skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were tablets long before the iPad, which was supposed to eventually replace desktops/laptops, although sadly that still hasn’t happened and doesn’t even seem to be on the horizon.

As for the watch, watches are a very popular accessory generally, and there have been plenty of entrants before the apple watch, all the way from the casio calculator, to fitbits and pebbles to android wear.

If you were already into watches, and were already in the apple ecosystem, which I have to imagine was a large set of people, the apple watch was basically an insta-buy, not only because of its integration but also it’s customizability.

I don’t see those same variables present for VR as were for the watch, but I do see similarities between AVP and iPad in how it’s billed as a pro device, and I imagine it will suffer a similar fate of falling short of expectations.
If it did implode in multiple pieces it means the experts were right; many said that carbon fiber was a poor choice because while it's light, it breaks like glass, contrary to steel which tends to "open" slowly.
I'm fine using it for what it's designed for (your #2). My problem is when I see "need support? just join our discord!" when they really need a forum or some other system.
You mean like "free speech zones" - which seems to be defined as zones in the US where you do have freedom of speech. (Yes, I'm wondering "what about the rest of the land area" as well.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Keep in mind is these kind of things have a flat memory space between RAM and ROM. It's not like today where disk is some thing way over there that you need to buffer in RAM. All of your code and resources are in ROM which means they're just an address away. Your RAM is scratch space for dynamic values but you can pull everything else from ROM.

For instance your bitmaps for pieces/spaces are stored in ROM, the code called when a scanline is drawn goes and accessed the values in ROM (it's just a memory address) without needing it to ever living in RAM. The only part that needs to live in RAM is the board state that the drawing code uses to find the bitmaps to draw. There's no need to draw to an off-screen buffer in RAM that then needs to be drawn to the screen.

None of that is to say 128 bytes of RAM is somehow easy but the code and data in ROM can do a lot of heavy lifting without taking much RAM.
I think this very much depends on the context, and being a good virtuoso violinist (or cellist, or singer etc) picking the right temperament for the right effect. If you're playing in an orchestra with many other instruments, you likely have to stick with 12TET. If you're playing a violin concerto cadenza, if you're playing a piece for solo violin, you likely want to play in just intonation as much as possible. If you're playing a piece for accompanied solo violin (violin + accompanying piano or orchestra i.e. sonata or concerto) then it very much depends on the moment and what sounds good for the music. Especially for an instrument like violin, which is extremely sensitive to every tiny expression performer can add, it's hard to make blanket generalizations. Ultimately, it's all about the artistic style of the performer, and composer's vision.
Make AI personal, connecting AI to your existing tools and docs
ChatGPT has a few limitations.

First, it's trained only on public data. Second, it does nothing beyond providing text back to the user.

What if we could ask more personal questions like:

"I'm re-designing the landing page, could you send me our logo in .svg format?"

"Who's on holiday today?"

"How many sales did we get last week? Create a report showing me conversion rates".

What if AI could check your calendar, find files from Google Drive, or read internal docs on Notion?

Connecting to other services would make the experience far more personal, and remove bottlenecks from other teammates.

I'm exploring this idea with a new product WorkplaceAI, an AI connected to the tools you're already using.

Would love to hear your feedback on this idea. Pulling this off would be really difficult, but I think the potential is huge.
Too retro. Nobody replied.
I don't think it's reasonable to say that just because something can be automated via AI that it's BS. I've used AI to write some scripts that automate a bunch of tasks that involve pulling data from different sources and putting them into a Google Sheet for reporting purposes for an ecommerce business I own. Is reporting on the financial reporting of my business BS?

Also, this study is about future gains coming from AI, so even if you take the very cynical position that LLMs/generative AI are nothing but "BS generators" today, unless you have good reason to believe that they will not improve in quality, that's not really a good basis on which to judge their future applications.
You are never going to get broad adoption if you require someone to sign up to use something locally. Full stop. People who will install any software that comes across Hacker news are going to pause the moment you make them sign up to use a local application.

All of the explanations about how it's not intrusive and only collects X, Y, or Z doesn't matter. There are many apps I use that send crash reporting data, and the only time they do that is when they crash and then they ask me if it's ok. I don't have to sign up to do that.
The trick here is the "@" in the URL, which makes everything before it a user name.

