" with obscure television skits dedicated to them. (i.e. Ship of Theseus is now Trigger's broom). Got any more in the bag?
Possibly even some of it was faked.
Wheels sturdy enough to carry light loads are easier to fabricate than wheels sturdy enough to carry heavy loads. Similarly low-speed wheels are easier to create than wheels suitable for a chariot pulled by a galloping horse.

So the thousands of years gap between heavy carts and chariots vs wheelbarrows, isn't something you can explain by citing insufficient technology or unsuitable environmental conditions. I think it all comes down to nobody had that idea yet.
This is the “Vision Pro”. I suspect they’ll come out with a lower priced “Vision” in the future that is missing some of the features but allows people to gain access to the product ecosystem.

Apple might also simply release this model Vision Pro as the Vision in a few years when they release the next Vision Pro generation, something like they’ve done in other product lines.
If your goal is an offline wikipedia then try

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/
with the http server from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix

Other mirrors exist carring different sitesrips.
https://mirror.accum.se/mirror/kiwix.org/zim/
https://ftp.fau.de/kiwix/zim/

Between http-serve, git clone, yt-dl and various emulators internet access is hardly a necessity unless you enjoy seeding or arguing, and the latter is currently being deprecated by local models.
I think when the centralized owner of a site has decided to fuck up the site in a way that pisses off a lot of users, it's reasonable to look to solutions which are resilient against that. If a particular Usenet peer decided it wanted to stop carrying comp.*, well, there were plenty of servers that did have it. If a peer went offline, the posts it originated were still out there, by nature of the protocol (well, up until everybody had decided to expire them, but archives also exist...)
You are being very silly. North Africa is oriented East-West in a way that allowed it to participate in the easy exchange of flora, fauna, culture and technology with the greater East-West zone that extends from Portugal to China. Saharan Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, which is a huge barrier to exchange. Sub-Saharan Africa is oriented mainly North-South, in comparison with the greater Mediterranean exchange region the Diamond outlines.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Eq...
> This is a good model if connectivity is scarce or expensive, but inefficient if it’s pervasive and cheap.

The web is absolutely packed with data duplication, every CDN ever keeps a copy of everything in serves in multiple locations. There's nothing wrong with duplicating data. So long as there's some agreement on the uniqueness of a message it doesn't really matter how many times it's duplicated in the network.

It's actually an advantage because it means multiple parties can maintain backups of of messages and reconstruct conversations after the fact. If some central source of threads goes down it can be rebuilt from partial copies. It's the reason DejaNews even had extensive Usenet archives for Google to purchase.
Investors look at business potential and might not understand or want to bet on this market yet, it’s very much untested and unproven. If you want to know if it’s any good, likely better to look at tech publications.
Yes. "Digital Crown" dial is used to set how much "reality" is let in.
Related: https://www.nyctimescape.com/
some vr games seem like a lot of fun - beat saber in particular is good enough that if I could have bought an oculus without needing to tie it into an internet-of-shit account I would have just because I have seen a convincing proof of concept that I could get a few hundred dollars of entertainment over the lifetime of the device.

as for AR, google glass has demonstrated convincing value as a heads up display for factory floors and other places where people need to interact with complex machinery. I am excited about the potential in that.
>an agency does not want to telegraph their moves ahead of time, since that would give potential criminals a heads up that they are on a deadline and need to focus on cover up their crimes.

I think you might mean the "potential suspects" of the investigation.

"Criminal" as a basic categorization is binary in nature. All non-criminals are also "potential criminals." No criminals are "potential criminals" (they've already realized said potential).
Could also say it's happened at Twitter, too, outside of sports Twitter. When I had my main account with 2K followers for years engagement was pretty high and consistent. Then Twitter made sharing links to your own content impossible to drive engagement to your own content which, considering the amount of anger and virtue signaling on Twitter, caused me to use it less and less.

Then Elon bought it and it became a right wing platform for what I can only describe as fascism disguised as "free speech". I'd log in and see virtually no one over time. Granted my main account was very tech/developer heavy and those communities seem to skew left. But I decided it just made me sad to login and have to see how hollow it was.

Glad to have experienced it 2014-2016 though. That was peak Tech Twitter for me.
So we're all, metaphysically speaking, a Ship of Theseus?
or the GenZers with an app
Cheap.

