skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Russian text, it degrades to, basically, 1 character = 1 token, due to the tokenization issues discussed in the article, yet it produces absolutely coherent text, almost same as in English. In my tests, its Russian output is worse than English output, though, something like 80% quality I'd say. I'm not an LLM expert but I have a theory that, being mostly trained on English text, its thought processes actually happen in English (the part of the model which was trained on English text) and for Russian, it's able to map English to Russian and back thanks to its language translation ability, because I've noticed sometimes it produces slightly awkward sentences whose word choice makes sense in English (calques?) and not as much in Russian.
An explanation of how they achieve the higher performance: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom

And how they implement it: https://million.dev/blog/behind-the-block
I can't really fully encapsulate it in a comment really, but I can give you some advice:

1. Use flakes to set up your system and do work with. It sometimes feels underdocumented, but it's worth some headscratching imo.

2. Don't worry about putting everything in the base system. Stick to services (Tailscale, Syncthing, etc) and system/base desktop software. It's easy enough to use nix run, or Podman, or flatpak, or even AppImage to a degree.

3. Want to configure something declaratively? Before pulling out HomeManager or another user tool, consider configuring software at the system level. I do this for Zsh, SwayWM, etc. As a bonus, you can easily block off shell startup files and chown them to root so that malware can't trivially insert themselves there. (It's a weak protection, but definitely doesn't hurt in addition to other approaches.)

There's more (I recommend using Nix-ld to support AppImage and raw binaries better) but these things go a long way.
>> > By the way: A 16 oz can of Monster contains 2 grams of taurine.
And at least 50%+ of the "added sugar" recommendation(s) for an entire day

They could try using glycine as a sweetener. Another amino acid that we could use a little more of. It really does taste sweet.
Jobs was exactly right to say that iPhone was 5 years ahead of the competition. The competition at that time wasn't Android, it was blackberry.
Fresh milk can be frozen but I think it is only good for 6 months. And it has low calorific density so probably not ideal for (the south pole I am guessing?)
Doubtful — in general, company and investor-side counsel alike view Delaware courts as reasonable and fair. From what I've seen, the people that have a gripe with Delaware courts are usually activists of some sort.

The framing of VCs / board versus founders / shareholders doesn't make sense to me because so many startups have founders controlling the board. And VCs are shareholders too, of course.

I think what you may be referring to is that the Delaware courts generally give the company management broad discretion over business decisions. So it's difficult for a random shareholder to successfully sue the company over some bad decision they made. But as a founder, that's what you want, so you can run your startup without having to worry about backseat drivers.
Nreal air seems better to me just because you don't have to strap a god damn monitor into your face
I was thinking if eye tracking can cause more eye strain over long time, cause you'd have to focus your eyes more on something, than say casually moving pointer with a mouse or controller.
I think there is a large market of people that will never trust meta, but ignoring that, they have AR goggles now?

If not, their comments about overlapping features sound like the “but nokia candy bar phones already have a WEP browser!” objections from back in the iPhone 1 days.

(I’m personally not all that impressed by the apple vision announcement, but I also wasn’t impressed by the iPhone announcement, and for similar reasons. Hopefully someone will do significantly better than Apple this time.)
IIRC from poking around in the LLaMA internals (I assume ChatGPT is the same since it’s the obvious way to handle this): the token list has a complete set of tokens of length 1. This means that in the degenerate case where the tokenizer can’t compose the text out of any other tokens it’ll still be processable, just as a collection of single-character tokens that the language model presumably has vaguer associations for. (Which I imagine doesn’t actually affect things significantly; if you added more tokens for less-frequently-seen strings, it still wouldn’t have much of an idea what to do with them.)
Meta Quest 3 really looks like it's made by Xiaomi, matches their entire theme and price range.

What made you buy it?
That's a perfectly fair point. I personally think HN is one of the best designed sites out there. Being extremely minimal is one of the best designs. I hope that never changes.

I built HACK specifically to be able to be notified when people reply to me. That's one of my selling points.
Jesus. I pay 28c/kWh + 8c/kWh delivery (and many other fees that add to another 7c/kWh).
I understand where you're coming from, but I'm curious to know when do you think anthropomorphism or personification of an AI would be justified, and if the answer is never then what is the reasoning behind it?
What if you drink water with it?
>Everyone has the most advanced cameras in history in their phones and there's exactly zero indisputable pictures of UFOs, ghosts, fairies, chupacabras, Nessie, Bigfoots, Yetis, and so on.

This is key in why I was much more optimistic of finding any of those paranormal items than I was 10 years ago. I hope I'm wrong.
That's one of the saddest things I've ever read.
True, although that might be where my analogy breaks down. Controllers are today the primary input device for pretty much all VR headsets out there. So, maybe the better analogy would be the Blackberry's keyboard.