It is an old trick, and browsers tend to throw a fit before opening URLs with user names.
Artists organize boycott of concert venues that use face-scanning technology
One is a link to a press release and the other to technical documentation. Hardly the same even if the the high level summaries bear some resemblance.
You're entitled to an opinion about it, but a Slack bot that pings you when you say "guys" is not remotely comparable to bullying (which is the top-level claim in this thread).
To those who are missing it, the parent comment ^ is using sarcasm.
Please mind that this is about fire fighting. There is reason, why they have the right of way, as this exceeds any individual concerns: would you really rather have another Great Fire, as a single car blocks critical efforts in the name of progress? Also, as it comes to emergencies, there's a certain difference between a human idiot, who can be always coerced into doing the right thing, and a dumb, but inflexible mechanism.
My pet theory is that most 'woke' people are people that feel ashamed at not being at the bottom of the hierarchy, and so try to compensate their 'privileges' by being overly sensitive to any kind of injustice, to the point of seeing moral or symbolic violence where there is none.

And since the negative discourse (e.g. saying "Women face so many issue in the workplace" as a man) is way more socially palatable than a positive one (saying "Women have it OK now in the workplace" as a man), people who try to be sensible about thing not directly concerning them tend to overdo it by amplifying the "everything is bad" angle.

Which is why at the height of the BLM movements, lots of well-meaning (but IMO severely misguided) people felt that 'master' or 'blacklist' were carriers of oppression, while not thinking twice about words such as 'white noise' or 'white-label' (Implying that a lack of creativity or panache is associated with whiteness, the horror!), The former was among white 'wokes' sensibility-by-proxy, while for the latter the same crowd had the experience and tool to know this argument is bonker, and that anyone having issue with the expression 'white noise' has mental issue.

I came to this conclusion after a gay/muslim friend of mine, who likes to do humoristic quizzes on Instagram did one for the Ramadan.
He asked "Apart from Ramadan, what are the other 4 pillars of Islam", and accepted the Ru Paul reference "Creativity, Uniqueness, Nerves and Talent" as the answer.
The only people taking issue with that were non-muslim white french dudes who felt it was islamophobic, which greatly annoyed my friend, who felt it feed into the stereotypes of "angry muslim".
It gives up bounds on how fast we can locate something.
Even if that's true, there should be a reason, or a cause at least, that VSCode dominated over most IDEs out there.

In my experience, other IDEs have either a really high learning curve, needless bloat, or are closer to a notepad with extra features rather than a full fledged developing environment.

You can open VSCode and be welcomed by a lot of development features right on your face and wander through a lot of recommended add ons that add extra value out of the box. Also, since is electron based, multiplatform support is a no brainer.

Meanwhile, everyone is absolutely free to create a native VSCode clone. But that isn't happening at least for now. Maybe UI toolkits are a mess, maybe trying to mimic an UI in a 2D library is a PITA, maybe it's that an extensions engine needs to implement some "easier to develop" language (like javascript or Lua) and a full fledged interpreter for it, and it's so much work one would rather stick with Electron and be done with it.

Everyone hates VSCode, but nobody ever has managed to offer a competing alternative.
I got laid off 4 ish months ago and was hired 2 months ago. I only looked for about one month and I had two pretty good offers out of it. 6 years of experience in industry.
Cool trick - they're using HTTP auth URLs[1] so that the @ sign is doing a lot of the heavy lifting (plus some clever unicode slashes). It's an old school phishing trick, with the additional layer of looking like a genuine zip file.

Not sure if this trick would be too effective in real life, Firefox and likely others will give you warnings when logging into a site like this, as this form of HTTP auth is way deprecated. However, this is the strongest example against .zip I've seen yet though, from someone who didn't buy into the initial panic.

Side note - I'm using .zip for something legitimate! https://HN.zip is a little weekend project for an offline-caching read-only Hacker News (I lose reception in the Subway a lot so it makes it easier to navigate). It's not done yet though - still pretty rough around the edges. Maybe in a week or two I'll do a Show HN and see if anyone cares.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentica...
+1 to this from the Steamship perspective.

We're a hosting platform for AI Agents and in practice that means keeping track of a stream of usage events across agents, microservices (equivalent of Fly's VMs), and third-party services (OpenAI, Eleven Labs, D-ID, Pinecone, Replicated, etc) that roll up into an itemized consumption bill.

It might be this is just a super-niche billing situation, but we also haven't yet found an open-source solution that fits. Fully agree that a query layer atop a time-series database is the style of product that we're craving.