I mean, expensive by the standards of 1994, but -- inevitable comparison inbound -- a Raspberry Pi 4 has more CPU, more IOPS, more storage, and more RAM than many a 1994 small-ISP Usenet server. And modern Linux is a heck of a lot nicer to work with than any of the OS back then. A T1 is 1.5Mb/s, and if you don't take binaries, you would not quite fill that pipe back then.

These days, a $10/month VPS is not merely adequate, but luxurious for a non-binaries feed.
This might seem like a silly question but could you give me an example use-case?

I'm struggling to think of a context where we basically want to create timestamps for things that happened in the past. Especially things that we want to dynamically localize rather than e.g. just store as a straight up timestamped string.
Everything about this seems an in-home thing. Certainly the announcement didn't suggest otherwise--including Disney's presence.

So more VR than AR? Not walking around with magic fashionable glasses that tell you things? I can imagine interesting aspects of AR but I'm not sure this gets to the starting line. (Other than maybe a developer platform)
Hey, that's one of mine. I am glad you liked it enough to share it. Maybe I should have done so myself... :-)
Likely a malicious person said this to present plausible deniability for their crimes and conspiracies.
It isn’t about wearing it all day long. It’ll have a set of applications, just like the the phone and tablet and laptop have sets of applications, with some overlap.

The difference here from Meta is that Apple isn’t selling a dystopian future where we all spend our time in a meta verse with a “fucking headset all day long” - they are explicitly showing it as in use for certain applications as part of - rather than replacing - reality.
UUIDv7 uses a 36-bit unsigned field to represent seconds since 1970-01-01 (and optionally other fields to enable sub-second precision).

It doesn't overflow until the year 4147 -- but since it's unsigned it can't represent times before 1970.

It's not designed to store times in the past, so that's not an issue for its intended use, but using it as a general time representation format could be problematic (say, if you want to represent a person's birth date).

(An aside: At a previous job, I worked on some code that would display a person's age given their stored birth date. The code didn't handle dates before 1900. I did a little research and found that that wouldn't be a problem, since everyone born before 1900 is dead. Ten years earlier, it would have been an issue.)
I remember having to resort to submitting a post to alt.tech-support.recovery using a text editor and a raw telnet session due to the "lay-an-egg" requirement for posts to be accepted there and I didn't have software that would let me fiddle with headers in a sane fashion. HN most certainly does not achieve this level of filtration.
> Looking at Nix internals would, over at the Guix land, be more like looking at the Guile compiler, or garbage collector

huh? nope. looking at guix internals would just mean looking up guile documentation :)
According to the poster you're replying to it's a universal synonym which can be pointed at anything.
POSIX doesn't define a service API for (HTTP, local, or otherwise exposed) services, but if adherence to an existing API spec from the height of SOA is important, there is Service Component Architecture (SCA) which has bindings to C (or other native
PL), Java/JVM, and other relevant calling conventions. There used to be multiple implementations of SCA for C++ (Apache Tuscany, Trentino/Siemens, and others) but C++ name mangling is of course a PITA for binary forward compatibility.
NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Feature Phone UI in LVGL, Zig and WebAssembly
great *not bot btw
The question with games is how you're going to control them, hand tracking isn't a good substitute for the standard physical VR controllers, especially if you're using something like Virtual Desktop to stream existing SteamVR games which are specifically designed for those controllers.

In theory you could crudely rig it up with a set of Index controllers, if you can stomach adding another $580 of gear (controllers + two lighthouses) to your $3500 headset.
I got 10% through. Says more about me, or at least my mood. Clicking a HN link I al not sold on reading so much. But if this article was a book I purchased I would read it over a few days.

The writing is good though at a micro level. I think it needs more structure and hooks. Chapters with interesting titles “The positive consequences of lying in my first interview” for example (I am not a writer so sure HN could do better)
> it’s very much untested and unproven

I feel like I'm reading cryptobros saying "we're still early".

It's not a new market, it has existed for more than 10 years, and it is a micro-niche market.

And I'm saying that as a guy that has a Quest 2.
Guns, Germs and Steel is ridiculous nonsense and an horrific just so story to explain European supremacy for a bulk of the modern era. I'd sooner listen to Jared Taylor than Jared Diamond, because at least the former's hypothesis is somewhat intellectually sound.

It also has laughable, extremely racist tidbits such as Jared Diamonds unironic opinion that, on a genetic basis, people of Papua New Guinea are "superior" to Europeans, where he cited industrialization as dysgenic.