And we know who won that one. I think Apple is probably right to just double down on bare hands and voice as the input mechanism for spatial computing. I'm just also saying that controllers do have some advantage, so Meta should probably try to leverage it where they can.

(BTW, I myself do use the iPad primarily with the stylus, now that you can use handwriting everywhere just like the Newton MessagePad of yore... but I concede that probably very few people do this.)
Are the margins as high as people say
inheritance tax kicks in around 10 million dollars. it doesn't touch the middle class. it touches billionaires who die and leave a hundred million to everyone in their family.
Did he have it operate as an iterative looping agent or just a one shot? Humans write episodes as an iterative process with many steps and modifications, not as the stream of consciousness of the first that comes into their head.
you cant have that many cats without a decent number of mice and rats. I doubt they are aware of the level of sophistication in rodent reproductive capabilities. As it's nyc one should probably think of it as 800% compound interest every other week.
> This is just like the infamous "if you see a stylus, they blew it" approach with the iPhone

> Today, of course, Apple ships an excellent stylus that they are happy to sell you for $129.

Apple Pencil does not work with iPhone, only with iPads, which... makes sense. Artists use them as drawing tablets. But nobody uses a Apple Pencil with an iPhone.
Pretty cool!

Quick story. The first real computer I bought for myself was a Mac B&W G3. Amazing system. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple. I originally went to a Gateway store (remember those?) and configured a system. Went through the process to get approved for the loan to buy the system. I got denied (was a teenager). The loan people called me the next day to discuss more details and then approved me. I think they sent me a check or something. Can’t remember. I used those funds to buy the B&W G3 instead. Best decision I ever made. Was there for the birth of Mac OS X.

Not the same fan today that I was of Apple and OS X like I was back then, but it shaped my computer knowledge of Mac, and later Windows.
Human population has overshot in 1971[1], what are you talking about? Carrying capacity has long been exceeded, we’re living thanks to the phantom carrying capacity[2].

1: https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/overshoot-why-its-alrea...

2: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-03-06/dependence-pha...
This is something that lots of people complain about but somehow I never experience. Not to doubt it—I’ve seen the complaint enough that I believe it—mostly I’m just confused as to how I’ve managed to dodge the problem.

Firefox and mobile Safari, so I guess I should experience it…
I thought that way 3 or 4 years ago. PBS Spacetime has quite a few great videos about that. (Videos by actual physicists and astrologers.)
I hate that cats kill birds.

"We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3-4.0 billion birds and 6.3-22.3 billion mammals annually."

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

Honestly, birds are pretty much the only surviving wildlife in many areas and I wonder what our children and grandchildren will encounter.
I had an alpha male cat when I was a kid and once saw it run down and kill a jackrabbit with one bite.
Ah, right, Lol, I didn't think of that at all.
But could this be a wider problem than this? Many open source projects that could've been "sponsored" by someone like you, but ended up being commercialized by vested interests?
I find this version (also from H. Moser & Cie) more appealing:

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/h-moser-cie-swiss-alp-watch-fin...
It is completely U.S. focused — we tried to be very clear about that :)

Thanks for sharing this information about how it works in Germany! There definitely needs to be more content out there about how things work in other countries. I have to say I feel bad for startup founders forming a German entity. It sounds kind of painful...
That's me you quoted and I'd love to hear them, too. That is part of the point.
It's not like common lisps practices are that great anyways. It being an old lisp convention, to me, is actually a reason to not follow it.

I want to see a modern take on sexpr based languages instead of being stuck in the past forever.
I think they're caught in a pickle because they've sold "discounted" bulk API access to ML model training companies, discounted relative to the baseline that Reddit was planning to charge these client apps.

At least that was the speculation on HN when the story first came out.
I dont get it. Why did he say it will reverse? Do you think other countries arent offering freebies or a high skilled labor at cheaper rates than the US?

The US has outsourced so much, this cash dump is just going to head straight into the pockets of cronies who will then say 2-5 years they need more.
From the early reports, there is nobody saying they have to focus in some special way - you just look at the control, and tap.
> I love content creators who value their viewers time

Tom Scott's intros are a good example (straight into the topic with zero fluff). Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL40q3DMoQ
I don’t think I’ve try to click something without looking exactly where the pointer tip goes ever
Because corporations and worksites centralise to where transit and distribution is most efficient.

Plus, real estate costs aren't exactly flat everywhere.
what is PMF? NGMI?
Also, as a single point of anecdata: My $129 stylus spends the vast majority of the time magneted to the top of my iPad while my fingers do the actual work. It’s not exactly a regret, but as a not-really-an-artist, it’s… probably money I could’ve spent better. :)
> It's easy. Just source the parts.