Metronome comes very close, but since it's not open source we're hesitant to make the jump before it's a perfect fit.

Congrats on the launch! It looks very cool!
Thank you for the correction. I like genetics but not so much European Royalty's history.
> clean Surface

Eh, that's not a fair comparison, Windows bundles the .NET standard libraries and runtime.
We are creating a new service that we plan to launch within the next two weeks for beta testing.

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Personally, I am the CPO at our main product PushPushGo.com, a push notifications platform, so we have extensive experience in this field. :)
It's a carbon fiber hull, for which I think we know alot less about repeated stress events...
*for billionaires
When I was a kid back in the late-70s, I saw a handful of firefighters and a few other burly dudes overturn a car that was blocking a hydrant near an active fire. They got the car bouncing, then completely turned it over onto its roof. Then, then sorta scooted it out of the way of the hydrant. It's one of my oldest memories, and it was awesome!
A statement like this just makes me think most developers are the passengers in that episode of futurama where the brains take over and make everyone stupid.

"I'm sending in more trains!" [0]

Only the trains are additional layers of abstraction and the accompanying bloat.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hyttagGsz0
You’re right, it’s probably all the surrounding communities.
Unicode in code is a footgun.
It's a fundamental epistemic paradox even without ML. ML might exacerbate, accelerate, or perturb it, but at it's core it's variation on the Münchhausen trilemma that's invariant with respect to subjectivity or embodiment.

Make no mistake, even science isn't immune. We've hoisted ourselves into a conceptual maxima, but we have no idea if it's a dead end or not.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
Couldn't find a league of women Kabbadi players in Massachusetts, open to forming one.
If you believe soviet style communist dictatorship is the only alternative to the current state of capitalistic exploitation in the West, propaganda already defeated you as a force for change.
I imagine part of the government's involvement here is trying to test their own submarine detection and rescue tooling. There aren't otherwise many other real-world places to attempt them. I'm sure they've gained confidential valuable insights so far.
Understanding pandas
I understand your point, but I can see the reasoning to arrest the passengers. In summary, the robotaxi company's business model and how its cars work is none of the emergency service's business. It's a car, in the way, with people in it.

If an ostensibly normal car were to block an emergency response, would its occupants be off the hook if they all denied having driven the vehicle to its current location, and said they have no ability to move it out of the way? I doubt it. They would be at the very least charged with something.

The same thing should go for alleged robotaxis—“But we don't control the car we're sitting inside of!”... not the city's problem. The car you were in was blocking an emergency response.

Would this be unfair? Yes it would. Would this make people fearful of using robotaxis? Absolutely yes it would. And would that put economic pressure on the robotaxi operators to fix these issues as fast as possible? Damn right it would.
Yes. Svelte:React::SvelteKit:NextJS
I appreciate the detailed response. I'll look into the SocraticAI project as well.

FWIW I asked because I'm working on a toolkit for applying Monte Carlo tree search to agent graph generation and am always on the lookout for fundamental insights that could help direct its development.
40km/h over in a built-up area in Switzerland is not only an automatic fine and loss of license, it is automatic jail time with no judicial discretion. This is the equivalent of 45MPH in a city, for the American readers.
If the stories about some parts only being certified to 1.3km instead of 4km are true then it was probably operating closer to the yield point than ideal. My guess is that metal fatigue started to become an issue and it failed too quickly for anyone to react.

If the were too cheap to design and build it properly then they were too cheap to check for wear and tear properly.
Yeah, I find the 'every symbol has a color' highlighting to be difficult to parse.

When everything is colorful, nothing stands out.
You'll want to avoid Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maine then. I understand billboards are illegal there.
So the last time I went to a conference, I squeezed a 4K monitor into a suitcase, which was basically empty apart from that (other than 4K monitors, I tend to travel light). Coding on an MBP is possible but for the stuff I do, I tend to have multiple apps running at once, and it's so much easier with real-estate on the screen.

If I can put one of these things in my carry-on, use it during the flight, and still have a 4K-like experience with the monitor in the hotel bedroom for the 3-5 days I'm at the conference, I'm in.

It sounds like I'm in, I got to be honest...
Sublime Code isn't an IDE
The main problem I see with developing for VisionOS is the lack of reach. I expect that after the initial novelty the user base will be reduced further.

The closed development ecosystem of Apple is alluring because it offers access to its iOS devices.