Absurd.
First Apple Watch Edition series 0 was > $1k, but successive releases essentially destroyed other platforms except for high end sports watches (Garmin, etc). Fitbit essentially died after a few years battling with Apple.

The analogy for this product is less the iPhone than the Apple Watch (if they only release Edition on first run).
The White Stripes are probably my all-time favorite band. As much as I'd love to see Meg perform again, let her do her.
There is a really compelling use case for VR that is under-exploited due to low resolution and heat output of various non-apple headsets:

Driving video games.

Driving in VR is 1000% times better than on a 2D screen, you can actually judge breaking distances, and you feel like you're actually going through the corner.
Been awhile for me also.
But wasn't it more about East-West Trade. And that 'cross-fertilization' would help everyone across that path, the rising tide raises all boats. So at some point China or Persia also had a chance to leap ahead, but for other factors. I don't think it was a given that Europe would 'win' the technology race. Though, now my memory fails me on what was the deciding factor.

But given that humans are equal, with a equal history of violence and conquest. If geography was not a factor. Then what was? We can't just blame Europeans for being successful. If we can't find any external factors, then we are left with internal, and then we'd have to do some logic around what makes them specifically different. Culture? Genes? Those also don't seem correct.
That's the thing — Python can break with any OS update (I personally can break it whenever I touch it ;)

OTOH a script for /bin/sh written 30 years ago has a good chance running today unchanged.

Having said that, I still would not recommend shell for anything that needs to be robust and secure.
M2 seems to win on single-core (apart from crypto). Then you look at 56/112 cores/threads vs 24 and it is clearly outgunned...

Not entirely unsurprisingly...
I think they wanted to demonstrate their resolve.

Their messaging is probably to get all of the other apps ect to sell out to the big boys or essentially get fired from their own company.

The language model war is in full swing now the moats are starting to form.

They're betting big on continued engagement or they actually want it to fail. Time will tell.
It sounds like it will support both AR and VR use-cases, with smooth transitions in between by detecting people around you or through the digital crown.

They also announced official support in the SDK for CrossOver (Wine). [0] It could be part of a strategy to support existing VR apps for Windows.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36223927
ham sandwiches
This is satire right? Does the author really not get what “we don’t trade with ants” is actually getting at?

Perhaps to frame it better: do humans trade with GOD?
It's too expensive for a feature that most people don't think to look for.
I thought the general consensus was that they were both malicious, but Cheney was the brains behind the operation. Sometimes someone is malicious and incompetent, but self-aware enough to delegate.
It is non-sensical. Let me put it in a tech analogy: Does a process exist only when it is scheduled to exist or does it cease to exist when it is suspended? No, right? Because the memory and execution context are still valid.

If the brain is a computer then the self is the software, the collection of code and data that comprise the OS and other available programs. This silly concept is saying "there is no operating system or programs, there is only execution and ram memory, when things are not being executed, they don't exist"

The data (our memories) and collective code (mind) that operates on that data, including code that isn't actively executing makes up a separate unique entity, separate from the execution state of the brain at a specific point in time.

Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Next science will believe the tree didn't really fall because no one saw it fall, even if you can see a fallen tree because falling and observing a fallen artifact are separate.
As another comparison the Vision Pro has 23 million pixels while a Virtual Boy has 384. Not the best comparison, but it's the only VR headset I've used.
You’ve heard of Retina, now comes Red Blood Cell
> Now? It's just another fucking ad company.

Good ol' enshittification.
That feels a little reductionist. You’re paying for stuff like order tracking, customer service, easy tipping, a way to talk to the delivery driver, and a centralized place to choose stuff. I don’t think those things are worth the price anymore, but they have value
Alumnus. We had multiple times when one of Nolan’s friends came to class and pretty much literally dumped a bunch of Atari hardware on the front table.

We got to play with stuff and hear some great stories. The U of Utah is a great place, if you like snow, physics, computers and steep inclines. And haha it even has a surprising cultural scene (there is beer.)

One of my mentors there invented that magnetic ink on checks. That was a mind-blower too!
There is too much word confusion going on.

I said "Community is an intangible KPI" and someone asked "What makes you say Community is intangible?" -- but I didn't say that. Then I said "Community is tangible" and what I meant by that is: There is a well understood definition of what a community is. Now you ask "How do you define tangible vs. intangible assets?" but I'm not saying that community value is easily convertible into economic value.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset.asp

An asset is a resource with economic value that an individual, corporation, or country owns or controls with the expectation that it will provide a future benefit.