Why is that not a relevant strategy for competing with Apple? Nvidia and arguably AMD could both out-engineer Apple if you're just talking about chips here.
It is the magnesium that is relevant.
He’s allowed to do whatever he wants (including not starting a competitor). But it’s bad from a negotiation perspective to let that out

Also bad from a business perspective. It likely would cost way less than 10m to build a competitor, functionality wise.

Reddit from 2017 or so is open source!
It has not affected it at all, we are also told not to use it especially from a security standpoint.
My guess is it'll be a personal thing where for a percentage of people it'll be fine for daily use, for another percentage it'll be tiring, and then for a final smaller percentage it'll be truly awful and cause migraines or whatever. Also I have yet to see much talk about how this will work for people with abnormal/poor vision (e.g. abnormal pupils or sclera, vision only in one eye, etc.). Although I do think Apple has a good track record for accessibility?

There's no way know until many thousands of people are using this device how those percentages will pan out.
Oppression means more than just jackbooted thugs kicking in your door, you know. American companies do stuff to workers daily that would result in them being dissolved and their executives fined into bankruptcy or even jailed here.
Show HN: Play Doom in ChatGPT
why does it matter? very few cars drive from us to eu
Detax: Tax avoidance made simple for small businesses
Why not point Apollo at a Reddit alternative, or use the open-source code for Reddit (or code like this https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit) instead of shutting it down?

If Apollo's users (or a good percentage of them) moved over to an alternative platform, that would be poetic justice, at least.
I don't think you are. I think early versions of the problem happened because the website did a redirect: x.y.com/ would sand you to w.y.com/ and your browser would stupidly remember that as a user navigation. Your back button from w.y.com would take you to x.y.com, which would perpetrate the redirect. The fix for that is not to enter redirects into the back history, only user-initiated navigations.
Where’s Graham’s take on this?
No problem. Congrats on the launch!
Why are you being downvoted? I wasn't aware this was happening. Thanks for the context.
The Apple Helmet is heavy as all out, because they refused to make it out of plastic, and are instead using glass/metal- Definitely an Apple move.

(heavy, considering there's no included battery)
It’s compatible with any Bluetooth controller, but I see no reason it would be a nonstarter.

Remember it has full hand tracking. If you want to hold something e.g. a lightsaber or whatever, there is no reason not to. An inert plastic prop should work just fine.
Don’t some of the existing gaming-oriented headsets do hand-tracking now? Does that not translate to controlling games on those sets?
Well, I am just really interested in the idea of taking a spatial computer headset device around with me, and doing work (writing software, so think VS Code/JetBrains/Xcode) in a large spatial environment instead of a laptop with a single small screen.

I did know that the Quest Pro would not live up to that task (and it doesn't), but I wanted to see how close you could get today for $1500 (now, $1000).

I also do boxing and similar fitness games almost every day, so I knew it would at least serve me well for that, despite being pretty expensive. (An yeah, for that, it's pretty great.)

The new Apple gizmo looks way better for programming and work like that, though, so I'm excited about it. After many years, we appear to be getting close to something that is actually pleasant to use. (Even the Quest Pro technically can be used for this, but the experience is far from pleasant.)
> Intel's kick ass amazing software folks

That's probably the first time in history anyone has described them this way, as the software was so atrociously bad at Arc product launch it was famously universally panned + caused most reviewers to say "don't buy this product yet, wait for the software to be fixed".

* https://youtu.be/nEvdrbxTtVo?t=1500

(there are many other reviews like this)

It's good they seem to have gotten their house in order afterwards though. So maybe they'll be regarded this way in future. :)
They always count functions but never how well it all works together, it saying I tried it but you can’t just count check off boxes and say they are similar
That was an exceptionally sad read.
Please expand, and perhaps explain how Apple is different.
> Reddit would need to monetize those users

Apollo already has monetized users with subscription costs.

Well, had monetized users.
Nuclear is a decade long planning

Doesn't work if the government changes hands every 4 years and comes with radical different ideas and starts reversing stuff from the previous government.

Totally different to China, with their 20 year plans, where they're committed to developing nuclear, are putting superior resources into it and are building at scale.

Every country with nuclear had a period where they went ahead and build a bunch.

Building one or two in isolation is just a gamble
It's amazing how seamlessly people have switched from relentlessly mocking Meta's investment in VR to pretending it never happened
>“Why is she doing that?” they whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?”

A lot of the best books that I read I found -because- I was looking through the stacks at the library. Search engines largely fail to do that (except for the 'stacks' at Internet Archive).

Oh, and when I do find one at the library, I don't have to pay for a copy to find out whether I'm interested. I open it and have a look.

Search engines also never nudge me with 'Psst ... have you seen this? Different author but right up your line of interest.'