But what makes it worth the effort to learn a new SDK, or even buy a MacOs device to develop for it, for just a few thousands of devices?
While I do think these look nice (appropriate even), maintaining consistency across a large team of devs is where this type of stylization breaks down. Not everyone is using the same code editor, not everyone's configuration is the same. At the end of the day it's easier to write and maintain the long-hand word versions.
The issue with this site is its total belief in tech as a solution. You will have plenty of people here saying "there's no need to change your lifestyle, some tech billionaire will solve it".

I also think the wealth of most people here means they think they will be insulated from the problems caused by climate change.

Just my 2p.
The performance difference is huge. A few years ago I launched an interactive consumer app on very resource constrained devices that would have been impossible with React or Vue (I empirically tested both). Think dual or quad core 1Ghz arm processors with zero GPU acceleration running electron.

The only optimization I had to implement was virtualization when showing hundreds of off screen images (an optimization I would have had to implement regardless of framework).
Robinhood acquires X1, the credit card upstart
In addition to the $5 trillion McKinsey said would come from the Metaverse![1]

[1] https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/06/15/246...
Yep. I think it would expose just how weak his thinking is, if he were to write a scientific paper (even an opinion paper).

But musk doesn't play in the science publication sphere. To him, that sphere is basically just a corrupt system for perpetuating power structures and it's easier for him to talk shit on twitter,.
> Yes, I realize he's probably autistic. The counter I have to that is that autism isn't an excuse. It's an explanation

It’s a disability.

> Almost every autistic person I know is miles more understanding than RMS is in that their behavior might sometimes come across in ways they didn't intent to.

It’s also a spectrum. Something that might be easy for an autistic person might be hard for another.

That said…

> and RMS has habitually rejected any attempts to understand that his behavior may be regarded as extremely rude according to everyone who has worked with him, which is why I still consider this to be a detriment to him as a person.

If this is true, then I can see your point.
0. They know the value of CHOICE and demand an open protocol that anyone can create a client or server for so that communities can maintain OWNERSHIP over their data and ensure there isn't a single point of failure / man in the middle.
Photographer Claims Rights to ‘Boudoir’ to Shut Down Competitors on Facebook
Zephyr is such a great project, I really have enjoyed working with it and the Nordic (NRF5x) is awesome. I think over the next 3-5 years it is really going to get more and more adoption compared to alternatives like freertos or vxworks.
What if I want to visit the marketing page while being logged in?
Real GDP is what matters in the end, not nominal GDP. Real GDP can grow via deflation, even if nominal GDP declines.

AI -> lower cost of goods -> real GDP rises

AI -> unemployment -> lower salaries -> lower nominal GDP -> workers reposition into new jobs

Somehow the USA has the lowest unemployment ever after the industrial revolution destroyed millions of jobs... how did that happen?

It's obvious from history that as real GDP per capita rises, new professions emerge or become more accessible such that displaced workers can find new jobs. Perhaps higher real GDP enables more creative professions, or more consumption of housekeeping/helper type roles.
ARM Learning Paths
It's very useful when trying to find matching brackets in code!
EdgeDB 3.0
> “These people decided to have someone look for all the pages/accounts that included the word ‘Boudoir’ in their name, to report them [to Meta] and remove them without prior notice. In my case, my account was 7 years old and almost 10,000 followers — it was deleted overnight.”

Does Facebook hard-delete these accounts? Is there ever any chance of someone recovering their account in a situation like this?
I rebuilt lots of AI tools and put them in one place
Hey, I've just built a new project, enabling you to provide your own API key, and use commonly (unnecessarily) subscription-based AI tools like chatting with PDFs, or File Summarisation. I'm hoping, based on user-provided feedback, to eventually create 100+ awesome tools for everyone to use. Let me know what you think, how we can improve, and any other insights!
> I'd like to hear more about how you've found more honesty in the private sector.

no intellectual wrangling, just make it rain.

and in my experience, the type-A super-go-hards are respectful enough to stab you in the front instead of in the back.
your response got cut off
The issue is -- every email / forum platform which has tried to make IMs available within the platform has failed.

Real-time, short-form interactions v/s async, long-form interactions is too wide of gap to bridge under one platform.
> TBF it is true. but that doesnt mean that those employees will be fired, hopefully they will be assigned to something less bullshitty.

I think that people miss that headcount will just stop increasing first, everyone is looking for mass layoffs and miss that other component.

I don't have a problem with that. Just find it interesting that people who would have a problem with it aren't considering it.