Assets are reported on a company's balance sheet. They're classified as current, fixed, financial, and intangible. They are bought or created to increase a firm's value or benefit the firm's operations.

An asset can be thought of as something that, in the future, can generate cash flow, reduce expenses, or improve sales, regardless of whether it's manufacturing equipment or a patent.

One thing you could consider is moderator interaction as increasing the value of the platform in proportion to the hours spent, like you do when accounting a salaried software developer as increasing the value of the product by getting paid. (It's a proxy, of course.)

I assume that shareholders are not stupid when it comes to the cost of potentially killing communities, and they believe that more ad exposure + some AI model based on Reddit's data will deliver more economic value than the current free API.

I think where the difference in conviction is:

- How much will killing 3rd-party apps as we know them affect Reddit's community health?
- How much will a deteriorated community health affect the future quality of Reddit data?
I know I've probably missed it, but does the Vision Pro have a video input, or is it limited to programs it run on it's onboard computer/streaming?
they did and still do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229557
Even taking this claim at face value, this is too niche of an audience to make VR compelling for investors.
> First you say that people should just audit the code if they don't trust it. Then you say if someone wants to read untrusted files they should just spin up a virtual machine?

Because of an intended functionality of many of those file formats, which makes them quite dangerous when coming from untrusted sources: Macros.
Also flying. Flight simulators and space simulators are a blast in VR.
> It's not a new market, it has existed for more than 10 years, and it is a micro-niche market.

So were smartphones before the iPhone. Sure, some people had a Blackberry. But now _everyone_ has a smartphone.
Main issue isn't the resolution though - limiting factor is discomfort/fatigue of having this device/screens strapped an inch from your face.
I assume the real challenge here is preventing some kind of "pop" when a pixel leaves or enters the eye's area of focus. Any kind of change in the periphery of your vision would be distracting.
It’s because they have hired a bunch of people whose job is to do the PR.

Just like if you ask a surgeon for opinion his opinion will lean towards surgery, because that’s what he knows.
$12 a year at Google Domains for that address. [1] Grab it quick before someone else does.

[1]: https://domains.google.com/registrar/search?searchTerm=noiwi...
> you can't point to any _one part_ of our being or experience and say that that's the irreducible self.

This is why I find Buddhist reasoning superior to "Western" reasoning when the concept of the Self is the topic. There is no real model of the self, what it is at bedrock, in the Western tradition. Reason can't be applied to a non-model. Buddhism has a model. A good model can be improved and a bad model can be corrected. It's still better than no model.

I found Chandrakirti’s metaphor of the chariot helpful:

"A chariot is not asserted to be other than its parts"

https://nonduality.com/goode6.htm
The claim that science is just now catching up to Eastern philosophy has been around for quite a while. This version of it doesn't look any better to me than past versions.

The idea that the "self" is a process rather than a thing, which is basically what this claimed "new scientific discovery" amounts to, is actually not new to cognitive science. But it's also not the same as claiming that the "self" doesn't exist. Yes, there is no particular set of neurons in the brain that corresponds to the "self". But the whole process that your brain and body are constantly executing is a reasonable scientific embodiment of your "self".

To the extent there is an Eastern philosophy counterpart to this, it is the idea that it is wrong to pick out one particular part of the whole process going on in your brain and body--say the part that constructs a "narrative" that you can speak, either to yourself or to others--and treat that as though it were something separate from the rest. Much of the teaching of, for example, meditation can be seen as simply trying to make you more aware of all the other processes that are just as much a part of your "self" as the "narrative" process. But this article is taking the opposite view: that the only candidate for your "self" is the narrative process. I don't think that is a valid reading of Eastern philosophy any more than it is a valid conclusion from the science.
2008 called. It wants its prices back.

A visit to sunelec.com or santansolar.com yields a litany of panels for sale well under $1/W. Half the offerings on Amazon are below $1/W as well.

As such, nowadays you should be paying no more than $10k for a 5kW system.
Even if you count in microseconds, a signed 64-bit timestamp gives you a range of roughly 292,000 years in each direction. Being able to represent times in the past is a lot more useful than doubling that range.
My understanding is that Google is also shifting workloads based on carbon intensity using ElectricityMap's data feed.

https://www.electricitymaps.com/blog/announcing-our-partners...

https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-center...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map