Amazing how, for all their snooping, they just never bother to be helpful.
The problem with lobste.rs is that I'm not sure that the people whose opinions I want to read give a shit about jumping the hoops to get a membership, you know what I mean? All the people on it are people who cared enough to be on it.
iPadOS and iOS support PlayStation etc controllers so I would expect it here soon too
You asked why there was a focus on discussing tokenizers, and got an answer explaining why tokenizers are something people would want to discuss.
I've been messing around with this for the past week, it's very cool. There's even a CloudFlare Durable Objects-based AppleTalk networking stack, which I think is such an interesting fusion of old and new: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/07/infinite-mac-networking...
The entity responsible for these overruns is the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are the ones who should lose funding!
I have a non-tesla EV, and ea and evgo are unacceptably bad. There’s at least a 25% chance they will fail to process my credit card or their stupid apps will break.

For EA, there’s also a 10% chance it’ll flip my car’s “oh my god you are trying to make me explode with bad voltage, abort! abort!” alarm/circuit breaker.

At home, there is no problem. For a given evgo charger, there is no problem (so I know it isn’t my car).

Also, the flaky data connection stuff from above is documented in the ea UI (and only seems to apply to them… they really suck).

I’ll begrudgingly admit that chargepoint generally works, but screw them for having an app (and they’re mostly only level 2 anyway).

Also, there are a half dozen smaller networks, each of which is also a fractal snowflake of bullshit like this.
There's always the defense that he engineer wasn't aware of the patent.
Absolutely not, dang's work is nothing short of miraculous and I don't know of any other forumlike place that's this civil at this scale. Hope he keeps at it in this way for a long time.
Apple to stop autocorrecting swear word to 'ducking' on iPhone
Note most protein chains have taurine, like whey.

If you are following the 1g per kg per day of protein guideline, you likely have been taking in plenty of taurine and your body makes some too.

But general population nutrition basically gets worse every year, people other than athletes are likely not getting enough protein.

Food prices now are also going to be a huge problem, protein isn't cheap in any form.
Ever platform should be providing a way to delete everything you've done by now. Right to be forgotten is already the law for anyone that's an EU resident and the rest of the world is headed there too.
I don't think even the most rabid pro-choicer would consider an unfertilized egg alive.
Even with a few hours of storage, I doubt that solar/battery plant's combined capacity factor will exceed 50%. A well-managed nuclear plant can exceed 90% capacity factor and keeps working even when it is cloudy and raining for a week.
Controllers will not make the jump to lightweight/outdoor AR
You can brush any counterpoints away you want by mentioning pundits who are too early in their prediction.

Sure, let's talk about broader context and macro trends. unless something big changes, these macro trends won't go away:

- alignment of dictatorship vs free countries. China, Russia, North Korea, Iran vs US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, India, Australia, Philippines, Canada.

- dictatorship is losing. China is propping up all the dictators around the world, and its losing that power

- China demographics collapse

- China's rising and insolvent local government debts, which can no longer generate income by selling land. because China has too many buildings - 6 billion by last count. and demographics collapse. and lack of jobs

- Tech sanctions on China. China's inability to catch up on tech.

which indicates China's stagnation and decline for the next 10-20 years.
Monongahela: A Balanced Ternary Computer
I did not cite anything. I sent you a search query of many studies, some of which were very clear about how they break down.

I have no idea what conspiracy nonsense you are talking about. This is a place for critical thinking and discussion which includes skepticism of stories reported. If you want blind agreement with official narratives, just take it elsewhere.
>could be the vision of the future of computing, but like, it’s not the one that I want.

We'll have to wait and see with Vision Pro, but it's already pretty clear that Zuckerberg's vision is not one that anyone wants.
I think you're right. The Apollo dev didn't directly mention them by name but re-reading the post, I agree that that was not spez. My mistake
I'm not a huge gamer, aside from fitness games like Thrill of the Fight, but I've tried a bunch of VR games just to see.

And there is just no way that a lightsaber game could be good without haptic feedback, in a world where haptic feedback exists. And I think many other kinds of game.

YouTube guy MKBHD even called out the lack of haptics in his initial impressions video, not even for a game: the butterfly flew over to him in the Apple demo, and he held out his finger, and when the butterfly landed on it... nothing. And that was kind of jarring, he said. (And it would be.)

Haptic feedback is a big deal.
The sticking point is the silicon which they don't control. After watching Android flail for 10 years unable to match Apple's ARM processors in phones, I'm unfortunately not super optimistic that Meta can influence Qualcomm to suddenly make the necessary leap in performance needed. Of course, if they concede having an external power brick perhaps they can just stack multiple XR2's in there and get into the range ... but I'll be sad if they go that way. Carrying a power brick has to be a temporary detour, it can't be the long term of this.